Slowburnfantasy Stories

Once a devoted monk, now exiled and nameless, Sanwu walks through the ruins of a world he helped break. Branded The Unbound, haunted by dreams that aren't his own, he alone hears the bells that no longer ring. When a girl with a cursed spirit crosses his path, and a child who whispers to ghosts begins to follow, Sanwu finds himself at the heart of a growing storm. Relic hunters chase echoes of power. A death cult rises in the ashes. And the War God he once released threatens to rise again. To stop it, Sanwu must sacrifice more than his past. He must decide if redemption is worth becoming no one at all. A quiet, spiritual fantasy about memory, guilt, and the weight of names. When the bells call again, will he answer? A Korean-inspired dark fantasy.

Walking Without Leading is a quiet, grounded sequel to Late Son, following Steven after the world has already decided what kind of man it thinks he is. On the road, Steven encounters a young group of travellers early in their journey - capable, confident, and certain that momentum itself is a form of virtue. He does not take charge. He does not offer direction. Instead, he walks alongside them, saying little, watching closely, and intervening only when harm becomes unavoidable. As the miles pass, the group begins to realise that influence does not always announce itself, and that being seen can be as powerful as being led. This is a story about restraint, responsibility, and the uneasy space between action and consequence. Walking Without Leading explores what happens when problems are not solved cleanly, when heroism is measured in what lasts rather than what impresses, and when growth comes not from answers given - but from questions left open.

Late Son Sequel to Pixel Steven wakes beneath the world, sealed behind a door designed not to imprison-but to erase. What he finds there is not a weapon or a threat, but a person the system chose to forget. Iria was removed quietly. Not for violence. Not for forbidden power. But for following responsibility too far-asking who made decisions, and who paid for them. When punishment would have drawn attention, obscurity was chosen instead. Steven does not rescue her in spectacle or flame. He offers something rarer: honesty, restraint, and time. Together, they step into a village small enough to be overlooked and choose to stay. Not as heroes. Not as saviours. But as people who notice things early-before problems harden into disasters, before help becomes a story that draws the wrong kind of attention. Late Son is a quiet fantasy about systems that fail politely, power that refuses spectacle, and the cost of staying when walking away would be easier. It follows a man who has already lived a miracle, and now measures his life by what he prevents rather than what he conquers. This is a story about stability as an act of courage-and about what it means to help without being seen.

***A Prologue to the Love Series*** On the night of a sacred coven ceremony, thirteen-year-old Kilian and her younger sister Rosalie stand at the edge of becoming. By morning, everything is gone. A long-buried betrayal fractures the wards meant to protect them, and violence tears through their home-leaving Rosalie alive, and Kilian lost between life and death. When Kilian awakens, she returns changed in ways she cannot yet name, bound to something ancient and quietly burning beneath her skin. As the sisters are forced to flee what remains of their past, grief, unanswered questions, and unseen forces follow close behind. With danger looming and trust in short supply, Kilian must navigate a world that no longer feels safe-while holding tightly to the one promise she refuses to break. Dawning Love is a dark fantasy novella about sisterhood, rebirth, and the quiet, devastating power of love-where survival is only the beginning, and becoming comes at a cost.

Long after witches were hunted, erased, and turned into myth, one still walks the world. Catherine never sought power. She inherited it - ancient, luminous, and dangerous - bound to a legacy the world tried to bury. When a ritual meant to end her bloodline awakens something far older instead, Catherine is pulled into a hidden war between faith and fear, memory and annihilation. From the shadows of modern London to the silent mountains of China, truths unravel: about her mother, about the White Witches, and about the cost of survival in a world that only tolerates magic when it can be controlled. Guided by echoes, guardians, and forces that no longer belong to time, Catherine must decide what it means to end a legacy - and whether being the last is an ending at all. Because some magic does not disappear. It waits.

Some say emotion is our weakness. But in my school, it's starting to crack the world open. It all began with a quiz bowl, a heatwave, and a strange boy who left mid-contest like he knew something the rest of us didn't. Then came the shimmer-a strange light, like water that wasn't water, trailing behind our footsteps. They say I sparked something ancient. I say I was just trying to win a medal. Now the lab stands in ruins, the air still tinted blue, and whispers spread faster than truth. Symbols appear in classrooms, files vanish overnight, and the so-called "Blue Phase" keeps deepening, like the school itself is holding its breath. Whatever it is, it's not going away. And neither am I. ────── ⋆⋅Θ⋅⋆ ────── THE PHASE THETA ✦ Story Genre: Science Fiction · Magical realism · Modern fantasy · School mystery ✦ Setting: Set in a Philippine university campus ✦ Manifestations: Shields. Mist. Shards. Surge. Whatever the Blue Phase becomes, it answers to joy. ✦ Theme: Discovery. Disbelief. And deciding who to trust when both sides want to use you. 📖 This is Year One of a four-part series (hopefully:>>) 💙 Updates every Saturday 🖋 Written by: Alchemyster 📎 Follow me for lore, drafts, and chaos!!!

