Books Like Hero by Design: The Old God's Game [Intern to Hero Progression]

Renalia hunts monsters to grow her skill deck, but every card she earns deepens her debts—to the baron, her family, and herself.

In 22nd-century New Brooklyn, a disgraced operative and a rogue journalist clash with gangs and the volatile power of Dust, an illicit substance that fuels both destruction and strange abilities.

A rejected magical girl awakens in a mechanical body, enslaved to the monster she refused, and must fight the Guardians she once idolized to reclaim her stolen humanity.

Sery’s rare magic amplifies Eterna’s power, but rival factions will stop at nothing to reclaim the Source they see as property.

Alex Adams, a D-list supervillain, accidentally kills a top-tier evil overlord with his faulty death ray—now everyone wants him dead, so he might as well take over the world.

A reclusive engineer-turned-artificer must ally with a wounded kitsune to survive a warring realm where magic and Japanese myth collide.

A fire mage wields a necromancer's cursed staff, torn between the guild's distrust and the whispers of the dead in its wood.

A selfish dragon protects a village—not out of kindness, but because dead peasants can’t pay tribute to his hoard.

Miles trades violence for healing magic in the Spiral, where planets with clashing laws collide and kindness is just another currency.

A frail bunny-girl becomes the apprentice of a fallen god trapped in a grimoire, trading penmanship for power in a high-stakes magical bargain.

Sam wields happiness as ammunition and spider limbs as weapons against an alien invasion, but each victory costs another piece of her humanity.

A vengeance-driven warrior and a reborn apprentice clash over methods as they hunt cosmic enemies who rewrite reality itself.