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The Silver Hands were one of the best mercenary companies in the kingdom — now only one member remains. Kain Asheld buried the three people closest to him and bought a farm with his last bounty, desperate for silence and a fresh start. The place locals call Madder's Place is a disaster of rotting floorboards, collapsed roofs, and fields swallowed by the wild. But the village needs Kain as much as he needs the solitude, and help comes from unexpected quarters — a young collector, a sharp-tongued tavern owner, and a community that pays on the honor system. As Kain rebuilds, he discovers that starting over takes its own kind of strength.

Callum had seen things all his life — monsters and beasts living among people — but he learned very early not to admit such things. It turns out the supernatural is real, but at thirty Callum has no desire to be part of that secret. Not that he has a choice when it turns out he is a mage, albeit one that hasn't cast any spells in all his life. The powers that be insist on requirements, duties, and education. To hell with that. An urban fantasy that goes rather sideways from the normal genre fairly quickly, following Callum as he goes from fugitive to renegade to open conflict with the forces that govern the supernatural world.

The year is 2493. After AI wars eradicated three centuries of technological progress, humanity survived thanks to immortal martial artists called the Old Monsters. A technology known as time dilation emerged, tripling human life expectancy — until corporations seized control of it and enslaved the world. Raine KongRu signed a life-long contract with CronGate and spent his best years as another cog in their rise to power. Now he's awoken in his old body, two days before it all began. With a chance to amend his mistakes, he'll have his revenge while teaching the world exactly how deadly a man becomes after thirty years of the most brutal martial combat ever imagined.

He was the greatest chaos mage of his time, spending sixty years defending the world from rift creatures — loyal to the Empire to his bone, until it decided to wipe out the Chaos clan and every last one of its members. Life has a way of surprising you, and he got a second chance to walk the entire path again. Except the rules are different this time around: chaos is now the weakest of the six elements, and its mages are considered bottom-feeders. Time to show this world just how dead wrong it is.

After years of exile, Marcus is coming back home. A powerful mage with few equals, he lives in a world full of monsters and powerful adepts, many of whom have bad histories with him. But he has not returned to pursue vengeance or start a fight — all Marcus wants is to reconnect with old friends, build himself a house, and maybe train a successor or two. Alas, the world didn't stop just because Marcus went into exile, and not everyone is content to let go of old grievances. Strange things are happening at large, hinting at a looming disaster of unknown nature. Still, where there is a will, there is a way — and if nothing else, Marcus has a lot of magical power to throw at problems.

After a fatal mine explosion, Russian army doctor Igor Ivanov awakens in a parallel universe—late 1914, World War I raging, his home country on the brink of destruction. Igor does what he has always done: saves lives, using medical advancements that were inconceivable a hundred years ago. But his 21st-century combat experience also makes him a formidable soldier. As he makes connections and climbs the social ladder, Igor is driven by a single goal—to change the course of world history.

Jeb Trapper tried to kill himself. The gun jammed. Two months later, the veteran is participating in underground trials of ecstasy to treat his PTSD. Everything seemed to be going great—until the System was installed. Now he has to choose the difficulty of his tutorial. Just one problem: he's high as a kite, and nothing seems impossible.

Grant is pulling a late shift watching an empty cell at a middle-of-nowhere facility when he meets Subject B-31: blue, beautiful, and inhuman. Told to think of her as a test subject and ignore her desperation, he doesn't listen — and his rescue attempt quickly turns into an alien abduction. B-31 is Sykora, a princess of the tyrannical Taiikari Empire, who whisks Grant into a galaxy filled with alien cultures, deadly rivals, and the sinister smiles of the royal court. Grant will have to learn a new life fast. Because when the Princess of the Void looks at him, she doesn't just see a savior — she sees a husband. And she isn't asking.

A Hunter who honored the Code all his life was promised a new life after death — a new world and some well-deserved rest. Something went wrong. Once again, he must fight. The monsters that face him in this world are far more terrifying than those of his past life — cleverer, crueler, more unpredictable. And they are only the beginning.

On the brink of death, a burned-out man in his late thirties is offered one last chance at life through experimental early access to a full-dive VRMMO — with one condition: he cannot log out. Sent into the world years before launch, he becomes something no developer planned: a seemingly permanent inhabitant living inside the game long before players arrive. While future adventurers dream of fame and leaderboards, he chooses a quieter path — claiming land in the mountains, learning blacksmithing, mining deep veins of ore, and slowly building a life with his hands. For a long while, the world is his alone. Then players begin to appear. To the first of them, he looks like a strange NPC with skills that shouldn't exist yet. He doesn't correct them. He would very much like to be left alone. Unfortunately, the world has other plans.

