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Asterion's first life lasted far too long. He learned alien languages, mastered unknown magic, and watched his comrades fall one by one before facing the Dark Lady at the bitter end — only to cast a self-destruction spell intended to finish them both. Yet somehow, he survived. All he wants is to rest permanently. So why does everything keep happening to him? A new magic academy has built itself atop the first floor of his labyrinth and stolen his legendary relics to power their campus. Students keep tumbling through random wormholes into his lap. And deep in the Abyss, an ancient entity stirs. Perhaps there is a reason he was revived. For now, Asterion is focused on one goal: building the coziest labyrinth possible.

Glenn, a college sophomore, needs material for a sociology paper on unfamiliar groups—so he tags along to his university's game club. A creepy game moderator runs a session of Monsters, Maces and Magic, and before anyone can blink, Glenn and five other players are literally pulled into the game, transformed into their RPG characters. How they got there matters less than surviving a world filled with horrific creatures, unknown magic, and perilous roads. Glenn must adapt to life as a gnome healer while the group searches for a way back home.

Gale didn't ask to become a monster. When an anomaly opens a rift in his orphanage bedroom, Gale is thrown into the Eclipsed, where survival means mastering the alien Dainv OS or dying alone. He survives. Barely. Until he finds others. But every encounter forces an impossible choice: run and live in isolation, or fight alongside people who see him as the eldritch nightmare he's terrified of becoming. As Gale's heritage awakens, the line between human and horror blurs. To heal, he must first learn to trust — before his companions decide he's too dangerous to keep alive.

No gods. No masters. Only Eternity — said the entity that was both System and God. It didn't quite understand irony. Klaus's life takes a turn for the weird when Eternity saves him from a head-on collision and drops him off on Oresstria #2111. What could a godlike AI need with a burned-out service engineer from Earth? Klaus finds he can't accept the entity's evasive answers — in his experience, "nothing is expected of you" generally means there's a hidden clause that's going to skin him alive. Oresstria seems heavenly at first glance: silver forests, rabbit folk, ancient ruins full of wonder. But lurking in dungeons that don't forgive mistakes are brain-slurping horrors and carnivorous wildlife. Sometimes the path to healing from the past takes you through several dungeons and a whole lot of monsters.

Trapped in an extradimensional lobby, groups of people are forced to enter dangerous story-worlds and earn points to survive. Adam was a university student with no interests beyond his studies — until he found himself transported to the lobby alongside strangers, staring at the plot summary of a terrifying scenario they had to overcome. Venturing from world to world, Adam must rely on knowledge, luck, and the unpredictable nature of the people around him. Points buy equipment and skills, but surviving means learning that life is not just books and theory.

The Doomsday Trials had one purpose: forge the ultimate warrior using every age of human history as a gauntlet, from the stone age to a future of demonic hordes and twenty-foot mechs. No one ever advanced. Everyone died, and the trials were forgotten. Then Felix falls from the sky — naked, broken, five hit points — with a sabretooth tiger about to end him in the primordial jungle. The system hasn't been updated in centuries, but Felix is an obsessive gamer who knows how to exploit rules and stats. Suddenly, he is doing what no one has done in ages: winning. First priority: don't die. Next: find some pants.

Caught in a nuclear blast, soldier Alex Pierce and eleven comrades are dumped into a world of magic where stats rule and the System shows no mercy. Alex finds bigger problems than rations and childhood trauma: forest badgers with personal grudges, a kobold village too stubborn for diplomacy, smug elves, and an undead dungeon that didn't get the memo about staying dead. His power build is ruined by an early magical mishap, his fellow soldiers are a disaster, and his closest ally might be an evil talking river pebble. The System only cares about one thing: prove yourself worthy to exist — or be erased.

Every month the long night drives monsters into a frenzy, and villagers like thirteen-year-old David fight to survive until dawn while the privileged shelter in walled cities. Witnessing the deaths of fellow villagers shatters a mental limiter, unlocking memories of a past life as an engineer. Armed with the scientific method, a power to harvest memories from the freshly dead, and a growing command of the world's volatile magic, David sets out to carve a better life for his family. When an intelligent monster settles in the neighboring forest and the knights meant to protect them target his alchemist mother, David is done observing. What he lacks in brawn, he will make up for in sharp thinking and sheer audacity.

Harry Hemming had his Pokemon Journey a long time ago and settled into a quiet life away from the spotlight. When a new tournament arises to establish a Gym in Hoenn, he can't resist the pull back into competition. A fan-fiction set in the Pokemon world, following an older trainer returning to the game after years of retirement.

William Draven spent ten years mastering Realm of the Fallen Gods Online as a max-level Paladin. Then the system breaks, and he wakes inside the game — sealed in his golden raid armour, starving, exhausted, and painfully alive. Back in the starter village, nothing works as it should. His interface is shattered, skills refuse to activate, and numbers lie. Pain is real. Death is permanent. The NPCs think for themselves, monsters adapt, and bosses learn. With the Goblin King threatening the kingdom, hostile nobles circling, and an assassin on his trail, William must rebuild his power from scratch — one hard-earned stat at a time — in a world that no longer treats him as a player.

