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Every day is the same for Joseph — study, class, repeat — until monsters spawn across his college campus and beyond. Goblins, ghouls, kobolds, and mythical creatures pour into the world with shocking carnage. If Joseph is going to survive the RPG apocalypse, he needs to figure out the new rules fast. And is it wrong to feel so alive when so many others have died?

Life has always been a battle — but for some people that is especially true. Not everyone can take living another day for granted. And that was before the world started ending. Now that the [Trial] is here and everything is going up in flames, life is not getting easier. Trapped in the [Trial], John is faced with a painful reality: if he wants to live, he has no choice but to climb. And if he wants to survive long-term, he needs to keep climbing — even if that means heading directly into danger.

The Great War ravaged the earth many years ago. In the years that followed, the world rebuilt by mixing machinery and magic into something new — great blimps belching steam above metal city-states that sprouted like weeds across the desert. Angel, a talented mage, scours the desert endlessly in search of lost knowledge. When it unexpectedly falls into his hands, he quickly realizes the world is far larger — and far more deadly — than he ever predicted. No amount of danger is going to keep Angel from seeking greater strength and claiming the greatest treasures the world has to offer.

Seventeen-year-old Ren Haddon hasn't had an easy life. The child of drug addicts who used him as a lab rat, he spent most of his years in hospital under constant care. Then his name is drawn from millions of others to receive a one-of-a-kind class in the new virtual world game Flow — Fantasy Life Online World.

Mark Careed has dreamed of being a hero since he was eight years old — fighting monsters outside the city walls, going anywhere he wanted instead of only where it was safe, standing shoulder to shoulder with the real heroes against kaijus. Now almost 18, Mark is close to taking the real Tutorial and Awakening his Power. But his hopes collapse when the False Tutorial estimates his future Power as a brawny — simply a stronger human, the fate of 90% of humanity. Mark refuses to accept it. Determined to change his fate, he sets out to do something drastic: seek help from an archmage, a true Hero of Humanity. A story of exploration, slice of life, kaijus, magic, other worlds, trauma, and growth.

An innocent bystander caught in a shootout between mobsters and spawned monsters, the protagonist is granted the power to bring forth creatures from the void when the System arrives and the world ends. With a ragtag group of survivors, he wades through the mayhem searching for somewhere safe — ideally Merlin Ranch, his childhood home, which would make the perfect refuge. Somehow, they'll make it there. And when they do, they might just untangle the mystery of the System.

Paul has been having one of the worst days of his life — and then his instructor gets drafted by a mystical goddess to help save a world. Paul is not supposed to be there at all, but that changes nothing. He is now on a one-way trip, forced to help a man who despises him, at the mercy of the world's greatest trickster.

In a militaristic empire where war mages are prized and steam knights celebrated, Mikolai reluctantly signed up to be a steam suit mechanic to avoid conscription into the regular infantry. Magical talent is rare, precious, and a pathway into the nobility — but Mikolai is a peasant from a small farming village with simple ambitions: stay alive and do the right thing. When an unfortunate accident leads to his assignment to a special task force commanded by the notorious war mage Ognyan Spitignov, surviving with a clean conscience becomes very difficult. The mission: stamp out resistance to imperial rule in newly-conquered territory. Mikolai will try everything in his power to make the best of a bad situation — and he has more power than he realizes. His journey will take him through the horrors of war and the grinding clash between empires.

Without any warning, Amber is transported from her student apartment to a fantastical realm with magic, monsters, and a universal System. Ripped from her home and thrust into a dangerous new life, she finds — for the first time — that she finally feels free. There are no gods to guide her and no cheats to rely on. But the pain and hardships only give her strength. As the first Cursed Berserker seen in over a hundred years, Amber welcomes the world of Vir with a smile — and she will not be satisfied until she is the strongest.

There are only about thirty people in the world with golden blood — and for the protagonist, it is both a curse and the only thing offering any chance at a better life. Coerced into a single-option deal by men from the Special Services Department, he is thrust into a dangerous world far from the drudgery he'd always known. With his special inheritance and his faithful helper Alisa, he must survive what comes next — whether he's ready or not.

As an engineer on the arkship Pilgrim-9, bound for the Tau Ceti solar system, Morgan Hall expected a quiet 240-year stasis. Instead, he's roused early to chaos and brought down to a dangerous planet where magic is as real as science. Forced to fight for survival without their technology, Morgan and his shipmates must adapt quickly. They begin to carve out a new existence — until they discover the planet is already inhabited by a cunning, powerful, and lethal native species.

