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The Chronicles of William Wilde

Davis Ashura

D31/100
William Wilde is a seventeen-year-old orphan who wants nothing more than to survive high school, endure the cafeteria food, and deal with the bullies. When a captivating new presence named Serena Paradiso enters his life, William learns that his friends have been keeping secrets about his heritage — secrets that a man named Kohl Obsidian, who murdered William's family, also knows. Destined to master the magic in his veins, William never wanted to be a hero. But someone is coming for him, and the life of an 1980s teenager has never been so deadly.
Goodreads4.16· 598
SchoolSecondary WorldSoft MagicUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Deadly Persuasion

FreeID

D31/100
Isekai'd into a mysterious Victorian town, Levi finds himself in a weak child's body amid deep darkness, ravenous monsters, and a murderous cult of devil worshippers seeking to summon mythical beasts from the Graveyard of the Gods. Fortunately, he possesses the rare talent of an Arch-Magus. Armed with deadly magical words and traps, he is ready to incite riots, gain classes, and level up to survive everything that threatens his precious new life. In this world, power comes from absorbing Ingredients — each holding its own paths and classes — and every week the Krag opens, offering an entrance to the Graveyard of the Gods where relics, power, and Ingredients wait to be plundered, protected by terrifying monsters.
Royal Road4.48· 392Goodreads3.74· 209
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

The Ghost of the Wastes

JCAnderson2025

D29/100
The Wastes do not create heroes. They create survivors. Cale Arcanus vanished ten years ago when a transport was lost beyond the borders of civilization. Presumed dead, his name became a footnote in a tragedy the Dominion preferred to forget. But the Wastes did not kill him — they forged him. In a land where mana turns feral, monsters replace law, and mercy gets you buried, Cale survived by mastering older methods of power: methods that do not fit neatly into cores, rankings, or institutions. Now he has returned. Arclight Academy wants to classify him, noble houses want to control him, and military and political powers want to decide whether he is an asset or a threat. They are already too late. Behind a quiet demeanor and a worn mask, Cale walks back into a world that no longer recognizes him — and one that will soon learn what it means to provoke something forged outside its rules.
Royal Road4.01· 417Goodreads4.82· 17
Base BuildingCompetent MCHaremLoner MCMilitaryOverpowered MC+6

The Academy

kzzh

D28/100
From rags to liches. A street-rat will claw her way to the top of the Academy. Orphaned in the war, Lina has survived two years on the streets by her wits and picking pockets. She targets a black-robed wizard and lifts a bone-white slab from him — and something ancient and dead feels her do it. The wizard tracks her down and drags her north to the Academy. No one has ever connected with the artifact before. Talent like hers can't be allowed to go to waste. Now Lina has to survive snide teachers, entitled students, and a necromancy curriculum she is months behind on. The problem is that the deathless thing she woke up isn't done with her either. And it has been waiting a very long time.
Royal Road4.54· 154
GrimdarkLGBTQ+SchoolSecondary WorldSummoningWeak to Strong

Cantrip Mage

Aest Belequa

D26/100
Magic has rules. Eola must break them. Eola loves magic, but her unusual attunement fills her soul with unattuned Mana — useful only for the basic runes children learn. Cantrips won't help her pass her first year of school or save her parents, but Eola refuses to believe she's stuck forever. She just needs a less conventional education. The academy's library holds tomes no living mage has read, with monsters stalking its aisles and forgotten knowledge haunting its shelves. If a solution exists, it will be archived there — and to master magic, Eola must first learn, then break, its accepted rules.
Royal Road4.53· 141
Hard MagicSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Valterion: The Space/Arch? Mage

phn11x

D26/100
Magic is real, and thousands of years ago it made interstellar travel possible. Now Earth is only a distant memory, lost to envy and greed when not everyone could be a Mage. Advances in technology leveled the playing field — and sparked conflicts still burning today across system-spanning nations, some Mage-friendly, some not. Sara is the long-lost daughter of two of the most powerful Mages in existence. Follow her as she discovers her powers, makes friends, accidentally acquires a super-powerful AI, and finds a way out of the Mage-hating nation she grew up in. Her journey takes her across the galaxy as she uncovers her origins — navigating a universe where Space Mages are essential for travel between systems, and where being one in the wrong place can be very dangerous.
Royal Road4.46· 349
CozySchoolSci-fiSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

