Hunting and Herbalism 5 - by Leif Roder & Synonymoose (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Set on destroying the hellish realm of Cormaine once and for all, Zalia seeks the ultimate healing cure--and reveals Endaria's greatest evil in the process.

Though peace now reigns throughout Zalia's new homeland, she has one last impossible task to complete: eliminate the source of the corruption that almost conquered Endaria. But destroying the hellscape that is Cormaine requires more than her near-god-level abilities. Especially when an infection warping animals is traced to powerful beings known as the thousand-eyed ones, who hold Cormaine in an interdimensional grip.

As she fights them alongside guardian god Nateysta, Zalia clashes with the formidable demon clans empowering the thousand-eyed ones' magic. And when her experiments seeking an antidote for the creatures' infection reveal a plant-based cure, she must secretly contain it within Endaria. Taking hazardous shortcuts to this end, she must also conceal her actions from Nateysta, risking not only their uneasy alliance but the unleashing of a vengeful wrath that promises to ruin everything Zalia holds dear.

Backed by her talented ethereal daughter, Aylie, as well as the feisty ice cat Boreal and her ferocious cubs, Zalia finally uncovers the mysterious reason she was brought to this world. But her combined humanity and powers are challenged by the monarch, Endaria's oldest enemy, whose shade is rapidly regaining substance through the thousand-eyed ones. With her cure untested and her forces outnumbered, Zalia will have to make impossible choices that could either end the monarch and heal Cormaine--or yield an unexpected and devastating downfall . . .

The fifth volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series--with more than two million views on Royal Road--is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

Tropes include: coming of age, found family, ancient evil, interspecies friendship, and good versus evil.

About the Author

Leif Roder is the author of the Hunting and Herbalism series, originally released on Royal Road. They studied both aeronautics and software engineering before quitting university and moving abroad, where they began writing books on their phone while on the bus on the way to work. This eventually turned into a full-time career as an author. Now, they write all kinds of fiction, from fantasy to sci-fi with a sprinkling of magic to short stories about cats. They also enjoy a little wall climbing and archery as a treat.

Leif Roder is the author of the Hunting and Herbalism series, originally released on Royal Road. A one-time engineering student, he ultimately dropped out of school and proceeded to bounce around, pursuing a hundred different interests and career paths, before finally arriving at writing. An Australian, Roder currently resides in New Zealand.