After losing a fight with a runaway truck, a karateka is transmigrated to another world, one full of swords and sorcery straight out of fantasy books. The goddess who sent him there offers him a superpowered cheat skill to assist him in his upcoming heroics⸺but naturally, he turns her down. After all, he already possesses the only technique he needs: karate! No matter what manner of otherworldly foe he may face, be they a minotaur, a gigantic steelclad knight, or a wicked sorcerer, none of them will discourage him from walking his own path in the way of the empty hand!

Now an adventurer alongside Princess Wilma, the karate master takes on any fight his guild gives him, including an all-out brawl against a hundred goblins and their gigantic champion. Not everyone appreciates the work he does, though—after he handles a slew of arrests, the Orc Mafia marks him for death! Seeking to make an example out of the karate master, the Mafia take one of his fellow adventurers hostage and force him to duel a towering, flame-clad ifrit in a crowded stadium to save her. Can the karateka thwart this fiery public execution? Or will our hero’s journey end in ashes?

The karateka lives by a seemingly simple maxim: “Don’t worry. Believe in karate.” But in a world of powerful magic and monsters, how far can karate really take you? Our hero’s faith in his martial art is put to its ultimate test in the face of Javid the Hexblade Hero, a planeswalker who’s eager to unleash his boundless magic upon the stratified society that never ceases to disappoint him. When Javid annihilates a monument to draw out the royalty, it seems like only the karateka might be capable of stopping him...but can skill alone defeat a man capable of felling an obelisk with a single spell? Will the karateka finally unlock his cheat skill to level the playing field? Or can the way of the empty hand overcome even the might of sorcery?

After the karateka defeats the Orc Mafia’s summoner and his fearsome Ifrit, an assassin comes to claim his head: an elf warrior wielding a martial art known as High Elf Magic Jujutsu! And yet, it doesn’t seem like our hero’s would-be assassin is truly out for blood... Will the karate master survive and learn his foe’s true motivations? Or will he succumb to his nimble opponent’s joint locks and air blades in their clash of refined techniques?

Director Ishii, the world-renowned K-1 founder and master of Seidokaikan karate, finds himself navigating both the karate business and the supernatural! Kei Ichinose lived a humble life with her father at their dojo until one day, he suddenly passed away, saddling her with his accrued debt and pushing her to take her own life. That’s when a mysterious pact with a cat had renowned and infamous K-1 organizer, Kazuyoshi Ishii, inhabit her body. After a fire burned down her father’s dojo, Ishii took a bodyguarding job and battled against a stalker to recoup her losses. Now the infamous director will face new foes in the squared ring of the Universal Girls Tournament!

Do you know how mankind ends? Take up your weapon and fight back the monster invasion. The game that was boasted as the absolute hardest strategy game, [Isekai Defense]. I used to be the 'player' who had accomplished everything in this game and reached the true end, but it was a disastrous end where everyone died except the protagonist, Raon Eva. Determined to create a perfect happy end, I chose to transmigrate and found myself in the body of the protagonist as a child, surrounded by monsters in a burning village. With only my strength of will and memories of invasion as a player--. In order to save the people I love. I shall tear my enemies apart. *** Genre: [Fantasy, Action, Romance, LitRPG, Slice of Life] *** This is the novel version of Isekai Defense (volume 1). Unlike the original version, the story was rewritten to be more emotionally gripping, visually descriptive, and significantly better in every aspect I can think of. To illustrate, the original version was only around 25k words in length for these chapters, but this version is more than 45k words in length! Interested? Buy now before the price increases!

On the surface, Xi Tianyi was the only son of Sword Empress Xi of the Buzhou Immortal Sect, the number one expert in the Huang Realm. His birth was noble, his status exalted. But the truth was that Xi Tianyi was actually a reincarnated man from a world known as Earth. On Earth, he was no one special, but with his new life, Xi Tianyi aims to reign invincible: past, present, and future. Among his goals was to travel back to Earth and reunite with his family. However, as Xi Tianyi proceeds further on his Immortal path, he discovers that rather than the protagonist, why does he seem more like the cannon fodder villain?