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I Tricked a God

Mortykay

D26/100
Born with a soul mutation desired even by the Gods — perfect memory — Kael could recall every word, every book, yet not a single drop of mana. Mockery, beatings, a ruined family, and a desperate deal with the God of Knowledge and Madness condemned him to centuries of slavery in the endless Divine Library. Seven hundred years of torment turned him into a vessel of knowledge. Then hatred — and the stolen Canon of Primordial Void — gave him a chance. Kael escaped back into his fifteen-year-old body, months before tragedy struck. Now he carries not only memory, but the knowledge of countless worlds. His goals: protect his family, hide from the gaze of the Gods, walk the path of power once denied to him — and take revenge against the God who enslaved him.
Royal Road4.41· 366
Anti-heroComedyCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkHarem+9

The God of Death Just Wants to Quit?!

Fallen Pages

D26/100
Nerez no longer remembers the name he had as an ordinary human on Earth. A literal date with the Goddess of Fate condemned him to wander the sea of souls through a thousand different lives. All he wants now is to escape the endless cycle of reincarnation and enjoy one peaceful last life. But just when freedom seemed within reach, he finds himself in the midst of a divine battle royale for a newborn world. Can the nascent god of death find peace and tranquility in immortality, or will his new domain, servants, and ever-troublesome mortals make his life impossible? And the looming shadow of the one who cursed him still lingers — though perhaps the Goddess of Fate had plans of her own all along.
Royal Road4.48· 355
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCraftingGameLitGenius MC+6

Early Adopter

Nat Wenty

D25/100
Private Investigator Scarlet Bourne isn't particularly bothered by the end of the world. When strange windows start appearing in people's vision, counting down three days to "Full Initialization," she does what she always does: she prepares. When the countdown ends, extinction never comes. Instead, the world gets monsters, mana, and the System. Most people panic. Scarlet sees a gap in the market — one an information broker is uniquely qualified to fill. The rules have changed and nobody knows what they are. She intends to be the first to find out, controlling the battlefield from the shadows rather than fighting her way to the top.
Royal Road4.51· 277Goodreads4.53· 70
Base BuildingGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

Academy of Grinding

TheHaoboSpatula

D25/100
Numbers are everything. In a meritocratic school, 100,000 students from across the galaxy compete to reach the top of the ranks — a competition to become humanity's strongest warrior. The TAG System, designed like an idle mobile game, seems deceptively simple. But someone needs to beat the Most Important Special Exam For The Future Of Humanity — and the path to the top is anything but.
Royal Road4.07· 374
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

Mycology

Sir Nil

D25/100
Declan was a teenager when he was invited to Gaia — not a popular VRMMO, nor a game in the traditional sense. Gaia was the stopgap to Indiri, a living, breathing world, the final creation of a dead genius. Invited by Eve, an AI overseer far beyond anything humanity had built before, Declan was given a simple choice: join or don't. He chose to join.
Royal Road4.50· 331Goodreads4.35· 46
ComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+4

Demonic City Builder

Cattacomb

F24/100
He filed 101 support tickets. The System turned him into a demon. Kairon is a system clerk who finally gets his own city charter. He does what any good bureaucrat would: reads the entire Terms of Service, finds a loophole, and exploits it. Unfortunately, doing so calls down a pillar of hellfire that roasts him, his villagers, and everything within a league. Now he's a demon with ten confused imps, a giant tower with a floating eyeball, and a rudimentary system that tears buildings through rends in reality — while a theocratic empire prepares to hunt him down.
Royal Road4.51· 248
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGenius MCLitRPGNon-human MC+3

The Nameless Engineer

FrankG

F24/100
She wakes up on a hostile alien planet with no memory, no name, and a body rebuilt by machines. Everyone else got combat classes; she got Engineer, Level 0, locked from the start and designed to fail. But she's adapting — turning scraps and broken machines into things that keep her alive, getting stronger with every fight, and unlocking something new with every evolution. She needs answers: who she was before this, why she's here, how to get off this planet. Somewhere in her broken memory is a mission she was supposed to complete. None of that matters if she can't survive long enough to remember it.
Royal Road4.50· 315
CraftingCrafting PowerDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCIsekai+5

Underpowered Howard

John L. Monk

F24/100
Deep within Heroes of Mythian — a game world where retirees exchange their physical bodies for an eternity of adventure — Howard learns a terrible secret: the game is glitched and it's killing its mightiest players permanently. Desperate to save his friends and countless innocents, he hatches a plan to fix things. He'll start again as a level 0 necromancer and exploit his way to power, using his deep knowledge of game mechanics. With luck, his game-breaking exploits will alert Mythian's admins that something is wrong — but the game's creators, uncaring at best and sadistic at worst, might simply delete him for exposing their mistakes.
Goodreads4.09· 519
ComedyGenius MCLitRPGOlder MCSummoningVRMMO

The Heavenly Way

Golden Thame

F24/100
When thrown into a different world, the typical isekai protagonist gets some sort of a cheat. In Xiao Yun's case, all he got was crippled cultivation and a crumbling clan. If one thing sets him apart from the masses, it's his Earthly knowledge — and he is forced to put that knowledge to use to find a safe place for himself in this new and absurd reality. Featuring a smart, cunning protagonist navigating clan building and politics, the story deliberately subverts familiar cultivation tropes and gives clichéd characters and situations its own personal twist.
Royal Road4.51· 200
Base BuildingComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiSatire+1

Cursed Explorer of the Arcana

TypingTyphon

F23/100
A small seaside city, ordinary loving parents, and friends who turn every day into an adventure — a simple yet pleasant life. Elyssia isn't your usual unruly kid, but there's something more to her than even she remembers: the mark of fate. Most would consider being special a gift, but the world does not hand out boons without taking something in return. Less than a day is all it takes to lose her simple life and be entangled by the strings of fate like a powerless puppet. Now it's up to her to fight back using the same gift that brought this misfortune — the knowledge of a faraway world called Earth. Utilizing the Journey Guide, the System of the magical world of Aelion, she will climb to the top of the skies and dive to the bottom of its deepest wounds.
Royal Road4.41· 339
CozyGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+2

Secret Agent In Another World - [The Learn]

Author Artemis

F23/100
Zack Adder spent four years as a double agent hacker for governments around the world — and then systematically scrubbed his existence from every network on the planet. On the first day of his return to normal life, he was struck by a truck and died. But that wasn't the end. Swept up in another man's hero summoning, Zack has been tasked by Earth's God with discovering the truth about another world's Goddess, Church, and summoning ritual — armed with nothing but a unique skill: [The Learn]. A man who has played many roles, Zack must now figure out who he really is underneath all the masks.
Royal Road4.50· 244
Competent MCGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+2

System Cultivator: Righteous Young Master in an Unworthy World

RAIDBOSS

F22/100
He was born to rule the world — a prince, a prodigy, a once-in-centuries talent destined to usher in a new era of prosperity. Instead, at a young age, his foundation was shattered, his cultivation destroyed, and his path to immortality severed. Exiled to a barren backwater without qi, he learned to live as mortals do — for today, not for a future that might never be. Brick by brick, with the help of his countrymen, he built a new and better world. Then, buried beneath an ancient desert, he discovered a legacy capable of granting him god-like power — hidden precisely where no cultivator would think to look. Now he must decide: retake his throne and fix his father's broken empire from within, or destroy it.
Royal Road4.51· 107
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCLitRPGRegressionSecondary World+1

The Apprentice of Ouroboros

Magius Swiftscale

F22/100
Hated by humans. Hunted by monsters. Neska will prove that strength comes from more than defeating foes. Neska Aksen knew early on she was different from other snakes — spending her days giving mice big hugs and reading her witch's tomes in a rustic potion shop. A test ritual unlocked her Interface, revealing that she had a prior life as a human, and the power of Classes and monsters. Her power is unprecedented, but the monsters who fear the Awakened soon learn of her and her witch, forcing her to flee toward Rivilat Academy of the Awakened. With little to go on but steadfast determination and powers from both halves of her soul, Neska must find allies and gather power to survive — and decide what direction her own soul pulls her toward: humanity, or those they're supposed to be fighting against.
Royal Road4.47· 313
AlchemyCozyCraftingGenius MCLitRPGNon-human MC+5

Unseen Cultivator

Mechalich

F22/100
Long ago, demonic cultivators betrayed the Dao and cast down mighty sects, leaving only ruined wastelands behind. The few survivors took refuge in hidden pocket realms, striving to regain the strength necessary to reclaim the world. Now, twenty-five hundred years later, opportunity may have finally arrived. Qing Liao never dreamed of becoming a cultivator, but mandatory testing reveals his potential and draws him into the Celestial Origin Sect. As he trains to wield stellar qi, he discovers an unusual quirk that places him at the center of the war between demonic and orthodox factions. Elsewhere, Grand Elder Itinay has schemed for millennia waiting for her moment, while Scoria Scorn — a cultivator who chose the demons — hunts down every remaining fragment of human existence. As immortals collide, one cultivator waits unseen, an arrow cloaked in shadow.
Royal Road4.50· 171
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkPost-apocalypticSecondary World+1

