Heaven Sent an Inquisitor, So I Took Her Soul: Full Spoiler Guide

Six hours after Trevor claims Three Bridges, Heaven runs Root Recovery on the inquisitor he enslaved. Junia Serrat tears out of his Crown, stabs his wing, and is pulled up into a cathedral city hanging upside down in the sky. She comes back clean, reinstalled, and his enemy again. A road of law rises to the city. He takes forty guards and climbs it. Book 2 of the Tyrant Route of Jax A. River’s Angel Queen is a villain-protagonist conquest LitRPG: the same raid as the Mercy Route, run by a man who treats every hostage as a resource.

What it is

Forty-two chapters, Level 20 to Level 40. Where Mercy Trevor saves the adds, Tyrant Trevor spends them. His army is a Host of bound bodies used as ammunition, as stairs, and as damage sinks. His new tools are Pain Tithe, Owner’s Seal, and Crown Marks. He captures boss bells as hotbar summons, demands cup holders on a captured war machine, and the System adds Chalice Rings.

The enemy is the same Sovereign Core, and its plan for him is the same: keep his memories, take his choices. He objects to that as a matter of property.

Who will love it

Readers of dark LitRPG who want an evil build played straight, with the bill presented on the page: named dead, counted dead, and a party that keeps the count. Readers who have read the Mercy version and want to watch each mercy turned over. The humour is still there and it makes the rest worse on purpose.

Tropes

• Villain protagonist; city conquest; blackguard evolution
• Soul capture and soul-burning as healing; minions as ammunition
• Owner marks; enemy general broken in four steps
• Dark harem that stays without forgiving
• The lead orders his lover’s death; her soul kept in a sealed vault
• Middle-book cliffhanger; a heist on Heaven’s body forge set up

Heat

Site heat level: Open door. Two scenes, both started by the woman and both in places his power cannot reach: Petra in chapter 6, whom he cannot command or read, and Adina in chapter 23, in a room where his Crown does not work. There is no sex with Damaris or Junia. He kisses Damaris without asking during an argument in chapter 10, and she objects.

Content notes

Mass civilian death caused or allowed by the lead; soldiers and bound people spent as ammunition; souls and corpses consumed for healing; the lead ordering his lover’s death and then using her recorded voice; forced class conversion and mind marks; grief used as leverage; children held inside a war machine; possession; body horror; explicit sex.

Full plot, with spoilers

He breaks a gate made of living prisoners by sending one of his own guards in as the weak phase. At the corpse levy he takes 209 bodies and lets 94.8 percent of the name-books burn. Number 4419 still says Iron Orchard. He captures the saint automaton with its 314 hostage pilots inside and keeps it as a mount. Damaris uses one free beat to destroy Heaven’s offer of a “Sanctioned Justiciar” class, and he has her kill her obedient copy so he can keep her anger.

At the midpoint he refuses an option to sever his owner path. The engine uses his own claim on Damaris as a handle and drags her away. He burns three hundred stored souls as a party potion to get her back, and the Core announces: missing successor found. When the first engine mouth falls on the city he lets an unclaimed district of 612 residents drop into the Core’s queue so he can keep his prize.

He contains Bell Two inside Naomi. He stores 804 more souls in a claimed rib district. Damaris makes him say the names of sixty-four people he burned for healing, and one of them is a potter called Sel Varo. He beats his perfect mirror by deleting the softer meanings, protection, freedom, trust and love, from his command priority, and mounts the mirror as a sign. Junia kneels to save eleven thousand people from a falling city, which is how he gets the first Crown Mark onto her. Three more follow. He forces her class to change and the panel reads: ownership final.

The ending (spoiler)

Inside the Core he opens a sacrifice calculator. The Founder Judgment needs a judgment-class soul to hold it for one beat, and it deletes that person’s body. Damaris is the 94 percent option, the cheapest winning interceptor. He prepares a partition for her soul and gives the order. She spends her last free beat kissing him. Then Iron Verdict holds the sentence while her armour, braid, skin and scars are stripped, and he catches what is left in the Closed Crown for 60 MP and 279 Fear. No body. No voice. No summon.

He then plays her recorded voice as a combo call to turn copied enemies on each other. Petra’s knife draws blood at his throat. Naomi takes him off automatic heals and slaps him. Adina writes REMEMBER WHO PAID inside his armour. Alone in the Core he burns a hundred more souls, makes it punch itself and impale its own eye on its throne down to 1 HP, and finishes it with a single point of friendly fire. Level 40, Archangel of the Red Covenant, four assault wings, a command throne. Junia kneels, keeping one percent of herself and a promise to kill him with it. Three women sleep beside him without forgiving him, the flail lies in the fourth place, and eighty-three of his own subjects have started a revolt quest with his approval. Heaven’s gate opens. He flies at the body-forge carrier.

Where it sits

Tyrant Route, Book 2 of 4, after Deliberately Started a Cult and before Heaven Declared Its Cutest Angel a Dark Lord. Mercy mirror: So I Saved Her Soul. Series guide: Angel Queen.

Reader Questions

Book page: Heaven Sent an Inquisitor, So I Took Her Soul. Author guide: Jax A. River. Browse the full catalogue at Centuria Books.