For millennia, the demon lords known as the Goetia enslaved humanity, until a group of mortals called the Archons received divine blessings of power and overthrew them. Under their dominion mankind flourished, though the war in the shadows never ended. A thousand years later, sixteen-year-old Leones' family is executed for the crime of heresy — burned to death for questioning whether the Archon of Flames is truly divine. After manifesting the power to control time, Leones survives and embarks on an uncertain journey for power and revenge. But to overcome a god, he may need help — and along the way he will discover the truth behind the demon lords, time, and reality itself.

Wake up. Mine crystals. Don't die. That's the job, and Andy doesn't remember ever having a different one. The guards have guns. The other workers have agendas. The tunnels have monsters that shouldn't exist. On his first shift, surrounded by men who've already made their peace with the dark, he decides he won't be one of them. Then he finds the cavern — crystals bigger than anything on the work floor, whispering secrets the guards would kill to keep buried. It's a path to power, maybe a path out. But he'll have to hide it from everyone until he's strong enough to stop hiding. No one leaves the mine alive. Andy intends to be the first.

Lars wakes each morning to a voice in his head urging him to kill — claiming she's just handing him quests to help him level. He ignores it. The cultivators who bullied him his whole life are as far above him as gods, and killing isn't in his nature anyway. Then a murderous sect descends on his village, slaughters everyone he knows, and takes his mother as a slave. Lars has no choice but to trust the voice, complete her quests, and find a way to grow strong enough to get her back.

Almost half a century has passed since prison ships discovered the mysterious Tower rising out of the Indian Ocean, known as Gaia. Monarchies and trading giants came together to build a city around it and contain the monsters spilling out of its rune-covered structure. The few who dared enter and climb it learned the magic of Gaia's runic cards. Most people enter the Tower seeking fame, fortune, or power. Not Diya Sen. He climbs hoping to find clues about his missing brother and to solve Gaia's mysteries — but warring noble houses stand in his way. Perhaps the talents of a Spell Thief will help where the direct approach cannot.

Eighteen-year-old Callum Stross never asked to become a hero. When a devastating aetherstorm strikes, he seeks shelter in a cursed manor and discovers a dormant Aethercore tied to the bloodline of the legendary Demonslayer. The core fuses with his soul, awakening latent power and binding him to Fen, a mana-bound fox who claims Callum is the Reborn Heir meant to finish what his ancestor started. With demonic aetherbeasts rising and warlocks spreading corruption through forbidden Demoncores, Callum must travel to the capital's elite Great College to uncover the truths hidden in his bloodline. Because the Second Demonswar is coming — and this time, no one's ready.

Julia is a practical person. All she wanted was a home and family to call her own — a small piece of the world she could say was hers. Instead of arriving home one evening, she finds herself in the Abyss, trapped inside a cursed body. The curse may have caught her, but she certainly won't let it — or anyone else — tell her how she has to live. To escape, she will need to become strong enough to descend to the Abyss's deepest reaches, where the most dangerous secrets lie in wait. There is darkness in the Abyss, and a darkness within her that might draw it in — but she'll need to risk its strength if she ever wants to get home.

Hull is living on the streets of Treledyne, scraping by and searching for cards from the Demon Realm — the only ones he can wield — hoping to build a deck powerful enough to take revenge on those who wronged him. Basil is a noble's third son with no path to glory, pinning his hopes on the Rising Stars Tournament to raise his soul to Rare and step out of his brothers' shadows. When these two young men duel, they set each other on a path to greatness neither could have imagined. In a world where every accomplished soul leaves a card behind, the one with the most cards has the most power — and the Orc tribes are gathering on the horizon.

After his first college party, Dallion wakes up alone in a small medieval village in the middle of nowhere. He needs to figure out where he is and how to survive a world filled with magic and monsters. Then he must uncover the secrets of being "awakened." Objects in this new world are sentient, and the awakened can mend or upgrade them by traveling into each object's unique realm and defeating the guardians within. Countless miniature worlds to explore — and so much time.

After failing as an apprentice cooper and a town guard, Eli finds his place at the Rockbridge archives as the oldest junior scribe — and he's good at it. Then he completes an apparently insignificant project, and the brutal reaction shocks him, setting off consequences that shake the world. Eli gains powers: rare and inhuman abilities. He progresses slowly, steadily, and not without setbacks — and changes in ways that blur the line between hero and monster. Set in the Valley, the only human empire to survive a Final Battle, the story follows a soul that may prove the war was never truly over.