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Devon Walker has one chance to turn her life around, and Relic Online is it. Hired as a salaried player to push the game's creator AI to its limits, she logs in expecting an adventure — and instead spawns in a ruined jungle city wearing nothing but a cloth tunic, with no skills and pocket lint in her inventory. Devon's task: drive the AI to its creative limits while building a settlement in a hostile game world. What begins as a job becomes a fight for survival — and something more — as the game's competing AIs wage a war with stakes that extend far beyond the virtual world.

What young boy doesn't crave adventure? What young man doesn't wish to be a superhero? But time marches on, life grows dull with responsibility, and old dreams are forgotten. This story follows Daniel Newman as he's dragged solidly out of his comfort zone and adjusts to a strange new world — one where superpowers are for sale, heroics are frowned upon, and life constantly defies his expectations. Dan always thought he was destined to be normal, but one world's normal is another world's special.

Retired Navy captain Craig Larson is offered a chance at a new life, and chooses the body of a half-man, half-serpent creature called a naga. He must fight to secure a place for himself in this new world against pirates, thieves, and terrors of the deep — all seeking to end his new life before it truly begins. Larson is not easily deterred. He will call upon a loyal crew and decades of knowledge from his previous life, standing ready with steel and spell to cut down all who oppose him as he seeks to conquer the Limitless Seas.

Retired CEO Charles Morris is transported to a medieval fantasy world by a goddess who immediately leaves — she grabbed the wrong person. Stuck with no way home, Charles is restored to his physical prime and stumbles upon the village of Tine, whose people have been waiting centuries for a divine Champion. Using a lifetime of business acumen and a special ability called Topsight — which lets him view and manage the entire village from above — Charles sets out to grow a Level 1 backwater into a prosperous settlement. He has one month to prove himself before the villagers hang him.

In a future where noncitizens can only find work inside the virtual world of Disgardium, fifteen-year-old Alex dreams of becoming a space guide. With his family's circumstances forcing his hand, the game is now his only path to that goal. But after a Sleeping God bestows its power on Alex's in-game character Scyth, he is classified as a Class-A Threat — the system's designation for players with an unfair advantage. Now every major clan in the world has reason to hunt him, his patron gods are tearing him apart from the inside, and the Destroying Plague wants its Emissary to infect all of humanity. That Emissary is him.

Monsters don't fear the dark. They fear Velik. Changed by a childhood encounter he still struggles to understand, Velik is now faster and deadlier than any ordinary human — armed with a unique class built for one purpose: hunting monsters. For ten years he has braved the frontier alone, growing stronger with every kill. But the monsters are coming faster and stronger, and he is losing ground. When a guild hunter arrives and seems more interested in Velik than in the monsters he was hired to kill, Velik is forced to venture deeper into the woods — where what he finds is not just a nest but a secret that could explain what happened to him ten years ago. Something in the dark remembers him, and it has been waiting.

At the District One Invitational, a rookie eSports team defied all odds and reached the finals, earning worldwide acclaim. Dubbed the Paragons, they never celebrated that victory — they lost a friend in the match, who never appeared online again. Ten years later, only Helena remains of the original team. Abidden, once the most exclusive VR game ever made, has been reduced to a shadow of its former glory — yet remains the most-streamed game in the world. James Sylvester, finally out of hospital and crippled with medical debt, his gaming licence revoked, has been competing in illegal slum arcades to make repayments. When a high-profile job grants him temporary backdoor access to his blacklisted account, he receives an invitation that could change his life forever.

Theodore the Babylonian was once the greatest Earth Mage in his world — head of the Order of Architects, two thousand years old, and finally ready to retire. In the course of his long life, however, he had accumulated too many enemies, and they ensured his retirement was fatal. His death was not final. Reborn in a strange new world with all his memories and experience but none of his power, he must climb back to the top — before this world is consumed by the beasts of the Shadow Plane.

Lukas Zaun has been a thief, an assassin, a spy, an ambassador, the herald of a dragon god, and a demon lord's enforcer — and he did it all sitting on the beach, watching the waves, enjoying a cup of tea. That's the advantage of having clones. Now he wants to become an archmage and try his hand at godhood. It means starting from scratch in a new body on a new world — but that's no problem for someone who can live multiple days while others toil through one.

In a world where monsters are real and academic performance can be a matter of life and death, Alexa Thyme operates differently from her peers. She feels no emotions — except when she increases her attributes, which has become the singular purpose driving her life. Using biting sarcasm and deadpan responses to pass as an ordinary student, she pushes herself through academics, sports, and supernatural threats alike — determined to advance as far as her willingness to work will take her.

