FicGemsTop 25 Progression + Adventure Novels on Royal Road (2026)
Updated November 2026 · ranked by average reader rating
Progression + Adventure Novels are among the most popular stories on Royal Road.
This guide ranks the best by average reader rating. The current top picks are Seeking Strays, Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate and Black Apron - Max Level Archmaid. Some of them are already finished, so you can binge without waiting for updates.
The 25 best Progression + Adventure novels on Royal Road
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Seeking Strays
by Lost RainProtect my sister. That’s all that ever mattered to me. Come hell or high water, I’d do anything if it meant my sweet little sister could have just one more day of a peaceful life. Anything. There was just one issue—I was burning the…
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Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate
by SteveHarthunUpdate: Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate is being stubbed ahead of its March 10 release on Amazon. To comply with Kindle Unlimited exclusivity, most chapters have been removed from Royal Road. The full book is now available on Amazon…
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Black Apron - Max Level Archmaid
by RavensDaggerBlack Apron - A Max Level Archmaid's Guide to Hostile Housekeeping Rosario Thorn had one claim to fame. In the world’s biggest VRMMO, she reached max level, stacked enough high-tier Jobs to make PvP guilds nervous, dressed her terrifying…
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Berserker's Path
by QuillYou keep what you kill. Halfdan has the gift of the berserker. In battle, his rage grants victory, and every injury suffered only makes him fight stronger. But he is no mindless murderer who delights in slaughter. He lives a calm life by…
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Fallen Lands
by C.PeinhopfThis is the primary ongoing fiction page for Fallen Lands. Books 1-3 are available on Kindle Unlimited and Audible - Siren's Reach will be available in audio early Feb. Please be aware that reading this Synopsis or any portion of this…
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Dragon System Adventurer
by SerasStreamsIn a world where everyone levels from Experience, Kryos levels through hoarding. Kryos, a half-dragon, is cast out of the Drakemount at eighteen. He doesn’t gain power through Experience like everyone else on Vorunor, he levels up by…
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Kaia the Argent Wing
by QuietValerieA girl with two forms. One is a tinkerer, the other an angel. Nobody can know they're the same person. Both will be needed if Edgewood wants to survive the Storm and the old gods who rise in its wake. The Storm arrives barely weeks after…
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The Ascension: Season 23
by Hoyle23Five thousand contestants enter. Three hundred advance. The whole world watches. The game begins long before the first level does. For twenty-two seasons, The Ascension has taken ordinary people and turned them into names the world…
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There's Always Another Level (LitRPG + Sidekick Romp)
Friends, it's time for a proper negative five-hundred to hero story. Zero to hero ain't gonna cut it. Far too often the main character is a capable but naïve bumpkin bouncing off the turnip truck at whatever magical academy made a…
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Throne of Time [Magical Academy, Time Loop, Mystery]
by CognosticonTime travel is forbidden, but Suria didn't have a choice. When she transfers to Darkmoon University, the greatest magical academy in the world, she accidentally stumbles into a complex conspiracy that threw students into a time loop…
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Aura Overload
by PlumParrotIn a crumbling empire ruled by cybernetic immortals, royal bodyguard Hector Finalis was betrayed, branded a traitor, and left for dead. Two centuries later, his lost neurodeck resurfaces in a scavenger haul, and he awakens in a fragile…
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Queen of Swords
by LucendiDerrick Johansen had been preparing to buckle down for the afternoon with a nice enjoyable game Crusader Kings II. Never in his wildest dreams had he been expecting to end up in the place of the ruler he had chosen when he started the…
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Horizon's Edge [Space Opera/Sci-Fi | LitRPG]
by ZeeWulfehUpdates M-W-F Felix Conway is glitched. Waking adrift in a damaged space capsule, he has no memory of his past and the only clues to his identity are his uniform and a handful of personal belongings. Nestled among them is a photo of a…
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Shadowswarm Summoner: A Worldhopping Deckbuilder LitRPG
by SmilingSatyrShadow Wizard Ambrose always has a scheme, but this time, he's going for gold. The target: a Wildcard, a rare, powerful card that becomes whatever your deck needs most. Yes, technically headmaster Charles Vanderborn has already promised…
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Anglers and Amberkin
by TheHofferMagic is dying, and he can save it. Derek Dunn, a lazy grocer and part-time college student, is now the Hero of Prophecy due to a scroll misfire. He would rather spend his days preparing for the upcoming fishing tourney than fulfill a…
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Endless Delirium [Grimdark, Dungeon Crawler] (Book 1 Written)
