Strategic Stories

"Standing on the shoulders of giants like Newton, Watt, Bessemer, Haber, Tesla, and countless others-how could anyone hope to rival me?!" A young and ambitious engineer is mysteriously transported to a medieval world-reborn as one of the heirs locked in a deadly succession contest. Determined not to die again, he resolves to use the only advantage he now has over his new brothers: the might of modern, industrialised civilisation! Armed with the knowledge of centuries of scientific progress, he sets out to ignite an industrial revolution a thousand years ahead of its schedule and illuminate the Dark Ages with the fire of industrial civilisation. *You can also follow the story on RoyalRoad

Do you know how an empire dies? I do. I spent 186 hours watching it happen. Narco Empire: 1976-1993 was supposed to end with Pablo Valderrama dead and the Medellín Cartel destroyed. I cleared the game. Then I clicked CONTINUE. In my old life, I was a twenty-seven-year-old Korean gamer. Now I'm Santiago Valderrama, the eighteen-year-old son of a dead cartel boss, waking up in Medellín only hours after everything his father built began collapsing. Police are hunting me. Rivals are tearing apart what remains. Former allies are stealing anything they can reach. The men around me have no reason to follow a sheltered teenager. Worse, I barely speak Spanish. All I have is a System, 186 hours of knowledge about how this world is supposed to unfold, and one increasingly obvious problem: Every decision I make changes the future I remember. If I want to live, I have to rebuild an empire the world has already declared dead. Not as Pablo Valderrama's son. As the next Patrón. What to Expect: - Strategic weak-to-strong progression - Crime empire-building - A System with ranks, missions, CP, upgrades, and recruitment - Competent allies and enemies with their own agendas - Strategy, negotiation, business, and information warfare alongside action - Slow-burn romance later. No harem.

They called him a hero. Then they beheaded him. After thirty years of fighting for the kingdom, he was sold for peace. His wife. His children. His army. All died in vain. But death was not the end. He returned. And this time-he would not save the kingdom. He would build something more terrible than war itself. A chimera. And the world would learn... that betrayal has a price.

An arranged marriage. A powerful name. And a choice that was never meant to become love. When Aishwarya Madhav marries Liam Moretti, it is not born of romance, but of obligation, two lives bound by family decisions, cultural distance, and a world ruled by power. He is an Italian heir shaped by legacy and enemies. She is an Indian woman grounded in quiet strength, kindness, and conviction. Anya Singh, meanwhile, remained woven into a part of Liam's life that still breathed, vibrant, expressive, and alive with emotion. Loving him openly, loudly, without knowing how love could demand more than the heart was prepared to give. As past, present and future collide, What Remains unfolds not just as a love triangle, but a journey of human choice; of loyalty that is earned, of love that transforms, of family that is built through patience rather than blood. This is a story about an arranged marriage that began without love. About power, danger, and the cost of decisions made in the name of protection. Above all, it is a story that asks one question: When everything else is stripped away, what remains?

Aarohi Malhotra survived the accident that shattered her world - but surviving was never the same as living. Behind her cold silence and carefully built walls hides a girl haunted by forgotten memories, trauma, fear, and emotions she no longer knows how to face. To the world, she appears strong, intelligent, and untouchable. But beneath that control lives a loneliness she quietly carries every day. Then Arjun Sharma enters her life. What begins with misunderstandings and hatred slowly turns into something far deeper - a love built on patience, understanding, and staying beside someone even when they are falling apart. Because sometimes healing does not come from fixing a person. Sometimes, it comes from simply having someone who refuses to leave. But the past Aarohi buried long ago refuses to stay hidden. As forgotten memories slowly begin to surface, her life turns into a dangerous psychological maze filled with secrets, manipulation, obsession, betrayal, emotional conflicts, and truths powerful enough to destroy everything around her. Yet this story is not only about Aarohi. Every character carries their own fears, wounds, insecurities, coping mechanisms, and silent battles. Through different relationships and perspectives, the story explores trauma, healing, attachment, emotional struggles, and the complicated reality of human emotions - because people are rarely simply "right" or "wrong." Sometimes, they are just trying to survive life in the only way they know how to.

