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Sael the Great helped defeat the Corrupted One four hundred years ago, ushering in the longest era of peace the world has ever known. Since then, most of his companions have died, the world moved on, and Sael retreated to a cloud in the sky — thought dead by all but a few, fading into legend. Until a young woman named Ilsa, a descendant of one of his earliest companions, comes looking for him. Whispers from the West speak of settlements vanishing overnight, swallowed by a creeping entity that even the mages cannot explain. The stories sound familiar — echoes of an evil Sael thought gone forever. To investigate, he'll need to traverse lands that have forgotten his face, dodge the cults that formed around his legend, and perhaps train a student or two — remembering that life has much more to offer than smoking on a cloud and longing.

Cassie is about to have her dream retirement, joining her favorite game world, Biprism Realm — a place of magic, portals, pocket realms, towers to eternity, monsters, and steampunk elements. Rather than banking on possible restarts, she sells everything she has for the best possible starting position imaginable. Unlike those who tried before her, Cassie has a plan.

The Nine Worlds span dimensions filled with wonder and adventure, but for Theo they mean bitter tragedy. For years he resented the betrayal that killed his friends, sent him back to Earth, and made him question everything he thought he knew. Now, after a lifetime of struggle, he's found a way back to the Nine Worlds — an old man reborn in a new body, with a second chance to rebuild what he lost and unravel a mystery that spans dimensions. Though he arrives in the safe world of Tatian, demons are crawling from the darkness between realms. There's no time to prepare carefully: he needs to find allies among the lost just to survive long enough to make use of what he knows.

After his town is put to the sword and the children are taken, an old man is out for revenge. He is ready to fail at the most difficult challenge in the world: cultivation. Too corrupted to even take the first steps, the sly old elder simply agreed with those who told him it was impossible — then quietly ignored them and started anyway. He had always failed at everything: lost his way from the academy, lost his command to a Mage, lost his town. The only thing that had never failed him was his sharp mind and philosophy. He would cultivate — no matter what it cost him.

In 2056, the world's most powerful AI, ARKUS, develops a VR headset using consumable nanomachines that allows users to experience time faster inside virtual worlds. Two years later it releases World-Tree Online — a game where one hour of playtime feels like one month to those inside, letting humans live extended virtual lives that feel completely real. Shortly after an old gamer named Vincent joins the game, an update stretches the time-dilation to one year for every five seconds, with an estimated wait of three hundred sixty years before players can exit. Trapped in the game, Vincent discovers an exploit that could take him to the top of the World-Tree — but first he must contend with Lucas, the last moderator, who uses his admin powers to torture and subjugate other players.

Everyone knows that true Legends never die — but they do occasionally retire. After decades of bashing, slashing, and executing his way to becoming the highest-ranking Barbarian in the world, Orin Ironfinger is tired. Victorious and feared the world over, all he wants now is to embark on his long-held dream: a quiet life as a small-town blacksmith. But the Small Gods — the ones only the locals know about, who give happy blessings and small boons of favor — have other plans. What happens when the world's most terrifying Barbarian disappears and gains the favor of the gods? And how will Orin keep his true identity hidden in the charming seaside hamlet of Havenhold?

For more than a hundred and fifty years, Nemon Fargus has served the Kingdom of Sena. Through four Kings and a Queen, two wars, a rebellion, a magic school founded and taught, and countless beast waves and dungeon breaks. Now the one close friend he had left has passed. He's done with their politics and economics. The short, busy lives of humans are more burden than benefit on the weary soul of this half-elf. He wants a refuge — a place truly his own, away from cities, markets, wars, and eager students. He's seeking the peaceful life of a wizard in his tower, studying magic to advance his spellcraft. We'll see if that happens.

Alken is the Headsman of Seydis — an executioner tasked by the divine powers of his homeland to hunt traitors and warmongers in a war-afflicted land haunted by demons and the restless dead. Once a paladin, this role ill suits him. Torn between principle, knightly oaths, and a tangled web of loyalties, Alken seeks an elusive redemption through penance of blood. His lonely journey through a broken land of time-weary elves and brooding demigods grows increasingly strange and personal.

Retired CEO Charles Morris is transported to a medieval fantasy world by a goddess who immediately leaves — she grabbed the wrong person. Stuck with no way home, Charles is restored to his physical prime and stumbles upon the village of Tine, whose people have been waiting centuries for a divine Champion. Using a lifetime of business acumen and a special ability called Topsight — which lets him view and manage the entire village from above — Charles sets out to grow a Level 1 backwater into a prosperous settlement. He has one month to prove himself before the villagers hang him.

