This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Carl and Princess Donut are ready to battle it out in the epic seventh book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series—now with bonus material exclusive to this print edition!

Welcome to Faction Wars

The ninth floor. Faction Wars. Nine armies enter, led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. The winning team must capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, betrayal . . . It all makes for great fun and even greater television.

But thanks to Carl, Donut, and Katia, this season is different.

The Stakes Have Never Been Higher

• A Crawler Army: For the first time ever, the crawlers have their own army. The NPCs, who are normally used as nothing but cannon fodder, have become fully self-aware and have formed an unprecedented team of their own.
• Permanent Death: It’s not just the crawlers who are at risk this Faction Wars. Any combatant who dies on the battlefield stays in the ground.
• A Tragic Choice: For Donut and Katia, the stakes are even higher. No matter who wins the war, only one of them will be allowed to leave this level.

If they all want to survive, they’re going to need a little help from a veteran or two. This is it. This is what they’ve been fighting toward. This is war.

Praise for the Dungeon Crawler Carl Series

"Dungeon Crawler Carl is legit awesome."
– Brandon Sanderson, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Fresh. Creative. Hilarious. I'm obsessed…Princess Donut is my queen.”
– Felicia Day, Actor, producer and New York Times bestselling author

"This series has no goddamn business burying so much depth and emotion and complexity under its bawdy, gory surface, but it does so anyway. What a wild-ass and unexpected delight."
– Scott Lynch, New York Times bestselling author

“[A] comically cosmic adventure series…often laugh-out-loud funny…Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut.”
– The Wall Street Journal

About the Author

Matt Dinniman is a writer, artist, and musician (well, he's a bass player) from Gig Harbor, WA. He is the author of several books, including the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series.

Sneak Peek: Read an Excerpt

Welcome, Crawler. Welcome to Faction Wars.
You are on the ninth floor.

Time to Level Collapse: 30 days or 90 hours after a winner is declared, whichever is sooner.

We appeared in a wet, stinking alleyway between two crumbling buildings. The blue dots of crawlers materialized all around us, appearing one by one as they zapped into existence in random places around the city.

Larracos. We had made it. The first thing I did was wave away the quest notification and search for the number of remaining crawlers. It'd gone down by over 1,300 people. Damnit. That was how many people had died in the time since we'd been pulled up into the sky and the floor collapsed. We'd been gone for just about four days. Most of those were probably people who hadn't survived getting pulled into the sky.

But we were alive. Holy shit. It had worked.

Imani wasn't with us, and I had a moment of panic, but she immediately jumped into my chat.

Imani: Carl, are you guys okay?
Carl: We are. We're here.
Imani: Thank god. When we started to spin there at the last minute-
Carl: Give me a few minutes to figure out where we are, and we'll find a safe room.

Donut sat next to me, sputtering. She'd landed face-first in a pile of mud, and she was completely covered. It had a familiar stink to it. The ocean from the fifth floor. We were in an area that had recently been drained. Very recently drained. The X of a corpse lay nearby, deeper in the alleyway. A concierge shark.

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