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Lamplighter Academy: A Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG Adventure

Above the Drowning Light, Book 1

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Lamplighter Academy: A Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG Adventure

By: Kal Griffith
Narrated by: Matthew Michael Lewis
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LAMPLIGHTER — A Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG Adventure

Some fires never go out.

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Sean died under a collapsing warehouse roof. Twenty years as a firefighter, and that was how it ended.

Except it wasn't the end.

He wakes up in a world where mist has swallowed everything below the mountaintops. Monsters crawl through it. Cities cling to the peaks, and only three paths exist for anyone who wants to fight back: knight, mage, or Lamplighter.

Knights get the glory. Mages get the respect. Lamplighters carry oil lamps into the mist and drag back whatever they can salvage from the world that was.

Sean's new body belongs to Mars Mihael, a noble's son with no combat training and a reputation for failure. He could train as a knight. He could study magic. But when he learns what Lamplighters actually do, the choice isn't hard.

They walk into the dark so others don't have to.

He's done that before.

Starting at Level 1 with a body that's never worked a hard day, Sean enters an Academy where half the students wash out and a quarter don't survive. But he's spent two decades learning to stay calm when everything goes wrong.

The job hasn't changed. Just the uniform.

Monsters in the mist. A world slowly drowning in white. And someone has to hold the line.

Time to get to work.

©2026 Kal Griffith (P)2026 Royal Guard Publishing LLC
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I really enjoyed this story, all the characters are well written, the fights are very exciting, but it’s the apocalyptic world setting that is the real star of the story, beautifully crafted with lots of scope for much more exploration by the Lamplighters. The author has managed to build up the story for the coming wave without feeling like we are left on a cliff hanger. Wasn’t sure about the narrator at first, but they very much grew on me as we got more characters into the story.

Fantastic story telling and world building.

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the base premise of this book is honestly one of the best I've seen in a very long time genuinely but the execution if that premise holds this book back immensely. I dont mean the narrator but the fact that the protagonists firefighter experience and training almost exactly translates somehow to his new life in every single aspect is weired and almost boring and the fact the fact that he has to state it in the book I pretty much every single interaction he has in the world is jarring and I found myself just waiting for him to comment on how because of this thing or that thing he could use his firefighter training in this or that way rather than expressing the book and world. and that is a crying shame because like I said the base premise of the world is absolutely fantastic and actually original and interesting but it gets spoiled by the protagonist having the exact same train of thought over and over

amazing premise bad execution

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