WAR is brewing in the Underworld. The empire is in turmoil, and nomad groups are increasingly appearing on the borders. Nomads equipped with automatic weapons. On the instructions of the League of Masters, a new magical union, Ordyntsev-Swordbearer will have to come face to face with the Wolf - the head of the formidable Gray Brotherhood, the creator of a mysterious nomadic empire. You are about to find out that all the wars and turmoil of the Underworld are just part of a secret project developed by the Institute. And he, Mikhail Ordyntsev, without knowing it, is participating in the implementation of this project. Perhaps it is there, in the Western steppe, that Ordyntsev is destined to find the key to his own past - and to the future of the world...