Once someone has been marked (called an attunement), they gain magical talents and the ability to improve upon them with training and practice. Adventure-Friendly World: The Shifting Spires are tests that provide magic and power to all those who enter.In the third book Corin learns the Accelerated Computation spell which basically turns the caster into a living super computer for as long as it's active.This can also be augmented using information gathering spells, which is, naturally, the type of magic the Analyst specializes in. It enhances sensory perception and the attuned's ability to process that information. The appropriately named Analyst attunement gives this as its main function.

Magnus Cadence pulled his son out of public school, isolated him from everyone, and then mercilessly beat him to pulp on a regular basis under the guise of 'training.' The result is that Corin's body is covered in scars and his dueling hand is already at risk for mana scarring even before he takes his Judgment. Abusive Parents: Corin has been 'trained' by his father for his entire life, and it only got worse after his brother Tristan disappeared.Six Sacred Swords (2019) - Prequel told from the perspective of another character, Keras Selyrian, a mysterious swordsman from a foreign continent.The Torch That Ignites The Stars (2020).There are four books in the series so far:

Taking a Judgement (and more importantly, surviving one) unlocks a person's magical potential, earning them a special mark on their body known as an 'attunement.' Each attunement has a different specialty, with variations depending on where the mark appears on the body. Set in the fictional continent of Kaldwyn, the story is told from the perspective of Corin Cadence, the seventeen year old son of a minor noble setting out to take his Judgment, a test at one of the magical Shifting Spires that exist across the land.

Arcane ascension by andrew rowe