Bottleneck broken. Body and mana restored. He's fragile, for now.

Joe has done the impossible: designing a ritual that uses all five of his core class skills, etching the final design into his body, mana, and soul. Now he only needs one last push to make the synthetic enhancement permanent.

But replacing his shattered channels came at a price. First, a tribulation that pits his hunger for power against the stability he created—failure means the next attempt will be a hundred times harder.

Second, he's tipped the balance of Vanaheim. A Mythic core is on its way, and with it the ancient deadlock isolating the world from the higher realms will shatter. The ageless entity deciding the world's fate from the shadows has no intention of surrendering its grip on power, seeming to prefer planar destruction over change.

The Ritualist is asked to make an impossible decision: stabilize his foundation, or let the planet burn.

Good thing there's back-up worlds... because they're going to have to claw his hard-earned power out of his cold, dead body.

Resume this system-heavy, progression-focused LitRPG with deep mechanics, crafting, and long-term power scaling. Perfect for fans of the structured, rule-based magic system of He Who Fights with Monsters, the power scaling of Defiance of the Fall, and the bingeable progression storytelling of Unbound.

Available now on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible with narration by Luke Daniels—order your copy now to find out why power isn’t given, it's earned.