Finn Harris is a brilliant retired engineer still mourning the death of his wife Rachael — a loss tied to the company he helped build. With little left to live for, his daughter pushes him into Awaken Online, a new virtual reality game developed by his former employer. Inside, Finn discovers a school for mages where students duel to the death and faculty maim novices without hesitation. Guided — and manipulated — by a fire deity, Finn must learn to fight, reclaim his purpose, and find a path to redemption before his time runs out.

Lives are a currency, and Noah Vines is rich. After standing around in the afterlife for thousands of years, Noah is all out of patience. When the opportunity to steal a second chance at life arises, he doesn't hesitate. Reincarnated into the body of a dying magic school professor, Noah finds he got more than just a second chance — he got infinite. Every time he dies, his body reforms. With countless variations of runic magic to discover and with death serving as only a painful soul-wound rather than a final end, Noah finally has a chance to wander the lands of the living once more. This time around, he plans to get strong enough to make sure he never has to wait around in the afterlife again.

Alexander is a master artificer who cheated death and woke up three hundred years later in the body of a young count with a scandalous reputation, in the glorious city on the Neva he once helped build. The world has changed enormously — but he is still an artificer, and he is still home. Now he must reclaim his craft, deal with the political mess that comes with his new identity, and grow even stronger in the art of magical artifact creation.

His name is Eight. Not really, but that's what the System decided after a slip of the tongue. One moment, he was stepping out the office door on the way home, and the next waking up on a hillside below a town wall — and the gate guard drove him off, thinking he was a monster. Life's tough when you're an old man trapped in an eight-year-old body on another world. But there's sixty-four years of hard-won wisdom inside that small frame, and Eight will use every bit of it to survive.

The world of Pokémon is synonymous with young boys and girls going on a journey and facing many challenges. This story is not like that. This is a story about a self-insert coming into one of the most prominent companions of the Pokémon world. Unlike other stories, Brock is already established and has gone on his journey — he's faced challenges and returned home to be other people's challenges. Explore an alternate Pokémon universe with an expanded cast and more mature ideals through the eyes of Brock, Gym Leader of Pewter City Gym, and family man.

Forty-year-old project manager Tori Felix was scrolling through a wiki article about a dating sim on the bullet train when everything went wrong. She woke up in the bruised teenage body of Victoria de Guevera — the villainess of the popular game "The Romance of Soleil" — with a splitting headache and a very bad prognosis: according to the wiki, Victoria dies violently at the hands of sex slavers. With only weeks before the heroine and villainess collide, there is no time for an existential crisis. Tori's personal mantra has always been "assess the situation, then make a plan of action" — and she intends to use it.

At 79, Adom is an old mage who has known nothing but illness and regret. When the world finally burns and all hope turns to ash, a mysterious being appears at the last beat of his fading heart with a simple question: "If you could try again, would you?" A handshake seals the deal, and Adom wakes up on his old school grounds, sixty-seven years in the past — with all his knowledge intact, his memories preserved, and his youth restored. This time, Adom wants it all: food he's never tasted, a world still full of wonder, the life he dreamed of. There's just one small catch — he needs to prevent the end of the world first. And as he will soon discover, changing history may demand sacrifices even greater than watching it burn.

Michael didn't want to die. After a lost battle with cancer, he'd lived what many would call a full life — but it wasn't enough. He wanted more time with his wife, his kids, his grandkids. When he found himself drawn toward the light, he fought his way away from it. Unfortunately, that didn't take him back to the life he wanted. Reincarnated in another world, Michael is forced to become a Penitent — a soldier in the country he was reborn into — in order to pay a debt to society for taking the life of the child whose body he now inhabits. It's not the life he wants, but it's the only one he has.

Colonel James Raytak is about to die. The 93-year-old combat veteran is living his last days in a nursing home; his only hope for survival is an experimental Medpod life support system controlled by an artificial intelligence. Co-developed by the world's largest gaming company, the AI will also run the soon-to-be-released game Limitless Lands. Without its creator's knowledge, the AI decides the best course of treatment is to import its patient's consciousness directly into the game. Colonel Raytak must dust off his military training and lead his virtual troops in a fight to repair his broken body and mind while exploring the Limitless Lands.

Verdan Blacke is an Imperial Wizard — a researcher by preference but soldier by necessity. Surviving an intense battle, he is cursed by a hex witch in her final moments. Without any good options, Verdan escapes the ever-increasing pain by performing a self-made stasis ritual. When the spell fades, he awakens to find a world completely different from the one he left behind. Dark things work in daylight with impunity, once-common knowledge is a mystery, and even the nature of human magic has changed. One wizard, a million problems, and the wrath of profound magic.