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An incident in his childhood left Velik an outcast with a racial subtype that thrives at night and a unique class called [The Black Fang], which focuses on just one thing: killing monsters. For ten years he has been gaining levels and sharpening his skills on thousands of monsters infesting the wild frontier, keeping a lonely stretch of towns safe. This year has seen an explosion in the monster population beyond his ability to handle alone, drawing the interest of a professionally licensed monster hunter who seems more interested in investigating Velik than hunting. With a partner whether he wants one or not, Velik is free to finally explore the deep wood — where he believes the source of all monsters resides. Every answer leads to new questions, and not even Velik knows the truth of what happened on that fateful day.

Percy was born with little hope of standing out — just another face in a world ruled by bloodlines and class, starting with the lowest Red core and mocked as a waste. When his bloodline awakens with the power to send clones across worlds, he seizes the chance to shatter those expectations. Exploring strange realms full of danger, Percy returns with divine techniques, obscure knowledge, and treasures stolen from advanced civilizations. But mastering alchemy, outmaneuvering scheming Great Houses, and surviving invading gods will test whether a so-called waste can truly reach the stars.

Francis Francis Francis the 3rd was one hell of a Marine. He died doing what he loved. After being vaporized in the line of duty, Francis is transported to a new world full of gods and magic. Too bad Hades is trying to kill him for declining a job offer and the System holds a grudge for what happened during character creation. At least his new patron deity seems nice. Armed with nothing but his lucky pink booty shorts, a pair of matching flip flops, and nineteen years of Marine Corps experience, Francis must find a way home to his fellow grunts — or be listed as KIA forever.

Dylan is your average nerd — architect by day, games-and-media enthusiast by night. When an indie company releases a virtual reality MMO where players choose to be heroes or villains, Dylan immediately signs up to play his favorite archetype: the Saturday-morning cartoon villain. Inept, bungling, yet highly dangerous. But to grab a playerbase, the company has announced that players with high enough reputation can become paid permanent raid bosses. Serious players are rushing to purchase copies of World of Supers. What will happen when Dylan — someone playing purely for fun — clashes with these overly serious players?

When an unbeatable enemy threatens to eradicate civilization, necromancer siblings Darien and Liesel Embermourn cast a spell of great sacrifice to give the world a second chance. The spell returns them to their childhood, giving them time to prepare for the disaster they know is coming. But even as children they have enemies everywhere. The lord who murdered their parents is scheming to steal their lands, and an ancient dracolich gathering strength to the north will soon sense the twins' power and move against them. With both the living and the dead set against them, forging a new destiny will take power beyond mortal reckoning—and mortality is far behind them.

The Earth is changing. Aliens invaded, bringing with them social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this — he has only one thing on his mind: the Game. A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization. Soon, Alan realizes the Game is anything but simple, and the stakes are higher than he ever imagined.

For Joshua Still, Skills were the lifeblood of his business. He wanted to understand them, collect many of them, and teach a few — which was a problem, because his profession of Skill Trainer was perfectly legal but deeply frowned upon. After all, it wouldn't do for a non-tailor to teach Tailoring, according to every Guild with enough money and clout to complain. Still, Skill Trainers provide a valuable service, and Joshua has managed to keep his research and training practice quietly under the table, aided by many a bribe. But his quiet, anonymous life is about to change — when the Baron demands you pay him a visit, you have little choice.

Morgan Mackenzie had a very bad day. First at work, then at home — and then her bathtub fell through a portal to another world, with her in it. Now she's stranded thousands of miles from any sort of civilization with nothing but the bathtub and a lace puffball scrubby. But she learned magic, so that's sort of nice. Now if only she could find some clothes. This is a bigger story than just one main character fighting the monster of the week — multiple characters and perspectives populate a fully realized world.

Whatever kills Shiv only makes him stronger. An outcast in his town, considered an unholy omen, Shiv has spent years fruitlessly hunting monsters on his own — the System seems to spurn him and the authorities refuse to grant him a Path. When his town is attacked and Shiv is murdered in combat, he finds himself bestowed with a Unique Path possessed by no one else: the Path of the Deathless. Resurrecting upon death, he is cast into the Abyss. In that dark and wondrous place, he is finally free to chart his own destiny — if he can survive its countless dangers. In a world that stands against him, death is not the end. For Shiv, it's just another source of power.

Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth. Society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game called Epic. Everyone plays. Win, and you earn access to university, more supplies for your community, and a chance to fulfill your dreams. Lose, and your life inside and outside the game is worth nothing. When Erik, seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends find themselves up against the ultimate masters of the game: the Committee.

Cassie is about to have her dream retirement, joining her favorite game world, Biprism Realm — a place of magic, portals, pocket realms, towers to eternity, monsters, and steampunk elements. Rather than banking on possible restarts, she sells everything she has for the best possible starting position imaginable. Unlike those who tried before her, Cassie has a plan.

Born to die and be born again, Gell the Jellyfae must discover her strange connection to the horrible monsters called humans — creatures that speak with words she understands yet seem to want nothing but her death. Driven by a desire for safety and freedom, she ventures forth to Tread the Sky and finds more worlds than one.

Nicholas Crowley is used to scraping by in a world where magic is dying. The modern age has left the arcane behind, and the few remaining practitioners fight over scraps like starving dogs. While performing a ritual, something interferes and his soul is ripped from his body. He awakens during the Class ceremony as Nick, a kid living on the frontier of the Green Ocean — a seemingly infinite expanse of trees brimming with rare ingredients and powerful creatures. Mana is abundant here, and the omnipresent System allows for feats he had once thought impossible. But legends walk the land, and gods require their due. Will his experience as an occultist be enough to navigate this wild new world?

Emie Mercer was one of several billion people who survived the apocalypse and was introduced to a new reality where magic was commonplace and everyone had access to a system. Unfortunately, the rest of Emie's family wasn't so lucky. As far as world-changing events went, Earth's reintegration into the Atlantis Alliance was remarkably tame — the post-apocalyptic universe mirrored the wildly popular deep-immersion VRMMORPG Atlas Online, allowing those who played to quickly adapt to their new reality. More than a decade later, Emie manages to create a formation that relies on her Time and Space affinities to return her consciousness to the past. When she arrives nearly four years earlier than expected, she realizes she has a unique opportunity to prepare and train for what is coming. A regression story focused on preparation, growth, and the cost of making herself exceptional — without relying on perfect foreknowledge.

In ages past, the world was wracked with upheaval — flooded with monsters while humanity gained the power of the gods. The present is filled with youngsters desperately attempting to match the heights of those original heroes, while old monsters in human skin struggle for supremacy and daring explorers probe the cosmos. As the younger brother of one of the most famous trailblazers, Derek Thoma is expected to become strong or die trying. When his older brother returns from outer space, the pressure only intensifies — even as centuries-old threats rear their ugly heads.

The story follows Kate Lindgren, a firefighter from Keilberg who really likes coffee. It's a nice autumn afternoon when the world is thrust into chaos, and Kate along with it. The story has magic and monsters but also Earth-level tech — a blend of apocalyptic survival and LitRPG in a world that hasn't entirely left the familiar behind.

A girl suddenly vanishes from her world and finds herself drifting in and out of consciousness in a place of pure darkness. Queen in the Mud follows a female monster protagonist as she makes her way through a vicious, untamed world ruled by a system.

Jason and his friends are working to move their entire guild to Pro-Gamer status in FIVRMMORPG, a revolutionary new video game introducing immersive technology unlike anything experienced before. Choosing a Nightmare start to get ahead of the wave of new players, Jason finds himself alone in the wilds tasked with saving a group of refugees from goblin invaders. Jason is swept up in the adventure as he struggles to build a home for his guildmates and the NPCs he's saved. He quickly discovers that marauding goblins are the least of his concerns.

It began as just another evening of fantasy gaming, with James, Karl, Andrea, and the rest ready to assume their roles as wizard, cleric, warrior, and thief. But their gamemaster had something else planned — and the game soon became a matter of life and death as the seven adventurers found themselves transported to an alternate world, inhabiting the actual bodies of the characters they had been playing. Cast into a land where magic worked all too well and dragons were a fire-breathing menace, the young gamers faced a terrible task: the only way home was to find the legendary Gate Between Worlds, guarded by the most terrifying enemy of all.

In the latter half of the 21st century, Alexander and his guild play Io Online — the world's largest VRMMORPG — for both fun and income. While completing a rare "First Kill" dungeon, they discover that demons have returned to the realm for the first time in ages. Given the chance to test a new immersion system that makes casting faster, movement more fluid, and magic itself different, the friends must give up their high-level characters and start over at level one. They quickly run afoul of a player-killer guild, and the conflict escalates until in-game actions begin to have real-world consequences.