The clock is ticking for Saul Kramitz and his companions as they race to defeat the Elemental Gods, to defeat the evil trickster god Sarkur the mad, and to save the continent of Keldor and the wider world from destruction and enslavement at the hands of the evil cult of Keljek. As Saul's progression toward mastery of the arcane System becomes deeper than even its creator thought possible, the true nature of magic - and the true nature of Saul himself - will finally be revealed.