Aether's Revival follows Gregory Pettit, a farm boy from a small village who dreams of becoming a magi. Each year the Velian Empire administers the Age Day rite of passage that identifies those blessed by Aether. When Gregory's Aether sparks, he is taken to the Magi Academy— a dangerous academy where twice-yearly tournaments can cripple or kill, and empire clans aggressively recruit. Across ten volumes, Gregory progresses from novice to apprentice to adept and beyond, mastering Aether channeling, spellcraft, and clan leadership alongside his wives Yukiko and Jenn and their sworn guard. The series is explicitly structured around academy years, tournament ranks, and Aether cultivation tiers, with each arc centered on breakthroughs, clan advancement, and empire-scale conflict. Originally self-published by Daniel Schinhofen (first published Feb 2020), the series holds 4.41 stars (6,133 ratings) for volume 1 and continues as an ongoing progression fantasy.
Sean MacDougal is pulled from Earth after a bar-room death and given a new god-crafted body in a world ruled by the Summer and Winter Queens of the Fey, where words have power and Agreements are binding. Gifted by the Tuatha De Danann and bound by fate to Morrigan, goddess of Fate, Death, and Battle, Sean must find his place - rising from outsider to Aspirant, Knight, and Lord while building the Forged Bonds association and family around him.
Sentenced to life in prison, Seamus is offered a deal: test long-term immersion in Mindblown Entertainment's latest full-immersion VRMMO, Alpha World, as the Two-souled Alburet. What begins as a prison sentence becomes a new life - building Alpha Company, conquering keeps, surviving testing phases, and finding family - across 8 volumes of game-world advancement where levels, gear, zones, and guild power are the measure of progress.
Dungeons are appearing all over the world, threatening mankind. Dungeon Walkers brave their depths for personal gain: clearing a dungeon means dungeon points for gear, but more importantly perks — every first-time clear offers a choice of three life-changing perks. When someone dies inside, their soul fragments into four shards that can be recovered and taken to a temple of the Goddess for rebirth, and a sub-sect called the Rescue Squad dedicates itself to bringing the dead back. Stern, an irregular born with unusual perks and shunned as blighted, graduates from the academy with his polydactyl Maine Coon Pawly, determined to join the Rescue Squad.
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