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Song of the Void

Vihyungrang

A78/100
A great race faces extinction and tries to leave a legacy for the future. Young races build on the ruins of the old. When one of the old ones wakes to find the universe changed, she must decide: seek new meaning, help the younger races, punish those who have plundered her people's ruins — or simply try, at last, to find happiness of her own.
Royal Road4.58· 1.9KGoodreads3.69· 39
MysteryNon-human MCOverpowered MCSci-fiSoft Magic

Arthurian Cultivation

BenBurch

A77/100
An Arthurian legend, Fae lore, and cultivation mash-up. Taliesin had one plan: escape the Harkley family, dodge their blood curse, and live a quiet life far from trouble. What he got instead was death (briefly), an arranged marriage gone wrong (knives were involved), and a volatile new power — the dreaded death glamour. Armed with his magical lute, a dry sense of humour, and a loyal but chaotic group of Knights, he's determined to carve out a life as a bard in a dangerous world. But political intrigue, ancient prophecies, and a Divine Cultivator conspiracy all come calling. Set in a Europe-based cultivation world where Ki is Glamour and connected to the Fae realm, the story follows a competent but decidedly non-overpowered MC whose progression stems from effort, reflection, and the occasional death.
Royal Road4.75· 425
ComedyCompetent MCCultivationSecondary WorldSoft MagicWuxia

Underland

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

A77/100
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 Road4.71· 1.1KGoodreads3.45· 69
GrimdarkHorrorMysterySecondary WorldSoft Magic

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

Eldritch Exorcist

Hastum

A77/100
Humanity has forgotten the ancient ways of magic and the occult as mana disappeared from the world over millennia. Once-powerful creatures are now remembered as silly cryptids, and powerful rituals have become superstition. But the universe never stays constant. Magic begins to return. Mythical creatures crawl out from their hidden lairs, Ouija boards start summoning real demons, and Halloween haunted-house parties turn into genuine horrors. The world slowly descends into chaos. For Samuel — last remaining member of an infamous wizard family known for their strange deals with Eldritch gods — this is a breath of fresh air. Following in his ancestors' footsteps, he embarks on a path to the pinnacle of dark arts. The exorcist business is about to boom, but whether that is good news for the rest of the world remains to be seen.
Royal Road4.72· 767
Anti-heroHorrorLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MCSecondary World+2

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· 378
Base BuildingCozyGrimdarkHard MagicIsekaiLitRPG+5

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

Empress of Fire

Alucard21

A75/100
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· 306
Anti-heroSecondary WorldSoft MagicTragedyVillain MC

A Dearth of Choice (Dungeon Core)

Grim Tide

A75/100
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· 741
ComedyDungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+3

Wolfpack

Cassius Lange

A75/100
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

No Strings Attached [Souls-like Fantasy]

RavensDagger

A75/100
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 Road4.77· 204Goodreads4.23· 808
GrimdarkHorrorMysteryOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSecondary World+1

The Shining Wyrm

Nighzmarquls

A75/100
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 Road4.72· 548
CozyMilitaryNon-human MCOverpowered MCSci-fiSecondary World+1

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

Shades Of Forever

Loate

B74/100
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· 502
ComedyHorrorNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSci-fiSoft Magic

Medusa and the Blind Woman

BugDevil

B74/100
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· 271Goodreads4.26· 79
Anti-heroCozyLGBTQ+Non-human MCSecondary WorldSlow Burn+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.
Royal Road4.47· 1.9KGoodreads4.28· 643
GameLitIsekaiLitRPGMysterySecondary WorldSoft Magic

Ideworld Chronicles: The Art Mage

OneDropRain

B73/100
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· 258
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· 413Goodreads4.48· 193
GrimdarkMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

I'm the bad guy!?

Kenneth Arant

B73/100
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· 865
Anti-heroIsekaiSoft MagicTransmigrationVillain MC

Keiran

EmergencyComplaints

B73/100
Keiran of the Night Vale has staved off death for two thousand years, but even he's reached his limits. His body is old and failing. While the flesh fails, his mind and magic remain as sharp as ever, and he bends his prodigious talents toward reincarnating into a fresh, young body. He awakens in a wasteland where mana has become a scarce resource, hoarded by those in power — and without mana, he's no longer a mage. With each passing week he regains more of his old strength, but standing in his way is a cult-like nightly mana tithing, a governor with secrets of his own, and an unforgiving desert full of monsters. Keiran didn't become an archmage by accident, and he's willing to use every dirty trick he knows to claw his way back.
Royal Road4.53· 1.6K
Anti-heroCozyGenius MCOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+2