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Ioan Starfall, a Nordstaii teen on the cusp of adulthood, drowned as his village was set ablaze by a dragon. A biochemist from our world woke up in his body — and refused to become a hero seeking revenge when offered incredible power by a witch. There are far more important things on the to-do list. Reborn in a land of Nordic cultivators and giant monsters, there is a whole new world of science to explore, witchy powers to experiment with, and magical creatures just waiting to be dissected.

What would the world be like if video game rules suddenly applied? Marcus is about to find out. After a freak accident he finds himself stuck between a game and the real world. He'll need to fight his way through football hooligans, carnies, and the dreaded RNG to reach the final boss and save the world. Along the way he'll learn new skills, chase epic loot, and most importantly of all — level up.

A necromancer prince lies down in his crypt to rest for a few decades and wakes to find that centuries have passed. His castle is in ruins, his clan is gone, and necromancers are dismissed as children's fairy tales. The world mistakes him for a healer. That suits him fine — the world is sick, and he intends to administer strong medicine.

Miles had spent a hundred years locked in the Dungeon, and he was tired of it. What had begun as a simple delve ended with him dying and being selected as a Custodian to a Dungeon that spanned entire worlds. Now that he had finished his initiation and was finally allowed to leave without losing the amazing Skill it provided, he was going to take a long, relaxing break. He wanted to plant some fruits, bake some pastries, and brew some tasty coffee — maybe share it with a few visitors here and there. And when he got bored, he'd swing by the Dungeon. Hopefully, the rest of the world would let him enjoy it.

"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. What then are we to think of it when the gods themselves steal our ideas on how the universe should work?" Axiom of Infinity follows several travelers from Earth as they attempt to make new lives in a world where RPG mechanics are as innate as the laws of physics, dungeons lurk everywhere, and the gods themselves appear to be playing a very different game — one with unknown stakes and strange alliances. Blessed by two gods and cursed by a third, one man finds himself at the center of their machinations. The unsuspecting natives of this world are about to learn to live alongside a bunch of min-maxing, power-gaming, spreadsheet-wielding gamers who do what they do best: break things.

Nyx was born Hollow — an empty vessel in a world of spirits, normally a death sentence. Somehow he survived. In a previous life he did something reckless: he threw his memories into the Flow from which all spirits return, sending himself a message across the boundary of death. Now those memories have found him. A different kind of reincarnation story — one that isn't easy — featuring a slow burn to power, a gradual system introduction, a loot-based skill modification system, and a cast of deeply strange companions.

Dex is just your average IT professional — until a glowing gem opens a portal in his apartment and starts counting down to his death. An autistic quality assurance engineer might not be anyone's first choice for a hero, but he has a certain set of skills that catches the attention of the Daemon System as it implements a secret beta-test on Earth. The Essence Wavefront is imminent. Humanity will need the structure of the System to have any chance against the countless invaders coming to take that power. By reporting bugs while fighting for his life in pocket dimensions full of deathtraps and monsters, Dex will grow more powerful than he can imagine — all while uncovering the truths of the upcoming apocalypse.

It is 2054 and unemployment is at an all-time high. In the era of the quantum computer, autonomous systems have taken over as the backbone of the workforce. Justin, twenty years old and unemployed, has nothing holding him back — so when his government stipend covers the cost, he signs up to play Imagitech's brand new full-immersion virtual reality game: A Time of Heroes. Justin plays Artisan, an alien AI trapped on Earth — inventor, hacker, and gadgeteer to a team of heroes navigating an alternate America where superheroes and villains are on the rise and forces of good and evil battle for the future.

When Haruhiro came to, he was in darkness, with no memory of how he got there or where "here" even was. Others were with him, each remembering little more than their own name. When they emerged from underground, they found a world that felt just like a game. To survive, Haruhiro forms a party with others in the same situation, learns skills, and takes his first steps into the world of Grimgar as a trainee volunteer soldier — not knowing what awaits him. A tale of adventure born from the ashes.

Normal people awaken their superpowers in their teenage years. At thirty-two, an ordinary man gets his — along with a draft notice from the Department of Defense and ninety days before deployment to a dungeon. His class is [Trainer], with zero available familiars. But the System made a critical mistake: it allowed him to assign a familiar to himself. Now every cell in his body is a pet that can be trained. He can issue special commands to his own biology — fall asleep instantly, ignore pain limits, evolve faster than any young genius. He is his own trainer, and he will not stop until he turns this old body into the perfect weapon.

