Nolan Garrett is Cerberus — a government assassin for the Nyzarian Empire, equipped with cutting-edge weapons and an AI-run cybernetic suit that compensates for his paralyzed legs. From the streets of New Avalon to deep-space black sites, he is the fist in the shadows and the dagger at the heart of his empire's enemies.
Each mission draws him deeper into webs of corruption, cartel violence, rogue artificial intelligences, and conspiracies reaching the highest levels of Imperial government. Armed with his AI partner Taia and backed by fellow elite Silverguards, Nolan fights to protect the innocent while surviving a world determined to destroy him.
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.
4.43· 1.6K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMilitaryVRMMO
Tragedy had reduced James to a nobody — washed up and homeless in New York City, certain his life was over. Then a message appeared in his vision: the 60,000-year countdown had ended, and Nemesis 1 had been released.
As the world falls apart, as billions die, as society collapses and all hope seems lost, James discovers a powerful truth: he was wrong to think himself a nobody. With the dawn of the Void, he'll become the most important person to have ever lived.
A normal person reincarnated into the Narutoverse faces a world full of red-eyed clans, a child jailor of the most dangerous being in existence, a snake creep with serious boundary issues, and an entire civilization of super soldiers with licenses to kill — none of whom particularly like him.
Starting out weak and struggling for every gain, the protagonist must work his way up through gritty, often bloody conflicts in a world painted in a much darker light than expected. The story follows a zoomed-in perspective on the protagonist's gradual growth, from individual combat to large-scale battles, with an expanded take on the chakra power system.
4.66· 1.3K
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Strip away wants, desire, dreams, and hopes. When you peel it back, such things are luxuries only possible when survival is guaranteed. Under the control of the new rulers of her world — as a pawn in a conflict she can scarcely comprehend — survival is not just everything; it is all there is left.
Life, of her and her people, was nothing to the aliens if it was not useful. So she would be useful, she would be obedient, and she would survive. In this cosmic war of forces beyond her understanding, she would find a way.
An extraterrestrial civilization makes First Contact with Earth, but humanity dismisses their message — all except for one detail: instructions for accessing a mysterious game of unknown origin. As more players join and realize that in-game events shape reality itself, a countdown timer looms in the background. No one knows what happens when Earth's promised safety period expires.
One man, known as Gnat, rises through the ranks to become the Kung of Earth — humanity's representative and defender in a vast galaxy of competing alien powers. He must navigate interstellar politics, space warfare, and humanity's own internal divisions before time runs out.
4.38· 2.2K
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My name is Xal and I live in the dims, a walled prison where my people are kept by cruel masters until we are needed to fight. One member of every family must answer The Call, for our blood bears the magic of a demonic god and all the terrible power that brings. We march to war against the Fomori — an unstoppable army of giants and their behemoths. If we do not, our families are put to death.
If by some miracle I survive, I will be granted entrance to the Imperial Academy, where every noble house will vie to architect my end. They fear the rise of another dreadlord. And they are right to fear. I will pull down an empire — and that is just the beginning.
4.46· 543
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Max is a regular guy who only enjoys games when they're a genuine challenge — he always plays on the hardest difficulty. When the first-ever full-dive VRRPG launched, he scraped together his savings to play it, and spent four years grinding on the hardest setting with the crappiest capsule available.
Now the sequel is out — and it's multiplayer. Gifted a new capsule by his uncle and sister, Max is finally ready to see how his skills fare against other players.
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.
For millennia, two galactic empires have been locked in an interstellar cold war. Dissent is considered treason, and neutrality is incomprehensible. As each empire has expanded, newly discovered sentient species have always joined one side or the other — whether they want to or not.
In the year 2028, Earth is the latest planet in the path of expansion. It has barely any space capability, no system defenses, and no allies. The nations of Earth must volunteer to be subjugated, or become the latest battleground in a war that began before the construction of the pyramids. No species has ever succeeded in resisting.
Except humans have a saying: the best defense is a good offense.
4.71· 8374.01· 898
Genius MCMilitaryNon-human MCSci-fiSecondary World
Alexandra Rousseau, an engineer from the European Federation Star Navy, is launched into hyperspace when an FTL jump goes wrong. She wakes in a world of magic and monsters — and when a mysterious Order makes a catastrophic mistake, she is transformed into a dungeon core.
The transformation grants her the power to bring back long-lost technology and take revenge on those who wronged her. But first she must survive those who would steal her core, all while keeping her true identity secret from the adventurers delving her dungeon.
