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After her second death, Tanya von Degurechaff finds herself reincarnated once more — this time in a world of monsters and magic. Discovered by Aretuza's recruiters at a young age, she graduates from the prestigious academy in record time and secures herself a comfortable position in one of the Continent's most influential kingdoms. She is ready, at last, for some peace and quiet. Unfortunately, her job does not stay comfortable for long.

The more lives you've lived, the more mana you have — and Cale has lived too many lives to count. His core is closer to the magical equivalent of a nuclear reactor. The downside: conventional spells have become impossibly difficult to cast, collapsing under the weight of his own magic. Then he finds himself summoned to a new world with a spellwork system capable of adjusting to his ridiculous reserves, creating new spells just for him. To make spells worth having, that means enrolling at a magic academy. On top of that, an old dragon has taken an interest in him, the kingdom's hunters seem intent on attacking his classmates, and at least one ancient evil appears to have followed him from a past life. With magic back on the table, Cale might finally achieve what he considers the true pinnacle of spellwork: baking.

His name is Eight. Not really, but that's what the System decided after a slip of the tongue. One moment, he was stepping out the office door on the way home, and the next waking up on a hillside below a town wall — and the gate guard drove him off, thinking he was a monster. Life's tough when you're an old man trapped in an eight-year-old body on another world. But there's sixty-four years of hard-won wisdom inside that small frame, and Eight will use every bit of it to survive.

Once, Shen Bu destroyed everything his father had ever worked for — burning the new home to ashes, consuming his mother's cultivation, and slaying the unborn daughter within her. Three hundred years later, Shen Yu is still searching for anything to save that daughter's life, crippled and hidden in a realm where time is slowed to preserve her. No progress has been made. Feeling the weight of his quest, he returns to the city of his birth to drown his sorrows — and meets a boy who finally gives him hope. Waking up in the body of an eight-year-old kid dying of plague in a xianxia setting was not anyone's idea of a good time. The new inhabitant lacks a cheat or a system, but a chance meeting with an unremarkable middle-aged man who likes talking about medicine may prove more valuable than it seems.

Tanya Degurechaff is back — this time reincarnated as a Chansey, a Pokémon known for its kind soul, healing ability, monstrous durability, and a born career pipeline to a life of helping others in Pokémon Centers. Determined to finally get an easy life away from all the battling nonsense, Tanya figures a starting position like this will make things simple. She is wrong.

Shard Funf has been sent to yet another new multiverse — one resembling Mystara of BECMI D&D, with dungeons and dragons, elves and dwarves, humans and orcs. Oddly familiar, yet deeply strange: Good and Heaven are not powers here, only uncaring Law and Chaos. Evil is in the eye of the beholder, and there are no gods — only ascended Immortals pursuing personal Projects with little care for the lives of mere mortals. The road to mortal power is clear and broad, and Funf has a significant head start. But when the world is in the hands of rival Immortals and hapless mortals are caught in the middle, shaking up the existing order will require an entirely new approach — and perhaps bring the Light of Heaven to a cadre of uncaring super-beings for the first time.

Given his first weapon as a child, Edward Lee lived a life full of violence in a nation torn by war. Tormented by the demons of his past, he believed death would free him. Through the schemes of beings beyond his understanding, his death instead becomes the starting point of a new life — as a young teenager in a strange world of magic and monsters. Beyond simply surviving his new existence, Edward will soon realize there is still a price to pay for the actions of his past.

Michael didn't want to die. After a lost battle with cancer, he'd lived what many would call a full life — but it wasn't enough. He wanted more time with his wife, his kids, his grandkids. When he found himself drawn toward the light, he fought his way away from it. Unfortunately, that didn't take him back to the life he wanted. Reincarnated in another world, Michael is forced to become a Penitent — a soldier in the country he was reborn into — in order to pay a debt to society for taking the life of the child whose body he now inhabits. It's not the life he wants, but it's the only one he has.

By cruel trick of the fates — or just the apathy of an uncaring universe — a modern soul awakens as Orochimaru shortly after he has possessed a woman as his new host. Now they must find a way to turn a hoard of sycophants and psychopaths into something that will not only keep them from an early grave, but reshape it into a genuine force for change in a messed-up world.

Max was murdered, but now he is mostly over it. Living on Earth as a recent college graduate, he can still perfectly recall his past life on Albion, a sword-and-sorcery world where he was hailed as the Hero of the World after crawling up from poverty to fame and luxury. On mana-starved Earth, he's just a guy. When Earth is suddenly attacked and its natural laws begin to change, Max gets a new opportunity to reclaim some of his lost power — and then some. He discovers an entire system of multi-dimensional colleges created for those gifted with a Path. The universe is far larger than he ever knew, and the drive to excel has never left him.

A succession crisis consumed the Kingdom of Dovhain following the death of Edgar the Great. Princess Isabella endured every indignity, overcame countless injustices, and fought the most vicious of enemies — first for survival, then for hope of a better future. She became queen, only to be betrayed by those she trusted most. Somehow, Isabella woke up eight years in the past, one week after her father's death. The experience and knowledge she gained in the struggle for the throne give her a fighting chance — but the question she must answer is a hard one. Should she pursue her own happiness, or attempt to better the realm? Perhaps, if she dares, she can reach for both.

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.

Lysanthia, the strongest Demon Queen, spent centuries trying to die — not because she wanted death, but because it was the only way to break her chains. Her reincarnation spell worked, mostly. She woke in a forest nearly a thousand years in the future, in a body not quite hers, stripped of her overwhelming power. A world without a System. Without Classes. Without the Gods watching her every step. Her reincarnation is complicated by the presence of Ash, the Hero who slew her. Thrust into a world almost completely alien yet somehow recognizable — where power is etched in Ink — she must start from nothing. And for the first time in eons, some people show her kindness for no reason at all. That might be harder than starting over.

What happens when a reincarnation goes horribly wrong? Oran Farrow is not who he used to be. The soul inhabiting his body was once a sick man on earth, suffering from chronic pain and despair. He prayed for an end to his torment, and death answered. Now in a different world, with a body and name that are not his own, he must learn to navigate a world of monsters and magic. Dealing with demon cultists, a lovesick necromancer, and worst of all, being a shambling corpse, would be hard for most people. But after the life he's had, Oran couldn't be happier. Nobody has it as good as the dead.

Powerless and consumed by rage for half his life, an avenger grasped at redemption only to find despair and darkness. His mind lost, he became an inextinguishable flame of carnage — unable to be snuffed out even by the laws of the world. Death offered only a moment's reprieve. His rage overflows even beyond the grave, and he is granted life once more in a different era. All those his vengeance was focused on have long since vanished into obscurity. What does one who holds all the power in the world do, when every reason for that power has disappeared?

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.

A young Buneary suddenly gains an Earth human's memories, and has to make her way through a Pokémon world that is not nearly as kind as the one she remembers. Incapable of settling for life as a wild Pokémon, but unwilling to submit to the tyranny of a trainer, she must gather like-minded friends and set out to search for a third way. Or make one.

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.

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.

British plumber Aldrich Isengrund donates his body to science only to wake up in the far future as the last survivor of a Federation experiment. Stuffed with archeotech, he has been given a chance to live long and prosper — so long as he reaps the great tithe of xenos required to unlock his implanted machines. How much destruction will one man incite with a battered plasteel pipe?