Professor Orden teleports Corin to talk with Katashi, who tells him that Tenjin, Katashi's brother, has gone missing. Later in the year, during one of Corin's tests, Katashi leads Mizuchi and a small army of monsters to attack the city. Corin also delivers a message from a mysterious entity in the tower to Lyras Orden. Sera joins Derek Hartigan in a survival match, where she makes a summoning contract with Vanniv, a Karvenzi, an Ogre and a Wyvern and nearly dies. He takes several classes, including a dueling class in which the teacher, Jonathan Teft attacked him on the first day and an enchanting class taught by Blanche Vellum, in which he learns to appreciate his new attunement and make magic items. Throughout the year, Corin rekindles a friendship with Patrick Wayland and makes some new friends, including Marissa Callahan and Jin Dalen. Sera has a Summoner attunement, and is quite powerful. His father, Magnus Cadence, doesn't like this, and decides to 'replace' him with Sera Shard, the person who was going to be his retainer but is apparently his half sister. Corin ends up getting an attunement and Selys-Lyann, but he gets the enchanter attunement, rather than a combat oriented attunement. Keras ends up fighting with a Katashi, a Visage powerful enough to wipe out cities, while Corin and Vera escape. This book lead him to a prison, where he released three prisoners, Keras Selyrian, Vera Corrington, and Echion Valden. When taking his Judgment at the Serpent Spire, he obtained a strange book that gave him advice on the challenges he ran across.

This book follows Corin Cadence throughout his adventures in the first part of his first year at Lorian Heights Academy. įor a chapter-by-chapter summary, see Sufficiently Advanced Magic/Summary

The journey won’t be easy, but Corin won’t stop until he gets his brother back. For that, he’s going to need training, allies, and a lot of ingenuity. If he can survive the trials, Corin will earn an attunement, but that won’t be sufficient to survive the dangers on the upper levels.

He’s headed to the top floor, on a mission to meet the goddess. According to legend, those few who reach the top of the tower will be granted a boon by the spire’s goddess. Those who survive the spire’s trials return home with an attunement: a mark granting the bearer magical powers. Five years ago, Corin Cadence's brother entered the Serpent Spire - a colossal tower with ever-shifting rooms, traps, and monsters.

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