Sticks and stones may break their bones, but words also will. Sixty years ago, rifts opened and giant magic-blooded bugs descended upon humanity. They were named the ‘Swarm’ for their fierce, insatiable hunger for human flesh—but Zora Fabre is just a language teacher in a hidden castle academy. His only wish is to protect his students from the human-insect wars outside the academy, and preferably? He’ll never come in contact with a single bug. But when the Swarm finds the academy and ...

In a world overrun with giant, mutated bugs, what must a trinket-maker do to reach the top of the food chain? Nearly a century ago, rifts opened and giant magic-blooded bugs descended upon humanity. They were named the ‘Swarm’ for their fierce, insatiable hunger for human flesh—but born and raised as a trinket-maker’s daughter, fourteen-year-old Dahlia Sina wants nothing to do with the fighting. If she could just spend every day coasting through her classes and become the best trinket...

They say death is a curse that cannot be treated by any priest, saint, or doctor in the City of Plagues. Gael Halloway would beg to differ. Gael is a brilliant but unlicensed doctor practicing medicine in the slums of the lower city, and he has never seen a good death. Toxic mist smothers the air, magic parasites turn people into foul monsters, and the upper city barons hoard all the symbiotic systems and bioarcanic weapons for themselves, leaving the lower city unable to fend for itself. How...

In a world ruled by giant bugs, be the early bird that gets the worm. Colossal moths ravaged his hometown. Titanic waterbugs sank his refugee ship. Giant ants killed his parents and robbed him of everything he had left. After he is ordered to stay behind and cover his armyΓÇÖs retreat in humanityΓÇÖs losing war against the Swarm, [Ant] class soldier 'Sparrow' is rescued at the brink of death by a hidden village of powerful mages. To save his life, the mages change his class to WormΓÇöa class ...

Five thousand kilometres from shore. A sea of leviathans snapping at her heels. Marisol has never felt more alive. Nearly a century ago, rifts opened and giant magic-blooded bugs descended upon humanity. They were named the ΓÇÿSwarmΓÇÖ for their fierce, insatiable hunger for human fleshΓÇöbut born and raised in a small desert village, Sand-Dancer Marisol wants nothing to do with them. All she wants to do is sail to a legendary island city and bring a vial of healing seawater back to her sickl...