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Reincarnated into his old self, Li Wei starts over at the lowest point of his life. Marred with a crippled body, he has to depend on his mastery of arrays and future knowledge to carve his own path in the brutal cultivation world. With his old friends and animal companions, Li Wei sets out on an epic journey to fix his past life's mistakes, achieve his dao, and fight the heavens. With a SYSTEM to help him, his journey might be easier this time. Or it might not be.

Being mistaken for an Ancient Predecessor usually results in heavenly benefits. Not for James Anderson. After being thrown into an isolated training realm, he is quick to figure out that there is no tutorial. No guidance. No ancient being to fully unlock his system. For eons he remains stuck by himself. Only system notifications and rewards appearing out of thin air keep him from going insane. But even that eventually stops working.

Life sucks. Gabe Harris has been clued into this fact for a long time now. In his mid-twenties, life has been nothing but low paying jobs, petty power-tripping bosses, and the worst roommates mankind has to offer. Bills, debt, and misery have haunted him for his entire adult life and, to make matters worse, it feels like his dream of being a writer is dead on arrival. One fateful night, he decides to take control of his life and make his dream a reality.

Four years alone in the Oregon wilderness cured Ethan Reed of a lot of things. Corporate burnout. Panic attacks. Any expectation that life would ever surprise him again. Then a wounded elf collapsed in his yard during a blizzard. Lyra is a silver-haired ranger fleeing hunters who've been capturing her kind. Mara is a born werewolf with amber eyes and a tactical mind sharper than her fangs. Nerissa is an ancient naiad who moves through water like it's an extension of her soul. None of them should exist. All of them need his help.

Karzon and his friends are on the last leg of their journey. Two more artifacts to secure, after which they have to face the one who started it all. Will Karzon succeed in overcoming the darkness, or will be succumb to it for good?

After escaping from Three River City with his life intact and a few of his closest allies by his side, Zhao Dan establishes the roots of the Grasping Life Sect on the Million Flowers Celestial Peak. Unfortunately, there is danger on all sides. Out of the frying pan and into the fire, Zhao Dan and his new sect members must face the challenges that await them while growing their sect into a medical powerhouse.

Hunter Graves was the kind of man who lived behind glass—quiet, unreadable, a data analyst with a poker face and a life built on routine. But when a storm of lightning ripped his world apart, Hunter and everyone he knew were thrown into the Multiversal System, a brutal trial of survival where humanity was nothing more than raw material to be tested. Accepting the class of a healer, Hunter should have been relegated to the backline. Instead, his cold pragmatism and honed martial skill make him something far more dangerous: a fighter who refuses to die by the rules others set for him.

Yager traded the life of a soldier for a barony on the edge of civilization—and the frontier is testing him once again. Spring comes to the Elkwood Valley with increased opportunities as well as more dangers. As his holdfast rises from raw timber and stone, Baron Yager must defend his lands from the likes of direwolves, assassins, and traitors – to name a few. As he builds his baronial stronghold he must also continue to master the ancient Dwarven magic flowing through his veins. Every step forward seems to bring new threats…and higher stakes.

Moving is always tough. The process becomes exponentially tough when you find out that the supposedly vacant land you have chosen out in the middle of nowhere is actually an ancient elven burial ground. Normally, the process would require a brutal battle to the death, but as always, finding an alternate solution is possible. However, the possible solution becomes complicated, to say the least. This complication allows for a temporary reprieve of hostilities, allowing life to move on. As always, training must be conducted.

Ethan Harper made his choice. He picked the girls—both of them—over everything he'd built. That includes his career, his reputation, even his entire life in Neo Elysium. Now he's unchained, for better or worse, scraping by as a Diver in the city's underbelly while SlayerCorp's security drones close in overhead. The plan is simple for now: lay low, stack credits, and get out before someone collects on the bounty hanging over their heads. But nothing's really simple with Lily and Gloomy.

