Progression Stories

Title 2: I Wanted the Wolf King, but I Got the Warmaster Before the Fall. Transmigrating into the most despair-inducing Underhive wastes of the 41st Millennium, Kaelen, a mere mortal, thought his days were numbered. When his cheat system finally activated, he prayed for one thing: Just give me Leman Russ. I need the Wolf King to survive! [Ding! System error. Target locked: Davin. Salvaging soul...] Instead of the loyalist Wolf, a dying giant crashed before him, his soul teetering on the edge of Chaos corruption. It was the Warmaster himself. Horus Lupercal. Staring at the tragic, uncorrupted demigod covered in scars, Kaelen went completely silent. "Horus," Kaelen sighed, pushing up his goggles. "Your father is a corpse on a golden toilet, your brothers have all gone insane, and the Imperium is a rotten hell-hole." Horus: "...?" No divine bloodlines. No genetic enhancements. Just a mortal commander armed with future knowledge, a glitchy system, and the most powerful Primarch in history serving as his loyal sword. If the galaxy is broken, they will carve a bloody path from the Underhive to Holy Terra to fix it. 🩸 [The Ultimate Fix-It]: Erasing the tragedy of the Heresy. Horus never falls, and the traitors will bleed. 🧠 [Mortal Domination]: Watch arrogant Space Marines and Chaos Daemons experience absolute cognitive shock when outsmarted by Kaelen's ruthless modern strategies. ⚔️ [Purging the Dogma]: Slashing heretics, kicking the Golden Throne, and reviving the Emperor's true dream. 👑 [Building a New Order]: From a desperate survivor to the shadow ruler of the Indomitus Crusade.

Gather information. Understand the system. Take action. Even an ordinary person can reach the top of a virtual world. Suzuki Satoru, a debt-ridden and isolated player, lives in the shadows of reality-but inside MMORPGs, he thrives as a skilled power-leveler, mastering systems and climbing rankings. When Sword Art Online turns into a death game, he is forced to face not only its dangers, but him. This is a fan translation of 刀剑神域：摇光 by 匿友小尘. Please consider supporting the original author if you can.

MoXuan only wanted a stable life. Instead, he got rivals, missions that escalate too fast, talismans that shouldn't explode indoors, a void that answers back, and Jiang ZhenLei, a swordsman who keeps choosing to stand at his side. The road to immortality is ruthless. Attachments are dangerous. Please mind the formations. And the feelings. The Hollow Monarch is written as a long-form cultivation story. MoXuan and ZhenLei begin as young disciples in the Hidden Profound Sect, but their journey will expand far beyond the mountain where the story starts. Expect: • sect life and inner sect classes • rival disciples and faction politics • cultivation systems and magical techniques • eccentric elders and strange sect traditions • slow-burn romance between MoXuan and ZhenLei • a growing world of clans, sects, and ancient forces This story is meant to unfold over many arcs and hundreds of chapters, allowing the characters, relationships, and world to develop naturally over time. MC: Lian MoXuan ML: Jiang ZhenLei Genre: Xianxia / Cultivation Fantasy / Danmei Story Type: Long-form progression series Romance: Slow-burn relationship between MoXuan and ZhenLei Releases new chapters every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

When the scales of justice balance dead even, the universe grants a terrifying second chance. Unexpectedly there is a reason for it all... A whole new world is revealed and many unexpected truths... Leo and Maya, could never imagine what they will find out about themselves.

Alistair Fenwick spent sixty-seven years being a good man. He listened, cared, helped others, and quietly swallowed every resentment, keeping an invisible ledger of everything he had sacrificed for people who rarely noticed the cost. Then, one ordinary morning on Marchmont Street, Alistair pushed a young woman out of the path of a bus. He died saving her. His final thought wasn't noble. Not once in sixty-seven years did I ever do a single thing for myself. Eleven days earlier, a dying stranger had given Alistair a strange ring-one capable of listening to what a person truly desires. That final, bitter thought was enough to trigger it. Alistair awakens young, in a new world beneath a purple sky, with a System notification before his eyes: CLASS GRANTED: [THE DEBT COLLECTOR] - Unique His new Class grows through Recorded Gifts: acts that others perceive as generous, selfless, or kind. The System doesn't care about his intentions. It only measures the act, the sacrifice, the risk, and what it personally costs him. The greater the sacrifice, the greater the reward. For the first time in his life, Alistair has discovered a way to profit from being the man everyone always expected him to be. And this time, he intends to collect every debt. LitRPG • Slow Progression • Morally Grey Protagonist • Dark Humor • No Harem • Found Family • Psychological Character Focus

