Name: The Dark Ages
Rating: 4.83 (243 reviews)
Author: Ralts Bloodthorne

Godclads

★ 4.66

OstensibleMammal

Professionally edited and published versions of volumes 1 and 2 can be found on Kindle and as audiobooks on Audible!

Avo was born to destroy New Vultun. In a twist of fate, he’ll become its only hope for salvation.

The gods were the enemy. The slaver. The chains. With dreams of paradise, humanity slaughtered them and stole their powers, opening the path to become more – to ascend.

Instead, they nearly destroyed the world.

Vast hive cities serve as the final bastions against the crumbling of reality. New Vultun is the greatest of them all, and within its borders, ascenders wage war to determine the laws of existence itself.

The world descends ever deeper into ruination.

Avo was born a weapon, a slave to his instincts and his masters. He and his brothers were made to burn New Vultun to ashes. Everything changes when Avo gains immortality and becomes heir to an impossible legacy.

He must ascend the megacity of New Vultun. He must challenge the very tyrants that usurped the gods.

He must finally free the world from chains.

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Chapters are usually around 2.5 to 3k words.

Disclaimer: Expect detailed descriptions of violence, cannibalism, and cursing.

Expect: Monster mc, magitech, cyberpunk, implants, atrocities, oppression, non-human protagonist, reality-warping powers, and combined arms warfare.

Do not expect: Smut, romance

If you develop a sudden outbreak of rash after reading Godclads, it's not the story. But go see a doctor. Just in case.

Mage Steel: A Western Sci-Fi Cultivation Series (STUBBED)

★ 4.64

Dominick R

Available on Amazon

A thousand years ago, Earth fell.

Rifts tore open reality, flooding the planet with eldritch horrors and corrupting energy. The armies of man fought back—evolved, adapted, awakened to new powers. It wasn't enough. Earth was abandoned. Humanity scattered to the stars.

Now, Knights are all that remain of Earth's warrior legacy; humans wielding Rift-forged power armor and ancient combat disciplines. They fight for hire: clearing Rifts, crushing uprisings, toppling regimes. To the galaxy, they are mercenaries. To their enemies, they are myth made metal.

Cadet Kon was training to join their ranks; until his ship was shot down and he crash-landed on a Rift-infected world crawling with pirates, bandits, and relics from a dead civilization. Cut off from command and stuck with a crippled Knight. Surrounded by monsters that should not exist.

Survival is no longer the goal. It’s the first test.

Kon must fight his way through a planet lost to madness, track down his scattered comrades, and uncover secrets buried beneath ancient stone and alien fire. Each battle drags him deeper into the unknown—and closer to a power that might burn him alive... or forge him into something more.

For fans of sci-fi and brutal cultivation arcs, Mage Steel delivers high-stakes action, cosmic mystery, and a hero who refuses to die quietly.

April 2025 – A Writathon Release

Dawn of the Void – a LitRPG Apocalypse

★ 4.52

pwtucker

I will be pulling all chapters on 2/27/23.
Book 1 is now available on Amazon!
mybook.to/dawnbook1

Tragedy had reduced James to a nobody. Washed up and homeless in NYC, he thought his life was over.

Then a message appeared in his vision:

60,000 year countdown has ended
Nemesis 1 released
Please acknowledge

As the world falls apart, as billions die, as society collapses and all hope seems lost, James discovers a powerful truth: he was wrong to think himself a nobody.

With the dawn of the Void, he'll become the most important person to have ever lived.

Release Schedule: 5 Chapters a week; Mon-Fri.
Dawn of the Void is ONLY published on Royal Road and my Patreon. Please notify me if you find it elsewhere.

Necroepilogos

★ 4.79

Hungry

Nothing walks the black cinder of Earth except the undead leftovers, reanimated by science so advanced it may as well be magic. Twisted into unimaginable forms by flesh-shaping and machine-grafting, the undead are the only remnant of a civilization reduced to bitter ash and organic slurry. Zombies shuffle through the ruins of nuclear fire and biological warfare and far worse, alongside rusted war-machines still holding the posts of a thousand ancient conflicts, dwarfed by god-engines turned so alien that even the extinct necromancers would have run screaming.

Elpida doesn’t know this world, but she’s up on her feet, leading a half-dozen other fresh revenants, ripped from the oblivion of eternity and disgorged shivering and naked on cold metal slabs in a womb-lab of blinking lights and blaring alarms, by machines running some ancient plan to spit them out into a world long dead.

Necroepilogos is a web serial about body horror and alienation, weird zombie-girls gluing themselves back together, mad science beyond mortal ken, and trying to cradle the flower of companionship in twitching, undead fingers.

Readers have described Necroepilogos as:

infinite Fortnite with undead lesbians

Necroepilogos: Isekai'd into the Post-Post-Post-Post-Apocalypse by a Graveworm's Gacha Addiction and Now I'm a Cannibal!?

an infinity of fucked up girlthings.

