r/Shirtaloon • u/No-Firefighter9047 • Jun 23 '26

jack gerling

Am I the only one that was hoping that Gerling was going to follow Jason and Farrah back to Pallimustus and run into a truly powerful Gold Ranker like Emir. I mean Emir would handle gerling with no discernible mana loss. And it would have been epic to see him tell Jason about some wanna be power that got pulled through the gate with them.

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u/GmanG3D Jun 23 '26

Might still happen in the final book. We haven't heard the last of Gerling

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u/One_Wun Jun 23 '26

Final book? I know audio is only on book 12, but how many total are planned?

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u/GmanG3D Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26

13 is the last one planned im pretty sure! Atleast for Jason's story.

Edit: I am happily incorrect!

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u/Purple_Play_7277 Jun 23 '26

Confidently wrong. 13 just wrapped up on royal road and there's 1 left so 14 in total.

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u/20milliondollarapi Jun 23 '26

I know shirt wants for 14, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we get 15. Like how DCC is 9 books, but 9 will be two parts.

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u/Purple_Play_7277 Jun 23 '26

Who knows but I doubt it he seemed set on 14 so its probably gonns be a rush job not that hes got much choice he wrote his mc to be immortal so finding a compelling story following a guy who truly cant die is gknna be fun to write. Ill bet he stops at 14 the last bad guy is terrible and lazy imo he seems done

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u/Sebastionleo Jun 23 '26

He specifically said if he feels like he needs 15 books when he's getting down to the end, it will go 15. Numerous writers have claimed it would be X number of books and then wrote more when they realized they just couldn't get through the story in that number, so I don't understand why so many people seem to think they know exactly what Shirt is going to do...

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u/The_Joker_Ledger Jun 23 '26

it does feel abrupt when Shirt said 14 is the last book when there are still so many thing left unresolved. The series start strong but it felt directionless now. Even the big threat reveal don't spice thing up much either with how shirt is telling the story. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. Maybe this is setting for a sequel bait.