diff --git a/src/config/types.ts b/src/config/types.ts
index d9dca0c..772cc45 100644
--- a/src/config/types.ts
+++ b/src/config/types.ts
@@ -46,8 +46,10 @@ export interface NovelDefinition {
   slug: string;
   type: 'epub' | 'web-scraped';
   source: {
-    url?: string;
-    urls?: string[];
+    url?: string;           // web-scraped TOC strategy: the table-of-contents page URL
+    urls?: string[];        // epub: download URL(s)
+    urlTemplate?: string;   // web-scraped increment strategy: template with {n} placeholder, e.g. "https://example.com/chapter-{n}"
+    startIndex?: number;    // increment: chapter number of the first {n} value (default 1)
   };
   selectors?: {
     toc?: TocSelector;
diff --git a/src/routes/novel.ts b/src/routes/novel.ts
index 40c1796..699fa60 100644
--- a/src/routes/novel.ts
+++ b/src/routes/novel.ts
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ export function registerNovelFromConfig(
   cache: Cache,
   appConfig: AppConfig,
 ): number {
-  const sourceUrl = def.source.url ?? def.source.urls?.[0] ?? '';
+  const sourceUrl = def.source.url ?? def.source.urls?.[0] ?? def.source.urlTemplate ?? '';
   const hash = createHash('sha256').update(def.slug + sourceUrl).digest('hex');
 
   let registeredId = -1;
@@ -162,7 +162,27 @@ export function registerNovelFromConfig(
           registry.updateRange(registeredId, start, end),
         ),
     });
+  } else if (def.source.urlTemplate) {
+    // Increment strategy: chapter URLs follow a predictable pattern — no TOC fetch needed.
+    // {n} is replaced with the chapter number directly; endsAt is unknown so set to MAX_SAFE_INTEGER.
+    const startIndex = def.source.startIndex ?? 1;
+    const template = def.source.urlTemplate;
+    registeredId = registry.register({
+      hash,
+      slug: def.slug,
+      startsAt: startIndex,
+      endsAt: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER,
+      url: template,
+      fetch: async (from, to) => {
+        const urls = Array.from(
+          { length: to - from + 1 },
+          (_, i) => template.replace('{n}', String(from + i)),
+        );
+        return fetchChapters(def, registeredId, from, urls, cache);
+      },
+    });
   } else {
+    // TOC strategy: scrape the table-of-contents page to discover all chapter URLs.
     registeredId = registry.register({
       hash,
       slug: def.slug,
diff --git a/tests/routes.test.ts b/tests/routes.test.ts
index 8870a76..6d63e19 100644
--- a/tests/routes.test.ts
+++ b/tests/routes.test.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
-import { describe, test, expect, beforeEach } from 'bun:test';
+import { describe, test, expect, beforeEach, afterEach, spyOn } from 'bun:test';
+import { mkdtempSync, rmSync } from 'fs';
+import { join } from 'path';
+import { tmpdir } from 'os';
 import { Hono } from 'hono';
 import { ResourceRegistry } from '../src/services/registry.ts';
-import { createNovelRouter } from '../src/routes/novel.ts';
+import { Cache } from '../src/services/cache.ts';
+import { createNovelRouter, registerNovelFromConfig } from '../src/routes/novel.ts';
 import type { ChapterView } from '../src/types.ts';
-import type { AppConfig } from '../src/config/types.ts';
+import type { AppConfig, NovelDefinition } from '../src/config/types.ts';
 
 // Cache is not exercised by route tests — pass a stub that satisfies the type
 const stubCache = {} as import('../src/services/cache.ts').Cache;
@@ -173,3 +177,76 @@ describe('POST /qa/requests/novel/new', () => {
     expect(res.status).toBe(409);
   });
 });
+
+describe('registerNovelFromConfig — increment strategy', () => {
+  const DEF: NovelDefinition = {
+    slug: 'increment-novel',
+    type: 'web-scraped',
+    source: {
+      urlTemplate: 'https://example.com/chapter-{n}',
+      startIndex: 1,
+    },
+    selectors: { content: { scope: '#content' } },
+    download: { parallelism: 1, minContentBytes: 5 },
+  };
+
+  let tmpDir: string;
+  let incRegistry: ResourceRegistry;
+  let incCache: Cache;
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    tmpDir = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), 'qa-inc-test-'));
+    incRegistry = new ResourceRegistry();
+    incCache = new Cache(tmpDir);
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    rmSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  test('registers with startsAt = startIndex and endsAt = MAX_SAFE_INTEGER', () => {
+    const id = registerNovelFromConfig(DEF, incRegistry, incCache, stubAppConfig);
+    const res = incRegistry.get(id);
+    expect(res.startsAt).toBe(1);
+    expect(res.endsAt).toBe(Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER);
+    expect(res.slug).toBe('increment-novel');
+  });
+
+  test('fetch generates URLs from template and downloads chapters', async () => {
+    const id = registerNovelFromConfig(DEF, incRegistry, incCache, stubAppConfig);
+    const spy = spyOn(globalThis, 'fetch').mockImplementation(() =>
+      Promise.resolve(
+        new Response('<html><body><div id="content">Chapter text content here.</div></body></html>', { status: 200 }),
+      ),
+    );
+
+    const view = await incRegistry.get(id).fetch(1, 3);
+    expect(view.min).toBe(1);
+    expect(view.max).toBe(3);
+    expect(view.chapters).toHaveLength(3);
+
+    const urls = spy.mock.calls.map(c => c[0] as string);
+    expect(urls).toContain('https://example.com/chapter-1');
+    expect(urls).toContain('https://example.com/chapter-2');
+    expect(urls).toContain('https://example.com/chapter-3');
+
+    spy.mockRestore();
+  });
+
+  test('fetch result is served from cache on second call', async () => {
+    const id = registerNovelFromConfig(DEF, incRegistry, incCache, stubAppConfig);
+    const spy = spyOn(globalThis, 'fetch').mockImplementation(() =>
+      Promise.resolve(
+        new Response('<html><body><div id="content">Cached chapter content.</div></body></html>', { status: 200 }),
+      ),
+    );
+
+    await incRegistry.get(id).fetch(1, 2);
+    spy.mockReset();
+
+    await incRegistry.get(id).fetch(1, 2);
+    expect(spy).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+
+    spy.mockRestore();
+  });
+});