Actus Books in Order

Arek wants to leave violence behind and spend his days cooking. Hired as the chef for a band of adventurers, the orc discovers that feeding his new companions may be easier than keeping his bloodstained past from finding them.

A growing curse threatens to pull Arek back into the violence he hoped to escape. As evidence points toward the Howler guild, the Happy Sunflowers must confront its schemes before more innocent people become victims.

Aspiring mage Damien Vale accidentally binds himself to an ancient entity that could destroy the world. At Blackmist College, he must master magic and conceal his companion's identity while surviving teachers and enemies who threaten his ordinary ambitions.

After angering a powerful guild, Arek and the Happy Sunflowers flee to Red Mount in search of safety. Returning magical runes and a greater threat force the reluctant fighter to defend the peaceful life he hopes to build.

Angel's team holds a route to the Vault, but the Reawakening has one too. As the Buried Gods threaten the Barren, his pursuit of ancient magic becomes a final confrontation with enemies whose true plans remain dangerously unclear.

Angel hopes to study ancient magic after escaping the Reawakening, but its plans are nearing completion. With the Buried Gods walking again and his own allies difficult to trust, he must confront a conspiracy centuries in the making.

Angel searches a desert world of machines and magic for the knowledge of an earlier age. A compelling offer draws him into a race against a hidden group whose pursuit of that same power leaves devastated cities behind.

Born outside the gods' ordinary reach, Knell Coda discovers that their apparent immortality can be challenged. With a loyal crew and a talent for strategy, he pursues revenge against rulers who have long treated mortal lives as disposable.

Back at Blackmist, Damien carries powerful traces of the Void and unanswered questions about its purpose. When a friend disappears at another mage college, he sets out to intervene as ancient forces tighten their hold on the world.

Damien's uneasy alliance with the Void offers hope against the Corruption, but Blackmist's approaching tournament brings unwelcome attention. As he and Sylph try to hide their growing powers, an arrival carrying a dangerous secret threatens their fragile stability.

Knell's growing crew draws attention as his campaign against the gods gains momentum. A secretive group emerges from centuries in hiding, forcing him to reconsider his plans when some of the powers watching him prove older than his intended enemies.

Damien begins to settle into Blackmist with Sylph and Henry beside him, but forces within the Void are stirring. As he learns more about the world's repeating cycles, protecting it becomes harder than simply defeating an enemy.

Summer promises Damien and Sylph a break from competition, but ancient enemies continue to maneuver around them. With an ally missing and new threats arriving at Blackmist, Damien must balance school life against a conflict growing beyond his control.

Given another life in a world of cultivation, Chance arrives inside a monster-filled maze with little but luck-based magic. His determination to help others faces its first test as he searches for a way to survive and belong.

The Corruption advances while the nobles remain divided, leaving Damien and Henry to defend everything they value. To preserve the Mortal Plane, they must confront Second and attempt a victory that even the Void's combined powers could not achieve.

Chance and Bella flee Vex's hunters into the villages surrounding Scholar City, where unfamiliar forces complicate their escape. A tempting offer could solve their problems, but accepting it would challenge the optimism and principles Chance refuses to abandon.

Noah Vines escapes a long wait in the afterlife by taking over a dying professor's body. Discovering that he returns whenever he dies, he explores runic magic and pursues enough strength to keep his second life from ending permanently.

At the Linwick Estate, Noah must impersonate a demon while persuading Father to reveal how that demon can be killed. Hidden motives surround him, and the reasons his students were assigned to Vermil threaten to unravel his carefully constructed deception.

Noah's group emerges from its exam under growing scrutiny, while cosmic agents close in on the source of his powers. Protecting his students requires a more aggressive strategy, complicated by a summer visit to Moxie's formidable family.

Noah hopes to rest and train his students, but the head of the Linwick family sends assassins to test him. With divine agents also investigating, concealing his true identity becomes essential to keeping his unusual second life intact.

Noah's allies grow stronger as inquisitors pursue Lee and the powerful Wizen approaches Arbitage. With ancient schemes converging around an unexpected figure, the group faces threats that demand more than another increase in magical strength.

Betrayed during a battle meant to end the war, Arwin awakens with his heroic powers transformed into a magical blacksmith class. Consuming enchanted items fuels his new craft as he builds a future beyond the fighting that defined him.

Alex welcomes the System's apocalypse as a chance to escape an empty future, until a friend's betrayal strands him in a deadly realm. Armed with summoning powers, he turns encounters with overwhelming monsters into opportunities to grow stronger.

Invading Outworlder families arrive to seize the new world's resources, including an artifact capable of founding a powerful town. Alex takes it first, deliberately inviting a confrontation with enemies accustomed to overwhelming everyone who stands in their way.

Stranded in the Demon Realm, Noah, Moxie, and Lee attempt to seize Treadon's underworld and overthrow its ruler. Building an unlikely army gives Noah a chance to stop Wizen and find a route back to his students.

Noah follows Wizen to the Lord of Death's doorstep, only to see his path home threatened again. To protect his students and end the pursuit, he must return voluntarily to the place he once fought to escape.

Returning to Arbitage with new demonic students, Noah hopes for time to recover and teach. Father's long-prepared schemes instead bring war to Arbalest, forcing him to defend his companions against an enemy already poised to make a decisive move.

Arwin and his former enemy begin building a peaceful life with an unlikely group of allies. When the Iron Hounds attack his smithy, their fragile refuge becomes the starting point for a battle neither intends to abandon.

With a rival guild defeated, Arwin sets out to strengthen the Menagerie through powerful new creations. Their growing influence draws enemies and potential allies into Milten, where the struggle to fill a power vacuum threatens their hard-won freedom.

A dangerous assassin investigates the Menagerie as its reputation spreads beyond Milten. Faced with enemies and opportunists at the door, Arwin must turn his growing skill toward protecting the friends who matter more to him than fame or power.

An ancient dungeon offers the legacy of a dead god, and Alex accepts an uneasy alliance with one of the Great Families. Surrounded by rivals who intend to exploit him, he plans to claim the prize himself.

After a hard-won dungeon expedition, Alex still has an escaped enemy to pursue. Before he can finish that fight, a message from the friend who betrayed him brings an older grievance back to the center of his life.

Father's possession of the Long Night and a demon cult's attacks place Noah's students in escalating danger. With enemies converging across Arbalest, Noah must test whether his growing magical power and repeated returns from death can keep them safe.

Noah reaches Obsidia stronger than before, but the people he cares about are scattered across it. A tournament offers a way to find them while gathering dangerous mages, divine opposition, and the Truthseekers into the same volatile setting.

An invitation to the Proving Grounds puts the Menagerie against some of the kingdom's strongest adventurers. With new allies pursuing conflicting goals, Arwin must create extraordinary armor if his guild is to survive the tournament and its powerful rivals.

The Menagerie's tournament success draws powerful guilds to Arwin's armory, bringing opportunity and danger together. As he completes a new kind of armor, deeper corruption forces him to weigh what protecting his friends may demand.

The fifth installment of Actus's Nightmare Realm Summoner continues the LitRPG apocalypse series. This announced sequel follows the earlier volumes' combination of survival, summoning, and progression through a world transformed by the System.

Actus's eleventh Return of the Runebound Professor installment continues the progression fantasy series. The announced sequel returns to a story centered on a resourceful protagonist, increasing magical power, and a world shaped by intricate runic magic.

The seventh Rise of the Living Forge installment continues Actus's fantasy series about magical crafting and combat. The announced sequel carries forward a story built around blacksmithing, enchanted equipment, and the pursuit of greater power.