The wise interpret that the Ice Goddess herself has been the patron of rival orders of mercenary bodyguards and mercenary killers for centuries. And before her eyes, bodyguards and assassins who have completed their training undergo a test - a fight for the life of the first employer. If the killer wins, the unlucky bodyguard will go to the Ice Goddess's court. If the bodyguard wins, the same fate will befall the killer. However, what should we do with the warrior Mark, who failed to protect his employer, but managed to destroy his destroyer? The Council of Elders decided that his fate must be decided by herself Goddess. And Mark sets off, marked by the gods and eternally driven by the merciless shadow of the damned, on a long, dangerous path to the Ice Temple - either for mercy or for destruction...