Nine minutes into any run, the rating window is closing and the corridor in front of Milo Ashcroft keeps going past where the certified map says it stops. That's when the Cartographer System boots - no license required, no permission asked. He's been rated Common, non-commercial, since he was twelve. The System disagrees. It prices every meter he reads in Route Fatigue, and ninety seconds standing still is never free. What lies past the certified map is worth more than any licensed cartographer is allowed to know - and worth killing to keep unlicensed.

The Seven Stars: Beyond the Gods ​"In a realm ruled by the blood of gods, what do you become when your veins carry none of it?" ​Eons ago, a cataclysmic war tore the cosmos apart. When the demonic sovereigns sought to drain the mortal world of its primal life force, the Creator God and the Five Elemental Sovereigns-Lords of Light, Sea, Wind, Earth, and Fire-descended in wrath to shatter them into dust. ​From the sweat and blood of the dying divinities arose The Five Sacred Bloodlines. Blessed with innate elemental dominion, their scions rule without lifting a finger, commanding the world simply by birthright. ​Ordinary mortals were cast into the dust, chained to a fragile existence barely touching the second or third tier of cultivation. ​Yet mankind refused to kneel. Deep within their marrow, they refined Ojas-the burning radiance of physical and spiritual vitality-and unlocked the lost art of the Vedic Hand Mudras. Through intricate fingertip seals and grueling channel-tempering, mortals forced open the gates of power, climbing step by agonizing step toward the legendary Tenth Tier. ​And then, looking down upon gods and mortals alike, stood The Seven Stars. ​They invoke no mudras. They channel no Ojas. They possess no divine lineage. ​Yet their power crushes mountains, warps reality, and silences emperors. The origin of their catastrophic authority remains the cosmos's most guarded, terrifying riddle. ​Now, the celestial vault fractures. The cursed cosmic omen-Vyatipata-has aligned across the skies, bathing the shattered earth in violet and crimson fire. ​Cast out as an unawakened mortal with fractured channels, one young warrior refuses to submit to fate. As the ancient world begins to bleed once more, an anomaly stirs within his soul-an energy that is neither Ojas, nor divine blood, nor demonic taint. ​To defy the gods, he will master every seal. To shatter the stars, he must unravel their silence. And to survive the cycle of devastation,

Cheon Hwi is the only son and heir of the Cheon Clan, one of the most prestigious martial families in Anhui. Despite training harder than anyone else, Hwi has always struggled with martial arts and is on the verge of losing his position as heir to his younger cousin, a martial arts prodigy. With his future decided by a single duel, Hwi must fight for the position he has spent his entire life trying to protect. But sometimes, losing everything can be the beginning of something far greater.

Li Tian survived the massacre of Black Crow Village, but he did not escape unchanged. The Pale Court - a secret organization that believes memory is suffering and attachments are chains - came for something hidden within his bloodline. They left with nothing but ashes. What they sought was the First Memory: the primordial source from which all Intent was born. And it lives inside Li Tian. He also inherited the Broken Flute, a cursed instrument that traps the souls and memories of the dead rather than letting them pass on. Where most cultivators wield their own Intent, Li Tian carries thousands - warriors, poets, healers, farmers - all clamoring for space in his mind. If he cannot control them, they will erase him completely. His only anchor is Xiao Yin, the girl taken from him that night, whose living bond of shared reaches across miles like a thread even Oblivion cannot sever. Gathering six extraordinary companions who become known as The Seven Lanterns, Li Tian journeys across a Jianghu torn by three warring philosophies: 🏮 The Seven Lanterns fight to preserve memory and meaning. ⚫ The Pale Court seeks to erase the past to end suffering forever. ☁️ The Celestial Vanguard believes both sides are chains - and seeks to transcend all Intent entirely. As Li Tian's power grows, so does the question at the heart of his journey: Are the memories we carry our greatest strength... or our most dangerous curse? ------------------------ 《 Arc 1 - Chapter 1 to chapter 11 = Completed 》 《 Arc 2 - Chapter 12 to Chapter 22 = (Completed) 》 《 Arc 3 - Chapter 23 to Chapter 33 = (Ongoing) 》

