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Thera is a real kingdom at the crossroads of many other worlds, but with all the augmented-reality interfaces, character progression, and game mechanics that players know and love. Players are sponsored by actual demon lords, gods and goddesses, or Lovecraftian nightmares — and the stakes of the Game are nothing less than Creation itself. Hector Savage, gamer extraordinaire, comes to Thera confident in his skills. Nothing can prepare him, though, for the schemes of Abyssal Lords, rampaging barbarian ghosts, and a host of nefarious forces who want him dead before he can even make fifth level.

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.

Everyone is obsessed with Neon Dragons — the latest highly immersive cyberpunk aRPG from Sparksoft. But when our late-twenties protagonist's PC broke days before the game's release, all she could do was watch content creators play through it, limiting her knowledge to what she saw in those playthroughs. Things change drastically when she wakes up inside the body of a 15-year-old girl inside the city of Neo Avalis, six years into the game's past. She can level herself just like a character in the game, and with everything she's read and watched about Neon Dragons, she sets her sights on solving the mystery of the enigmatic Wall at the edge of the play-area. But she quickly realizes that this game is very real — life in a cyberpunk future is full of danger and intrigue, and the world has some surprising differences from the game she watched.

Jacob Cloud is sixteen, a miner's son, and he knows his fate: die young, broke, and anonymous in the town that feeds silver ore to richer cities and spits out its sons in pine boxes. He dreams of becoming a Knight — but that takes gold, rare Skills, and connections he will never have. Then the mine floor gives out beneath him. Jacob falls — not to his death, but onto a Rainbow-ranked Skill Crystal, something so rare people kill over it. He doesn't get a weapon or a healing Skill. He gets The Grimoire Extraordinaire — a support Skill that can only show him the flaws in any other Skill or item. No instant power. No glory. But Jacob isn't an idiot. He grinds, he experiments, and he uses the Grimoire to optimize the basics. In five days trapped underground, he boosts his skills to levels nobles would envy — and when he claws his way out, he's ready to quit the mines for good.

Miles has one obsession in life: magic. He lives it, breathes it, and dedicates every waking hour to it — but the same obsession wears down his body. At the peak of his power, he chooses to rest in artifact-enhanced sleep, planning for it to last months. It extends to centuries. Miles wakes to an entirely new world: one where magic has become structured and rigid, where mages have traded future potential for an interface — an easier, safer path for novices. The magic Miles knows has slid into legend. Someone has worked to weaken the world, and they have succeeded. But Miles still lives, and he can do everything this new era calls a myth — and much, much more.

Potential is everything within the Vitrian Empire — and a provincial orphan boy is about to prove he has more of it than anyone. Found in the ruins of the Old City, the orphan Alarion is taken in by Assessor Elena, who bends the rule of law to adopt him into the House of Hunger. To earn his place, he must learn the ways of his new House, endure a grueling training regime, and battle deadly fiends — all while scraping together enough strength before those who hate what he represents finally close in. After all, potential unrealized is no power at all.

Vera spent years climbing to the top of Ashen Legacy, a punishing MMO where every stat point mattered. She min-maxed her build, crushed endgame content, and became one of the highest-level players around. Then she woke up inside the game — in the body of her character. Everything works: the magic, the gear, the absurd power level. Unfortunately, so does the backstory — including the kid she gave herself for emotional flavor and half-baked roleplay she barely remembers writing. Now she must navigate a world shaped by her own exploits: divine ruins she helped demolish, cults whose gods she may have deleted, and a continent teetering on the edge of an expansion she never cleared. Being overpowered is easy. Being responsible? That's the real raid boss.

Sable didn't know what she'd expected from the afterlife, but turning into a giant flying lizard wasn't it. Thrust into a magic-filled fantasy world with an obscenely powerful body, things aren't entirely great: there are hordes of orcs to the north, an immortal undead legion to the south, and fourteen human kingdoms that want the first dragon in centuries dead. What's more, her [Hoard] and [Notoriety] stats make her stronger the more gold she has and the more people fear her — which explains why dragons in the past were such unsavory sorts. Maybe she can find less evil ways to progress. What are the odds taxes and propaganda can get her where she needs to be?

For William, dreaming about waking up in a cultivation world quickly spiraled into a nightmare. Bound by captors with dark intentions, he watched innocent lives taken before a passing cultivator saved him on a whim. But freedom didn't mean safety. Now William must navigate the treacherous terrain and society of a cultivation world — one where the System has gamified the path to power, and where the locals have a new name for him: Wei Liang.

In the deepest reaches of the Bone Pits, a canine woke up in the ruined remains of a wooden box — with knowledge it shouldn't have, fleeting memories it couldn't reach, and the icy grasp of death crawling up its spine. It simply wished to live another day. In the industrial underbelly of Carmera, gangs, religious groups, Dungeon Barons, and cultists battle for supremacy — blind to what prowls below. In the writhing smog and murky sumps that none dare approach, in the deepest reaches of the dungeon, the last wolf rakes its claws through steel and howls to a distant sky.

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.

Alex Smith had many regrets: a dead-end job, an estranged sister, friends who had left him behind. Then the apocalypse happened and fantasy became reality — except Alex's reality did not change. After surviving the Apocalypse for 15 years, his life came to an end with a betrayal. But when fate sends him back to the very beginning, Alex is faced with a choice. He will not hold back this time.

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.

The Scientist cared only for the Truth. His brilliant career was thrown into doubt because fools could not see what was before their eyes. When he reaches too far in his search for undeniable proof, he dies. Against all reason, he wakes up — reborn in a coven of witches, in a world where magic is king and science is unknown. But the System is the key to finding the Truth. Now going by the name Orion Voidwalker, he will use his scientific knowledge to reach heights previously thought impossible, even as chaos spreads through the Cyril Magocracy and not everyone is content to watch him discard dogma in his quest.

When an aimless guy dies making a noble sacrifice, he is given a chance to live life better in a new world. Due to some godly negligence and terrible luck, however, his arrival does not go as planned. Having acquired overwhelming power, he has to confront a familiar question: how should I live my life?

John Hale spent years mastering Elder Veilfall, a brutally difficult open-world fantasy game. When his ceiling kills him, he wakes up inside the game — at the exact moment everything starts going wrong. With muscle memory from thousands of no-hit speedruns and an encyclopedic understanding of a world that shouldn't exist, John must fight an apocalypse that's happening ahead of schedule. Except this time there are no continues, no save points, and no respawns.

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.

Han is a 30-year-old gamer who has finally beaten World: Mountain, Sea and Sky — a brutally difficult soulslike RPG that kills your character on every game over. He has written guides, found every secret dungeon, and tried every trick in the book. But he has never started the game as a Slave. At least, not while inside the game.

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.

In post-System Toronto, Alex doesn't slay monsters to get by — he delivers pizza. Broke and rejected by both the Adventurer's Guild and the Courier Guild, with nothing but a crumbly resume, he takes the only job left in town: delivery boy for Nino's Pizza, a Lich Pizzeria run by a married couple literally bound to the building. He must deliver enchanted pizza to Dungeon Bosses in sixty minutes or less, or suffer the wrath of both the Bosses and the old couple. With nothing but a seemingly useless ability, Alex must stay alive, deal with psychotic exes, and pray for loot in place of tips.