A collection of seven stories from seven different authors, all taking place on Ludus.
Ludus is a dangerous fantasy world from the series Delvers LLC and Nora Hazard.
Surviving Ludus can be enjoyed by fans of Delvers LLC, or any readers who enjoy sword and sorcery fantasy, dungeon exploration, survival, portal fantasy, magic-on-monster violence, or touching moments of love and honor.
Welcome new resident of PrimeVerse! By now your old meat body has been utilized to its fullest! Thank you for your contribution! You have stepped foot on a new journey for humankind, the journey to a life that will never end! You have started as a blank slate, the sky is the limit, be all you can be! You are now in PrimeVerse!
We built PrimeVerse on the backs of many of the most popular VR games, with one goal: to make the most realistic, fantastic world for you and your fellow residents to live and thrive in. You can live, laugh, and love. You can feel pain, hatred, and anguish. This world allows you the full range of human experiences while also granting abilities unheard of. Will you unlock the secrets of magic? Will you study the blade or bow? Will you attempt to recreate the technology of the world you left behind? Anything is possible!
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No matter how many times you die, it still sucks.
For Hudson, the virtual world of PrimeVerse isn’t all bad. It’s beautiful; much nicer than overpopulated Earth. It almost feels like a vacation except for the volatile wildlife, lack of any amenities, and — oh yeah — the inability to log out.
Exploring the world, learning his class, and leveling skills is all fun and games until a powerful rogue player with a vendetta shows up to wipe out Hudson and his primitive tribe. Thrust into a conflict he didn’t create, Hudson is forced into a cycle of respawning where he learns that even death can be used as a tool. So much for that vacation.
It’s not like he signed up for this. Or even went willingly. But when life hands you lemons… use them to kill the dog-size spiders that are trying to eat your face.
Dracon grew up in a world overrun by demons, and spent his entire life fighting on battlefield after battlefield hoping for a small chance of survival in the years preceding the demon invasion.
Humanity had lost to the demons 300 years ago, and now because of that defeat all of their third born children only had two options, become food for the demons or level up from the bodies of thousands of people that they slaughtered.
Dracon, however, gets lucky enough to receive a weapon the day before he turns level 2, finding it in the brambles and thicket of a previous battlefield after days of fighting in the rain as his clothes soaked up blood.
This weapon, a seemingly ordinary silver sword, however, has an extremely powerful skill imbued inside of it that may forever change the fate of humanity. With it, he's able to evolve into all of the demons that have taken over the Earth as long as he gathers their blood and strikes the last blow.
Starting from a goblin, and making his way up the line of demons, he fights for a chance to save humanity from the demon's butcher shops, and farms where all 3rd born and further generations are treated like meat to be harvested and eaten!
Warning: Contains gore, and a few difficult moral situations that aren't suited for everyone...
Leylia’s secret could unite them all or lead them to an eternity of undeath.
After the loss of Bastion, everyone who’s not a zombie has holed up in FFO’s sole remaining safe haven: the lowbie town of Windy Lake. But the undead armies never rest, and it’s only a matter of time before the Once King’s forces come to crush what’s left of life in this world.
But Tina, James, and the rest of the players are facing a crisis of their own. After so long in this world, their human bodies are dying on the other side. If they don’t find a way home soon, they may have nothing to go back to.
With time running out in two worlds, Tina and James face a horrible choice: do they spend their final days looking for a way to get back to their old bodies, or join the NPCs to fight for their new ones. But just when things look impossible, James learns a secret that might change everything. Only one catch: to pull it off, they’re going to have to fight one raid boss no one, not even Tina, has ever beaten.
The Once King.
Two of the rival schools have arrived. Now, the final students of the NRE have arrived. What will happen when the students of Warrior Academy, Royal Knight Preparatory, the Neo Rus Empire, and the Samurai and Ninja Entropy School get together?
Welcome back to Warrior Academy. Rejoin Hiro and friends as they continue their journey. Meet new friends and enemies. More food, fighting, and music.
After the world is destroyed humanities survivors start anew. Now in a world forever changed, a place where magic is real, and monsters have come to life. A place where magic and science blend with pop culture… Welcome to Warrior Academy.
If you like video games, music, anime, and just pop culture in general… you will love Warrior Academy. Its Harry Potter meets Naruto with a little Dragon Ball Z and Dungeons and Dragons thrown in for fun, oh and don’t forget a smattering of High School Musical…
This is the fifth episode in a 13 episode series.
Alric was leading a happy life until he braved the streets outside of his tower for a small, illegal procedure.