Dirk and his friends are off to the South Capital where some of the Region’s strongest wild monsters await them, as well as answers, hopefully. While at the new tamer academy, Dirk will have to navigate his growing notoriety and help his friends deal with unexpected matters of their own. All while a mysterious entity secretly prepares to unleash ultimate ruin upon the land.

One set of enemies has been dealt with, and Tad has made his way to a new town with a new shop. He's made some great friends and found a happiness he didn't know existed. If only life were that simple. His heritage is pushing into his life and choices will have to be made. That and those who want a piece of him have become even more powerful. Will he ever find the quiet life he wanted so much? Although, perhaps the bigger question is whether that's still the life he wants?

Underneath the world we know is one filled with monsters and mayhem. And the only thing standing between it and us is Nick. Recruited by a mysterious woman in latex, he has one job: Keep the supernatural in check.Aided by a sentient breast implant sidekick (she's a silicone slime!) and driving a Hellcat, he’s going to find himself faced with threats way above his league. Fortunately for him, his knack for recruiting gorgeous Chosen One-types may be just the thing he needs to stay alive.

Captain Nathan Kade just wants a quick job to keep his busted-up spaceship limping through the Solar System. Instead he gets Vessani S’Kaari, a mysterious and beautiful catgirl who tried—and failed—to steal a ship belonging to a band of space pirates. She’s chaos in a tight catsuit, but she also has a lead on what may be the greatest treasure trove of lost technology the Solar System has ever seen.

Tad doesn't have any memory before waking up on the beach, apparently the sole survivor of a shipwreck. All he has from his past is a necklace with a symbol no one recognizes. After growing up in the orphanage, he takes a job managing inventory for a merchant catering to adventurers. He knows he's a bit off, the world just smells different to him. When he's confronted by a group of adventurers with more power than ethics, he learns that it's been magic he is smelling all along.

In the magic lands of the Fae Wild, the Goblin King's virility is the lifeblood of the realm. But an insidious curse has put the kingdom on the precipice of a population panic. Enter Thomas Stone: architect, engineer, and unknowing half-blood heir to the goblin throne. Whisked away to a world where baby-making makes the world go round, Thomas finds himself in a pickle thicker than goblin stew. Birth rates are dropping faster than a fairy on a bad flight path, and it’s up to Thomas to save the fae from themselves.

Zane's become a regional powerhouse. Now he’ll see how he stacks up against the best in the world. He’s off to an elite summit where he’ll face off against the strongest fighters the world has to offer. A wealth of resources is up for grabs—if you’ve got the strength to seize them. It’ll push Zane to his very limits. Meanwhile Mike Masters, the mafia ruler of Southern California, has learned Zane’s been killing off his minions—and he’s coming for vengeance. And Zane's estranged brother Jason, king of the East Coast, has a bone to pick with him too.

Two centuries ago, the First Expansionary Fleet set off to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, hoping to explore, colonize, and conquer new worlds in the name of humanity. But when the fleet was violently and unexpectedly thrown off course, the colonists found themselves trapped in an unexplored region of the galaxy—and caught right in the middle of a bloody interstellar war. Now, after generations of relentless fighting, a tentative truce has finally ushered in an era of growth and prosperity.

I expected aging out of the foster care system to be hard. I wasn't expecting it to include finding out I was a Warlock, destined to be hunted by the most powerful Witch Families so they could bind me to a coven of thirteen witches and spend the rest of my life "harvesting mana". Add to that a set of magical resonants that made me an even bigger target to some of those Witch Families, some of which would rather kill me than let a rival get me.

I’ve always wanted to conquer the Big 5 dungeons ever since one of them took the life of my father nearly fifteen years ago. Nobody ever said the Path of Progression was easy, but my burning desire to dive can’t be quenched. I just never thought I’d be prohibited from getting a diving license just because I tried to help a bratty blonde girl get hers. Soon, we’re joined by a lovely brunette bookworm, and we start diving the dungeon on our own terms.