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Animus

Joshua, Michael Anderle

B68/100
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.
Goodreads4.34· 1.7K
Competent MCMilitarySchoolSci-fiUrban FantasyVRMMO+1

The Weirdest Noob

Arthur Stone

B68/100
Strange things are happening in Second World, a massive multinational online RPG. Alliances shatter overnight, former friends draw blades, and a forgotten, worthless mine becomes the site of bitter, all-consuming battles. Every road in the province is controlled; no one enters or leaves a city without being checked. The weak suffer under the violence of eastern invaders. The strong have one goal: find the culprit — the strangest noob the virtual world has ever seen.
Goodreads4.20· 2.1K
Competent MCLitRPGMilitaryMysteryVRMMO

Astra Inferna: Upward Bound

Mr Reese

B68/100
Earth lost a war it never knew it was fighting. The Batract Hyphae arrived with contracts and promises, but their true interest was in humans as a workforce and mercenary force for their vast empire. Five decades later, humanity's progress is stunted and Integration Officers monitor everything. Bound for Sirius, the 1st Expeditionary Fleet carries formal orders to crush a rebellion — but beneath those orders lies a different purpose: to prepare for Earth's own uprising and to seek allies among the very species they were sent to destroy. Humanity must use diplomacy where possible and domination where necessary to end the threat to its freedom once and for all.
Royal Road4.71· 158
Competent MCGenius MCMilitaryNon-human MCSci-fi

Amelia

V.A. Lewis

B68/100
Ten years ago, Amelia woke up alone and lost in a broken world and had to fight for her survival. Now, after reaching the pinnacle of power and escaping the abyss, she has finally found her way back — not to Earth, but to Vacuos, a fantasy world with magic, monsters, Classes, and Levels governed by a System. When the System offers her the Class of a powerful Hero destined to protect this world forever, she has one response: "Absolutely not. I'm going to live a normal life now, thank you very much."
Goodreads4.26· 1.9K
ComedyCompetent MCIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World

The Dragon Mage

Scott Baron

B68/100
Charlie Gault had all the luck — unfortunately, none of it was good. When a freak wormhole swallows his spacecraft and leaves him stranded on an unknown planet far from home, Charlie must stop complaining and step up to save his crew. That was when things really went sideways. Suddenly facing alien space pirates, talking dragons, and something very much like magic, the space engineer from Earth finds himself adrift in a whole new galaxy — and Lady Luck shows no signs of changing her attitude toward him.
Goodreads4.35· 1.7K
Competent MCIsekaiSci-fiSecondary WorldSoft Magic

The Sovereign's Toll

AuthorJS

B68/100
His family was his world. Now he's in a new one. When a fatal accident rips Caleb Foster from his wife and kids, the forty-year-old gets a second chance in a realm of dungeons and monsters. A cosmic system offers him a choice of legendary powers, but Caleb refuses the flashy magic. He chooses the abilities to learn faster, remember perfectly, and master any physical skill. A father's instinct to protect doesn't die with his family. To survive and shield the new lives that depend on him, he must use a lifetime of quiet competence to navigate a dangerous frontier town, hunt deadly beasts, and outwit men who mistake his lack of flash for weakness. In a place where might makes right, Caleb is about to show that the most lethal weapon is a mind that misses nothing.
Royal Road4.44· 1.4K
Competent MCCozyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGOlder MC+6

Perimeter Defense

Michael Atamanov

B67/100
Ruslan signs a contract without reading it. All he remembers is that he has been hired to command a space fleet in a brand-new virtual reality game he knows nothing about. Objective: survive for six months. The game traps him in a strange body that refuses to obey, in a world teeming with powerful enemies where reputation and faction relationships are everything. After the inevitable new-player mistakes, Ruslan is forced to rethink his strategy and abandon traditional gaming conventions. What new trials await him — trials even the game designers failed to anticipate?
Goodreads4.17· 2.1K
Competent MCGameLitMilitarySci-fiVRMMO

Rivera's Repairs: Dungeon Repairwoman

M.S. Davidson

B67/100
Nineteen-year-old repair technician Tess Rivera lives on Tertius-Prime, a crumbling megacity built atop a dungeon that has been "cleared" for twenty years. The power grid fails nightly, her father's health is declining, and their freighter-home is one broken component away from becoming a coffin. When desperation drives her into the dungeon's outdated tutorial system, it malfunctions—and Tess fixes it herself, accidentally acquiring a {null} class no one has ever heard of. No combat skills, no normal leveling. Just the ability to see dungeon code, interface with broken systems, and talk to an AI that has been alone for far too long. The "cleared" dungeon is not empty. It has just been abandoned. And Tess's "broken" class might be exactly what is needed to wake it back up.
Royal Road4.66· 771
Base BuildingCompetent MCCozyCraftingDungeon CoreLitRPG+2

The Sorcerer

Victor Pylaev

B67/100
A powerful sorcerer and shapeshifter — known for operating on the darker side of things — attempts a ritual to travel back in time and save his world. The ritual goes wrong, sending him further into the past than intended and into an alternate history: the year 1909 in the Russian Empire. Stuck in the body of a skinny teenage boy, with no friends, no money, and no title, he must rebuild his abilities in a world ruled by magical aristocrats, where all manner of evil spirits and ghouls crawl out of Breaches in reality and spill into the streets of St. Petersburg.
Goodreads4.41· 666
Competent MCRegressionReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft MagicTransmigration

