Black Summoner, Vol. 1 (light novel)

Name: Black Summoner, Vol. 1 (light novel)
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By Doufu Mayoi and Tess Nanavati and Kurogin (DIGS) and Taishi Taishi

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Waking up in a strange new place with no memory of his past life, Kelvin learns that he's bartered away those very memories in exchange for powerful new abilities during his recent transmigration. Heading out into a whole new world as a Summoner with his first... Read More

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Waking up in a strange place with no memory of his past life, Kelvin learns he hass bartered away those very memories in exchange for powerful new abilities during his recent transmigration into a Summoner, beginning his new life as an adventurer.

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Waking up in a strange new place with no memory of his past life, Kelvin learns that he's bartered away those very memories in exchange for powerful new abilities during his recent transmigration.

Heading out into a whole new world as a Summoner with his first Follower being the very goddess who brought him over! Kelvin begins his new life as an adventurer, and it isn’t long before he discovers his hidden disposition as a battle junkie.

From the Black Knight of the Ancient Castle of Evil Spirits to the demon within the Hidden Cave of the Sage, he revels in the fight against one formidable foe after another.

Join this OP adventurer in an exhilarating and epic saga as he and his allies carve their way into the annals of history!

Black Summoner, Vol. 1 (light novel) by Doufu Mayoi, Tess Nanavati, Kurogin (DIGS), Taishi Taishi.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781975392208

Publisher: J-Novel Club

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 February 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: J-Novel Club

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 280g

Pages: 216

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Award-winning writer delivers a pulse-pounding espionage thriller. Missing soldiers, MI6 secrets and European partisans collide in a deadly game where the lines between lies and reality are fast disintegrating. In the dying days of the Second World War, a new conflict is about to ignite. May, 1945: After fighting to liberate Europe from the Nazis, Tito's Yugoslav Army and Allied...

By Anthony Byrt

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Fury In Death: An Eve Dallas thriller (In Death 63)

In the new crime thriller from the bestselling author, Lt. Eve Dallas journeys into the darkness where murder is born… NYSPD homicide detective Eve Dallas has seen a lot in her time but even she is shocked by the savagery of a beating which leaves a wealthy biotech executive dead in his home office. The victim’s corpse is so mangled...

By J. D. Robb

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Tom Clancy Pressure Depth

Jack Ryan Jr leads a team of divers in a race to beat the Chinese Navy to a weapon of terrible destructive power in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Jack Ryan Jr. is on Guam to work on a project for Hendley Associates. It's a perfectly ordinary insurance matter, but trouble finds the Ryans...

By Jack Stewart

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The Country Road Murders

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a pulse-pounding thriller about justice, vengeance and the roads that lead us home. No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades — LEE CHILD Cross Rivers is the kind of small town where everyone knows your name – and your secrets. Silas Tucker...

By James Patterson

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Every Lake

Scary stories are fun... until your life becomes one. When Alice was fifteen, her father killed Mia Heywood in their lakefront cottage before vanishing into the trees. At least that's what the locals think happened. Over a decade later, Alice has lost her job as a journalist, she's going through an expensive divorce and she desperately needs to sell the...

By Adam Perry

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Nautilus

The follow-up to the bestselling novel The Turing Protocol. Nautilus is a machine with the astonishing power to send messages eight weeks back in time. Its users must follow a set of protocols established by its inventor, Alan Turing, including that it can only be used by a descendant of his family, and only to avert global disasters. But what...

By Nick Croydon

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Cold River

The sensational new novel from the author of the bestselling thriller, The Creeper, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2025. Deep in the mountains, secrets grow deadly... Detective Constable Sally White knows how easily hikers can go missing in Victoria's high country. But there's something about the disappearance of Louis Taylor, a young man lost up...

By Margaret Hickey

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