During the fourth year of the White Room operation, Atsuomi Ayanokoji created the other experiment alongside the 4th generation. Featuring a sole student, unbeknownst to the public or the rest of the cohort - Y/n. With too many ideas and too little time, the continuation of the White Room project depended on innovation and results. With conflicting ideas of the 4th generation syllabus and the soon-to-be 5th generation, Professor Ayanokoji came up with this compromise. Yet when the political conflict occurred, Y/n - a child of an affair - had nowhere to go and instead found herself at the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School (ANHS). And what's even more surprising... The 4th generations prodigy, Professor Ayanokoji's own son, also happened to enroll... But he's in class D...? ⇨ Classroom of the Elite (COTE) Fanfiction ⇨ Slow Burn ⇨ Plot/story emphasis ( slow updates bc busy D: )

Samwell Tarly was meant to be mocked, sent to the Wall, and forgotten. Then another soul opened his eyes and took his place. Armed with foreknowledge, a status panel, and a will no fear could bury, he leaves Horn Hill and raises House Greenhand from nothing. Westeros will learn that House Tarly's weakest son may become its most dangerous player.

Atsuomi and the white room are in a dire financial situation, with their only solution being a gamble against a organization known as Kakerou. Ayanokoji kiyotaka was sent to ANHS, to compete against the latest child of the Kiruma family, Kiruma souichi. As per the agreed premise of this gamble At the last second, another infamous young gambler enters the game, throwing himself into the school, his motives unknown How will these monsters fare against one another? Find out now in this story You don't necessarily need to read usogui or cote to enjoy this but it's still recommended because there will be certain spoilers I don't own Usogui, Classroom of the elite, or any of their characters. CoTE is written by Kinugasa and Usogui is written and drawn by Toshio Sako

History says Dong Zhuo dies in 192. Lü Bu kills him. Then the Dong clan gets exterminated. I knew all of this. Which would have been much more useful if I had not opened my eyes as Dong Zhuo's nineteen-year-old son. There are worse transmigrations. Few come with such a clear expiration date. Fortunately, the original Dong Yu left me one magnificent inheritance: Everyone already thinks I'm useless. Lazy. Cowardly. Drunk whenever possible. More interested in beautiful women than military affairs. Perfect. All I have to do is protect that reputation, get Mother somewhere safe, gather enough money and food to survive, and avoid every famous bastard I remember from the Three Kingdoms. Especially Lü Bu. Then Father asked what I wanted. "A small estate." "Where?" "West." Li Ru looked at me. "Why west?" "Yuan Shao went east." The room went quiet. That should have been my first warning. I wanted distance from Yuan Shao. They heard that I had already predicted rebellion. I wanted grain because jewelry is difficult to eat. They heard preparation for famine and war. I counted carts because, at some point, I fully intend to run away. Somehow that was worse. Yesterday, Li Ru thought I was an idiot. Today, he thinks I might have spent nineteen years pretending to be one. Father has started asking for my opinion. Lü Bu has started paying attention to me. And every time I desperately try to prove that I am a cowardly, lazy, womanizing waste of a noble son, everyone becomes a little more convinced that the act itself is part of some terrifying plan. I know how this story ends. I am trying very hard not to be important enough to change it. Unfortunately, the people around me seem determined to promote me into treason.

