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description: It's been five years since Barridur Sharrow deserted the army rather than commit war crimes at the order of his commander. He now works as a mason, he's well-liked by his community where no one knows his past, and he focuses his time on raising his adopted child. But everything falls apart when his former commanding officer, the Grand Mage, returns to the city and discovers him — and shortly after that, Barridur is executed as a deserter.Barridur finds himself in purgatory where he meets the fabled Hollow King. A cruel and capricious god, the Hollow King offers Barridur a chance to return alive to the living world.So Welcome To Hell, Dead Man...All Barridur has to do is defeat the Nine Champions of Hell. An immortal minotaur, a shapeshifting crow with a flock of man-eating ravens, a banshee who lives in a well, a flesh-eating swarm of flies, a cannibalistic chef, an enchanted stone giantess, an unstoppable rock troll, a huge two-headed hound who guards the Gates, and a final unknown entity no one has lived to tell about. How hard can it be, really? All he has to do is beat them all and survive. If he fails, the Hollow King will devour his soul and Barridur will become part of the wraith army, enslaved for all eternity.And Beware of the Hollow King...If staying alive in Hell wasn't hard enough, Barridur discovers that the Grand Mage who murdered him is intent on summoning the Hollow King as a weapon of mass destruction. Millions will die if this comes to pass — including Barridur's family. Desperate to win this impossible challenge, Barridur sets with only a lone vampyr as his ally... and honestly she just wants to drink his blood.No matter what it costs, Barridur will fight all of Hell to keep the Hollow King from rising into the mortal world — even if it means losing his humanity in the process. No pressure.
title: Hollow King