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[I was reincarnated in a fantasy world as the manifestation of absolute void — the Black Knight, and my goal is to return the destitute, sickly, youngest-born princess, who is kind of a loser, to her throne because it beats doing nothing]

War rages across the continent as a foreign power sets foot on the soil of the nation beneath the glow of strange starlight. Emptiness fills the eyes of people everywhere as their faces become as hard as the loveless hearts hidden beneath them. Those who are not involved in the war-effort can only do their best to survive on the fringes for the time being.

One of these people is the exiled, youngest princess of the nation, the desperately ill Acacia Odofredus Krone, who lives forgotten in destitute squalor as an abject failure, not even being capable enough to become a low-ranking adventurer. An equally lost soul, reborn from another world, suddenly finds himself reincarnated at her side as the powerful manifestation of a monster of ancient prophecy; der Schwarze Ritter — the Black Knight.

Together, faced with the pressures of the horrific conflict, dire poverty, Acacia’s fatal sickness, and the looming threat of her noble bloodline that hasn't been forgotten by the world hanging heavy over them, the two of them are forced onto a journey to find a way to live together, fighting their way out from the lowest shadows of forgottenhood in order to reach the pinnacle of either of their dreams — a life that feels like anything more than total emptiness.

Can this desperate quest even be anything other than doomed to absurd failure? Is it possible for a man who was never anything more than nothing at all to become the horrific shadow that haunts the nightmares of every true hero of legend? Is it possible for a dying girl to ascend past her own family to the throne with his help before her illness inevitably steals her final breath? Find out in this latest novel — Reborn as the Black Knight — by the top ranking litRPG and fantasy author, D.M. Rhodes!

What to [LitRPG] [Isekai] [Reborn in Another World] [Power Struggle] [War] [From Weakest to Strongest] [Social Dynamics] [Royalty in Poverty] [Dungeons] [Monsters] [Fables] [Adventurers] [Ducks?]

Shattered by tragedy, consumed with rage, a young man surrenders his soul for the power to destroy humanity in the first novel of this dark fantasy series.

After the death of his beloved mother, Swain is left at the mercy of his drunken father. His only respite from all the beatings and abuse lies in the words he scribbles down, seeking beauty in an ugly world through poetry. He has no friends until one day he meets a girl near his mother’s grave. A restless spirit who calls herself Goose, over the years she encourages Swain’s creativity, eventually helping him tap into a magical ability he never knew he a dark energy entwined with his despair, fueled by his anger, and controlled by his poetic verse.

But this revelation is swiftly followed by a cruel betrayal that devastates Swain. Unleashing his power, he transforms into the Demon King and spreads a plague across the land, infecting every living creature in his path. He knows there’s beauty to be found among the base and selfish people he encounters—the graceful dancer, the perfectionist painter, the master chef—and he twists their artistic desires to serve him. Hollowed out and reborn as undead entities, they join the corrupted army of inhuman beings bent on conquering those the Demon King believes allowed the world to become a horrid ruin.

Ruhr, the half-elf river-sorceress adventurer, is in the city when it’s besieged by demonic forces. The invasion is her opportunity to earn royal wealth and favor. But while her water magic purifies the monstrous legion, the Demon King marches on to remake the world according to his warped vision of beauty . . .

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[I died and was accidentally reborn as an angelic monstrosity, so now I’m building a holy dungeon-tower that is tall enough to reach the gods; so that I can complain about it! But the humans think that I am trying to destroy the world.] [Volume 3]

The Tower of Isaiah spires toward the heavens above, coming closer and closer by the day. The gargantuan construct that towers over the world pierces the clouds like a threatening spear, held aloft to any higher powers above who might be watching this new era of turmoil.

However, the precariousness of the situation is more than apparent as human society finds itself pushed to the brink because of the tower and what it represents. The Grand Crusade marches toward Isaiah's holy lands as the foul Witch Perchta and her strange associates conspire in secret to cause the fall of the paradise that Isaiah has created.

The meld between the physical and spirit worlds begins; the transformation of the land, the tower, and all the souls around it can no longer be stopped as the clock tower rings midnight and begins the cascade of the Final Core, which severs the boundaries between dimensions.

The age of Isaiah has fallen upon the fearful and faithful eyes of humanity. However, are their souls ready for the sight of the true form of its divinity? Or is the world as a whole not ready and prepared for the revelations brought on by the white-feathered spirit?

Prepare yourself for a thrilling climax in the third and final volume of Final Core! Dive into this riveting final installment penned by renowned and trending fantasy author D.M. Rhodes and experience the end of a tale that will leave you breathless.

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[I was reborn too weak to become an adventurer, so I opened an item shop by the dungeon instead!] [Book 2]

After the chaotic events of the night of the witches’ moon in the north, the witch Fresh and her friends, having been forced to escape from the fervently zealous and corrupt city with the Holy-Church nipping at their heels, make their way through the great wild-lands, moving towards the distant western city, towards the city in the mountain, high in the peaks — one of the world’s last remaining natural high-magic zones. Surrounded by the casters and sorcerers of all kinds who dominate the frigid city, hewn into the lofty peaks and powered by obscure magical technology, Fresh, Jubilee, Basil, and Shamrock must work to reestablish the Dungeon Item Shop in a fully new environment with an entirely new clientèle, base of resources, and challenges brought to them by their dire situation.

A new dungeon, a new city, and a new shop all come together to create a unique challenge that the unlikely friends must face as the world around them begins to slowly churn into motion, working to grind them down. However, everything is not as peaceful and serene as it seems in the distant heights, far above the troubles of yesterday, as is evidenced by the generational rebirth of a dying species in the world — fairies, who now only live in the mountain region and are entirely unable to leave it, as it is the only place left where they can be sustained.