Yoichi Nagumo has spent more time learning how to kill, deceive, and survive than living like a normal fifteen-year-old. After one mission too many, his organization makes an unusual decision: no assassinations, no intelligence work, and no assignments for the next three years. Instead, Nagumo is sent to Japan's prestigious Advanced Nurturing High School with one simple objective- live like an ordinary teenager. To Nagumo, it sounds like a three-year vacation. Go to class. Make friends. Enjoy school life. Easy enough. But ANHS is anything but ordinary. Behind its perfect reputation lies a closed system ruled by points, competition, manipulation, and students willing to use almost anything to reach Class A. And as Nagumo enters Class B with his usual smile, he soon discovers something unexpected: assassins aren't the only people who know how to hide their true selves. For someone who has built his life around deception, perhaps the most dangerous game of all is learning who he can actually trust. A Sakamoto Days × Classroom of the Elite crossover.

[+15 Beginner's Dagger Enhancement: SUCCESS] While other players scream, "Damn it! Enhancing gear past +9 is impossible!" Han Simin just sees a different notification. A fatal accident didn't just trap him in the VR game "Fantastic World"-it gifted him the ultimate cheat. A God-Tier Enhancement ability with a 100% success rate. Forget the main quest. While heroes are out saving the world, Simin is on his own adventure: finding legendary locations to turn trash items into mythical-grade artifacts. That delightful and exhilarating story begins! Text copyright © Bin/KWBOOKS Illustration copyright © makaruse First published in Korean by KWBOOKS English translation copyright © INFINICTION Translator: KimJKW /INFINICTION All rights reserved. *** Weekly updates on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

In a world of never ending cruelty, she is forced to navigate the Earth on her own to find a Good Ending. All her allies keep dying, she keeps failing, even with the power of the Eyes, she still can't save any of them. After each Reset, her allies forget her, betray her, hate her, and the world returns to a certain point in time. Now, it's her 629th Reset. Will she finally be able to make it to the Good Ending she's endlessly chasing? --- Note: This is a stat-light, narrative-focused story with no massive status screens

Adhira had come to believe she was fate's favourite. Every happiness that one could only dare to wish for had been laid at her feet. She was raised in a family that understood her heart, nurtured her mind and gave her the finest education in every art she chose to learn. And when for the very first time, her heart fluttered for a man, Vikram Rathore, the King of Mehrangarh.. fate did not deny her that love either. Instead, she ended up marrying him and became his queen. She believed her life was perfect until that very fate turned cruel and took everything away from her, stripping her of every fragment of happiness she had ever known. Now pregnant with her late husband's child and the kingdom's potential heir, she finds herself torn apart between her heart's desire for peace and her sense of safety for her unborn baby. Raised to rule, Adhira was far from naive. She knew all too well that her child's safety was in question as Vikram's younger brother, Rajveer ascended the throne. And she would take any measure necessary to protect the little life growing within her. Whether it meant marrying Rajveer Rathore to secure her position... or killing him. [Zero usage of AI!]

Toga Himiko died believing she had finally found happiness. Instead, she woke in a world where monsters wear smiles, intelligence is power, and weakness is punished. Now, hiding her true identity, Toga enters the Advanced Nurturing High School. But she soon discovers something far more disturbing than this new world. The White Room. I love ayanokoji's character . I love Toga's character. That's going to be the whole story ,KIyo X Toga. © I don't own the characters but the rest.

In a world governed by divine monopolies and rigid cosmic ledgers, power is not cultivated-it is leased. Aethelgard is a four-ringed concentric realm where native elites sign brutal contracts with the gods, carving "Edicts" into their souls to channel raw power. But when Julian Vance-a cold, calculating quantitative analyst from Earth-transmigrates into the dying body of an expendable archive clerk, he brings a mindset entirely alien to this world: he doesn't revere the gods; he short-sells them. Unlike the native Edict-Bound, Julian wakes as an Unchartered soul, equipped with The Fate Market Interface-a silent, non-magical financial dashboard overlaid across reality. To Julian, magical wards are systemic vulnerabilities, bad luck is over-leveraged liability, and causality is simply a ticker tape waiting to be manipulated. Starting at the bottom of the Lower Rim with zero capital, Julian survives his own framed execution by sabotaging the illegal assets of the noble House Varos, netting his first 120 Fate Credits. Recognizing that physical violence is a low-yield risk, he begins recruiting distressed human assets-starting with Kael, a disgraced Stage 2 mercenary drowning in catastrophic "Misfortune Debt." By restructuring Kael's bad luck and weaponizing it as kinetic collateral, Julian begins executing high-level institutional raids, tricking regulatory bodies like the terrifying Crown Inquisition into liquidating his rivals for him.

