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Rostislav Grokhotov, an ordinary clerk, just wanted to earn extra money in the virtual world of Waldyra. He had no grand plans for his character — until a discovery in the game's starter zone changed everything, enveloping the entire world in turmoil and making him a prize hunted by Waldyra's leading clans. Now he must conceal his real identity — because he's in danger in the real world too, with millions at stake. Rosgard holds the key to wealth and power in both worlds. The question: whose side does he take without becoming anyone's pawn?

This is Perry's third world, or fourth if you count Earth. In the first, a brilliant scientist named Richter gave him a working suit of power armor before dying to an attack from a seemingly sourceless adversary. In the second, he became a knight fighting in a war against a callous enemy. There are others like him — thresholders, always in opposition — and it's becoming clear that hopping from world to world is going to be his way of life. Now he finds himself in a place doing its best impression of Victorian London, facing a new enemy that will test all the knowledge and power he has accumulated so far.

Marco trained his whole life to become a captain, maxing every childhood achievement the System would allow — diving, rigging, outrunning couriers up mountains. When classing day finally arrives, the System doesn't make him a captain. It makes him a Gluttonous Marauder. The class has combat perks, shipwright skills, and captain potential — but a reputation so bad he's arrested on the spot. Now on the run in a barely seaworthy smuggler's dinghy, Marco sets out to prove he's not the villain they think he is, if he can out-sail bounty hunters, survive cursed dungeons, and feed enough victories to his ever-growing ship along the way.

Still reeling from the death of his parents, Jake finds a doorway to an abandoned space station in his grandfather's basement — and when he walks through, he discovers he's trapped there with company. The station's AI enlists Jake to reclaim the systems needed to support life, but he has only eight hours to complete the task or he'll die alone in the cold vacuum of space. With only a wrecking bar, work boots, and basic survival equipment, he must defeat the horrific monsters infesting the station before his air runs out. Hidden somewhere in the station is also a message that could spell doom for Earth and the entire universe.

Jensen Weller was the world's most infamous professional killer — a shadow in the night who struck fear into the hearts of politicians, businessmen, and terrorists alike. Living life under fire, he always knew his number would come up. After finally falling during an intense gunfight, he awakens trapped inside the body of a teenage girl. Now afflicted with an extreme compulsion to laugh boisterously at the drop of a hat, the newly renamed Maria Walston-Carter must attend the nation's most prestigious boarding school and do her noble family proud. What initially seems to be a peaceful existence in a magical world undergoing an industrial revolution soon proves to be anything but — Jensen's skills as an assassin aren't ready to be put away just yet.

Launch day. That was what they called it — the day over four million people vanished from Manhattan, the day a one-hundred-and-one-kilometre tower rose from the wreckage, and the day every screen displayed a single message: The Great Emperor has issued his challenge. A hundred floors and a hundred challenges await the worthy. To the victor goes a Wish of Unlimited Power. Cayden Caros yearned to play that game, but the Terms and Conditions barred anyone under sixteen from entering. Forced to wait two years, Cayden researched, practiced, and prepared — because when it came to catching up to players with a massive head start, being a SpeedRunner was a very particular kind of advantage.

In a world ruled by giant bugs, colossal moths ravaged Sparrow's hometown, titanic waterbugs sank his refugee ship, and giant ants killed his parents. Ordered to stay behind and cover his army's retreat in humanity's losing war against the Swarm, he is rescued at the brink of death by a hidden village of powerful mages. To save his life they change his class to Worm — a class no one in the outside world knows anything about. Armed with a set of reality-warping mutations and abilities, Sparrow must gather knowledge, master the mages' techniques, and accumulate as much power as possible before returning to his army. First, he has to learn to control his wormhole abilities before he rips himself apart.

Charlie Mason — Mace — is a retired major crimes detective who gets offered an unusual second act: in-game constable for Immersion Online, the hottest virtual reality game around. He knows nothing about character creation, leveling up, or magical artifacts. He's a real noob. Spawned in the remote Wilderbrook villages to learn the ropes, Mace and his companions find themselves facing an ancient evil he's totally underleveled to handle. Fortunately, virtual world or not, he still has his wits and detective training.

Her mother a Spellblade, her father a Talismartist — so why did Astrid have to be a Warrior? Inspired by her mother's tales of defending Humanity's Bulwark, she sets out to become a delver in the Dungeon, earning enough levels and experience to protect her borders and countrymen. Her plan didn't work out, and now she's all alone — no planned allies, no family support. With just her skills and armor, and not a lick of magic to her name, Astrid Warrior intends to show the world exactly what a nonmagical fighter can do.

