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updated book at: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/73967/somebody-stop-her-superheroes-apocalypse [This is a placeholder archive backup of an old book, kept here only to fight copyright trolls in the future]

When magic returned to Earth, it woke things that ought to have stayed sleeping — like the cadavers Selena Serrano's med-school class was supposed to be dissecting. With the electric grid down and gunpowder no longer exploding, goblins, undead, and dragons roam a changed world. To survive the Magipocalypse, Selena will need to understand magic, harness it, and in the process become something more than she was. Welcome to the Accidental Necromancer.

In a world where Elves and Goblins are real, where Wizards and Witches cast terrible magic, and where level-100 Heroes lead parties against great evils, Dungeons are essential — places where stories are written, loot acquired, and legends born. And the narrator of this story is a Dungeon. Known as the Playwright, this Dungeon Core invites adventurers to the "Stage of Forgotten Fables" for a dramatic dungeon delve unlike any they have experienced before. Told from the perspective of the Dungeon Core itself, the story shifts between multiple POVs to show the growth of its characters. The LitRPG elements of levels, skills, and classes are present, though the focus leans toward narrative over number-crunching.

When she awoke to find Valerius, leader of the legendary Gilded Knights, towering over her, she thought she'd gone mad. She was the Fury — mistress of claw and flame, armies trembled at her name. Now she lay chained and broken, a prisoner in her own home. Only yesterday, she had a different life: a nephew struggling to beat the villain Zara the Fury in an arcade game, an uncle with a big booming laugh, and a gun that changed everything. Now she finds herself trapped inside the body of the game's most feared villain, in a world that is anything but virtual.

A new mother who recently hit rock bottom is whisked to a new world of magic and monsters. Her prodigious intelligence earns her a free magical skill, and though she puts it to great use, she soon discovers that in this new land, magic is the highest taboo imaginable — and for a good reason. She learns quickly that she will have to be the bigger monster to protect the only thing in her life worth protecting: her child. With her particular set of skills, there's an unending tide of enemies waiting to take a piece of her.

The chronicles of one very exasperated Dungeon Core — formerly a human of Planet Earth — who just wants to build in peace. Unfortunately, even with a cheat, life isn't quite that charmed.

It's Drop Night — the one night every decade when the gods hand out cards to a lucky few. If you get a deck, you're a deckbearer capable of wondrous feats within the Great Game system: controlling powerful monsters and summoning mantles to fight alongside your beasts. Ethan Wolfe, top enforcer for the Grimm family mob, has already been overlooked twice. When he finally gets a deck, there's no time to celebrate — the rival gang has six deckbearers and they're cutting in on the family's trade. And things might get worse when everyone figures out he received an ultra-rare card.

Lucas is a dick, but you would be too if you died in a meth lab explosion and found yourself in a fantasy world. Now, with only his ruthlessness and an ever-increasing body of alchemical knowledge, he has to make his way in this new world — because being poor sucks no matter where you are. He has no idea what's going to happen, but he isn't dying again, because he already knows the afterlife is pretty much bullshit.

Each year, the Nightlords choose a new Emperor to rule Yohuachanca — a life of delicious food, beautiful company, and priestly counsel. It is good, luxurious, and short. At the year's end, the emperor is sacrificed under the light of the Scarlet Moon. Iztac is the piss-poor orphan chosen to be this year's emperor. But the Nightlords have made a mistake: Iztac is a sorcerer, whose soul journeys into the underworld to plunder the spells of the dead. There, in the darkness, hides the power to drag the Nightlords off their throne. He has a year to find it — or perish for good.

In New London, year 2493, Nicolai is a centuries-old killer whose brain was implanted into the body of Zero-Twelve, a militarized killbot. Numb and apathetic, he is a cog in the machine — until Heaven arrives and the Great Game begins, and he is reborn as a human, his old body recreated along with the madness and blood rage that characterized his past. Given one direction — find the Lizard — Nicolai is thrown into Nightmare, a world of cultivation, undead, demons, spirit beasts, sects, and clans. He finds himself in a decaying castle constructed by a mysterious people, now filled with purposeless undead caught in an ancient war entering its final stages. For Nicolai, this new world is a dream come true. After a century trapped in metal, he is free — and he can resume his endless goal: to become the greatest fighter alive.

