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Just Deserts: Revised Edition

Elbowsnapper

S88/100
Hisoka Higawara struggles to understand those around him, but he's learning quickly. One day, he makes friends with a girl named Nanami, and his life will never be the same. A My Hero Academia fan fiction featuring an original character with a sand manipulation quirk. Revised, restructured, and rebuilt from the ground up.
Royal Road4.79· 1.4K
Anti-heroGenius MCMysteryOverpowered MCSuperpowers

The Ballad of a Semi-Benevolent Dragon

SecretTwelve

S87/100
The story of a semi-benevolent dragon who occasionally does the right thing for the wrong reasons. Protecting villagers from marauding soldiers? Of course — they can't give tribute if they're dead or their crops are on fire. Destroying a tyrannical kingdom? Absolutely — they have treasure that could be his treasure. A comedy about a dragon whose self-interest and morality are more aligned than he'd like to admit.
Royal Road4.78· 1.4K
Anti-heroComedyNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Downtown Druid

Seersucker

S87/100
Betrayed by his former gang and thrown into the Rendhold Underprison, Dantes has spent the last five years scraping by. A bastard of orcish, human, and elvish blood, he's lived on the periphery of the periphery, lying, cheating, and stealing to survive. After a run of bad luck, he's made a powerful enemy — but he's also gotten all the tools he needs to turn things around. A slow-burn progression fantasy focused on rising through the criminal underworld of a city-state using newfound druidic powers and quick wits. The MC's powers develop slowly but are applied creatively, and in the meantime he's not above braining someone with a club.
Royal Road4.74· 2.7KGoodreads4.38· 1.1K
Anti-heroGenius MCGrimdarkOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSkill Collection+3

Aura Overload

PlumParrot

S87/100
In a crumbling empire ruled by cybernetic immortals, royal bodyguard Hector Finalis was betrayed, branded a traitor, and left for dead. Two centuries later, his lost neurodeck resurfaces in a scavenger haul, and he awakens in a fragile new body — a relic haunted by fractured memories and a blood oath most in this decayed age have forgotten. To survive, Hector must rebuild his aura system from nothing, forcing potentia through a process that can forge flesh and sharpen the mind — or shatter the unworthy. One overload could rip his unenhanced body apart. Bound to criminals and unexpected allies, Hector must claw his way back to power as he uncovers the truth behind his fall, all while struggling to master a rage that could destroy him unless he finds something worth living for.
Royal Road4.81· 842
Anti-heroLitRPGSci-fiStatsWeak to Strong

The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon

ljamberfantasy

S87/100
Saphienne lived the idyllic life of an elf in the woodlands — eternal joy her birthright, the supremacy of elven magic her inheritance. But she was a profoundly gifted child, and gifted children see things others prefer to ignore. Once she witnessed the hidden suffering beneath the paradise, she could not look away. Her pursuit of a wizarding apprenticeship set her against both magical and moral challenges. Saphienne grew into a formidable woman — and when the flames subsided, the elves struck her name from history. A heartwarming and heartbreaking fantasy about rejection and belonging, power and consequence, and the cost of being oneself.
Royal Road4.78· 1.4K
Anti-heroCozyGenius MCLGBTQ+Non-human MCOverpowered MC+2

Split Second

idkmanseemssketchy

S87/100
When the System arrived to integrate Earth into the wider cosmos, Kira was in the middle of something. Now she faces an apocalypse she can't quite bring herself to mourn — life as she knew it wasn't something she wanted to continue. Conflicted about the right emotional response, Kira focuses on what she does know: the System mentioned mana, which means magic. Her affinity turns out to be Time, and time shenanigans, it seems, are just getting started.
Royal Road4.69· 768Goodreads4.00· 28K
Anti-heroGenius MCLGBTQ+LitRPGSci-fiSystem Apocalypse+2

1% Lifesteal

Robert Blaise

S87/100
Freddy Stern, a twenty-one-year-old cashier, has lived a plain, albeit harsh life. Having been orphaned twice, he's spent the last ten years working and staying out of trouble. His only aspiration is to save enough money to become an archhuman. His dream gets the jump on him when he barely survives a near-death encounter and finds himself with 1% Lifesteal — a bizarre talent with numerous contradictions and just as many uses. With every dead enemy, he becomes a bit stronger, a little wiser, and a lot more ruthless. And no matter how much damage he takes, he can always put himself back together. Physically, at least. But on his path to power, after having to look at the rotting guts of archhuman society again and again, can his talent keep his mind and soul as pristine as his body? Or will that part of him simply remain broken?
Royal Road4.57· 2.6KGoodreads4.38· 5.3K
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fi+5

The Ripple System

Kyle Kirrin

S87/100
Corporate flameout Ned Altimer dives into the VRMMO Earthblood Online and never looks back. His advantages are twofold: exclusive access to the game's three-day Head Start period, and a ridiculously handsome talking axe named Frank who knows the game's deepest secrets—if he ever feels like sharing them. But those advantages also make Ned a target. Once the Head Start ends, his fellow players will stop at nothing to rip that suave, violent, disarmingly charismatic axe right out of his hands. In seventy-two hours, the greatest manhunt in gaming history begins.
Goodreads4.44· 4.8K
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCGameLitLitRPGVRMMO

Memoirs of Your Local Small-time Villainess

Flameruner

S86/100
An editor finds herself waking up in one of her favorite RPGs with no clue as to what's going on or how to get back home. This might be the part where others rejoice over getting whisked away to a world of wizards and magic, but she certainly doesn't think it's anything to celebrate. After all, she woke up in the body of a small-time villain with some severe personality issues.
Royal Road4.66· 3.3KGoodreads4.04· 53
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiSecondary WorldTransmigration

A Practical Guide to Sorcery

AzaleaEllis

S86/100
In a world where magic is a science, Siobhan is a genius — but even geniuses need schooling. When she stumbles into the theft of a priceless magical book, she thinks her dreams of becoming the world's most powerful sorcerer are destroyed. Then a mysterious spell changes her life forever. Siobhan now inhabits the body of a strange man and has a new identity: Sebastien. With a fresh start, she allies herself with a local gang that is secretly a revolutionary party funding itself through crime. She is bound by vow to repay them in magic and favors. As Sebastien's reputation grows and Siobhan's old enemies still lurk in the shadows, she realizes the secrets of this world run deeper and darker than she imagined. Forced to juggle a double life, she is determined to uncover the truth — and take control of the name they gave her: The Raven Queen.
Royal Road4.75· 2.2K
Anti-heroGenius MCHard MagicLGBTQ+Overpowered MCSchool+3

Apocalypse Breaker

Aaron Renfroe, Sean Oswald

S86/100
The System has consumed a thousand worlds. Dean Williams just became its worst mistake. When an otherworldly agent force-activates Dean's magic, he's drafted into the System's machine — a cosmic engine that converts survivors into adventurers and grinds them toward endless violent conquest. But Dean's Activation unlocked something the System didn't account for: power that exceeds its parameters, knowledge of its secrets, and a target on his back from the intelligence running the apocalypse. While other adventurers chase quests and rewards, Dean is building something bigger — a team, a base, and a plan to break the System from the inside out.
Goodreads4.53· 708
Anti-heroBase BuildingLitRPGOverpowered MCSystem Apocalypse

Battleforged

M.H. Johnson

S86/100
When the apocalypse struck, Eric was as shocked as everyone else — but there were no chosen heroes in his version of the end. Just people desperately trying to survive. Hope came in the form of alien vegetative pods: a select few really could level up, embrace magic, and gain limitless power — if the pods didn't turn you into topsoil first. Eric, along with a handful of friends who happened to be rogues long before any System existed, plans to pull off the greatest heist of all time: stealing a priceless fortune right out from under the noses of everyone trying to kill them. All he has to do is outmaneuver a thousand orcs, outfox an army of clever elves, and escape a war-torn city alive.
Goodreads4.49· 1.8K
Anti-heroLitRPGPost-apocalypticStatsSummoningSystem Apocalypse

The Iron Teeth: A Goblin's Tale

ClearMadness

S86/100
A new, darker age is dawning. The greed of kings has ignited a seemingly endless war. As men fight, the monsters of the untamed wilds devour the frontier — villages abandoned, fields gone fallow, murderous bandits roaming the desolation. None of that matters to a nameless goblin slave. He just wants to eat as much food as he can shove into his mouth when no one is looking. But fate runs a twisted course, and instead he is whisked away to the far-off Iron Teeth Mountains. To stay alive, he will have to evolve into something more than a simple goblin and carve a bloody path through the forests of the North — if he can first get over his crippling fear of trees, and survive in a place where everything considers him the perfect size for a quick snack.
Royal Road4.65· 3.4KGoodreads4.00· 1
Anti-heroComedyGrimdarkNon-human MCSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

