Modernfantasy Stories

"I just wanted to run a café... not fight monsters in dungeons..." Seo Elena, an office worker, quits her job and opens a café, but things take an unexpected turn when there turns out to be a dungeon underneath it! Somehow, she also awakens and even survives an S-rank dungeon! Despite awakening, she's still set on opening her café and running it peacefully. But why does she keep getting dragged into these tragedies?! And why are the S-rankers suddenly so interested in her?! Alternate title: Top Floor Cafe

In a fantasy world, where magic has faded and technology has burgeoned, Glark Underbrick, a goblin wizard who runs an unsuccessful magical bookshop, is resigned to magic becoming little more than a memory. Until one day he takes possession of another wizard's library and accidentally summons a god. When the god says that magic can be restored, Glark undertakes to do just that, only he needs to earn money in the meantime as restoring magic, and the god, to their full power may take a while. When a young dwarven girl becomes Glark's assistant, it leads to Glark diversifying, dealing with the local witch, town authorities, and a cadre of wizards out to find out where Glark is getting his new-found powers. From the local fête, to a book festival and a host of holiday makers wanting their dream holidays to come true, Glark has a lot on his hands, but can he manage to bring everything under control, or will it become nothing but a disaster? The first book in the 'Cucumber Sands' series.

Being turned into a vampire at eleven sounded exciting... ...for about the first year. Five centuries later, it's mostly paperwork. You can't rent an apartment because everyone thinks you're a child. You need adult-looking vampires to pretend to be your parents just to see an R-rated movie. Every few decades, you fake your identity and start elementary school all over again, smiling politely while your history teacher explains events you personally witnessed. Thankfully, there's a support group. A secret community for vampires who were turned as children or teenagers, where the members are centuries old, dress like grandmas because that's how old they feel, and help each other survive a world that refuses to believe they're adults. For Elias, who has looked eleven since the seventeenth century, life gets a little easier thanks to his "guardian"-a vampire who looks thirty but is actually younger than he is. To everyone else, they're parent and child. In reality, they're two cranky elderly roommates who argue over chores, complain about modern life, and occasionally have to fool teachers, cashiers, and government officials into believing they're a perfectly normal family. A heartwarming supernatural comedy about found family, eternal childhood, and the strange reality of growing old without ever growing up.

| The Beast Series Book 1 | Blood. Betrayal. Destiny. The hunt has begun. Twelve years after his sister vanished in the rain, Asher Blackwood still wakes from the same nightmare. Then a stranger calls at 3am with a warning: a symbol connected to Emily's disappearance has surfaced again. The case that was buried is stirring. The truth she died trying to uncover is waking. And some curses refuse to stay dead. In the shadows of Seattle, alliances will break, blood will be spilled, and a legend will rise.

When quiet university student Rin buys a mysterious vintage star box at a local thrift store, her passion for writing romance manuscripts takes an impossible turn. Overnight, the line between fiction and reality shatters, bringing her favorite characters-stoic barista Ren, stoic-yet-perceptive classmate Kazuki, and chaotic J-Pop idol Kaito-directly into her everyday life. But as strange transfer twins enter the scene with dark motives of their own, Rin realizes that surviving this real-world story will take far more than just writing a happy ending.

What happens when your worth is measured in a world that favours stability and power? You're going to need both ability and chance by your side just to make it through. Kavi expects a number and nothing more from the High Spire. Instead, she's pulled into a system where true power is about the strength of your intent. Armed with a gift that feels too simple to matter, she begins to uncover that the 'perfect' world they live in isn't nearly as truthful as it's chalked up to be. ------------- Updates every week whenever - Currently rewriting all chapters! Will update more consistently now

When seventeen-year-old Princess Arianna wakes up in a hospital bed, she remembers everything-except herself. She knows the history, politics, and geography of her kingdom, but not her own childhood, family, or the night that nearly killed her. Doctors call it amnesia. The court calls it a crisis. As Arianna returns to a palace full of secrets, she begins to uncover disturbing truths about her past, her family, and the price of power. Someone wanted her silent. Someone may still want her gone. Caught between royal duty and a new, frightening freedom, Arianna must decide who she wants to become. Because when memory disappears, identity is no longer inherited-it is chosen.