The Gods were believed to be immortal — so far beyond the natural laws of the universe that their crimes went unpunishable. A clock hung over every mortal, counting down to the day the Goddess of Death claimed them. Knell Coda was never born in the normal sense. He came into the world outside the reach of the gods, to a family that had committed the cardinal sin of defying them. Their meddling wound the hands on a new clock — one that hung above the heads of the gods themselves, because of one secret Knell uncovered: the Gods can be tricked, defeated, and killed. To most, seeking the head of a goddess would be madness. To Knell, it is an inevitability.

Built to be a killer. Learning to be something more. Better equipped for making people disappear than making small talk, cybernetic hitman Agent W faces a problem his shotgun-arm can't solve: the superhero Rockslide moves in next door. With his work for the elusive Boss creating friction with the League of Heroes, his once-simple life of completing kill contracts grows murky as an overly-friendly super's advances begin surfacing memories of his forgotten past.

The unwanted second prince of a powerful but corrupt kingdom sets out on a dangerous path of vengeance. Under the protection and guidance of his demonic maid, Prince Ren Drakemore works to covertly gain power, influence, and allies — all in service of eventually killing his own father, brother, and anyone else who stands in his way. Initially driven by a desire to right his kingdom's evils, Ren will increasingly struggle to maintain his own humanity as he grows in power. Whether he becomes the hero who saves them all or the monster that consumes them remains to be seen.

Assassins don't retire, they reincarnate. After a lifetime of training to become a master assassin, betrayal leaves him bleeding out on the streets of London. Just before death, a god offers him a choice: die, or become a personal assassin in another world. He chooses the latter. But this new world operates by a completely different set of rules. He'll need to master its system of levels and skills fast — because his first contract is already waiting, and this world has no idea who it's up against.

There is one thing Lucius values above all else: beauty. As the humble owner of a flower boutique — one with a bloody secret hiding underneath — he is surrounded by all the beauty he could ever want. Flowers, art, people — everything in no short supply. When he is suddenly whisked away into the sky along with the rest of humanity and forced to participate in a series of games, trials, and adventures into foreign dimensions, Lucius discovers a new frontier. A wide universe, unique lands brimming with beautiful, blossoming souls. With style, grace, and gentlemanly candor, he seeks to draw out the inner beauty in all — and will not rest until they bloom as their truest selves.

In the dark caverns of a secluded dungeon, Click the spider is born with the impossibly rare gift of great Intelligence. Only the strongest of monsters can hope to survive in the savage dungeon, and Click must make the most of their unique abilities to come out on top — or at least alive. Click can best be described as Lawful-Neutral, finding merit in making and benefitting from allies rather than trampling everything underfoot. Not a hero, but definitely not a mindlessly evil villain.

In a world of myths, gods, and demons, only power counts — the weak are worse than cattle, and survival of the fittest is the only law. A lonely child is born with a strange power that places him between light and darkness, shunned by his own people for what he can do. This is not a story of a noble man doing good amid monsters. It is a story of a demon who was, perhaps, kinder than the rest.

Ten years ago, the world changed. The System brought dungeons and monsters to Earth, and billions were lost. While most survivors try to rebuild, Claire chooses to take revenge on the people who took advantage of orphans in the chaos — one hundred names, one hundred targets. In this often brutal story about a world in chaos, Claire will kill every target on her list. No matter what it takes.

In the sleepy town of Saint Mary, the Kilborne superhero family's new neighbors are more than just odd — they're supervillains. School would be a breeze for Martin Kilborne if it weren't for Alexa Terranova, his raygun-toting classmate who recruited him as her minion. Martin becomes quickly tangled in Alexa's supervillain plots: stealing an ice cream van, destroying the Superstate, and bewildering time-travel escapades leaping between his Earth and a dead world 400 years in the future. His life transforms from mundane to madcap — an ever-accelerating train ride with no brakes, packed with adventure, dark comedy, and post-apocalyptic cosmic horror.

Jonathan Kelly, a citizen of a multiverse-spanning organization, is dispatched on a solo Dive assignment to a pre-industrial exotic world designated Epsilon H-037-072-030-010. The world features morphologically distinct humanoids and aberrations in otherwise normative physics laws — and its causal chain is only provisionally stable. This is not a story about an MC isolated in a new world. It is a story about a new world joining a multiverse — a subverted Isekai grounded in scientific and philosophical consideration alongside the adventure.