In the middle of a brutal war between rival kingdoms, two awkward teenagers-Callen, a quiet strategist's son, and Elira, the blacksmith's clever apprentice-have been inseparable since childhood. As war threatens to separate them forever, they struggle with their feelings, neither brave enough to confess-until the front line hits too close to home

📖 Title: Babruvahana: The Last Vault Genre: Mythological Thriller | Action Fantasy | Epic Drama 🔥 Book Description: The war is long over. The heroes have vanished. But one vault remains... and it remembers everything. 👑 Babruvahana, the forgotten son of Arjuna, lives in the shadow of legends. Trained by his warrior-queen mother, he is haunted by dreams he cannot name and feared by enemies he has never met. Unbeknownst to him, deep beneath his kingdom lies the Last Vault-a living relic bound to a mythical weapon too dangerous to name. ⚔️ When a dying messenger arrives bearing his father's sigil and an ancient enemy resurfaces, Babruvahana is drawn into a race against time. A secret order known as the Kaala Vyuha is working to awaken the Mahāmrityu Astra, an apocalyptic force even the gods once feared. 🌌 From Nāga tunnels and cursed archives to memory-eating rituals and blood-soaked riddles, Babruvahana must confront a harsh truth: He is not just the son of a hero. He is the key to the end of time. 📜 This is not the story you heard in the Mahabharata. This is the legend that was buried to protect the world.

Genre: Dark Fantasy | Mystery | Magic | Coming-of-Age > "They cast him out without a name, without a farewell... but not without fire." In the kingdom of Maro, where truth is a currency and bloodlines are bound by secrets, a boy named Aaron Hotveil is banished from his noble family at eighteen. With sky-colored eyes and a flame he doesn't understand, Aaron is marked as strange-as wrong-by a world that fears what it cannot name. Homeless and hunted, Aaron stumbles into the mansion of the enigmatic Lord Frankfurt Pierce, a man with too many secrets and a past drenched in ashes. As Aaron begins his service, he uncovers a reality far darker than exile: Whispers of a lost bloodline. A war that was erased from history. And a fire that remembers everything the crown tried to burn. When Aaron meets Ashen, a strange child with the ability to read memories from ash, the past ignites. Together, they must outwit a fanatic cult called The Pale Thorn, unearth the truth behind the Skyborn, and awaken a flame older than the kingdom itself. But some truths were buried for a reason. And some flames... were never meant to return.

Dying Anna dares to challenge God - and wakes up as five-year-old Liliana in the Black Tower, the heart of the mage administration. Ten years under the strict care of the formidable Alice von Weir, years of friendship with the brilliant Karsten and the sharp-tongued Reyn. But on the night of her fifteenth birthday, everything falls apart. Liliana flees through the dungeons, clutching her teacher's journal filled with schematics of a forbidden artifact. Shadows of former allies pursue her. Ahead - only darkness, and the tattered echo of a prayer: "You promised..." The last thing she feels before the blow to her back - an icy blade... and Reyn's warm hand gently closing her eyes.

He sees what others miss. Not the future. Not the past. The patterns between. In a realm unraveling at the seams, a quiet boy with strange eyes watches the threads of fate shift and shimmer. He does not fight with sword or spell. But when the silence breaks, the world will know what it means to see clearly.

A girl who writes poetry in secret. A boy with silver eyes and no past. A forest that remembers everything.

Every four generations, the Great Twelve Kingdoms take part in a military showdown known as The Conquest of Blood. It starts off as a friendly competition for the coveted Blood Throne, the ultimate prize for any king, the ultimate authori of the Great Twelve. A king who seats on the Blood Throne becomes the Overking and rules over other kings. When a kingdom suffers heavy losses, they typically pull back, surrendering the fight and bowing out gracefully. However, what begins as a tradition soon spirals into chaos. Kings grow stubborn, refusing to give up, which leads to horrific violence and widespread death. The desire for the Blood Throne drives these rulers to tap into dark magic, sparking a fierce response from the Eternal Order the religious faction of the Great Twelve who oppose all forms of magic and sorcery known for burning offenders alive, dispatches their elite soldiers, the Red Crescents, to restore order. Meanwhile, in the realm of Farreach, a coalition of seven powerful magic-rich kingdoms, the gods are at war over the ancient dragon god Maghom, who has lain unconscious for thousands of years. This dragon possesses a flame that could destroy the world in one breath. Maghom lies in wait, anticipating the arrival of its true master, the Last God, known as the Runeweaver, to awaken it.