Technomagica

Vitaly S Alexius

B67/100
The life of Soviet bio-weapons designer Vladislav Kerenski ends with a bang — only to reboot in a realm of gods and monsters. Escaping from an ocean of the dead and soul-bound to his twin sister, Vladislav begins to unravel the life-altering magical System of Novazem using his knowledge of the scientific method, computational mathematics, biochemistry, and virology. A rational progression LitRPG with giant monsters, wholesome moments, and vast multitudes of historical references.
Royal Road4.53· 1.2KGoodreads1.00· 1
Competent MCHard MagicIsekaiLitRPGReincarnationSecondary World+1

Pandora Unchained

Patrick Laplante

B67/100
When Sorin's parents die under mysterious circumstances, he begs Hope — the Eighth Evil — for help, and receives an answer he never expected: he is made a Poison Cultivator, a rare class shunned by high society. Unable to continue his medical practice, he turns to adventuring with a ragtag crew: an armored polar bear, a stern archer, a sleep-deprived pyromancer, a peeping-tom rogue, and a rebellious rat familiar who won't stop eating the party's loot. When Sorin uncovers his ancestor's hidden research notes on forbidden medicine, he must discover what dark deeds his family was involved in — if he and his companions can survive the coming Demon Tide.
Goodreads4.44· 254
AlchemyClass SystemCompetent MCCultivationDungeon CrawlingSecondary World

These Reincarnators Are Sus! Sleuthing in Another World

AceGreen

B67/100
Sleuth out the reincarnators. Retrieve their jeweled eyes. Stop this world's destruction. That is Ailn's reluctant mission — except he is not really Ailn. He is an impostor: a detective from another world who cannot even remember his own name. Summoned by a young god with a terrible habit of hiding crucial details, the detective must use his past-life instincts and emerald eyes to unmask other reincarnators — all while wearing a mask of his own. Now posing as a noble son whose family has protected the empire from shadow beasts for generations, he faces a complication: the original Ailn had a trash reputation, was just killed, and the prime suspect is his sister, the duchy's beloved future Saintess. First things first: time to solve his own murder.
Royal Road4.68· 367Goodreads4.73· 11
ComedyCompetent MCIsekaiMysteryOverpowered MCReincarnation+1

Bones in the Dark

TF Warden

B66/100
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.
Royal Road4.67· 481
Competent MCHard MagicMysterySchoolSecondary WorldUrban Fantasy

Harry Potter and the Surprisingly Competent History of Magic Professor

TheFanficGOD

B66/100
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.
Royal Road4.42· 1.4K
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCCozyGenius MCMystery+9

Where The Moon Rises

fuwami

B66/100
Arin Watanuki thought he left Johto for good. Almost a decade after his departure, his estranged dad contacts him and wants to talk. What is supposed to be a short visit ends up turning into a long-lasting stay. This is the story of how a Fairy Specialist turns into a Gym Leader and becomes a legend.
Royal Road4.68· 348
Competent MCCozyWeak to Strong

Outlaw Country

Ghotty

B66/100
Buck Jones was born in 1850 and died in 1880. He was an outlaw, and technically still is. The world may change, the species may differ, and the circumstances may twist — but Buck knows one thing for sure. Always draw first.
Royal Road4.67· 438Goodreads4.06· 48
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World

Commerce Emperor

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

B66/100
When Robin Waybright became the Merchant Hero, all of Pangeal turned into his marketplace. The Merchant can buy and sell anything — youth, skills, memories, hair color, joys, and illnesses. In the trade of power, every deal can tip the scale. And Robin needs power. His homeland of Archfrost teeters on the brink of collapse, the sinister Demon Ancestors plot in the shadows, and twenty-one other Heroes — each with their own Class — have been chosen to save the world of Pangeal. Not all of them are friendly. There's work to do, and profit to make.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.67· 1.1KGoodreads4.06· 354
Base BuildingClass SystemCompetent MCGenius MCMerchantOverpowered MC+1

Dead End Guild Master

marshalcarper

B66/100
Hans had a realization that changed the direction of his adventuring career: "above average" is different from "great." At 39, with a litany of lingering injuries, he accepted that he would never progress from Gold-ranked to Diamond-ranked. With his prime behind him and disillusioned by guild politics, he accepts a guild master posting in a remote village — an insignificant position no one else wanted. Looking forward to a quiet life of teaching, Hans arrives in the small town of Gomi at the foot of the Dead End Mountains. As he rebuilds the local chapter of the Adventurers' Guild, his unconventional teaching methods earn him allies and enemies alike, while his career failures find ways to resurface. A slice-of-life fantasy exploring life post-adventuring and the challenge of reconciling dreams with reality.
Royal Road4.66· 604Goodreads4.46· 69
ComedyCompetent MCCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitOlder MC+2

Conch Garden

InadvisablyCompelled

B66/100
Twenty years ago, the hero Glorybeam and the villain Blacktime fought. The aftermath leveled twenty city blocks, killed thousands, and orphaned hundreds. Neither has ever faced consequences. Isaac Hartson was one of those orphans. As a nominal-class metahuman — a dreg — he knows he'll never hold them accountable by force. But years as a janitor have taught him the value of simple plans and hard work. Once set in motion, events stay in motion. In Star City, there is always someone with an angle, and Isaac will need more than hard work to keep from being buried under the tide of consequences he has set in motion.
Royal Road4.68· 647Goodreads4.18· 330
Anti-heroCompetent MCSuperpowersUrban Fantasy

The Drone Lord

Oleg Sapphire

B65/100
He saved humanity. The same humanity that had betrayed him. Then he was an outcast again. Now, years later, he doesn't expect gratitude and doesn't offer forgiveness — he just doesn't need anyone anymore. Memory is his voice, rage is his fuel, and an army of steel is his weapon. Reborn into a new world and a new body, the Drone Lord decides his own fate — not gods, not people, not anybody except himself.
Goodreads4.42· 338
Anti-heroCompetent MCIsekaiOverpowered MCSci-fiSummoning