the pawns are moving

Modesty! Honesty! Compassion! Bravery! Justice! Sacrifice! Honor! Faith! He is a lich, yet he upholds the knightly spirit! He is a lich, yet he remains steadfast in his faith of light! "With a formidable enemy at hand, fearless and unobstructed! Daring and loyal, worthy of the Holy Spirit! Loyal and upright, willing to die unyielding! Protecting the weak, never going against heaven's principles!" Standing at the top of the world, no matter how great the storm, nothing can stop him from following the steps of the Holy Spirit! Not even the Holy Spirit! ... This is a romantic legendary story of a chatty cat and a lich who dedicates his body and soul to the light! Yes, "romantic," not deceiving you! That's just how it is!

Crestwood used to be peaceful. Now people lock their doors before sunset. The town has become consumed by a string of brutal murders, each victim connected in ways the police fail to understand. To everyone else, the deaths seem random. But Aubrey knows better. There’s a pattern hidden beneath the bloodshed—something watching, choosing, waiting. And when the pattern begins circling her, she realizes she was never outside of it. Desperate for answers, Aubrey gathers the friends she trusts most, only to uncover a terrifying truth: all of them are connected by something far deeper than coincidence. Their lives, their encounters, even the tragedies that shaped them feel orchestrated, as though they had been guided toward one another long before they were born. But the deeper they dig, the more reality itself begins to unravel. Because behind Crestwood lies something far worse than a murderer. There are forces moving beyond human sight—silent influences shaping lives, steering choices, and bending fate toward an outcome only they understand. To them, people are nothing more than expendable positions in a larger design, living entire lives unaware they were never truly in control. Everything was proceeding exactly as intended. Until one of them changed. Among Aubrey’s group, one fate begins drifting beyond what was planned, triggering a chain reaction no one foresaw. What should have remained controllable becomes unpredictable. Dangerous. For the first time, something within the system is no longer obeying the role it was given. And if even one pawn can move on its own… Then the ones controlling the board may finally learn what fear feels like.

#no-harem Hope doesn't exist in Argent. You live inside a barrier, and everything outside has been destroyed and filled with corruptors. There's absolutely no chance of killing them, magic, fire, water, nothing damages them. But what if your ability didn't try to damage? What if it simply rearranged things? Allaran gets his answer the day he turns twenty one. The same day he faced Exile by the system and was teleported into the wasteland. The ability he receives is Switch, the power to swap the location of two objects with a thought. Useless. Embarrassing. When a Corruptor finds him in the wasteland. Allaran, with nothing left to lose, points his useless power at an unkillable monster. Turns out immunity doesn't matter when your head is suddenly six feet away from your body. Level up. Allaran stares at the notification, then at the corpse, then back at the notification. "We could level up?" Nobody told him that. Nobody told any of them. Argent has been throwing people into this wasteland for generations, and not a single person ever came back to say there was something to survive for. Now he's alive when he shouldn't be. The warehouse clerk with the worst ability just broke the one rule nobody believed could be broken. And if he can level up from killing corruptors? He's just getting started.

Char transmigrated! He transmigrated to the game he created! Awesome! I want to tame beasts! I want to manage a castle! I want to drive the castle around the world! But, why are there Elves, Half-Elves, Dwarves, Half-Beasts, Shift Beasts, Shark Lizard Beasts, Greenfoot Dragon Snakes, Multi-headed Lizard Hydras, Flame Skulls, Death Knights here? I didn't design it like this! Also, what in the world are Lord of Dawn Losanda, Forest Goddess Melikai, God of Knowledge Ogma, God of Lies Shirek, God of Tyranny Bane, and the Spider Demon Queen Rose? And there's a god battle, too?! Too dangerous, I guess I won't travel the world just yet. First, let's set a small goal: become a Fantasy Lord first!

When people across the world start collapsing without warning, Japan keeps pretending it is under control. The news calls it illness. The government calls it panic. Ren Kurono only knows rent is still due. He is a tired delivery rider with too many jobs and not enough sleep. He keeps moving through the rain while the city starts to break around him. Then he sees what no one else can see. Strange waves around the living. A countdown before death. Something pulling souls out of their bodies. Ren was supposed to die too. He does not. Now the world responds when he looks at it. And somewhere beyond human understanding, the harvest has noticed its first mistake.

Where does the future of humanity lie? To become the perfect life form? To become the perfect human? To live under the hand of God, or be a pawn of the Devil? All of which should be decided by whom? A Hero blessed by the Gods themselves? Or a man who has even conquered the light? It all starts at Aethermoor Academy, where Prince Agni S.K. arrives looking like a beggar rather than royalty. He is the last person expected to shake the magical world Having lived as a ghost in his comfortable and lazy royal life, a single near death is what it takes for him to feel what it truly means to be human "the burning passion of winning and the sickening frustration of losing".

Gaining a piece of land is hard. Building something on it is harder still. But what if you could take control of a world? What if the fate of humanity hinged on that one world, one key to survival? A world of endless possibilities. An open canvas, where nothing is set, and everything is up for grabs. Welcome to Solva—where nothing is as it seems. A place of mysteries, of opportunities, and of dangers that could tear apart the very fabric of reality. But in the silence of this world, one truth echoes: This is the only chance you’ve got. Will you rise, or will you fall into the darkness? The answer lies in the heart of Solva, and no one knows what awaits.

Damon An ambitious person who dreams of becoming a warrior, but in reality, he is merely a pawn—and when I say pawn, I mean it in the literal sense. In this magical world, wicked thoughts turn into reality. In this story, there are dozens of characters, but there is no main character—not even Damon—because we all love to think of ourselves as protagonists. Yet in truth, we are just pawns advancing toward a greater truth.

Akira wakes up inside a majestic castle, believing he has finally stepped into the typical isekai dream — magic, adventure, and a destined quest as the chosen hero. But reality shatters fast. There are no warm welcomes. No prophecies praising his arrival. Only chains disguised as royal hospitality. The king calls him “Hero,” but to the people closest to the throne, he is nothing more than a weapon — a tool forged to obey.

Accidentally bound to a quick transmigration system, Ning Yue is resistant on the surface, but inwardly, she's screaming wildly: "As long as I keep completing missions, it's equivalent to gaining eternal life, I'm going to keep transmigrating forever!" In "True and Fake Rich Daughter," she is the fake rich daughter who was abandoned. She declares, "The wealthy family abandoned me, so I will create a wealthy family of my own!" In "Era's Blessed Child," she leads her entire family to build a fortune, turning the fake blessed child into a real blessed child. In "Flourishing Age of Shengshi," having transmigrated into the Empress who was turned into cannon fodder, she simply turns the ungrateful mother and son into cannon fodder instead.