In the world of Fayeran, there are many types of magic - from forbidden, necromantic, to elite, combat. But a special place here is occupied by empathic magic - that which is taught only to students of the mysterious Academy of Bards, boys and girls who have the gift of controlling human emotions. And Now Julien Petit, one of the students at the Academy of Bards, faces his first task in the outside world - the investigation of a mass murder in a distant border town, committed in an apparently magical way. Who cut off hundreds of innocent lives and why? What magic did the killer use? And how to stop him? This is yet to come understand Julien and his comrades on a deadly campaign - a battle mage, a powerful blacksmith, a mysterious elf, a beautiful witch and a wise dragon...