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The War of Broken Mirrors

Andrew Rowe

A81/100
Some say that in the city of Orlyn, godhood is on sale to the highest bidder. Thousands flock there each year, hoping for a chance at immortality. Lydia Hastings is a knowledge sorcerer, capable of extracting information from anything she touches. When she travels to Orlyn to validate the claims of the local faith, she discovers a conspiracy that could spark war between the world's three greatest powers. At its center is a prisoner who bears a striking resemblance to the long-missing leader of the pantheon she worships. Rescuing him would mean risking her carefully cultivated cover — but his execution could mean the end of everything Lydia holds dear.
Goodreads4.05· 7.2K
Competent MCHard MagicMysterySecondary World

Tori Transmigrated

Aila Aurie

A81/100
Forty-year-old project manager Tori Felix was scrolling through a wiki article about a dating sim on the bullet train when everything went wrong. She woke up in the bruised teenage body of Victoria de Guevera — the villainess of the popular game "The Romance of Soleil" — with a splitting headache and a very bad prognosis: according to the wiki, Victoria dies violently at the hands of sex slavers. With only weeks before the heroine and villainess collide, there is no time for an existential crisis. Tori's personal mantra has always been "assess the situation, then make a plan of action" — and she intends to use it.
Royal Road4.54· 3.2KGoodreads4.11· 87
ComedyCompetent MCCozyIsekaiOlder MCReincarnation+2

Dominion of Blades

Matt Dinniman

A80/100
For over thirty years, Dominion of Blades has been the hottest online role-playing game in the world. But after an epidemic of real-life fatalities linked to the immersion technology, public use has been banned and the game shut down. Jonah wakes to find himself in-game, level one, with no memory of how he arrived and no way to eject. With only two companions, trapped in a world that once hosted millions, Jonah must battle his way across a treacherous landscape — fighting virtual monsters, all-too-real pain, and a very human enemy in a desperate bid to survive.
Goodreads4.21· 5.1K
Class SystemCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGVRMMO

The One Who Changes the Future

Boris Romanovsky

A80/100
The protagonist has traveled back twenty-two years to prevent the Eclipse — a cataclysmic event that will divide the Solar System's history and ultimately lead to Earth's total annihilation. Carrying knowledge of the future no one else possesses, he has five days before the point of no return. Armed with that foreknowledge, he builds influence, assembles teams, and acquires powers to forge a new future — but every intervention has consequences he never anticipated.
Goodreads4.52· 275
Competent MCGenius MCRegressionSci-fiUrban Fantasy

Arcane Awakening

J. Parsons

A80/100
Verdan Blacke is an Imperial Wizard — a researcher by preference but soldier by necessity. Surviving an intense battle, he is cursed by a hex witch in her final moments. Without any good options, Verdan escapes the ever-increasing pain by performing a self-made stasis ritual. When the spell fades, he awakens to find a world completely different from the one he left behind. Dark things work in daylight with impunity, once-common knowledge is a mystery, and even the nature of human magic has changed. One wizard, a million problems, and the wrath of profound magic.
Goodreads4.35· 3.2K
Competent MCHard MagicMilitaryOlder MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

The Most Violent White Mage

3p1th3tl3ss

A79/100
As a reincarnator who read countless novels in the genre, Willow thought she had it all figured out. Become a White Mage, get pampered by the party, and rake in the gold — the perfect plan. Too bad she proved too good at her job. Conscripted into the Support Corps where the Guild chooses her party members, Willow must break her back evading every death flag known to man while keeping alive the dumbest bands of screw-ups to walk the Nine Kingdoms. Sometimes she wonders if it's not too late to reincarnate elsewhere.
Royal Road4.76· 468
ComedyCompetent MCGameLitIsekaiReincarnation

Deadman

C.B. Titus, Seersucker

A79/100
Even after the bombs fell, even after countries unleashed weapons beyond imagination on one another, even after lawlessness became the norm — people still expect their mail. As a deadman, the narrator is uniquely suited to deliver it. Radiation does not bother him, and those who try to hurt him typically wind up dead. A Fallout-inspired apocalyptic story about a courier braving an irradiated wasteland, featuring a weird-west vibe, gunfights, radiation mutants, and a detailed progression system.
Goodreads4.49· 485
Competent MCLitRPGNon-human MCPost-apocalypticStats

The Humble Life of a Skill Trainer

alstonsleet

A79/100
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.
Royal Road4.51· 2.9KGoodreads3.78· 45
Competent MCCozyGameLitLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill Collection

