What will happen if time in one place suddenly speeds up, jumping through a thousand years at once? Turta, once the capital of glorious Bartelion, has the answer. Lively neighborhoods turned into silent ruins; The townspeople, hurrying on business, covered the roads with piles of dried bones, and the gates of the damned city were forever closed to outsiders. Even today, fifteen years later, a mysterious witchcraft instantly kills anyone who dares to set foot on the deserted streets. The way to Turtu alive is forbidden, but there are rumors that a certain guide, for a reasonable fee, is ready to take customers beyond the walls of the dead city and, more importantly, take them back. Thus begins the story of the messengers of the winged Ma'aari and the steel people of Sat-Harim, as well as not the most worthy representative of the human race. This time the cover is proposed by the author