Everyone who finds himself in a City full of secrets and mysteries, where magic exists and evil incarnate, has his own task and his own path. Alex also has to go through his own path, full of adventures and dangers. But what awaits the tracer at the end of his search? Yes, he is a path blazer. Yes, there are legends about him in the City that he will save them all. But is this so...? And here you are in the City, where instead of a ceremonial meeting, they immediately try to eat you, tear you apart, or even worse. But this won’t scare Alex. But when it started, go there, I don’t know where, find something I don’t know what... And even an incomprehensible mysterious relative, because of whom you developed strange abilities to control dark artifacts... (This cycle of stories, now combined into one novel, was written around the world game “Hidden City” for the competition organized by AB GAMES “City of Shadows: become a game scriptwriter!” - took second place in the competition).