Jenna Whisper is a rogue of the streets, famed assassin and warrior.
When the two meet, their lives will be forever changed.
Chased by orcs, sentries and a madman with an obsession for RPGs, the pair will be unlikely allies in a cybernetic future of monsters and mayhem.
Can they outrun the shadows chasing them and understand what it means to live in this changing new world?
Warning- Quantum Rogues is a story for mature adults, 18 and over.
Fantasy meets horror in this gore-soaked, standalone LitRPG adventure!
It had seemed like a dream offer. Paint a mural. $15,000. How could Duke not jump at the chance?
But it came with a catch, as these things often do. He had to first see what his client wanted him to paint.
A private server. A digital playground. An alliance of the world’s most sadistic, most depraved minds. A place to bring their prey, to hone their skills.
Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon. Survival horror. One of the most brutal, most terrifying full-immersion games ever made. A place where fantasy characters such as elves and dwarves clash with technology, where giant monsters roam the hills, entrusted with protecting the gates of heaven from the demons who would tear it all down.
A game where one plays the last of the battlefield surgeons: a healer tasked with keeping the behemoths alive at all costs.
But on this server, they don’t care about the game. That’s not why they’re here. They’ve come because of the game’s most unique feature: Full pain. Realistic anatomy. The ability to bring their victims well beyond the body’s normal breaking point. And most importantly, the ability to bring them back and do it all over again.
Trapped in a bloody, merciless nightmare, Duke only has one goal. To survive. And in order to survive, he must play the game. He must win the game. And to do that, he must become the most cruel, most ruthless monster of them all.
Infernal or celestial. Young or old. Each has their own path to power.
Delve into the world of the Divine Dungeon with new and old cultivators alike. Discover the Lion Kingdom’s beginning, learn the origin of Odin and his ravens, and take a philosophical approach to cultivation. These stories and more are included in the first short story anthology set in Dakota Krout’s Divine Dungeon universe.
Eight incredible new tales told by eight amazing authors.
Check out this LitRPG and GameLit fantasy anthology today!
A Marine turned Greek God. An Army of Beautiful Amazons. One Final Battle against Death Itself.
Jacob Merely has secured the ultimate weapon against evil, the Crystal Scythe, and now it’s time for him to bring the fight to Hades himself.
Unfortunately, Earl Necro Earl and his undead forces stand in the way, so if Jacob is going to defeat the god of death, he’s going to have to take out Earl first. Knocking Earl’s teeth into the back of his throat? Yeah, Jacob is totally okay with that.
And when a mysterious new woman arrives unexpectedly at their gates with no memory of who she is—but seems to know of a secret passageway into the heart of the Temple of Hades—Jacob finally has the last piece of the puzzle. But with every new battle won, Jacob is tempted to give into the rage and arrogance that consumed Ares.
Can Jacob resist the temptation to become a total douchebag? Can he and his Amazons unravel the mystery behind the ancient Olympian War and finish a battle as old as time itself? And what new demons does Hades have to throw against the War God?
Continue reading War God’s Mantle by James A. Hunter, author of Rogue Dungeon and the litRPG epic Viridian Gate Online, and Aaron Crash, author of the bestselling American Dragons series.
To save his kingdom, he must confront the Immortal Phoenix and obtain the Eternal Flame!
Calamity has struck the Northern Kingdom of Nephosia! The demons have opened a portal in their capital city! To destroy it, Koji Adalwin Becker, the Prince Consort and future King, must convince the Immortal Phoenix to give him the Eternal Flame!
However, this assignment isn't simple because the ancient, divine beast has her own agenda. To acquire this special, living fire, Koji must pass the Trials of the Immortal Phoenix. Furthermore, can his mortal body accept the Eternal Flame without burning into ashes?
Koji must find a way to temper his body to receive this fire. But he must hurry and complete this mission before trapped citizens within Nephosia, including the King and Queen, succumb to darkness forever!
KOJI & THE IMMORTAL PHOENIX is Book Two in The Bonder Legacy Series, and contains GameLit/LitRPG, harem, cultivation, wuxia, xanxia, and Eastern fantasy, action & adventure elements. Because there are numerous explicit scenes, this book is suitable for mature readers only.
Otherworldly invasions. Nuclear meltdowns converted to dark power. A quest assigned by the Planet itself.
Three weeks ago the world started anew as buildings literally stood up, fearsome monsters materialized, and humanity’s way of life changed forever. Now, Rockland Barkclay must continue to protect his people from a new threat while dealing with internal issues that keep popping up. For instance, will he choose to heed the warning of his resurrected Ancestral Guide as she notices the edges of an ancient conspiracy?
