Circumstances inexorably push Irridar tan Abbai, Count of the Vangor Kingdom, to go to the Snowy Principality to confirm Toru-ilu, a student at the Academy of Magicians, the granddaughter of the deceased Great One, on the throne. He understands that if supporters of an alliance with the Eternal Forest come to power in the Snowy Principality, they will subjugate the Orcish steppe and the followers of Hujgarh - the spirit of vengeance - will be exterminated. Then death will come to him and his loved ones. But a series of unpleasant events begins to haunt him, preventing him from setting off. A drama of its own is playing out in space to intercept the leadership of the AD Directorate for the closed sector. A hunt has opened for Weiss on the Mother Planet.