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THE FOUNDRY PROTOCOL: IRON DOMINION

THE FOUNDRY PROTOCOL "Try not to die like a bitch this time." That was the last thing the System told me before it rebooted the timeline. I’m Jack Monroe, a construction manager who failed to save the world. In my first life, I died screaming on Day 30, ranked 47th out of 50 warlords, watching my fortress crumble because I cut corners on a concrete wall. Now, I’ve been sent back to Day 1 with a roadmap of the apocalypse carved into my skull and a 30-day countdown to a cosmic Server Wipe. Round Two isn't about heroics. It's about industry. Trapped in the toxic wasteland of East St. Louis, I have to turn a bankrupt chemical plant into an impenetrable Silo. I have to manage a crew of terrified laborers, a mutinous sheriff, and two System entities warring for my soul. The dead don't just walk—they evolve. Shamblers turn into Runners, Runners turn into Mutants, and my neighbors turn into looters. I have a plan. I have a blueprint. I have a shovel. And if you get in the way of my construction schedule, you’re going into the concrete mixer. Build. Harvest. Optimize. Welcome to the Cull. Genre: LitRPG, Post-Apocalyptic, Survival Horror Tags: Kingdom Building, Regression, Anti-Hero, Base Building, Zombie Evolution, Crunch (Stats), Gore, Ruthless Protagonist. Content Warning: This story contains graphic violence, strong language, body horror (System Sickness), and a protagonist who prioritizes survival over morality. Rated 18+
Heartless_Veteran · 9.3k Views

Forest Monkeys Accidentally Become the Last Hope... And Lead the World

Odd-Even Evolution System: A flawed system that accelerated the evolution through mutual slaughter among animals, humans, and zombies. ... Gumball, a colony-guardian monkey, along with his crazy best friend who like to craft anything, Maxwell, suddenly awakened to human-like consciousness. There were rumours about a briliant scientist of the country held big grudge for Valeria's War of Ideology, and he tried to cleanse the humanity entirely. But mother-nature always found ways to shut those ideas down. She did not want any souls that died unjustifiedly took an exit out of this world. The souls found a new carrier, the animals. As it turns out, every human who transforms into a zombie, caused animals across the world to take that human conciousness. Many animals begin strived to evolve as well; after all, everyone sought to reach the highest evolutionary processes to instantly reach the peak. Zombies, conflict, emptiness, struggle, and uncertainty turned the chaos into a completely crushing disaster. Their journey slowly unravels the layers of truth behind this phenomenon. Behind it all lie terrifying malicious intentions… and the fragile hopes of many. Mother nature choose and forced Gumball and Maxwell, two monkeys, to unite all the species around the world against zombies, evils, chaos, and wrongdoers. Not just animals, anyone in this planet evolving. Even the zombies and humans. It made their struggle through the journey got leveled up. The Evolution powers came with levels and varied types. They found the animals that turned fusing with human souls were the hot and the most wanted commodities, they were the accelerator of evolutions for humans, zombies... and other animals. It would not be an easy mission from mother-nature, but she was hard-headed! They took long and pain-in-the-ass journeys the whole time. -------------------------------------------------- I am currently, and always, improving my works. But, if you find a... or some errors in my writing, such as typo and/or incosistency, please tell me in the comments, i'll work on it. i'd really love feedbacks, so... thanks for your willingness to tell me. And... please give it a chance, and click that collection button if you're intrigued with this novel. Thanks again, xoxo!
DreamTeather · 5.3k Views

Hollow Roads

When a forgotten civilization is uncovered beneath the western Antarctic ice, the world celebrates the greatest archaeological discovery in history—until the research team reveals something no one understands: an ancient geometric contagion embedded in the ruins, a force that doesn’t infect bodies but infects reality itself. Within days, the “Hollow Virus” tears across the globe. Faults—zones where physics collapses—spread north from Antarctica like a second atmosphere. Buildings drift into the air. Streets fold into impossible shapes. People caught inside distort: some twist into violent, puppet-like aggressors, while others remain fully conscious but trapped in frozen, geometric paralysis. Hospitals overflow with victims who are not medically ill—but cosmically undone. Humanity does what humans always do in apocalypse: they run home. The military deserts. Governments vanish. Emergency systems collapse. The world falls apart in a single night. And in the middle of it stands Specialist Cole Larson—a lazy, hungover Montana National Guard soldier with no ambition and even less discipline. But when the activation order comes and he witnesses the chain of command disintegrate firsthand, he becomes one of the few still wearing a uniform. Abandoned by leadership and “voluntold” to stay behind, Cole realizes he has no reason to remain in Montana at all. He doesn’t have a wife, kids, or anything close to a real future—just a mother somewhere in Los Angeles. Whether she’s alive doesn’t matter. Finding her gives him a direction to walk. So he straps on his gear, pulls on his tan balaclava and shades, and becomes something the broken Northwest whispers about in fear: Stillface— the soldier with no reaction, no hesitation, and nothing left to lose. Armed with a .22 MP5, a battered Polish AK, and the stubborn will to keep moving, Cole travels the hollowed highways of America. From Idaho to Washington to Oregon and down into the ruined skeleton of California, he crosses a wasteland where Faults tear the world open and Aberrants stalk the night. The further he goes, the stranger he becomes— less man, more myth. On the cracked highways of a world unraveling, Cole Larson walks alone. Not to save the world. Not to save anyone. Just to reach the end of the road, no matter what it holds.
GroomingElk · 5k Views