by B1evins
Chad had a pretty solid life plan: graduate college, get huge, drink beer, and make enough questionable decisions to keep things interesting. Then he died during his second keg stand. Instead of pearly gates, Chad wakes up in front of Braxxus—the impossibly jacked God of Brotherhood, Courage, Revelry, Gains, and Questionable Decisions Made for Excellent Reasons. Naturally, Braxxus gives him a second chance. Unfortunately, that second chance involves being thrown into the magical world of Aethoria and starting life over from diapers. Aethoria has everything Chad could want: magic, monsters, dungeons, dragons, dangerously attractive elves, and powerful Classes that awaken as people grow into who they’re meant to become. There’s just one problem. Chad sucks at normal magic. When his Class finally awakens, he doesn’t become the legendary lightning warrior his family expected—or the Sex Commander Chad was personally hoping for. He becomes a Bromancer. The dead don’t become his servants. They become his Bros. Every fallen creature Chad raises returns with its own personality, abilities, progression, and a ridiculous Bro Archetype shaped by what it was in life. A dead Stonehide Troll might become a Gym Bro. A fallen water mage might become a staff-surfing Surfer Bro. And those are probably going to be some of the normal ones. Now Chad is heading to a magical academy where prestigious Guild Houses compete for status, dungeon clears, quests, and Guild Points. Unfortunately, nobody wants the guy whose Class looks suspiciously like necromancy. So Chad might just have to build a House of his own. What begins as the most ridiculous Class in Aethoria may turn out to be something far older—and far more powerful—than anyone realizes. Because Brotherhood is more than beer, bad decisions, and having somebody there to spot you. And when the darkness eventually comes for Aethoria, Chad won’t be standing alone. He’s bringing the Bros. Death is temporary. Brotherhood is forever. Content Warning Rise of the Bromancer is an adult comedy LitRPG/Isekai intended for mature readers. Expect strong and frequent profanity, crude and sexual humor, innuendo, drinking/party humor, violence, fantasy death and resurrection, inappropriate jokes, Chad being aggressively horny, and an overall level of maturity best described as “a frat bro was given necromancy and nobody stopped him.” The story contains adult characters flirting, sexual references, and mature humor, but it is not primarily erotica. Beneath the stupidity is a genuine progression-fantasy story with Classes, abilities, dungeons, academy competition, Guild Houses, friendships, character development, mysteries, and increasingly serious stakes. If vulgar humor, dick jokes, magical erectile dysfunction, hot fantasy people, excessive use of the word bro, or a resurrected troll asking people if they even lift aren’t your thing, this probably isn’t the story for you. If they are? Welcome to the Brotherhood, bro.
