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Harry Potter and the Surprisingly Competent History of Magic Professor

TheFanficGOD

B67/100
Cassian Rosier is a near-Squib from one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight families — the family's punching bag, mocked and barely tolerated. When a simple light spell becomes his last chance to prove himself, his world shatters: the Cassian they knew is gone, replaced by a man from our world with no magic but a lifetime of teaching behind him, and only the vaguest memories of a "Harry Potter" series he never bothered to read. Trapped in a ruined reputation with no real power, the new Cassian has one goal: survive. When forced to lecture on magic, he bluffs his way through by teaching Lumos — a spell he doesn't know. Something strange happens: as hundreds of students learn from his lecture, mastery floods his mind. Ancient variations awaken, along with memories that don't belong to him — some illuminating forgotten magic, others sharp, dark, and dangerous. Sent to Hogwarts as a professor, Cassian must juggle pureblood family expectations, faculty suspicion, and a power that grows every time he teaches — while wondering whether he is drawing on ancient wisdom or inviting something far worse into himself.
Royal Road4.42· 1.4K
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCCozyGenius MCMystery+9

God of Trash

Noct

B67/100
Rhys loves trash — trashy anime, trashy novels, trashy games. That passion gets him mistaken for an actual trash god and whisked away to another world, where he wakes up in a trash heap with trash talents, trash skills, and no chance of progression. But Rhys loves trash. There's only one path forward: embrace it, empower it, and dig the diamonds out from the refuse. Polish the trash until it shines brighter than gold.
Royal Road4.53· 1.2K
ComedyCultivationIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+2

An Immortal's Retirement: To Achieve Peace

Malaklein

B67/100
Array King Dane has had enough of the cultivator's world. Fight, kill, grow stronger, and fight some more — that was their lifestyle. Cultivation was nothing more than the eternal rat race of immortals, and everyone falls eventually. Eternity made any odds a guarantee given enough time, so Dane quits the game while he's still ahead. And so he retires. No more fighting, no more killing, no more violence. He's chosen peace — but unfortunately, peace has to be protected.
Royal Road4.54· 1.2K
ComedyCozyCultivationIsekaiOlder MCOverpowered MC+3

Master, This Poor Disciple Died Again Today

Noct

B66/100
In the midst of faking his death, Xiao Hui finds himself transmigrated into a cultivation world. With great hopes for what is to come, he gets taken in by a sect and chosen by a powerful master — except his master seems to have a hole in his brain. As a weakling who recognizes his place in the world, Xiao Hui faces certain death at every turn. So why fight it? He does what he does best: fake it, duck the fallout, and somehow claw his way to the top through a combination of cleverness and enthusiastic self-preservation. A xianxia comedy in the vein of A Will Eternal and Spirit Blade Mountain — neither grimdark nor fluffy, but woven through with both silly and intense moments.
Royal Road4.38· 1.4K
Anti-heroComedyCultivationDungeon CrawlingGenius MCHarem+7

Outlaw Country

Ghotty

B66/100
Buck Jones was born in 1850 and died in 1880. He was an outlaw, and technically still is. The world may change, the species may differ, and the circumstances may twist — but Buck knows one thing for sure. Always draw first.
Royal Road4.67· 438Goodreads4.06· 48
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World

Mahael the Divine

Robert Blaise

B66/100
Humanity lost an ancient interdimensional war. Now demons, commanded by devil overlords, are exterminating human existence. In a final act of desperation, angels banish a lone world into a starless, lifeless corner of the universe — just out of demonic reach. All they need is a selfless soul willing to become the Final Guardian: an entity whose entire existence is devoted to postponing humanity's end. They get a volunteer. He is no saint. Sadly for the demons, he is something far worse. Every time he dies, he revives. Every time he aids humanity, he grows stronger. There is no winning against an infinitely vast demon army — but he just might be crazy enough to keep losing indefinitely.
Royal Road4.69· 217
ComedyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+1

Dead End Guild Master

marshalcarper

B66/100
Hans had a realization that changed the direction of his adventuring career: "above average" is different from "great." At 39, with a litany of lingering injuries, he accepted that he would never progress from Gold-ranked to Diamond-ranked. With his prime behind him and disillusioned by guild politics, he accepts a guild master posting in a remote village — an insignificant position no one else wanted. Looking forward to a quiet life of teaching, Hans arrives in the small town of Gomi at the foot of the Dead End Mountains. As he rebuilds the local chapter of the Adventurers' Guild, his unconventional teaching methods earn him allies and enemies alike, while his career failures find ways to resurface. A slice-of-life fantasy exploring life post-adventuring and the challenge of reconciling dreams with reality.
Royal Road4.66· 606Goodreads4.45· 71
ComedyCompetent MCCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitOlder MC+2

Evil Overlord: The Makening

NotGodot

B66/100
If evil was easy, everybody would be doing it. But the road to Utter Domination is neither easy, smooth, nor straight — as the boy who will one day become Gar the Pitiless is about to discover.
Royal Road4.60· 1.1K
ComedySatireSecondary WorldVillain MC

The Discarded, Half-Eaten Apple Core New Life.

