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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.

Egbert was a mercilessly effective tax collector in his first life — orphanages, nobility, clergy, none were safe from his bespectacled gaze. When he gets reborn as a dungeon that can only advance by making money, things get rather meanspirited. Egbert will do whatever it takes to nickel and dime every single copper he can from adventurers he cons into his depths. Inbred fisherfolk, concerningly drunk knights, even overeager orcs — all are fair game for his fleecing. Except the mages. Those pretentious dicks are getting fed to the mimics.

Vincent Logan's day couldn't get any worse: fired from his corporate job, nearly dying of a heart attack, and then suddenly thrust into the body of the recently defeated Dark Lord Morthisal. Trapped in a fantasy world with powers he can barely control and a reputation that precedes him in all the wrong ways, Vince has to navigate a post-war kingdom that wants nothing more than to see him dead. Armed with nothing but his wits, a few magical artifacts, and an insatiable craving for chicken wings, Vince sets out to open the most unlikely business venture for a former evil overlord: a tavern.

Business magnate Willem dies at age 87, entirely alone — and is reincarnated into a world of sword and sorcery, grand adventure, and life-threatening monsters. He stands poised to enjoy a life of splendor. Only, he doesn't care one whit about any of that. To him, there's only one magic: correcting an inefficient market. He mastered that sorcery long ago, and he's certainly not about to learn another when the old tricks work just as well in a new world. No matter how fantastical the setting, one thing never changes — money makes the world go round.

Turlough is a mage — and an orc, generally considered less intelligent than humans, born with the Curse of the Barbarian that limits him to leveling only through combat. In his home world of necromancers, dragons, and invading armies, that would be manageable. But an unprecedented peace reigns across the land, leaving little opportunity to advance. When he spots a portal in his master's study, he steps through hoping to find a horde of demons. Instead he ends up in a modern city full of skyscrapers and people in colorful outfits: superheroes — and, of course, supervillains. What dangers and opportunities await him in such a strange world?

Marco trained his whole life to become a captain, maxing every childhood achievement the System would allow — diving, rigging, outrunning couriers up mountains. When classing day finally arrives, the System doesn't make him a captain. It makes him a Gluttonous Marauder. The class has combat perks, shipwright skills, and captain potential — but a reputation so bad he's arrested on the spot. Now on the run in a barely seaworthy smuggler's dinghy, Marco sets out to prove he's not the villain they think he is, if he can out-sail bounty hunters, survive cursed dungeons, and feed enough victories to his ever-growing ship along the way.

It's quite hard to start as a dungeon core. Harder still when divine bureaucracy dumps you in the back end of nowhere due to their own incompetence — and your status as a Fallen Angel. Yet Uno is used to working with subpar materials and making the best of circumstances. His personality has been cut down to size, but he tries to overcome the system with ingenuity and a healthy dose of improvisation. In a hostile world, a fallen angel turned dungeon must build, adapt, and outwit a universe that seems determined to bury him.

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Demon King Erizen thought all Heroes were insane. For one thousand years he ruled the continent of Thalmyra while lunatic bands of Heroic Chosen Ones tried and failed to end his reign — until a random peasant girl from a back-end village manifested the Holy Sword, led a Crusade to his door, and ended his life before dying herself seconds later. As he died alongside the smiling Heroine, Erizen could not understand: why did heroes not care for their lives? What gave them such suicidal strength? When the System offers him reincarnation, he makes the only choice that makes sense — he will reincarnate not as a Demon King, but as a Hero. If even a peasant's heroism was enough strength to kill him, then this heroic Demon King vows to become nothing but the strongest.

Lord Archlich "Boss", the greatest undead of all time, could conquer the world with his mighty collection of undead knights, dullahans, shadowlings, resurrected expired food, and skeletons. But that's too much work. So why not tour the world he hasn't set foot in for over a thousand years? From the mighty Holy City of Aon — home to the greatest undead hunters on the continent — to the mystical Sorcerer City-States, Boss will tour them all. Hide your artifacts, hide your religious sites, hide your long-held traditional values. Boss will ruin them all, unknowingly.