Academy of Grinding

TheHaoboSpatula

D26/100
Numbers are everything. In a meritocratic school, 100,000 students from across the galaxy compete to reach the top of the ranks — a competition to become humanity's strongest warrior. The TAG System, designed like an idle mobile game, seems deceptively simple. But someone needs to beat the Most Important Special Exam For The Future Of Humanity — and the path to the top is anything but.
Royal Road4.07· 374
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

The Academy's Immortal Professor

Evil Lemon

D25/100
After a lifetime as humanity's strongest, Lucian never expected to become a professor. Once he defeated the Demon Lord, he disappeared to relax for a few centuries — and only came back when an old friend called in a favor. That friend also happened to see the future, and apparently a whole string of disasters was on the way, all somehow tied to a certain academy. Naturally, Lucian was suspicious when the solution turned out to be a teaching job, but he was willing to give it a shot. All he had to deal with were scheming nobles, mysterious threats lurking beneath the surface, a few old enemies who really should have stayed dead, and a new enigmatic System to worry about. Still, Lucian knew he could handle anything. Especially right after a good sandwich.
Royal Road4.41· 346
ComedyCozyGameLitLitRPGOlder MCOverpowered MC+2

Lazy Loops: An Idle LitRPG

Fiddlesoup

F24/100
Lazlo Yarrow is the most naturally gifted mage at MIRKS academy — and also the laziest. He enchanted his boots to fly so he wouldn't have to walk to class, and invented a spell to hold his eyes open during lectures so he could sleep undetected. Effort killed his parents; they worked the mana-factories until their channels burned out, and Lazlo learned never to push that hard. Then a dragon attacks the academy. People die. The headmaster — Lazlo's uncle — falls into a mana-exhaustion coma. Lazlo casts one desperate spell to save him, and the world rewinds to Monday. The dragon is back. Everyone dies again. And again. He could train like a hero. Or he could do what he does best: find the shortest path between impossible and done.
Royal Road4.50· 318
ComedyCozyHard MagicLitRPGSchoolTime Loop+1

Fate Unraveled

Rustpen

F22/100
Haoyujin Jieyuan was born for greatness — of that, if nothing else, he's certain. In a ruthless world where power is everything and might makes right, there's only one path he can take, no matter how painful it promises to be. When Jieyuan joins the Gleaming Stone Sect, he does so intending to outstrip everyone else and quickly ascend through the ranks. Instead, he ends up in third place in the entrance trials, grossly overshadowed. He remains undeterred — until he mysteriously regains memories of a previous life after a failed assassination attempt. Realizing there's something big going on beneath the surface of the world, Jieyuan reevaluates his priorities and sets his sights much farther. Setting down this path might mean pitting himself against Fate itself, but nothing ventured is nothing gained.
Royal Road4.45· 311
CultivationIsekaiOverpowered MCReincarnationSchoolSecondary World+2

Unique Skill: Trash

Lykanthropy

F22/100
In a world where your Skills are your everything, what does it say about you when your personal Skill is literally Trash? Catarine has found herself reborn into a new world where great heights are achievable — but only with the proper Skills and the drive to improve them. Born into a Necromantic family with a Skill that mirrors exactly what everyone thinks of her, she must find her own methods to survive and rise.
Royal Road4.46· 305
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitReincarnationSchool+3

Marvel-ous Ninjutsu

pewpewcachoo

F21/100
A man is thrust into the Marvel universe armed with a unique superpower drawn from the world of Naruto. The story follows him navigating a version of the MCU — alongside the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and more — as he wields chakra and ninja abilities in a world of costumed heroes and world-ending threats.
Royal Road4.34· 316
ComedyCozyIsekaiReincarnationSchoolSecondary World+3

Weight of Worlds

MH Crux

F21/100
The Tethered wield many talents, each developing into a hundred unique paths. After Ranvir awakens the ability to control space, he discovers he is the sole Tethered to hold this power. His only chance is to attend the Royal Academy and become his own Master — turning his burden into a blessing.
Royal Road3.89· 333
Competent MCGameLitHard MagicMilitarySchoolSecondary World+1

Incarnation of Sorcery

GeorgieD

F21/100
The Realmbreaker Wars unleashed a thousand world-ending Calamities. One such Calamity decided to become an academy teacher. Ryland is one of the oldest living apocalypses the war produced. Experimenting with dangerous rift magic shattered his body and scattered its pieces across the cosmos — pieces that, when left alone, often turn into new Calamities. Armed with a thousand spell glyphs from a thousand worlds, Ryland sets out to stop more of his blood droplets from becoming mad demigods. To do so he must return to his academy, recover his old research, and teach a few oddball students along the way — all while passing an entrance trial gone haywire, fending off Fate itself, and keeping Calamity-worshipping cults from ruining his club activities.
Royal Road4.50· 166
ComedyCozyHard MagicLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+2

