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Koyuki, the Necromancing Foxkin

Aetam

B60/100
Koyuki is a slave until an incident awakens her powers. With an affinity for death magic, she has the potential to become a powerful necromancer. In exchange for her freedom, she must attend the Royal Military Academy and serve in the army for ten years. Following her journey as she learns magic, makes new friends, and raises all kinds of undead creatures. A slice-of-life academy story with action, light-hearted tone, graphic violence, cute undead, explosions, and a romance subplot.
Royal Road4.65· 406Goodreads4.70· 118
CozyLGBTQ+MilitaryOverpowered MCSchoolSecondary World+1

Tales From the Terran Republic

SlightlyAmusing

B60/100
It's the thirty-second century, and humanity is now part of a galactic civilization spanning hundreds of worlds. Savaged by natural disaster and centuries of war, humanity has fractured into several separate populations — all of which loathe each other. This is a gritty, drama-driven story that swings between action, dark comedy, and horror. There are no good guys here — it's less "good versus evil" and more "bad people doing bad things to worse people." Pick your favorite rogue, kick back, and enjoy the show.
Royal Road4.65· 387
Anti-heroComedyGrimdarkMilitarySci-fiVillain MC

Yashima Chronicles

jacobk

C59/100
The island nation of Yashima is in chaos. Armies march to war, pitting cousin against cousin for power. Sword saints grow deadlier with every battle even as muskets flood the country and transform the average soldier into a lethal threat. One woman towers over the era. Known as the blood-soaked flower of the battlefield, it is said that to see her is to risk madness, and to fight her is to die. Some claim she draws her power from the blood of vanquished foes. Listening to the rumors, the narrator can't help but feel that a plan to secure a comfortable administrative post has somehow gone awry.
Royal Road4.58· 854
ComedyLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+1

Tal, The Risen

A. Stargazer

C59/100
Tal is one of the elite undead soldiers of the Zozheim empire, resurrected from the corpse of an uncounted sacrifice. He does not know the man's name. He does not care. The body is his now. They say Tal exists to serve — and so he drowns and murders and pillages in the empire's name. But one thing is becoming clear: he exists. And soon, that fact will terrify his creators and their enemies alike.
Royal Road4.65· 364
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkHorror+8

The Power of Ten: Book One: Sama Rantha, and Book Two: The Far Future

RE Druin

C59/100
Some time ago, a planes-traveling archmage invented a video game to train people on Earth for a coming catastrophe. The gods seized the opportunity to take the templates — and even the souls — of some of those characters for use in other worlds. Sama Rantha is one of those characters. Being a Hagchild and surviving after your Hag Curse fails to murder you at birth is much, much less fun than setting it as your race at level one on a gamescreen. Book One follows Sama's Road to Ten in a traditional LitRPG fantasy setting, heavy with gaming terms and rules-lawyering as she min-maxes her heart out to survive a world intent on killing her. Book Two shifts to a sci-fi/fantasy/psionics mashup as Sama is sent into a grim dark galaxy she'd rather not be in — but the heart of a powergamer never says no.
Royal Road4.32· 1KGoodreads4.67· 3
GameLitGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+5

Mage Steel: A Western Sci-Fi Cultivation Series

Dominick R

C59/100
A thousand years ago, Earth fell. Rifts tore open reality, flooding the planet with eldritch horrors. Humanity evolved, adapted, and awakened to new powers — but it wasn't enough. Earth was abandoned and humanity scattered to the stars. Now, Knights are all that remain of Earth's warrior legacy: humans wielding Rift-forged power armor and ancient combat disciplines, fighting for hire across the galaxy. Cadet Kon was training to join their ranks until his ship was shot down and he crash-landed on a Rift-infected world crawling with pirates, bandits, and relics of a dead civilization. Cut off from command and surrounded by monsters that should not exist, survival becomes the first test of many as Kon fights his way through a world lost to madness.
Royal Road4.64· 501
CultivationHard MagicMilitaryOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+2