Things take a turn for the worse thanks to a freshly awakened God—or was it the fearsome evolution of Earth's wildlife? Regardless of the cause, the group discovers something dark and twisted in the Atlantean System, invited by a recent unmanned nuclear catastrophe.
The apocalypse isn’t over; it’s just luring everyone into a false sense of security.
Sergei managed to lay his hands on the Divine Avatar of Savior which brings with it the kinds of new abilities other players can only dream of. Still, it’s not the right moment to relax and go with the flow. Two of his friends have been captured; the third one is being kept hostage while Sergei is forced to procure the Elixir of Power.
And just to add insult to injury, Sergei is on the radar of Morbian, one of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. And their future meeting doesn’t bode well for Sergei...
A bounty hunting survivor. A Galactic dark elf. A woman who has given up her humanity to become something more.
These stories and more are available in the first short story anthology for the System Apocalypse, covering year one on Earth. When the world ends, humanity steps up, finding new ways to survive in a world with Classes, magic and monsters. The anthology features exciting, new stories by five new writers and a new, never publicly released short story by Tao Wong.
The System Apocalypse world was first introduced in 'Life in the North' and is a LitRPG science fiction and fantasy post-apocalyptic work that features monsters, science fiction technology, character sheets, supernatural races and ancient myths in one heady, LitRPG brew.
Stories and writers featured in this anthology include:
Craig Hamilton - "Hunting Monsters" has our protagonist doing what he does best. Finding those who would exploit the System and the people within. Except this time, there are even more complications than normal.
Alexis Keane - "Tooth and Claw" is a heart-warming tale of friendship that knows no bounds of race or distance.
Ix Phoen - "Rebel Within" tells a tale of hardship in South America, where the monsters are not always the ones outside the walls.
Tao Wong – “Debts & Dances” covers the arrival of the System from the perspective of our favorite Truinnar Lord.
R.K. Billiau – “Phoenix Rising” covers an unconventional hero, one whose mind is slipping from him before the apocalypse. Will the apocalypse be his salvation? Or doom?
L.A. Batt - “Overture to Obliteration” brings us to far-off New Zealand to glimpse the wreckage the System has wrought.
Desert sands. Arcane magic. A love lost.
Finn Harris should have been the one to die.
But he wasn't - his wife took his place. What was worse, he only had himself and his company to blame. They let their passion outpace their prudence, determined to revolutionize the world. While all innovation comes with a price, he never imagined it would cost him Rachael.
Nearly a decade later, Finn is content to hole himself up and wait out the rest of his life - what little he has left. That is, until his daughter intervenes, forcing him out of his grief and into a new virtual reality game developed by his old employer. They're calling it Awaken Online, and she believes there's something unusual going on inside the game. And since Finn knows the company, knows their tactics - she might be right.
Finn wasn't sure what he expected to find when he logged in. But it certainly wasn't a manipulative fire god or a school for mages - where the students are pitted against each other in deadly duels and the faculty isn't shy about maiming or injuring novice mages to prove a point.
Now Finn must learn to fight, for his own life and a chance at redemption. He'll need to prove that his fire hasn't been snuffed out.
That there's still an ember burning...
My name is Dahlia Otou, and I’m 16 years old. I left everything behind to join Tol Online, the world’s most popular VRMMORPG.
My parents are dead, and I only have one option left: join Tol’s most dangerous realm and fight for survival. But my plan goes haywire when my greatest asset is nerfed by the game’s AI.
Now, I have to recover the pieces of a powerful family heirloom, cleave through bloodthirsty baddies, and trade every scrap of loot I can find before I am arrested and forced to pay off my father’s debt.
Easy, right?
Perfect for fans of Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and Ascend Online by Luke Chmilenko!
THIS BROKEN SWORD is Episode 1 of the SERIALIZED YA GAMELIT LIT RPG saga, TOL Online. Each episode is between 20K and 35K words.
When Charles Morris is forced into retirement, the old multinational company CEO has to accept that it is all over. The days of running his financial empire have finally come to an end. All because of a stupid heart attack. Now what is there for him to do but to curl up in a corner and die?
While Charles is attending a fundraiser, however, something happens and he’s transported into a strange medieval world where magic is real and legendary heroes coexist with mythical monsters.
