He Who Fights with Monsters 9: A LitRPG Adventure

HE WHO FIGHTS WITH MONSTERS NINE ©2023 SHIRTALOON This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Any reproduction or unauthorized use of the material or artwork contained herein is prohibited without the express written permission of the authors. Aethon Books supports the right to free expression and the value of copyright. The purpose of copyright is to encourage writers and artists to produce the creative works that enrich our culture. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book without permission is a theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), please contact [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. Aethon Books www.aethonbooks.com Print and eBook formatting by Steve Beaulieu. Published by Aethon Books LLC. Aethon Books is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead is coincidental. All rights reserved. CONTENTS ALSO IN SERIES 1. Don’t Show Up to the Fancy Party in Shorts 2. What She Was Willing to Do 3. More Than Just a Name 4. The Making of That Man 5. A Lesson of Days Gone 6. Dear John 7. This Doesn’t Feel Glorious 8. El Demonio Que Hace Trofeos de los Hombres 9. Occasionally Carnivorous 10. If You’re Going to Punish Someone 11. One More Loyalty to Balance 12. That Boy In the Tent 13. A Difficult Child 14. All Singer and No Song 15. Hefty Nuggets 16. Following Your Convictions to Your Death 17. The God in This Scenario 18. The Only Person Who Thinks It’s Obvious 19. Uncharacteristic Sincerity 20. The Only Wound You Can Truly Suffer 21. Mother’s Favourite 22. A Good Friend to Have 23. Put the Extraordinary Aside 24. A Chance For Some Relative Quiet 25. Surplus to Requirements 26. Bad at Crime 27. An Evil God Sitting on Her Shoulder 28. A Responsibility as Much as a Privilege 29. Fighting the Power 30. Make Jason Great Again 31. Neil’s Big Mouth 32. Rage, Authority and Otherworldly Power 33. Asset 34. The Thing You Practise With The Most 35. Just to Prove You Could 36. A ALSO IN SERIES HE WHO FIGHTS WITH MONSTERS BOOK ONE BOOK TWO BOOK THREE BOOK FOUR BOOK FIVE BOOK SIX BOOK SEVEN BOOK EIGHT BOOK NINE BOOK TEN * * * Want to discuss our books with other readers and even the authors like Shirtaloon, Zogarth, Cale Plamann, Noret Flood (Puddles4263) and so many more? Join our Discord server today and be a part of the Aethon community. 1 DON’T SHOW UP TO THE FANCY PARTY IN SHORTS Convalescence was not something that people with the money to afford healing magic often had to deal with. Jason Asano was wealthy, even for an adventurer of his rank, yet had been experiencing a lengthy convalescence. Some wounds ran too deep, and Jason had a habit of pushing himself too hard. Magical powers had limits, not just because they required practise to master but because the body could only endure so much. It required years to inure the body to the kinds of forces that high-ranking magic channelled through it. Jason, however, was a man for whom events would not wait for him to have the necessary strength. On a rescue mission in a half-flooded mining complex, deep at the bottom of the sea, Jason and his