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The cycle is simple: a Dungeon Core is born, seeks power, accumulates wealth, descends into darkness, and is eventually quelled by adventurers. All cores desire power. This one seems to have it backwards. It has no desire to rule, enslave, or conquer — it wants to start a corporation. When money is power, what greater weapon is there than capitalism? Join a dungeon core on its journey to earn fat stacks while going to absurd lengths to avoid being evil.

Renee 'Nay' Favreau wanted to be a respected chef with a renowned taco truck. After a deadly encounter with an interdimensional spider, she finds herself in a dangerous new world full of magic and mayhem. She discovers she has the rare power to become an Epicurist — one of the special chefs who can prepare magical meals that give the cultivators known as Marrow Eaters their powers. To survive the heat, she must navigate a world full of gods and monsters.

Being a mage isn't all it's cracked up to be — especially when you've witnessed the end of the world and the demise of all you've ever loved. As a particle physicist, William Jenkins is as unsuited to survival on an alien world as any normal thirty-something post-doc could be. Thankfully, he's not alone: with an A.I., magic, scientific curiosity, and most improbably a deity on his side, Will must come to terms with his new reality before otherworldly terrors extinguish all hope. Meanwhile, Effni Naridia, Qaseri Ranger and Guardian of her people, must face her own demons — by undertaking a trial that could determine not only the fate of her city but unravel a mystery aeons in the making.

Arc survived an icy hell of brutal training and emerged as a hero — the one who mastered ice so completely she can freeze the passage of time itself. Now she arrives in Arlas, a fantasy world governed by the System that summoned her, populated by other heroes who each escaped their own ordeals and have their own agendas. When the broken System hands her an incomprehensible directive, Arc makes her choice: live normally, fight whoever challenges her, and ignore the rest — heroes included.

As far as life-changing events go, suddenly remembering your previous life ranks pretty highly — especially when it makes you realize the world you're in is exactly like the setting of a cultivation novel, and the people around you are just like the characters. Hao Zhen, a lowly outer disciple of the Blazing Light Sect, finds out firsthand what that's like after a series of unfortunate events. His aptitude for cultivation is passable at best, he has no background to speak of, and he lacks any special powers. Faced with cultivation novel shenanigans at every turn, Hao Zhen isn't sure whether his genre savviness and modern knowledge will be enough to keep him alive.

After an unexpected death, John wakes in another world where a system guides him. Known as a Sider — someone reincarnated from Earth — his initial aim is simply to survive. But his journey unfolds into something larger: a goal with a hard deadline, a royal family with designs on using him for their own ends, and forces larger than any of them at play. If John fails to reach his new goal in time, his one chance at a new life will be over.

Being drafted into a demon army wasn't on Hayden's bucket list. But when his soul is shoved into a human soldier on the eve of a new invasion, there's no appealing the decision. Around him, demons are excited and ready — for them, the invasion of Berlis, a classic sword-and-sorcery realm, promises a feast of souls and new growth. Hayden's human status puts him at the bottom of the totem pole, cannon fodder meant to die first. But as he plunges into the carnage, he discovers he was born for the madness.

A cultivator decides to do things differently — by founding a sect. A reasonable one.

It's the end of the world, and all Dave wanted was to eat his eggs in peace. Thanks to a talking bird, he's been transported to another universe with only a few years to either grow powerful enough on his own to save his home, or find someone who can help him do it. With new friends by his side, Dave pushes against a System that keeps nudging him toward dangerous experiments, working to understand the rules of his new world before time runs out.

Ekavir is a lumberjack's son — ordinary by every measure, except that crows speak in eldritch voices near him and his blood-red eyes terrify the village children. He might be the latest incarnation of a dreaded god called the Primordial, the Ender of Realms, but he has no idea. When knights arrive hunting for the Primordial, Vir loses everything. To survive, he must grow strong — but there is one problem: he cannot do magic. Not even a simple flame. To take back control of his destiny, Vir will have to forge an entirely new path to power, clawing forward through a world that wants him dead.

You ever had one of those days where you wake up in a strange place, wearing strange clothes, trapped in the body of a young master in a cultivation universe? Our narrator wakes up in exactly that situation — inhabiting the body of Xian Qigang, a young master so awful he apparently kicked puppies for breakfast. If Xian Qigang's powerful family ever discovers what's happened, kicked puppies will be the least of his worries. Fortunately, he has an ally: Meng Yi, Manager and Head Servant of Xian Qigang's estate. With her on his side, he just might survive this madness in one piece.