The Greatest Archmage To Have Ever Lived

Prismo101

A79/100
Sael the Great helped defeat the Corrupted One four hundred years ago, ushering in the longest era of peace the world has ever known. Since then, most of his companions have died, the world moved on, and Sael retreated to a cloud in the sky — thought dead by all but a few, fading into legend. Until a young woman named Ilsa, a descendant of one of his earliest companions, comes looking for him. Whispers from the West speak of settlements vanishing overnight, swallowed by a creeping entity that even the mages cannot explain. The stories sound familiar — echoes of an evil Sael thought gone forever. To investigate, he'll need to traverse lands that have forgotten his face, dodge the cults that formed around his legend, and perhaps train a student or two — remembering that life has much more to offer than smoking on a cloud and longing.
Royal Road4.65· 1.7K
ComedyCompetent MCCozyIsekaiLitRPGOlder MC+4

Fate's Attendant

Samer Rabadi (aka 3seed)

A79/100
Hong Fei was once a promising soldier. Now his cultivation is crippled, and he limps toward his last hope: a quiet position in the household of Duke Yu, an old family ally living in exile. All he seeks is a place to fade into obscurity with dignity. But fate has other plans. Two mysterious cards fall into his possession — one summons a giant badger spirit beast, the other heals what everyone said couldn't be healed. When he finally reaches the Yu household, he finds not refuge but a family under siege: the duke is dying, the duchess hides her own illness, and rival nobles circle like wolves. Hong Fei wanted to disappear. Instead, he must become the shield between a falling house and those who would devour it — while behind the political schemes and assassination attempts, someone is stealing fate itself.
Royal Road4.77· 381
Competent MCCultivationLitRPGMysterySummoningWeak to Strong+1

Delvers LLC

Blaise Corvin

A79/100
Henry and Jason led normal lives in Seattle before they were abducted to another world by the vain, self-styled god Dolos, who refuses to send them back unless they complete an impossible task — and who oddly doesn't seem to care if they succeed or not. Luckily, the two studied Historical European Martial Arts on Earth. But a Japanese American EMT and a geeky IT programmer don't have many useful skills on a sword-and-sorcery world like Ludus. Stranded in the middle of nowhere with only magic-granting orbs from an apathetic god, they begin their insane adventure — though basic survival and paying rent will have to take priority.
Goodreads4.19· 4.5K
Competent MCGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill Collection

Emperor of the Borderlands

Alex Toxic, Eugene Astakhov

A79/100
"Honor is the true measure of a man." On this principle, a powerful emperor built his empire, united disparate lands, and destroyed the greatest threat to his world — then died a warrior's death in battle. But instead of rest, he awoke on the border of a foreign kingdom, in the body of a noble-born outcast, with a noose around his neck. His former greatness may exist only as memory, but give him any backwater farm and he will turn it into a formidable stronghold. His experience, knowledge, and strategy remain intact — and time is pressing. The same creatures that once nearly destroyed his kingdom have infiltrated this new world, and only he knows their nature. A new empire must rise, or this world will fall.
Goodreads4.48· 583
Base BuildingCompetent MCGenius MCMilitaryReincarnationSecondary World

An HFY Tale: Drop Pod Green

Guardbro's Field Desk

A78/100
Coming off humanity's first multi-planet war, the Inner Dolcir Coalition barely survived — thanks in large part to Earth. Rhidi, a Kafya and member of the dominant IDC race, served in a specialized force during the war's final phase. With the war over and her mother pressing her toward marriage and children, Rhidi signs up for a joint military training program: a statement to the Humans that IDC members are their equals. The program turns out to be far more than Rhidi bargained for — not only in challenge, but in the freedom she has always craved.
Royal Road4.81· 153
Competent MCCozyMilitaryNon-human MCSci-fi

Ten Thousand Fleets

David Niemitz (M0rph3u5)

A78/100
Arc Sandhurst will become a mech pilot, even if it kills him. After his sister's ship is destroyed by the Pirate Queen of Nepenthe with all hands lost, Arc enters the Imperial Mech Academy on the deathworld Vidako to get revenge — the only path available to the son of a silk-worker who needs the academy's enhancements just to pilot a mech. First he must survive disagreeable roommates, hazing from upperclassmen, the friendship of an imperial princess, and the steaming jungles of Vidako. But the Imperium Stellarum will need every good pilot it can get — because empires are built on a foundation of blood, and the sins of the first emperors are about to come due. Lost fleets lurk on the edge of known space, the ruins of ancient races are spread across long-dead worlds, and enemies thought defeated are gathering their strength once more.
Royal Road4.81· 126
Competent MCGenius MCMilitarySchoolSci-fiWeak to Strong

