The quest of the Golden Wand seems doomed when Zandrew learns that Ankezebaur the Last Avatar of Light is dead, but a slim glimmer of hope still remains, and Zandrew and his friends cling to that slender hope and venture onto one final quest, to try to piece together fragments of the Great Secret, which will enable them to use the Golden Wand to defeat the forces of darkness before time runs out and the armies of the Dark God Vladius take total control. But once Zandrew learns what the Great Secret really is, his faith shatters, and he achieves the power to save the world but at a terrible price beyond what he ever imagined.

Author's Note: This novel is "LitRPG Lite," which means that it does not give explicit stats, levels, etc., but it is very much RPG-inspired fantasy literature, in which characters acquire items and weapons and spells, gain experience and increase in power by fighting and defeating enemies, and obtain quests that require them to venture into dungeons and fight monsters and defeat bosses, with the ultimate goal of defeating a final boss. I would say that the inspiration for this novel comes more from games than from novels: what directly inspired this book is Final Fantasy and Dungeons & Dragons, not any specific fantasy novel or book or series.