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How I Was Accidentally Summoned in a Cult as the Demon Princess

North Drake

B65/100
Lily Carter juggles lectures, convenience store night shifts, and a secret life as Lilithia Nocturne — a top-ranked demon princess in the VRMMORPG Xantia. Then a robbery, a gunshot, and blackout. She wakes on cold stone in a glowing blood circle, wearing Lilithia's regal armor and horns for real. A bargain-bin cult calling itself the Children of the Abyss summoned her on purpose — by accident. They wanted a real demoness, not a nerdy girl cosplaying one. They're incompetent, fanatical, and inconveniently the only people who don't want to burn a demon on sight. Lily plans to humor them, learn the world, and bail. Instead, rumors snowball, idiots congregate, and an accidental empire starts forming in her name.
Royal Road4.46· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

The Fractured Tower

EmergencyComplaints

B65/100
Sorin Atharel was already a legend. After forty years of calculated risks, dead companions, and spent fortunes, he was ready to take the final step to immortality at the top of his tower. Instead, his soul space was stripped bare, all his abilities ripped away, and his anima drained to nothing. He wakes at the bottom of a different tower, surrounded by strangers in a strange city — his entire life reset. With only a mysterious tile mosaic as a clue, Sorin must navigate his new reality. If he wants answers to what was done to him, there is only one path forward: he must climb again.
Royal Road4.55· 1.1K
Anti-heroCompetent MCGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+6

Necrotic Apocalypse

D. Petrie

B64/100
An unstoppable curse. A dead man displaced from his time. How do you survive the zombie apocalypse when you started it? Digby Graves, a deceased medieval peasant with delusions of grandeur, is trying to figure out how the hell he ended up in Seattle eight hundred years after his death — with necrotic magic coursing through his zombified body and only fragmented memories of how he died. Now the curse he unleashed is loose in the world, and Digby has a target on his back. He needs to survive long enough to put the pieces back together, learn what it means to lead the horde, and master his power over the dead. The end of the world is gonna get weird.
Goodreads4.33· 1.5K
Anti-heroComedyNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSummoningSystem Apocalypse+1

An Antihero's Journey: Book One, The Crow

Malaklein

B64/100
Burton was a good man — if gullible — until his superhero girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, also a superhero, and his entire family took her side. In a fit of suicidal rage, something changed: he became a Wisher, smarter and sharper than before, yet fundamentally still himself. Now he lives as a vigilante — not an official hero but a rogue man of the night who beats up bad guys and has a talking dog and cat for company. He is a cynic, a loner, and a sadistic hermit with no love to give. That is about to change, and so is his pain.
Royal Road4.67· 322
Anti-heroComedyGenius MCLoner MCOverpowered MCSci-fi+2

The First and Last Emperor

StaleCrow

B64/100
"Of course I'm a tyrant. I've never claimed to be anything else." — The First and Last Emperor. Solis is an escaped survivor of the Church of the Celestial Heir, a cult dedicated to the end of days. When the System Apocalypse arrives — one the world was warned about in advance — Solis finds himself struggling against his own tyrannical impulses in an effort to do good. A character-focused story of dramatic rise to power, featuring in-depth and unique system mechanics, a pure mage build, and themes of legacy in an apocalyptic society.
Royal Road4.67· 321
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+3

The Drone Lord

Oleg Sapphire

B64/100
He saved humanity. The same humanity that had betrayed him. Then he was an outcast again. Now, years later, he doesn't expect gratitude and doesn't offer forgiveness — he just doesn't need anyone anymore. Memory is his voice, rage is his fuel, and an army of steel is his weapon. Reborn into a new world and a new body, the Drone Lord decides his own fate — not gods, not people, not anybody except himself.
Goodreads4.41· 342
Anti-heroCompetent MCIsekaiOverpowered MCSci-fiSummoning

Gamble for Azeroth

Jesse Desire

B64/100
Arvis Godwyn was not a lucky man. Having Grand Marshall Garithos as his uncle and regent of his house was bad enough. Being exiled to guard the ruins of Stratholme was worse. But things truly spiral when he receives news of King Terenas' assassination — delivered in a very unusual manner. Now armed with a Chaos Gacha Variant System, Arvis must navigate a world unraveling around him.
Royal Road4.67· 298
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitHaremLitRPGPost-apocalyptic+1

