Nine candidates with nine very different backgrounds and reasons for participating - each of them are vying for one of the elite apprentice seats at Magic University, but only three will succeed. In the next several hours, they will have to prove themselves worthy in the twelve strenuous admission trials that the university has prepared for them. Will those who have something to hide be hampered by their secrets or the personal demons they happen to be carrying with them? Will youth and vigor outperform age and experience or vice versa? Will dark inter-dimensional magic reign supreme? Their fates will soon be decided, and none of the candidates will walk away unchanged…