Slayers

After pilfering as many valuables from a band of thieves as she can carry, Lina Inverse—self-proclaimed beauty and genius sorceress—departs with the gift of a fireball into the heart of her unwitting patrons’ campsite and continues on to Atlas City with dollar signs in her eyes. Before she can get very far, a horde of the surviving bandits ambushes Lina with vengeance on their minds. But sooner than she can put these one-dimensional goons out of their misery, a gallant wandering mercenary enters...

The first eight volumes of Slayers were published in English by Tokyopop from September 7, 2004 to January 2, 2008. On July 3, 2020, J-Novel Club announced it had licensed the series; the light novel has been rereleased digitally since August 17, 2020, and in print as hardcover 3-in-1 omnibus volume...