the council of cinders

This isn’t a story of a noble knight or a savior. This is the tale of a cynical knight in the hack-and-slash game world with the maximum difficulty setting. No system to help him. No status panel to notify his progress. No HUD to give him hints. However, one hope remains. The knight “Crow” retains an in-game ability. By shattering objects or defeating enemy leaders, he can summon random game items as if the world itself is still a game. With a pet crow "Cow-Cow" by his side, the Crow Knight trudges through this treacherous land, armed with sarcasm, stubbornness, and a knack for minding his own business until fate decides otherwise. Also, please do not speak in caps. He hates it. Oh, did I forget to mention that his pet crow has three legs? What? It isn't important? Never mind, then.

When Sanaya Johnson joined ReefWood Inc. as the CEO, Lancelin Eustein’s Personal Secretary, little did she know that her life was about to change forever. As a Scribt, a human with knowledge of the immortal world, she had to constantly balance her two worlds while keeping the immortal world a secret from her near and dear ones. But trouble arises when Lancelin himself takes an interest in Sanaya, a liking that threatens to shatter her hold on reality. Lancelin has lived for centuries amongst humans but no one has ever tempted him as his little Secretary does without even trying. He is determined to win her over at any cost, just to get a taste of the forbidden fruit. But Sanaya has had her heart broken once and she finds it near impossible to trust another man, especially an Incubus who is to be the future Incubus King. But just when the two of them start to fall for each other, the past comes to haunt them in the most unexpected of ways. And with Lancelin’s coronation on the way, will he be able to keep Sanaya by his side when the entire world wants to tear them apart?

[Dropped ] Haruto Hasegawa is a completely ordinary second-year transfer student at Seimei Academy whose only goal is to fly under the radar and pass algebra. He doesn’t have a magical cheat code, an overpowered fantasy system, or a grand destiny. But his quiet school life shatters into a million pieces on his very first week when he tries to open a jammed door to the student council room. The door gives way, Haruto trips, and he accidentally crashes flat on top of Miyu Shizukuishi—the academy’s notoriously strict, untouchable, and flawlessly perfect Student Council President. Worse yet, his hands land exactly where they shouldn’t, causing a legendary wardrobe malfunction that leaves the icy president completely radioactive with embarrassment. To protect her pristine disciplinary reputation from a campus scandal, Miyu forces Haruto into absolute secrecy and drafts him as her personal, forced student council assistant. Haruto expects a brutal punishment from a tyrant. Instead, he begins to find himself constantly locked in tight spaces with her—from hiding cramped under a desk to tumbling between isolated library bookshelves. With every hilarious, skin-ship accident that occurs, Haruto discovers a shocking truth: beneath her terrifying, icy exterior, the perfect president is actually an incredibly flustered, vulnerable, and deeply caring total softie who cooks him cute lunches and gets clumsy when nervous. Can Haruto’s heart survive the absolute minefield of daily assistant duties? Or will his clumsy hands accidentally trigger a full-blown campus romance before the school festival arrives?

‘Even the smallest child in Avar knows that not all fairy tales come true…’ Josiah Rose was a man raised in death. His mother died when he was young and the Kingdom of Avar was run by the Vampiric Regime of Sias Amman—descendant of the victors of the War of Blood Hollow. After his father’s passing, Josiah was caught in a fierce battle between his step mother over his childhood home. Now at twenty-one, there is only one word surrounding the market: Marriage. Talks of nobles far and wide coming for a ball to swoon one Prince Malik Amman ring loud as Josiah finds himself in a carriage on his way into the lions den. Now Josiah has to put on his best act to survive dancing with eyes as red as blood. All the while, it feels like someone’s staring at him in the shadows. How does one dance in slippers made of glass? How does one not get burned to cinders by dragon’s flame? Cinders is created by Emma Silver, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author

In a world where mirrors whisper prophecy and fire remembers everything, two souls must choose between power and peace—before the last crown reignites. The ancient mirrors—once shattered to save the world—have begun to awaken. Talen, a reluctant heir with a mysterious past, and Lira, a fierce flame-binder with no kingdom to serve, are drawn into a quest to recover the seven mirrors of power. Each mirror reveals not only magic, but devastating truths—about the world's forgotten history, and about themselves. As storms ignite, fortresses burn, and visions of the past twist into possible futures, Talen and Lira must confront the cost of memory and the seduction of destiny. With every shard they reclaim, the Crownfire stirs—an ancient force that doesn’t seek a ruler, but a vessel. But what if the only way to save the world… is to refuse to lead it? In the gripping fourth installment of Crown of Cinders, battles are no longer just fought with swords or flame—but with the truth, with grief, and with the power to walk away. The fire never sleeps. But perhaps, it can finally rest.