Adventurers seek dungeons for riches. Heroes storm great fortresses. Gods clash far above. Arek cooks lasagna and tops it with a dash of finely chopped basil. An orc who has seen more than his fair share of fighting, Arek wants nothing more than to spend his days cooking and away from the chaos of combat. But when Ming and her group of adventurers hire him as their full-time chef, his plans of avoiding violence crumble. He longs to leave his blood-soaked mistakes in his past — but old friends and foes have different ideas.

Nathan Cheng, known as Nil, is a game developer with four consecutive game jam wins — but a gaping hole in his heart from his sister's untimely murder. When he wakes up in an arcane world with a familiar System, he's given one mission: defeat the dark king, or die. Success means returning home on the day before his sister was killed. Only Nil's knowledge of the System — and his perfect memory — can let him advance fast enough to avoid being overwhelmed. The mechanics are far more complex than they appear, with thousands of hidden secrets waiting to be exploited. It'll take more than just brains. He'll need a mountain of grit and guts.

What's one to do when reincarnated as the Rival? Clearly, work hard until you can be the ultimate challenge for any protagonist who comes your way. A self-insert Champion Journey in a Pokémon world.

Born with an enormous well of power but no way to regenerate it, Raysha has been treated as an outcast her entire life. While others use aeon as commonly as breathing, she must ration her power drop-by-drop in a world where true masters have slaughtered gods. When her brother arrives from the Academy with a dangerous idea — that a crystalized ancient spirit heart might cure her — Raysha jumps at the chance. With her enchanted water bottle in hand, the pair head out into the wider world in search of the impossible.

Since leaving the orphanage, Esil has spent the past year toiling in the data mines of Pangea while watching the wealthy elite traverse its game worlds. His luck changes when he discovers a legendary Developer's Chest — the Premium Worldpass inside grants him unlimited access to all of Pangea. With his newfound fortune, he enters a tournament to compete against some of the most skilled adventurers Pangea has to offer. Being a kid from the slums turns out to be an advantage when he discovers a bug in the obscure data-mining class. But his in-game actions have real-world consequences, and failure online threatens everything he holds dear.

The rise of a young Fire Nation commander. Xing, a survivor of a village attack turned prodigious firebending colonel of the Fire Nation's 11th Regiment, seeks to keep his adoptive family in the military safe, sound, and sharp — even as the pieces of the main story begin falling into place around him. The biggest piece: Princess Azula joins the 11th Regiment in their military operations across the Earth Kingdom.

For decades, governments have been fighting a secret battle to keep alien invaders away from Earth. When the guardian of the United States falls, a new champion must be chosen — and the Galactic Conflict Authority selects one seemingly at random. Hugh Logan is in the middle of teaching a class when he is taken against his will and informed he is now Earth's newest defender against alien invasion. He must give up everything to become a War Core.

Could you defeat the world's hardest immersive game? Alexandria Duke must learn how — or risk losing everything. When Alex joins Gamemakers Online, she finds there are no newbie areas, no tutorials, and nothing but vicious critters hunting her down. Alex is a veteran platinum achievement hunter who has solved previously unwinnable scenarios, and she won't give up now. But as she delves deeper into the game, she discovers it hides sinister secrets. If she can't survive the first year, she'll lose more than her own life.

When a Great House falls, chaos follows. Rowan watched as a betrayal from within destroyed everything he'd ever known — his home burned, an Archdemon ravaged their lands, and he was left as the sole survivor of a magical lineage spanning millennia. Unawakened and powerless, he could only watch as the other Great Houses carved up what remained. But obscurity saved him. On his twentieth name-day, Rowan finally Awakened — granted a Trait of unknown power, a Title of unimaginable weight, and an Item of untold worth. As he steps onto his Path, the echoes of his past follow. The passes his family defended were left unguarded too long, and now the encroaching Wilds threaten far more than just the north.

They asked Amber to become a magical girl three times. She refused. That only made her more interesting. The fourth time, she asked them. The Agartha Loop follows a time-looping protagonist navigating magical girl shenanigans, existential horror, interlinked magical systems, conspiracies, and mysteries — with a cast of LGBTQ+ characters across the spectrum of usefulness.

Daniel spent a decade writing a single fantasy novel — the saga of Artorias Grifantes, the legendary mage who sealed himself away with an immortal evil to save the world. He finished the final chapter. Then he died face-down on his keyboard. He wakes up in a crystal chamber a thousand years after his ending, inside his hero's body. His protagonist has become a religious figure, his allies legends, and his hero's baby sister is long dead — though her descendants remain, including a blind little girl who needs a hand. The elf he wrote into a doomed romance is still out there, waiting. Daniel inherits the greatest mind on the continent, but with it come memories and emotions he never expected. And the seeds he planted for a sequel are still out there, worse than anything his hero ever faced. Instead of writing it, he will have to live it.