The first book in the series had this same issue. A very low leveled protagonist, Alex, is able to effortlessly take on an entire guild and wipe the floor with them. This includes the big bad guild leader of the PK guild, who was a very high level and should have been able to destroy Alex and his guild single handedly. The author attempts to address this by saying that the guild leader is just not smart, but it’s a contradiction as the guild leader was smart enough to take over an entire guild and convert it adopt his ideology. Also, a dragon prince AND an eons old super powerful wizard happens to join the protagonists’ guild for little to no reason….it’s ridiculously naive writing. Where is the struggle and obstacles that the heroes are suppose to overcome, and win over the audience while doing it?? This book and its predecessor amount to very simplistic and naive writing that I’d expect to read in grade school. This includes that terrible humor that the author forcibly injects into every page regardless of whether or not it enhances the plot or propels the story forward.
It seems Willmarth creates very privileged protagonists who are never challenged in this novel or the one that precedes it. I fully plan on returning this crap and getting a novel in which the writer does not have this problem.