Demons, devils, ghosts, and monsters-they haunt the shadows, feeding on mortal fear.Lu Sheng was an ordinary civil servant living a mundane modern life-until a drunken haze stole him away to a brutal world ruled by dark forces. Here, terrifying supernatural beings prey on the helpless, and mortals are trapped beneath a suffocating veil of dread.But fate deals Lu Sheng a strange hand: a mysterious game mod he once designed in his past life awakens within him, granting the power to instantly master any skill-if he's willing to pay the price.Thrown into a nightmare where survival is a constant battle, Lu Sheng must harness this deadly gift and walk the razor's edge between salvation and damnation. His journey to power begins-along the perilous path of the Devil.-------

Taleria's Notes

Hello everyone!This is a translated novel. I do not own the original content—I simply love reading and wanted to share that passion with others. I've translated and rewritten parts of it to make the reading experience more enjoyable. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did working on it!

I used to be quite content with living life as your classic schoolyard bully, you know, taking what I wanted and always being the strong one tormenting the weaker ones. I thought I was the perfect guy, don't You think so? But all that changed when I crossed paths with the most annoying, stubborn, and yet incredible girl I'd ever met, oh and before I found myself infected by this werewolf virus. Well Shit.

He doesn’t remember the lab. But his body never forgot.

When Orion was two years old, he vanished. Two months later, he was returned without a word, without a scratch—and without his mother, who had taken her own life in his absence. Blamed for her death, Orion grew up under his father’s violent hand, each day a cycle of pain and silence.

Two scars mark his back. He doesn’t know how they got there—until the night he turns seventeen.

In an explosion of agony and blood, wings erupt from beneath his skin, ripping through muscle and memory alike. Horrified, he tries to destroy them. But they grow back. And they bring questions that won't stay buried.

When Orion meets others like him—survivors of childhood disappearances, each with strange abilities and fractured pasts—he uncovers a dark truth: none of them came back unchanged. And the people who made them this way? They might still be watching.

Seventeen years ago, a girl was sent to another world by a glowing goddess named Aris. Blessed with powerful magical attributes—but curiously, no holy power.

And now the girl has become Mira d'Ark. She lives a peaceful life in the sun-kissed fishing town of Mermaid’s Cove.

She doesn’t fight monsters.She doesn’t wear holy robes.And she certainly doesn’t consider herself a saintess.

But the townsfolk think otherwise.

From healing wounds and calling rain, to helping lost adventurers and tending the soil, Mira's magic has touched everyone in town.

But as her seventeenth birthday dawns and cake is served at the Adventurer's Guild, a new arrival at the edge of town will gently begin to shift the tides of Mira’s peaceful world.

Because sometimes, even a girl who doesn’t believe she’s a saintess... is exactly what the world needs.

"Please tell me your hearts desire!" Tristan Cunningham never thought he would hear any one tell him those words, let alone a goddess from heaven. This is the story of a goddess coming down to earth to grant the wish of a human and the romance that followed.

Sequel to College Chemistry

I have always felt a bit different. Ever since I could remember. My mother is normal, about as normal as anyone else's would be. My sister is about the same as any other. And my father is dead.

But his death is not to blame. I always seem a bit different. My sister calls it robotic, but last I checked, I am a human. I have the baby photos and everything to prove it.

Well, I suppose I am forgetful too. Another human trait. I forgot to state my name and business. I am Aura Ozone, 16 years old.

And this is my journal.

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In a distant future, humanity has expanded across the stars, blending with countless alien species and their technologies. The human body becomes the universal template, enhanced with nanoscale cybernetics and odd bits from other species, making individual races into something more than human.

The protagonist wakes up in some ruined city, no clue how he got there, everything around him falling apart, poisoned air thick in the streets. His body’s augmented, though he doesn’t quite get how, and there’s this AI companion in his head, teasing him along, as lost as he is. Together, they wander through the crumbling streets, piecing together what happened to the city, and to them.

Long after, a relic-hunting girl and her crew stumble upon his preserved memories, pulling them into a mystery that spans aeons. As both timelines intertwine, they begin to see signs of a hidden force that has shaped their fates across time, binding past and future in ways none of them could have foreseen.

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Sometimes just a word or sentence said by somebody holds unbelievable value in your life but what if till the point that they turn into nightmares?People might think I have gone crazy or lost my mind but I know it's not true because the dreams of the people who once lived whisper to me every night about 'The Dreams of The Dead'​​​​​​​

In a city where silence is sold,and every truth buried under rubble and ruin,one woman dares to lift the lens — and pull the trigger.

Alishba, a photographer with fire in her veins and secrets in her shadow, never meant to become the story herself. But when her brother vanishes without a trace and the whispers around her turn into warnings, she steps into a world where cameras aren’t weapons — they’re threats.

Reyan, a disavowed pilot with a past drenched in classified smoke, returns not as a savior, but as a storm. Bound by blood and betrayal, their paths don’t cross — they collide. And what begins as a rescue, soon unravels into a rebellion.

From the heat-slicked streets of Lahore to the cold embers of desert secrets,Midnight Emberis a tale of two broken souls who were never meant to be heroes — only firestarters.

Because when villains fall in love,the world doesn’t burn by accident.

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Book Two (Part Three): A Kingdom and its ‘Six Villages'in confusion relies on the assistance of the 'Demon Witch', Lady Rai, as their 'Imperial Hero and Ruler'. This is the story of how their 'Demon Ruler'changed and maliciously 'saved'their dying Kingdom and themselves...in a strange way, again.