
Web serial by minichirops
Twelve-year-old Dalliance Rather is expected to become a brutal laborer like his father. Instead, aided by a fairy godmother, he's secretly a [Scamp] with a plan to win his way into the elite King's Collegiate — he's going to build the perfect [Wizard]. Reality disagrees. Power accumulates gradually and extracts a price, but found family finds a path forward. A literary, pitch-dark Victorian-era coming-of-age story in a LitRPG setting, owing a debt to Mark Twain.