![]() Coming from a formidable family of magic-wielders he has been trained well for his Judgement, hoping to escape the towers tests and achieve his attunement. ![]() In the first person perspective, we join the action as Corin Cadence, the 17-year-old son of a noble house enters the death trap tower. There are no retries or extra lives here, death is final therefore many wide-eyed, budding scholars never leave the tower. These areas were reminiscent of a The Legend of Zelda or a Skyrim dungeon and although the willing participants are only young and often inexperienced, the dangers are as real as the consequences are. This entails entering a Spire, progressing through certain puzzle-focused, trap-ridden, and monster-haunted rooms. Before potential students can even step foot within this sort-of Mage's college they have to pass a Judgement. In similar fashion to books such as The Magician's Guild, The Name of the Wind, and A Wizard of Earthsea - a large percentage of the narrative takes places within a mysterious educational establishment where professors teach their students magic. It sits nicely within the LitRPG subgenre of Fantasy and it gripped me from the very start. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was promoted to the finalist stage by Bookworm Blues and is the first novel in the Arcane Ascension series. I read Sufficiently Advanced Magic for the Self Published Fantasy Blog Off. ![]()
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