Ever since Erec Rex returned home, his siblings Danny and Sammy have been acting strange. They follow him, staring like lost puppies. The shock of Erec and their mother missing must have been too much for them. Erec returns to Olympia to tackle the twelve trials necessary to become king. When Danny and Sammy follow him there against his mother’s wishes, Erec finds out they are impostors. The real Danny and Sammy have been kidnapped. Erec follows clues that lead him into the Green House, where President Inkle lives. He starts to believe the strange Hermit hanging around the castle might have something to do with the twin’s disappearance.

Erec wonders what harrowing escapade his first trial will be, and learns he has to . . . open a nestful of dragons eggs Not only are the eggs difficult to open , but feeding the dragon hatchlings stings his fingers. On top of searching for Danny and Sammy Erec is attempting to learn magic from his magic tutor Mr. Peebles.

To make matters worse, the annoying Balor and Damon Stain, through a loophole in the magical law, are competing against him. Balor hires teams of kids to open eggs, and it seems he will surely find whatever is hidden first. While erec opens the dragon eggs Bethany and Jack fight of the Stain triplets.

Erec’s next trial is to “defeat the monsters in otherness,” but he is not sure how to begin. He hears that two children are being held prisoner of terrible monsters called vogum in “Otherness,” the wild magical worlds outside of Olympia, and he realizes they might be Danny and Sammy. A “snail mail” love letter, written on a real snail shell from a secret admirer, turns into a correspondence that helps Erec wind his way through the perils of Otherness to find the twins.

Erec discovers the “monsters” are actually quite nice. In fact, Tina, his secret admirer, is a hydra herself. Baskania has massed an angry horde to “kill the hydras and save the children,” planning to kill the hydra and valkyries for his dark purposes. Erec stands before Tina and her people, arms outstretched, pleading with the mob that the hydras are good, but Baskania twists his words. In a last attempt, Erec holds up the Scroll of Truth he found in the first trial. Shots ring out, and Erec waits for the sting of arrow and bullets, but then there is silence.

The mob has dropped its arms, but Baskania vanishes. All seems lost, but Erec, using his dragon eye, finds Baskania just as he brought back one of his ancestors from the dead. With the help of this ancestor, and now the dragon eye he will take from Erec, Baskania will rule the world.

With the help of an ancestor of his own, and using what he has learned, Erec saves the day. Baskania is madder still, and more determined to kill Erec and take his dragon eye.

Leram - Erec Rex