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11 February 2025

A new magician is on the scene, and he’s got demons in tow, in this adventure-filled portal fantasy that’s perfect for fans of role-playing games.
When professional magician Max is guided through a portal by a mysterious book from his past, it makes sense that he’s classed as a Magician in this game-like fantasy world. As a workaholic and a loner, his career has been his life thus far, so why wouldn’t it continue to be? But then his Soul Merge fails, and the System decides to find a compromise, classing him as something weirder: a Demonic Magician.
Armed with a card deck of new tricks, his showmanship skills, and the power to summon demons, Max is ready to fight his way through this realm of monsters and opposing Players. But as he builds his team—including strong-willed elf Ren and grizzly bear Wolf—to get to the mainland and escape the System, he might just encounter some things he never expected to: friendship, love, possibly even a family of his own. As long as he doesn’t get eaten first . . .
The first volume of the hit LitPRG fantasy series—with more than 600,000 views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
Kleggt is the author of the Death of the Party and Demonic Magician series, originally released on Royal Road. Upon clawing his way out of the depths of Scheduling Hell as a Forever DM, he began writing web novels, channeling his love of world-building and oddball characters into his own LitRPG and progression fantasy stories.