pathfinder heroism

Waking up in another man's body is a classic trope. Lukas Belmont, a transmigrant with a library of webnovels in his head, knows exactly how this is supposed to go. Waking up as the powerless, orphaned ward in a house of super-powered heroes, with a system interface demanding he get laid to level up? That’s just another day. He’s the Unmarked son of dead legends, three months from the entrance exam for Halloran Academy. His stats are garbage, his social status is ‘charity case,’ and his only path to power is the Scumbag System. And the System is a passive-aggressive, trolling interface that offers him reality-bending powers through a gacha mechanic funded by one thing: raising the ‘Temptation Gauges’ of the women around him. His first quest? It’s to smack the ass of Sloane Fitzgerald—his fiery, super-powered psuedo-sister who sees him as a brother and a pervert in equal measure. The penalty for failure? A fifty-percent reduction of his manhood. Permanently. In a California city where heroes are the new celebrities, Lukas must navigate the brutal politics of the super-powered elite, hide a power system nobody can detect, and survive an academy that eats the Unmarked for breakfast. He’s got the meta-knowledge of a webnovel addict, the tactical mind of a survivor, and a system that’s half-tutor, half-blackmailer. But can an insect with a gacha system really climb a ladder built for gods? He's about to find out, one humiliating quest at a time. === This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, business, events, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

On the surface, the young emperor reigns while in the shadows the ministers are in actual control. An empire whose history spans five centuries now begins to crumble as the generals whose purpose is to protect the peace begin to fight each other instead. Underneath the surface, one ambitious man gathers the citizens who feel oppressed by the heavy taxation, food shortages, and threats of war. A rebellion begins to stir and soon, a rain of chaos shall begin. In the midst of it all an orphan boy gets a second chance at life. Although, his life is not his own as it is inhabited by a video game developer. The same developer who has helped shape this world. Little did either of them know that their lives would never be the same. ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Schedule: 1-2 chapter per day (Around 2 pm est and 7 pm est.) Chapter Lenght: 500 - 900 words (These are parts, not full chapters, therefore, the best way to read is to let them stock up then read in one go.) Warning: Slow start, trying to focus on building up the world and characters. ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Inspirations: Crusader Kings | Mount and Blade | Romance of the Three Kingdoms

On the morning of his sixteenth birthday, Nicholas "Nickel" Silver knows how the day will go. He'll train in the morning, have lunch, and his friends and family will arrive to celebrate his birthday. Oh, and he'll awaken. Better late than never. It's not that he resents awakening. Ultimately, awakening is a good thing. But he's doing it later than literally everyone else on the planet, he's not gonna gain hardly any benefit from it, and... his parents aren't there. They've been missing for two years, having gone missing in a dungeon halfway across the world. and if Nickel ever has hopes of becoming an adventurer and finding them, he's gonna need a miracle. Good thing the system listens.

Ukris—the God of Creation, sovereign of all that exists—was not slain by blade nor curse, but by his own supremacy. The weight of countless worlds eroded even his divinity, and as illness consumed him, his twelve children saw their chance. A holy war erupted. Brother against sister. Child against father’s will. Entire timelines shattered. Worlds collapsed and reformed again and again, leaving behind fragments of broken realities. From these scars, dimensional cracks tore open across forgotten worlds—birthing the monsters humanity would come to know as dungeons. Ukris was struck down. His guardians ended the war, wiping out his children. Only one escaped—Chronos, the betrayer. Yet even as his body crumbled, Ukris cast his soul and mind into the stream of eternity, searching… desperate for an heir who could inherit his will. His countless reversals of time destroyed multiverses, dimensions, and lives. He found a worthy one once—but failed to bring him back. Just when all seemed lost, he discovered another. A perfect soul. A boy identical to the one he had lost. A boy who had already given up on love… and on himself. His name was— Snow Quincy.

When the world broke, the lights and machines were gone, power and technology went with it, but the Spark took their place. Once a year, teenagers go through the awakening ceremony. Those who light up get power. Those who don’t, get to witness the cruel reality of the weak, and no one wants to be ordinary. Same day, Kael becomes a novice a transparent star fell from the sky and chose him anyway. Now a voice lives in his head called Starlight. it came with the prophecy long forgotten for over 500yrs. He must journey through the world, learn and get stronger, create an unconventional path, secure resources and become worthy to save earth from extinction, but this he doesn't know yet. A Beast King wearing a crown of cores. Black pods falling from the sky. 5 walls standing between humanity and extinction. And a truth the Priests buried: the world isn’t ending. It's being taken over To save what’s left of the ruins of this world, Kael has to do what no Spark-born ever did. He has to become something new. He has to believe in the path ahead. He started with nothing. He must end with everything to get to the top.

