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The Penumbra Paradox - ONC 2023

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Parts 16
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Reads 320
Votes 56
Parts 16
Time 1h 44m

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Qualified for Round -3

What if the moon was never ours to begin with? Or the Earth even?

Now, it is upto a trio of compassionate loser, a blind badass and a wicked hundred-year-old-teenager to save the world from completely disappearing from the face of our universe.

It is 2223 in the future, the moon has lost its orbit and is spiralling down the way to collide with earth. A century of pain and death due to riptides, draughts, thunderstorm and crazy eclipses has changed the world. What remains of the continents has merged into one land called Penumbra due to continental drift, ruled by a single united inter-continental government.

Humanity lives under the ground, salvaging what's left for food and water. Living like termites inside a mound, they come out only to forage dead and decaying. And they are tired, they are done and want to 'live'. 

But there is one tiny problem. Resistance, from a community nicknamed sinukian savages, who live above the ground, who have adapted and evolved to live with the frost, thunderstorm and scorching draughts even. They believe in the oracle of Sinukhi, the one and only almighty. His judgement day will come and he is the only one who can save the  humanity from extinction.All Rights Reserved

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Descendants of Ancient by ArnoldKumar

Sabrim Valor, the second strongest right after Rizwemi, was hinted of the evil ideologies his own elder brother Tarshim has taken up. And alongside him was Barkust, Titania and Rizwemi. Sabrim allied with Luanis, Avesa and Parch. After a long war, Rizwemi killed Sabrim with his weapon "Cazter", a blade which can soak the life force of anyone and turn them into a lifeless being. Sabrim in his last breath, used his cubic weapon to trap Rizwemi and binded it into another realm. The battle was won by Sabrim and those who allied with Rizwemi was sent into an unknown void of darkness for eternity. ***************************************** It's been atleast 78,000 years old when the war took place. Now it's the modern day and everyone has a living. They gave up the old legends and tales believing it to be myths. However, Slyff Cherim a young archaeologists and dreamer believes all these things to be true. He comes across the ancient history of Arsilon and reads the different ages heroes and their battles against the realm of darkness. He wished for a miracle to take place and came across a meteorite, turning his world completely upside down. Infested with the powers of a celestial named Tarshim. He goes into a state where he becomes aggressive, agitated and only one mission to save earth from the dangers of the upcoming future. How he wants to achieve it? Well destroy the Teraforce and save everyone (or not). Another individual, Aiden Tom Wafler is your struggling employee at a food marketing company. Who accidentally meets another celestial Parch Seveky, who tells him to become a warrior to stop Slyff and Tarshim from destroying the Teraforce as it might end the world and some parts of the cosmos. Both of them now must race to save the earth but can they achieve it? Who will be the first to act and what consequences would they have to follow up for their actions? *****

Love Beneath The Moon by IncredibleSmile0

Aurora, a fierce Iceborn from the wild lands of Coldlands, crosses into the rival nation of Vistartion, hoping to end generations of conflict. Disguised as an orphan, she finds herself drawn to Mark, a quiet boy with secrets of his own. As tensions rise between their nations, their connection grows into a forbidden love. But when betrayal shatters their fragile peace, they must confront ancient prophecies and buried truths that link their pasts in ways they never expected. Can love survive a war fueled by vengeance, or will they be forced to choose between their people and each other?

✓Day Of The Dead (MuiTan - TanMui)✓ by Muichiro0san

I would never thought the worst thing to ever happen to me will also the time I meet the love of my life... ... It was a sunny day in a city of Tokyo, everything seemed normal until my phone started beeping. An earthquake. It was a magnitude 7. Everything was shaking, things were falling of the shelfs. It went like this for a while before it finally stopped. Nezuko, my younger sister, went to the window to look at the damage it made. Her eyes widened, there was a huge hole in the ground, surrounded by people. Something started crawling out of the hole, it didn't look like normal people, they were bigger, a lot bigger than normal people. They were looking odd, some without lower body parts, some without eyes, some without their arms. Soon they started attacking everyone, screams and blood was everywhere. There was chaos everywhere, everything turned into a disaster in a matter of couple minutes. No one knew what that things were, why they came out of the ground, how long have they been there and why they decided to come out now. I was shocked, shaking in fear, wanting this to be only a dream. Before I could do anything else, groans and screams spread through the building. We knew we couldn't stay there any longer, we needed to find shelter or ask someone for help. We didn't have weapons or anything. We just ran for our lives in hopes for the best to happen... "HEY, OVER HERE!" I turned around to see a tall guy with mohawk and a short long haired male next to him. Muichiro Tokito... Why did we have to meet at such a terrible moment... Why did the fate decided to get us together at such a disaster...

Release Me by anna_rose01

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生存进化: 启示录 by Seraphinellaria

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Northern Exposure: The divided by LukenDuPont

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Darkest Wolf by Wolfbane

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Heart of Stone (Parts I & II) by Joflower

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Descendants of Ancient

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