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Power of friendship? Getting stronger when enraged? A powerful monster sealed inside you by your father? That wasn't me. I was the arrogant youngster who got punched in the first panels of the shounen manga I was reading. I wouldn't have even remembered his name — if I wasn't stuck in his body.

It was a world of sword and sorcery, but that was a thousand years ago. The last elves live on reservations. Dwarven forges have turned to clockwork and steam. New technologies and advanced magics have made the world smaller, safer, richer, and more polluted — dungeon delving can only be done with the proper permits. The Age of Adventures is over. Until it suddenly begins again. Without warning, the gods call forth two new paladins into a world at peace where there are no demons to slay, and the bureaucrats and industrialists who run the world are less happy to see them than the kings and queens of old. In a cramped landscape of complicated politics where adventurers are no longer welcome, what are the mighty warriors of the gods even supposed to do? Well, first, they're sent to school. And it all goes downhill from there.

Everyone wants to believe they are the hero of their own story. But in a world where prophecies are real, what happens if you're not the Chosen One? A budding arcanist named Caden enrolls in the Academy, entering the same cohort as one of the legendary Chosen Ones. He finds himself caught in a tangle of fate that threatens to unravel the entire Empire.

Death is coming. And he wants to help. The world of Eleg may seem like a normal enough place at first glance, but wade deeper into it and the dark, the deadly, and the mad begin to reveal themselves. Don't worry — they usually have a sense of humor.

A modern young woman gets stranded on an alien planet and transformed into an amalgam of human and something more. With no way home and all the survival skills of an average upper-middle-class shut-in, she must learn how to help herself — figuratively and very, very literally. Evelyn, meet Evelyn. You're going to do great things together.

It was just one fight, but it changed Kaiden Jericho's life forever. A street kid trying to leave his gang behind, Kaiden is offered a chance at the elite Nexus Academy — an institution that trains the next generation of fighters, leaders, hackers, and spies, then hires them out to companies, governments, and NGOs. Training happens through the Animus: a simulation so advanced that every death makes you closer to perfect. Kaiden would really rather skip the death part.

My name is Jain Shin Hallow, and I eat lunch in the school bathroom. I'm in my senior year at Charter Academy, finished with my SATs, filling out college applications, living in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan with my dad. I've been bullied all my life, mostly for not knowing when to shut up. Oh. It also turns out I'm the last of the Hallow Diabolists and the Shin Shamans. Pacts and bargains, ghosts, haunted amusement parks, mass graves, rooms that lead to other places, yokais and daevils — just another Friday. My name is Jain Shin Hallow, and I'm the last Diabolist of New York.

As the daughter of a duke, Lady Alicia Senius expected to awaken her latent magical ability during her Blooming ceremony. She was not expecting her connection to the flowers of Fate to awaken memories of a past life — and certainly not memories inextricably tied with her future. Now, Alicia must find a way to escape the fatal punishment that is the destiny of a villainous noble girl. In doing so, she might even alter the fate of the whole world. A steampunk take on the otome villainess genre, set in a late Victorian-inspired world with a system of magic based around floral circuitry.

Mira has a problem. No matter what world she transmigrates into, she always ends up as the villain. This time she wakes up as Violet Coventry, the infamous antagonist of a three-part dating sim game. In the original story, Violet allegedly bullied the sweet heroine Cecily Rousseau out of jealousy over her connection with Prince Andrei — who also happened to be Violet's fiancé — destroying her reputation and forcing her from school in disgrace. That's exactly the moment Mira arrives and inherits the entire mess: patchwork memories, a ruined reputation her host may not have deserved, an ex-fiancé who hates her, a mysterious illness no one knew about until it killed her host, and a love rival who turns out to be her secret long-lost sister. Fortunately, Mira has plenty of experience surviving in trope universes. Unfortunately, the third installment of the game wasn't released before she died, so she has no idea what the endgame holds.

Ester Mazar wants nothing more than to serve Her Eternal Majesty and the Empire — the greatest nation to have ever existed. As a commonborn graduate of the Academy, she must work off her debt to the Throne. Armed with the best magical education the Empire can provide and finally permitted to wear the crossed lightning bolts of a Chartered Mage, Ester is sent far from the bright lights of the capital to Vass Karan — a city so riddled with corruption and crime that even she has heard whispers of it. There, Ester will learn that the world is not quite as black and white as in the books. Nevertheless, she is determined to overcome prejudice, scepticism, and murderous criminals to become the hero she needs to be.

