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Nathaniel "King Crow" Valentine hates a lot of things: losing lightball games, spiders, and bad service at restaurants, to name a few. But topping this list are the Medics, the cult-like, opportunistic group of healers who take advantage of prisoners in the dungeon of Toroth-Gol. Crow might hate the Medics even more than those who put him in the dungeon in the first place. Unfortunately for Crow, the Medics control the third level of Toroth-Gol. Not only that, but they've imprisoned Crow's father--and they're not afraid to use him as leverage to get what they want.

King Crow isn’t having a very good day. The Empire’s most famous athlete suddenly finds himself convicted of treason and sentenced to the Hunt, an annual event where the city’s most undesirable prisoners are sent into a dungeon filled with treasure, magic, and… bloodthirsty monsters. Crow didn’t commit the crime, so why is he in the dungeon? Who set him up? And why—for the love of god—is his only weapon a fast-talking, sapient, electromagnetically charged potato named Spud?

Max Plank is a down-on-his-luck handyman with no job, no prospects, and no plan. But when he discovers a million dollars hidden beneath his bathtub, he does what anyone would do: he buys a haunted, defunct amusement park. Now the reluctant ringleader of the Carnival of the Sun, Max finds himself swept into a world of monstrous politics, angry dryads, and flamboyant wargs. With the help of several unlikely allies, he sets out to rebuild the carnival, bridge the widening gap between humans and monsters, and maybe even find a little joy along the way.

King Crow has made it through the first level of Toroth-Gol. After killing the world’s last giant, running afoul of pirates, and narrowly escaping a booby-trapped party store, he finds himself on a platform in the middle of the ocean, where he faces a new challenge...