Once he was a young boy named Swain, doing his best to navigate the broken home and cruel world fate had dealt him. Solace and safety came in the form of his creative pursuits: specifically, making art in the form of poetic words. Then he met a girl who gave him real hope—a hope strong enough to defend and protect him from life’s adversities—and the belief that his poetry had the power to summon true beauty.   But it was all a lie. Hope was an illusion. Ugliness reigned. Only the magic was real, magic that he was able to entwine with his hatred to become the Demon King and unleash a plague upon a world already ruined, he believed, by the base desires and rampant greed of those who seek to control others. Since then, his rage has spread like a contagion, corrupting and consuming all in his path, turning them into soulless creatures, and ushering in an apocalypse of despair and darkness.   Ruhr, the half-elf river sorceress, has stood against the Demon King’s fury time and again. Consumed by her obsession with defeating him, she has sacrificed allies in a ruthless quest to achieve glory, pushing away anyone who dares get close to her. And as the Demon King’s onslaught spreads to threaten the realms of both the living and the dead, in an attempt to send every soul into oblivion, Ruhr realizes she’s fighting not merely to destroy an enemy . . . but to save everything that gives life meaning.   The third volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series—with more than 300,000 views on Royal Road—now available on Audible and wherever ebooks are sold!