Vihaan Singhania is a man built of glass and steel-cold in manner, flawless in discipline, and unshakable in purpose. At thirty, he already carries an empire on his shoulders. As the CEO of the Singhania Hotel Empire, he lives for deadlines, decisions, and duty. His family comes first, his work comes next, and everything else is noise. Love, in his world, is an inefficiency. A distraction. Something he has no space for. Elina Chaudhary is his opposite in every way. At twenty-six, she is a determined young doctor specializing in gynecology, still growing, still dreaming, yet already certain that her hands are meant to welcome life into the world. She is gentle with her patients, fierce about her goals, and deeply in love with the idea of love itself. With her friends, she is bubbly, dramatic, self-obsessed in the cutest way-laughter follows her like perfume. But in front of Vihaan, her colors soften. Her confidence quiets. As if his silence slowly erases her sparkle. When fate binds them in a marriage shaped by expectations rather than emotion, two strangers from different seasons of life are forced to share a future neither of them imagined. He treats her like a responsibility. She tries to become a home. Between boardrooms and hospital corridors, misunderstandings and unspoken feelings, something fragile begins to grow. Because some hearts don't fall in love loudly. They learn. They wait. They change. And sometimes, love doesn't arrive like lightning- it arrives like warmth, the moment work ends and the heart finally begins. © 2026 Where Work Ends, Love Begins by Miss Lily. All rights reserved. This work is a piece of fiction and the original property of the author. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, or shared in any form without written permission. Any resemblance to real persons or events is purely coincidental.

Carl transmigrates into a wildly popular mobile game, only to end up as a disposable fodder character. To survive, he must compete with other popular characters for the players' favor. Otherwise, his fate is nothing but death. But if players play games for fun... Then why not just make a bunch of highly rewarding, genuinely fun games inside this mobile game? Games should be fun, after all. And so, players gradually begin to realize that the various mini-games built into this mobile game... are actually more entertaining than the game itself.

[+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.

The world does not want a savior; it wants a weapon it can control. When the light of his world was extinguished by a Seele, a young boy's grief gave birth to a terrifying resolve. Paralyzed no longer, he claimed the burden of the "Scarecrow"-a protector destined to stand in the center of the carnage, wielding a fierce, blue-tinted flame that burns with a heat the world has grown to loathe. In this era, such a Gift is no beacon of hope; it is a cursed anomaly, marking him as a pariah even as he serves as humanity's shield. His mission is fueled by a selfish vow: he has seen the worst this world has to offer, and he will slaughter every Seele in existence to ensure no one else has to witness that horror. But the Scarecrow does not burn for himself. Every searing blast of blue fire is for the one soul he refused to lose-the girl who remains his only home in a world of wreckage. She is his final tether to reality, the reason behind his crusade, and the only anchor keeping his humanity from being consumed by his own Blue Rage. Together with Squad Segment 663, he is deployed under the cold, calculating gaze of The Skulls-architects of a system where lives are merely data points on a probability monitor. From forgotten borders to decaying strongholds, they are the U.W.D.S.'s most efficient tools of "purification." Yet, in the silence between battles, a mysterious figure lingers. An unnamed guide who speaks in echoes, she is a weeping contradiction who offers a haunting comfort that feels ancient and dangerously familiar. As the squad faces the encroaching darkness of the Seele and the rising threat of a rival power, the "Scarecrow" must decide: is he truly a hero, or just a broken child enforcing his trauma on a world that already hates him? In a war where trust is a liability, the people he protects may be the first to call him a traitor.

When Arjun Mandal summons a demon, the last thing he expects is to come face to face with his dead ex-boyfriend. Four years ago, Teddy Nkhoma was killed by followers of a sorcerer threatening the balance between realms and was reborn as a demon. Though beings from the Realm of the Dead are not trusted even by the magical community in the Realm of the Living, Arjun knows Teddy too well to believe him evil. He knows Teddy is still the boy he loved, still his best friend. Defying his family's warnings, Arjun agrees to work with Teddy to defeat the sorcerer. As an ancient prophecy re-emerges and more than one realm is threatened, Arjun and Teddy must face their past, their present, and a future that might tear them apart all over again. GENRE: modern fantasy, paranormal, mxm romance TROPES: second chance romance, grumpy x sunshine, nerd x bad boy MIGHT BRING TO MIND: Harry Potter, The Raven Boys, The Owl House

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(It is an illustrated novel; Each chapter consist of original artworks and sketches) Chapters with illustration. [24/25] Chapters w/o illustration [25-26] ----------------------------------------------- Allyson Bluestone; a young woman that is determined to prove mysterious creatures that they exist and driven by a goal to get justice of her aunt's death, stumbled upon a hidden side of the world. Embarked with revelations, she found herself joining a secret organization, "The Dixinian Corps" - prioritizing to prevent casualties caused by non-human beings and a mysterious group called "Phantoms". She and her friends struggles through the dispersion of problems while pendulum of fate persists. -----------------------------------------------

One ordinary step... one extraordinary destiny. Kang Ji-hoon was an ordinary young man living a peaceful life-until a mysterious light transported him to a world of magic, dragons, ancient kingdoms, and forgotten gods. With no combat experience and no understanding of this unfamiliar world, Ji-hoon awakens a legendary ability known as Story Weaver, a power capable of turning imagination into reality. But every miracle demands a price: every time he uses it, a part of his memories disappears forever. Chosen as the prophesied Outworlder, Ji-hoon is drawn into a war against Demon Kings, ancient dragons, rival heroes, and gods whose true motives have remained hidden for centuries. As the boundary between fiction and reality begins to crumble, Ji-hoon must face an impossible choice: Will he sacrifice his own memories to save a world that was never his... or abandon it to find his way home? An epic isekai fantasy filled with action, mystery, powerful magic, unforgettable companions, heartbreaking sacrifices, and world-shaking battles awaits.

Dawn a freshman studying Accounting wants nothing more than a normal life after spending her senior year of high school as a Magical Girl. Until the void she once thought she defeated reemerges. Will Dawn alongside new and former allies be able to handle the trials of College Life and protect their World at the same time? Note : This is a short story pilot that I will make into webcomic pilot to test and improve my writing skills and art skills. Feel free to give constructive feedback and critiques. Thank you so much and have a great day or night reading this little experiment of mine🙂💖

Vayne has never believed in the supernatural. Every mystery has an answer. Every phenomenon follows a rule. Logic has never failed him. Until the day he witnesses something he cannot explain. Determined to uncover the truth, Vayne begins investigating a series of impossible events that slowly reveal a hidden world beneath ordinary life. Every answer leads to another mystery, and every discovery pushes him further from the reality he thought he understood. The world was never irrational. He simply never knew all of its rules.

Lila Emery-Park's mother only had one rule--to always keep the birthmark in the shape of sleeping dragon on her shoulder hidden. Lila always considered it a curiosity and a unique quirk--that is until she meets two other girls with the same birthmark on their shared seventeenth birthday. Lila is ushered into a world of dragons and learns of a shared inheritance and a curse. Descended from the last Pendragon, King of the Dragons, Lila and her friends are the only hope the realm of dragons holds to break the curse that prevents them from taking their true form. Lila, Aideen, and Kira must compete in the Trials by Fire to determine who will usher in the return of dragons to the world. Only one can assume the throne of Pendragon.

Mary Thornwell grew up living next door to a giant. A childhood friendship between them was stripped apart when he was diagnosed as a young child with the extremely rare condition known as gigantism. An incurable genetic disorder that could grow the victim to heights surpassing thirty metres in the most extreme cases. Theodore Ryan was one of those extreme cases. Mary hadn't spoken to him in years, seeing his looming form only from a distance as he moved across his parents' 150 acres of land. He was like a fairytale, the mysterious being only part of local folk stories in their small rural town of Springbrook. That is until in her second last year of High School, when Mary hears news that their school is under prompt renovations to introduce a new student. And it turns out this school year is going to be more interesting than she ever could have anticipated.