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A lifelong reader of fantasy who dies and gets reincarnated — not as a hero, not as an adventurer, but as a Dungeon Core. A forever Dungeon Master at heart, he has no interest in conquest. He wants to create wonder and a sense of accomplishment in those who dive his depths. Now with a genuinely helpful system and a brand-new world to shape, he sets out to build the dungeon of his dreams.

When the dying Earth finally ends, a mysterious entity grants Theo Spencer the gift of reincarnation — a quiet life as an alchemist. He awakens in a non-human body in the small, swamp-side town of Broken Tusk in the southern reaches of a small kingdom. Broken Tusk doesn't seem like much, but Theo's legendary alchemy skills will soon turn their fortune. A cozy, low-stakes story of town building, charming characters, and alchemy — with no combat and no bad vibes from start to finish.

Mercenaries are causing trouble in the city — hunting someone, whatever the cost. It's not that the demon lord particularly cares about the lowly humans who died, but letting it slide would set a bad example. The hero would save the victims and protect them while the enemies keep coming. The demon lord has a simpler solution. They aren't calling him the demon lord for nothing.

Jack Atlas, self-proclaimed 'World's Best Assassin', had a simple plan: retire in style and marry the girl of his dreams. Then he gets placed in The Tower — a divine deathtrap where gods pit their creations against each other for the ultimate prize. The catch? If you lose, your chances of finding a decent bar in oblivion are slim. Jack soon finds himself on the wrong side of the Black Centipede, a notorious assassin cult with a charming recruitment policy: join or they'll murder everyone he loves. If anyone's crazy enough to not just survive but win against The Tower, it's Jack.

They called him Sven, the Shatterfist. A legend. A hero. And he's finally returned home after a decade of battle. It's time to start over. Settle down. Retire. But for someone like Sven, life isn't what it used to be — adventuring isn't what it used to be. Things have changed. He's changed. The world has changed. A cozy, character-driven story about found family, personal growth, and what comes after the adventure is over.

Greg Veder knows life's not a game — especially not in Brockton Bay. A city crawling with villains, capes, and certain death for idiots who play hero. But when he wakes up with a gamer system, complete with stats, quests, and skill trees, he figures: screw it. Maybe life IS a game. Leveling up is easy. Surviving Brockton Bay? That's the real endgame. (A Worm / The Gamer AU)

Mana artists rule the world, and the path to power is a well-kept secret — restricted to state-approved programs and schools. Akari Zeller will never be a mana artist. Not if society has its way. She's a Bronze with no money, no family, and no connections. But technology is advancing too. And to a skilled hacker like Akari, no secret is safe forever. The dark web holds the keys to true power, advancement, and her only chance of survival.

Milo, 30, has everything going for him — except a paying job, a girlfriend, or anything resembling a social life. None of that is about to change, but he will be transported — copied? — to another dimension where the rules are pretty different. Join Milo as he bids farewell to his sister's spare bedroom and says hello to the magical world of Altabar, where he'll encounter scary monsters with lame names, meet new friends, and learn where not to pee.

Log in or die. Clay Hopewell has less than twenty-four hours before the ZERO virus kills him, and the only option left is digitally uploading his consciousness into Arcane Kingdom Online — the most advanced virtual reality game ever released. Surviving the risky upload is just the start. Clay wakes up to a fantasy world in crisis, a starting race that half the population despises, a locked mage class, and a malevolent in-game glitch hunting players. If he doesn't learn the rules fast, his second chance will be worse than his first.

As a soon-to-be chieftain, Ashlani's responsibilities were numerous, complex, and often boring. But as a recently reincarnated keelish — a reptilian pest — his responsibilities narrow to three: survive another day, keep his belly full, and kill anything that interferes with the first two. And, if the opportunity arises, take revenge on his best friend turned murderer. Ashlani was shot in the back by the man he was closest to during his inaugural hunt as chieftain-to-be. Post-mortem, he was greeted by a [System] and named the elect, singular keelish representative. Now his focus must be on continuous growth and evolution — to awaken to his grand potential and lead his new people into a new age.