The Jedi Articles (Star Wars)

PaladinOfCosh

A78/100
A Star Wars fan wakes up inside the Jedi Temple, 72 BBY — clanmates with Mace Windu, which is objectively awesome. Less awesome: he knows the Order is doomed, the Sith are plotting, and the galaxy is on a countdown to collapse. Now he has to change history without breaking it.
Royal Road4.75· 437
Competent MCCozyGenius MCOverpowered MCReincarnationSci-fi

Arthurian Cultivation

BenBurch

A77/100
An Arthurian legend, Fae lore, and cultivation mash-up. Taliesin had one plan: escape the Harkley family, dodge their blood curse, and live a quiet life far from trouble. What he got instead was death (briefly), an arranged marriage gone wrong (knives were involved), and a volatile new power — the dreaded death glamour. Armed with his magical lute, a dry sense of humour, and a loyal but chaotic group of Knights, he's determined to carve out a life as a bard in a dangerous world. But political intrigue, ancient prophecies, and a Divine Cultivator conspiracy all come calling. Set in a Europe-based cultivation world where Ki is Glamour and connected to the Fae realm, the story follows a competent but decidedly non-overpowered MC whose progression stems from effort, reflection, and the occasional death.
Royal Road4.75· 425
ComedyCompetent MCCultivationSecondary WorldSoft MagicWuxia

The Riyria Chronicles

MichaelJSullivan

A77/100
Royce Melborn, a cynical ex-assassin, and Hadrian Blackwater, an idealistic ex-mercenary, couldn't be more different — but desperate times make for strange partnerships, and sometimes the best friendships are bound by blood. The three volumes posted here follow the rogues-for-hire duo known as Riyria through a series of increasingly dangerous jobs: foiling the assassination of a mysterious noblewoman in an ancient corner of the world; tracking a wealthy baron's missing daughter through the mist-filled streets of a city full of old-world secrets; and racing to stop a disgruntled master craftsman from obliterating the legendary towers of Drumindor. Witty, action-driven, and built on the chemistry between its two leads, these standalone adventures reward both new readers and fans of the broader Riyria world.
Royal Road4.78· 224
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCSecondary World

Armsmaster's Summons

James Solomon

A77/100
Asa Ward is a reasonably content gunsmith, caught entirely off guard when he is summoned to a different world. In this strange realm of magic, both people and gods are after him for his knowledge of weaponry. All he wants is to find a way home. Forced to learn the magic system of his new world, he never knows when others are watching to steal his knowledge of non-magical weapons. A fantasy isekai featuring a unique magic system and a protagonist watched by the gods themselves as everyone begins to uncover the very nature of divine authority.
Goodreads4.48· 425
Competent MCCraftingHard MagicIsekaiSecondary World

The Unconventional Heroes

L. G. Estrella

A77/100
Timothy Walter Bolton — Timmy — has spent most of his life as a necromancer. When his latest creation, a zombie hydra-dragon-bear, tries to eat him, he decides it might be time for a less dangerous career. He is a wanted criminal with powerful enemies and a bone to pick with the Everton Council of Mages. Hope arrives in the form of a new law: war is coming to Everton, and the Council is desperate. In exchange for help, Timmy might earn a pardon. To get it, he must assemble a group of unconventional heroes — most of whom want nothing more than to mangle him. His team includes an obnoxious apprentice, a bumbling bureaucrat, and an elf who is basically the bogeyman. Wonderful.
Goodreads4.19· 3.8K
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCSecondary WorldSummoning

Alpha Physics!

Alex Kozlowski

A76/100
In the apocalypse, the first weapon Adrian will have to upgrade is himself. He's an operations manager overseeing a construction job in the wilderness when an unknown energy force changes the very nature of life itself — from the smallest organism to the top of the food chain. The earth's surviving inhabitants, environment, and the very laws of physics have undergone fundamental transformations. Luckily, this has happened to other species before, and everyone receives an interface that survivors of similar events have used to navigate an alien landscape. Adrian is stranded in the middle of nowhere, with days or weeks of travel between him and his family, in a world full of monsters and mayhem where survival means beating the learning curve.
Goodreads4.40· 2.3K
Competent MCLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong