“Well, that’s it…” Mano sighed. “See you, Scyth. If you find yourself in Kinema, stop at the Hell’s Cauldron and tell Karlina what happened. Tell her I’ll be waiting on the other side.”
“And if you see Zhigo the goblin,” Hano boomed, “punch him in the face! Tell him it’s from me. He’ll know why.”
We hugged. A lump caught in my throat and tears welled up in my eyes. All I could see was the ogre’s blurry outline stepping over the edge.
The divine gong rang, reverberating through my skull. The rock beneath me began to crumble, dropping into the endless abyss. A red flash blinded me for a moment:
THE ORDEAL IS ENDED! HERALD SCYTH, YOU HAVE BEEN ACQUITTED!
The world slammed shut. I was thrown through an envelope in space right back to where the Arbiters picked me up, in the temple, at Behemoth’s feet.
“Just in time, Initial! Quickly, back to your world. You must make it to the Demonic Games!”
I hadn’t yet recovered from the Ordeal. Rage and the pain of loss boiled inside me. I waved away an untimely achievement notification. I stood up, reeled back, but kept my feet and looked the Sleeping God in the eye.
“You know, Great and Terrible One, you could really use some manners. At least be happy I survived!”
“The names of Navalik, Lil’ Star and Mano’Hano will forever be remembered,” the Sleeping God said gently, squeezing my shoulder. “Now go, and make sure their sacrifice was not in vain.”
End of Book Six
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Afterword from the Author
I WRITE THESE LINES in the middle of November in the hardest year of my life — 2020 — just a few hours before the series’ excellent translator Alix Merlin Williamson begins his work.
I suspect that far from every reader will read this, but I still want to explain myself.
The sixth book in the series was going to be called The Demonic Games. I started writing it in June, but the more I wrote, the more I realized that I just couldn’t fit all the events of the Demonic Games (which begin immediately after the Ordeal) and what came before them into a single book.
Initially I planned to dedicate no more than five or six chapters to the events of the Demonic Games, but SUDDENLY my Russian readers, who have been following the adventures of Scyth and his friends online, began to write to me that the Demonic Games were the best thing that has happened in this series. I felt that myself too, so I decided to delve deep into that story arc, which eventually grew into its own full book.
Seeing that the book threatened to grow to 300,000 words, I broke the Russian version of book six down into two tomes. I felt that the first book’s plot line wasn’t complete enough to translate it without the second. That’s why the translation of Path of Spirit was delayed.
Then the same thing happened with Holy War. Back then, one huge book was split into books four and five: Nergal’s Summons and Holy War.
My publisher suggested we save our readers a headache this time too and just continue the sequence. I had my doubts at first, but after a re-read, I think the book is complete — the legates of the Destroying Plague are captured, Eileen Waters is up to her tricks in the background, and Scyth, having survived the Ordeal, prepares for the Demonic Games with which the next story arc begins. So I agreed with my publisher.
This means that book six became Path of Spirit, and book seven — The Demonic Games. By the time you read it, I will have probably already finished the series, which is currently planned to consist of nine books.
The main thing I wanted to explain is: this book and the next, which will be released fairly soon — April 22 2021 — were basically intended to be one.
I hope that you’ll be reading The Demonic Games very soon and will let me know what you think of it.
By the way, a big thank-you to everyone who left a review on Amazon for the previous books. You can’t even imagine how much your reviews motivated me to keep writing!
Your author,
Dan Sugralinov
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