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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 Road4.40· 881
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

Viceroy's Pride

Cale Plamann

C54/100
Seek out new life and civilizations. Kill them for their mana. Daniel Thrush is the only known human capable of learning the magic that powers the various empires of the universe. Earth is in the crosshairs of the Tellask Empire — a race that discovered magic millennia before humanity mastered fire. All known alien civilizations abandoned technological progress once they found the arcane, spreading across the galaxy aboard great voidships. For all of Earth's military might, humanity's only hope is to incorporate alien magic into technology. That means finding monsters and harvesting their mana. Despite his better judgment, Daniel leaves Earth behind to bring back a future.
Goodreads4.31· 1.1K
Competent MCHard MagicMilitarySci-fi

Earth's First StarFighter

Han Yang

C54/100
A massive wormhole rips open above Earth and aliens arrive — not conquerors, but merchant traders called the Iglax, who offer advanced technology in exchange for cheap labor in the asteroid belt. The aliens test humans individually for miner rentals, and a skilled pilot can earn a spaceship and a contract. When one puddle-jumper pilot tests above and beyond all expectations, he is offered something better than a mining ship: Earth's First StarFighter.
Goodreads4.34· 581
Competent MCMilitaryOlder MCSci-fiSkill Collection

Godslayers

Trollmore

C54/100
In ancient times, the Eifni Organization reached heaven through violence and tore gods from their thrones. Now their methods are more precise: etheric technology measures love, creates beauty, and reincarnates the dead. By embedding specially trained operatives — godslayers — into a culture, they engineer the exact conditions needed to kill a god and save the souls it would otherwise devour. Lilith was a run-of-the-mill college atheist until a divine being took a bite out of her soul. Rescued by the Eifni Organization and trained as a godslayer, she is now deploying on her first real mission to a planet called Theria. Objective: reconnaissance on the local pantheon and clearing out as many gods as possible before the strike team arrives. There is just one problem — the Therians seem to know they are coming.
pf8.0· 1Royal Road4.62· 430
Anti-heroGenius MCMilitaryMysteryOverpowered MCReincarnation+1

Rise of the Lord

Thunder Surfer

C54/100
Gerald, born a Viscount's son, spent most of his life since age six as an enemy Duke's "ward" — nothing short of a hostage. Until a shocking letter arrived requesting that he be sent back to inherit his father's territory and title. Now he must return and rule the ruin that is his family's lands. Bandits roam, enemies leer, conspiracies brew, and wars rage. Gerald must rise with his house from the ashes.
Royal Road4.57· 738Goodreads3.75· 4
Base BuildingGenius MCMilitarySecondary WorldWuxia

Legacy of a Dying World

Waldo Rodriguez

C53/100
When the PAC invaded, Gabriel Rivera's life changed forever. As an out-of-shape nerd, his priorities had been simple: evacuate the city, join the military, protect his family. Then the grim fate of his world is revealed, and Gabriel joins the Reclaimer Project — starting as a lowly F-ranker, weaker than even the worst recruits. Through blood and sweat, Gabriel pushes to grow stronger. Deadly traps, shadowy factions, and wild dormant powers all stand in his way. Battered, bruised, and beaten, he refuses to stay down — for only in the fires of the Crucible are legends forged.
Goodreads4.34· 537
LitRPGMilitaryPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Broken Path: The Song of Blood and Shadow

MaerBear

C53/100
Money and Qi are the keys to power in the Republic of Ardus. Ren has neither. He had a good life — until debt collectors tore him from his loved ones and threw him out onto the streets. Life in the dark alleys of Katarn is merciless to the weak, and Ren craves the power to change his fate. He has no teacher, no master — fated to rot away like the pile of refuse he calls home. Until an encounter with a dying immortal gives him a chance to change everything. But before he can step onto the path of immortality, his spirit is tainted by the venom of a Mythical Beast. Will the song in his soul and a lost cultivation technique be enough to survive this cruel world?
Royal Road4.61· 623
CultivationGenius MCGrimdarkMilitarySecondary WorldSkill Collection+2

The Warcrowned

LostInTranscription

C53/100
Marcus saw magic when he first opened his eyes, and nothing else ever compared. But the king is old and Marcus is an only child — hard decisions must be made, and no one expected anything of him beyond his skill with the arcane. They were right to underestimate him. Until the cube. Until it taught him what life meant for people not born into nobility, that all his arcane skill did not make him immortal, and that running from problems does not make them go away.
Royal Road4.61· 618
Base BuildingGenius MCHard MagicMilitarySecondary WorldSoft Magic

Accidental War Mage

Tom Writing Quietly

C53/100
In a militaristic empire where war mages are prized and steam knights celebrated, Mikolai reluctantly signed up to be a steam suit mechanic to avoid conscription into the regular infantry. Magical talent is rare, precious, and a pathway into the nobility — but Mikolai is a peasant from a small farming village with simple ambitions: stay alive and do the right thing. When an unfortunate accident leads to his assignment to a special task force commanded by the notorious war mage Ognyan Spitignov, surviving with a clean conscience becomes very difficult. The mission: stamp out resistance to imperial rule in newly-conquered territory. Mikolai will try everything in his power to make the best of a bad situation — and he has more power than he realizes. His journey will take him through the horrors of war and the grinding clash between empires.
Royal Road4.61· 550Goodreads4.33· 3
Competent MCGrimdarkMilitaryOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

