“You’ll be Storm,” I declared, and turned to my friends. “Well, guys? Let’s fly? We can take a look at the desert from above, and I’ll level up Cartography…”
I didn’t have to ask twice.
I’d thought the last week had been hot. But the real fire was only just beginning.
End of Book Three
An Afterword From the Author
I’m writing this many months after I finished working on the book, specially for the English edition of The Destroying Plague.
When I’d just started working on it, the book’s provisional title was The Colonization of Kharinza because I planned to focus on the development of the Awoken clan. But then, suddenly, the Destroying Plague came, followed by the fall of Behemoth’s temple. At least that’s what the dice decided (I do use them occasionally, just to avoid predictability story-wise).
When things went from bad to worse and Scyth did die, the story moved in a totally new direction. I wouldn’t say it came as a surprise, but I had to completely rework the outlines for this and the following books.
What’s going to happen next? You’ve just read Book Three out of the seven that I planned. The next book, titled The Holy War, should come out in spring 2020. It will up the ante further: the characters will visit Distival where all kinds of encounters await them; Scyth will visit the Goblin League and the Temple of Fortune while an enormous allied army summoned by Nergal the Radiant will invade the Lakhar Desert... There’ll be battles, there’ll be wars, but first Scyth needs to find himself some trusty allies...
I’d like to thank the book’s translator Alix Merlin Williamson for his wonderful work and the deep understanding of my characters; my publisher Alex Bobl who graciously accommodated my failure to meet deadlines; his colleague Simon Vale who kept helping me with promotion; Taylor Sloan and Ian Mitchell for their support and proofreading; Michael Atamanov, Vasily Mahanenko and Alexey Osadchuk for their amazing worlds and inspiring stories... and Ramon Mejia, of course! Ramon, you know why, don’t you? You’re a man of great heart.
But my biggest gratitude and appreciation goes to you, my Reader. Thank you for sticking with me! For buying and reading my books, rating them and leaving reviews! See you later this spring on the pages of The Holy War!
Faithfully yours,
Author
Dan Sugralinov
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About the Author
DAN SUGRALINOV grew up in a small working-class town on the Russian border with Kazakhstan. It’s a miracle he survived his childhood games of hide-and-seek in the surrounding building sites complete with perilous rebar structures and flooded foundation pits.
Ever since he learned to read at the age of five, he couldn’t put a book down. Reluctant to earn himself the name of a conceited nerd, he concentrated on playing soccer which allowed him to become friends with the town’s toughest kids.
In 1995, he graduated with honors, entering the St Petersburg Academy of Engineering and Economics where he studied business creation. He must have done something right because in the years that followed, he first worked on TV and radio just to get the taste of it, then opened his first successful business followed by several more. In between, he started writing and playing video games, winning the St Petersburg Mortal Kombat championship and becoming runner-up for Starcraft and Warcraft 3. He is a 14-times champion in Quake, Quake 2 and Quake 3 as well as the world’s ex-#1 in the World of Warcraft.
In 2004, he wrote his first motivational novella The Bricks which to date has garnered him over 3,000,000 readers online alone.
In 2014, Russia’s leading publishers of business literature Mann, Ivanov & Ferber published a revised and extended edition of his book, The Bricks 2.0.
In 2015, Dan discovered the existence of LitRPG. He devoured everything that had been written in that genre until he finally decided he too could write similar books.
In summer 2017, he published his first book in the subgenre of RealRPG: Level Up.
Dan Sugralinov is a consummate gamer, a multiple MMORPG champion and the world’s ex-#1 in the World of Warcraft. He is also a successful businessman and author of books on marketing and business organization. His first LitRPG series Level Up took Russia by storm in 2017. The English translation of the series is about to be released on Amazon in its entirety.
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[1] An NPC, or Non-Player Character, is a character controlled by a program or artificial intellect, and not by a player.
[2] The goliaths are a race of gigantic intelligent humanoid creatures that prefer to live in tribes in nature (mostly in the mountains). The race’s name refers to the biblical myth of David and Goliath.
[3] UNB — Universal Nutrient Blend.
[4] A buckler is a small shield up to 18 inches in diameter, usually metal and round.
[5] The chakram (Sanskrit: circle, ring, disc) is a throwing weapon. It is a flat metal ring sharpened at its outer edge.
[6] Zoran is referring to the interface from the Level Up series.
[7] DPS (Damage Per Second) — the average damage dealt per second.
[8] A war cry attributed to an Indian chieftain known as Crazy Horse, which he shouted at the Battle
of Little Bighorn. ‘itisagooddaytodie’ is also a cheat code that gives invulnerability in the game Warcraft II. In addition, “It is a good today to die” is spoken by the protoss corsair when it appears on the map in StarCraft.
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