Progression Stories

An ordinary man. A mysterious contract. An infinite armory beyond imagination. Miles has spent five dull years trapped in a lifeless nine-to-five routine, watching his dreams slowly fade away. Just when he believes his life will end in mediocrity, a package arrives in the middle of the night-delivered by a stranger who vanishes without a trace. Inside the package lies a metal box. Inside the box... something that should never exist. When Miles awakens from a terrifying dream, he realizes the nightmare was no dream at all. By signing a blood contract, he has been chosen as the wielder of the Infinite Armory-a mysterious arsenal capable of summoning unlimited weapons, technology, and tools beyond human understanding. But power comes with a price. To survive, Miles must complete a mission only hinted at by a shadowy entity: "Save everything that must be saved." As the line between reality and the unknown begins to blur, Miles is dragged into a dangerous world of contracts, weapons, and hidden truths-where every choice could mean salvation... or total destruction. The countdown has begun. And there is no turning back.

[AU] . . . ✵ ⋆⁺₊❅. "...well this is somethin', innit?" "so we gave each other powers by looking into each others' eyes deeply all the way in my trainee days!?" ✵ ࣪₊⋆ ❀༉ ✵ ⋆⁺₊❅. "no- wait, i think we may have already had these; they were just dormant before we met each other..."

In the fortified city of Aethelburg, power is everything. Forged in binding pacts with elemental spirits, it defines the noble houses that rule the ashes of a broken world. For Lafayette Stormveil, power is a curse. A single touch of a strange crystal awakens a violent, pink lightning she cannot control-a power that marks her as the last heir of a dead and disgraed house, and a walking target for every faction that fears what she represents. Her brother Anthony has his own demons, a chilling rage that manifests as ice, a power he fears will one day turn his heart as cold as his fists. When their home is obliterated by a ruthless enemy hunting Lafayette, the siblings are thrust into the heart of a political war they don't understand. To survive, they must master their volatile gifts, forge uneasy alliances, and uncover the brutal truth behind their family's legacy. But as ancient spirits whisper of a greater threat and a mad scientist seeks to weaponize their power, Lafayette and Anthony must decide: will they be the spark that ignites a new war, or the conduit for a final, desperate hope? The storm is rising

Spirit Punch On the Blue Planet, power is measurable-and unforgiving. Omitaru is a young enchanter with an unstable gift: he can unleash overwhelming force at precise moments in time, but every strike drains him to the brink of collapse. Strength alone won't save him. Control is the real challenge. When a chance encounter in the city of Florblanca draws the attention of a dangerous recruiter, Omitaru is pulled into a conflict that threatens both the physical world and the spiritual realm. Alongside a disciplined mage, a hardened mentor, and his loyal dragon companion, he must learn how to survive in a world where power has limits, mistakes have consequences, and growth is never free. Spirit Punch is a progression-driven fantasy where training matters, energy is finite, and victory isn't about who hits hardest-but who can still stand when it's over. Spirit Punch is written by Rontres Akeme Shorts (PifflyUniverse). This story is also published on Royal Road under the same author.

Content in development - open to suggestions and ideas. A story with psychological depth, in which the main character is a feral dragon. Is coming back to life after several years. Here we have a dragon, a woman, a village in medieval times, and that's all when it comes to typical elements of fairy tales. The story also explains where the name "Qahnareen" came from... Age restriction, 80 years for dragons, I think, due to blood and tragic grammatical errors. An apocryphal world beyond reality. One is forced by fate to organize his story. The Other, starting from a blank page, learns his story and seeks meaning, wanting to be remembered, to make his name mean something... something more than a beast. His rather typical adventure reveals more depth than he thought. An inconspicuous artifact becomes a powerful tool that unlocks the dragon's consciousness and opens the gate of the Shadow, exposing the beast to the light. Then something happens that even the author of the story didn't expect... [You can find it also on Deviantart and Royalroad.]

The world is shaped by ancient forces known as Wills, and those they choose are marked with Seals - symbols of power and absolute purpose. Lucan Virell's Seal was never meant to exist. Born alongside two gifted siblings in a kingdom that worships perfection, Lucan's energy is unstable, a "dissonance" that the authorities fear. Treated as a dangerous variable instead of a son, he is exiled and raised in the shadows, growing into something the world was never prepared for. Years later, Lucan returns to Valthera, still carrying a power that was never meant to be completed. In a world of divine order, he is the only broken note. Some gifts are blessings. His might be a warning.