Aetherfall

Ravnicrasol

C53/100
Running on three days without sleep and sustained by coffee and looming bills, Liam stumbles face-to-face with a portal — and jumps through. The destination turns out to be Crystal Skylights, a universe of his own creation. Now Liam must confront that he is merely human in a world where gods walk the earth. His only edge is his knowledge of this universe — knowledge that makes him a prime target.
Royal Road4.63· 255
Genius MCIsekaiMilitarySecondary WorldSoft Magic

[PLACEHOLDER ARCHIVE - RA]

Vitaly S Alexius

C53/100
[This is a placeholder archive backup of an old book, kept here only to fight copyright trolls in the future]
Royal Road4.61· 545
Anti-heroComedyHorrorMilitaryOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+2

The Twelve Apocalypses: A Damned Soul's Path to the Abyss

AT Valentine

C52/100
Being drafted into a demon army wasn't on Hayden's bucket list. But when his soul is shoved into a human soldier on the eve of a new invasion, there's no appealing the decision. Around him, demons are excited and ready — for them, the invasion of Berlis, a classic sword-and-sorcery realm, promises a feast of souls and new growth. Hayden's human status puts him at the bottom of the totem pole, cannon fodder meant to die first. But as he plunges into the carnage, he discovers he was born for the madness.
Royal Road4.59· 692
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+5

Savant Barbarian

HideousGrain

C52/100
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 Road4.61· 501
Base BuildingGenius MCLitRPGMilitarySecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Heavy Metal

Kuropon

C52/100
Struck down in battle, a Hero and a Demon King meet their end at the same moment. As their souls linger on the edge of the afterlife, a mysterious force intervenes — merging their fragmented souls into a new being: Rusty, a living suit of armor. Affected by the memories and presence of both predecessors, Rusty embarks on his own quest. Will he seek revenge for the Hero's betrayal, fulfill the fallen Demon King's desires, or forge an entirely new path?
Royal Road4.43· 778
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLit+11

Son of Julius Caesar: Rebuilding Rome

Mincho Nyangi

C51/100
He wanted nothing more than an ordinary life — free from crushing debt and the endless corporate grind. Instead, he died. And when he opened his eyes, he was in ancient Rome, son of Gaius Julius Caesar. History is written in blood. If he does nothing, his new family will be swept away by the coming political firestorm. Power is survival in Rome, and he intends to survive — armed with modern knowledge, reshaping the Roman Republic through banking, insurance, industry, and new political strategies.
Royal Road4.61· 446
Base BuildingGenius MCMerchantMilitaryOlder MCOverpowered MC+1

Apocalypse Reborn

SageOfEyes

C50/100
From indebted orphan to forced guide to decoy king, Jack has a lot on his plate. It isn't enough that there are murderous elves on the horizon, or a nation filled with sneering academics ready to topple the kingdom he is supposedly in charge of — in a few decades the world will end unless a bunch of maniacs designed to fight each other can somehow work together. What's a player to do without saves and retries on the highest difficulty: reality?
Royal Road4.60· 589
Base BuildingGameLitGenius MCMilitarySecondary World

Star Wars: Rise of the Battlemage

MetaBettaOmegaLetta

C50/100
Death is just the beginning for Deacon Roy. When he is pulled from his eternal rest to go on an adventure, he does his best to hit the ground running. In a galaxy where the Force is the dominant power, how will a Battlemage fare?
Royal Road4.55· 680
Base BuildingIsekaiMilitarySci-fiSoft Magic

Cultivating Common Sense In A Xianxia World

JohnPLoveRaft

C50/100
Transmigrated into a fifteen-year-old farmer's body, the protagonist finds himself in a xianxia world before sects, before elders, before any of the usual structures — and without a System, a golden finger, or a cheat to help him along. Cultivation exists, but no one has mastered or systematized it. Warlords conscript farmers into meat grinders, and cultivators operate like weapons of mass destruction. Armed with knowledge of three hundred cultivation novels and a commitment to rational thinking, he must throw out every trope he ever read. No convenient cave with an ancient manual. No sect to join. Just a world that needs someone to introduce a little common sense — and build the institutions from scratch.
Royal Road4.16· 792
Base BuildingCozyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiMilitary+4

Siege State

J W Walters

C50/100
Orcs — brutal, cunning, and prolific — once pushed humanity to the brink. Humankind retreated into massive fortified cities and eventually waged a war of extermination. After decades of bloody conflict, they won. Or so they thought. Now the ancient enemy has returned, and humanity, still reeling and still huddled in its cities, has been afraid to exert its dominion over the land again. Monsters and worse swarm the wilds. Idealists — humans who have manifested magic — struggle to turn back the tide. Tom strives desperately to become an Idealist and save his House from ruin, his city from destruction, and humankind from annihilation.
Royal Road4.57· 654
Class SystemGrimdarkLitRPGMilitarySecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Firebrand

J. D. Astra, James Hunter

C49/100
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.
Goodreads4.32· 418
Hard MagicMilitarySchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong