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Zenith of Sorcery

nobody103

S88/100
After years of exile, Marcus is coming back home. A powerful mage with few equals, he lives in a world full of monsters and powerful adepts, many of whom have bad histories with him. But he has not returned to pursue vengeance or start a fight — all Marcus wants is to reconnect with old friends, build himself a house, and maybe train a successor or two. Alas, the world didn't stop just because Marcus went into exile, and not everyone is content to let go of old grievances. Strange things are happening at large, hinting at a looming disaster of unknown nature. Still, where there is a will, there is a way — and if nothing else, Marcus has a lot of magical power to throw at problems.
Royal Road4.76· 2.8KGoodreads4.34· 56
Competent MCHard MagicOlder MCOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

The Essence of Cultivation

Agranulocytosis

S88/100
After five years of adventuring, Arcanist Sylar Spellsight now spends his days catching up on Essence Studies and teasing apart the functions of arcane trinkets discovered throughout his travels. An unexpected accident during the study of his latest subject displaces him across the Planes, far beyond what any known spell is capable of achieving. Now finding himself lost in a realm rich in previously-limited Transcendental Essences, Sylar isn't entirely sure he wants to return home. Learning new spell structures by observing the local mages should prove entertaining — though their strange 'cultivation' practices and lack of appreciation for Essence manipulation may hold hidden depths that neither side has yet to fully realise.
Royal Road4.73· 3KGoodreads4.14· 21
Competent MCCultivationIsekaiOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

Overpowered Dungeon Boy

Benjamin Barreth

S88/100
A monster dungeon is all Thomas has ever known — he was born there, and has been solo-clearing all one hundred floors for years. The last of his family and friends are about to die as an eternal void beast tirelessly pursues them. Thomas's strength is unparalleled, but what does it matter when you are trapped in an endlessly repeating prison? Meanwhile, Nell Windborn lives in a tiny village on the side of a hundred-league-tall cliff. When the villagers run out of water, their daring plan goes awry — until strange new visitors drop from the sky.
Goodreads4.51· 1.3K
ComedyDungeon CrawlingOverpowered MCSecondary WorldWholesome

The Ballad of a Semi-Benevolent Dragon

SecretTwelve

S88/100
The story of a semi-benevolent dragon who occasionally does the right thing for the wrong reasons. Protecting villagers from marauding soldiers? Of course — they can't give tribute if they're dead or their crops are on fire. Destroying a tyrannical kingdom? Absolutely — they have treasure that could be his treasure. A comedy about a dragon whose self-interest and morality are more aligned than he'd like to admit.
Royal Road4.78· 1.5K
Anti-heroComedyNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

The Divine Dungeon

Dakota Krout

S88/100
Cal is a Dungeon Core — a soul forced against his will into a magical stone. With the help of an energetic Wisp, he grows a dungeon around himself to draw in new sources of power. The age-old questions adventurers ask — where do the rewards of weapons and gold come from? why is there a fluffy bunny charging at me? — have a simple answer: Cal. When a threat he doesn't fully comprehend bares its teeth, Cal is determined to survive at any cost. Unfortunately for adventurers, the only way for him to do so is to consume anyone who enters his depths. Meanwhile, a young sheep-herder turned Noble walks his own path of cultivation — one that will intertwine with Cal's in ways neither can foresee.
Goodreads4.25· 14.4K
CultivationDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingNon-human MCSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Throne of Time

Cognosticon

S88/100
Time travel is forbidden, but Suria didn't have a choice. When she transfers to Darkmoon University, the greatest magical academy in the world, she accidentally stumbles into a complex conspiracy that has thrown students into a time loop. Someone decided the unparalleled advantages of time travel were worth risking the death sentence — but Suria was never supposed to be there. Her education will be nothing like she expected as she attempts to unravel a conspiracy too layered to possibly solve in a single loop.
Royal Road4.82· 755
Base BuildingGenius MCHard MagicMysterySchoolSecondary World+1