YanXingYe was supposed to become the youngest Nobel Prize genius in history. Instead, his "Academic Overachiever System" dropped a bombshell: The world will end in two years. Then it unlocked a new feature - livestream reward draws. While the world watched him as a joke on streaming platforms, YanXingYe began his impossible project: Building a Star Destroyer from scratch. Day 1: "This guy's a clown." "Another fake science streamer." Day 20: "Wait... is that a nuclear reactor?" "Did he just build a real-life Iron Man suit?!" Day 100: Governments start paying attention. Intelligence agencies panic. Two years later, dimensional portals tear open the sky. Giants step through. Humanity trembles. YanXingYe smiles calmly. "Bring out the cannon... No, the Star Destroyer Cannon. Let's give our guests a proper welcome."

For this cyborg, power is just an upgrade away. Emmett was used to being caught between college and his engineering internship, but when he gets caught between a powerful hero and an even stronger villain, he becomes collateral damage. Instead of dying, he wakes up a cyborg. Turns out his boss wasn't just an eccentric inventor, and the old man just gave him a shining opportunity to be a hero. Except that's just the beginning, and things are about to get a lot more complicated. His boss has his own agenda. The boss's daughter has her own power armor. His roommate works for an evil corporation. And Emmett is small fry. Just a Class 1 hero. Superheroes aren't just masks-some work for corporations, or for the government and the military, and even as mercenaries in wars. Shadowy cabals pull the strings of hero and villain alike. The city of Belport might be peaceful for now, but most of the world is in turmoil. If Emmett is going to have any chance at making a difference, he needs to get stronger. A lot stronger. How much of his humanity will he hold onto and how much will he trade away? If you're a fan of Cyborg, Winter Soldier, Iron Man, or Batman Beyond, then you don't want to miss this series! What to expect: Superhero Sci-fi Progression Fantasy STUB NOTES: You can find books 1-5 on Amazon: Initialize, Execute, Flux, Delta, and Threads. New chapters will continue to be released here MON, WED, and FRI, each being roughly 1.5-2.3k words. Read up to 30 chapters ahead on Patreon, with goals up to 50 advanced chapters. Stop by the Discord and get release notifications at RealityLocked Worlds.

Jake Rivers was always a parasite. He just didn't know it could be literal. A forgotten god caught him cheating at carnival games and decided to make the metaphor flesh. Now Jake is microscopic. Blind. Starving. A brain-eating worm in a fantasy world where magic is real and death comes from inside. Every creature he enters dies within weeks, neural pathways consumed one memory at a time. But first, they become legend! Jake takes one ability from each host. They gain all of his. Symbiosis and murder, always together. And he's getting addicted. Simple animal thoughts were bland. Complex minds are intoxicating. Intelligent consciousness tastes like nothing he's ever experienced. Every memory he consumes is better than the last, and the hunger grows stronger with each kill. The locals call it the Whisperer's Blessing. Power and death, arriving as one. Naga serpent-lords take notice of the pattern. But Jake is seeing something they can't: he's been everyone. Both predator and prey. He experiences reality from every angle, and reality is breaking. Magic is corrupting. Concepts are bleeding together. Something eldritch is pushing through the cracks between worlds, and the scattered civilizations of Ouroboros can't see it coming because they've never been anything but themselves. Jake has been everything. Knows languages no single being should speak. Understands magic from perspectives that shouldn't exist. He's becoming something unprecedented. Something necessary. Something monstrous. The god wanted him honest about what he was. Be careful what you wish for. This parasite might be the only thing that can consume an apocalypse. Dark progression fantasy. Visceral body horror. An addict climbs the food chain toward godhood.

It's the last week of school, and all Kevin Veyron wants to do is make it to May 18, his birthday and the last day of school. However, strange phenomena begin to flicker within him during his finals week. As he searches for answers, unbeknownst to Kevin, he is already walking down his path as an Elemental. Kevin will soon find out this path he walks down isn't for the weak. It is the way of fate for an Elemental such as himself to struggle to find his way in this coming-of-age action adventure in Saga 1- The Rise.

