Abstract: Daur Empire. A powerful state of magicians that has existed for many millennia. Growing up on the ruins of a once fallen country, it exists due to the power of its magicians and technomagic. There are few people here who do not possess the Gift. Few people realize their life without all the benefits that amulets and artifacts provide. But is everything as smooth as it might seem at first glance? Behind the mask of prosperity are hidden poverty and devastation in the outskirts and in remote places, lack of education in villages, banditry on the roads and constant squabbling between the old nobility and the military aristocrats who appeared several centuries ago - former smerds who acquired the Gift in the laboratories of magicians, superhuman strength, vitality and ... Something else that distinguishes them from people... And few people know that this world is living out its last centuries in its current form. The demons of the Lower Plane were able to weaken the local Gods and create their own cults, wanting to absorb this piece of reality. Only the intervention of Pervosil can stop this process. But do they need it? After all, for them this tiny plane is just a particle in the endless ocean of the universe. The first part of the Book Black Demon. The book has been edited and there will be no more changes in it. Many thanks for editing to Yu.A. Danilenko - my muse and inspiration!