Heron was just an average, overworked salaryman with a bad habit of saying yes. After saving a kid from a truck, he found himself stranded on a tiny planet with no way to call for help, no village to start anew, and no gods to pray to. Magic existed, but it had a price. Summon a carrot? Fine. Summon anything processed? Enjoy passing out. So the farming life it was — and Heron accepted the lack of any call to adventure. Peace and quiet, a cozy cottage, and trying to figure out how to summon milk and eggs without accidentally dying from mana overconsumption kept him busy. Then a dragon landed in his potato field.

After years grinding to finish his novel, Evan wakes up transported into the body of a powerful mage in the very world he created — except it has changed dramatically. More than forty years have passed since the legendary archmage Valis Rook defeated the Demon Lord, and the peace Evan wrote into existence has begun to fracture. Mages claw for power, dangerous factions hunt the lost artifacts of the greatest archmage in history, and whispers surface that the Demon Lord was never truly defeated. Armed with absurd magical power and dangerously high charisma, Evan is quickly pulled into a world that has long since outgrown his story — and must confront his connection to the dead archmage at its center.

You have been Reborn as a Tamer's Monster. Congratulations — you are in immediate danger. When our hero's new life begins in a world of monsters and tamers, he finds himself not as a powerful warrior but as a helpless hatchling, alone in a terrifying forest and about to be eaten. Surrounded by monsters hellbent on ruining his day, there is nothing to do but run, hide, and survive — while also uncovering who he was in his past life and why his tamer is nowhere to be found. Lucky for him, monsters here can grow into anything. Once free of his weak hatchling body, he will grow into the most powerful monster ever: Nidhögg, the Withering Wyrm.

Dalex died, and his body was abducted by aliens. Resurrected halfway across the galaxy to do their grunt work, he finds himself commanding a starship with enough firepower to destroy a solar system, alongside a snarky android assistant. The habitable planets nearby are fantasy worlds — elves, beastmen, orcs, and dragons — overflowing with magical power. Unfortunately, the dragons are fascist authoritarians exterminating the elves and using native humans as their overseers, which ruins Dalex's image of the noble dragon entirely. With a post-singularity arsenal of weapons rebranded with fantasy-appropriate names, he intends to give those tyrannical wyrms the fight they deserve.

Orphaned at six and terminal at nineteen, Levi's life on Earth was already ending when a strange voice offered him a different one. He's promised adventure, great powers, and a noble mission. What he gets instead is being stuck in the Void — a place where time has no meaning and magic has no limits. Decades later, now a mage beyond comprehension, Levi breaks his dimensional prison all the way into Ellinaria, only to find his new home is long since saved — both from the Cataclysm, and apparently from himself. Now Levi has simple goals: find his imposter, clear his name stealthily, and resist the urge to solve every minor problem with overwhelming magical violence. It's the Levi Cult's plans for a new Calamity that might complicate things. Then again, who's better to deal with cultists than the man they worship?

Sentenced to death for his Bloodright, Startüm Ironwolf has fought for life since birth. Born a half-breed and a Paladin of Ukko, he is the first of his kind. When his father's people, the Klavikians, are destroyed in an overwhelming surprise attack by invading Toenellian Demonic Hordes, Startüm is spirited away to Earth by his Grandsire. Hiding among humans in present-day Florida, Startüm lives in the shadows as he grows and learns to control his powers. On the eve of his eighteenth birthday, the fates of both worlds become irrevocably entwined when the Tuonellians discover him on Earth. Mankind is swept into the middle of a millennium-long conflict spanning two worlds, and Startüm must find a way to fight his people's ancient enemy — or humanity will suffer the same fate as the Klavikians.

On September 23, a million people vanish in columns of light descending from the heavens. To seventeen-year-old Isaac Stein, it is a fresh start — he finds himself on Tautellus, an alternate version of Earth filled with magical beings from legend. As Isaac works to establish new ties and harness his mystical powers, his new home is ripped away by the invasion of a hostile nation. Driven to protect others from the same fate, he must brave the wilderness, survive betrayals, and wage war — while uncovering secrets of a lost magitechnological civilization and an ancient enemy now seeding chaos across both worlds.

Dimension Rifts appeared across Earth without warning, opening portals to other dimensions and triggering what became known as the Dimension Apocalypse. From the destroyed future, warrior Evan Cross was granted a second chance — sent back to prevent the end of humanity by changing the course of events he already lived through once.

Isaac Stein thwarted a beastman invasion and saved a city of millions — then was captured and dragged behind enemy lines. Now trapped in the Ice Lands, he discovers the beastmen are not the bloodthirsty savages he believed, but a people driven to desperation by a force working to destabilize both Tautellus and Earth. To restore the natural balance, Isaac must traverse hazardous frozen terrain, prevent a second invasion, and unravel the motives of a power manipulating events across two worlds.

A strange, foreign world. Mysterious judges with capricious rules. Thousands of gamers find themselves split into factions and pitted against each other at the whim of an unknown higher power, with no idea how they got there or why they were chosen. Dying hurts — but it is not the end; dead players always respawn. Echo, with his deep knowledge of fighting, armor, and weapons, has all the makings of a great leader. His ragtag unit, fighting under the less-than-threatening name 'Society of Pinprick Enthusiasts,' becomes the terror of opposing factions. But this game won't be won in straightforward skirmishes — it will require pacts, adaptability, and a strategic mind to carve a way to the top. Originally a massive hit in Russia and widely regarded as a forerunner of the LitRPG genre, this series is presented here for the first time in English.