Rescued from the slums by a kindly Sage, Molly discovers a talent for magic unlike anyone else's. While others chant to shape Root and Structure, Molly sees the symbols in silence. When she awakens her true Affinity — [Epilogue] — she learns her power doesn't just use archmage-level magic. It ends it. Even the gods fear the silence of Epilogue. When her mentor dies, her final wish is simple: hide, enroll in the academy, graduate, find a party, and do not end up alone again. Disguising a divine-level threat as an average hero-in-training is hard enough — harder still when the heavens are watching, waiting for the one mortal who holds the key to their undoing. In a world where only those with a voice are heard, can a mute girl defy the pantheons?

Seven million players were inside the VRMMO Realms of the Veiled Paths when an unexplained power surge sealed them in. Then they began to die. Caleb Stone's teenage son was among those trapped. A son he had lost once before — a son he refuses to lose again. When he logs in to find him, months have passed inside: empires have fallen, monsters roam freely, and surviving players have carved out warlord kingdoms and murderous factions. As Caleb gathers allies and searches for answers, he realizes that salvation might lie in his Tamer class — a joke class, incomplete and not ready to level, hiding developer code that nobody knew existed. Now that code is unleashed.

Seven years ago, the Frozen Flame brought magic to Earth — but not to Dalton, who received only scars. Now a lonely shut-in known as "Ezzen," he's resigned himself to an online life of secondhand magic and fanboying over the superhuman Vaetna. When fate splinters and magic finally finds him, it's the best day of his life — and the worst. He suddenly becomes a resource in a cold war over magical power, hunted by paramilitary organizations and Flame-worshipping cults alike. Worse, the reality of being a flamebearer is nothing like the apotheosis he dreamed of: it is cruel and twisted, the bloody path of monsters.

The VRMMO Hell's Wonderland Online has been out for years, but so many secrets still exist within the game. Vorpalia joins as a Lesser Drake, hoping to one day become a dragon. Things are going as well as they can for a monster player — until she gains a strange unique skill that has her questioning the very nature of the game itself. Making friends and having her massive ego violently crushed, the young dragon has a long way to go. But what is a dragon girl to do when her favorite game pulls her in for real, while everyone else still thinks it's just a game?

Medea hated Harry Potter — the books, not the person. After an untimely demise, she wakes to the sound of screaming babies and a pale-haired family. Reborn on June 5th, 1980, she is now Medea Malfoy, once again saddled with an annoying twin. Fortunately, she knows how this world works — and she knows the Malfoys turn out fine in the end. Wealthy, loved, and utterly unmoved by the plot, she simply wants to save her family from the discomfort of having Death Eaters commandeer their living room, and she refuses to let the Boy Who Lived take her Dobby. Medea doesn't want to be a hero. Fortunately, saving her family will require her to be a villain.

Money and Qi are the keys to power in the Republic of Ardus. Ren has neither. He had a good life — until debt collectors tore him from his loved ones and threw him out onto the streets. Life in the dark alleys of Katarn is merciless to the weak, and Ren craves the power to change his fate. He has no teacher, no master — fated to rot away like the pile of refuse he calls home. Until an encounter with a dying immortal gives him a chance to change everything. But before he can step onto the path of immortality, his spirit is tainted by the venom of a Mythical Beast. Will the song in his soul and a lost cultivation technique be enough to survive this cruel world?

Oberon Blackphoenix nearly unified all the races of his world before betrayal ended his life — a sword through the chest from a trusted advisor. His final spell, altered by a legendary artifact, cursed the entire world. Now, over a thousand years later, a certain sorcerer wakes again. And he is not happy. Alessa has spent years on the run, never staying in one place for long. When she arrives at a site connected to the secret that has haunted her entire life, she may have found the one thing that lets her survive the consequences.

Ever been a god? The protagonist was — until death and a divine tribunal sent him packing. Apparently the other gods took issue with his faith being the only true one, and the Apocalypse (admittedly his fault, if unintentional) did not help his case. Now condemned to a "vacation" as punishment, he must navigate existence in a new form in a world far removed from his former divine station.

Marcus saw magic when he first opened his eyes, and nothing else ever compared. But the king is old and Marcus is an only child — hard decisions must be made, and no one expected anything of him beyond his skill with the arcane. They were right to underestimate him. Until the cube. Until it taught him what life meant for people not born into nobility, that all his arcane skill did not make him immortal, and that running from problems does not make them go away.