Respec On Death

Godric

C58/100
Fifteen years after Earth was forced into the Sarlenac Games, over half of the population is gone, culled by the System without mercy. Each year, thousands of Gates open to hostile worlds — fail to clear them in time, and ten percent of Earth's population dies. Specialist Jimmy Novak is a low-level combat medic with nothing to his name but scars, sarcasm, and a refusal to quit. When a routine Gate spirals into catastrophe, Jimmy makes a choice the System never accounted for, and something older than the System takes notice. [Skill Activated: Respec on Death.] With each death, Jimmy changes — new class, new build, new tools for survival. But the cost is steep, and the enemy is no longer just monsters. The System is watching. The gods are stirring. And Jimmy Novak is becoming something far more dangerous.
Royal Road4.46· 959
Class SystemCozyGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+4

First Fist

TJ Reynolds

C58/100
Once a soldier, now an outcast. Luca must overcome fate as he walks the path of a cultivator, seeking the Seventh Bridge to the Heavens. Few men served Mindea as faithfully as Luca during his years in the army. When every Elixir of Awakening failed to rouse his dormant core, he relinquished his dreams — only for even that to be torn away when his men collide with an unexpected fate. A monk from distant Shuya who wields all the elements at once forces Luca to question everything he knows about cultivation. Now exiled, he must gather allies, battle Mana Beasts, and ascend as quickly as possible — for enemies are already stirring in the distant reaches of Andaya.
Goodreads4.34· 1.1K
Base BuildingCultivationMilitarySecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Bloodstained Blade

DWinchester

C58/100
When the sword awakens, it has slept so long that it has forgotten everything but hunger. It is a weapon made to feast on death and blood — the more bodies it leaves in its wake, the stronger it gets. Bloodstained Blade is a fantasy GameLit where the main character is the blade itself, not the person wielding it. Expect the wielder to die and be replaced as the Ebon Blade pursues its own goals, no matter the cost.
Royal Road4.61· 788
Anti-heroGameLitGrimdarkLitRPGMilitaryMystery+4

Savant Barbarian

HideousGrain

C58/100
Among Hakon's people, strength is everything — weakness means death. When he finally completes the Rite, he expects at least a modest Ancient Power. Instead he awakens something his tribe scorns: a Power of the Mind called Enhanced Comprehension. To those who value brute force, Hakon is nothing. But he sees what they cannot — patterns, weaknesses, possibilities. As tribes stir and ancient grudges reignite, whispers spread of a prophesied Warlord born from the blood of his enemies. Hakon decides to become that man, claim his father's seat as chieftain, and unite the tribes — but first he must survive long enough to master his Power.
Royal Road4.64· 441
Base BuildingGenius MCLitRPGMilitarySecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Inheritance of the Wandering Weaponmaster

No_Creative_Name

C58/100
Legends may die, but their power never fades. Ezra was born an unwanted son to an ill prostitute in the slums of a small town. As he grew, stories of Knights filled his mind and consumed his dreams — even as he knew he'd never become one. Then came a dream of a man who was not a Knight but something more: a Master. That man, Jormun, died, and his shade decided to take Ezra on as a protege. Now Ezra's ambitions stretch beyond knighthood toward mastery — and perhaps something beyond even that — in a wide world whose threats are slowly revealed.
Royal Road4.66· 116
Competent MCMilitaryOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSecondary WorldSoft Magic+2

Risha: Goblin Empress

Corwin Benedict

C57/100
Born the smallest and weakest of goblins, Risha worked hard to stay alive. A servant to the orc overseers and an evolution away from becoming that which she hated, she never gave up — hunting her own food and overcoming every obstacle in her path. Thrown into a pit and left to the mercy of orc warbeasts, Risha should have died. Instead she survived, only to disappoint her overseer by refusing to evolve into an orc. When Risha refused evolution, the System took notice. There was more to Risha than met the eye, and when her opportunity came, she seized it.
Royal Road4.64· 377
Base BuildingGenius MCLitRPGMilitaryNon-human MCOverpowered MC+2

Hail Thy Gods

Godric

C57/100
Born under the oppression of noble houses who believe they have the divine right to rule, Kalon dreams of restoring glory to his people. For a thousand years his people have toiled under the galactic nobility — so long that most have forgotten their once great empire. Starting from the lowest caste in the galaxy, Kalon must break the system of oppression to rise and see his dreams realized. Allegiances will sway as conflicts ignite across the stars. Worlds will burn, empires rise and fall, and republics shatter as gods grown deaf to suffering are challenged by the forsaken. A sci-fi xianxia blending cultivation and divine blessings, with slow progression and a competent, daring protagonist.
Royal Road4.59· 777
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyCultivationGenius MCGrimdark+5

