The Warsaw Republic is trying to maintain neutrality, balancing between two powers: Germany and Russia. However, the young republic is facing more and more problems. Direct messengers of the Damned appear in the enclaves, and the Word of Power, which gave the Poles victory, is already known to all parties to the conflict. Count Samarin and Baron Rudnitsky are drawn into a whirlpool of political and secular intrigue, and this is not the only or even the greatest danger. Someone swore to kill them. And everyone like them. In addition, both in Berlin and St. Petersburg the conviction is growing that it is time to attack. The Polish army is preparing for the final confrontation, but the command understands that no strategy will defeat an enemy with a twenty-fold numerical superiority. Only time will tell who will die and who will survive...