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Page 1 of 2![Hell Hound Evolution [Litrpg]](https://covers.atuntu.com/books/08d9e8c9449f4fe39641be499ecbf215/cover.jpg)
Hell Hound Evolution [Litrpg]
What to expect-Early slice of life chapters with puppy family.-Villain arc?-EVOLUTION!-Her skillset will revolve around her nature as a predator and have a lot to do with hunting prey.BLURBShe’s a puppy. She’s a girl. And she’s going to evolve.Waking up one day in a litter of puppies, her human life a fading memory, she quickly falls into the flow of things.Playing and hunting with her pack, taking naps at all hours of the day, and most importantly, leveling up and evolving!With five brothers and sisters who all have their own unique powers, a protective Dog Mom and Cerberus Dad with three heads, she was sure nothing could ever go wrong in her new life.That is,...
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![The Art Of Seeking Gold [Book 1 Completed]](https://covers.atuntu.com/books/90d06f7e57a8466e820e37bd1e350321/cover.jpg)
The Art Of Seeking Gold [Book 1 Completed]
This story is about: an internet troll and "critic" who gets transported into the manga she trash-talked online, and now she must save it from the apocalypse.The twist? People back in her own world are reading and commenting on the manga as it updates, so she must always stay in character. (And no, this isn't a "revenge fantasy" against a reader 😑)What to expect: comedy and satire, and eventually some darker parts.Notorious internet troll and critic, Amy Stake, has "karma" catch up to her when she criticizes the writing of a vengeful Goddess and gets reincarnated into a brutal shonen battle manga known for its astronomical body count.In an ironic twist of fate, she'll only get the powers the manga readers imagine...
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![Alpha Strike: [An Interstellar Weapons Platform’S Guide To Hostile Takeovers.] (Book 4 Title)](https://covers.atuntu.com/books/f986c362ccfc4ba695a8beaa8ac07ff3/cover.jpg)
Alpha Strike: [An Interstellar Weapons Platform’S Guide To Hostile Takeovers.] (Book 4 Title)
Book 1: Alpha Strike: [An interstellar Weapon Platform's Guide to Cultivation] (B1 - Lessons 1-70)Book 2: Alpha Strike: [An interstellar Weapon Platform's Guide to being a Dungeon Core] (B2 - lessons 1-68)Book 3: Alpha Strike: [An Interstellar Weapons Platform’s Guide to Organized Crime] ( Book 3 - Epilogue - P2 )Book 4: Alpha Strike: [An Interstellar Weapons Platform’s Guide to Hostile Takeovers] (Ongoing)————————————————————DISCLAIMER : While Alpha is the main character, this is just as much a story of the world, as it is his. Thus we will often see events not just through his eyes, but those around him.===============(...
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Reverend Insanity
Humans are clever in tens of thousands of ways, Gu are the true refined essences of Heaven and Earth.The Three Temples are unrighteous, the demon is reborn.Former days are but an old dream, an identical name is made anew.A story of a time traveler who keeps on being reborn.A unique world that grows, cultivates, and uses Gu.The Spring and Autumn Cicada, the Venomous Moonlight Gu, the Wine Insect, All-Encompassing Golden Light Insect, Slender Black Hair Gu, Gu of Hope…And a great demon of the world that does exactly as his heart pleases!—*Gu (蛊) referred to poison in various cultures in South China while in folklore Gu spirits could transform into all kinds of species.
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Wife After Death: An Eldritch Horror Romance
Hello, human. My name would set your tongue on fire and boil your brain, so you can just call me Irene. I'm here to help.Heaven has been abandoned. The Kingdom has fallen into disrepair. Your prayers are going unanswered. I know it's a lot to take in.My sisters and I are gonna fix it. Hey, someone has to. Otherwise, you're on your own. We know what it's like to be lonely. We are going to make sure humanity is never lonely again.But we can't do it alone. That's what the Warlock is for. Caspar Cartwright is a hapless hedge mage I've saved from the scaffold and the noose. I've plucked him from his grave and sent him back with my power at his fingertips and a mission branded into his heart. Face the servants of the dead god, find the key, open the gate to the...