“And you cut me to pieces with your terrible claws. (And we were both girls)”

maginanomachines have for some reason decided to endlessly make the landscape into Zen gardens of violent lesbians

cute girl doing cranial trauma

Girls born after 230000000 only know how to twerk, be gay, gunfight, eat people, and have ptsd

double² double² toil and trouble;
coffins churn and nanos bubble.
grow a cyborg from that lake;
in the coffin boil and bake;

reach through time to perfectly recreate fucked up bitches

they've got God (Telokopolis) and Anime (Gay) on their side

dig up and reanimate your gays

New chapters every Thursdays. Soon, Thursdays and Tuesdays, if things go to plan.

Cover art by Carter W Jessup: https://www.carterwjessup.art/

This Royal Road upload is a mirror of the Necroepilogos website, at: https://necroepilogos.net/ Chapters will be posted here at the exact same time.

Princess of the Void: An Alien Abduction Romance

★ 4.78

Dukerino

To survive as an alien tyrant's husband, he'll need to grab his new life by the horns.

A late shift watching an empty cell in a middle-of-nowhere facility? Sign Grant up. If the money's good, he'll gladly take the peace and quiet of a long, boring night.

And then he meets the prisoner: Subject B-31. Blue, beautiful, and inhuman.

He's told to think of her as a test subject, not a person. He's told to ignore the sorrow on her face and the desperation in her crimson eyes. Maybe he should have listened. Because his rescue attempt quickly turns into an alien abduction.

B-31 is Sykora, a princess of the tyrannical Taiikari Empire, who whisks Grant into a galaxy filled with alien cultures, deadly rivals, and the sinister smiles of the Taiikari royal court. Grant will have to learn a new life, and learn it fast.

Because when the Princess of the Void looks at Grant, she doesn't just see a savior—she sees a husband.

And she isn't asking.

This story contains mature themes, explicit sexual content (though scenes have been censored for the RR release, with links provided to the full versions) and occasional graphic violence. It’s not suitable for readers under 18. Updates M W F.

What to expect:

- A long-developing mono romance taking place within an amoral (but not cartoonishly evil) galactic empire

- Royal intrigue within a large, colorful cast of aliens

- Moral ambiguity and some tricky questions without clear answers

- A strong-willed, ethical protagonist who starts as an everyman way over his head and gradually accepts his powerful new position

- A 250k word backlog

What not to expect:

- LitRPG or system elements

- A warrior protagonist

- Harem

Read up to 12 chapters ahead on Patreon.

Come hang out in the discord!

Echoes of the Tribulation: An Historical Apocalypse LitRPG Series.

★ 4.69

Carl Dehal

What you can expect:

The year is 1329, and the Horns of the Apocalypse are about to sound.

In a small Scottish town, a young boy begins a journey from a carpenter's apprentice to one of the most powerful forces in the Host of the Heavens.

His Journey: A path of adversity lies before him, spanning from the Scottish Borders to the Spanish Reconquista, the Holy Land, and Realms beyond.

His Ascension: An unceasing trial, where one misstep may condemn his soul. Our hero must discover a path of progress and conquest over mythical beasts, hordes of demons, and the other fell beings created by the System for the Tribulation of Mankind.

His Tribulation: Will he live by the Words of God, be guided by his own intent, or will other forces claim him for their own ends?

His Fate: ...

Is yet to be determined.

Discover the wonder of the Tribulation Apocalypse in Chapter one of the Echoes of the Tribulation: an Historical Apocalypse LitRPG Series.

Current Schedule : Weekly - ish.

Updates expected to begin again in late October.

Thanks for reading!

Refrain(Worm/DUNE)

★ 4.83

Raven_Aelwood

In the hidden corridors of time and mind lies the great gamble. So it was that Paul Atreides—Muad'Dib, the one foretold as Kwisatz Haderach—steeped his soul in the Water of Life. Yet where he should have emerged to the familiar spice-laden dust of Arrakis, he instead awoke to the mocking giggles of a high-school classroom. His body not his own. His memories fleeting, borrowed from a boy named Greg Veder.

Cast into a strange universe where grim forces and towering powers clash, Paul's once-certain vision falters. The lessons of the desert remain, but the path ahead is no longer lit by starlight and prophecy. Faced with impossible enemies and a cosmic tapestry woven from alien threads, Muad'Dib must glean anew what it means to stand at the nexus of fate—before he is swallowed by a future he cannot truly see.

Shadow of the Spyre

★ 4.69

RabbleRouser

"Those who try to change Form without likewise shifting Function are doomed to a lifetime of agony and mediocrity--or they make the best assassins." -Auld Wynfor Ganlin

An orphan with unique powers not seen in a thousand years, trapped in a world only she can see, her life a waking nightmare. A boy long ago lost to his family, forced to masquerade as the enemy by one of his own, his continued facade his people's only hope of salvation. An immortal trapped in the flesh of a man, a prisoner for something he has not yet done, fleeing something he thought he had killed. A girl abandoned in the mountains, without memories or a note, her people the stuff of legends, but whose villages have never been found. Meet these and many more incredible characters as they engage in a complex struggle for survival in a realm about to plunge in a downward spiral of politics, death, and treachery.

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