Living a life of grinding poverty in the General Laborer class, Alice's only hope was that the System would someday notice her hard work. That day arrives when she discovers a one-time chance to change from the lowest to the highest of classes. Now she is a rare minion-master in charge of an ever-growing horde of dragons — dragons that will not stay small and cute forever. As each grows and multiplies, so does her power.

When Peter's too-close encounter with a truck sends him to another world, he lands in what seems like a perfect fantasy land — magic, elves, a hyperactive catgirl neighbor, and a System for earning skills and leveling up. But the world is almost suspiciously nice. Set a few hundred years after the events of A Lonely Dungeon, this is a slow-paced slice-of-life story about an Earthling falling into a rebuilt civilization and the struggles both he and the world's self-proclaimed protector face in trying to understand each other.

Hal Dix is stuck in an unlucky life — his wife is a successful executive while his IT help desk job leads nowhere. Then a strange woman at a flea market sells him a bootleg early release of the highly anticipated Fantasma game. Hal should be careful what he wishes for. Whisked away into the game he only wanted to play for a weekend, he enters a world desperate for a hero — and is forced to become an Accidental Thief, and perhaps the mythical hero of prophecy.

The world as humanity knew it ended in the year 2000. Over the course of a week, billions died and survivors were faced with a reality that no longer made sense — wizards, monsters, robots, and a mysterious heads-up display that reads like a particularly uninterested narrator were just the beginning. But that part of the story is mostly done. Hunter, instead of living in the age of heroes and martyrs bravely fighting for the future of humanity, is born in 2003. By the time he can walk and talk, humanity has already fought back the worst of its demons and settled into a new status quo. What's an easily bored kid supposed to do in the Midwest when there's all this magic and nothing to do with it?

Lex Lurker wakes from a three-year coma in an abandoned hospital to find that Earth has fused with another dimension. The System evacuated all of humanity — except him. Now he's the only human left on a monster-filled Earth, wearing a hospital gown, accompanied only by a snarky talking cat. With game-like rules, magical Concept-based powers tied to personal traits, and whispered voices calling him the Hope of Humanity, Lex must find the tenacity to survive, the courage to fight, and the strength to face some very dark truths about himself — and his world.

When the System Administrators arrived on Earth, they forced the younger generation into other worlds to fight for multiversal entertainment. Bored of life on Earth, Noah had trained to become one of the chosen — even had his class planned out as a Mounted Monster Tamer — but he was never picked. So he volunteered himself. Arriving in a world thick with jungle, Noah beats his first kobold into submission and turns it into a minion. In a realm where both humans and monsters want to tear him apart, Noah doesn't just want to survive — he wants to thrive.

A lifelong reader of fantasy who dies and gets reincarnated — not as a hero, not as an adventurer, but as a Dungeon Core. A forever Dungeon Master at heart, he has no interest in conquest. He wants to create wonder and a sense of accomplishment in those who dive his depths. Now with a genuinely helpful system and a brand-new world to shape, he sets out to build the dungeon of his dreams.

Jack Atlas, self-proclaimed 'World's Best Assassin', had a simple plan: retire in style and marry the girl of his dreams. Then he gets placed in The Tower — a divine deathtrap where gods pit their creations against each other for the ultimate prize. The catch? If you lose, your chances of finding a decent bar in oblivion are slim. Jack soon finds himself on the wrong side of the Black Centipede, a notorious assassin cult with a charming recruitment policy: join or they'll murder everyone he loves. If anyone's crazy enough to not just survive but win against The Tower, it's Jack.

Greg Veder knows life's not a game — especially not in Brockton Bay. A city crawling with villains, capes, and certain death for idiots who play hero. But when he wakes up with a gamer system, complete with stats, quests, and skill trees, he figures: screw it. Maybe life IS a game. Leveling up is easy. Surviving Brockton Bay? That's the real endgame. (A Worm / The Gamer AU)

Milo, 30, has everything going for him — except a paying job, a girlfriend, or anything resembling a social life. None of that is about to change, but he will be transported — copied? — to another dimension where the rules are pretty different. Join Milo as he bids farewell to his sister's spare bedroom and says hello to the magical world of Altabar, where he'll encounter scary monsters with lame names, meet new friends, and learn where not to pee.