He Who Fights with Monsters 9

Jason Asano and his team are finally leaving Rimaros. The threat posed by the Builder is over, and Jason wants to get back to the adventuring he has missed, far from the centre of world-changing events. One last attempt to draw him into politics stands in the way, and he leaves the city having made a strong final impression.

The road ahead offers new places and new people, but recent events have scarred the land and left dangers behind. Adventurers willing to fight monsters have plenty of work. Threats that sat in the background begin to move forward, and the team prepares to join the fight.

Their new adversaries are angelic: patient, powerful and remorseless. Their strategies are so unconscionable that mass slaughter is only the start of what they do.

Jason has to face the possibility that his growing power makes him more like these enemies than like his friends. That recognition opens a way to learn how the enemy works and what it wants.

It also draws their notice, and to them he looks like one more tool to use. When the conflict erupts into full battle, they are about to learn what happens to those who pick a fight with him.