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Dhalia has to pay off her dead father's debts or risk her life in the lithium mines — so she sells everything and rents a premium VR pod to play Eternal Online. She enters the toughest realm available with no plan beyond leveling fast and getting rich. When she stumbles on an epic quest chain others have overlooked, she thinks she's struck gold. What she doesn't expect is to forge real friendships with two deadly warriors and one powerful creature — or to find a world boss gunning for them all.

Alex Stanton was living every gamer's dream — he was getting paid to play. The latest generation of virtual reality gaming was being beta tested by AltCon, with never-before-seen graphical detail and a fully functional whole body immersion system. AltCon was so serious about their beta that they paid testers a salary to ensure their lives revolved around the game. But odd things start happening from the outset — things Alex can't explain. Like every hardcore gamer, he has no problem ignoring the little things to focus on the grander design. In time, even the littlest things pile up, and Alex is forced to ask himself: what's really going on in Resurgence?

Chrysalis is the project of the century: a hyper-realistic fantasy RPG where government orphans are placed in virtual families to receive the love and upbringing they never had. It's designed to mold children into healthy adults. Something went very wrong for twelve-year-old Anji. Instead of loving parents and simple lessons, he finds himself in Hell — performing bloody rituals, evading demons, and fighting to survive the nine circles of the game's most forsaken place. Betrayed for the sake of someone else's plan, he has nothing left but rage and the knowledge that the truth behind Project Chrysalis is far darker than anyone realizes.

Daniel's guide to early retirement: intercept an illegal money transfer from a mafia boss, then hide out in a super-exclusive full-immersion virtual reality game until the heat is off — as a bard with maxed charisma. His ultimate dream is a tropical island and a life of violin and RPGs. But hiding from the mob inside a game world proves harder than planned, as real-world danger follows him into the Dawnlight Forest and beyond.

Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat arena where mega-corporations field entire armies to battle for real-world advertising dominance. Players and bots serve as high-tech grunts in an immense virtual battlefield. When times are tough and rent is due, there's always the Black — an illegal tournament set in the Westhavens, a gothic dungeon fantasy world. Before long, the real and virtual worlds collide when PerfectQuestion refuses to become the tool of a madman intent on hacking the global economy.

Prince Hail Teoran has always idolized his father, a legendary Traveler who came through the gates to rescue the continent of Lagrea from darkness. When he finally meets his dad, the reality is deeply disappointing. Then an all-powerful administrator reveals the truth: Hail's world is a game the Travelers constantly play. But Hail is special — as the son of a Traveler and an NPC, he's an ever-evolving native player character, free to make his own way, seek adventure, and face danger on his own terms.

He needed a sword. The system gave him a pen. Klaid is a former kendo prodigy who treats VR as a ruthless economy, optimizing every second to pay for his mother's medical bills. On launch day, exploiting a lore paradox earns him the one class he can't solve: the Legendary Poet — a power-gamer's nightmare that runs entirely on emotion, the very thing Klaid discarded long ago. Now trapped between a dying mother in reality and a useless class in-game, Klaid must learn to feel again — not to heal, but to turn anguish into DPS. The narrative voice evolves alongside the protagonist as cold logic gives way to something more.

Infinite Worlds is the most popular VRMMORPG on the market, and Game Master Jeff Driscoll has a very boring job: help players deal with the occasional bug and ensure they give a five-star rating. He's not allowed to actually play — something about conflicts of interest. But when the game's AIs unexpectedly issue a Rogue Patch, Infinite Worlds becomes a buggy mess and Jeff's role radically changes. He finds himself as the only Game Master around, dealing with more problems than he can handle — and wielding the ability to manipulate the game's code in ways that appear to be magic.

Skree was the first player to reach level 100 in his favorite MMORPG. As a reward, he's offered the chance to beta test a brand new game — and never thinks to read the fine print. He wakes up trapped inside the world of Raiya with no way out. What was supposed to be a game is now his entire reality, and the only path forward is to master it — battling dangerous wildlife, gargantuan monsters, and forces that want him dead — while finding out whether he even wants to go home.

Virtual worlds are places of boundless freedom — unless you can't quit. After being murdered and trapped inside the body of an undead NPC, John Doe finds himself cursed to die repeatedly at the hands of other players. The only escape is the legendary Scroll of Rebirth. But to obtain it, a helpless plague-ridden corpse must be transformed into a killing machine. What follows is the story of leveling up a dead rogue in a game where the stakes are terrifyingly real.