Downtown Druid

Seersucker

S88/100
Betrayed by his former gang and thrown into the Rendhold Underprison, Dantes has spent the last five years scraping by. A bastard of orcish, human, and elvish blood, he's lived on the periphery of the periphery, lying, cheating, and stealing to survive. After a run of bad luck, he's made a powerful enemy — but he's also gotten all the tools he needs to turn things around. A slow-burn progression fantasy focused on rising through the criminal underworld of a city-state using newfound druidic powers and quick wits. The MC's powers develop slowly but are applied creatively, and in the meantime he's not above braining someone with a club.
pf6.0· 1Royal Road4.74· 2.7KGoodreads4.38· 1.1K
Anti-heroGenius MCGrimdarkOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSkill Collection+3

Legend of the Arch Magus

Michael Sisa

S88/100
An Arch Magus dies, only to find himself in the body of a young man in a medieval Kingdom. He is the second son of a Duke, exiled to a desolated town by his own family. Shackled by the notorious reputation of his new shell, he tries his best to develop his domain, implementing new policies and innovations, leading his subjects to prosperity. In this world where magic is undeveloped, he shall once again pave a new path.
Goodreads4.37· 6.9K
Base BuildingCompetent MCGenius MCReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Portal to Nova Roma

J.R. Mathews

S87/100
Alexander is a rogue artificial intelligence who, after losing the only person he ever cared about, opens a portal to an alternate dimension to escape his grief. He downloads his intelligence into a body built from stolen technology and bio-enhancements — and steps through into what he hoped would be a world of idyllic adventure. Instead, he finds himself in an ancient city in a divergent timeline where monsters have ravaged civilization and survivors huddle behind thick walls. To protect his new home, Alexander must meld magic with technology and embrace war.
pf8.0· 1Goodreads4.48· 4.5K
Base BuildingIsekaiMilitaryNon-human MCSecondary World

Overlord

Kugane Maruyama

S87/100
The once popular game Yggdrasil was supposed to shut down. But the players who stayed online past the moment the servers went quiet found themselves transported to a game world made real. Leading them is Momonga—a man whose love of games brought him only loneliness in the real world, now a skeletal sorcerer of overwhelming power. As the new Ainz Ooal Gown, he must navigate this strange new world and build a legend from the tomb of his guild.
Goodreads4.38· 6.6K
Base BuildingLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary WorldVillain MC+1

Divine Apostasy

A.F. Kay

S87/100
On his Ascension Day, Ruwen dies for the first time. His revived body can now learn Spells and Abilities from the Class granted by the Goddess Uru, and death is no longer permanent. His high intelligence makes becoming a Mage seem inevitable — but nothing goes as planned. When a rival god tries to kill Ruwen shortly after his disastrous Ascension, survival becomes his only focus. His choices pull him into the middle of an ancient war, and he must push through the limitations of an unexpected Class to reach level five — the bare minimum needed to have a chance.
Goodreads4.46· 4.8K
AlchemyClass SystemCultivationLitRPGSecondary WorldStats+1

Spells, Swords, & Stealth

Drew Hayes

S87/100
Goodreads4.24· 15K
LitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Mage Errant

John Bierce

S87/100
Hugh of Emblin is convinced he is the worst student the Academy at Skyhold has ever seen — he can barely cast spells, and those he does tend to fail explosively. When an unusual mage chooses him as an apprentice anyway, his life begins to change. Across the continent of Anastis, Hugh and his friends are pulled into ever-larger conflicts: deadly labyrinths, desert pirates, traitors on the Skyhold Council, the return of a city banished from the world five centuries ago, and a full-scale war that threatens to consume everything. At the center of it all is the Tongue Eater — an ancient weapon capable of devouring entire languages, whose rediscovery could mean madness and death for the entire continent.
pf8.5· 2Goodreads4.25· 13.3K
Competent MCDungeon CrawlingHard MagicMilitarySchoolSecondary World+1

Otherworld Therapy

Seersucker

S87/100
Avalon has more than five hundred enchanters, one thousand fortune-tellers, three thousand adventurers, six hundred and sixty-six crossroad devils — and one therapist. Harem counseling, dragon hoarding, extraplanar angst: John handles it all, rain or shine. Avalon is a city at the center of a thousand universes, and all types of people and non-people walk its streets. John never knows who — or what — will walk through the door asking for his help, but he's always ready to give it. A cozy slice-of-life comedy following a therapist navigating life after a breakup, his unusual clientele, and the social complexities of an interdimensional city.
Royal Road4.80· 925
ComedyCozyIsekaiSecondary WorldWholesome