No Landing on the Stair has ever admitted keeping a list of who it turns away. It only ever says, again, that it doesn't. THE TREAD reads the Stair's real law to Hollis alone: usable force equals suiting fraction times local load. THE HOLD carries up to four strangers' shortfall past a Landing, draining his own strength for days per debt. THE FOOTHOLD buys an exemption, paid in blood - a nosebleed first, a permanent piece of himself later. Every person he carries past starts the same four-hundred-day clock, whether they ever learn it exists or not. At the Rim, a guild sells the only measurements anyone is licensed to trust.

After countless eons, the oldest and most powerful dragon in creation, finally chooses to die. But wishing to see the world from a new perspective, he casts a spell to reincarnate himself. Now reborn into a family of warriors, Agoba starts a new journey to become the strongest in creation once more, and to see his love again in her final moments. Zero A.I. was used in the creation of this story, or any work in which I am involved. Everything you read in which I am involved is 100% human written.

Michael Maverick was eleven years old when he watched the Calibra kill his father and brother. He watched a prince laugh and kick their bodies. He was too weak to stop it. Now he's seventeen. He's spent two years in the most toxic hell on the planet-the Wilderness-forging his body into a weapon. He's reached the Red State, a power level most warriors never achieve. He's killed monsters that would devour armies. And he's coming for the man who destroyed his family. But the world is not simple. The Grim Army sweeps across the Badlands. The Calibra maintain their iron order. A shadowy figure named Potters Milan is coming to collect a debt written in blood. And somewhere in the eternal twilight of the Shadow Planes, Lucious Storm-the Red-Eyed Death-is waiting. Michael does not want to be a hero. He does not want to be a king. He wants revenge. But power has a price, and the boy who only wanted to make the world pay for what it took from him may become something far more terrifying than the monsters he hunts. Search for Power is a dark progression fantasy about trauma, institutional evil, and the long, bloody road to becoming strong enough to matter.

Vladimir Sichovyi knows what defeat looks like. In his first life, he witnessed fire raining from the heavens. He saw civilization erased and the future of his children reduced to ashes by an asteroid humanity failed to stop. But the Universe has given him a chance. One chance in a billion. He awakens in 1975, in the body of a five-year-old boy who has yet to learn the pain of loss. This time, he has sixty years to prepare. Armed with knowledge of the Universe's hidden code and the ability to manipulate energy itself, Vladimir sets out to do far more than alter history or build a financial empire. His goal is to create a planetary shield in space and prepare sanctuaries for those who must survive when disaster comes. Can a single man rewrite the fate of humanity? Can he leave his descendants a living world instead of a radioactive wasteland? Because a legacy is not what we are given. A legacy is what we manage to preserve.

Two souls. One curse. Eike and Tassila have never met. But they have two things in common: a life they long to escape, and a mysterious symbol on their skin-the Mal. Eike, a peasant, is branded the devil's child and beaten for it. Tassila, daughter of an impoverished noble, is being rushed into marriage before the Mal devours her like her sister. However, fate changes when the power of alchemy awakens in them, and with it a dangerous sliver of hope. When Eike's and Tassila's paths cross, neither knows of their common burden, nor whether the other can be trusted. But in the Theudic Empire, where only the mightiest alchemists rule and the weak are swept aside, they must fight as one to survive. There's only one path: break the curse, and become the strongest alchemists ever known. What to expect: - Two MCs, dual POV. - Slow-burn romance. - Weak-to-strong progression. - Original setting transplanting Chinese cultivation into a medieval German low-fantasy world. - Dark-but-hopeful vibe with deep mysteries and intense shōnen-style fights. - Updates Mon-Fri. Advance chapters on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/CursedAlchemists

Logan Reed once made a living creating perfect Pokémon for online clients. Flawless potential. Impossible moves. Maximum friendship. No request was too ridiculous for his modifier. Then a mysterious customer ordered three hundred customized Pokémon. Logan finished only the first one before everything went dark. When he opened his eyes again, he had become ten years old and awakened in the middle of a forest within the Pokémon world...

