For centuries, magicians and sorcerers have resisted vampires, protecting those deprived of magic from them and helping hunters of bloodsuckers with drugs and spells. For centuries, townspeople and inhabitants of god-forsaken villages have relied on the help of wizards. But one day everything changed. And the old enemies came together in a strange and incomprehensible friendship for the common man, overshadowed by the blessing of both the Chapter of Magi and the great Night People. For what? Why? Who will be sacrificed to the established shaky peace? What goals do both of them crave? What role in this tangle of inexplicable events is assigned to the nameless hunter and his student, one of the most talented sorceresses of the Congregation, Alisande du Vargas, and the scientist-healer Master Bonaventure? Where will the path lead to the hermit magician Benjamin Skorre, for whom, no matter what happens, vampires will forever remain the first and main enemy?