Its the first book in the myth series. Skeeve is on klah. he’s an apprentice magician. And his master dies in the first chapter of the book. So Aahz takes him as his apprentice,only because he lost his powers. And they go after isstvan,the one who sent the assassins. They meet quigley and send him after the assassins after them. the assassins eventually caught up,they turned quigley into stone. they eventually got to isstvan. They sent him on a trip around different random dimensions.