Revenge in another world--with an abnormal twist! (And don't miss the manga version, also from Seven Seas.) Abruptly catapulted into a fantasy world, Mimori Touka and his classmates have been summoned by the world’s resident Goddess to serve as heroes. Luckily, most of the students display amazing skills upon arrival—except for Mimori, whose abilities bottom out at a measly E-rank. With no further use for him, the Goddess banishes Mimori to a dungeon from which no one has ever returned alive. Yet, as it turns out, Mimori’s skills aren’t so much worthless as they are abnormal. Abnormally powerful, even. If Mimori can only claw his way back to the surface, nothing will stand in his way from getting revenge.

Mimori Touka must make full use of his much-maligned skills to battle the Sixth Order of Knights! Meanwhile, when the Demon King rears his hellish head in Alion, it's up to Sogou Ayaka and her Silver World to protect the powerless from his pitiless rampage. That leaves the Goddess Vicius alone with Takao Hijiri. Will they fight the Demon King side by side? Or is there another betrayal on the horizon...?

Thanks to Mimori Touka's "worthless" skills, the Country at the End of the World is safe for now. Touka and his companions are sent to the Miran Empire as representatives to broker the new alliance between the two nations. But assassins are on their way to kill the Miran emperor, and one is a familiar face--Oyamada Shougo, ex-school bully and one of the classmates who abandoned Touka to his death. Will Touka finally have his revenge...?

As the final battle against Vicius draws near, Mimori Touka makes full use of his "worthless" skills to take revenge on his classmate, Oyamada Shougo. Unbeknownst to him, Vicius has realized his true identity as the hero she once disposed of. When the Goddess persuades Kirihara Takuto to attack Touka, the stage is set for an epic clash between two heroes who couldn't be more different!

“I wasn’t expecting you to be in cahoots with the queen, that’s for sure.” Having defeated Kyo and left Kizuna and the others behind, Naofumi and his friends return to Melromarc. The Spirit Tortoise has left a deep scar on the world’s nations, including their own Melromarc. Now with the objective of preparing for future struggles against the waves and the deadly Phoenix, for some reason Naofumi heads straight to the slave trader?!

Returning to the well of forbidden power?! Time to unleash some inner wrath! After his cooking battle escalated to open warfare, the Shield Hero Naofumi has finally obtained the truth about the Vanguards of the Waves. After the Demon Dragon takes a liking to Naofumi, she proposes heading to a castle located on the continent that she once ruled. Once there Naofumi and his party are attacked by thugs pretending to be treasure hunters, but they swiftly deal with this threat. However, this encounter causes a chain reaction that leads to Naofumi squaring off with S’yne’s sister and Witch herself. Faced with foes wielding both holy and vassal weapons obtained by illicit means, the Demon Dragon makes an alarming suggestion—for Naofumi to unleash the power of his rage! “Never! I made a promise to myself that I would never rely on that anger—on the power of rage again.” When Naofumi’s rage is forcibly unleashed, what will happen to him and everyone he cares for? Find out in the nineteenth volume of this still rising otherworld fantasy!

THE GATHERING STORM Having defeated Kirihara Takuto and recruited S-class hero Takao Hijiri and her younger sister Itsuki, Mimori Touka is finally ready to march on Alion. Vicius, meanwhile, has procured the heart of the Demon King. As the combined forces of the Lord of the Flies Brigade, the Empire of Mira, and the Country at the End of the World advance on the goddess's seat of power, she races to destroy the Realm of the Divines. Can the resistance stop her before she gains enough power to slaughter both mortals and her fellow divines? Or is it already too late?

Copyright page and covers taken from original BenBella Books trade paperback edition, 2005.

For the first time in e-book format, a master dark fantasist spins tale of an exorcist who must face the restless undead. Parl Dro comes by night. A renowned and infamous exorcist, Parl Dro is known as the Ghost-Killer—the man who hunts down the deadalive and destroys them. For death is not always the end. With strong enough motive, the dead can return as ghosts, bound to a physical link from their once-living bodies. Left on their own, the deadalive feed off the living. But not everyone wants to give up their ghosts. While some buy his services and praise his work, others—like Ciddey Soban—hate the man who would deprive them of their beloved dead. When Parl Dro walks up the road to their house, Ciddey is determined to keep him from exorcising her sister—and vows vengeance against him if she fails. However, the Soban house is only one stop along the way to Parl Dro’s destination: Ghyste Mortua. Once a mountain town that was lost in a landslide, Ghyste Mortua is now a veritable ghost town, and Parl Dro aims to destroy it. Reluctantly accompanied by the musician Myal Lemyal—who hopes Ghyste Mortua will inspire his masterpiece—Parl Dro must challenge his beliefs both about ghosts and about himself, revealing secrets and confronting the truth of his past.