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Frank isn't exactly a model citizen. He's also not here to save Earth — he just wants his favorite curse word back. Too bad the World Dungeon drops him in as a zombie with a level cap of 1 and a profanity filter that turns every F-bomb into "frank." Earth has been repossessed and rebranded by a megacorp called DungeonCore. The prize is ownership of the planet, and this season is Hardcore Mode: death means getting stuck in his Lair until the next expansion, losing everything. Humanity gets a head start, but deep-pocketed aliens are lining up to buy in. To make matters worse, hero classes went to the NPCs while actual players got saddled with monster classes. Frank spawns as a lowly zombie with only stubbornness, handyman's grit, and an accidental Universe First achievement that lets him build a class of his own. He's not a hero — he's not even technically alive. But he might be petty enough to move mountains for the sake of one four-letter word.

When a Dungeon Core acquires a taste for beautiful jewels, it sets out to become a criminal kingpin, operating from the sewers beneath the city.

Thousands of years ago, humankind was destroyed — but the xenos still worship them as gods. Now alien civilizations build cities among humanity's majestic ruins, and one Empire has learned to harness forgotten human technology to dominate the distant worlds. Eolh is a jaded avian thief raised in the underbelly of a city full of winged xenos. He fought the Empire when it first arrived, but the resistance died long ago. He trusts no one and looks out only for himself. When an unusual heist takes a deadly turn, Eolh must bargain with an android carrying an impossible secret — one that could shake the foundations of the universe.

The power Slate Graystone needs to remain the ducal heir is just out of reach, and he will do anything to get it. Even become a demon. Battling new instincts, ravenous hunger, and struggling to find her place in a world far darker than expected, Slate — now Silk — fights to claim the life she rightfully deserves: one for herself and the mundane folk she was sworn to protect. When Silk learns that the corruption left in the fallen Empire's wake runs far deeper than her own transformation, she must choose between standing by noblesse oblige or tearing the whole system down — and the Sects with it.

Tinea had an ugly childhood full of pain and abuse. It taught her how to fight and survive, how to run and hide and cut ties — but not much else. She ran, crossed an ocean, grew up, and discovered the world. Soul-deep pain notwithstanding, she fought to be happy. Then the aliens invaded her neighborhood. Smoking rifle in hand and still coming up short, she made a life-ending choice — and was rewarded beyond her wildest dreams through DNA-changing Vanguard science. Reborn, a whole new journey awaits the warrior looking for connection and togetherness, set in the universe of Stray Cat Strut.

Reincarnating as a demonic lump of flesh would probably be a nasty shock to most people, but Pyre has always been good at rolling with the punches. Sure, something is blocking her soul and most of her memories, and the world she was reincarnated into is barely surviving off the blood of dead titans — but she is not worried. She is just here to level, devour, and get stronger. All of that has got nothing to do with her. Until it does.

A party of four set out to destroy the wicked Exaltare, ruler of the Vampires: the Stardust Champion Mizar, a virtuous priest, a retired knight, and a lady Wizard whose wisdom and knowledge proved invaluable. Yet just before they stormed the palace, misfortune befell them — and the Exaltare's lair would not permit two to face its master. Instead of the death he expected, what awaited the surviving hero was mercy, a new role, and a cruel twist of fate as his new life began — as the Exaltare's daughter.

Henry was a freshly graduated marine biologist about to make the discovery of a lifetime when he was struck by lightning. Thankfully, that wasn't the end for him — he woke up alive, healthy, and with tentacles. Follow Henry, a small Trickster Octopus trying to survive in a vast and unfamiliar ocean. He must navigate dangerous and mysterious waters, contend with magic-enhanced marine life, and find civilization — all while armed only with his wits, the ability to temporarily copy skills, and the tools of a bored and forgotten System.

Fang is a simple cat. He likes napping in the sun, having his belly scratched for precisely 17.329 seconds, and hunting defenseless wildlife. He does not like being called Chairman Meow, and he certainly does not like being punted between dimensions. Fang is having a Very Bad Day. Mysterious blue boxes have appeared out of thin air, and the world around him is stranger than any cat should have to endure. This is a slice-of-life story: Fang is a cat soul in a cat body, and that is not going to change. There is no epic tale here — only a cat doing cat things in an interesting setting, with light game elements mostly present for flavor. Nature is cruel, and cats are crueler than most.

