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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.

Even after the bombs fell, even after countries unleashed weapons beyond imagination on one another, even after lawlessness became the norm — people still expect their mail. As a deadman, the narrator is uniquely suited to deliver it. Radiation does not bother him, and those who try to hurt him typically wind up dead. A Fallout-inspired apocalyptic story about a courier braving an irradiated wasteland, featuring a weird-west vibe, gunfights, radiation mutants, and a detailed progression system.

A new phenomenon — the perma effect — has swept Earth: some players' minds permanently merge with their online games, leaving their bodies comatose. The terminally ill, the disabled, and those who simply want to escape have begun choosing it willingly. Once a seasoned gamer and now a terminal cancer patient, Max takes this last chance to preserve his life and identity. He dives into AlterWorld — a sword-and-sorcery MMORPG — alongside trusted friends and the woman he loves, seeking the immortality that the real world will never give him.

Powerless and consumed by rage for half his life, an avenger grasped at redemption only to find despair and darkness. His mind lost, he became an inextinguishable flame of carnage — unable to be snuffed out even by the laws of the world. Death offered only a moment's reprieve. His rage overflows even beyond the grave, and he is granted life once more in a different era. All those his vengeance was focused on have long since vanished into obscurity. What does one who holds all the power in the world do, when every reason for that power has disappeared?

What happens when a man with knowledge of hardware technology is transported into a foreign world filled with magic — and discovers a deep correlation between his expertise and the words of power? As the lowly fourth son of a noble house, he must find his footing in a world where skills and stats equal power and status. A crafting-focused progression story about knowledge, adaptation, and carving out a place in a world built around strength.

With no warning and no tutorial, eighteen-year-old Joey Eclipse is snatched from Earth by Multiverse Z and thrust into a stone room with two doors and cryptic system prompts. He chooses the path of a Great Adventurer — a limited and special category — and is given a unique profile built around shadow, necromancy, and dragon magic. In a new realm filled with endless possibilities and vicious monsters, Joey can't help but smile and go all in.

British plumber Aldrich Isengrund donates his body to science only to wake up in the far future as the last survivor of a Federation experiment. Stuffed with archeotech, he has been given a chance to live long and prosper — so long as he reaps the great tithe of xenos required to unlock his implanted machines. How much destruction will one man incite with a battered plasteel pipe?

Andric died unexpectedly and found himself resurrected into what feels like a GACHA game — a second chance on another world where he can redefine himself. Given an unknown class whose powers hinge entirely on the luck of the draw, he must roll with the hand fate deals him. Tournion is a troubled land full of factions vying for power while gods meddle for their own entertainment. Andric will have to get risky, take chances, and let luck play its part — whether good or bad.

Alex was willing to do anything to survive terminal cancer — even have his mind uploaded into a digital universe of countless worlds while his body waited for a cure. He expected to wake gradually into a peaceful existence. Instead, he regains consciousness naked and alone in the bowels of an ancient ship crewed by raiders carrying enough poison to kill an entire city. The choices he makes from that moment will have profound consequences — for him and for an entire realm. Alex faces bloodthirsty pirates, ruthless cultivators, and fearsome demigods as he takes his first steps on a path that might one day forge him into a cultivator powerful enough to challenge the heavens.

Cast adrift in a foreign world, his boon companions far from his side and strange local customs to navigate — must be a Thorsday. The God of Thunder walks the planet of Mallus, finding himself in a cold land surrounded by a hardy people. He does not mind lending his strength to those that need it, and he finds himself carving out a place to rest and recover after vanquishing Thanos. But he is not the only god known to these hardy people, and those thirsting Four look upon his ability to walk the land unaided, and they covet. Nor will a land such as Norsca free itself from their grasp and rise without struggle. Ready yourself, Thor Odinson. There is axe work needs doing.

