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Transported into a world where just about anyone can receive the title of Mage, Morgana is baffled and outraged. She spent twenty-two years studying spell formulae and memorizing the forty-three Primary Astolian Paradigms — and here, power is just handed out? She doesn't know how she arrived, why everyone is so ignorant of magic's fundamentals, or what this strange System is. But she intends to find out. Dungeons, artifacts, classes, skills, and spells all seem to have been built using a language only Morgana recognizes — and hidden within those mechanisms may be something far bigger than arcane knowledge alone.

Set in the far future, humanity has reached the stars — only to find it is not the first to do so. A long-dead alien race has left behind ancient cities, abandoned starships, temples, and fortified bunkers filled with artefacts so advanced they feel more like magic than technology. Powerful enough for a single person to dominate a star system, these relics are also fiercely defended by bewildering security measures. Those who are compatible with the alien technology can augment themselves to face the increasingly extreme protocols in the depths of the ruins — and by doing so, attain greater and greater power. The rewards are immense, but only those willing to go further and risk more will uncover the greatest secrets of a civilisation that vanished long before the first human walked upright.

Jay Luckrun has many interests: street dancing, anime, action movies, comedy, and dashing across rooftops. But after a failed attempt to talk to his crush at her birthday party, he adds dungeon crawling to the list — because the Apocalypse has arrived. A divine creature chooses Jay to become a Champion, granting him a leveling System, stats, Skills, access to dungeon dimensions, and gravity powers that can alter reality. The downside: global assassins want Jay and other Champions dead, and monsters are hungry to break free from their dungeons and raze his world.

A thousand years ago, Earth fell. Rifts tore open reality, flooding the planet with eldritch horrors. Humanity evolved, adapted, and awakened to new powers — but it wasn't enough. Earth was abandoned and humanity scattered to the stars. Now, Knights are all that remain of Earth's warrior legacy: humans wielding Rift-forged power armor and ancient combat disciplines, fighting for hire across the galaxy. Cadet Kon was training to join their ranks until his ship was shot down and he crash-landed on a Rift-infected world crawling with pirates, bandits, and relics of a dead civilization. Cut off from command and surrounded by monsters that should not exist, survival becomes the first test of many as Kon fights his way through a world lost to madness.

Lee is a quiet office worker who leads a life of solitude, comfort, and routine — until a drunken god shows up and whisks him off to another world, demanding he serve as a pawn in a game between the gods. Trapped in a world full of danger, magic, and creatures he's never imagined outside of fairy tales, Lee has to figure out how to stay alive long enough to make it back home.

Born talentless, Iro has all but resigned himself to a life of drudgery — watching others hop across massive space titans for supplies. When a titan explodes and his sister is killed, Iro finds new determination to take her place. When the fleet encounters a new titan filled with powerful monsters, deadly traps, and mysterious cloaked figures, Iro is the first to spontaneously manifest a new talent. Sent to a different ship to train with others far beyond his strength, Iro will have to work twice as hard just to catch up — and to uncover the mysteries of the titans.

What do you call a mage incapable of casting spells? In this story, we usually call him Terry. When the boy is accepted into Arcana Academy, his talent in mana foundation management awes everyone — making the eventual disappointment all the greater when Terry proves to be an utter failure at spellwork. Diagnosis: major aspect impairment, no cure. Faced with expulsion, Terry finds unexpected kindness that costs him his academy place but gives him a home with a caring family. Resigned to exploring mana cultivation, he never stops searching for his own path as a mage — day after day, season after season — looking for compatible spellwork. All to finally find the only spell he can cast. A journey to discover that even a narrow path of magic can lead to the territory of legends.

Lily Red has trained her entire life to become a system-acknowledged scout, mastering hunting, tracking, and trap-making under her Grandmother's guidance. When she uncovers an impending invasion by the brutal Wolf Warband from the frozen north, she races to warn the city-states — only to be mocked and dismissed. Undeterred, Lily vows to protect the people of Canu Moch herself, even as the Big Bad Wolf names her his prophesied partner and the only obstacle in his path. A series of fairy-tale-inspired progression fantasy adventures featuring competent heroines in a secondary world.

The world didn't end with fire or ice. It ended with a rain of blood and a bureaucratic apology memo from the rest of the galaxy. Enzo had always been a daredevil — snowboarder, rock climber, martial artist, skydiver — until an accident put him on a quieter path crafting bespoke jewelry. Then came the rain. With it came evidence that humanity wasn't alone, and that magic was very real. The dead now rise as Eaters: magically evolving, mana-sucking undead with a taste for hearts and brains. Enzo's only guide is a cryptic Universal Training Guide that refuses to answer questions until you're already figuring things out for yourself. He'll master spells, craft magical equipment, protect the people he loves — and eventually find the people responsible for that apology memo.

Seek out new life and civilizations. Kill them for their mana. Daniel Thrush is the only known human capable of learning the magic that powers the various empires of the universe. Earth is in the crosshairs of the Tellask Empire — a race that discovered magic millennia before humanity mastered fire. All known alien civilizations abandoned technological progress once they found the arcane, spreading across the galaxy aboard great voidships. For all of Earth's military might, humanity's only hope is to incorporate alien magic into technology. That means finding monsters and harvesting their mana. Despite his better judgment, Daniel leaves Earth behind to bring back a future.

Ragnarok is near, and the Vikings of Midgard have failed to uphold their duty to prevent it. With time running out, Odin himself searches all the worlds for one last warrior. His one good eye falls on Magnus — an Army Ranger whose death in the line of duty caught the All-Father's attention. Summoned before Odin, Magnus learns the grave news: every realm faces destruction. A bargain is struck — Magnus will be reborn in Midgard, empower himself through mystical runes, and battle Odin's foes in exchange for his fallen team receiving a second chance at life. Waking in a small farming village, Magnus must now train and fight both mundane enemies and creatures straight out of myth, across all Nine Realms.

Time is money. Time is a weapon. Time is running out. Grant Leap is an orphaned mortal farmhand in a world where cultivation methods and Weapons of Power are jealously guarded and passed only within families. As a reviled Leap, he has no chance at the good life others in his district enjoy — until a celestial event pours time magic into his field, forming a lost Weapon of Power. At the weapon's first touch, the orphan gains a Sword and a Name — along with a mandatory quest he must complete or forfeit his life. The blade offers him a choice: surrender to his desires, or live like a King.

Being a mage isn't all it's cracked up to be — especially when you've witnessed the end of the world and the demise of all you've ever loved. As a particle physicist, William Jenkins is as unsuited to survival on an alien world as any normal thirty-something post-doc could be. Thankfully, he's not alone: with an A.I., magic, scientific curiosity, and most improbably a deity on his side, Will must come to terms with his new reality before otherworldly terrors extinguish all hope. Meanwhile, Effni Naridia, Qaseri Ranger and Guardian of her people, must face her own demons — by undertaking a trial that could determine not only the fate of her city but unravel a mystery aeons in the making.

It's the end of the world, and all Dave wanted was to eat his eggs in peace. Thanks to a talking bird, he's been transported to another universe with only a few years to either grow powerful enough on his own to save his home, or find someone who can help him do it. With new friends by his side, Dave pushes against a System that keeps nudging him toward dangerous experiments, working to understand the rules of his new world before time runs out.

Ekavir is a lumberjack's son — ordinary by every measure, except that crows speak in eldritch voices near him and his blood-red eyes terrify the village children. He might be the latest incarnation of a dreaded god called the Primordial, the Ender of Realms, but he has no idea. When knights arrive hunting for the Primordial, Vir loses everything. To survive, he must grow strong — but there is one problem: he cannot do magic. Not even a simple flame. To take back control of his destiny, Vir will have to forge an entirely new path to power, clawing forward through a world that wants him dead.

For all his twenty-one years, Zephyr has been a cultivator of the Carefree Path and a martial artist. He always assumed he would take the vows and become a monk — until a letter from the Grand Sage summons him to the Schools of Elemental Magic. Gifted with the Codex of Ascension, Zephyr intends to master the various elements in record time. Alongside two students with mysteriously similar origins, his school year promises to be far more than he ever imagined.

Seven years ago, the Frozen Flame brought magic to Earth — but not to Dalton, who received only scars. Now a lonely shut-in known as "Ezzen," he's resigned himself to an online life of secondhand magic and fanboying over the superhuman Vaetna. When fate splinters and magic finally finds him, it's the best day of his life — and the worst. He suddenly becomes a resource in a cold war over magical power, hunted by paramilitary organizations and Flame-worshipping cults alike. Worse, the reality of being a flamebearer is nothing like the apotheosis he dreamed of: it is cruel and twisted, the bloody path of monsters.

Marcus saw magic when he first opened his eyes, and nothing else ever compared. But the king is old and Marcus is an only child — hard decisions must be made, and no one expected anything of him beyond his skill with the arcane. They were right to underestimate him. Until the cube. Until it taught him what life meant for people not born into nobility, that all his arcane skill did not make him immortal, and that running from problems does not make them go away.

The Great War ravaged the earth many years ago. In the years that followed, the world rebuilt by mixing machinery and magic into something new — great blimps belching steam above metal city-states that sprouted like weeds across the desert. Angel, a talented mage, scours the desert endlessly in search of lost knowledge. When it unexpectedly falls into his hands, he quickly realizes the world is far larger — and far more deadly — than he ever predicted. No amount of danger is going to keep Angel from seeking greater strength and claiming the greatest treasures the world has to offer.

A cyborg transhuman escapes her corporate indenture and, through unfathomably unlikely circumstances, ends up in a fantasy world full of unique magic, angry people with sharp implements, and the whole flavor-spectrum of divine entities. Hard-ish sci-fi meets hard-ish magic in a rational, character-driven story that explores dark themes — including slavery, speciesism, and questions of identity and consciousness — while remaining darkly funny and occasionally absurd.