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Boyd Knight found his calling when he joined the Marines and qualified for elite Force Recon. He'd found a tribe and a family — so when a hand grenade landed near his team, he jumped on it without thought or regret. Instead of winding up dead, he wakes up in a cave full of monsters with a knife in one hand and a pistol in the other. He's been chosen by Raguel, the Five-Faced God of Justice, and entrusted with the power of the Vigil Bound. Every kill makes him stronger, and thanks to the Ascendant System, Boyd can level up, unlock spells, and harness the abilities of the monsters he's dispatched to hunt.

Reborn on Gryndor with the mythical trait [Divine Witness], Ajax swears to live a life of no regrets — seizing every opportunity, fighting every monster, and plundering every treasure. But humans are considered one of the weakest sentient races, confined to their own patch of land and perpetually divided against themselves. In order to see the vast richness of the world, Ajax must battle for his life and respect, gaining levels and forcing the other races to acknowledge humanity's worth. Ajax's ascension to the top won't be quick or easy.

Tanya von Degurechaff meets a violent end as the Great War draws to a close. Being X, growing bored with his chew toy, flings her soul out of his system entirely. Tanya wakes in a new universe — a galaxy far, far away — and must start over once again. It's a long way to the top, if you want to retire early.

When Mark Castle died at the hands of a cult, he was reincarnated and forced to become a dungeon core — making his domain a lonely cabin in the woods. With newfound powers, he begins his revenge on the people who murdered him, drawing on the tropes and monster manuals of his favorite horror films. His rule is simple: lure unwitting victims into the cabin, kill them off one by one, and feed his core with their souls. Anyone lucky enough to survive until dawn earns treasure — and their lives. But as Mark feeds and grows, those who hunger for his unique power begin to take notice, and the danger he faces becomes far greater than he imagined.

A transmigrated soul wakes in a new world, finding a new family and — more importantly — magic. Not the muscle-bound kind that obeys the square-cube law, but something entirely different: a force with no physical volume, and therefore no apparent ceiling on its power. There are also scary monsters in this world, which makes getting stronger sensible enough. But the real obsession is simpler — finding out just how far the magic can be pushed.

Despite his youth, Declan Idrys knows the evils of the world — the brigands plaguing the King's lands, the monsters lurking in the wooded depths. Together with his companion Ryn, a horse of peculiar talent, he has spent a decade beneath the bloody banners of mercenary guilds hunting precisely such wickedness. When a troubling contract goes sideways, Declan and Ryn are thrust into a war thought legend and long-ended — one so old it is synonymous with a time when dragons still ruled the western skies. As dead men rise from their graves and terrible beasts descend from the north, Declan must choose: flee an ancient rising horror, or face it and learn to wield an ageless power all his own. Centuries pass, but the Blood of Kings does not fade.

Born magically talentless, Prince Corvus is an embarrassment to the royal family and is removed from succession. However, he still has a chance to win back his throne — the next person to hatch a dragon automatically becomes the ruler, and each member of the royal family is gifted with a dragon egg. But it is the work of a lifetime to hatch one. The first time Corvus touches his dragon egg, he receives an odd notification: he has found a soulbound item and is tasked with an epic quest to hatch it — but only if he can walk the winding path of the dragon mage. Armed with notifications, skill increases, and levels only he can see, Corvus is determined to hatch his dragon.

Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. One day, during a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong — Dodge is pronounced brain dead. Long ago, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company, and so his family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud. In the coming years, technology allows Dodge's brain to be turned back on. An eternal afterlife — the Bitworld — is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls. But this brave new immortal world is not the utopia it might first seem.

Orphaned as a teenager and later saved by Duke Kinson, Morgan Lovecraft found a new life in the world of Dunnishire — until the day he turned sixteen and discovered he had a death affinity and was a necromancer. The old prejudices ran deep, and Morgan went from having friends to being an outcast all over again. Hoping his scholarship to the Mages Academy will be a new turning point, Morgan finds himself challenged to an honor duel on his first day of classes. Making mortal enemies in five minutes, then being asked by the duchy to speak to the dead, investigate assassination plots, and root out corruption — the former Earth gamer finds himself center stage as The Duchy's Necromancer.

