The life of Kai Ostrozhsky is cut short... By the will of the chthonic deity, without explanation, preventing him from looking into the lilac eyes of the girl-story. I would also like to know for what reason this boring life was redeemed, giving in payment the life of the last knight of the Order of the Golden Ladder, the great Lightwalker and Grandmaster of Gardarinia... How many secrets did you keep, boring old man? What kind of World was hiding behind the back of a modest Catholic priest? But the boredom was over, and real life, it seemed, had just begun. In the hero’s clenched palm is a plate of heavenly iron. There is a bear paw print on the shoulder. In my head now and forever is the Path, words are burning in the sky. They have seven companions, among them your “Unexpected Enemy.” If you fail, “Sacrifice,” you will put to death your only loved ones. Before you, reader, is one fourth of a cycle about the adventures of a young magician. Is one fourth a lot or a little? If this is an element of the mysterious Magna Quart, or a year of study at the Academy of Magic, or a step up the Golden Staircase, then infinitely many.