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The world didn't end with a bang. Instead it suffocated slowly — a long fight for survival against monsters and others like them. Isaac experienced it all from the beginning. While humanity scrambled to understand the Contamination Zones overtaking the Earth, he fought for his life and tried to embrace the Virus that had become part of him. Origins, Legacies, attributes — familiar terms that meant little at first, but that quickly changed. Humanity adapted, monsters died, and Isaac? For the first time in his life, he was searching. Searching for a purpose, a goal. And if that journey began with hundreds of monsters lying dead at his feet — so be it.

Danny's life was going well — a steady job, plans to buy his own place. That was until some rogue junk mail decided he needed a change of scenery. Now Danny has a new start in another world, and he needs to make sure he doesn't squander the opportunity.

Unbeknownst to him, Ray is about to partake in an adventure filled with magical beasts, warring factions, and a leveling-up system out of this world. He'll encounter filthy bandits, musty crypts, and friendly werewolves. If only he hadn't been given negative charisma points around women. When the only way out of the game may be through, you fight like your life depends on it — because it just may.

The chronicles of one very exasperated Dungeon Core — formerly a human of Planet Earth — who just wants to build in peace. Unfortunately, even with a cheat, life isn't quite that charmed.

Sky Realms Online is the largest and most popular VR MMORPG ever made, set among the mystical floating islands of Hankarth. Until something goes wrong — players are reduced to level one and find themselves unable to log out, possibly trapped forever. Hall, a veteran player, decides to make the most of it rather than panic. But he quickly discovers that while some aspects of the game are the same, the difficulty level is beyond anything he's ever experienced.

What's worse than Australian wildlife? Mutated Australian wildlife. The System Apocalypse has come to Australia, altering native organisms and importing even more menacing creatures to the world's most dangerous continent. For Kira Kent, plant biologist, the System arrives while she's pulling an all-nighter at work with her two kids in tow. Now, instead of worrying about childcare and bills, she must figure out how to survive a world where already-deadly flora and fauna have grown even more perilous — all while navigating the System's blue screens, leveling up, and building a community of survivors to shelter her son and daughter.

Her mother a Spellblade, her father a Talismartist — so why did Astrid have to be a Warrior? Inspired by her mother's tales of defending Humanity's Bulwark, she sets out to become a delver in the Dungeon, earning enough levels and experience to protect her borders and countrymen. Her plan didn't work out, and now she's all alone — no planned allies, no family support. With just her skills and armor, and not a lick of magic to her name, Astrid Warrior intends to show the world exactly what a nonmagical fighter can do.

What does a world do to survive a continuous low-level influx of Isekai protagonists, each adding their own world's magic or superpowers to the mix? Whitney Ismael, software engineer, learns the answer: licensing and registration paperwork, search warrants, and special agents for the Bureau of Isekai Affairs.

Lucan is the son of a landed knight in a kingdom surrounded by diverse threats. As he comes of age, he must make peace with both the tasteful and distasteful aspects of his responsibilities — and find a way to either tame or accept his own ambitions. In a realm where an underground labyrinth births monsters hungry to climb into the world of men, it is dangerous to be a warrior and difficult to be a noble. Lucan must navigate mortal peril and political intrigue if he is to survive — and perhaps someday thrive.

The Integration tore the Earthen Union apart — monsters, mayhem, and madness turned civilization into a battlefield. Yet while the world crumbled, David felt strangely at home. Forced into the Cleric class, David refused to yield. He adapted, turning unwanted gifts into tools of both healing and destruction, forging himself into a battle-hardened healer unlike any before.

Hecate has never done anything wrong in her entire life. She was supposed to follow the rules, pick the same class as her mother, keep her head down. Instead she picked [Gunwitch] — and shot the Archon's son. Thrown into Silesia, a place that burns witches, Hecate has two guns, magic bullets, and nothing left to lose. Every head she claims only adds to her power. A loot system inspired by Diablo II runewords fuels her rise from outlaw to something far more dangerous.

Astrid, a mischievous noble teen, has trained her whole life to become a magic swordswoman and explore the ancient cities preserved beneath the waves — remnants of an age before the ocean swallowed the world. When an ancient monster assaults humanity's last bastion, a floating ship-city, she awakens her System early. She isn't the warrior she expected to become. She is a Psychokinetic Mage. With Spawn-infested oceans, pirates, and monsters lurking in the submerged cities below, Astrid will have to master psychic powers all the way to the apex — and discover that her world is far larger than anyone imagined.

