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Wretch

Emilsola

A78/100
Once, the world belonged to humanity. Now it belongs to the creatures of the night. Humanity clings to life in scattered strongholds — rival factions huddled behind crumbling walls while horrors from the wilderness pound on the steam-powered gates. The sacred Flame bestows reality-bending powers to the worthy, but grants those same powers to the horrors that haunt the dark. In one such stronghold, a young man is caught between ruthless hunters and abominations from beyond the wall. Desperate to rise above his insignificance, he dreams of wielding the Flame's blessings — but the Flame is without mercy or prejudice. To earn his place in its ranks, he must endure in a fading city ripe with hunger and danger. And when the Flame demands cruelty and grisly transformation, he must decide: does he still deserve to be called human?
Royal Road4.74· 558Goodreads3.85· 34
GoreGrimdarkHorrorPost-apocalypticSecondary WorldSoft Magic+2

Dragon Sorcerer

Sean Oswald

A78/100
Nico, a young dragon of barely fifty, is rudely chased from his home by a group of murderous adventurers. Of his entire clutch, only he and one sister remained, but now he is alone. Isolated and hungry, Nico's magic awakens, bonding him with Cami, a brave young woman. In order to hide from the adventurers' pursuit, Nico takes on human form. However, once they discover that both he and Cami have magical ability they are required by law to attend the Imperial Academy. Of course, he has to hide his true nature, which isn't always easy, given a dragon-sized ego.
Goodreads4.45· 1.3K
Non-human MCSchoolSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

Song of the Gift-Giver

Selkie

A77/100
When Merlin sundered the world to separate the magical from the mundane, he made a small mistake: he copied every mundane body but not their souls. That night, they rose as undead — and the world has never known peace since. Camelot is now an institution for teaching fine young wixen about magic, and it is not a safe place to learn. Felix has never held a wand or cast a spell — until Paracelsus, the Immortal Alchemist, breaks into his home to tell him he's a wizard. Meanwhile, Erik Morsin, groomed to be the next Duke of Ireland, is a member of the most hated family in King Arthur's nation. Four other students round out a group whose lives will intertwine at Camelot — though only five can bond as a coven. A mild LitRPG set in a magic school, planned across eight books.
Royal Road4.75· 381
Base BuildingCozyGrimdarkHard MagicIsekaiLitRPG+5

Mystery Walk

Robert McCammon

A77/100
Born and raised in rural Alabama, Billy Creekmore was destined to be a psychic. His mother, a Choctaw woman schooled in her tribe's ancient mysticism, understands the permeable barrier between life and death — and taught the power to Billy, who now helps the dead rest in peace. Wayne Falconer, son of a fervent tent evangelist, uses his own unique powers to cure the sick, on his way to becoming one of the most celebrated miracle workers in the country. Billy and Wayne share more than a gift — they share a dream and a common enemy. Their separate journeys are mystery walks leading toward a crossroad where ancient evil has taken shape, and the fate of mankind hangs in the balance.
Goodreads3.99· 5.3K
GrimdarkHorrorMysterySoft Magic

The Shining Wyrm

Nighzmarquls

A77/100
The story of Jewel — a dutiful daughter, a kind lady to the people in her village, and an enthusiastic bather. She loves her home in the rural barony of Rochford. She loves her brother and parents. Jewel would be happy to be everything a baron's child should be. Unfortunately, she is also a dragon.
Royal Road4.73· 565
CozyMilitaryNon-human MCOverpowered MCSci-fiSecondary World+1

Evil to Eden: Turning a Haunted Castle into a Bed and Breakfast

Tater Prince

A77/100
Gideon's life is going nowhere fast until a letter arrives telling him he's inherited a castle from a distant great-uncle he never knew. The only problem: his ancestor isn't dead, he's undead, and the castle is falling apart. When Gideon realizes the former evil lair sits along an important route through a treacherous stretch of mountains, he gets a new idea: instead of keeping people out, maybe it's time to invite them in. With a grumpy undead mentor trapped in a magic mirror, an animated suit of armor, and skeletons learning to make pancakes, Gideon learns new magic and levels up — one cozy renovation at a time.
Royal Road4.72· 704
Base BuildingComedyCozyLitRPGSecondary WorldSoft Magic

No Strings Attached [Souls-like Fantasy]

