In a world where all magical spells have been captured into cards, those who can build a deck have the most power. The most Arthur could ever hope for was to someday earn a trash-tier spell card.
When fate grants him a legendary Master of Skills card, he's thrust into a world of opportunity and danger. To survive and grow strong, Arthur must learn skills — all the skills.
Long Wu Ying never expected to join a Sect or become a real cultivator. His days were spent studying, planting rice on the family farm, and spending time with friends. But when the army arrives at his village and conscripts him, he is given the opportunity to join the Verdant Green Waters Sect.
Wu Ying must decide between his pedestrian common life and the exciting, blood-soaked life of a cultivator — and take his first step on a thousand li journey toward immortality.
4.23· 7.1K
CultivationMilitarySchoolSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong+1
Through all of Linaria, no dungeon holds such a grip on the dreams of men as the Eternal Depths. Hundreds throw themselves against its trials each day. Dozens survive, walking away with power and wealth beyond their wildest dreams — until they go back for more. One way or another, they all eventually feed the Depths.
Edmund Montgomery Ahab has sworn to destroy it. Underleveled, undertrained, and underprepared, Edmund steps into the maw of the world's greatest predator with a sword in his hand and vengeance on his mind. With every level he earns, every piece of loot that drops, every secret he uncovers, and especially every bit of power he can squeeze from his mysterious connection to the Aspect of Madness, Edmund crawls closer to accomplishing that insurmountable feat.
With nothing else to lose, Edmund has already given the Depths his life. All that remains to be seen is whether he takes the dungeon's right back.
Mira is determined to be a botanist — no matter how dangerous or violent it may become. Upon entering the multiverse, she made two requests: a botany class to further her research, and to be dropped off in an isolated forest far from the violent god-rearing System.
She was granted both — but not in the way she expected. The System abandoned her in a hellishly dangerous forest where she earned a rare class that excels at killing things.
Born magically talentless, Prince Corvus is an embarrassment to the royal family and is removed from succession. However, he still has a chance to win back his throne — the next person to hatch a dragon automatically becomes the ruler, and each member of the royal family is gifted with a dragon egg. But it is the work of a lifetime to hatch one.
The first time Corvus touches his dragon egg, he receives an odd notification: he has found a soulbound item and is tasked with an epic quest to hatch it — but only if he can walk the winding path of the dragon mage. Armed with notifications, skill increases, and levels only he can see, Corvus is determined to hatch his dragon.
4.58· 1.6K4.49· 1K
GameLitLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong
Boyd Knight found his calling when he joined the Marines and qualified for elite Force Recon. He'd found a tribe and a family — so when a hand grenade landed near his team, he jumped on it without thought or regret.
Instead of winding up dead, he wakes up in a cave full of monsters with a knife in one hand and a pistol in the other. He's been chosen by Raguel, the Five-Faced God of Justice, and entrusted with the power of the Vigil Bound. Every kill makes him stronger, and thanks to the Ascendant System, Boyd can level up, unlock spells, and harness the abilities of the monsters he's dispatched to hunt.
4.47· 1.9K
Class SystemCompetent MCIsekaiLitRPGReincarnationSkill Collection+1
A thousand-year-old succubus, tired of devouring men, invents a new spell to grow more powerful in a less distasteful manner — by kidnapping twenty students and forcing them to level up in the Underworld.
Elorion is just an average high school student when he wakes to find himself and nineteen others captured and given the ability to use magic and gain levels. If he doesn't fight the monsters of the Underworld, he will die. But if he does fight, will he survive?
4.33· 4.3K
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGSkill CollectionStatsWeak to Strong
It takes more than just talent to reach the heavens — more than an accident of birth or a flash of fortune. It is a long, arduous journey that comes with many costs.
When you're an orphan street rat with no money, no family, and nothing but hunger and death in your future, you don't question miracles. Calvin certainly didn't question his. A miraculous artifact offering guidance, purpose, and treasures beyond mortal comprehension has arrived, and suddenly his future doesn't seem quite so dark anymore.
A gradual xianxia cultivation story with a clearly defined power system, sects, martial arts, and an expansive original setting drawing on more than just typical xianxia influences.
The world called out for a hero to purge it of great evil. It received Broccoli Bunch — explorer, expert cleaner, occasional ghost-buster, and full-time Cinnamon Bun.
Broccoli's approach to adventure is unconventional: talk enemies into becoming friends, hug menu boxes, and wield overpowered skills like Cleaning and Gardening. Her personal quest is simple — make all the friends. All of them.
After the collapse of the known world, Rowan Wilder opens his eyes on the First Floor of the Tower. With a flawless memory and only eight Cards to his name, he must venture out and prepare for a coming calamity.
In this place of blood and fantasy, Rowan has to not only survive but power his way to the top. The Demonic Plague twisting the creatures on the upper Floors is the least of his worries once he reveals the coveted Origin of the Summoner — drawing the attention of monsters, criminals, and zealots alike.