A succession crisis consumed the Kingdom of Dovhain following the death of Edgar the Great. Princess Isabella endured every indignity, overcame countless injustices, and fought the most vicious of enemies — first for survival, then for hope of a better future. She became queen, only to be betrayed by those she trusted most. Somehow, Isabella woke up eight years in the past, one week after her father's death. The experience and knowledge she gained in the struggle for the throne give her a fighting chance — but the question she must answer is a hard one. Should she pursue her own happiness, or attempt to better the realm? Perhaps, if she dares, she can reach for both.

Max was murdered, but now he is mostly over it. Living on Earth as a recent college graduate, he can still perfectly recall his past life on Albion, a sword-and-sorcery world where he was hailed as the Hero of the World after crawling up from poverty to fame and luxury. On mana-starved Earth, he's just a guy. When Earth is suddenly attacked and its natural laws begin to change, Max gets a new opportunity to reclaim some of his lost power — and then some. He discovers an entire system of multi-dimensional colleges created for those gifted with a Path. The universe is far larger than he ever knew, and the drive to excel has never left him.

What do you do when you find yourself the sole survivor of the complete destruction of Earth? Nikola winds up in that position — disembodied in a half-built asteroid outpost, the last remnant and only hope of the human race. Nikola exists now only in digital form, controlling drones and cameras to interact with the world. But memories are fractured, and there are endless obstacles between awakening as a glorified computer program and saving the species. Is Nikola even human anymore? Is it even possible to resurrect humanity?

For allegedly average high-schooler Leonard Dunning, the rhetorical question of how you'd react to finding yourself in a world running on tropes and clichés became uncomfortably real. He woke up on a strangely pristine island country in the middle of the Atlantic — without memories, surrounded by countless characterless placeholders, with a classic harem protagonist and his love interests for friends. As he investigates the rules governing the world and works to sabotage the harem tropes, his outside-context knowledge, unique abilities, and talent for causing trouble draw the attention of the world's nebulous narrative.

Earth has been given thirty days' notice before being inducted into an interstellar System. When aliens offer early access to the System — for the price of an ounce of gold — Mike and his prepper grandfather manage to scrape together the Krugerrand needed to get him through the portal to a training planet. The training is simple but brutal, and a corrupt orc trainer takes a personal interest in Mike that quickly turns to hatred when Mike refuses to be scammed. The conflict sends Mike fleeing into an ancient, monster-filled forest far outside the Safe Zone. By the time he returns home, he's gained a class, a group, and more power than most trainees who played it safe. But Earth is already falling apart — the System's arrival brings monsters, and it's time to put that training to work.

The Confederacy of Aligned Systems has been deeply wounded — wracked by unceasing warfare and beset by enemies without number, yet still doing its best to defend its allies and member states. A new challenge has arrived. With humanity on the edge of reemergence, can the Confederacy hold out long enough for the Terrans to arrive in time to help? This story takes place after First Contact/Behold Humanity and Dark Ages.

An anthology and companion piece to The Perfect Run, exploring roads not taken. What if Quicksave had become a Psycho? What if Len Sabino had taken the Violet Elixir rather than the Blue? What if Jasmine had remembered? What if Ryan had gained a different power, or fallen in love with someone else? The Ultimate One guides readers through these alternate histories — moments where a single choice reshapes everything.

The Game is a virtual reality simulation played by over a billion children around the world. The best players are celebrities, adored and worshipped by countless fans. Zack is a superstar among players. His final play may change the world forever — setting in motion consequences that ripple across both Earth and the world of Tygon, where billions watch breathlessly as lives are put in jeopardy based on decisions made by children inside the Game.

The Rasmussem Corporation creates virtual reality games that plug directly into the brain — no keyboard, no monitor, just pure immersion. But the technology comes with catastrophic risks when things go wrong, and for some players the game becomes deadly serious. From brain-hacked dungeon crawls where a crashed game means real-world death, to a medieval fantasy where a girl must win or die for real, the Rasmussem universe explores what happens when the line between virtual and reality collapses.

To be summoned to another world, given the class of [Hero], and tasked with defeating the demon king — some people might call that the opportunity of a lifetime. The chance to master the sword, grow more powerful than anyone on Earth could dream, and fulfill your destiny. Or not. It turns out that people summoned from another world are easily charmed by the title of "Hero." And they really should not be.