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Nero Walker

Leetle Sheet

C53/100
Nero has been transported to a world built on fantasy instead of physics — a society focused on self-improvement and cooperation, with competent administration and opinions based on rational argument. He's not prepared for any of it. While the world is big and full of characters, Nero would mostly prefer to ignore what's going on around him and focus on learning magic. Allies will assist him and mentors will guide him, but the leveling system he keeps trying to avoid turns out to be far more complex than it first appears. A slow-burn story following an internet troll with a heart of fool's gold, forced to grow up by circumstance and the people around him.
Royal Road4.55· 749
Anti-heroComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCIsekai+4

Dark Paladin

Vasily Mahanenko

C53/100
Surviving in a game world is easy — until the game is your real life, your enemies want you dead, and your own class couldn't care less about your survival. Paladin Yaropolk must navigate a world where pragmatism and personal gain are the only currencies that matter, wrestling with whether to become like everyone else or hold onto something more.
Goodreads3.87· 1.3K
Anti-heroCompetent MCGrimdarkLitRPGSystem Apocalypse

Getting Warhammerred

Arawn Frostguard

C53/100
In the Dark Age of Technology, a dormant bioweapon waits in the shadows of mankind's forgotten past. A sinister ritual threatens to merge this weapon with a soul from a higher dimension and unleash Chaos upon the grimdark 41st millennium. The soul in question is a long-dead average girl from 21st-century Earth with a passion for sci-fi, yanked from her boring afterlife and reincarnated into the body of an eldritch bioweapon on a desolate world. Now she must wrestle with both her monstrous nature and her own identity as the dark undercurrents of a grimdark future close in around her.
Royal Road4.59· 702
Anti-heroComedyGrimdarkNon-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnation+1

The Matter Destructor

Lucian Cross

C53/100
Hunter Graves was quiet, unreadable — a data analyst with a poker face and a life built on routine. But when a storm of lightning ripped his world apart, Hunter and everyone he knew were thrown into the Multiversal System, a brutal trial of survival where humanity was nothing more than raw material to be tested. Accepting the class of a healer, Hunter should have been relegated to the backline. Instead, his cold pragmatism and honed martial skill make him something far more dangerous — a fighter who refuses to die by the rules others set for him. Level by level, kill by kill, he grows sharper and faster while quietly unraveling the secrets of his skills and the unseen powers who watch from above.
Goodreads4.34· 475
Anti-heroClass SystemDungeon CrawlingLitRPGStatsSystem Apocalypse+1

Death's Favorite Warlock

Charles Dean

C53/100
Lars wakes each morning to a voice in his head urging him to kill — claiming she's just handing him quests to help him level. He ignores it. The cultivators who bullied him his whole life are as far above him as gods, and killing isn't in his nature anyway. Then a murderous sect descends on his village, slaughters everyone he knows, and takes his mother as a slave. Lars has no choice but to trust the voice, complete her quests, and find a way to grow strong enough to get her back.
Goodreads4.31· 969
Anti-heroCultivationGameLitGrimdarkLitRPGWeak to Strong

Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Fortune

Tismon

C53/100
Walter's normal life is turned upside down when the human race is judged worthy of Ascension — granting powers beyond comprehension to those who complete Trials as an Aspirant. The Trials are run by otherworldly abominations who view humanity as little more than amusing playthings. Walter has been chosen by the Absolute Luck System and has infiltrated the Trials as a Lord Arbiter. The problem: he must now balance life as both an Aspirant and an Admin, and he's doomed if either side finds out he's not who he says he is. Navigating this double life with wit, smarts, and a little luck, Walter must survive long enough to become an Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Fortune.
Royal Road4.55· 737Goodreads3.84· 76
Anti-heroGenius MCHorrorLitRPGMysterySci-fi+1

Chimera

Michael Dale

C53/100
A chimera slowly regains memories of its past life as a human in a nonmagical world. He is in part James Borland — temp office worker on the verge of going permanent — but he is also a savage beast that grows stronger by consuming the flesh of other creatures. The more he remembers, the greater the influence his old human persona has on his actions, often clashing with the beast's instinct to consume prey and become stronger.
Royal Road4.60· 692
Anti-heroGrimdarkNon-human MCReincarnationWeak to Strong

[PLACEHOLDER ARCHIVE - RA]

Vitaly S Alexius

C53/100
[This is a placeholder archive backup of an old book, kept here only to fight copyright trolls in the future]
Royal Road4.61· 545
Anti-heroComedyHorrorMilitaryOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+2

The Twelve Apocalypses: A Damned Soul's Path to the Abyss

AT Valentine

C52/100
Being drafted into a demon army wasn't on Hayden's bucket list. But when his soul is shoved into a human soldier on the eve of a new invasion, there's no appealing the decision. Around him, demons are excited and ready — for them, the invasion of Berlis, a classic sword-and-sorcery realm, promises a feast of souls and new growth. Hayden's human status puts him at the bottom of the totem pole, cannon fodder meant to die first. But as he plunges into the carnage, he discovers he was born for the madness.
Royal Road4.59· 692
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+5

Until death? (Old Version)

Andur

C52/100
Ever been a god? The protagonist was — until death and a divine tribunal sent him packing. Apparently the other gods took issue with his faith being the only true one, and the Apocalypse (admittedly his fault, if unintentional) did not help his case. Now condemned to a "vacation" as punishment, he must navigate existence in a new form in a world far removed from his former divine station.
Royal Road4.60· 669
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyNon-human MCReincarnation+3