As it turns out, he’s been snatched by a goddess who was in need of a Champion to grow her village. But the goddess made a mistake. He wasn’t the one she was targeting with her spell. Long story short, she departs without even a word of excuse, leaving Charles stuck with no means of going back home. Not one to feel sorry for himself, Charles embraces this new opportunity, especially since the goddess’ magic returned him to his prime during the transfer.
On his way, Charles meets the inhabitants of Tine, a modest village that’s been awaiting a sign from the gods for centuries. And after discussing the situation with the Mayor, he decides to help them out by assuming the role of their Champion.
Relying on a lifetime of business expertise and the Topsight—an ability that allows him to see and manage the entire village from above—he will have to start back from the bottom and find how to bring this measly Level 1 village to prosperity. One thing is for certain, it will be a long road.
As Charles starts looking for any opportunity to generate gold, the problems begin to pile up. Soon, Charles not only has to deal with bandits and other rulers looking to make a profit out of him, he also has to face internal crises that threaten to escalate into a full-blown uprising.
Because, as he’ll quickly learn, the Mayor had somehow "forgotten" to tell the villagers of their deal, and now they’re mad at him for usurping the position of Champion without the approval of the gods. And so, they give him an ultimatum: he has one month to prove himself and improve Tine, otherwise it’s the hangman’s noose.
Follow Charles as he takes on the challenge of a lifetime. Follow him as he builds roads and shops, hires heroes, develops alliances with neighboring villages…but also fights terrible foes while struggling to maintain the Happiness and Satisfaction levels of his village in the positives.
What if the death of one game meant the death of all?
A terrible entity has consumed the game known as Mage World Online. But now that all virtual online worlds are connected, this monstrous hive-mind turns its sights to other games.
It will take every power and friend that Riley can recruit to defeat this new, insurmountable menace.
Because if he can't stop it in Sigil Online, it will consume everything in its path.
Warning: Reading this novel may cause an uncontrollable desire to play Superhero MMOs.
Bastions is the finale to the Sigil Online trilogy.
Currently at a low price for a limited time to celebrate the launch of the final book in the series!
What if you could guarantee life after death?
Denton Wade is Dying.
And Cyberternal Industries has the answer. An answer he isn't willing to accept: life everlasting in a game world of fantasy, swords, and magic.
EndWorld Everlasting. A man-made afterlife. It goes against everything he's always believed in.
But there might still be hope. And hope is a very dangerous thing.
Far below their headquarters in Dallas, Texas, Cyberternal has been working on a secret medical program. A program made available to Denton though his personal, if not complicated, connection to an Assistant Vice President at the powerful company.
After agreeing to undergo the procedure, Denton finds himself awakening to a strange, new world. A world he never wanted.
Second Chance is the first book in the series: A Battlemage Reborn, and is a GameLit Fantasy Adventure with soft LitRPG elements set in the digital world of EndWorld Everlasting.
Eddie Hunter is about at the end of his rope, so when he stumbles across an ad looking for people to farm in Long Term Immersion in the game Light Online, he can't believe his luck. Once hired he enters the game as soon as he can. Unbeknownst to him, though, the person that hired him is also doing illicit research on the pods that he and the other farmers are using.
The research is rapidly discovered by the AIs that monitor the game and shut down, forcefully, by the company that runs Light Online. But the code that runs those pods has been altered, and until it's fixed Eddie and the others can't log out. Although the devs assure him that it won't take long to fix, Eddie's not so sure of that himself.
Eddie entered the game to make money in real life, and as he tries to do that he finds himself getting entangled deeper and deeper in the game and with the people he meets there. But when he discovers a side of the game that the previous players had apparently never even considered, he knows he has to find a way to stay in the game.
This story is approximately 120,000 words long and DRM free.
This cat man isn’t all that cute and cuddly.
Varnoth’s journey through the lush fantasy world of Albattara continues. After the defeat of the Derelict gang’s vile, crime boss, Atlas Blackthorne, all seems well for the countryside. However, a horrific event occurs that forces the shadow panther to lead a massive group of diverse refugees as they search desperately for a safe haven. Varnoth will battle ghastly monsters and adventure on fascinating quests as he grows into one of the most powerful heroes in all the land.
This time around, Varnoth is not alone. There are new and unique side characters that join the fight alongside the legendary Black Blade.
Will this power be enough when retribution knocks on Varnoth's door? Will the shadow panther be able to keep his people safe?
An army of monsters led by a depraved, blood-thirsty tyrant will test Varnoth’s bravery and skill. Will the shadow panther be able to prevent the slaughter of the very people he swore to protect?
This is an epic fantasy LitRPG adventure that includes leveling, statistics, quests, dungeons and loot!