Glossary
What is System / Leveling (LitRPG)?
A game-like interface — stats, levels, quests, skill windows — bolted onto the real world.
In a "system" story, the protagonist gains a personal game interface: status windows, levels, experience points, quests, and skills they can buy or upgrade. The world effectively becomes an RPG that only they (or a chosen few) can see.
It's the backbone of the hunter/gate subgenre that Solo Leveling made massive: monsters spill out of dungeons, awakened humans level up by clearing them, and the hero grinds from the weakest to the strongest. The numbers-go-up loop is irresistibly readable.