Leif Vin is mortally wounded and left for dead at the conclusion of a devastating battle. As dawn breaks, opportunistic creatures stalk the aftermath of bloody conflict — and one such being, an entity of twisted and blighted wood, implants his dying body with the parasitic seed of a carnivorous plant. Identity shattered and levels lost, Leif is reborn as a sapling in a newly formed wilderness. When the primal need to reclaim his lost humanity uproots him, he embarks on an era-spanning journey that will change both him and the world forever. The story explores what it means to be forcibly altered against one's will, and the consequences of that change — alongside animal companions, kingdom building, heavy world-building, and a subplot about the origin of the system itself.

Forty-year-old project manager Tori Felix was scrolling through a wiki article about a dating sim on the bullet train when everything went wrong. She woke up in the bruised teenage body of Victoria de Guevera — the villainess of the popular game "The Romance of Soleil" — with a splitting headache and a very bad prognosis: according to the wiki, Victoria dies violently at the hands of sex slavers. With only weeks before the heroine and villainess collide, there is no time for an existential crisis. Tori's personal mantra has always been "assess the situation, then make a plan of action" — and she intends to use it.

Simon saved his best friend Kat from the clutches of the Company and their high-tech VR experience, Otherworld — but at a steep price. Now Simon, Kat, and their friend Busara are on the run, hunted for what they know about the Company's dark secrets and the real-life consequences of playing Otherworld. Heading to New Mexico to find a tech genius who might be the only person who can help them expose the truth, they race against time as the line between reality and fantasy threatens to disappear forever.

After the Second Precursor War, the Cygnus Orion Galactic Spur never stopped fighting. As time passed, new races rose up and other races went extinct. One thing never changed: everyone wanted a slice of Terran technology or territory. The Dark Ages were upon them.

There are a lot of things wrong with Liv Brodbeck. She's too small — working in the castle kitchens with her mother, she can't carry a sack of flour or roll a keg of ale. The chirurgeon says she has brittle bones, barring her from the rough play other children enjoy. Everyone says she ruined her mother's life when she was born. A child like Liv doesn't have much hope. But when she accidentally unleashes a surge of wild magic, she takes her first step on a journey that will lead her from the kitchens of Castle Whitehill, to the cold palaces of the Eld, and beyond — to the graves of gods.

In 22nd-century New York, survival is a hustle and secrets refuse to stay buried. Tony, once a corporate operative, knows betrayal firsthand — abandoned by the elites who molded him, he's been exiled to the Blast, a low-income, no-exit wasteland in the heart of New Brooklyn. Now he scrapes by in a world of gang-controlled streets and Dust-fueled powers, finding reluctant allies among the outcasts he once scorned. Addie, a fiercely independent journalist, is determined to expose the district's corruption and the ruthless toll it takes on its people. But as she digs deeper, her quest for justice drags her into the city's darkest shadows — and into the grip of Dust. Together, Tony and Addie are an unlikely team in a world where loyalty is rare and survival comes at a price.

A collection of what-if scenarios set in the world of Mother of Learning — alternate timelines exploring the fascinating concepts that time-loop stories make possible. Mother of Learning is a story of a magic-using teenager stuck in a time loop, set in a fantasy world in the midst of a technological and magical revolution. These AU chapters are non-canonical and made purely for fun. If you aren't familiar with the main story, these may not make much sense.

What do you get when you cross nanomachines controlled by a volatile AI with a bleeding-edge military-grade cybernetic implant and a gutter rat out to prove everyone wrong? A forced experimental drug treatment at an early age has saddled David with an immense burden. His mother's death has left him adrift and unsure of his direction. So he does what any teenager with no more cares left to give does — chips in some mil-spec chrome and looks for a quick way to earn edds, all the while learning to utilize the nanotechnology forced on him as a child. Corpo or Edgerunner? Why not both? And why not the best of both while we're at it?

Moving to Monterey Bay for college was supposed to be a fresh start. Instead, a young woman finds herself trapped in a ritual chamber, an iron collar around her neck and strange system messages flooding her vision — pulled into a ruined world of monsters, magic, and chaos. Her will to survive kicks in fast. Running from demons, dodging danger at every turn, armed with just a smidge of newfound magic, she must navigate a world of ruined cities and ancient secrets. Trust is hard to come by when everyone is a stranger — but amidst the fear and uncertainty, she is determined to unravel the mystery of her abduction and find a way home.