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The young, sickly Irwin has seen nothing but bad luck in his short life. When his brother returns with a magical card for him, his luck is about to change — but not necessarily for the better. Irwin is sent off with a group of youths to placate a group of sorcerers, armed with only a strange utility card granted by his brother and a prayer to stay alive long enough. A card-gathering story with crafting that grows increasingly central as the series progresses. Slow-paced, starts dark, with a weak-to-strong arc.

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!

Edwin never really felt many connections to other people, but as a physics student, that was fine. He was content to peel back the mysteries of the universe — though modern-day research was too well-trodden for any single enthusiast to make real headway. That doesn't apply to other worlds. Not ones where magic and Skills run rampant, where well-defined roles and Classes dominate society with little room for novel experimentation. That kind of world would be perfect for an overeager, newly-minted Alchemist to make his mark. A slice-of-life progression fantasy following someone trying to find his place in a world that doesn't know what to do with him. Expect lots of science, lots of alchemy, a few sarcastic quips from the System, and plenty of exploration.

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.

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.

Twelve souls were chosen to expand into the void surrounding the known universes and given a grace period to grow their domains in relative safety. Once that period ends, they are free to interact with each other—and with whatever lurks in the depths of the Abyss, the Void, and the Primordial Chaos. One of those souls navigates the overwhelming demands of divine stewardship: raising mortals into an immortal army, managing squabbling children, and maintaining the balance between all realms of existence. Being a deity, it turns out, is incredibly complicated.

Sungchul Kim reached the pinnacle of power — then failed to stop the first of five prophesied Calamities because he couldn't wield magic. Branded the Enemy of the World, he must now travel in disguise among the weakest people in the Other World: newly arrived humans from Earth, the very group most likely to expose him. His goal is to steal the knowledge of magic from those who hate him most, before the Calamities destroy everything — not out of heroism, but because of a promise he made long ago.

Why survive the apocalypse when you can become the apocalypse? Nature is dying, but perhaps before the world is turned into an industrious machine it can play one final trump card to save itself. Summoned to a new world, a mushroom-loving mycologist needs to grow up and grow stronger to accomplish the goal that brought them there: save nature from the system the sentient races have created. Stats, levels, classes, and skills are all well and good — but when you're a Child of Poverty in the slums of City Nineteen, there's little you can do to change the world. Not unless you're willing to think outside the box.

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.

Something is off about a peculiar Mimikyu, and N will find the Truth no matter how many conspiracies or odd detours stand in his way. A wondrous world, tainted by a cruel society. A plot to tear it down and replace it with an Ideal structure. A creature of distortion with an alien perspective telling him to stop and smell the roses. Set prior to the events of Black and White, this AU mixes aspects of the anime and games, told through multiple perspectives focused on the misadventures of N and an out-of-place Mimikyu.

Book 1 — Perseverance: Death is the end. At least, it should be. When Will is ripped from the life he has and the woman he loves, the last thing he expects is to be reborn as a baby with his memories intact. In a world where magic makes the impossible real, how much of his new life is he prepared to sacrifice for the chance to reclaim what he lost? Book 2 — The Fifth Stage: With his hometown behind him, catastrophe on the horizon, and the dangers of adolescence hounding every step, Will has hard truths to confront if he is going to survive long enough for his ambitions to matter.

Eli suddenly wakes up on a metal table before getting tossed into the middle of a magical, monster-infested forest. If that wasn't bad enough, the experimental technology in his head is acting up, and the nearest medical specialist might as well be a universe away. Thankfully, Eli has some magic he's learning to use — which should help him survive in this dangerous new world.

Thera is a real kingdom at the crossroads of many other worlds, but with all the augmented-reality interfaces, character progression, and game mechanics that players know and love. Players are sponsored by actual demon lords, gods and goddesses, or Lovecraftian nightmares — and the stakes of the Game are nothing less than Creation itself. Hector Savage, gamer extraordinaire, comes to Thera confident in his skills. Nothing can prepare him, though, for the schemes of Abyssal Lords, rampaging barbarian ghosts, and a host of nefarious forces who want him dead before he can even make fifth level.

Truth is stranger than fiction. Laiton had loved Pokemon, but that was a TV show meant for children — simple and easy, filled with obvious problems meant to teach moral lessons. Now he's found himself in a very different world: a place with culture, economics, and politics, inhabited by people with their own passions, goals, and prejudices. What's a reincarnated man to do when he finds himself in a vaguely familiar land filled with adventure and endless possibility — but not all of those possibilities are good?

When Bax is transported from Earth to an organization of powerful universe-spanning races, he learns that his world is being forcibly inducted into the Retrogression System — which will introduce monsters to Earth and eliminate all human technology. Enrolled in a Keeper training program to become a protector of inducted worlds, he is also slated to become a Keeper Guide for future human Keepers. The only problem: he arrived while fighting off the flu, and when he finally recovers and emerges from his room, the entire Cooperative appears to be abandoned. What is a Keeper Guide recruit to do when there is no one left to teach him?

Everyone is obsessed with Neon Dragons — the latest highly immersive cyberpunk aRPG from Sparksoft. But when our late-twenties protagonist's PC broke days before the game's release, all she could do was watch content creators play through it, limiting her knowledge to what she saw in those playthroughs. Things change drastically when she wakes up inside the body of a 15-year-old girl inside the city of Neo Avalis, six years into the game's past. She can level herself just like a character in the game, and with everything she's read and watched about Neon Dragons, she sets her sights on solving the mystery of the enigmatic Wall at the edge of the play-area. But she quickly realizes that this game is very real — life in a cyberpunk future is full of danger and intrigue, and the world has some surprising differences from the game she watched.

Valens Kosthal is the youngest Life Archmagus the Empire has ever seen. His mastery over Resonance allows him to hear the frequencies of the world and correct them — healing even the deepest wounds. Yet the full scope of his abilities is forbidden, and the little he can practice must be done in secret. When an ancient ritual promises to reveal the truth behind it all, he leaps at the chance. It leaves him alone in an unfamiliar world, deep in a dungeon crawling with rotten skeletons and towering beasts — and a System that grants him the secrets of Warmagic. Valens no longer needs to hold back.

Peabo Smith is a former Special Forces soldier who volunteers to participate in a science experiment run by STAG — the Special Technologies Analysis Group — that rivals the audacity of the moon landing. When the experiment leaves him stuck in a place he cannot escape, Peabo realizes just how unprepared he is for his new mission — and that the experiment may end up changing his life forever.

The magical world of Volar is dying. To save themselves and their followers, the native gods have instituted a plan to transform Earth mortals into anchors for their powers. Ty, along with thousands of other humans, is summoned through portals and given one mission: choose a god and power up as fast as possible. A fast-paced portal fantasy adventure set in both our world and Volar, with demons, dragons, dungeons, and unexpected plot twists at every turn.

Vera spent years climbing to the top of Ashen Legacy, a punishing MMO where every stat point mattered. She min-maxed her build, crushed endgame content, and became one of the highest-level players around. Then she woke up inside the game — in the body of her character. Everything works: the magic, the gear, the absurd power level. Unfortunately, so does the backstory — including the kid she gave herself for emotional flavor and half-baked roleplay she barely remembers writing. Now she must navigate a world shaped by her own exploits: divine ruins she helped demolish, cults whose gods she may have deleted, and a continent teetering on the edge of an expansion she never cleared. Being overpowered is easy. Being responsible? That's the real raid boss.