The Second Beginning of Magic

Ivan and Alyonka Panteleev are first-year students at a magical gymnasium. As complete orphans, they’re forced to provide for themselves without anyone’s help. At the same time, they try to study at a magic academy so that someday they can become real temple guards—fighters against evil spirits. A student’s path in a magical university is hard, but full of adventures. Where else could you learn how to talk illnesses into submission, how to appease a house spirit, and where to get boots of the swift-footed?