The Grind is the greatest show in the Galaxy: Nine Circles of blood, money and death. Beatrix Aliger has thirty days. Thirty days to find 800,000 credits for her brother's life-saving surgery, or watch the only family she has left die. In the depths of an abandoned starship, she finds a solution: The Dreadnought Protocol. It's not just a piece of tech; it's a military AI that rewrites biology, optimizing the host for maximum violence. It's powerful, experimental, and it eats its user's lifespan for fuel. With no other options, Beatrix installs the cyber parasite and enters the First Circle of The Grind, the galaxy's most brutal underground tournament. The Grind isn't just a fight club. It's a massive deadly spectacle of professional fighters with technological enhancements backed with teams trying to hack their rivals systems: The UFC meets F1 in a dystopian future. To save her brother, she has to outsmart seasoned killers and navigate a game rigged by the criminal Clans. But as the AI whispers tactical solutions in her mind and her humanity begins to strip away, Beatrix realizes the arena isn't the only thing trying to kill her. She has to win before the Protocol consumes her. WHAT TO EXPECT: Hunger's Game meets Ghost in the Shell meets Gladiator ✅ Humans powered by AI and Nanotech (your body has an operative system) ✅ Found family messy team dynamics (No one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes.) ✅ Physical fights with digital team warfare (Fighting and hacking at the same time) ✅ Body horror that escalates (slow corruption, turning into monsters) ✅ Moral complexity with impossible decisions (Am I the bad guy?) ✅ Character-driven plot (relationships drive decisions drive action) ✅ Tragedy, conflict, drama (No cozy stuff here) ✅ Posting three days a week: Mon - Wed - Fri (Not burning out. I'm here for the long run)

Delia receives the death dates of every person she meets. There has only ever been one exception: George Warner, the guy she hoped to never see again. *** Cordelia Wright has an uncanny ability: she receives the death dates of every person she meets. Things take an even stranger turn when she receives her own death date, a date that is only months in the future. Delia's life is arranged in routine - it's predictable, comfortable and she likes it that way. But her death date seems to surface everything she carefully buried. Her mom's mental health is teetering, her best friend is moving forward in life, and she is realizing her boyfriend may not know her at all. Everything is sent overboard when Warner, the guy from her past she hoped to never seen again, returns, and with him, the painful reminder that he is unlike anyone she's ever met: he doesn't have a death date. Will Delia let the fear of death stop her from living? *** tags: enemies to lovers, slow burn romance, new adult, young adult, military

Eldric was raised by the Order of Ashes, a militant faith that teaches suffering as the path to divinity. When his home is erased by the Sorrowscribe-a being who writes living ink into flesh and rewrites people into obedient monsters-Eldric survives by becoming something else entirely. Burned, broken, and reborn, Eldric is taken in by a small band of adventurers: a foxkin scout with a haunted bloodline, a warlock who has paid dearly for her power, and a veteran searching for a peace the world refuses to grant. As the Sorrowscribe's influence spreads, the truth behind Eldric's faith begins to unravel. Rebirth may be erasure. Power may demand the loss of everything that made him human. Hunted by Sorrowcursed knights who still remember who they were, and forced to face betrayal that cuts deeper than any blade, Eldric must decide what remains when everything else is burned away. This is a slow-burn, character-driven progression fantasy with a grimdark atmosphere, found-family dynamics, and a power system where every advancement costs something permanent.

Kael was once known as the Tyrant Mage-a being so powerful that gods, systems, and entire worlds united to erase him from existence. They succeeded. ...or so they believed. Kael awakens in a ruined world crawling with monsters, rifts, and Hunters who decide life and death by levels and classes. His power is gone, his title sealed, and his body reduced to that of a fragile mortal. Bound to a fractured System that insists he should not exist, Kael is forced to survive from level zero in a world that already lost its future. But Kael remembers everything. The rules of power. The lies of the gods. The flaws in every system. As he climbs from weakness through strategy, sacrifice, and relentless will, Kael attracts allies and enemies alike-including warriors who test his trust, mages torn between fear and desire, and hunters who hunt him without knowing what he truly is. Each battle pushes him closer to reclaiming his lost strength. Each bond threatens to change the tyrant he once was. In a world on the brink of collapse, Kael must decide whether to become the monster everyone fears... or something far more dangerous.

