Name: Sleep by Day [Western Fantasy]
Author: Gentlemen, Get Chubby

Synopsis

Durmi Knight is anxiously keeping a secret.

By day, he is a cheerful, lively young sailor, roaming the vast oceans with his fleet and exploring a boundless world.

But at night, when the last rays of dusk vanish beyond the horizon, the world he knows takes on an entirely different shape.

The humorous, gentle older sailors become rotting skeletons with hideous faces and hostile hearts.

The warm, close-knit fleet becomes a terrifying, uncanny ghost fleet, sailing through cold seas teeming with mutated creatures.

The new continent across the ocean and the many islands scattered across the sea become breeding grounds for mysterious beings, visitors from other races, mad powers, crumbling ruins, and bloody death.

He opens his eyes and, caught off guard, glimpses this blood-misted world. Without fear, he steps into it.

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“For most people, this is a glorious age of geographical discovery.

“But for our protagonist, Durmi Knight, it is an age of gloom, where he discovers the corpses and ruins of the old world.

“The world takes off its mask and reveals a hideous, cruel smile.”

(Do you like this little prank?)

From "Day of Slumber: Historical Corners Beneath the Sun"

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Notes

1. The story borrows some terms from real-world occultism, but they have no connection to real-world concepts. The Age of Discovery in this story does not follow the same historical course as in reality, so please do not confuse the two.

2. This is a slow-burn, long-form mystery focused on exploration and worldbuilding. Thank you for your support (bows).

Blurb from August 25, 2022 (some details have been revised)

Upcoming no-CP novel: "Blindly Using the Simulator"

Chen Jiuxi is blind and runs a dessert shop. Every day, he makes desserts and sells cakes.

But one day, a simulator suddenly appears in his pitch-black field of vision: "Murder Case Files". All kinds of murder cases keep appearing in the simulator, and his only task is to solve these bizarre crimes.

Not long afterward, this rumor begins circulating on Heling Street in City A:

The owner of a certain dessert shop, whose name is too famous to mention, can make delicious desserts with his eyes closed while smiling and saying, “Good. I’ve figured it out. This is how you do the killing...”

Onlookers: How scary! He’s going to turn all of us into little cakes!!

Chen Jiuxi: ?

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Theme: Our goal is the stars and the sea

Other names

Slumber of Daylight [Western Fantasy]English name
Slumber of the DayEnglish name

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9.9Score

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