Recommendations I want something gritty.

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  1. TerraEarth

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    Any Isekai/rebirth stories where the difficulty setting is through the roof? As in despair-inducing difficulty.

    Ones I've already read that have been listed:

    Dungeon Seeker
    Dungeon Defense
    Kuro no Maou
    Nidome no Yuusha
    Running Away From The Hero
    Tate no Yuusha
    Terror Infinity
    The Tutorial Is Too Hard
    The Death Mage that doesn't want a 4th time
    Re Zero
    Reincarnator

    These do tend to be on the harder side (relatively speaking), but not quite enough for me. KnM and Dungeon Seeker are probably the closest to what I'm looking for.
     
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    I've read everything listed in this thread up to this point other than Amber Sword and Ascendance(I'll try it). Any others? Most of the ones listed here weren't really THAT difficult. Hard sure but not despair-inducing.
     
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    Um, Dungeon Defense ? After some econquers, MC resceives the message that he will go at insane difficulty and will not receive any system help other than 1 starting skill. It is not rebirth though, but still great
     
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    Spoiler much
     
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    That was literally just the first chapter though.
     
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    Reincarnator
    Korean LN. Hardcore in that ruthless Korean kind of way. A do-over fic, and also a RL->RPG apocalypse fic.
     
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    Not so difficult when the MC is the paragon of humanity with a near comprehensive cheat-sheet with an OP innate ability that complements all of the above.
     
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    Ahh thought it was later in the novel
     
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    I think there was a novel about death flags. (Final destination comes to mind, so I can't remember the title)
     
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    what about The Lazy King
    though the mc dont have to much sufering is a multi-POVs and the rest dont have it easy