RavensDagger

A77/100
The dragons are dead. Their colossal forms, once the lifeblood of an empire, now rot in the wastelands of a cursed continent. The people they empowered have been driven to madness by their absence, and a creeping decay smothers the land. Magus Montgomery Maldrak, driven by a desperate need to save his daughter lost on the decaying continent of Draya Calyrex, crafts a solution that skirts the edge of life and death: puppet-automatons animated by necromantic sorcery. Through their lifeless eyes, he will walk the ruins of a dead empire, searching for the truth behind the plague, the madness, and the dragons' fall. Some truths, however, are meant to stay buried.
Royal Road4.78· 204Goodreads4.23· 808
GrimdarkHorrorMysteryOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSecondary World+1

Underland

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

A76/100
Once, the sun shone brightly on Azlant — until the Whitemoon came to steal mankind's light and condemn it to eternal darkness. Valdemar Verney is a sorcerer with a dream: to find a new world for his people to settle, one where the sky isn't a ceiling made of stone. But in the underground empire of Azlant, dissent is never tolerated. Brought before one of the undead Dark Lords, Valdemar is offered a choice he cannot refuse. Meanwhile, swordswoman Marianne Reynard is given a mission: to investigate a dead cult with a few mysteries left to unravel. Both are looking for the truth, though they might regret finding it — for many cultists, monsters, and cosmic horrors stand in their way.
Royal Road4.70· 1.1KGoodreads3.45· 69
GrimdarkHorrorMysterySecondary WorldSoft Magic

A Dearth of Choice (Dungeon Core)

Grim Tide

A76/100
A young dungeon core forms next to a lovely village full of lovely people who would probably understand its plight — if only it had a mouth with which to speak. Instead, everything goes horribly, terribly wrong. This is the story of a village, a dungeon, and a core's desperate desire to provide light, laughter, and life. It tries to choose talents and perks that bolster its life-mana alignment every time. So how did it end up with an undead army and insane boosts to death-aligned mana? How did everything go so wrong?
Royal Road4.71· 744
ComedyDungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+3

Empress of Fire

Alucard21

A76/100
Are monsters born or made? Some think monsters are the gods' punishment for wrongdoing. Others blame circumstance. The cynical believe some are simply born broken, able to maim and murder without conscience. They were all wrong. The truth was simpler: she made a choice.
Royal Road4.75· 317
Anti-heroSecondary WorldSoft MagicTragedyVillain MC

Beesong Chronicles

Benjamin Medrano

A76/100
The life of a giant bee is a simple one. The life of a giant bee when her queen transforms the entire hive into human-like apis to fend off an attack? That's a good deal more complicated. Getting down from a fifty-foot giant rose without wings while surviving malevolent wasps is just a start. Surviving long enough to figure out what to do with her new life proves to be something of a challenge — and that's before she gets sucked into the tangled web of an ambitious demon lord threatening to plunge the world into war.
Goodreads4.47· 544
ComedyIsekaiNon-human MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Wolfpack

Cassius Lange

A76/100
Takemi wakes in a battlefield triage tent — bloody, battered, and with no memory of his name, his past, or what happened to him. The battle is not over, and the enemy is not content with victory alone. In an ether-ravaged post-apocalyptic world cast back into the dark ages, feudal lords fight for control over land and resources. Takemi has friends at his side willing to challenge their cowardly leaders and fight for his survival. Mental constructs called mind palaces grant cultivators game-like perks and near-superhuman abilities — and knowledge may prove to be the greatest power of all.
Goodreads4.47· 503
CultivationMilitaryPost-apocalypticSoft MagicWeak to Strong

Shades Of Forever

Loate

A75/100
Sky Memoriam is one of the last surviving humans on an Earth ravaged by cataclysm thousands of years ago. In an isolated valley, the remnants of humanity scratch a living from what little nature remains — life is hard, but peaceful, and Sky's days are filled with preparations to assume a role of responsibility. That's what Sky thinks, anyway. When a spaceship from the broader galactic community carrying a modified combat AI designed to interface between humans and Things That Are Better Off Not Thought Of crashes outside Sky's village, life starts getting weird. Also violent. An eldritch punk / horror comedy with light progression elements — numbers go up, but they are not the main focus.
Royal Road4.72· 505
ComedyHorrorNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSci-fiSoft Magic

The Consequences of Meeting a Dragon

Rynn the Tired

A75/100
Sixteen-year-old Thenio Iterune has a simple plan: work hard, do well in school, become a qualified wizard, and make his parents proud. Unfortunately, his magic power is increasingly difficult to control, leading to accidents that threaten his spot at the Kafron Royal Academy of Magic. When he discovers the source — an extremely rare and unstable magic affinity — the stakes rise from expulsion to survival. Enter Iggy, a tiny black dragon with a remarkable nose for magic, and his genius enchanter partner Ariom, who take an interest in keeping the chronically explosive boy alive. That's before demons get added to the mix.
Royal Road4.73· 400
CozyMysteryReincarnationSchoolSecondary WorldSoft Magic

I'm the bad guy!?

Kenneth Arant

B74/100
A young man wakes up inside the body of a character from his favorite isekai anime — except not the hero. He's Aren Ulvani, the villain: a once-in-a-century prodigy, master Arcanist, blessed by the god of magic, commander of an empire, and fated to a tragic end. Armed only with his knowledge of anime tropes and the body of a twelve-year-old, he has to decide whether he can rewrite a story that seems determined to play out exactly as written.
Goodreads4.44· 866
Anti-heroIsekaiSoft MagicTransmigrationVillain MC

Ideworld Chronicles: The Art Mage

OneDropRain

B74/100
Alexa is a woman in her early twenties shaped by a brutal upbringing into the ultimate thief — precise, fearless, adaptable, and passionate about art as a form of truth. When her reality shatters and an immortal being capable of unraveling matter begins hunting her, that same passion awakens a dominion over Artistic Creation. With newfound magic and a hidden parallel world lurking beyond the veil — a twisted reflection of our own — Alexa must adapt quickly to survive. For her, it's simply another challenge. She has always loved those. The story follows her progression from daredevil thief to reality-bending archmage, including an eventual ability to split her consciousness across multiple bodies.
Royal Road4.74· 276
Anti-heroCozyCraftingCrafting PowerIsekaiSci-fi+4

Skadi's Saga

pwtucker

B73/100
The Archean Empire devours all in its path — toppling kings, razing cities, massacring opposition. Sweeping into the brutal north, a land of cold, ragged mountains, and dark myths, they expect their infamous discipline to crush the white-hot rage of its sea reavers and dreaded berserkers. At first, they are right. But their invasion dislodges a pebble destined to become an avalanche. Forced into exile, Skadi Styrbjörnsdóttir begins a journey that brings her to the attention of the gods, arms her with legendary weapons, and sets her against immortal foes. Wielding her ever-growing wyrd, she seeks to avenge her people — and one day destroy the Archean Empire.
Royal Road4.72· 413Goodreads4.47· 203
GrimdarkMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

Worth the Candle

Alexander Wales

B73/100
A teenager struggling after the death of his best friend finds himself in a fantasy world that seems to be an amalgamation of every Dungeons and Dragons campaign they ever played together. Now he's stuck trying to find the answers to why he's there and what this world is trying to say. The most terrifying answer might be that this world is an expression of the person he was back on Earth.
pf10.0· 1Royal Road4.47· 1.9KGoodreads4.28· 670
GameLitIsekaiLitRPGMysterySecondary WorldSoft Magic

Medusa and the Blind Woman

BugDevil

B73/100
The legendary Gorgon Medusa spends a solitary life on her island of Sarpedon, interrupted only by the occasional expedition of foolish humans seeking to slay her for fame and riches. Everything changes when one such expedition brings along an unusual woman — a priestess of Athena born blind, and utterly unafraid of the Gorgon. Forced into an unexpected coexistence on the small island, the two dissimilar women must navigate opposing ideologies, the interference of mortal and divine outsiders, and emotions neither anticipated. As their bond deepens, the gods themselves take notice — and gods rarely make things simpler.
Royal Road4.74· 271Goodreads4.24· 79
Anti-heroCozyLGBTQ+Non-human MCSecondary WorldSlow Burn+1

The Singer of Terandria

Pirateaba

B73/100
Struggling actress Cara O'Sullivan is walking down the streets of Galway one moment, and the next she's in an ancient tomb in a faraway world. Alone in the dark, with her cellphone as her last tenuous connection to home, Cara sings her favorite song — and to her astonishment, the song casts a spell of light, and from the depths, something hears her. Challenged by a ghostly knight, a tragic necromancer, and hordes of undead, can a young woman who doesn't believe in heroes become one herself?
Goodreads4.42· 1.4K
IsekaiSecondary WorldSoft MagicSummoning