Petr Sinelnikov, a former special forces soldier, and now a seventeen-year-old guy from the vorks tribe, after a string of adventures, is sent to study at the Academy. This is the only institution in the entire Imperium that prepares professional mages, who then serve the Emperor for five years. And all of them are officers. Future officers. Ambitious, arrogant, confident in their glorious future… teenagers who really don’t like “white crows.” How will Petr Sinelnikov be received at the Academy? Can he, in the literal sense, survive in these conditions? We’ll see.