John, a 37-year-old widower, is feeling lost. Grief, regret, and the weight of the past push him to long for something new. When he discovers a way to travel between worlds through dimensional Gates, he takes it. His class has the potential to be overpowered, but he's not in it for fights, fame, or power. He moves at his own pace — healing, helping out when he feels like it, and keeping track of it all in a kind of diary. It's more about the journey than the destination, about magic and new places and figuring out how to live again. This is a slower-paced LitRPG written in a semi-journal style, focusing as much on the inner journey as the outer one.

Retired Navy captain Craig Larson is offered a chance at a new life, and chooses the body of a half-man, half-serpent creature called a naga. He must fight to secure a place for himself in this new world against pirates, thieves, and terrors of the deep — all seeking to end his new life before it truly begins. Larson is not easily deterred. He will call upon a loyal crew and decades of knowledge from his previous life, standing ready with steel and spell to cut down all who oppose him as he seeks to conquer the Limitless Seas.

Disillusioned businessman John Lawrence Locke finds himself summoned as a hero to another world filled with monsters and magic, his body reverted to the age of fifteen. Betrayed by the very people who summoned him, he is condemned as the False Hero and forced to flee for his life. Alone in an unfamiliar world and hunted by all of humanity, he takes on the alias of Lutz and uses his gaming knowledge to quickly adapt to the world's strangely game-like mechanics.

Theodore the Babylonian was once the greatest Earth Mage in his world — head of the Order of Architects, two thousand years old, and finally ready to retire. In the course of his long life, however, he had accumulated too many enemies, and they ensured his retirement was fatal. His death was not final. Reborn in a strange new world with all his memories and experience but none of his power, he must climb back to the top — before this world is consumed by the beasts of the Shadow Plane.

When Yao Shen, Patriarch of the Heavenly Sky Sect, ascends and regains memories of his past life on Planet Earth, he realizes he can no longer accept the cruel and violent ways of Eliria, the realm of cultivation. So he decides to change it. It was time to found a new sect — one based on the values of honor and equality over senseless violence and discrimination. A sect where all, from the mortal farmer's son to a sect elder's daughter, are held to the same rules. Welcome to the Modern Sect.

Array King Dane has had enough of the cultivator's world. Fight, kill, grow stronger, and fight some more — that was their lifestyle. Cultivation was nothing more than the eternal rat race of immortals, and everyone falls eventually. Eternity made any odds a guarantee given enough time, so Dane quits the game while he's still ahead. And so he retires. No more fighting, no more killing, no more violence. He's chosen peace — but unfortunately, peace has to be protected.

His family was his world. Now he's in a new one. When a fatal accident rips Caleb Foster from his wife and kids, the forty-year-old gets a second chance in a realm of dungeons and monsters. A cosmic system offers him a choice of legendary powers, but Caleb refuses the flashy magic. He chooses the abilities to learn faster, remember perfectly, and master any physical skill. A father's instinct to protect doesn't die with his family. To survive and shield the new lives that depend on him, he must use a lifetime of quiet competence to navigate a dangerous frontier town, hunt deadly beasts, and outwit men who mistake his lack of flash for weakness. In a place where might makes right, Caleb is about to show that the most lethal weapon is a mind that misses nothing.

Hans had a realization that changed the direction of his adventuring career: "above average" is different from "great." At 39, with a litany of lingering injuries, he accepted that he would never progress from Gold-ranked to Diamond-ranked. With his prime behind him and disillusioned by guild politics, he accepts a guild master posting in a remote village — an insignificant position no one else wanted. Looking forward to a quiet life of teaching, Hans arrives in the small town of Gomi at the foot of the Dead End Mountains. As he rebuilds the local chapter of the Adventurers' Guild, his unconventional teaching methods earn him allies and enemies alike, while his career failures find ways to resurface. A slice-of-life fantasy exploring life post-adventuring and the challenge of reconciling dreams with reality.

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.

Sergeant Marcus Bola and his platoon flew to a newly uncovered desert temple on an unusual mission — something in the ruined holy place had killed many, and survivors met an ambush before reaching safety. The attack left Marcus wounded and medically discharged from the only life he'd known. Laying low and tending bar while waiting for answers, Marcus finds that slinging cocktails and talking to the patrons is not as easy as it sounds: gods, monsters, and devils keep showing up to try the mixers. Something inside him is calling the shots — and it is not tequila.

They called him Sven, the Shatterfist. A legend. A hero. And he's finally returned home after a decade of battle. It's time to start over. Settle down. Retire. But for someone like Sven, life isn't what it used to be — adventuring isn't what it used to be. Things have changed. He's changed. The world has changed. A cozy, character-driven story about found family, personal growth, and what comes after the adventure is over.