I'm Justin Mauler, student of Mazirian Academy, Creation Mage, and now the new owner of a poltergeist named Barry Chillgrave. Who'd have expected having a deceased buccaneer as your resident dungeon-running poltergeist would lead to trouble? Yeah, it's pretty much a given. And now I’ve discovered that my spell list might be limited. Which means only one thing: I have to find a way to break that limit. And if anyone knows about Creation Magic, it’s my dead dad. Good thing we’ve found a way I can speak with him. But it’s going to require some serious footwork. Maybe even a murder or two. Or three. Jump in now and read my craziest antics yet.

I've collected the souls required to speak with my dead father, and he's got a lot to tell me. Hopefully, what he has to say will help me succeed in the coming Mage Game Qualifiers. Because if I get through, then I'll finally find my mother's white staff. You've read the last 4 books, you know what to expect. This is more of that. Grab it, sit back, and have the time of your life.

It's been five years since Barridur Sharrow deserted the army rather than commit war crimes. He now works as a mason, he's well-liked by his community where no one knows his past, and he focuses his time on raising his adopted child. But everything falls apart when his former commanding officer, the Grand Mage, returns to the city and discovers him — and shortly after that, Barridur is executed as a deserter.Barridur finds himself in Hell where he meets the fabled Hollow King. A cruel and capricious god, the Hollow King offers Barridur a chance to return alive to the living world.All Barridur has to do is defeat the Nine Champions of Hell. An immortal minotaur, a shapeshifting crow with a flock of man-eating ravens, a banshee who lives in a well, a flesh-eating swarm of flies, a cannibalistic chef, an enchanted stone giantess, an unstoppable rock troll, a huge two-headed hound who guards the Gates, and a final unknown entity no one has lived to tell about. How...

Ben has set his sights to the north, where a tower reaches to the heavens. But first, he will need to gain the favor of a master deep within the dungeons outside his own tower.With this new master’s training and his new children, Ben is ready to venture north and claim what is rightfully his.Inevitably, things prove more difficult than he could have ever imagined, and The One Who Rules All could be Ben’s undoing.