After serving two terms in the Iron Army's Building Division, Flint Woodson is done with it all. With his four-legged friend at his side, he wants nothing more than to find a remote settlement, work as a guard or builder, and find a wife. But the realm is at war. The Fae are sick of humankind violating their treaties, and their Wyld armies are taking to the fields. When the Diskverse sends Flint a Life Quest — reawaken the Sleeping Fort, protect the village of Lea's Slumber, and give the Champion of Equilibrium time to grow — saying no isn't an option.

Ebony never faced any real problem in life. He could see his entire future mapped out — graduate, stable job, family, old age. Boring, but certain. Then, on the way back from a job interview, he found himself in a forest. Freezing. A metre-tall boar charging straight at him. Not ideal for someone whose years of training had always felt purposeless in the modern world. Transported to a world of swords and magic, Ebony must figure out how to survive — and what kind of person he wants to become — in a place where his instincts might finally have some use.

Balthazar was just a random giant crab enjoying his life in a fantasy world full of bothersome human adventurers — until he accidentally discovered the secret of attributes and levels. And also pie. With baked goods and coin as his new life goals, he turns to the competitive business of trading the random junk adventurers loot every day. Balthazar will do everything to find a baker, except leave his pond, because exploring the dangerous world out there is for suckers. Meanwhile, adventurers just can't seem to stop dying around his home, and he keeps making great new friends by simply buying them.

After eight years of leading her guild in endless PvP conflict in her favorite dark fantasy MMO, shut-in Ai Kanbara finally felt ready to face reality — only to transmigrate into the game world as her max-level character. But the world has moved on. The artificial God-Engine she built to banish the darkness has developed a critical flaw, her guildmates are either missing or deified as the patron gods of a crumbling empire, and a message from her oldest friend reveals a terrible truth: they were betrayed by one of their own. To uncover the fates of her guildmates and push back against the tyrannies of the Republic ruling in her character's name, Ai must become her legend in truth. Accompanied by her loyal lizard-dog and new companions, she begins a journey across a vibrant world of brutal stakes and deep human connection.

Nathan Cheng, known as Nil, is a game developer with four consecutive game jam wins — but a gaping hole in his heart from his sister's untimely murder. When he wakes up in an arcane world with a familiar System, he's given one mission: defeat the dark king, or die. Success means returning home on the day before his sister was killed. Only Nil's knowledge of the System — and his perfect memory — can let him advance fast enough to avoid being overwhelmed. The mechanics are far more complex than they appear, with thousands of hidden secrets waiting to be exploited. It'll take more than just brains. He'll need a mountain of grit and guts.

When Aurum Industries announced the first full-immersion VRMMORPG, Limitless Online, most people saw it as an opportunity to live out their sword-and-sorcery fantasies. John, however, saw it as the opening of a new and uncrowded job market — one he was willing and eager to exploit. Determined to make money through virtual hard work and effort, John sets his sights not on the heights of magic or the perfection of the sword, but instead upon the tilling of soil and the sowing of seeds, exploring the wide and wonderful world of magical agriculture all from the comfort of his own bed.

The gods have been known, in times of great need, to summon a hero from another world — mighty warriors to fight as their champion and save the world from darkness. Unfortunately, the gods are not all-knowing, and they can make mistakes. Sometimes what they get is not quite what they were expecting.

A hundred years ago, thirteen towers arrived on Earth. Each year at noon on the summer solstice, the tower gates open, admitting any who wish to climb. Those who survive return with incredible powers and riches. Over the decades, the worlds inside the towers have leaked free, changing Earth and her inhabitants. Except for the Thirteenth Tower — the Unconquered Tower. Nobody has ever left it. Every year it leeches more life out of the world, turning the American Southwest into a growing graveyard. If it isn't cleared, it will consume the planet. Roan doesn't care about that. The tower has long been the gravestone for his family, as generations have tried to best it and save their ancestral homes. All he wants is to put one burning question to rest: are they dead? He only needs to clear the tower to find out.