Iron Blooded

ReeceBrooks

C57/100
A realm where humans battle monsters and the good die young. Four weeks ago Will woke up in a new world filled with monsters and magic. Thrust into this new reality with nothing more than a class called "Soldier" and a leveling system he has never seen before, Will fights just to survive. When he stumbles across a dying stranger, a mysterious quest line activates. Now Will must head to the front lines where humanity wages war against a ruthless Goblin Horde. There he will join the standing Kadian Army and forge his name from the fires of legend — facing goblins, hordes of the undead, cultists, and demons.
Royal Road4.50· 870
Base BuildingClass SystemGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+3

World Tree Apocalypse: A Pilot In Another World LitRPG

D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)

C57/100
When a nameless pilot breaks through a dimensional rift, he and his experimental fighter-plane become the only things standing between a dying world and the monstrous army marching to destroy the last World Tree and its keeper. A man trained to hunt in the skies above barren ash-lands must now become the last protector of the perfect garden below. A soldier with as much blood on his hands as engine grease must find a way to live alongside a peaceful forest dryad — the tree's sole caretaker — as the invasion waves grow stronger with each passing cycle. As one nation after another falls, a transmigrated war pilot flying an experimental combat aircraft may be the only hope left for the world's many races, the sacred tree, and the peace-loving dryad who tends it.
Royal Road4.63· 550
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+7

Human Altered

Yousureimnotarobot

C56/100
Earth's Engineers are a double-edged sword. They can fix or improve anything — but no sane Xeno Engineer will touch a device that carries the Human Altered warning. A series of interconnected tales from humanity's distant future. Most chapters are standalone.
Royal Road4.63· 535
ComedyMilitarySci-fi

My Only Familiar Is Me

Vetrax

C56/100
Normal people awaken their superpowers in their teenage years. At thirty-two, an ordinary man gets his — along with a draft notice from the Department of Defense and ninety days before deployment to a dungeon. His class is [Trainer], with zero available familiars. But the System made a critical mistake: it allowed him to assign a familiar to himself. Now every cell in his body is a pet that can be trained. He can issue special commands to his own biology — fall asleep instantly, ignore pain limits, evolve faster than any young genius. He is his own trainer, and he will not stop until he turns this old body into the perfect weapon.
Royal Road4.23· 932
ComedyLitRPGMilitaryMonster TamingOlder MCSuperpowers+2

Nonstandard Progression

Liam Lawson

C55/100
Jerrell Hawkins had a plan: marry Nadine Hartwell, study magic at University, and serve his kingdom in the prestigious Orichalcum Company. To do this, he needs a Class — but when his plan to create a new spellcasting class fails, everything goes sideways when an enemy sleeper agent burns down his world and Nadine is infected with lycanthropy. Jerrell's pursuit of a new Class leaves him with strange, controversial abilities: he can create and bond lycanthropes, and he is learning elemental magic. With Nadine now his bonded companion, he enlists in the military — and may find that the fate of the world rests on his shoulders.
Goodreads4.38· 275
Class SystemCompetent MCMilitarySecondary WorldSoft Magic

Sword Saint's Reincarnation

Ayer12

C55/100
Roland was the greatest swordmaster in the world — the Sword Saint — with no enemy he couldn't defeat and nowhere he couldn't go. The price of pursuing strength above all else was death at the hands of his own brother, the last surviving member of his family. Reborn in the body of Rylan, the greatest shame of the Flameheart family, Roland refuses to waste his second chance. He has the capability and the drive from his past life, and now also the wisdom to understand what truly matters. He won't forsake family again. Reaching the peak will be easy. Staying true to his newfound convictions while the criminal underworld hunts their best former customer will be much harder.
Royal Road4.41· 867
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

Monarch

Extra27

C55/100
Rayne was a bastard — the only son of the fallen Duke Frayser, cast aside to die in an army that hated him for being alive. Then a soul from Earth took over his body. With the common class of a Soldier, a Lineage Quest to complete, and a unique trait for stealing skills, he must grow strong enough to survive a gritty world. Fighting goblins, trolls, and necromancers, he works to earn reputation and prestige in a kingdom that branded his bloodline as traitors — with kingdom building waiting in later volumes.
Royal Road4.51· 833
Base BuildingCultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMilitary+3