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They Wanted a Hero. They Made a Monster: An Empire to Devour (Volume 12)
by CaffeinatedTales
Language: English
Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Content Rating: Older than 13
The Empire sends soldiers to kill his mushrooms.
Evan sends the mushrooms back stronger.
The fungal ruler of Mycel Keep has a war to manage, a growing population to protect, and an irritating problem: his disposable troops keep winning battles they were supposed to lose. Letting the Veiled Empire underestimate him was a perfectly sensible strategy. His latest skill upgrades are making it difficult.
Now vampire nobles are gathering an army large enough to crush the North. Evan needs time to strengthen his forces and extend his mycelial network before the Empire brings its full power to bear. Dwarven allies could tip the balance, but their help comes with demands. Enemy assassins are already slipping across the border.
Fortunately, Evan has never needed a sword to get under someone's skin.
Beneath the battlefield, his network spreads. Behind enemy lines, a mushroom faith takes root among people the Empire treats as livestock. Every new skill offers another way to turn an expendable creature into a weapon. Every desperate bargain gives his influence room to grow.
For the people trapped under vampire rule, those mushrooms might be the first hope they have ever known.
For their masters, they could be the beginning of something impossible to contain.
But Evan's ambitions reach beyond the next victory. The world still needs saving, and the gods seem determined to keep him ignorant of how. Ancient experiments hint at answers. The powers falling into his grasp raise a worse possibility: someone has plans for the monster he is becoming.
An Empire to Devour continues They Wanted a Hero. They Made a Monster with LitRPG skill progression, ruthless empire building, and the dark humor of a monster convinced he can improve the world.
He intends to make an empire feed his growth. What if a god intends to do the same to him?