Altruist – a compliment or a curse? It seems that helping your neighbor is right, but what to do if this neighbor stabs you in the back at the first opportunity? An attempt to help his classmate turned Vadim Voronin from a promising applicant into a persona non grata, forcing him to flee Russia. And attempts to prevent the murder of Japanese princesses only led to suspicions of organizing these very murders, threatening troubles on an interstate scale. Enraged golems, artificial elementals, the “iron maiden”, envious senior students, assassins, saving the Earth... But he just wanted to get a higher education .