The First Rule of a Nobleman

Alexander Gerda

B63/100
Silvian Crass had his own space fleet, the best reputation in the world, and then a death sentence. When the chance to take a new life came, he seized it — choosing a new body and a new world: a young nobleman in the Russian Empire. He will have to start biting throats again. Prove he belongs at the top. But fate gave him another go, and he does not plan to waste it.
Goodreads4.40· 536
Anti-heroCompetent MCIsekaiOlder MCReincarnation

Equilibrium

Excalionar

B63/100
Peter V. Kastell is taken from the cycle of reincarnation and given a purpose — one he can fulfill in nearly any way he chooses. But his soul is damaged, leaving him at an unforeseen disadvantage. Thanks to a benevolent Goddess, he gains different advantages to compensate. Along the way, his story will be uncovered, and he will gain powers beyond what he ever thought possible.
Royal Road4.60· 967Goodreads4.25· 67
Anti-heroGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

Applied Cultivation

CatVI

B63/100
They called him trash — until he put the Dao under the microscope. When demons slaughter his new family, computer scientist Johan — now reborn as Yu Han — survives by pure wit. He gains access to the mysterious system that all cultivators use to defy the heavens. But it won't be enough. Betrayed and stripped of everything, his only path forward is joining a prestigious immortal sect. Before he can even step inside, he slaps the faces of two powerful young masters. Yu Han should have no path forward — but in his past life he was a corporate warfare consultant who treated business rivals like failed hypotheses to be mercilessly eliminated. Trash talent? He'll prototype his own. Watch this blood-thirsty fatty sprint toward immortality, bringing algorithms to sword fights and treating cultivation like a hostile takeover.
Royal Road4.27· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGameLitGenius MCIsekai+6

An Ideal World for a Sociopath

Colin Parker, Oleg Sapphire

B63/100
A system arrives on Earth, and half of humanity dies and becomes zombies while the other half must try to survive. For Varg — a sociopath with no ties and no regrets — this brutal new world feels almost tailor-made. Following Varg across a system-driven apocalypse, the series sends him through zombie-infested cities, alien worlds, interdimensional challenges, and encounters with gods, vampires, elves, and worse. Each new threat is another test the system is all too happy to provide.
Goodreads4.38· 903
Anti-heroIsekaiLitRPGPost-apocalypticSkill CollectionStats+1

Becoming the Dark Lord

Mark Evenhart (aturato)

B63/100
The System integrated Earth into a multiverse of gods, monsters, and dungeons. Half of humanity answered the call. Some return stronger. Others never return. Thirteen years ago, Luke's mother entered the Tutorial and vanished. Now Luke faces the same trial — not for glory, but for answers. What should be a beginner's test becomes a death sentence when he falls into a forgotten dungeon floor where monsters are scarce, supplies are limited, and the only way out is a temple hanging over an abyss, guarded by a sleeping demon. Every puzzle kills. Every step risks his life. No buffs, no tricks — just a knife and the raw will to survive. When the light fades and the body breaks, Luke has only one choice: embrace the darkness and be reborn.
Royal Road4.04· 1.3K
Anti-heroBase BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGrimdarkLitRPG+5

A Jaded Life

Tsaimath

B63/100
Successful gamer Samantha Jade Jacobs, formerly known as Titania, was feeling the bitter sting of betrayal — kicked from the team she founded and made great — when the gaming world was turned upside down. A new type of game was going into Beta, and Samantha would be one of the few testers. Little did anyone know that the road would be longer than anybody thought. Follow Samantha's journey into the world of Mundus and beyond on a trip nobody could have foreseen, not even the gods themselves.
Royal Road4.29· 1.2KGoodreads3.50· 2
Anti-heroGameLitLGBTQ+LitRPGSecondary WorldVRMMO

