For thousands of years, the brotherhood of Guardians has been protecting the Earth from external threats. Not aliens, but an Enemy so ancient and powerful that the front of this war stretches along the borders of the entire Universe... This novel is a concentrate of confrontations: individuals, society, entire worlds. A dramatic love story told by the Prince of Darkness himself.

—Have you ever thought that maybe creating a utopia, even a virtual one, is the main task of man? After all, since ancient times, humanity has positioned itself first as creatures of the earth, then as children of God, and now as gods themselves. That is, the creators of worlds. There is a kind of growth and cultivation of creative potential. Perhaps the creation of a full-fledged virtual world is the result of the self-realization of humanity as a species? What if our entire world is the same artificial reality of other beings - other us, divine and forgotten, exiled here to create new worlds? And we cannot build such a rocket to leave the Earth, because we have not yet created these worlds for ourselves? We have nowhere to fly! And the entire history of mankind - with the Inquisition, wars, prophets, football players, nuclear weapons, smartphones... - all this diversity is aimed at creating a virtual utopia. And when we create it, we will become different, forget ourselves in this new world and begin to create another.