Callum Hunt has been warned his whole life to stay away from magic.When Call is called to attend the entrance exams for The Magisterium, a school of magic, he promises his father he will deliberately fail the test.Unfortunately, magic is in Call's blood, and he is selected to study with the greatest mage of all time, Master Rufus.Call and his new friends discover that the mysteries that lie deep in the Magisterium caverns and learn that sometimes it is hard to tell the good from the bad.