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Tunnel Rat: Causing Trouble In Two Worlds
Volumes 1 to 3 of Tunnel Rat are Available on KU. Volume 4 will be coming out in Fall of 2025 https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B0D98TW5F2?maas=&ref=Milo lives in a steel cave within a man-made mountain of steel and concrete. He spends his days repairing the machinery that keeps the habitat livable and tinkering with the prosthetics that help his twisted body move about through the small tunnels and air shafts that are his world. He's as much a piece of discarded machinery as the equipment he keeps running. He likes to fix things, which is good because he sometimes breaks things.But lately, he's been getting bored, and for a super-genius, that's a bad thing. Luckily, the criminals he escaped from are back. Stealing everything from them will keep him busy,...
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The Systemic Lands (Dark Progressive Litrpg)
Michael must survive a fake world, he and other people from Earth have been teleported to.Struggling to survive with his weight and fear. Michael must try and figure out the mysteries of this new world he is stuck in.The other people transported to the empty stone city, the monsters outside, and the mysterious System Store are all threats or opportunities in equal measure.The Systemic Lands is a Dark Progressive LITRPG. Taking a grittier approach to the survival progression story, when the main character isn't a super athlete ready to go at a moment's notice.The unique setting moves away from any of the standard tropes of a LITRPG setting and takes on the air of a true mystery. While a slower start as Michael gets his bearings, there is clear progression,...
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The Power Of Ten: Book One: Sama Rantha, And Book Two: The Far Future
(Author's Note: If you're wondering about the views, it's +1.9 million more on Webnovel, its original home. Updated daily starting Dec. 26, 2018, and continued with Book Three.)Some time ago, a planes-traveling archmage made up a video game to train some people on the planet Earth for the catastrophe he knew was coming.That game was the Power of Ten.The gods seized this opportunity to take the templates of some of those characters, and even their souls, for use in other worlds, and other realms.Sama Rantha is one of those characters, and is going to find out that being a Hagchild and having to survive after your Hag Curse fails to murder you at birth is much, much less fun than setting it as your Race at level One on a gamescreen.Join Sama Rantha on...
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The Iron Teeth: A Goblin'S Tale
A new, darker age is dawning. The greed of kings has ignited a seemingly endless war. As men fight, the monsters of the untamed wilds are devouring the frontier. Villages are abandoned as fields go fallow. Murderous bandits roam the desolation.None of that matters to a nameless goblin slave. He just wants to eat as much food as he can shove into his mouth when no one is looking, but fate runs a twisted course, so instead he is whisked away to the far off Iron Teeth Mountains. To stay alive, he will have to evolve into something more than a simple goblin, and carve a bloody path through the forests of the North.However, first he has to get over his crippling fear of trees, and survive in a place where everything considers him to be the perfect size for a quick...
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The Art Of Seeking Gold
This story is about: an internet troll and "critic" who gets transported into the manga she trash-talked online, and now she must save it from the apocalypse.The twist? People back in her own world are reading and commenting on the manga as it updates, so she must always stay in character. (And no, this isn't a "revenge fantasy" against a reader 😑)What to expect: comedy and satire, and eventually some darker parts.Notorious internet troll and critic, Amy Stake, has "karma" catch up to her when she criticizes the writing of a vengeful Goddess and gets reincarnated into a brutal shonen battle manga known for its astronomical body count.In an ironic twist of fate, she'll only get the powers the manga readers...
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Tallah
Tallah means to end an eternal empire and take the head of an empress . Her enemy is nigh immortal and wields power only few really understand. To take her down, Tallah's going to need power of her own. Lots of it. But time is not a friend, not when a mistake has brought the empire's attack hounds onto her scent.Sil is stuck between a past she can't think on, and a future that will likely have her swinging on the end of a short rope... if lucky. Having escaped the empire's dungeons once, she has no other choice but to follow her friend on the warpath in the vain hope for a calm life beyond the mission.Vergil should be dead. Twice even! Given a second lease on life on an alien world, he finds himself in thrall to an obviously insane sorceress and her...