“You seem to have forgotten that you’re not marrying a commoner, Alina. You’re marrying the prince of all vampires, so look alive and get me some coffee.” Alina Deluca lives a normal life up in the Californian north. At least that’s what she makes the world believe. Locked within her hypnotizing emerald eyes are horrors she could never speak of, even if it killed her. Erick Stayton, the vampire prince, is her nightmare. To her, he was no more than a cold, savage predator that lusted for her blood and took away everything she had during that one traumatizing night four years ago. Problem is, she is bound to be his bride. Mustering every strength to set things right in her awry life, she gets embroiled in an ages-old feud and a struggle for power of mind-boggling proportions. Strangely enough, she finds herself connecting with Erick in ways she never knew she could. Suddenly, everything is not what it seems. Is Erick the heartless monster Alina makes him out to be? Will a vampire law made eons ago be the undoing of the whole vampire race? Will heated passion bloom in these bloodiest of times?

The world was separated for a milennia and each section of the world grew in culture and understanding. When those separations diminished, the world had to learn to work as one and have thus far failed. Now it is up to the 6 heir of the world to band together to stop the threat that comes for them; if they are unable to work as one then there will not be a world left to rule. Based on a DND campaign with characters being based on my friends PC's, follow along each week as the story unfolds and see if Hize will prosper, or fall to ruin under their rule. I will be posting this story on Royal Road!

In a corrupt, gang-ridden metropolis, sixteen-year-old Moon lives a grueling life as a broke diner waiter just trying to survive. But his reality shatters when he is abruptly summoned to a cosmic marble arena alongside nine other strangers. They are the Council of Gods—ordinary humans chosen to wield absolute authority over reality itself through a majority vote each god posses's a law over an aspect of reality which also count's as a vote it can be taken by your fellow god if they kill you through vote or combat how ill moon survive and what happens when you gain every law find out by reading Divine council A/N hi I release 1 chapter a day might go longer or shorter simply depends anyway please read and enjoy my story.

Five highschool friends were bored of their mundane life, so on the last day they did something... Their experiment drastically changed the world forever. Leading a new age of powers, calling themselves "The Fifth Council".

[Irresistible MC + Farming & Entrepreneurship + Strong Female Lead + Cute Baby + Love Rivalry + Farming System + Male Competition] Deng Yuyuan wakes up to find she has transmigrated into a period novel about a "pampered group darling" — as the biological mother of the vicious female villain. The female villain has a biased grandmother, a mooching uncle and his family, a blindly filial father, and a spineless mother. She was a small-time thief as a child. As an adult, she committed every kind of evil — constantly framing the female lead — and ultimately met a miserable end. The female lead is the only daughter in another family, doted on by her older brothers. The villain targeted her out of pure jealousy. And now, Deng Yuyuan has become that villain's cowardly mother — and the villain herself is currently just an ugly, wrinkly-faced infant. The blindly filial father loves his wife, but gives all the good things to his own mother. He says to his starving wife and daughter: "Xiao Yuan, come drink some water. I specially heated it for you." Deng Yuyuan looks at her own bony frame and her tiny child — and decides to get a divorce. Goodbye, useless husband. She's going to raise this little cub with an abundance of money and love. No way she'll go astray this time. Lost one husband, gained a crowd of suitors. A beautiful sent-down youth coveted by many — she knows some self-defense and burns the midnight oil studying. With the reinstatement of the college entrance exams, she takes her child toward a much wider world. Riding the wave of the times, Deng Yuyuan works her way up to become a gaming tycoon and a cutting-edge scientist... Except — why are so many men fighting to be her cub's stepfather?