The new school year at Necromancer Academy had officially begun, and even though I was starting over again as a freshman, I'd never been happier. The academy had received an influx of students, but Headmaster Lipskin had eased everyone into the first day and beyond smoothly. Echo had said all the new students were because of me and Seph, the two mages who had finally stopped Ryze, but I didn't think so. We'd done something special here, true, but mostly we'd helped lift the idea that ...