Drums are beating in the forests, heralding the advance of the trolls, villages and cities are burning in the imperial Borderlands. War is sweeping across the Ksargi Peninsula. Saving his comrades stranded on an island surrounded by enemies is no easy task for Sander, who only has a small squad of mercenaries under his command. Especially when a reward was announced for his head by the High Priest of the High Elves himself. But will the difficulties stop the master of shadow magic, which was once an ordinary earthling student Alexander Streltsov?