Name: Nascent
Rating: 4.27 (1589 reviews)
Author: Tony Corden

Odyssey

★ 4.37

Tony Corden

Atherleah Carroll grew up in a negative-tax family in the gang-controlled suburbs of Brisbane at the end of the twenty-first century. From the age of six, she decided that she wanted more and with the help of her local gang-leader, she learned the skills to escape the relentless pressure to accept a life of mediocrity. On her sixteenth birthday, she was inadvertently implanted with a Neural Enhancement Chip instead of the free Government provided basic level personal AI. This mistake not only removed the limits placed on the AI but also broke some of the Government instigated control parameters. Leah’s life rapidly becomes a battle, both in the virtual-multiverse and in real life. On the advice of the local ‘boss’, Leah began playing the virtual fantasy game Dunyanin to earn the money she needed to live at the local POD facility and help with her education. With the help of her rapidly evolving AI, she has not only thwarted attempts by the government to limit her opportunities but evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers. Co-opted by several Virtual Security AI Leah has helped shut down a virtual sweat-shop which used mind-controlled players to farm for resources. The family, which runs the virtual crime syndicate, has cornered Leah in the depths of a virtual-mine and sent twenty player-mercenaries to capture her. Fleeing through a hidden doorway into a mirror mine operated by goblins Leah hopes to escape her pursuers.

System Override (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)

★ 4.75

Daoist Mystery

What do you get when you cross nanomachines controlled by a volatile AI with a bleeding edge military-grade cybernetic implant and a gutter rat out to prove everyone wrong?

A forced experimental drug treatment at an early age has saddled David with an immense burden.

His mother’s insistence on his current lifepath as a corpo has done much the same.

David is a speeding ball of fire hurtling towards an unknown destination, and his mother’s death has left him adrift and unsure of his direction.

So he does what any teenager with no more cares left to give does—he chips in some mil-spec chrome and looks for a quick way to earn edds, all the while learning to utilize the nanotechnology that had been forced on him as a child—finding out the immense potential within him as a result.

Corpo or Edgerunner? Why not both? And why not the best of both while we’re at it?

Top of Arasaka Tower.

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This story has:

- Corporate intrigue

- Street samurai action and extreme violence

- Netrunning and programming

- Enemies to lovers romance arc

- Light-spec David who relies mostly on biomods and nanomachines

Ipseity

★ 4.48

Tony Corden

A simple error leaves Leah with a unique Neural Enhancement Chip and a rapidly evolving AI implanted in her brain. In 'Nascent', she evaded kidnapping by virtual slavers and helped shut down some operations of the virtual crime syndicate that uses mind-controlled players as slaves. In 'Odyssey', she not only found a way to escape but she also uncovered deeper plots being carried out in both the virtual multi-universe and reality. In 'Change', Leah began learning how to use the additional connections her chip has made throughout her body. The Pod facility she opened expanded as she helped others from her neighbourhood. She discovered that the crime syndicate has an even greater presence in the virtual multiverse than she’d imagined. As she begins to unravel some of their secrets, they tarnish her reputation and kidnap.

In 'Rescue' Leah hacked the secure Vault where an AI friend of hers had been archived. She not only managed to retrieve her friend but uncovered a deeper conspiracy she has yet to understand. She succeeded in downloading a secure file she'd stolen from the crime syndicate although she hasn't yet managed to understand what it means. Leah also managed to rescue her mother from the crime syndicate but not before her mother had an AI chip inserted in her brain. She not only discovers that her boyfriend's family controls their own crime syndicate, but he is being controlled virtually by his parents.

In 'Ipseity' Leah discovers that the syndicate inserted a dangerously modified AI chip in her mother, the police are actively investigating her activities, her neural architecture is continuing to change, and her enemies are becoming more numerous and determined. Also, she works to rescue her boyfriend, continue her studies at MIT, understand the broader conspiracy, save her mother, complete quests in three virtual worlds, build her growing business empire, and set her AI free.

AlterWorld

★ 4.13

D. Rus

A new pandemic - the perma effect - has taken over Earth of the near future. Whenever you play your favorite online game, beware: your mind might merge with the virtual world and dump its comatose host. Woe be to those stuck forever in Tetris! And still they're the lucky ones compared to those burning alive eternally within the scorched hulls of tank simulators.

But some unfortunates - the handicapped and the terminally ill, shell-shocked army vets, wronged crime victims and other society misfits - choose to flee real life willingly, escaping to the limitless world of online sword and sorcery MMORPGs.

Once a seasoned gamer and now a terminal cancer patient, Max grasps at this final chance to preserve his life and identity. So he goes for it - goes for the promise of immortality shared with a few trusty friends and the woman he loves. Together they roam the roads of AlterWorld and sample its agony and ecstasy born of absolute freedom.

The Allbright System – A Sci-Fi Progression LitRPG Story

★ 4.56

LunaWolve

I am not currently publishing this Novel anywhere. Not on Amazon or any other similar website.

If you see this Novel being reposted or resold somewhere, please DM me immediately with a link to the problematic entity. Thank you!

Thea has always dreamt of joining the United Human Federation marine corp, ever since she was saved by one of their marines at a young age in the Undercity of Lumiosia.

Growing up in an undercity meant however, especially in a mid-world such as Lumiosia, that she would have to work her way up from the very bottom. She would need to leave for one of the inner or core worlds, before she had any chance of applying to the UHF marines, but for that, she needed credits.

Having spent a lot of time in the local arcade for many years, she had accumulated a lot of technical knowledge in repairing the old-tech machines, as well as gained a high proficiency in a lot of the simulators and games featured.

Preparing for the monthly reset day, in which the ladders for each game get updated by the local quantum node and prizes are distributed for the top performers, she never would have anticipated a brand new challenge appearing from thin air.

A challenge which changed the path of her life forever...

Current release times: Tuesdays and Fridays at 8pm CEST / 2pm ET / 11am PT

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/rtZGz5RHtq

The Allbright System is an Epic Sci-Fi Progression LitRPG, heavily focused on war and the military complex as a whole. It is my first publicly published Webnovel, so I am very much looking forward to read all of your feedback and suggestions.

As the name suggests, there will be a System that governs the major progression and LitRPG elements of the story.

The main draw of this story will be the way that the System interacts with each faction in the war for the galaxy, as each faction gets a unique system-trait for themselves. The nature of the traits is to be a secret until further on in the story, but rest assured that they fundamentally change the way that war in this galaxy is waged.

Before you start reading this story, please be aware that this will not be a short one.

I prefer long, expansive stories that span thousands of pages, in order to fully tell the story I intend to tell.

The Prologue Arc itself, which culminates in the System integration, will be 21 Chapters long (around 300-350~ pages on RR), so if you are looking for a quick and short read, this story will not be for you.

For everyone else, I hope you will enjoy this length journey alongside me. I plan to give readers the option to choose on developments for the story or characters at later stages, where it makes sense, so please look forward to the reader polls at those times.

A major inspiration for this Webnovel is Duck_No_Duck's "Digital Marine", which unfortunately has been on a lengthy hiatus.

Further inspirations (more minor in scope, mostly regarding the litRPG and System elements) include, but aren't limited to, Azarinth Healer by Rhaegar and Beneath the Dragoneye Moons by Selkie.

Highly recommend you check them all out, if you're enjoying this story!

The Present

★ 3.64

Kenneth Thomas

Old Version

Godclads

★ 4.66

OstensibleMammal

Professionally edited and published versions of volumes 1 and 2 can be found on Kindle and as audiobooks on Audible!

Avo was born to destroy New Vultun. In a twist of fate, he’ll become its only hope for salvation.

The gods were the enemy. The slaver. The chains. With dreams of paradise, humanity slaughtered them and stole their powers, opening the path to become more – to ascend.

Instead, they nearly destroyed the world.

Vast hive cities serve as the final bastions against the crumbling of reality. New Vultun is the greatest of them all, and within its borders, ascenders wage war to determine the laws of existence itself.

The world descends ever deeper into ruination.

Avo was born a weapon, a slave to his instincts and his masters. He and his brothers were made to burn New Vultun to ashes. Everything changes when Avo gains immortality and becomes heir to an impossible legacy.

He must ascend the megacity of New Vultun. He must challenge the very tyrants that usurped the gods.

He must finally free the world from chains.

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Chapters are usually around 2.5 to 3k words.

Disclaimer: Expect detailed descriptions of violence, cannibalism, and cursing.

Expect: Monster mc, magitech, cyberpunk, implants, atrocities, oppression, non-human protagonist, reality-warping powers, and combined arms warfare.

Do not expect: Smut, romance

If you develop a sudden outbreak of rash after reading Godclads, it's not the story. But go see a doctor. Just in case.

Reforged from Ruin [Eldritch Xianxia Cultivation]

★ 4.55

Silv3rtongue

[BOOK ONE STUBBED AND UNDER REVIEW! LINK INCOMING SHORTLY! SORRY FOR THE MIX-UP / DELAY!]

Raika used to be a Cultivator. She lived in a sect, fought in tournaments, and cultivated to spite the heavens, as a cultivator should. While she was never the strongest, fastest or wisest, she held it in her heart to never, ever give up, and to stand for her ideals.

And then an Imperial Cultivator destroyed her soul organs and left her crippled.

In a world with a sun made of flaming serpents, reality-defying entities running amok, and a timeless, all-knowing Emperor ruling all through the power of his Blades and the constant advances and experiments of his Divisions, Raika is less than worthless, unable to see and feel the blood of reality- but when it's surrender or madness, she chooses madness. Embarking on a new path, Raika will find strange secrets, hidden paths to transformation, and abandon humanity, sanity, and the rule of the Empire to become something far stranger and far more powerful than she ever thought possible.

In a world replete with enslaved Daemons used as WMDs, reality-bending powers, eldritch-punk technology, and strange pathways of cultivation and magic, she'll have to find allies, confront gods and monster, and defy the Heavens, her own body, and common sense to find a way to become something new. Facing a millenia-old Empire rife with corruption and unknown plans, impossible horrors from the edges of the world, Daemons, Witches, and her own broken soul, she won't stop until she's become truly free- but what will it cost, and can her insanity match the madness of the reality itself?

What to expect:
Slowburn power progression
Expansive worldbuilding and complex story
Weak to Extremely strong protagonist with a unique powerset
Complex villains and characters
A raging bisexual of a protagonist
Mutants, madness and mayhem, oh my!

This story is designed to add lovecraftian cosmic horror and weirdness to a Xianxia setting. If you like some biohorror, self-modification, well written violence and geopolitics under the eyes of ancient, alien beings, this is the one for you, darlings!

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