Born the weakest of all monsters and forbidden from joining the Adventurers Guild, Shrubley is treated as an outcast worth less than dirt. But with Curiosity essence bound to his spirit, he is intelligent, determined, and certain that monsters can be heroes too. Against all odds, he discovers a loophole—but with a deadly catch. To ever be accepted as a true adventurer, he must challenge an otherworldly realm threatening to consume everything, accompanied by a tiny slime, an undead skeleton mage, and a koblin.

Gauss, the God of Death, led a quiet existence ruling the underworld — until a vengeful goddess and her angels destroyed everything he'd built and nearly killed him. Now he's back, but his only candidate for a new body is a sick child on the verge of death. Returning to a world that has changed dramatically in his absence, Gauss must rebuild his power, manage his undead workforce, and deal with an endless stream of problems — while maintaining the careful fiction that he's one of the good guys.

In a world five times larger than Earth, dungeons and their Dungeon Cores have become the top of the food chain. Millions of dungeons utilize humanity as a source of Mana to facilitate their growth; in turn, humans delve into the dungeons to acquire Essence, allowing them to develop and enhance themselves. It is a symbiotic relationship that has lasted thousands of years. Far in the northern wilds, a young man is left alone when his parents are suddenly murdered. Now without friends, family, or supplies, Fredwynklemossering embarks on a journey to discover what killed his parents — and soon learns of his seemingly impossible status as a Dungeon Core/Human hybrid. With that knowledge comes a shift in his objective: the dangers the humans will face in the future dwarf any personal revenge.

Dungeons are an integral part of so many stories and worlds — the foundation of an economy, a place for the weak to grow strong, or a threat to civilization itself. Nearly as common as the idea of a dungeon is the concept of a dungeon core. But where did dungeon cores first come from? Are they a natural occurrence? When did they first appear? This is the story of the first dungeon core.

To save a universe, a reincarnator must die. This keeps happening and has never made any sense. Lamutri is a Chapel assassin of the multiversal House of Fate, dispatched to deal with reincarnators in exchange for the promise of ascent — except his reality-altering Defects keep him strangled at the bottom. When straightforward missions start going horribly, exponentially wrong, the Chapel holds Lamutri to blame and offers a simple solution: murder the problem. But with the fates of universes in his hands, he realizes someone has been keeping very significant secrets for a very long time.

Ilia is a gamer who has spent years chasing escapism. She discovers a game talked about in online forums as the most immersive game ever, made for a cutting-edge VR console: MEAT — a perfectly strange world of living flesh, full of strange details and biohorrific sensibilities. At first it's exactly what was promised. But after she starts seeing things she shouldn't and experiencing the game's systems in far more detail than should be possible, she begins to wonder. When she starts looking for answers, she discovers just how deep the rabbit hole goes — and just how many others may be out there, touched by a place she cannot comprehend. What are the sides to this conflict she can't yet see? What will she become as she digs deeper into what is — and what might be?

She's a puppy. She's a girl. And she's going to evolve. Waking up one day in a litter of puppies, her human life a fading memory, she quickly falls into the flow of things — playing and hunting with her pack, taking naps, and leveling up. With five siblings who all have unique powers, a protective Dog Mom and three-headed Cerberus Dad, nothing seemed like it could go wrong. That is, until human hunters attack her family and kidnap her brothers and sisters. Now alone in a harsher world, she won't give up — she'll continue to level and evolve, and become powerful enough to take revenge and get her family back.

A powerless man, thrown about by a world he had no say in and unable to change his circumstances, is reborn as a newborn dragon with the potential to finally be truly free. Escaped from the grasp of higher powers and not keen to be another cog in the machine, he uses his cumulative knowledge and new talents to survive and carve his own path. Misfortune still follows him, however. Higher beings are keen on interfering with his existence, his own instincts and impulses as a dragon contradict his human mind, and old problems he thought he had left behind come back to haunt him. This is a story of exploring identity, the self, and the world — with a complex magic system and an unhinged, scientific approach to studying it.

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.

On her way back from a diplomatic mission, a strange signal causes Princess Silgvani of the Vanaery to make a dangerous detour — a decision that will soon carry heavy consequences. The unknown alien she discovers turns out to be more than meets the eye. A character-focused story about a traumatized human girl among alien nobility.

In the world of Vol — a vast, bountiful plane where the only constant is life in its many forms — an otherwise unremarkable dungeon core awakens in one of the most resplendent locations in Vol: a Mana Reef. Watch as this small gemstone turns a simple hole in the ocean floor into something truly unique, while the rest of the world is forced to deal with its growth.