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For all his twenty-one years, Zephyr has been a cultivator of the Carefree Path and a martial artist. He always assumed he would take the vows and become a monk — until a letter from the Grand Sage summons him to the Schools of Elemental Magic. Gifted with the Codex of Ascension, Zephyr intends to master the various elements in record time. Alongside two students with mysteriously similar origins, his school year promises to be far more than he ever imagined.

Medea hated Harry Potter — the books, not the person. After an untimely demise, she wakes to the sound of screaming babies and a pale-haired family. Reborn on June 5th, 1980, she is now Medea Malfoy, once again saddled with an annoying twin. Fortunately, she knows how this world works — and she knows the Malfoys turn out fine in the end. Wealthy, loved, and utterly unmoved by the plot, she simply wants to save her family from the discomfort of having Death Eaters commandeer their living room, and she refuses to let the Boy Who Lived take her Dobby. Medea doesn't want to be a hero. Fortunately, saving her family will require her to be a villain.

Hugo's new lease on life starts out well — a trip up the mountain grants him the chance to be a mage. But then the train he is on explodes. Unknown magic flings him back in time, and he avoids the explosion. While unraveling the mystery of this unexpected second chance, his new gifts lead him to the magic academy. There he faces noble students who resent his presence, teachers who expect him to already know everything, and literal monsters that want him dead. Can he forge allies in a place where he's hated? Can he master the magic the academy demands — and survive long enough to discover the secret of his second chance?

Ever been a god? Well, the protagonist was — until he died and got judged by the other gods. Apparently they didn't like the whole "my faith is the only true one" idea. And for the record: the Apocalypse wasn't intentional. For punishment, he gets sent on what he hopes is a vacation. A rewrite of the original story, featuring improved grammar, filled plot holes, and a lighter comedic tone following a fallen deity navigating a new existence.

When you're the sole surviving noble of a junior lineage, don't expect much of a future — or so some might think. Not Gregor. The way he sees it, being the last of a line means he can dispense with social niceties and do exactly what he wants. And if any unwelcome visitors have a problem with that, this summoner's got one or two surprises for them.

Eighteen-year-old Callum Stross never asked to become a hero. When a devastating aetherstorm strikes, he seeks shelter in a cursed manor and discovers a dormant Aethercore tied to the bloodline of the legendary Demonslayer. The core fuses with his soul, awakening latent power and binding him to Fen, a mana-bound fox who claims Callum is the Reborn Heir meant to finish what his ancestor started. With demonic aetherbeasts rising and warlocks spreading corruption through forbidden Demoncores, Callum must travel to the capital's elite Great College to uncover the truths hidden in his bloodline. Because the Second Demonswar is coming — and this time, no one's ready.

Susan Hill is your typical science-obsessed high schooler — until she is kidnapped to another world and transformed beyond recognition in a madman's scheme for power. Breaking free, she returns home, only to discover her old world is far more magical than she ever remembered. How will a girl turned dragon navigate a world of arrogant vampires, megalomaniacal mice, and a few too many magical girls?

After the events of Gold Morning, Taylor reincarnates into a world of sorcery and cursed spirits, born into a family of sorcerers. Her new life carries curses of its own: orphaned, raised by a clan of evil sorcerers, and scorned for being born a girl within it. Taylor's only desire is to survive, grow stronger, and find freedom.

Martel's only ambition is to become a Weathermage and ensure good harvests for his family — but first he must graduate from the Imperial School of Magic. He arrives as a rural outsider, twice the age of most novices, with no experience of the imperial capital's treachery and plenty of enemies eager to see him fail. He also carries a secret: he is fire-touched, a power so rare that if discovered, the Empire would conscript him into their endless wars. Martel would rather not unleash it. Follow Martel from hapless novice to hardened battlemage in this character-focused progression fantasy with a detailed magic system.

On his sixteenth birthday, Terrence receives an Affinity unlike any ever seen in the Kingdom — one tied to the very thing he was mocked for his whole life: his weight. With this power granting access to his internal energy and Skills, he sets out to become a Dungeoneer, someone who explores and conquers Dungeons. Alongside his friends, Terrence navigates Prep school, rival students, and increasingly deadly Dungeon dives, working toward his first Rank Up while a gathering war threatens the kingdom around him.