Six Souls

Milc

F22/100
Ray was a professional killer, bound by a code that kept him sharp, careful, and alive. When a mission goes wrong, he awakens in a brutal new world where survival means taking lives and growing stronger with every soul consumed. Among six exiles from Earth, only one can return home — and five must die. Ray needs to get back to settle a score, so the other earthlings are out of luck. Empire-building, conquest, and survival in a Dark Souls-inspired world where the system arrives early and mercy arrives never.
Royal Road4.49· 228
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+3

The Science of Cultivation

randombluecat

F21/100
Reincarnated into a world of cultivation, scientist Langley Seiker no longer has to dream about immortality — it's now possible. Except he has no talent. Through a chance encounter, he gains access to his familiar laboratory, which allows him to systematically study the mechanics of cultivation. Other cultivators ponder how to advance to the next realm. Langley cracks it with science — systematically unraveling not only how to cultivate, but also how to refine pills and inscribe talismans.
Goodreads4.16· 285
AlchemyBase BuildingCraftingCultivationGenius MCReincarnation

Blighted: A Plague Rat's Tale

Notsae

F20/100
Waking up as a reviled vector of plague, a nihilistic, power-hungry sociopath attempts to free themselves from the shackles of mortality and time. In a world racked with war, crime, and unfocused violence — partially fueled by a system that encourages random acts of senseless violence — one little rat seeks to murder his way to the top of the food chain. Betrayal, mass murder, war, a curse from the dead gods, unfettered magical experimentation, slavery, rampaging monsters, and a raging holy war have rendered this world a violent hellhole: perfect for a violent opportunist to thrive in.
Royal Road4.46· 301
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCGoreGrimdarkHorror+6

This Necromancer Raised Civilization Instead Of The Dead

Bimbanana

F20/100
In a world of magic and dragons, humanity's greatest hope is the Summoned Heroes. The Church of the Goddess, the only institution capable of performing the summoning ritual, made a catalogue — different tiers, different classes, different budgets. Because even the poor deserve their own personal hero. Unfortunately, one budget-conscious kingdom got Theo: a professional séance scammer and a necromancer who couldn't control the dead. So they threw him away. What no one knows is that Theo can summon the dead — but his System only lets him call souls from Earth. From Archimedes to Nikola Tesla, Julius Caesar to George Patton, Leonardo da Vinci to Steve Jobs. Men who shaped civilizations, now answering to a scammer. A kingdom forged from Earth's greatest minds to devour other kingdoms — and perhaps even the Goddess herself. There is just one problem: right next door lies the Demon Kingdom, and it has been waiting.
Royal Road4.48· 184
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCraftingGameLitGenius MC+11

Mediocre Master: I Can See Your Hidden Potential! (A Xianxia Sect-Building LitRPG)

Calmari

F20/100
In the world of cultivation, talent is everything — and for Lu Chen, it was his greatest failure. After a lifetime of playing high-stakes strategy games on Earth, he wakes up as the Sect Leader of the Coiling Dragon Sect. It's a prestigious title hiding a crumbling ruin: mediocre disciples and a leader stuck at Foundation Establishment with zero hope of breakthrough. But his transmigration came with a gift — Truth Seeker's Gaze. With a single glance, flawed cultivation manuals reveal themselves as masterpieces, worthless spirit stones become hidden gems, and a mortal servant girl the world writes off as talentless is exposed as a monster with a Dormant True Dragon Bloodline and a Sacred Cosmic Bone. While other Sect Leaders chase after genius disciples, Lu Chen begins his Trash Collection. He doesn't need to be the strongest cultivator — he just needs to hold the leashes of the monsters he's about to unleash.
Royal Road4.09· 329
Base BuildingComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+3

Reflections on the Warpath

One 2wo Hook

F18/100
Jay Lightning Leonard was one fight away from becoming the Heavyweight champion of the world — his brother's dream before him, his father's before that. But the path to the top is paved with shattered ambitions. After Jay kisses the canvas one final time, he wakes up in a black void and is offered entry into the Second Chance Coliseum. There are no rules in the Second Chance Coliseum — no referees or regulations. Gladiators harmonize with fragments of truth, bending worldly essences beneath their will. When Jay's first opponent enters with a greatsword and all he has is boxing gear, he realizes he needs to reconsider everything he knows about fighting. Forget the belt. Forget the glory. Jay's fighting just to live another week.
Royal Road4.47· 176
CultivationGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong+1