Conch Garden

InadvisablyCompelled

B62/100
Twenty years ago, the hero Glorybeam and the villain Blacktime fought. The aftermath leveled twenty city blocks, killed thousands, and orphaned hundreds. Neither has ever faced consequences. Isaac Hartson was one of those orphans. As a nominal-class metahuman — a dreg — he knows he'll never hold them accountable by force. But years as a janitor have taught him the value of simple plans and hard work. Once set in motion, events stay in motion. In Star City, there is always someone with an angle, and Isaac will need more than hard work to keep from being buried under the tide of consequences he has set in motion.
Royal Road4.66· 654Goodreads4.18· 330
Anti-heroCompetent MCSuperpowersUrban Fantasy

Kin of Jörmungandr

Joroboros

B62/100
A serpent at the top of the food chain, master at threading through the rifts of distorted space, rules its territory — until something beyond comprehension destroys everything it has claimed. With sapience now forced into its mind, the serpent faces problems it was never equipped to handle. With no territory left and the distorted caverns collapsing around it, the only option is to search for an escape. A progression fantasy xenofiction following an actual monster gaining sapience — not a human reincarnating — exploring what it truly means to grow when you are, by all definitions, monstrous.
Royal Road4.67· 224
Anti-heroNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Brainpunch

Slifer274

B62/100
Do not kill. That's the first rule of being a superhero — and it's the first one she broke. Vivian gained a superpower that allows her to telekinetically apply ten pounds of force. Weak. Useless, some said, but she's determined to make it work. On her first night out, she found out how wrong everyone was as she reduced a man's brain to mush. Now, pitted against villains, shady corporations, college debt, and the government's brutal hero program, she has to find a way to become the hero she has always wished she could be — a hero who could have saved her.
Royal Road4.60· 922
Anti-heroCozyGrimdarkSci-fiSecondary WorldSuperpowers+2

Aurora Scroll

Avery Light

B62/100
Isekaid into another world, the protagonist arrives armed with genre savviness and a determination to twist every cliché to his benefit. Cockroach villains? Dealt with before they become a problem. Trash young masters? Avoided and handled quietly. Damsels in distress? Not his responsibility. A power fantasy built around a hardcore internet citizen who knows every trope in the book — and uses that knowledge to carve a path from weak to unstoppably strong.
Royal Road4.21· 1.2KGoodreads3.60· 5
Anti-heroComedyCultivationIsekaiOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

Aetherborn

Deadalus

B61/100
In a single night, Thorne loses everything — and discovers the truth about his heritage. He is an Aetherborn, tied to an ancient power that others would kill to control. Forced from his home, he must survive on the streets, navigating ruthless guilds and dangerous factions using only his cunning and his rapidly developing abilities. To reach his near-limitless potential, Thorne must master many masks and countless skills — Assassin, Hunter, Strategist, Mage — as his paths of power converge in a complex web of deceit. Revealing too much, or trusting the wrong person, could cost him everything.
Goodreads4.40· 364
Anti-heroCompetent MCLoner MCSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

Arcane Academy

A.P. Gore, Patricia Jones

B61/100
For two centuries, Daren Morin ruled as the Evil Lord through terror and cunning. Betrayal ended his reign — and now he wakes up eighteen years old again, stripped of power and trapped in a magic academy crawling with his old enemies, who mock him with the nickname 'Moron.' This time he's weaker. This time they think he's no threat. They're wrong. Daren remembers every secret, every spell, every betrayal — and he's going to use it all to survive, rise, and make them regret not finishing the job.
Goodreads4.22· 1.5K
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingGenius MCReincarnationSchoolVillain MC

Realm of Monsters

Frostbird

B61/100
In a land ruled by vile monsters, where death is common and life is cruel, one outcast aspires to have it all. When misfortune drags the odd goblin Stryg from his forest home into the ruthless city of Hollow Shade, he must adapt to a world that only sees him as a dimwit savage. Stryg finds himself embroiled in a school of magic where an aristocrat's smile hides deceit and the simplest remark may lead to death threats. Yet nothing will stop him from pursuing his ideals of glory: power, honor, and food with salt. As he navigates the muddled grey waters of the Ebon Realm, he will learn that some monsters lurk everywhere.
Royal Road4.42· 1.5KGoodreads3.53· 319
Anti-heroGrimdarkNon-human MCSchoolSecondary WorldSoft Magic