My Name Is Beautiful

hsum23

S86/100
Meili Strauss enjoyed living in a modern first-world country in her past life. Unfortunately, she's been reborn in a world where pride, aggression, and violence are the three main ways to grow your superpowers. It's been four years since her transmigration, and the best she can do is hide her hatred of this society through an elaborate act. The world of unOrdinary values everything she doesn't have, and the all-powerful Bureau of Authorities — the governing body full of the world's most powerful superhumans — doesn't take cultural dissent kindly. Still, Meili has foreknowledge of this once-fictional universe and all its dangerously powerful characters from her days as an obsessive fan. The question is how long she can stay herself when the world would be so much easier if she didn't.
Royal Road4.80· 773
Anti-heroGenius MCReincarnationSchoolSuperpowersTragedy+1

Throne Hunters

Phil Tucker

S86/100
Harald Darrowdelve has squandered every gift life gave him—until he enters the dungeon beneath Flutic and receives a demon's dark blessing. Weak, privileged, and directionless no more, he now commands powers forged in darkness. But each new ability and hard-won level drags him deeper into the ruthless politics of noble houses, shadowy rivals, and the celestial war burning beneath the city's streets. The dungeon reshapes him with every victory—but at what cost?
Goodreads4.50· 1.3K
Anti-heroClass SystemDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGSecondary World+1

Tree of Aeons

SpaizZzer

S86/100
Matt is reincarnated as a tree in a fantasy world that serves as the eternal battlefield between demons and the heroes summoned to oppose them. At first a bystander, over a vast stretch of time TreeTree learns skills, gains levels, builds up a forest, trains young subordinates, and protects a village. A slow-burn epic spanning ages, told through frequent time-skips, following one unlikely soul as he grows from passive observer to a power that shapes the fate of an entire world.
Royal Road4.51· 4.4KGoodreads4.34· 2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

Soul Guardian: A Hellishly Cozy Fantasy

Alex Karne (TheDeliciousMeats)

S86/100
Things were going great for the demon Bael-Sharoth until a little girl summoned him to open a jar of tomato sauce. Now he's trapped in the human world along with his arch nemesis, the beautiful and capable Maharet Flameheart. Life isn't easy for a demon in a small town — but at least the parks are hellhound-friendly and the werewolf at the local bookshop seems nice enough. Bael and Maharet must find a loving human family to take in this powerful young witch before time runs out, or risk being stuck on Earth forever.
Royal Road4.76· 1.5K
Anti-heroComedyCozyNon-human MCOverpowered MCSatire+4

This Magical Girl is Mine

VoraVora

S85/100
Ten years ago, the planet Jupiter vanished from the night sky. That same day, the Jovians announced their presence on Earth by gifting magical powers to teenage girls. Now they're more selective, choosing only adult women to join their war as magical girls and witches. Rachel has always been obsessed with magical girls, and that obsession became all-consuming when she learned her own roommate Sophia is secretly Strix Striga, one of the most powerful magical girls in North America. Sophia's double life leaves no time for Rachel — and the witches she fights get all the attention Rachel desperately craves. Now Rachel is a witch herself, with the Jovians taking a special interest in her. With their guidance and her own burning drive, she'll grow her power until she's ready to challenge the invincible Striga — and then Sophia will finally be hers.
Royal Road4.77· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedyLGBTQ+MysterySlow BurnSuperpowers+2

A Practical Guide to Evil

ErraticErrata

S85/100
The Empire stands triumphant. For twenty years the Dread Empress has ruled over the lands that were once the Kingdom of Callow, but behind the scenes of this dawning golden age, threats to the crown are rising. The nobles of the Wasteland weave their plots behind pleasant smiles, rebellion stirs beyond Peren Woods, and the First Prince of Procer ponders whether a crusade might secure her reign. Yet none of this matters, for in the heart of the conquered lands the most dangerous man alive sat across an orphan girl and offered her a knife. Her name is Catherine Foundling, and she has a plan.
Royal Road4.77· 1.1KGoodreads4.40· 718
Anti-heroGenius MCGrimdarkMilitarySecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

The Art of Seeking Gold

LoveMoney

S85/100
Notorious internet troll and critic Amy Stake has karma catch up to her when she criticizes the writing of a vengeful Goddess and gets reincarnated into a brutal shonen battle manga known for its astronomical body count. In an ironic twist, she'll only gain the powers that manga readers imagine she has, and her strength will be directly proportional to how much they love her. Meanwhile, people back in her own world are reading and commenting on the manga as it updates — so she must always stay in character. With death lurking at every step, Amy must claw her way into the main story by any means necessary: scene-stealing entrances, manufactured drama, a possibly fabricated tragic backstory. Whatever it takes to become a fan favorite before the end of the world arrives.
Royal Road4.75· 1.7K
Anti-heroComedyGrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPG+4