Albin did not wake up in another world to become a hero. He already had a life worth waking up to. Summoned into Aventia with a sharp-tongued familiar at his side, Albin is not chosen, special, or prepared. He is a married man who wants to go home. Aventia is a world of magic, classes, and quiet routines. It rewards work. Habit. Small contributions. At least, most of the time. Trying to live carefully, Albin keeps his head down, fixes what is asked of him, and avoids becoming important. But even small actions have weight, and some problems refuse to stay solved. Borrowed Happiness is a slow-burn progression fantasy about restraint, responsibility, and what remains after every step forward. What to expect: - Character-driven progression (no power fantasy) - Subtle, grounded LitRPG elements - A familiar who is observant rather than comic relief - Consequences that matter - No chosen one. No shortcuts New chapter every Sunday with the option of going 2x per week depending on interest.

Injured and left for dead on a desolate island by his own crew, pirate captain Azuma Kenousa miraculously survives after consuming a mysterious red ice crystal. Awakening with newfound regenerative abilities, Azuma sets out to avenge his betrayal and regain control of his ship. As he sails towards the nearest town to form a new crew, he encounters a pair, their leader, a seductive and skilled assassin named Naiomi. A confrontation ensues, with Naiomi underestimating Azuma's resilience and narrowly failing to kill him. Impressed by his strength, she offers to join his crew as his second-in-command. Azuma hesitantly accepts, but warns her not to betray him. With the addition of Naiomi and her enigmatic partner Kenzu, the crew sets sail once again, determined to seek out the pirates who deceived Azuma and exact revenge. As their journey unfolds, Azuma's powers continue to intrigue and mystify his crewmates. With his regenerative abilities and newfound allies by his side, Azuma sets his sights on becoming the pirate lord, vowing to destroy those who wronged him and build a new crew worthy of his leadership.

The Skydome Empire is dying-quietly, and by design. For over a millennium, the Holy See has kept emperors in gilded cages and bled dynasties dry beneath the banners of divine law. Now, a new winter descends. Whispers of succession twist through marble halls, ancient orders stir beneath the snow, and a single betrayal may tip the realm into chaos. Two lives, two legacies, unknowingly drawn into the eye of a gathering storm. Exiled knight Kristo, once sworn to a broken oath, crosses the frozen Wastes seeking the power to defy fate. Beneath glaciers older than kings, a dragon sleeps-and with it, a legacy of frost, blood, and forgotten gods. To wield it, Kristo must survive a trial born of steel and myth. What he awakens will echo far beyond the North, shaping the fate of a boy of his best friend. In the Imperial Capital, young Ross Wellington trains for the Candescent Trials, dreaming of proving himself. But his father, Duke Charles, sees further: into the schemes of the Holy See, the shadow of the Mirrorbound, and the blood price of a crown undeserved. Unbeknownst to them, their names have already been written in frost and fire. When winter breaks, only one truth will remain: no empire is eternal-and some thrones are built to burn. A dark epic of betrayal, bloodlines, and buried magic. Book One of Dominion of Frost: Ascension of the Holy Empire.

Maxim was of russian decent from his father a russian veteran who now owns a shop in a small street near kouh. he is also from Japanese decent from his mother a nekomata who fled to russia and met Dimitri then moved back when things where calm. life was never easier he went to a public school got good grades that was till one fateful night. that night will bring him to kouh academy what will happen to this small nekomata human hybrid who knows find out on slashers circlet.

20 million years ago, the Great Earth was home to humans and energy parasites called Osmo. Humans were relentlessly hunted as the primary power source for the Osmo, whose creator was the feared Lord Oki. Three supreme beings, the Infinires, rose up and, after a ten-day battle, sealed Oki using their own bodies. This catastrophic event split the planet into Venus, Earth, and Mars and nearly caused the extinction of the Osmo. Before his sealing, Oki hid a fragment of his energy within a wooden frog. Decades later, a young boy found it and absorbed the power. Twenty years passed until, by a miracle, his wife became pregnant, giving birth to the first child to be born from Oki's energy. This energy was passed down through the generations, creating the "Children of Oki" and reintroducing the Osmo to the world, now feeding on human emotions. A new lineage of "good" Osmo, created by the Infinires, also emerged.

"One trillion gold," mythical weapons, and even the "power to create your own domain"-all promised to anyone who can defeat him. But accepting the challenge instantly makes you hunted by the Supreme Council. This chaotic announcement inspires an eight-year-old known as The Bunny Kid (aka Eleo the dumbass)-a ball of boundless energy and zero common sense-to rush into an adventure of his own. Determined to grow stronger, Eleo leaves his peaceful home with only the barest idea of what danger even is. Along the way, he gains a crucial ability by absorbing a mysterious magical... enabling him to manipulate... Nah you'll have to read the story to find out.