In a world once swallowed by greed and silence, a woman rose - not as a warrior, but as a flame. She burned not to destroy, but to cleanse. From her fire bloomed the lotus of love, and from her pain, a paradise called Agnisthal. She is Agnishwari - the goddess who taught that warmth can be stronger than wrath, and that divinity is not in being feared, but in being felt. Her story is not of gods and battles, but of hearts rekindled, of a world reborn in the fire of compassion.

In the heart of an untamed Miocene wilderness, where megafauna prowl and ancient secrets lurk beneath colossal trees, an eagle-sized Draven keeps silent vigil over human intruders carving out a precarious existence on the savage planet of Feroz. Enter Grik: a shadowy predator with a wingspan rivaling a man's height, his keen gaze dissecting every move of the settler family-from their defiant fires to their hidden fears. Curiosity ignites into an uneasy pact that defies the wild's brutal laws. Plunge into this stark, bird's-eye saga: instinctual, unflinching, and stripped of illusions. No enchanted rescues or fated heroes-just raw survival, calculated alliances, and the unforgiving truth that sharing territory means sharing fate. Themes: • Avian outsider's lens • Wilderness reclaiming civilization • Simmering vigilance and adaptation • Folklore forged in the shadows If you crave gripping eco-thrillers, intelligent non-human leads, and prehistoric worlds brimming with peril and wonder, Grik's Cabin pulls you into the canopy-where every glance could change everything.

"This world doesn't need saving. It needs to burn." Rael Kurosawa is done with pretending. Tired of faking smiles. Sick of chasing purpose in a world that chews up the lonely and spits out silence. One step off a rooftop should've ended it all... Instead, he awakens in a different realm - cursed lands, kingdoms of magic, and beasts that hunger for blood. But he isn't just reborn. He's been rebooted. With NULLCORE, a mysterious system that absorbs, erases, and rewrites magic itself, Rael is labeled an anomaly - feared, hunted, and wanted by kings, mages, and monsters alike. He didn't ask to be here. He didn't ask to be special. All he ever wanted was peace. But in a world built on power and prophecy, peace is a lie. And if the world won't give him a reason to live... He'll become the reason it trembles.

The world's darkest desires play on repeat. And she's the only one who can hear them. Cassia Bellweather's "tone-deafness" at elite Aethelgard Conservatory hides a terrifying gift: she hears the dissonance beneath reality. A thrum of corrupt emotions. A melody of envy that leaves phantom moth wings on her skin. When a woman with emerald eyes starts conducting it, twisting students into rivals and predators, Cassia digs into a century of vanished musicians. But the deeper she listens, the clearer it becomes: She's not just hearing the music. It's tuning her.

Three sisters - Rhea, Sera, and Lena Vance - live seemingly normal lives in a quiet town, juggling high school, friendships, and grief after the recent loss of their mother. But everything changes when Lena stumbles upon a strange, ancient book hidden in their home. As names, powers, and generational secrets begin to reveal themselves, the sisters slowly uncover a legacy they never knew they were part of - a bloodline of magical hunters. When a new student suddenly attacks Sera in the middle of the night, everything snaps into focus. Their mother's jewelry, once thought sentimental, is far more than it seems - each piece awakening a unique power hidden within them. As the sisters unite for the first time against a true magical threat, the book begins recording their story, and they realize... Their normal life is over. Their destiny has just begun.

An Atmospheric Dark Fantasy of Language, Memory, and Becoming In a fortress carved from ancient bone and built to contain the un-containable, a boy named Thom is marked by the curse feared above all others: the Mouth. He arrives at the Bastion-a place where wolf-blooded are broken, remade, or buried-expecting training, exile, maybe death. But what he finds is worse. The Bastion doesn't just hold danger. It repeats it. The same names. The same rites. The same patterns. And somewhere beneath the stone and marrow lies a voice older than god or monster: unfinished, recursive, hungry. As the bones beneath the fortress begin to stir, and the glyphs start rewriting themselves, Thom must decide whether he will become the vessel the Bastion demands... or the sentence that ends it. A lyrical and slow-burning dark fantasy told in breath and fracture, Wolfsbane in Winter explores language as prison, ritual as recursion, and silence as liberation. Some stories are not told. They are remembered. And some should never be spoken twice.

『M! YANDERES X FEMALE! READER X F! YANDERES 』- how far are you willing to go? for your country, for your family, or your lover for that matter? you'd risk it all. and that's exactly what you did, the consequence being your life. yet you were rewarded with some cruel joke of reincarnation, into a eerily dark light novel at that. one you didn't bother to remember anything about. great...let's see how you fair in a kingdom bound to unravel at the seams.