The Mountain Guard is the last stronghold of the Meehan Empire on its northern borders. Here, in the narrow valleys and abandoned villages, an ancient evil still lurks. But the guards don't save the world. They are simply doing their job: protecting civilians from wild nomads, from tribes that have fallen under the influence of wild magic, from the cults of bloodthirsty gods... And the Sixth Company has it harder than the others: time after time it finds itself in terrible, deadly situations - and for With all this, a certain ominous pattern begins to emerge...