In a modern Korea where fifteen percent of humanity has awakened as Manaborn, rifts tear open across the city and the strong rise as Rifters. Sam Jimin, a poor orphan scraping by on the outskirts of Seoul, pinned everything on his Awakening. He received Rank E-1 — no skills, a dead end. Hidden behind that humiliating result, however, is a Unique Skill no one has ever seen: Skillmaster, the ability to create and edit skills at a cost only he can pay. With nothing left to lose, he gambles everything on it — fighting his way up through academies, guild politics, and rising threats, skill by skill and battle by battle.

Elliott Carpenter was murdered once. He never found out who. He never found out why. But he made sure it would never happen again. Over the next century, he became the most powerful being on Earth — untouchable, unkillable. That did not go unnoticed. When a dimensional barrier sealing Earth is broken, Elliott and his companions are dragged to another world by someone who knows exactly who he is — someone who may finally have the answers he's been seeking since the day he died. With his trusted murder-maid, his adorable murder-doll, and a reluctant young mage who came to kill him and is rapidly regretting it, Elliott sets out to find whoever summoned him — conquering countries and capturing gods along the way.

Logan was kicking back with a beer on his dock when the System Integration transformed his world. The planet became a sci-fi movie overnight — powers, levels, and impossible messages from an entity called the System that has deemed humanity a plague. Each day the dissolution of society gets worse, and in 365 days only the top-rated 1% will survive. Logan could accept his lot and go along with the flow, but he's worked out how to manipulate his new world: baseball bats with nails, cleavers, weed whackers — whatever it takes. He's good at killing things, and when the System threatens his sister and her kids, he'll show it what an idiot can really do. Features a bonded murderhobo octopus and a sentient weapon with murderous intentions toward the MC's friends.

Death was supposed to be the end of it — the pain, the suffering, the failures. Instead, a recently deceased man wakes up as a small stone strapped to a table while a pimple-faced teenager rubs his facets. Life as a dungeon core isn't entirely terrible. There are lizard love triangles to observe, militaristic dwarves to spy on, and the occasional moment of dark comedy. The only real problem is his increasingly entangled situation with the Gods — which, admittedly, is a bit of a problem.

King's League is more than a game — it's a way of life. For recently expelled college dropout Dirk Wilson, picking up and reselling other players' scraps from cleared dungeons and botched side quests is the only thing keeping him off the streets. Tired of ramen noodles and past-due notices, Dirk decides that if he's going to make something of himself, it'll be within the game — taking advantage of real-life payouts from selling in-game goods on King's League's River Market. But the game leaves little margin for error, and Dirk's virtual problems grow as large as his real-life ones when he uncovers a powerful conspiracy that impacts players from level one to level 99.

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.

The battle against the Kobar Empire was utterly lost, and as Luca lay dying a strange blue screen appeared: he had the aptitude to be a Player, and if he accepted, the game would reset. He accepted — and the reset went wrong, leaving him as only a partial player: Active Players: 0.4. Luca is neither clever nor strong. He will die. A lot. But with enough resets, he'll learn and grow. A slow-burning, character-driven story about an underdog using time-loop deaths to inch toward something better.

Sabina lived to 104 — manufacturing weapons during the war, running bakery and clothing chains, teaching teenagers — and by the end, boredom was doing her in more than her failing body. Then she is transmigrated into a Xianxia cultivation world, inhabiting the body of a 13-year-old commoner named Sa Bina. The problem: nobody believes she's a commoner given how she speaks and carries herself, and she winds up enrolled in a school for nobles. All she wants is to have fun in her new life, but everyone keeps expecting her to grow up and take responsibility.

'A Rounding Error has Occurred. Please Choose Your Apocalypse as Compensation.' Alex Johnson — a home-based IT worker — is thrown into a brutal LitRPG apocalypse and handed the chance to design his own end-of-days. Like choosing wallpaper for his personal inferno. Enemies, skill tree, sidekicks — all semi-customizable. Of course, the universe is cruel and capricious. Hidden forces are at play, uninvited and unwelcome, seeking to control his fate. So Alex is going to be fighting uphill, against the odds — and probably some interdimensional middle managers — from the word "go."

Erevan is a magical engineer from a world of dungeon-delving and slinging spells — until his party stabs him in the back and he wakes up sharing a body with Li Jian, a disciple of the Heavenly Demon Cult in an entirely different world. The problem: Li Jian's soul is still in there, and the two have to cooperate. Together they'll face a martial world full of peril: insecure rich young masters, scheming Demon Supremes, and bitter ex-fiancés. Good thing two of those problems can be solved with bullets.