Play to Live. Book 4. Inferno

Dmitry Rus is a top Russian writer working in the genres of mysticism, horror, and battle fantasy. In 2013, he produced, to the delight of readers, the series "Play to Live" about the endless online world of magic and the sword, where the price of losing is the player’s own life. Today it already consists of nine books.

Play to Live is about battles and leveling up characters in an RPG world. The author mixes several genres and uses game slang and relevant terminology. Reality’s fabric is cracking at the seams. Already envoys from the gnolls are knocking on the gates of the Kremlin, while ancient, half-forgotten deities take possession of the avatars of Drumira. In our souls, the all-powerful Spark of the Creator still flickers—subordinated to the faith and knowledge of millions of players, reshaping the universe according to their unconscious wishes.

Is there a plan of Inferno in Drumira? Then you will have demons too! And not naive digital creations of game designers, but true arch-demons, princes of incubus and succubus, executioners of злодіянь—called into being by our faith in the world that is just beginning to form.

Gleb’s burden is heavy: leading a clan and an alliance, duty to the gods, and a looming battle for the First Temple on the horizon. Yet can he refuse a potential ally? Not come to the aid of those who run into trouble, and not try to take under his control part of those unique, ownerless territories?

And then the ash of Inferno will tremble under the march of steel legions, heavy assault golems, and thousands of paws of countless pets—mounts and familiars alike!