Bernt might have graduated from the Mage Academy, but not everyone has the money or connections to launch a prestigious career as a mage. A few years later, Bernt finds himself working for City Maintenance as an Underkeeper among the other rejects of Halfbridge's magery. But hey, it's a stable job. With the help of his unlicensed, unregistered soul-devouring demonic familiar, he'll save enough to launch his career as an adventurer — just as soon as he can afford some proper gear. If only there were a faster way. Adventure, it turns out, has a habit of finding him first.

If you're one to travel the roads, you may have heard of me — the Skystrider who walked with the wind, the Voiceless man of song without speech, the Tutor who taught the Lion of Summer how to fight, the Traveler who has walked all roads of the earth. I have spoken languages lost to time, sung to the earth, outwitted Demons, and danced with the Fae. My songs have been heard by lords of wind and ash, and my steps have echoed in the bellies of gargantuan beasts. People have branded me a myth. But I'm no legend. I'm just the bard stupid enough to poke the real ones with a stick.

Andy "Duke" Ellington was an exceptional fighter pilot who always pushed too hard — until the end finally came for him. Then he was Elsewhere: a completely different world where magic and stats were his new reality, with no support and only a marginal clue. Imprisoned Archmages, corrupt rulers, mysterious forces from beyond, and ancient dungeons all want a piece of him. He's happy to take them all on — and show everyone what happens when you mess with the Duke.

In the year 3047, humanity sends a second candidate through an interdimensional portal to a world of wizards and sorcery — this time properly equipped. The magical realm known as The Nexus demands a college-age candidate enroll in a magical academy to prove their worth. Emma Booker is a 19-year-old ROTC candidate chosen for the task. Mana proves deadly to the human body, so she must navigate everything from ancient conspiracies to noble politics while sealed inside a suit of power armor. Armed with a sidearm, laser cannon, railgun, and an AI co-pilot, Emma must balance strength and diplomacy to survive her first year at the Transgracian Academy for the Magical Arts.

Atherleah Carroll grew up in the gang-controlled suburbs of Brisbane at the end of the twenty-first century. Determined to escape a life of mediocrity, she gained the skills to do so — only for an accident to change everything. On her sixteenth birthday she was inadvertently implanted with a Neural Enhancement Chip far beyond the standard government model, removing its limits and breaking its control parameters. Leah's life quickly becomes a battle on two fronts: in the dangerous real world, and inside the sprawling virtual-multiverse she enters to fund her education and independence.

Disillusioned businessman John Lawrence Locke finds himself summoned as a hero to another world filled with monsters and magic, his body reverted to the age of fifteen. Betrayed by the very people who summoned him, he is condemned as the False Hero and forced to flee for his life. Alone in an unfamiliar world and hunted by all of humanity, he takes on the alias of Lutz and uses his gaming knowledge to quickly adapt to the world's strangely game-like mechanics.

Kai of the Sorcerer's Tower was one of the last Mages left, barely surviving in a world contaminated with dead mana and ruled by creatures of the dark. To save his world, he attempts a forbidden regression ritual — and overshoots by thousands of years, finding himself in an ancient era within the body of a young lord named Arzan, who was mysteriously murdered just before Kai arrived. Beasts are rampant, larger threats loom, and Kai must regain his former strength in a time of primitive technology. But with knowledge of the future, he might just be able to change the course of history entirely.

Jasper Cloud is the final non-person on Earth — the orphan son of the last two executed citizens in the Global Republic, struggling to survive in a world where old knowledge is now illegal. When a new light appears in the night sky, his only friend suddenly becomes a young woman with the power to undo the current reign of tyranny. But hidden enemies are already waiting for her and the living starship empowering her. Jasper slips through the cracks of their trap, empowered as well. If he is careful, he can refine his newfound strength, repair the damaged ship, and rescue the woman now determined to tear down the corrupt Republic with her bare hands.

Val had returned from his latest tour of duty scarred in body and soul. Barely able to walk and drugged for pain, he thought his killing days were finally behind him. He couldn't have been more wrong. Endless Online is a hyper-futuristic game where players can truly live another life. Val loved the idea of starting over in virtual reality — but when someone he cares about turns up missing after chasing that same dream, Val quickly learns that Endless is no simple game. And if he can't figure out the dark secrets behind this realm of wizards, warriors, and intergalactic conquest, it's game over. For everyone.

Secrets once thought lost are coming to light. Orin, a young thief turned mercenary, returns home for the first time in four years wanting nothing more than to reconnect with his family and settle down. But fate has another destiny in mind. Now bound to the Princess of the Realm in ways he doesn't fully understand, Orin is thrust into the world of nobility — where no one can be truly trusted and his friends are few. To survive, and to protect the entire Kingdom, he must learn to harness the power of a Knight alongside Princess Elora, all while contending with psychotic Knights and a mad King.