Kevin was just an ordinary, burnt-out college student, until he woke up in a fantasy world as the youngest son of House Atreides, one of the most prestigious mage houses in the Imperium as Kelsier Atreides. Finally, a life of ease and comfort! No more grueling lectures, no more all-nighters, no more slaving under demanding professors. At last, he could just kick back and relax.

Or so he thought.

Kelsier is shipped off to the Imperium's most notorious magic school. Stripped of his family's wealth, trapped behind walls even the most cunning escape artists can't breach, and surrounded by noble classmates who range from fiercely hostile to hopelessly gullible, Kelsier must draw on the one advantage his past life gave him. The unbreakable spirit of someone who already survived grad school.

Armed with the patience of a veteran lab rat, the budgeting instincts of a broke student, and a mana pool so absurdly large that even his professors don't know what to make of it, Kelsier navigates magical duels, scheming upperclassmen, questionable cafeteria food, and a Chancellor who thinks kidnapping his own staff is a perfectly reasonable teaching method.