Talaris Elenath has a second chance to rewrite history-and save the universe from annihilation. In a future dominated by the terrifying Void Bringers, Talaris's first life ended in failure and despair. Now, with his fractured memories sent back to his younger self, he is determined to change everything. Once deemed a failure in his noble lineage for lacking a mana pool, Talaris is determined to harness the unique magic within him. Armed with memories of the future and groundbreaking magitech, he assembles a diverse team: a fierce Raiju mercenary, a gentle Phoenix healer, a flirtatious demoness, and more. Together, they work to build a foundation that will stand up to the chaos that is to come, all while navigating the complexities of friendship and love. As Talaris builds his strength and unravels the mysteries behind his powers, dark forces conspire to thwart his plans. Can he outsmart destiny and protect those he cares for while facing an impending cosmic war? Join Talaris on a thrilling journey of magic, adventure, and romance that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page! Tecnomancer is a space opera that combines magic and fantasy with sci-fi action. Expect adventure, flirting, political intrigue, humor, and romance with multiple loyal partners.

An ordinary life. That was all Kai ever wanted. Until the day a mysterious Rift appeared. Taken far beyond the only world he had ever known, Kai is pulled into a world where elemental powers, monstrous creatures, and unseen conflicts have existed all along. As Kai struggles to adapt to this unfamiliar world, every step forward pulls him deeper into a journey he never chose-one that may hold the answers to why he was brought there in the first place. But beyond the Rift lies a mystery... Will Kai uncover the secrets hidden beyond the Rift?

Mezalogue was a village left in the dark. While the glittering capitals of the Grand Nation of Wilscovia hummed with advanced technology, life in the outer rims moved at a grueling, ancient pace. A forgotten frontier, heavily monitored by the ruthless Knights of Supremacy. Dominic was an obedient village boy who never looked for trouble. And, for reasons known only to his family, he always wore a mask. But when a routine trip for firewood spirals into a high-stakes clash with capital elites, Dominic and his twin brother Raphael are dragged straight into the meat grinder: The School of Supremacy Entrance Exam. A brutal, hundreds of participants Battle Royale where only the absolute strongest survive. To achieve absolute dominance, they must unlock Qi (Qirap) the invisible internal energy that floods the mind when the human brain is pushed past its limits by sheer grit, rage, and survival instinct. But as the dark secrets of Dominic's mask begin to crack, a terrifying cosmic truth begins to bleed out into the arena. The empire thinks they are hosting a simple exam. They have no idea that the timeline is already ticking toward an apocalyptic red eclipse...[Updates Everyday]

Cyril lives a double life. By day, he's a tired college student trying to survive classes and his terrifyingly competent lab partner. By night, he climbs a cursed tower in another world, fights monsters, and comes back with injuries he can barely hide. Sabrina Voss doesn't do secrets. When she finds out the truth, she doesn't run. She moves in.

What if you died a nobody and woke up as a tree? Dendron died a nobody. He quit jobs, avoided conflict, and spent his days doing the bare minimum. When a truck ends his unremarkable existence, he expects nothing but oblivion. Instead, he wakes up as a tree: rooted, immobile, and monumentally alone. In a forest teeming with monsters, cultivators, and beast tribes, Dendron discovers he's been given a second chance, and a LitRPG system to go with it. He can absorb soul cores, grow spiritual fruit, and even parasitize other creatures to build a network of avatars. But being surrounded isn't the same as being understood. He is a reincarnator in a world that doesn't know his past. And something put him here on purpose. Whatever put him here has plans for him, and they may be far more terrifying than being a tree. "A truck hit me five minutes ago, and now I'm a fucking tree?" A LitRPG cultivation fantasy about growth, loneliness, and the quiet horror of becoming something you never planned to be. If you enjoy slow-burn mysteries, hidden organizations, ancient beings, layered worldbuilding, and gradually uncovering the true nature of a world, you may find something to enjoy here. Author's note: This novel is also officially published by me on Royalroad under the username Bryrawr.