by Stygon[Note: By popular request, I’m clarifying that the feather on the cover is a weapon, NOT a quill. This will make more sense at Chapter 2] The Fifth Integration begins. Descending upon Earth and the Fifth Universe as a whole, an infantile…
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Faith in Numbers: Ring Around the Rose [Cult-Building LitRPG]
If he can’t have magic, he’ll give them madness. Sid is perfect on paper… brilliant, disciplined, a natural leader. Too bad he can’t cast a single spell. Magic needs connection. Sid feels connected to nothing. To the powers that be at his…
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Lost and Found (Warhammer 40k SI)
by LatscryjmlLost and Found: Living as a Relic of Ages Past. Aboard a Grand Cruiser once lost now owned by a Rogue Trader dynasty with a heavy Adeptus Mechanicus presence. A soul wakes up shortly after the formation of the Cicatrix Maledictum, in a…
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Armageddon Convenience Store
The Japanese convenience store, or Conbini, is the pinnacle of innovation in the modern world. With over 50,000 locations in Japan alone, customers can purchase not only snacks and drinks, but they provide freshly made lunchboxes as well…
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Blood Hunter Vee
by darkwatch0Her family is dead at the hands of monsters. Her life is shattered, and her village is gone. Now, she'll become the monster that the creatures of darkness fear... Violetta is a farm girl, no one of importance living in a tiny village at…
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Empty Sea: SSS Villain Stuck in an NPC World
Dying was supposed to be the best thing that ever happened to Minokawa. In Empty Sea, an MMORPG brought to life, an isolated reincarnated player with overwhelming power discovers that the sentient game is turning him into its Demon King…
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Periapt [Survival in the world of a Cursed CRPG, Progression, Crafting, LitRPG] (ON HIATUS UNTIL PART III FINISHED)
by lost_rambler⏸ On hiatus · No new chapter since Sep 17, 2026 (7 weeks ago).Return to Periapt had been an internet rumor, a creepypasta about a cursed computer game hidden on an old CD-ROM that could be found in the strangest of places. The game was about explorers on a wild continent of magic beasts, wagon…
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Sky Pride
by Warby PicusWhat does it take to climb out of the trash and into the sky? The very heavens had decreed his death. He should have died in the womb. Or in infancy. Or when his family was murdered. Or when the house burned around him. Or when he woke up…
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The Band - To the Mountains
by Shoelessme⏸ On hiatus · No new chapter since Aug 3, 2026 (3 months ago).Veterans, friends, companions. When the world gave up on them, they created a new one. This is that story. Includes: A virtual world that the occupants think and feel is real. At least while they are in it. Only 3 chapters are out of the…
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The Game at Carousel: A Horror Movie LitRPG
by lost_ramblerCould you survive a horror movie? That's the question Riley must answer after he and his friends get lured to Carousel, a malevolent town where horror movies come to life. Riley thinks he is in big trouble when he is assigned the Film…
![Cover of Throne of Time [Magical Academy, Time Loop, Mystery]](/covers/thumb/7b4df657-fb34-4093-88d4-39bfd1d92885.webp)
![Cover of Horizon's Edge [Space Opera/Sci-Fi | LitRPG]](/covers/thumb/43e564c7-0695-4b34-aabe-f9ca287c7cd7.webp)
![Cover of Endless Delirium [Grimdark, Dungeon Crawler] (Book 1 Written)](/covers/thumb/a92abcfb-e202-4e88-9603-d6c6406abb27.webp)
![Cover of Faith in Numbers: Ring Around the Rose [Cult-Building LitRPG]](/covers/thumb/ffc763eb-744d-4bbf-b950-72eb05ac8bb5.webp)
![Cover of Periapt [Survival in the world of a Cursed CRPG, Progression, Crafting, LitRPG] (ON HIATUS UNTIL PART III FINISHED)](/covers/thumb/8a57ab77-d3ff-44d5-bdfc-a963fd45b6ad.webp)
More Progression + Adventure novels to explore
- Under the Light of the World at War: Warcraft Gamer SI⏸ No new chapter since Sep 22, 2026 (6 weeks ago).
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![Cover of Leave Luck to Heaven [LitRPG]](/covers/thumb/5429a5c4-77a8-414d-93c8-2231933d010c.webp)
![Cover of A Hive of Bone and Chitin [A Biomancy and Hivemind Litrpg Adventure]](/covers/thumb/cb4984f8-f912-4e98-82db-a76cd04eb2da.webp)
![Cover of Blood, Bath, and Beyond [Crafting LitRPG]](/covers/thumb/70e8294a-7e70-4d14-b21f-9d7269bd0bc6.webp)
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best Progression + Adventure novel on Royal Road?
Right now Seeking Strays by Lost Rain is the highest rated, with an average rating of 4.89 out of 5 and 82 chapters. Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate by SteveHarthun comes next.
How are these stories ranked?
Stories are ordered by their average reader rating on Royal Road, and the guide is refreshed as ratings change.
Are there completed Progression + Adventure novels I can binge?
Yes, including Berserker's Path, Dragon System Adventurer and Empty Sea: SSS Villain Stuck in an NPC World.
Where can I read these Progression + Adventure novels?
Every story is free to read on Royal Road. Open a story's page and use the Read button to go straight to it. FicGems doesn't host any chapters.
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