
eBook by A.P. Gore, Patricia Jones
For two centuries, Daren Morin ruled as the Evil Lord through terror and cunning. Betrayal ended his reign — and now he wakes up eighteen years old again, stripped of power and trapped in a magic academy crawling with his old enemies, who mock him with the nickname 'Moron.' This time he's weaker. This time they think he's no threat. They're wrong. Daren remembers every secret, every spell, every betrayal — and he's going to use it all to survive, rise, and make them regret not finishing the job.


Daren begins recruiting the academy's broken misfits as tools, offering forbidden knowledge at a price they don't yet understand. When a routine competition unexpectedly becomes a deadly dungeon crawl, Daren treats it as his first real battle in a war only he knows is coming — and a chance to test whether his investments will pay off.

Tortured, framed for murder, and hunted across the kingdom, Daren faces a familiar taste of betrayal. His only path to untouchable status runs through a labyrinthine artifact at the center of a deadly kingdom-wide tournament. Cornered and hunted, Daren intends to flip the board entirely.