In a universe where rebirth is as unavoidable as death, to be ripped away from the circle of life and forced to live in limbo is a fate that no soul would wish ever to befall itself. Yet, that is the story of Raxyas. His is one of the many souls confined to indefinite imprisonment in Mortmundus, the world of the dead. After seemingly fulfilling his final mission and earning the right to rejoin the circle of life, Raxyas is brought back to answer for its ultimate failure. As the people he once swore to protect are now the very same who shun and accuse him of treason for conspiring with those he should have destroyed, Raxyas must clear his name and tie up all loose ends if he wishes to achieve rebirth. Inspired by: The Elder Scrolls, Soul Reaver, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, JoJo's Bizarre Adventures, Douluo Dalu. Note: this book is currently undergoing revision. --Credits-- Book cover: canva Map of Mortmundus: Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator AI-generated images: craiyon -- You can also find this story on Royal Road (by unholy_sweetrolls).

She has always hated that palace and those people. When Mehmed offers her a place at his side, Nurayu does more than just accept. She does her best to protect his position. Soon, she finds herself in the middle of a dangerous game where everything deceives. While others trust too fast, she observes. While others talk, she listens. !! I don't romanticise this historical era or the treatment the women received. This is a story based on the show.

He was never supposed to become part of history. Stone was an ordinary man from the modern world when fate-or something far stranger-threw him into the tumultuous world of medieval China. Separated from his family and surrounded by the Liao, Jin, Song, Western Xia, and Qara Khitai, Stone soon discovers that surviving history is much harder than reading about it. He witnesses wars, political conspiracies, assassinations, strange technologies, and civilizations rising and falling. Along the way, he gathers an unlikely family of people from different times and cultures. Then, while fleeing an assassination, Stone falls into the earth with his wife and five-year-old son. When he wakes again, centuries seem to have passed. He is no longer in China. He is somewhere across the ocean, among the Iroquois. His mother and stepfather are already there. And history is waiting for him again. From medieval Asia to the forests of North America, Stone's journey will cross centuries, civilizations, wars, and borders. But beneath all the battles and adventures, his ambitions remain surprisingly simple: Keep his family alive. Find a place to call home. Grow some potatoes. Unfortunately, history has never been very good at leaving him alone. I will be posting this story on Royal Road and WebNovel.

Ned Stark knows what winter does to a weak North, so he begins changing Winterfell before the realm notices. New roads, ships, saltworks, and uneasy vassals turn Winterfell into the opening move in a colder game. This time, the North means to stand on its own.

Crossing into Netheril, becoming a small lord. Nurturing a Time Whelp, developing arcane magic, and transforming technology. Absorbing populations from various races such as humans, dwarves, elves, halflings, drow, tieflings, and the magicborn, to create a modernized new nation with magical characteristics. Overthrowing the Netheril Empire is the mission! Destroying the Elven Kingdom and the Elven Pantheon is the duty! Eradicating ancient evils and natural disasters is Matthew's shout as he crushes fate! "Brothers and sisters, join Bay Territory! Here, we give out houses, provide free childcare, no worries about food or clothing, assign jobs, and supply all resources needed for life." "Furthermore, we can even offer the path to godhood..." "Everyone only needs to pay a small price of one billion!" A slow-burn farming novel, a new world of dragons and dungeons, a magical version of the Warhammer Empire, and an unprecedented, fresh new version for everyone. Patreon link for those interested: https://www.patreon.com/FALCON_N