Ancient Magic brought the world to its knees. Now, Angel is bringing it back. In the time that passed, society rebuilt, mixing machinery and magic to form something new. Great blimps took to the sky, belching steam and smoke as metal city-states sprouted like weeds below. Angel, a daring adventurer, scours the desert endlessly in search of ancient magic. When he’s given an offer he can’t refuse, he finds out that he’s not the only one seeking lost knowledge. His opponents wield magic that the world has forgotten, and their methods leave cities razed and the innocent in their wake. In a race against a group who has lived in the shadows since the Great War, Angel will have to determine just how far he’s willing to go to accomplish his goals.

After narrowly escaping the Reawakening, Angel successfully delivered Vanessa to Molten Ridges with the help of Captain Silver. He’d love to do nothing more than spent a year relaxing and studying Old World Magic, but he knows there can be no peace until the Reawakening are dealt with. The Buried Gods walk the Barren once more, and the Reawakening’s plot runs far deeper than he ever could have imagine. A plan hundreds of the years in the making is only months from coming into fruition with only Angel standing in its way, but how can he deal with the Reawakening if he can’t even trust his own allies?

Angel and his team have the Key, and with it, a map to the Vault. Unfortunately, so does the Reawakening. The Barren teeters at the brink of destruction and the Buried Gods grow in power. Angel's race to bring Old World Magic back is coming to an end, but with every step he takes along the desert, he learns of just how little he truly understood about the System and Soul's ultimate goals. He will face the Reawakening in one final clash, and the fate of the Barren and Old World Magic itself will depend on it.