Power masteryCompleted
2021–2022The Perfect Run
Maxime J. Durand
Superpowers meet a time loop, with mastery built through careful iteration.
Humorous / ComedySci-FiTime Loop
Author
Maxime J. Durand
11 series · 26 books of progression fantasy
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2019–2021Vainqueur the Dragon
Maxime J. Durand
Vainqueur Knightsbane is your average dragon: a giant, fire-breathing lizard who loves to nap on his hoard, kidnap princesses and terrorize kingdoms. When his best friend Victor — a minion with the rare [Monster] class — reveals that their entire world runs on RPG mechanics, Vainqueur decides to become the greatest, richest, most revered dragon ever. Together the vain, clueless calamity and his scheming human minion grind levels, loot dungeons, found the Vainqueur Kingdom, recruit monsters and outwit heroes, gods and rival dragons. A comedic LitRPG progression fantasy where every hoard, title and level-up matters.
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OngoingThe Hundred Reigns
Maxime J. Durand
A hundred tries to get it right. No more, no less. For twenty years, Balzam Magnos terrorized the world as its third Overlord — conquering kingdoms, slaughtering heroes, crushing rebels under his iron boot. Then he died, and Simon is now stuck with his Class. Owning the most powerful Class in the world has downsides: paladins want his head, overpowered siblings want his throne, his empress stepmother wants both, and his predecessor's assassin is still out there. But the Overlord Class has a secret: its user can turn back time to their coronation up to a hundred times, reliving their reigns until death. Simon has a hundred reigns to grow strong enough to fulfill his dreams. Better make each one count. Timeloop LitRPG with 100 loops, each a chance to master Class, levels, skills and reign differently.
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2022Kairos
Maxime J. Durand
Kairos is a Greek-myth LitRPG trilogy (2022, Aethon Books, 3 volumes) by bestselling author Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald). It has been centuries since mortals unlocked the secrets of the Fate System and overthrew Mount Olympus, leaving the Old Gods dead and their thrones empty. In a flooded world of endless seas and scattered islands, Kairos — a young pirate lord from Histria with the rare Talent to speak with animals — dreams of ascending as the newest deity. Cunning, charismatic and ruthlessly ambitious, the [Rogue]-class adventurer must sail uncharted waters, tame fearsome monsters, conquer new lands, plunder dungeons including the last entrance to the Underworld on his own island, and outwit rival god-candidates like the Poison King Mithridates and the wolf-god Lycaon's cultist Romulus. Pitched as 'pirate-themed adventure loaded with Greek mythology' from the author of Vainqueur the Dragon and The Perfect Run, the series follows Kairos from island rogue to dynasty founder as two would-be pantheons clash for the Olympians' throne — with only room for one at the apex.
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2022—Apocalypse Tamer
Maxime J. Durand
Basil Bohen was asleep when the System arrived and the world changed. Dungeons suddenly popped up across the planet, summoning invaders and monsters from alternate realities. Ancient gods slumbering beneath the Earth were woken. And all humans were empowered with Levels and Classes gained by killing monsters and other humans. Only a single instruction was provided by the System: "Whoever reaches Level 100 first shall become Earth's new Overgod." So initiated a worldwide battle royale of epic proportions — which Basil would rather sit out. Choosing the [Tamer] profession which allows him to speak with his cat, Plato, and other apocalyptic monsters, he'll adopt and train them to fight alongside him and defend his corner of the countryside. After all, why bother fighting the apocalypse when you can tame it? Join Basil as he progresses from Level 1 to 100 all while refusing to play by the rules of the System, recruiting monsters, dungeon diving, and conquering the countryside across post-apocalypse Europe.
LitRPGSystem Apocalypse
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2026—Board & Conquest
Maxime J. Durand
Wepwawet, young god of wolves, must transform an ice-covered barbarian village into a formidable force to prove himself. A Kingdom Building LitRPG where a fledgling deity uses board-game-esque powers, faith and miracle magic to build civilization from nothing. Blending strategic domain management with personal divine advancement, the series follows the god and his chosen heroine as they gather followers, unlock miracles, and level up against rival gods and harsh frontiers.
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2024—Blood & Fur
Maxime J. Durand
Each year the Nightlords choose a new Emperor to rule Yohuachanca — delicious food, beautiful women and priestesses counsel, but at year's end he is sacrificed to the gods. Iztac, a sorcerer-emperor, must survive the sacrifice cycle and gain the power to destroy the Gods themselves. As Nightlords plot to raise a sulfur sun that would let vampires prey on the living by day, Iztac races to sabotage the New Fire Ceremony, navigating a palace of spies. With the ritual's failure and the loss of one Nightlord, paranoia grips the Lords of Terror, and the White Snake hunts his treachery — to overcome them, Iztac must become one himself, descending into the Underworld to claim apotheotic power.
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2024—Commerce Emperor
Maxime J. Durand
The world is up for sale, and he's making an offer. When Robin Waybright became the Merchant Hero, all of Pangeal turned into his marketplace; for the Merchant can buy and sell anything. Youth, skills, memories, hair color, joys and illnesses… in the trade of power, every deal can tip the scale. His homeland of Archfrost teeters on the brink of collapse, the sinister Demon Ancestors plot in the shadows, and twenty-one other Heroes, each with their own Class, have been chosen to save the world. Robin must profit, negotiate peace, unite Heroes, and ultimately outbid the Devil of Greed who schemes to purchase godhood itself.
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CultivationOngoing
OngoingGunsoul
Maxime J. Durand
Marauders shot Yuan in the head and buried him in a ditch. They thought it would be enough to put him down. They were wrong. Rising from the dead by the will of the Gun, demigod of firearms, Yuan is thrust into a brutal cultivation apocalypse where guns, cultivation realms, and apocalyptic power collide — and the Gun's will demands he cultivate through its own violent, bullet-forged path to ascend.
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2020—Never Die Twice
Maxime J. Durand
The last necromancer of an ancient order hides as a humble potion-shopkeeper while researching a forbidden goal: destroying death and freeing mortal souls from the gods' afterlife yoke. The discovery of a buried ancient city holding the gods' most forbidden secret shatters his quiet life of deceit.
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2022—Underland
Maxime J. Durand
Once, the sun shone brightly on Azlant. Until came the Whitemoon, to steal mankind's light and condemn it to eternal darkness. Valdemar Verney is a sorcerer with a dream: to find a new world for his people to settle, one where the sky isn't a ceiling made of stone. Taken before one of the undead Dark Lords and later tutored by a pair of them, Valdemar grows greatly in sorcery and summoning while his bodyguard Lady Reynard advances in blood-and-bone swordsmanship, facing cultists, monsters, cosmic horrors, and pan-dimensional mysteries across two volumes.