First Descent

Emery Wicks has awakened the weakest class at Delver Academy: [Lantern]. It might also be the only class that can keep his team alive.

Delver Academy trains recruits to explore the Deep, a vast dungeon beneath the Empire. Its students earn powerful combat classes, master deadly skills, and compete for the rewards waiting below.

Emery gets a lamp.

Everyone treats him like dead weight, but quitting is not an option. Graduating could save his family's guild and stop his neighborhood from being demolished. First, he must survive the academy's most dangerous test: the First Descent.

When the class enters the Deep, Emery quickly learns that the academy has prepared them for the monsters. It has not prepared them for the dark.

Something is wrong below. The reliable lights are failing, Emery's supposedly useless class is behaving in ways it shouldn't, and every answer comes with a cost he may not survive.

If he wants to bring his team home, Emery must trust the class everyone else dismissed and prove that keeping the light alive can matter more than wielding the biggest sword.

First Descent begins The Lamplighter, a LitRPG progression fantasy featuring an underdog hero, dangerous academy trials, meaningful advancement, found family, and slow-burn romance. Start the complete three-book academy arc today.