MDW

B66/100
The world ended. The Apocalypse opened the gates of Hell, demons killed everyone — including me. But I got a second chance at life. As an apple. Which was eaten by a starving survivor, not that I fault them. But to toss my half-eaten core into a landfill? Then an earthquake buried the landfill a mile underground. No sunlight, no water, and I'm pretty sure the apple I was reincarnated into was a GMO hybrid with no real chance of germinating. Then: **DING** — SYSTEM INITIATION!
Royal Road4.55· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedyCozyDungeon CoreGameLitGenius MC+12

Tavern Cat

PrimalSoup

B65/100
Dying and being reborn in a fantasy world as a hero destined to kill the Demon King is some people's greatest dream. Others, however, may prefer to sit around, relax, take a few naps, and ignore the impending doom. And if such a hero gets reborn as a cat, what's going to stop them from doing exactly that? Finding a warm tavern home filled with food, gossip, and comfort sounds a whole lot easier than putting in the work to stop a war.
Royal Road4.66· 575
ComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+4

Wishlist Wizard: The Rise of the Zero Hero

marshalcarper

B65/100
Wayne appeared in the summoning chambers for Chosen Heroes. While getting isekaied was good news, he was fifty years off the usual cycle — his body didn't become superhuman, and his system access was glitched. He could open menus, but his only clickable option was to view his unimpressive stats, and another called Christmas List was greyed out entirely. Four years into living his second quiet life, he happens upon a strange artifact from Earth: a single page from the 1990 Electronics Boutique Christmas Catalog. His once-inactive ability gives him the power to add skills and abilities to his system by ripping them from the games listed in the catalog. With a second lease on his second life, Wayne sets out with his best friend Fergus to collect more catalog pages — combining abilities from wildly different game systems and trying not to repeat the mistakes of his past.
Royal Road4.68· 282
ComedyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOlder MC+1

Deluge: hydras can be adventurers too

tenfingers

B65/100
In the swamp, the rules are simple: you eat them, or they eat you. Nothing's ever that simple when humans get involved. They feed you weird potions, teach you ridiculous commands, and make you fight pointless fights with totally unfair enemies. After years of non-consensual experimentation and a dark ritual involving goat's blood, the System reclassified Deluge as sentient. A nice title, but not something you can eat. Now, armed with heightened intelligence and slowly accumulating knowledge, Deluge expected the world to finally make sense. It doesn't. The more he learns, the more absurd it gets: civilization, laws, status, guilds, oaths — all random nonsense. There's only one system Deluge respects, and that's the System. System gives you levels. System gives you power.
Royal Road4.69· 177
ComedyGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSecondary World+1

Naruto: Stormbreaker

Andithegiant

B65/100
After getting revenge for his murdered sister, he was executed by electric chair. He expected to wake up to fire, brimstone, and screaming souls. Instead, he woke up somewhere far less expected.
Royal Road4.53· 1.2K
ComedyReincarnationTransmigration

How to Survive at the End of the World

RC Joshua

B65/100
When an accident kicks Sean Lawrence forward in time, he finds himself square in the apocalyptic end-times. The world is doomed, and he has only a mysterious guidebook, a leather jacket, and a home-made knife. He could spend his days grinding low-level mobs and waiting for a chance to escape. Or he could rise up, slay dragons, and fight against the odds. Faced with a choice between the dead-end life he's been living and a possibility of greatness, Sean has to decide if he's willing to risk everything for a chance to save Earth itself.
Royal Road4.56· 637Goodreads4.40· 1.2K
ComedyGameLitGenius MCLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fi+3

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

Return of the Unbound Mage

Scryx

B64/100
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.
Royal Road4.63· 963
ComedyCozyGameLitHard MagicLitRPGOverpowered MC+1

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

A Tyrant, Sort Of

farawaymuse

B64/100
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?
Royal Road4.60· 993
Base BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekai+5

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

All Trades

Shane Walker

B64/100
Alex is broke — pretty much always has been. A misspent youth led to convictions and plea deals, leaving him with no career, no education, and no hope. Then the newest immersive MMO arrives with the ability to convert in-game earnings into real currency. Seizing the opportunity, Alex joins The Realms as Jack Alltrades, determined to make money any way he can. A master of none, he'll learn every trade possible to turn his life around — from merchant deals and goblin labor to corporate intrigue and dragon-saving quests.
Goodreads4.35· 1.4K
Base BuildingComedyLitRPGMerchantVRMMO