Against all odds, a defiant street rat takes on a ruthless empire. Pax, a cunning orphan without a class, navigates life in a city constantly threatened by monstrous beast waves. He's dedicated to keeping his crew safe and fed, especially after his family vanished without a trace. When his best friend is captured, Pax risks it all on the eve of the Awakening. Caught and thrust into the Astan Empire's war machine, he must adapt to survive the perils of an elite mage academy. While struggling to harness the forbidden magic surging within him, he must avoid the attention of corrupt leaders determined to snuff out any hint of rebellion. With ancient secrets and long-lost spells at stake, can Pax triumph against his foes and secure a future for himself and his crew?

Henrietta Doryn has never enjoyed fighting. She'd rather be in the kitchen baking cookies. But it's her duty as Warrior Princess to face off against the forces of evil — so she's unceremoniously dispatched to eliminate the all-powerful Dark Lord next door. Keith Monfort has never enjoyed ruling with an iron fist. He'd prefer to tinker with practical magic in his workroom. So when Henrietta shows up at his door, he's only too happy to invite her in for tea to talk it out instead. Can this unlikely pair prevent war between their two kingdoms — and when will they finally admit their growing feelings for each other?

A loving father of three, Albert lived a life of few regrets — he served his country far from home, outlived his soulmate, and died alone. His assumptions about a peaceful eternity reunited with his wife are thrown out the window when a meddling god intervenes. The positive: he'll have a chance to see her again. The negative: he has to survive the dangers of the legendary World Tree for the next three hundred years, reincarnated into a world full of magical evolutions, monstrous deer, sassy elves, and untold hidden dangers. If life taught Albert anything, it's that if something is worth having, it's worth fighting for.

After learning he has just months to live, Gemini Fowler is granted one shot to cheat death when a billionaire game-developer offers to transfer his consciousness into a virtual realm. The catch: the only VR capable of receiving him is the unreleased game Enora Online, and Gemini must survive until level ten or be permanently wiped from the servers — and from existence. Welcome to Enora Online, where virtual is reality.

NSLICE-00P — Non-Standard Leashed-Intelligence Cybernetic Enforcer — is an unstoppable killing machine built to destroy all who oppose her sinister masters. Everything runs according to plan until she's hacked and sent back in time to kill her own creator. She obeys. The resulting time paradox ejects her entirely from her reality. Now the cyborg finds herself in a world of skills and levels, in possession of a dungeon core, and with no one left to give her orders. NSLICE-00P has a whole new life ahead of her — if she can keep from blowing things up.

Sometimes the best way to save the world is to ignore it completely. When the apocalypse hits, Nathan Lee accidentally dumps all his rare skill points into fishing. Humanity has been ripped from Earth and dropped into a colossal multidimensional dungeon — a nine-realm gauntlet straight out of a nightmare. Legends with sword and fireball are fighting to carve a path home. Nathan is busy maxing out his ability to sit quietly in a boat. Too bad the universe has other plans. On his first day in the tutorial, he accidentally deletes a monster from reality via a system bug, feeds a snail radishes and gets a rare skill, and somehow starts taking down ogres with his fishing rod. It turns out side quests and weak classes are more powerful than anyone expected.

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.

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Petey, a Golden Retriever with a heart equally golden, was euthanized in a pound after over twelve years of bringing love to everyone he met. A few very powerful beings agreed this seemed unfair — and gave him a chance to live life to the fullest in another world, along with more than a few perks.

Jump into a fantasy deathworld. Smuggle magical loot and refugees back to Earth. Try not to die. Michael Wade's only goal in life was to get rich — and that's gotten a lot more literal recently. Stuck in retail hell and living paycheck to paycheck, his circumstances change dramatically when a desperate god offers him the ultimate side hustle: running a nightly smuggling operation between his bedroom and another world entirely. One filled with spells, treasure, and as much magical contraband as he can stuff into his pockets. There's a small problem: the band of heroes destined to save that world failed centuries ago, and the place has become a goddamn deathtrap. With a reality-bending video game System to exploit, years of min-maxing experience, and a chaotic god texting him questionably useful advice, Michael might survive long enough to make the operation actually work.