Dragons have been extinct for centuries. Can one young man bring them back?
Raphael was born with the mark of the dragon. His foster father taught him a mysterious and ancient magic unlike anything seen since the last dragon left the world. Now, at 18, he is accepted into a guild of mages with the promise of learning more about his unique power. Raphael's strange abilities could very well lead to the return of the dragons — a coming-of-age fantasy series with cultivation elements and incremental progression through spells, abilities, and equipment.
4.49· 690
CultivationSchoolSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong
Starving artist Angelica Hallow is hit on the head by a mysterious book while dumpster diving. Compelled by its illustrations, she recreates one of the intricate circles on her apartment floor — and accidentally triggers a Summoning. But rather than a Demon or other supernatural creature, she summons herself.
With a new voice in her head blathering about Skills and Contracts, and an inexplicable ability to give herself Orders she is compelled to obey, Angelica must figure out whether she can secure the peaceful life of artistry she craves — or whether she will come to embrace the Demon within.
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.
4.68· 1.8K
Base BuildingGrimdarkLitRPGMilitaryNon-human MCOverpowered MC+6
Luri is dead again. Which means it is once more time to meet old friends, share new stories, and drink things that are likely lethal to anyone who isn't already deceased.
In between life and death, in between earning accolades and honing skills, there is nothing to do except wait for the next try, and share moments with the only people who can be important to you.
Luri is dead again. But even this won't last forever.
Trevor has been training since he was a child for a life of combat and adventure — ten years of gruelling preparation. On the year of his 15th birthday, the day of choosing arrives only to have his entire world crushed as he is assigned the class 'Arcane Chef', an unknown rare class with no known history or levelling path. Being a cooking class, he's relegated to the Servant class of society.
The journey travels through his struggles to come to terms with this class, trying to keep his friendships intact and make new ones. Unbeknownst to all, Arcane Chef will have a drastic impact on the world as a whole.
Join Trevor as he discovers his class, travels the world, and seeks the glory, adventure, and friendship he thought he had lost — all while cooking amazing food.
4.72· 1.5K
Class SystemCozyCraftingLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill Collection+1
Eli Winters was never interested in playing The Shattered World — thanks to his deadbeat father Makaroth, the game's number one player. But when his best friend convinces him to try it out, a heat-of-the-moment bet presents a chance for retribution: become more powerful than his dad, win the bet, and force him to delete his character.
The problem: Eli is six months behind at level 1, with top players already past level 100. Through hard work and trial and error, he discovers a unique skill that massively boosts his experience gains — with one catch. He cannot deal any damage whatsoever. In a game where killing is the fastest way to level up, he'll need to get very creative.
Hiral is the Everfail, the weakest person on the flying island of Fallen Reach. He trains harder than any warrior and studies longer than any scholar, but all his people channel magic through sun-powered tattoos — and despite enormous energy within, Hiral alone cannot.
In a moment of danger, he unlocks an achievement granting him access to a dungeon — his first and maybe last chance at real power. All dungeons lie in the wilderness below the flying islands, places of secrets and dangers that no one has survived.
New powers await, but so do new challenges. If he survives, he could forge his own path to power. If he fails, death will be the least of his problems.
4.39· 3K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStats+1
Percy was born with little hope of standing out — just another face in a world ruled by bloodlines and class, starting with the lowest Red core and scorned as a waste. But when his bloodline awakens with the power to send clones across worlds, he seizes the chance to shatter expectations.
Exploring strange realms, Percy returns with divine techniques, obscure knowledge, and even the seed of a second mana core stolen from an advanced civilization. The elixirs he needs to advance require mastering alchemy himself — and the Great Houses, scheming titans, and invading gods will do anything to crush him before he can prove that even a so-called waste can reach the stars.
For Joshua Still, Skills were the lifeblood of his business. He wanted to understand them, collect many of them, and teach a few — which was a problem, because his profession of Skill Trainer was perfectly legal but deeply frowned upon. After all, it wouldn't do for a non-tailor to teach Tailoring, according to every Guild with enough money and clout to complain.
Still, Skill Trainers provide a valuable service, and Joshua has managed to keep his research and training practice quietly under the table, aided by many a bribe. But his quiet, anonymous life is about to change — when the Baron demands you pay him a visit, you have little choice.
When Earth evolves past a threshold few even knew existed, humanity is whisked away by the Grand System to an educational Tutorial. Arthur Ward is left behind, bleeding out on a sidewalk.
Animals have become deadly monsters, dimensional incursions are a constant threat, and Arthur is forced to adapt or die. Missing the Tutorial was supposed to be a death sentence — but with new rules to live by and a path to redemption before him, it may be the best thing that ever happened to him. After all, nothing is quite impossible when you can rewrite reality itself.
4.45· 1.8K
LitRPGSkill CollectionSystem ApocalypseUrban FantasyWeak to Strong