Heavy Metal

Kuropon

C52/100
Struck down in battle, a Hero and a Demon King meet their end at the same moment. As their souls linger on the edge of the afterlife, a mysterious force intervenes — merging their fragmented souls into a new being: Rusty, a living suit of armor. Affected by the memories and presence of both predecessors, Rusty embarks on his own quest. Will he seek revenge for the Hero's betrayal, fulfill the fallen Demon King's desires, or forge an entirely new path?
Royal Road4.43· 778
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLit+11

Roadtrip - Madness Re-Incarnate #2

Travis Bagwell

C51/100
Nyx was born Hollow — an empty vessel in a world of spirits, a condition that should have meant death. Somehow he survived, driven by stubbornness and a touch of madness. In a previous life, he did something reckless: he sent himself his own memories, throwing them into the Flow from which all spirits return. Now those memories have found him, raising questions he can't stop asking — was reincarnation real, would his half-baked plan actually work, and could his life possibly get any worse? It could.
Royal Road4.54· 717
Anti-heroComedyCraftingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGrimdark+3

Until Death? (Refleshed Version)

Andur

C51/100
Ever been a god? Well, the protagonist was — until he died and got judged by the other gods. Apparently they didn't like the whole "my faith is the only true one" idea. And for the record: the Apocalypse wasn't intentional. For punishment, he gets sent on what he hopes is a vacation. A rewrite of the original story, featuring improved grammar, filled plot holes, and a lighter comedic tone following a fallen deity navigating a new existence.
Royal Road4.54· 712Goodreads3.47· 176
Anti-heroComedyCozyNon-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

After the End: Serenity

Lillene

C51/100
At the end of everything, the Final Reaper won — but it was a hollow victory. Having killed everyone who wronged him or his people, he was left utterly alone. When Order's Voice offered a chance to reset the multiverse to an earlier time in exchange for most of his power, the choice was easy: start over from when Earth was first brought into Order. Landing in his old body, the Final Reaper becomes Thomas again — and chooses a new name for a new life: Serenity. He has ten years from the moment the Voice arrives to prevent Earth from losing the second round, as it did before. It will require a group effort, which is difficult for someone who has been alone for longer than he can reckon. A system apocalypse story designed so that a large percentage of humanity can survive and prosper — if they work together.
Royal Road4.19· 812
Anti-heroLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCRegressionSci-fi+2

Foodstuffs

Arthur Stone

C51/100
You are an absolute nobody — nothing but a useless lump of meat, a delicious morsel for those who got lucky at the start. The only goal anyone expects of you is to die as quickly as possible. But this particular piece of food eats back.
Goodreads4.30· 897
Anti-heroGrimdarkLitRPGSystem Apocalypse

Desolada

lkal92

C51/100
For millennia, the demon lords known as the Goetia enslaved humanity, until a group of mortals called the Archons received divine blessings of power and overthrew them. Under their dominion mankind flourished, though the war in the shadows never ended. A thousand years later, sixteen-year-old Leones' family is executed for the crime of heresy — burned to death for questioning whether the Archon of Flames is truly divine. After manifesting the power to control time, Leones survives and embarks on an uncertain journey for power and revenge. But to overcome a god, he may need help — and along the way he will discover the truth behind the demon lords, time, and reality itself.
Royal Road4.58· 668
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorSecondary WorldSoft MagicTime Loop+1

Juchū Kaisen (Worm/Jujutsu Kaisen)

Daoist Mystery

C51/100
After the events of Gold Morning, Taylor reincarnates into a world of sorcery and cursed spirits, born into a family of sorcerers. Her new life carries curses of its own: orphaned, raised by a clan of evil sorcerers, and scorned for being born a girl within it. Taylor's only desire is to survive, grow stronger, and find freedom.
Royal Road4.61· 403
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorIsekaiOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

The Machine God

Xiphias

C51/100
Alexander died and woke up in a world not so different from his own — except for the aliens, the superhumans, and somehow becoming a villain with a supervillain team. Now every hero and bounty hunter in the country is after him. In a world where the rich get away with murder and heroes cause as much destruction as the bad guys, Alexander intends to change that. At the center of all the madness is a System still being born — shaped by humanity's hopes, greed, and desperation — and it doesn't just want this world. It wants all of them.
Royal Road4.60· 604
Anti-heroIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MCSci-fi+3

Doing God's Work

Skylark (Dion Sky)

C51/100
The gods are real and incorporated. Providence is a profitable global monopoly — but its chief executive is a corrupt authoritarian, the combined might of the divine powers ignores humanity's problems, and Helpdesk service is, frankly, terrible. In this corporate fantasy, it's up to history's most maligned immortals to step up and sort things out.
pf8.0· 1Royal Road4.61· 390
Anti-heroComedyGenius MCSatireUrban Fantasy

Silhouette

GrimCat

C51/100
One night, a bioweapon escaped its laboratory in Zalcien, only to die in a dark alley. One night, a young man lent a helping hand, only to die alone in the dark. One night, a deity of death saw two lost souls and offered one a second chance in the other's body. Now a strange creature made of darkness, James must deal with his new form in a world where superpowers, heroes, and villains are commonplace — far from the Earth he knew. As he learns to use his powers and meets allies and enemies, James faces the paths of heroism and villainy and chooses a third way somewhere in between. Follow the story of a lost Earthling soul as he becomes Silhouette, the mysterious power in the shadows.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.54· 700
Anti-heroComedyCozyGrimdarkIsekaiNon-human MC+7