The final book of the series. The decisive battle for the Moroka Gorge, the key to the worlds of Outland, is approaching. Who will win - Ordyntsev? Wolf? Or a mysterious and ruthless Third Force, seeking to use both to its advantage? After all, what is important to this Power is the conflict itself, and not its outcome... Busy with global problems, Ordyntsev understands that there is less and less humanity left in him. But he will have to go through this path to the end, losing friends, accepting help from those whom he considered mortal enemies - and come face to face with the mysterious “puppeteers” from the Institute, trying to influence the fate of the inhabited worlds... The interweaving of sophisticated magic and high technology, Gothic legends and the tough game of competing intelligence services - all this in the new novel of the “institutional” series.