The dying species, much like Fresh and her friends, find themselves wildly out of place in the hard city of rock that they’re forced to live in and are slowly ground down to their cores.

Is there any warmth left to be found and kept for any of them at all within the illusions of the comfortable, fire-hearthed homes of the mountain’s underground, or are they all destined to be hardened down into cruel coldness by the heartless game of survival that they’re all forced to play against one another?

Find out in this wholesome, dark fantasy adventure written by renowned and trending author D.M. Rhodes!.M. Rhodes!

[I died and was accidentally reborn as an angelic monstrosity, so now I'm building a holy dungeon-tower that is tall enough to reach the gods; so that I can complain about it! But the humans think that I am trying to destroy the world.] [Volume 2]

The Tower of Isaiah grows in might, its master flourishing much the same. Adventurers flock from around the nation to be able to reap the seeds that Isaiah has sown in the world, earning themselves much glory and wealth and, in turn, earning the divine entity, Isaiah, much renown.

However, this new glory is not without downsides. The Holy-Church, threatened by Isaiah’s presence in the world, begins to make moves, alongside the cruel, strange Witch Perchta, who holds a deep resentment towards Isaiah for her misgivings about their past that she is unable to forgive.

As the tower grows taller and taller, moving to obscure the light of the sun from reaching the nearby human city, Isaiah’s gaze rises towards the heavens that it is closer than ever to reaching, its long-term plan finally coming to slow realization as the great work becomes revealed and the true nature of the tower is shown to the world and to the heavens, so that they might come to understand the truth of the situation that they’re all in.

This world is no longer the gods’, as they are deemed to have abandoned it. Nor does it belong to humanity, which is unable to find its way forward alone without guidance. This world belongs to the governance of Isaiah, and it intends to make this abundantly clear to all those who would doubt its just cause.

The spirit-world and the physical world begin to stretch and break as bridges that were never meant to be crossed are moved upon by the white-feathered spirit.

What will this all lead to? Is the world ready for the age of Isaiah, or is the entity wildly misgiving in its desires for the peace amongst all living things that it intends to bring before winter’s break?

Find out in the second installment of Final Core, written by renowned and trending fantasy author D.M. Rhodes!

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[I died and was accidentally reborn as an angelic monstrosity, so now I'm building a holy dungeon-tower that is tall enough to reach the gods; so that I can complain about it! But the humans think that I am trying to destroy the world.] [Volume 1]

The senselessness of so much of the world’s death and suffering is made apparent to the dying paladin, Isaiah, in his final moments before he perishes and is, shortly thereafter, reborn into a comparatively quiet and peaceful existence as a simple blackbird.

However, the powerful magic of the god whom Isaiah himself had served in his prior human life upends this latest existence, as a spell goes awry, turning the entity instead into a strange, angelic monstrosity that is neither man nor animal.

Isaiah, desperate to return to its simple life as a blackbird, sets out to build the tallest tower ever seen by the eyes of the world in order to reach the reclusive gods who reside in the heavens above and make them undo the transformation in a bid to allow itself an escape from the complex suffering of intelligent, self-aware mortality.

Will Isaiah be able to create the greatest construction that the world has ever seen? Or will its efforts be misconstrued by both the pious people of the world and the gods above, leading to a new age of strife? The ivory tower rises over the world, yet as it grows, so does its dark shadow stretch further over the landscape. Can Isaiah’s wish to reach the heavens ever be made true, or will it find itself tumbling back down toward the distant world below amidst a collapsing ruin and testament to mortal folly?

Find out in the first installment of Final Core, written by renowned and trending fantasy author D.M. Rhodes!

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[Dungeon-Core] [litRPG] [Base-building]

What happens when a survivor who is desperately on the run, escaping an army of monsters, comes across an unusual entity — of all things, a living, self-aware sunflower?

What happens when these two, bound by old, strange magic that the world no longer knows, begin to undergo their escape from all that is terrible to the very last safe place in the world that is whispered to exist in only the most feverish of delusions — Paradise?

Constantly on the run as a fearful refugee from a brutal hobgoblin war against humanity, Burch, a young girl, finds an odd, self-aware sunflower during her escape.

In a frantic bid for survival, the two of them journey together across a mysteriously frightening, and magic-filled world that neither of them truly understands in their desperate pursuit of what might be the only place of safety and warmth left anywhere, a place heard of only in whispers; Paradise.

However, frightful danger lurks in every shadowy corner, and time is against them as the hobgoblin horde on their trail, feverishly hunting after Burch, comes closer and closer to catching her by the day. Why is Burch on the run, and why is an army of monsters in pursuit of her? Who or what is ‘Sunflower’? And most importantly, assuming that Paradise is real, will they even survive the journey there?

Find out in D.M. Rhodes’ latest trending fantasy novel, Sunflower, the LitRPG!

I was reborn too weak to be an adventurer, so I opened an item shop by the dungeon instead!

Reborn into a fantastical RPG-system based world, Fresh is offered a second chance at life. Initially glad to have escaped her old existence, she quickly realizes that this new one might not be much better. Her new body is too frail to follow any grand dreams of adventure, her new mind is too dulled to allow any meticulous planning or thought and this new, seemingly colorful, kind world is anything but.

Needing to find a way to survive in this horrible place, Fresh bands together with some unusual people as she undergoes an entirely unexpected challenge; running an item shop just outside of the dungeon!