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Realm Of Monsters
In a land ruled by vile monsters, where death is common and life is cruel, one outcast endeavors to have it all. When misfortune drags the odd goblin Stryg from his forest home and into the ruthless city of Hollow Shade, he must try and adapt to a world that only sees him as a dimwit savage.Stryg finds himself embroiled in a school of magic, where an aristocrat's smile is filled with deceit and the simplest of remarks may lead to death threats. Yet nothing will stop him from aspiring to his beliefs of glory: power, honor, and food with salt.But as Stryg navigates through the muddled grey waters of the Ebon Realm, he will learn that some monsters lurk everywhere.Author's Note:I also post on Scribblehub and Taps
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Oathbreaker: A Dark Fantasy Web Serial
Arc 1 Stubbing January 27 2026!Alken is the Headsman of Seydis, an executioner tasked by the divine powers of his homeland to hunt traitors and warmongers in a war-afflicted land haunted by demons and the restless dead.Once a paladin, this role ill suits him. Torn between principle, knightly oaths, and a tangled web of loyalties, Alken seeks an elusive redemption through his penance of blood. During his lonely battles through a broken land inhabited by time weary elves and brooding demigods, his journey becomes increasingly strange and personal.— A setting heavily inspired by Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Fromsoft games, and by the works of Michael Moorcock, Robin Hobb, and Kentauro Miura.— A first person POV from an older protagonist who already knows...
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Lost And Found (Warhammer 40K Si)
Lost and Found: Living as a Relic of Ages Past. Aboard a Grand Cruiser once lost now owned by a Rogue Trader dynasty with a heavy Adeptus Mechanicus presence. A soul wakes up shortly after the formation of the Cicatrix Maledictum, in a new unfamiliar body with a diverse suite of implants from the dark age.Primarily and originally uploaded on Spacebattles under my same username.Hello. This is my first writing project that I've posted here. It's a personal passion project that has been in the works for over a year now.It will include a mixture of first person pov segments from the SI and third person segments of other pertinent characters to give broader context. Feedback is appreciated. I apologize for my grammar in advance, remembering commas is...
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Inexorable Chaos (Complete)
Gods are, generally speaking, not fans of directly putting their fingers on the scale. This is for a variety of reasons, ranging from cautioun to amusement, but is generally because after a few hundred millennia and enough prayers to fill a hollow Earth, you're bound to learn the art of delegation.  Luckily, among the unwashed masses, there exist the exceptional, the gifted, those with the potential to become Heroes.Useful pawns.Thus, the Gods adopted a more laissez-faire policy.Quasi Eludo has been a Hero. He did the whole "save the world†rigmarole, came home, and mulled over his magical journey. It was amazing! A whole lifetime as the destined savior, with magic and monsters, love and adventure, lifelong friendships and heartfelt goodbyes. There was so much,...
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I Will Touch The Skies - A Pokemon Fanfiction
Grace Pastel is a young girl who lives a cozy life in Jubilife city with her father, and for her, Pokemon battles are just something that she watches on television or online. Entertainment to be seen at a distance. After turning fifteen, she watched as young people her age got ready for their first journey across Sinnoh, all aiming to become the Champion. She usually scoffed at them, wondering how one could throw away a comfortable life in the city to risk their lives in the wild for an unobtainable goal. And yet when she was asked by her father to deliver a package to her mother living two towns over, something clicked in her brain.Suddenly, she decided that she wanted to be the very best.Inspired by Traveler and Practical Guide to Evil.Cover by...