Captain Bub Stellar thought he knew how the galaxy worked. Humanity had been exploring the stars for decades, establishing colonies, meeting alien species, building a future among the cosmos. It was dangerous work, but honest work—expanding civilization one system at a time. Then everything Stellar believed turned out to be a lie. The Confluence isn't humanity's ally. It's humanity's master. For four thousand years, this ancient empire has ruled the galaxy, harvesting species, crushing resistance, and maintaining control through deception and overwhelming force. And Earth's leadership knows. They've always known. When Stellar discovers the truth during what should have been a routine mission, his world shatters. Worse, he learns that his grandfather—lost seventy years ago and presumed dead—is alive. Changed. Enslaved by The Confluence and turned into something barely human. Suddenly, following orders means complicity in oppression. Staying silent means betraying everyone who ever trusted him. And rescuing his grandfather means stealing Confluence prisoners, defying Earth command, and starting something that could either liberate humanity or doom it. Now branded a traitor and hunted by forces on both sides, Stellar races toward New Titan—a remote colony that might become the birthplace of resistance. Behind him: everything he was. Ahead: a war against an empire that's never lost. Some truths, once learned, cannot be unlearned. Some fights, once started, cannot be abandoned. Even when the enemy has been winning for four thousand years.

In the world of Aethelgard, the Church of Light rules with an iron fist. To them, any creature of the night is an abomination to be purged. Kyle lived as the disgraced trash of a fallen noble house, mocked for his inability to awaken even a spark of mana. That was until the night he stumbled upon the Sin Stone in the ruins of the Moonshadow Temple. The stone wasn’t a treasure. It was a key to a forbidden lineage thought to be extinct for millennia: the Moonshadow Pathfinder. With a hybrid body, an ancient wolf soul, and a mysterious System that demands he prey upon his enemies to evolve, Kyle finds himself hunted by Holy Knights, monstrous beasts, and even the Dark Kings who fear his return. If the world sees my existence as a sin, then I will make them kneel before the majesty of that sin.

The life of Nakate Ashen is interrupted when he is suddenly transmigrated into a world of monsters, trials, and the unknowable Depths below. As he searches for a way home, the Lumen begins to twist his memories—and his identity starts to fracture. A story set within the Lumen and the Depths of Deepwoken.

Death was supposed to be the end. For Kael Draven, it was only the beginning. After losing his life in a tragic accident, Kael awakens in a world where heroes are worshipped like gods and power determines a person's worth. But unlike the gifted elites who can control fire, lightning, or space itself, Kael finds himself trapped in the body of a poor orphan with no talent, no family, and no future. Mocked by everyone and destined to live as a nobody, Kael's fate changes when a mysterious Chaos System suddenly appears before him. The system offers him unimaginable power, but every reward comes with a dangerous challenge. From life-threatening missions to impossible quests, Kael must risk everything if he wants to survive. As he enters the prestigious Halloran Hero Academy, he discovers a world filled with ambitious geniuses, powerful noble families, hidden enemies, and dark secrets buried beneath the shining image of hero society. While others rely on their inherited powers, Kael must use his intelligence, determination, and the unpredictable Chaos System to carve his own path. But the deeper he dives into the truth, the more he realizes that his reincarnation was no accident. Ancient forces are moving in the shadows, a forgotten war is preparing to return, and the Chaos System may hold the key to humanity's salvation—or its destruction. In a world where strength is everything, can the weakest boy rise to become the greatest hero in history? Or will the power that made him special be the very thing that destroys him? --- The Rogue's Path to Heroism is an action-packed fantasy adventure filled with academy life, powerful abilities, thrilling battles, mysteries, friendships, betrayals, and a hero's journey from the very bottom to the top of the world. Every choice has a price, and every victory brings Kael one step closer to a destiny beyond his imagination.

The first time Ji Huan was to be married, the groom died just as her bridal sedan chair arrived at his door. The second time Ji Huan was to be married, the groom was struck by lightning just as the auspicious hour arrived. Having been 'returned' twice, her ominous reputation spread throughout the surrounding villages, and it seemed she would be left on her family's hands. Her grandmother, who favored boys over girls, slapped her thighs and wailed, "What sins did I commit in my past life, that you can't even be sold for a single tael of silver!" Ji Huan: "...You might not believe this, but I'm destined for great fortune in the future." Yikes! There's a rule that "those who are unmarried by the age of seventeen will be assigned a husband by an official"? Not to worry, not to worry, I'll just find a fake husband to deal with it. That vagrant at the village entrance... if he cleans up, he's actually quite presentable. It'll be him!