In the Kingdom of Ferris, mages are not born but made. Through magic and arms, Ferris has grown to rule nearly the entire known world. Vayne was intended to live and die as an advisor to the nobility — nothing more. But a vision of his future reveals a terrible truth: he would grow to become the strongest mage of his time, only to fall in battle against strange invaders from beyond the impassable oceans. Now Vayne must choose — follow his intended path, fight a hopeless battle, or defy fate entirely and forge himself into the greatest mage the world has ever seen.

Jensen Weller was the world's most infamous professional killer — a shadow in the night who struck fear into the hearts of politicians, businessmen, and terrorists alike. Living life under fire, he always knew his number would come up. After finally falling during an intense gunfight, he awakens trapped inside the body of a teenage girl. Now afflicted with an extreme compulsion to laugh boisterously at the drop of a hat, the newly renamed Maria Walston-Carter must attend the nation's most prestigious boarding school and do her noble family proud. What initially seems to be a peaceful existence in a magical world undergoing an industrial revolution soon proves to be anything but — Jensen's skills as an assassin aren't ready to be put away just yet.

Sabina lived to 104 — manufacturing weapons during the war, running bakery and clothing chains, teaching teenagers — and by the end, boredom was doing her in more than her failing body. Then she is transmigrated into a Xianxia cultivation world, inhabiting the body of a 13-year-old commoner named Sa Bina. The problem: nobody believes she's a commoner given how she speaks and carries herself, and she winds up enrolled in a school for nobles. All she wants is to have fun in her new life, but everyone keeps expecting her to grow up and take responsibility.

Nox is an alchemist by trade, but he dreams of magehood. Fate dealt him unfavorable cards, yet he has learned to compensate with scholarly pursuits, tenacity, and sheer grit — qualities that catch the attention of Woodson University's scouts. The Department of Dungeon Studies values the mind and its ability to overcome all limitations. After all, they stripped the divine of their titles, turning gods into Dungeon Lords and their domains into Dungeons. The department will give Nox the tools to achieve his ambitions, and his limitations will push him to the forefront of arcane discovery. More immediate challenges remain, though. Nox lacks the means to pay the university's ridiculous tuition. Only alchemy and smart business deals will earn him the hundreds of gold coins he needs.

Danny's life was going well — a steady job, plans to buy his own place. That was until some rogue junk mail decided he needed a change of scenery. Now Danny has a new start in another world, and he needs to make sure he doesn't squander the opportunity.

updated book at: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/73967/somebody-stop-her-superheroes-apocalypse [This is a placeholder archive backup of an old book, kept here only to fight copyright trolls in the future]

Kole always wanted to be a wizard — a dream that grew into an obsession after his parents disappeared on an adventure. Hailed as a prodigy, he had a head start, until his mother's magic manifested after he had already committed to wizardry. Now his one powerful magical ability — invisibility — holds him back from the greater heights he craves. After five years struggling to overcome his blocked wizardry, and with his parents declared legally dead, Kole faces a choice: stay home and train as a Mirage Knight, or set out alone to seek answers at the Academy of Illunia, the center of all magical learning.

Born with an enormous well of power but no way to regenerate it, Raysha has been treated as an outcast her entire life. While others use aeon as commonly as breathing, she must ration her power drop-by-drop in a world where true masters have slaughtered gods. When her brother arrives from the Academy with a dangerous idea — that a crystalized ancient spirit heart might cure her — Raysha jumps at the chance. With her enchanted water bottle in hand, the pair head out into the wider world in search of the impossible.

The demons won. The world ended. Wulf, one of the last survivors, is sent back forty-one years to prevent the apocalypse — starting over as a first-year at Istalis Academy with his advancement reset. There's a catch: he's been given a seemingly useless crafting class instead of his former fighter abilities. No one can know, or he'll be expelled. But the more Wulf learns, the more he suspects the class change is no accident — perhaps what mankind needs isn't just his future knowledge, but someone whose legendary class can change fate itself.

Nick Klein is your average high school geek — if you can still call yourself average when your grandfather was a retired superhero and you've been trained in martial arts by a mysterious immortal mercenary. After his grandfather dies, Nick inherits the last version of the Rocket suit: powered armor that lets him shrug off bullets, smash through walls, and manipulate sound. Along with the suit comes the base of his grandfather's superhero team, its jet, and forty years of trophies from fighting criminals and aliens. Together, Nick and his friends — descendants of his grandfather's teammates — attempt to bring back a superhero team originally formed during World War 2, facing both the normal problems of high school and the less normal problems left over from their grandparents' past.