The Apprentice of Ouroboros

Magius Swiftscale

F21/100
Hated by humans. Hunted by monsters. Neska will prove that strength comes from more than defeating foes. Neska Aksen knew early on she was different from other snakes — spending her days giving mice big hugs and reading her witch's tomes in a rustic potion shop. A test ritual unlocked her Interface, revealing that she had a prior life as a human, and the power of Classes and monsters. Her power is unprecedented, but the monsters who fear the Awakened soon learn of her and her witch, forcing her to flee toward Rivilat Academy of the Awakened. With little to go on but steadfast determination and powers from both halves of her soul, Neska must find allies and gather power to survive — and decide what direction her own soul pulls her toward: humanity, or those they're supposed to be fighting against.
Royal Road4.47· 290
AlchemyCozyCraftingGenius MCLitRPGNon-human MC+5

Of Wizards and Ravens

Charm&Fable

F20/100
Emrys of White Sands is many things: a wanderer with empty pockets and an eclectic skillset, a mage of considerable ability, and a man on the run from the wealthiest family in the world. When he finally earns a scholarship to one of the world's top mage schools, the Dreki family starts a war in the very same nation the school is located in. With the family breathing down his neck, Emrys must rise to the challenge and collect enough power to carve out his own space in the world — or be dragged back to their hellish island.
Royal Road4.48· 227
Competent MCCozyOverpowered MCSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

How to Heal a Soul

S.Kasper

F20/100
Growing up in an orphanage, Valar never dared to dream of something greater — grand adventures and endless wealth always seemed out of reach. But awakening to his magic far earlier than his peers changes everything. Armed with both life magic and a peculiar fire that burns him as readily as his enemies, Valar sets out to become a healer on his own terms. To do that, he'll need to grow stronger, which means killing beasts, which means adventuring. A slow-burn fantasy series built on a power system rooted in the soul, where ranks mark major milestones rather than endless stat screens, and every cost of pushing past your limits is real — if not always immediately visible.
Royal Road4.49· 134
CozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitOverpowered MCSchoolSecondary World+2

Villainess of Tangled Tragedies

Pope Pug

F19/100
After a late-night drive ended her life, a woman wakes inside the first webnovel she ever mocked. In "Tower of the End," Celestia von Reingarde was nothing more than a petty villainess — a spoiled noble girl remembered only for bullying someone until the hero arrived. One humiliation, and she faded away so the harem could bloom. Except now she has become Celestia. She planned to slip quietly into the background and let the story run its course — until a system warning made that impossible: [Warning! Existence will be erased when Story Relevance reaches 0/100.] Obscurity means death. To survive, Celestia must become relevant.
Royal Road4.35· 290
Anti-heroBase BuildingIsekaiLitRPGSchoolSecondary World+2

As Below, So Above

C.J. Thompson

F19/100
Reborn in another world of magic and flying ships, Det only wants one thing — to leave. For twenty years he has lived on one of the many pillars emerging from a deadly sea of mist, suffering the abuse of locals who accuse him, as a ReSouled, of hijacking the body of an unborn child. Not that he gives a damn what they think. From the moment he found himself reborn in a superhuman body with the magic to bring ink-wash paintings to life, he has had one focus: to get home to the wife and daughter he left behind on Earth. Now the fabled Mistguard — an organization of ReSouled like him — are coming to recruit him. With magic and resources far beyond what is available to him now, the answer to getting home could finally be within reach. To succeed, he will need to excel in an academy of legendary difficulty, master his power, and survive the threat that brought ReSouled to this world in the first place.
Royal Road4.48· 168
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOlder MCOverpowered MC+5

The Ascender's Legacy

Jordan Elias R.

F18/100
Aodhán is an orphan from a backwater city who has spent nearly all his life in a monastery surrounded by wise monks. During a photography assignment just days after his seventeenth birthday, he stumbles upon the legacy seed of an Ascendant and awakens the element of storm within himself. But wherever a storm stirs, chaos is quick to follow. Thrust into a world filled with magic, runes, and powerful mages, Aodhán's destiny unfolds amidst thunderous clashes and rippling fury. With his existence constantly threatened, he is forced to abandon the peaceful teachings of the monks to survive.
Royal Road4.26· 284
CozyCraftingCultivationGenius MCHard MagicIsekai+7