Details
- Author
- Silv3rtongue
- Status
- Ongoing
- Chapters
- 22
- Rating
- 4.90 / 5
- Last updated
- Nov 2, 2026
- Published on
- Royal Road
BELOW
4.90 · 22 chapters · Ongoing · updated Nov 2, 2026
ActionFantasyHorror GrimdarkHigh FantasyLitRPGMonster EvolutionNon-Human LeadProgressionSurvival
Why read this story?
- Ranks #1 among Action stories on FicGems by reader rating.
- Actively updating: the last chapter was posted 1 day ago.
- A shorter read at 22 chapters, easier to finish than a long series.
- A good fit if you enjoy Grimdark, High Fantasy and LitRPG.
About this story
YOU HAVE DIED
YOU HAVE SINNED
YOU HAVE BEEN JUDGED
THE ABOVE ALL IS CLOSED TO YOU
A nameless SINner awakes in a hell beyond hells, trapped in a world designed to elicit eternal suffering for no clear purpose. Punished for the SIN of merely existing, but determined to carry on, the nameless one begins their journey as a broken and shivering Wretch, crawling from one of the incubation chambers deep in a place which calls itself BELOW towards the "surface".
With no possibility of escape and no understanding of the world they're suddenly reborn into, their memories warped and faded to take from them every detail of who they were when they were alive, like a worm, they advance anyway. Starving, they eat. Suffocating, they breathe. Bereft of direction, they find strange allies and stranger enemies, seeking to not only understand this hell, but conquer it it.
No one deserves hell. And yet, it exists. And yet, it is as it is, the only grace afforded to its victims being strange words and numbers that burn themselves into their minds, granting them understanding of how to gain power, though always at the cost of harming themselves or others.
Still, the nameless SINner crawls. Still, they refuse to submit or to be broken. If no one deserves hell, and yet it exists, then something needs to change. And this worm will stop at nothing to do so.
What to expect:
- Monster Evolution LitRPG
- Demonic Progression and a unique System
- Grimdark setting with lots of Horror
- Visceral, bloody action
- Non-human MC
Release schedule:
- Updated daily for the RS run, then 2-3 times a week after that!
BELOW is published on Royal Road. FicGems only lists the story's details and links to it; the chapters stay on the original site.