Mash Burnedead gets by on raw physical strength at a school built entirely around magic, hiding that secret with the help of his closest friends, Finn Ames and Lance Crown. As the Divine Visionary selection process grinds on toward its final stage, Mash is pushed into the Tri-Magic-Athalon, a punishing final exam arc where staying undetected among genuine spellcasters gets a lot harder to pull off.