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Herald Of The Stars - A Warhammer 40K, Rogue Trader Fanfiction
British plumber, Aldrich Isengrund donates his body to science only to wake up in the far future as the last survivor of a Federation experiment.Stuffed with archeotech, Aldrich has been given a chance to live long and prosper, so long as he reaps the great tithe of xenos required to unlock his implanted machines.How much destruction will one man incite with a battered, plasteel pipe?Note: Herald of the Stars pacing is appropriate for the galactic scale setting: it is slow. Some knowledge of 40K is assumed, though not essential.Try my original medieval fantasy: The Rícewelig Crown
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![Heavy Metal [ A Monster Evolution Litrpg ]](https://covers.atuntu.com/books/5dd561cfa4a844e3ba098dadcff11648/cover.jpg)
Heavy Metal [ A Monster Evolution Litrpg ]
Struck down amid the battle, the Hero and Demon King meet their demise. As their souls linger on the edge of the afterlife, a mysterious force intervenes, merging their fragmented souls together with a new being. Rusty, the living armor, now affected by their memories and presence, embarks on his own quest. Will he seek revenge on those who betrayed the hero, or will he fulfill the desires of the fallen demon king? or instead, forge his own path?The Runesmith: Click hereDiscord: Click HerePatreon: Click
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Demon'S Journey
Palan is raised in the harsh world of the demons, depending on himself to survive while raising his sister. One day, his sister falls sick and he's forced to make a deal with an angel in order to save her life. Unfortunately for him, that deal sends him a world away from his sister.What happens when a ruthless demon is thrust into the world of the heavens above?The story is complete.Warning: Tagged 18+ for violence.By the author of The Blue Mage Raised by Dragons
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Bloodstained Blade (Gamelit, Sword Mc)
When the sword awakens, its slept so long that it has forgotten everything but hunger. It is a weapon made to feast on death and blood, and the more bodies that it leaves in its wake, the stronger it gets. Bloodstained Blade is a fantasy gamelit, where the main character is the blade, and not the person wielding it. So, expect the wielder of the blade to die occasionally and be replaced with another man or monster as the Ebon Blade pursues its own goals no matter the cost.Expect: Upgrades, plot twists, new wielders, numbers to go up, violence, and revenge.Updates: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday.
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A God Adrift: Thorhammer
Cast adrift in a foreign world, his boon companions far from his side and strange local customs to navigate? Must be a Thorsday.The God of Thunder walks the planet of Mallus, finding himself in a cold land surrounded by a hardy people. He does not mind lending his strength to those that need it, and he finds himself carving out a place to rest and recover after vanquishing Thanos...but he is not the only god known to these hardy people, and those thirsting Four look upon his ability to walk the land unaided, and they covet. Nor will a land such as Norsca free itself from their grasp and rise without struggle.Ready yourself, Thor Odinson. There is axe work needs doing.
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12 Miles Below
The world is in ruins.Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface, making even simple survival an ordeal. Frozen derelicts of bygone eras span across massive ice wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within.The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface. But it’s another disaster underground. Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it all like a game. The land itself shifts over time, more contraption than rock. And an ominous prophecy states that the key to everything waits on four heroes - but nobody knows who or where they are.When an expedition into the far uncharted north goes terribly wrong, Keith Winterscar and his father get trapped...
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Undead
A man has been brought back to life for a fell purpose. He inhabits the body of a ghoul: a lesser undead being. He must kill and eat, both to accrue power for himself and to serve the purposes of the mysterious woman who summoned him.WARNING: This novel is not suitable for underage or otherwise susceptible readers. Take the tags seriously.
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The Scourged Earth
Derrick is no ones hero.  He is barely dealing with his mundane life when all of humanity is forced to confront the extraordinary. Overnight, all across the world, mysterious machines appear. They offer people the chance to purchase almost anything they can think of. Weapons, medicine and even super human abilities are offered, seemingly for free.But following these machines, come the Scourges. The most dangerous creatures, diseases and machines that infest the universe. Ever growing and battling, these empires of horror and hunger will overhelm and devour the Earth and its inhabitants. Unless Derrick and humanity can stand against all the horrors that battle between the stars.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++My first Story, an attempt to...
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