Ella was a delusional woman — or so everyone thought. She spent her days grinding in her favorite MMO, chugging energy drinks, and building the strongest character possible on the off chance she ever got isekai'd.
Well, maybe she wasn't so delusional after all. One fateful day, she drank one energy drink too many and died of a heart attack — only to wake up as her witchpire character in the game world she had spent years preparing for.
A dungeon wakes up with no name, no language, and no idea why the first thing it meets is trying to kill it. Fear from terrified intruders feeds the core — but fear is thin and never lasts.
Then a wounded man is left behind inside its walls, and the dungeon discovers something better: his relief when the pain stops, his slow and grudging gratitude when the room grows warmer and nothing tries to eat him. The guild sends kill teams. The dungeon sends them soup.
Nobody asked for a hospital dungeon. That hasn't stopped it.
Death makes exceptions for all the wrong people. Malfrasius wasn't trying to destroy the world — even as everyone called him a Dark Lord, he fought to save them. The Heroine didn't believe him, and his life ended with a blade between his ribs.
When he woke up six years in the past on his way to magic school, he resolved to do things the right way and without attracting attention. But the butterfly effect has a funny sense of humor. His clumsy changes to the timeline have landed him in a team with two members of the Heroine's party, the academy's top prodigy suspects he is her equal despite his F-grade core, and his loyal maid is growing suspicious of his sudden personality shift.
Malfrasius wasn't trying to destroy the world. It's just a shame the world seems so intent on destroying him.
A truck. A heroic sacrifice. An isekai adventure — with one tiny, flickering problem.
Jessica has been reborn in a new world, but she's trapped in a form without limbs, voice, or a way to move — a single, dying flame. When a system message offers a terrifying and bizarre chance at survival, she must possess, adapt, and burn her way through a dark and unknown world to find a place where she can finally shine.
Asterion's first life lasted far too long. He learned alien languages, mastered unknown magic, and watched his comrades fall one by one before facing the Dark Lady at the bitter end — only to cast a self-destruction spell intended to finish them both. Yet somehow, he survived.
All he wants is to rest permanently. So why does everything keep happening to him? A new magic academy has built itself atop the first floor of his labyrinth and stolen his legendary relics to power their campus. Students keep tumbling through random wormholes into his lap. And deep in the Abyss, an ancient entity stirs.
Perhaps there is a reason he was revived. For now, Asterion is focused on one goal: building the coziest labyrinth possible.
The Interim Headmaster of Emberstone Academy of Magic
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Alastair Meade, an unassuming headmaster from the quiet country school of Glimmerglass, is summoned to serve as Interim Headmaster of the prestigious Emberstone Academy of Magic — a sprawling castle steeped in arcane tradition, worlds away from the peaceful forests he calls home.
Once a scholarship student from a humble farm, Alastair must confront old insecurities, skeptical powerful parents, and long-buried rivals. His unexpected tenure plunges him into political intrigue, ancient magical battles, and dangerous rescue missions. To save Emberstone, a country mage haunted by a past of bullying and burdened by a temporary title must rally a fractured faculty and guide competitive students through escalating threats.
A cultivation epic crossed with a slow-moving slice-of-life story about a close-knit family.
Despite her hellish childhood, Emery has found both her way in life and her mission. Together with her wife Avuri, they aim to save and shelter others who went through their own hells. In the almost twenty years since they undertook that task, they have gathered a family of misfits they would both risk everything to protect.
Of course, life isn't always so epic. Sometimes they just need to get through cooking dinner.
Calluna is a village girl obsessed with arcane beasts — and an outcast in a village full of monster hunters. One day, after saving a glimmerhare, she stumbles upon a dragon, a creature believed to be long extinct. As if that weren't groundbreaking enough, the dragon blesses her with magic unlike anything a human has ever wielded before.
Her life is never the same. Follow Calluna's journey as she grows from a small, naive girl into a full-fledged arcane zoologist, uncovering arcane beast mysteries and working toward something no one thought possible: bringing dragons back to the world.
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Heron was just an average, overworked salaryman with a bad habit of saying yes. After saving a kid from a truck, he found himself stranded on a tiny planet with no way to call for help, no village to start anew, and no gods to pray to.
Magic existed, but it had a price. Summon a carrot? Fine. Summon anything processed? Enjoy passing out. So the farming life it was — and Heron accepted the lack of any call to adventure. Peace and quiet, a cozy cottage, and trying to figure out how to summon milk and eggs without accidentally dying from mana overconsumption kept him busy.
Then a dragon landed in his potato field.
Harry Hemming had his Pokemon Journey a long time ago and settled into a quiet life away from the spotlight. When a new tournament arises to establish a Gym in Hoenn, he can't resist the pull back into competition.
A fan-fiction set in the Pokemon world, following an older trainer returning to the game after years of retirement.
After years grinding to finish his novel, Evan wakes up transported into the body of a powerful mage in the very world he created — except it has changed dramatically. More than forty years have passed since the legendary archmage Valis Rook defeated the Demon Lord, and the peace Evan wrote into existence has begun to fracture.
Mages claw for power, dangerous factions hunt the lost artifacts of the greatest archmage in history, and whispers surface that the Demon Lord was never truly defeated. Armed with absurd magical power and dangerously high charisma, Evan is quickly pulled into a world that has long since outgrown his story — and must confront his connection to the dead archmage at its center.
When the system apocalypse hits, Haley is ready to become a wizard — but the system has other plans for her. A feel-good slice-of-life series following Haley Landry, her grandmother Nana, and the small town of Refuge as they navigate a cozy post-apocalyptic world with a game system imposed by magical aliens.
Each installment is a short, warm read complete with a recipe.