John Slater, a battle-hardened ex-special forces soldier, never had any interest in video games. But now he has to learn and learn fast — his brother's life depends on beating one. Magic, monsters, and levels are new to him, and his real-world skills aren't as useful as he thinks. Lucky for him, he's used to adapting on the fly. The world will soon learn why his squadmates called him Seraph, the death angel.

Tobias Martin is one of the best gamers in the world, playing the most advanced virtual reality system ever created. When a mysterious portal appears inside the game, he steps through — and into a world of magic that's more real than he ever could have imagined. Forced to start from scratch, he must rebuild himself into a top-level adventurer if he ever wants to get home. Along the way he'll explore a world full of wonder and danger, make new friends, and level up like his life depends on it. Because it does.

When Martin's raiding guild joins the latest virtual reality MMO, they discover a challenge unlike any other. Strata Online is a hundred-floor mega-dungeon with an ever-shifting ecosystem of monsters. Martin's team find themselves in a race against the world's strongest guilds, all competing to be first to reach the unbeatable lowest depths. Complicating everything is Sin — a twisted morality meter that can transform a player's class into its dark counterpart. Martin bets on a rarely chosen race, the rat-like Murovan, combined with the unusual exorcist class. But Strata demands more than skill. The deeper he goes, the darker the dungeon gets.

To be taken to another world — isn't that what nearly everyone wishes for once in their life? To use their knowledge of how these situations usually go and seize control of their own destiny. Unfortunately, this man arrived as his new character in the VRMRPG Underworld of Armok — at Level 1, with no status window, and no grand power to ease the way. In safety there are few benefits; only by taking risks far beyond his level can one proceed. Transported to another world, he wants to do good and be a hero. There's just one caveat: he's a Necromancer, and his greatest source of strength will probably get him lynched.

Imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit, Kaiden Moore's only shot at early release is serving as a Warden inside the virtual world of Nova Online — protecting new players and enforcing the law. But Kaiden has his own agenda: proving his innocence. The keys to his freedom are buried in the game's seedy underbelly, and the trail that led to his arrest is far more twisted than he ever imagined.

Alex is an office worker by day who spends sleepless nights in his favorite MMO — a familiar world about to be devoured by a new virtual universe called the Crystal Sphere. Alex gets involved in testing a neuroimplant that promises 100% authenticity of experience. Fitted out with the device, he must survive inside the Crystal Sphere against all odds. What is he turning into? Will he become yet another expendable test subject — or the first player to transcend reality?

Before the online game Carpe Noctem launched, the average person wasted a third of their life sleeping. Now players step into a breathtaking world of fantasy and adventure instead. For most users, it's a dream come true. For MaxDamage24 and his sidekick Kirabell, it's about to become something else. After being fired, one of Noctem's creators sets a plan in motion to bring the entire system crashing down. To stop the collapse, Max and Kira must gather their most trusted friends and push themselves to their absolute limits — facing creepy dungeons, impossible bosses, and their own nightmares along the way.

"Arktania" is a virtual game with a steampunk style, where magic spells, enchanted artifacts, steam-powered machines, firearms, and mechanical golems are part of everyday life. Gamer Andrew Falk begins his journey on the border of Orcish territory. His behavior toward the locals — so realistic they feel like real people — earns him a mysterious class called "Slider" and a divine quest from Elenia, the goddess of fate. But he quickly discovers the goddess's power is not constrained to the game: she can affect the real world to force him to complete her assignments. With the "Loner" curse meaning he can rely on no one but himself, Andrew must turn Arktania upside down in his quest for five ancient swords.

Nigmus Online is the first MMORPG to use consumer virtual-dive technology — and it comes with no manual. Players begin as level-zero commoners with only the barest knowledge of the interface. Everything else is up to them. Liam stumbles into the game and discovers a hidden class: the Undead Necromancer. Across the country, Kathrine suffers from a paralyzing disease and joins an experimental program that gives her a new kind of life inside the game. Meanwhile, a disturbing spike in suicides among young adults in Russia and China points to something deeply wrong beneath the surface of Nigmus Online.

In the world of Re:Fuze, fortunes can be made and anyone can find glory. Eric Templeton, facing a dead-end future with a low Job Qualification score and mandatory national service looming, sees the game as his family's only lifeline. But on his first login, Eric isn't spawned into the newbie camp. He lands in the darkest, most dangerous region of the map—and stumbles onto a conspiracy that no beginner should ever see.