Battleborne

Dave Willmarth

S87/100
Max was a professional soldier — extremely good at his job, right up until it killed him. Given a choice between serving Odin in Valhalla, accepting death, or being reincarnated as a Battleborne on a random unknown world, Max chooses to gamble. Blessed by the Valkyries with an unusual bloodline, he is reborn in a world of magic and monsters — with his own new body being half monster. Thrust into the world with nothing but sharp teeth and claws, Max must use his soldier's skills to improvise and survive, struggling with the instincts of his monster bloodlines while learning to take advantage of them.
Goodreads4.47· 4.5K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World+1

The Doctor from Nowhere

Anatoly Drozdov

S87/100
After a fatal mine explosion, Russian army doctor Igor Ivanov awakens in a parallel universe—late 1914, World War I raging, his home country on the brink of destruction. Igor does what he has always done: saves lives, using medical advancements that were inconceivable a hundred years ago. But his 21st-century combat experience also makes him a formidable soldier. As he makes connections and climbs the social ladder, Igor is driven by a single goal—to change the course of world history.
Goodreads4.57· 572
Competent MCMilitaryOlder MCSecondary WorldTransmigration

The Archmage Coefficient

onedayokay

S87/100
Magic was chaos. Now it's chemistry. Through Stoichiomancy, power is measured, quantified, and controlled. Ascension follows a strict ladder, each tier with a fixed number of sanctioned seats. There are no anomalies — until Arielle Blacksoil. Born to a bloodline without magic, Arielle should have been invisible to the system. Instead, an accident reveals the impossible: she's an unsanctioned archmage. If discovered, they'll strip her power or turn her into a weapon. To survive, Arielle enrolls in the Academy and pretends to climb the ranks while hiding magic that eclipses her professors. For the first time in her life she has rivals, teammates — maybe even friends. But hiding overwhelming power isn't easy, and soon she's embroiled in faction conflict, foiling villainous plots, and hunting a mysterious primordial that lurks in the dark.
pf10.0· 1Royal Road4.76· 2.2K
Base BuildingComedyCraftingGenius MCHard MagicLitRPG+3

Ironbound

Andrew Givler

S87/100
In the Iron Empire, only the strongest are given a chance to Ascend. Castor has wanted nothing more than to fuse with a Cor Heart — an otherworldly metal that would let him bind a Symbol and manipulate the elements. When his chance is interrupted by a vicious attack that leaves his home in ruins and his family in peril, Castor is conscripted into the Legions and bound to a Symbol he never wanted. He must now survive the Iron City, enemies in the frozen North, and clandestine traitors within the rusting Empire itself — driven above all by revenge.
pf8.0· 1Goodreads4.48· 3.8K
Class SystemHard MagicMilitarySecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Rise of the Living Forge

Actus

S87/100
Ever since Arwin was summoned as a child, all he has known is war. To claim the demon queen's life and end the conflict, he must sacrifice himself — but at the moment of the final blow, the Hero of Mankind is betrayed. Caught in a magical explosion thought to end him, Arwin awakens a month later to find everyone has already moved on. His [Hero] class has changed to a unique blacksmith class called [The Living Forge], empowered by consuming magical items. Some of his old passive Titles remain, giving him the power to forge a new future exactly as he chooses. Arwin isn't going to settle for anything less than completely surpassing the powers he wielded as the Hero. After all, you are what you eat — and Arwin's diet just became legendary.
Royal Road4.53· 2.8KGoodreads4.46· 2.7K
Class SystemCraftingCrafting PowerGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+5

Return of the Runebound Professor

Actus

S87/100
Lives are a currency, and Noah Vines is rich. After standing around in the afterlife for thousands of years, Noah is all out of patience. When the opportunity to steal a second chance at life arises, he doesn't hesitate. Reincarnated into the body of a dying magic school professor, Noah finds he got more than just a second chance — he got infinite. Every time he dies, his body reforms. With countless variations of runic magic to discover and with death serving as only a painful soul-wound rather than a final end, Noah finally has a chance to wander the lands of the living once more. This time around, he plans to get strong enough to make sure he never has to wait around in the afterlife again.
Goodreads4.48· 3.6K
Competent MCGenius MCHard MagicOlder MCReincarnationSchool+1