4.44· 861
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A retired veteran from the world's greatest army, Androkles spent twenty-five years fighting to earn back his good name. Battle-scarred and weary, he finally has his chance to retire in peace — until his wife flees north with all his hard-won savings.
Pursuing her through dangerous lands filled with bandits and ravening beasts, Androkles rescues a pair of orphans from starvation. Caring for them forces him to confront a question that strikes at the very heart of honor — one with consequences far greater than his own life.
The trilogy follows Androkles across three complete novels: Obstacles, Doubts, and Burdens.
4.71· 487
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Humanity is not alone. It fights to survive.
Among Terra's billions, Lanis Osgell was one of the elite few — a Navigator, a psychic bridge allowing Fleet's warships to jump between star systems. Now, suddenly, she is nothing. Newly broken in a world she was never prepared to re-enter, Lanis must imagine a new future among the planet-side mega corporations and their fierce rivalries.
A Navigator, even a broken one, is impossible to ignore.
With war on the horizon, the government must accelerate their super soldier program. They have developed a new Virtual Reality system — the perfect tool to find and train recruits outside the military. Against all odds, Lucius, a semipro gamer raised by an AI companion named Destiny, is selected to participate in Codename: Freedom, a VRMMO with one key feature the developers neglect to mention: 100% pain, no dampeners.
Thrown into the game with barely any time to orient themselves, Lucius and the other participants find their entire player city under attack. With the world watching live, Lucius faces an opportunity to build a following and impress sponsors — if he can survive long enough. This is far from just another game.
Ajax is one of Earth's most elite Paladin pilots, trusted to fly the most advanced starfighters humanity ever produced. Wounded and abandoned behind enemy lines, his carrier has fallen back and he's parachuting down onto an alien world with a broken arm, no ship, no weapons, and only hazy memories after losing them to the purge.
He knows they'll return — and they'll treat this world to the same kind of plasma bombardment the elves inflicted on Mother Earth. Getting back into orbit is going to be a hell of a fight. But he'll do it, or he'll die trying.
They say humanity is only three meals from going feral. It's time the rest of the galaxy found out just how true that is.
The Aspects are long dead — the venerated creators of reality are no more. Yet the final scheme of their slayer, the deceased Betrayer, seeks to grind all they ever made to dust. And the truth is, it is working. Slowly but surely, the end of all things has been growing closer throughout the eons.
The last Hope is a desperate gamble: for one of the first children of the creators to cast their very soul into reincarnation and perhaps return as something strong enough to stop the end. If there ever was any chance to begin with.
Steven awakens to a nightmare. Transported to a brutal medieval kingdom on a faraway world, he wakes up as Kivamus — the exiled third son of a Duke, now the newly made Baron of a crumbling village called Tiranat. In a bandit-ridden frontier surrounded by untamed forests, survival is a daily battle and resources are scarce.
Yet he sees potential where the villagers only see struggle. He dreams of using his knowledge to forge a new future for Tiranat, fueled by industry. But managing a starving village through the coming winter and navigating the cutthroat world of medieval nobility is just the beginning of a very long road.
4.12· 2.1K4.17· 6
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In the far north of Skyrim, legends and armies are set to collide. Brother fights brother in a bloody civil war, creatures of the night hunt in the shadows, and dragons fill the sky for the first time in an age. In this time of turbulent events, a single Bosmer elf finds herself drawn north, chasing after the shadows of her past.
The king is dead; his heir is too young to assume the throne. Jarl Vale wants to become Lord Protector, spurred by his ambitious brother Konstans. Jarl Isarn likewise seeks this power, aided — or thwarted — by the return of his brother, the knight and war hero Athelstan, whose squire Brand hopes to restore his family's fortunes, cost what it may.
Through all of this, an enigmatic traveller makes plans with jarls, scribes, and priests for his own purpose. Abroad, powerful forces sense division in the realms of Adalmearc and make their own plans. War is on the horizon.
4.71· 437
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A new update arrives to the ultra-popular online game, Realm of Arkon. With Patch 17, the level of immersion in gaming capsules has made virtual reality indistinguishable from the real world. But every gamer's dream becomes a nightmare for Roman Kozhevnikov after he gets confined to Arkon against his will — locked in its deadliest zone: Demon Grounds.
Living as his character Krian, survival isn't Roman's only goal. He longs to exact revenge for his banishment to a virtual world where the sensation of pain has reached one hundred percent.