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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