Cassian Rosier is a near-Squib from one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight families — the family's punching bag, mocked and barely tolerated. When a simple light spell becomes his last chance to prove himself, his world shatters: the Cassian they knew is gone, replaced by a man from our world with no magic but a lifetime of teaching behind him, and only the vaguest memories of a "Harry Potter" series he never bothered to read. Trapped in a ruined reputation with no real power, the new Cassian has one goal: survive. When forced to lecture on magic, he bluffs his way through by teaching Lumos — a spell he doesn't know. Something strange happens: as hundreds of students learn from his lecture, mastery floods his mind. Ancient variations awaken, along with memories that don't belong to him — some illuminating forgotten magic, others sharp, dark, and dangerous. Sent to Hogwarts as a professor, Cassian must juggle pureblood family expectations, faculty suspicion, and a power that grows every time he teaches — while wondering whether he is drawing on ancient wisdom or inviting something far worse into himself.

"Starbreaker, thrice named. Starbreaker, awake." Sylvas Vail is the most powerful mage on his planet — a big fish in a small pond. When the doors to the cosmos come crashing open and all the untold wonders and terrors of the universe pour in, he is left with only two choices: ascend or die. A dark prophecy foretells his rise, and the path ahead is written in blood.

Nic Tutt is a good student. He excels at all subjects. But his education serves only one purpose — to gain entry into the Ransom School. Ransom is the most prestigious school in the country. Its alumni are destined to become the future leaders of Ranvar: politicians, statesmen, and in some exceptional cases, mages. Only the brightest and the best get in. But Nic doesn't care about any of that. He has another reason entirely for wanting to enter Ranvar's most famous school.

It's been centuries since the world fell to the mist and crystal, changing the flora, fauna, and the very air. Humanity slowly returns from mountain refuges, mastering crystals and the strange clarity they offer. Now, at age five, every child receives a crystal inlay ring that reveals their calling — a specific area of excellence and a unique method of growth. Everyone has a calling. Everyone but Violet. For eleven years she has been the only child with no calling, learning to adapt to the ridicule and pity with a carefully worn persona of warmth and kindness. Then she finds herself with blood on her hands — and finally understands how to feed her calling, and her appetite.

A Worm/Pokemon crossover. A second-chance story about becoming the best there ever was — again — with all the chaos, cute companions, and unexpected consequences that entails.

Working-class student Giorgio deGloria has a lofty goal: to become one of the most powerful archmages in the Ringed City and explore the depths of the Crystal Ring Academy, a megalithic dungeon-turned-college at the ancient city's heart. His classmates have repertoires full of rare and lavish spells. The most powerful spell Gio can get his hands on before the first day of school is a paltry uncommon spell called [Reflect]. To distinguish himself, he'll need to survive an endless dungeon full of magic and mystery, navigate a hellish bureaucracy authored by ignorant nobles, and prove himself worthy to the spirits that make the world tick — all while maintaining a 4.0 GPA.

In a world of superheroes, Milly awakens her power as a speedster — only to find herself slowly drifting away from everyone around her. Her superspeed doesn't come with an off-switch, and her new perception of time threatens to alienate her from the world entirely. At the start of high school, Milly enrolls at Arkwright Academy, an all-girls boarding school far from her childhood home. There she must navigate new friendships, emerging feelings, superheroes and villains, mysteries, and above all, a power that is as much curse as gift.

A young orphan works hard every day trying to keep his parents' business alive while suffering under a terrible curse. Then a wizard becomes his mentor — and he learns his entire life was a lie. His parents were murdered, he was never cursed, his uncle was not his uncle, and he can channel magic. Thrown into an entirely new world, Yaric must push himself to catch up with his new peers at the academy, learning the secrets of combat, weapons, and magic. But mysteries run deeper than his training: the secrets of the academy, a missing ambassador, hidden dragons, and empires marching to war have all been buried in an abyss so deep they should never be found. Yaric grew up in the abyss. And as his new world gets dragged down by its secrets, he is forced to plunge back in.

What if you were born into a world where a game arrived thousands of years before you — and you were among the survivors of the bloody struggle that followed? Tailyn Vlashich is a young nobody far removed from those grander concerns. All he cares about is making his way through a harsh world where the emperor, powerful enemies, and an impartial god hold sway — a god that demands all things be done in accordance with its divine will. Follow Tailyn as he discovers his talent for alchemy and navigates a world that seems determined to test him at every turn.

Pax is a cunning street rat without a class, surviving in a city constantly threatened by monstrous beast waves. He's dedicated to keeping his crew safe and fed — especially since his family vanished without a trace. When his best friend is captured, Pax risks everything on the eve of the Awakening. Caught and thrust into the Astan Empire's war machine, he must adapt to survive the empire's elite mage academy while struggling to harness forbidden magic surging within him. Ancient secrets and long-lost spells are at stake — and corrupt leaders will stop at nothing to snuff out any hint of rebellion.