Underworld
Apollos Thorne
A thousand-year-old succubus, tired of devouring men, invents with a lich lord a new spell to grow powerful differently. Elorion, an ordinary student, wakes from VR gaming to kidnappers: with nineteen other students he is dragged into the Underworld, leveled through the Mistress’s Labyrinth, and forced to claim a dungeon of his own while minotaurs, Mistress Nava and Lord Darius close in. Six-volume LitRPG series that began on Royal Road (500k+ views) before Amazon publication.
Progression: Explicit LitRPG level progression: Elorion gains levels through survival and combat (surviving Lord Darius’s attack puts his level over the top), absorbs Blue Magic, power-levels fellow captives, and advances through labyrinth, dungeon-ownership, banishment quest and the Vampire Gate into the true Underworld. Levels and magical advancement tiers are the central engine of every volume.
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