How illusory is the shaky line between insignificant existence and greatness! Yesterday, a still rootless schoolboy, persecuted and despised, suddenly becomes a baron and the Chief Imperial Sorcerer by the whim of Fatum and his own insolent will. But this situation does not bring either peace or happiness. The Baron finds himself the object of palace intrigue, a target in a simmering, menacing magical war. You have to escape to another world and start all over again. Thus, among the barbarian tribes, surrounded by a chain of hostile states, Gunga appears - a revived god, a powerful magician, a pillar of fatal faith in a great future, the path to which runs through a universal war. But in order to be a god, the baron has to unite with the merciless and irresistible power of Death, the embodiment of which is Gunga. Nothing, it seems, can break this unity - not even returning to your world and the crown of the Empire. Death's hunger and hatred overwhelm the baron. And yet... The hellish connection is crushed by ordinary and beautiful human love... But in order to be a god, the baron has to unite with the merciless and irresistible power of Death, the embodiment of which is Gunga. Nothing, it seems, can break this unity - not even returning to your world and the crown of the Empire. Death's hunger and hatred overwhelm the baron. And yet... The hellish connection is crushed by ordinary and beautiful human love...