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In one moment, Dace Tolman is in his apartment. In the next, he and the rest of humanity have been transported to the Proving Grounds — a world seemingly engineered to reward those worthy of its gifts and kill everyone else. Every day is a struggle against the System and its monsters. But survival in the Proving Grounds isn't just about fighting — it's also about navigating humanity's internal conflicts, factional struggles, and guild politics.

Earth was ravaged fifty years ago by Raekast, a monster with unending power. Mankind's only hope sprang up in the form of Rebirth — a way for humans to unlock their inner potential. The only problem: 99% of rebirths are duds. Tad craves more than anything to be reborn a slayer with enough power to delve into dungeons, kill monsters, and find loot. He's the unluckiest person he knows — bullied relentlessly, unable to make friends in any meaningful capacity. But everything would change if only he were reborn with power. Then he could slay towards glory… or die trying.

Zach was a respected leader who thrived in the post-Framework world — until the World Ender killed what he cared for most, and even his incredible power was not enough to stop it. Ryun, meanwhile, became the most powerful being on Earth by pushing harder than anyone else — and was called the World Ender for it. As the old world ends and both men step into the Infinite Realm — a new reality where people stronger than them have lived for centuries — each carries a purpose, a grudge, and a reputation. One wants vengeance. The other wonders if a monster like him has any place left in the universe.

An outcast without a Path, Shiv was never supposed to amount to anything — the System ignored him and his town despised him. But when he is murdered defending his home, the universe makes a correction. Awakening with the Path of the Deathless, Shiv is thrown into the Abyss, where he discovers a terrifying truth: every time he dies, he comes back stronger. The Abyss isn't a prison — it's an all-you-can-eat buffet of XP. And Shiv is starving.

Born into the underground civilization of Emberscale Caverns, Kori is not your average young Kobold. She would much rather ponder life and magic than wrestle or roughhouse with her many siblings. Learning early that if she wants to know something she has to ask questions — often repeatedly — her insatiable curiosity will shape the path she walks. Follow Kori's slow progression from a curious hatchling to a productive member of Clan Emberscale, as she gradually uncovers the various facets of the world's system and finds her path to becoming something her clan has never seen before: an alchemist.

Grief took Julian's family. Fate gave him another life. Reborn as Julius Von Hyperius, he awakens in a world where power is measured in tiers, skills, and the will to keep climbing. Surrounded by ruthless nobles, terrifying monsters, and an unknown system, Julius has only two choices: transcend or die. With a relentless spirit and questionable decisions, he carves his own path — each breakthrough bringing new foes, higher stakes, and the terrifying truth that transcendence demands sacrifice.

Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic otaku, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe as one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons, tasked with saving the world from prophesied destruction. As the Shield Hero — the weakest of the four — he is soon alone, penniless, and betrayed. With no one to turn to and nowhere to run, he is left with only his shield. Now Naofumi must rise to become the legendary Shield Hero and save the world.

Hiral is the Everfail, the weakest person on the flying island of Fallen Reach. He trains harder than any warrior and studies longer than any scholar, but all his people channel magic through sun-powered tattoos — and despite enormous energy within, Hiral alone cannot. In a moment of danger, he unlocks an achievement granting him access to a dungeon — his first and maybe last chance at real power. All dungeons lie in the wilderness below the flying islands, places of secrets and dangers that no one has survived. New powers await, but so do new challenges. If he survives, he could forge his own path to power. If he fails, death will be the least of his problems.

Thrust into a dangerous new fantasy world, Will's life becomes a war for survival. He has nothing more than a class called "Soldier" and a strange leveling system he's never seen before. When he stumbles across a dying stranger, a mysterious questline activates, sending him to the front lines where humanity wages war against a ruthless Goblin Horde. There he joins the standing Kadian Army and must forge his name from the fires of legend — facing goblins, hordes of undead, cultists, and demons while climbing through the military ranks.

Morgan grows up on the streets of City Four, constantly shunned by other citizens and beaten by city guards because of his friendship with the city lord's only daughter. The lord wants him dead, and Morgan is nearing his sixteenth birthday with no awakened abilities in a world where might makes right. Faced with a life-altering decision, Morgan must find his own path in a world where power is everything — and where his choices will impact everyone around him.

When Ozzy signs a five-year contract to work as an NPC serf in Gadobhra — a new fantasy world intended as a playground for the incredibly wealthy — he was just after a paycheck. He's given boring choices: work as a blacksmith, barkeep, or shepherd for all those years. Or he can find ways to take advantage of the System. He can break out, carve out a section of the world for himself as an adventurer, compete to find hidden dungeons, kill the biggest monsters, and gain renown across Gadobhra. Yeah, that sounds like way more fun.

Everyone dreams of gaining magical powers. When mana finally arrives on Earth, it's not all it's cracked up to be. Transported into a tutorial with his family, Christopher has to fight to survive while keeping his loved ones alive. After three grueling months inside a tutorial where tragedy and death seem to follow him, Chris struggles for power and the chance for revenge. When the survivors return to a changed Earth, conflicts arise as various factions vie for dominance — and Chris tries to carve out a place for himself and his family, free from any more conflict.

Today wasn't one of Fritz's best days — mainly because he'd been beaten, kidnapped, stuffed in a cell with a slew of other captives, then forced to climb a particularly malevolent Spire. The Spires have stood tall for thousands of years as cities, kingdoms, and empires rise and fall around them. Inside are Treasures, Monsters, and most importantly, Powers. Every floor conquered gives a choice of magical Abilities or Attributes that, when built up and chosen well, could raise even a street urchin to a king or beyond. Which is lucky for Fritz and his crew — urchins and thieves caught in a deadly peril. Climb or die.

Bail bondsman. Veteran. Survivor. While bringing in his latest fugitive, Hal Mason's payday is interrupted by the translucent blue boxes that herald Earth's introduction to the System — a galaxy-spanning wave of structured mystical energy that destroys all electronics and bestows game-like abilities upon mankind. With society breaking down and mutating wildlife rampaging through Pittsburgh, those who remain will sacrifice anything for a chance at their next Level. As bodies fall and civilization crumbles, Hal asks himself what price his humanity is worth — and whether he can press on, relentless.

The Nine Worlds span dimensions filled with wonder and adventure, but for Theo they mean bitter tragedy. For years he resented the betrayal that killed his friends, sent him back to Earth, and made him question everything he thought he knew. Now, after a lifetime of struggle, he's found a way back to the Nine Worlds — an old man reborn in a new body, with a second chance to rebuild what he lost and unravel a mystery that spans dimensions. Though he arrives in the safe world of Tatian, demons are crawling from the darkness between realms. There's no time to prepare carefully: he needs to find allies among the lost just to survive long enough to make use of what he knows.

The world has devolved into chaos as a game-like system has reduced the population to statistics and screens. Everyone struggles to survive — everyone except Anthony Franklin. He has lived through this exact series of events ninety-nine times in a row, and this is his last chance. Win or lose, his 100th run is his final one. Armed with every shortcut, strategy, and hard-won advantage from his past lives, Anthony must contend with vicious boss monsters, the oppressive surveillance of system administrators, and scheming players who want the game to go their way. In a world where every person has their own goals and fears, shepherding them toward survival won't be easy.

Coming of age is hard enough without monsters — but when your family ends up stranded in a magical world, you don't have much choice. Jackson's class as an Ironwood Monk puts him on the front line: he grows stronger the more he gets hit and can pass that on to his team, if he can get his mom to actually let him fight. Set in the world of Eloria, with character sheets, stats, spell descriptions, and loot — but not a game. Jackson must navigate dangers in both dungeons and the halls of power if he is to find a new home for his family.

Noah Brown has a gift for fighting, but punching things never paid the bills — until he died and an Eldritch god found his soul. The strange encounter transports him to a new world, where he is summoned by bloody cultists with nothing but the shirt on his back and a mysterious item in his System menu marked [???]: a source of infinite potential. If he wants to survive — maybe even thrive — it's time he finally put his gift to good use.

One Tuesday changes everything for Robert Williams. A cosmic entity known as the System arrives, selecting him — a suburban father and engineer — as Earth's sole representative for integration. He has six months to say goodbye to his family before being exiled to another universe for over 400 years. Guided by an AI companion and gifted with powerful starting perks, Robert must navigate a new reality defined by levels, skills, magic, and dungeon crawls. From learning basic spells to crafting powerful artifacts and facing monstrous foes, Robert races against time — not just for his own survival, but to prepare his loved ones and perhaps even his planet for a future transformed by the System.

The Netherworld is a hellish landscape inhabited only by Demons, creatures born from the dark abyss — and it is the only world Salvos knows. Joining the ranks of newborn demons, she is thrown into a violent, anarchy-ruled landscape where she must learn, adapt, and evolve to survive. Her curiosity aids her but her pride could be her fall. It is the nature of the Netherworld to avoid or conquer any threat — after all, the law of evolution is survival of the fittest. Set in a game-like world with Classes, Levels, and monster evolution, Salvos is a story where the world is entirely real to those who inhabit it.