If you are the granddaughter of a St. Petersburg witch and you celebrate your sixteenth birthday in the ward of the terminally ill, then your only option is to become a witch too. Zhenya Bergson will have to enter into battle with werewolves and sorcerers, get to the magical looking-glass Petersburg and go further, into the depths of the wondrous planet. If you are the son of the owner of ancient Taurida, the Emperor of the Golden Horn desires your death and the leader of the Goths, Elder Germanarix, then your solution is to go down to the underbelly of the universe in search of the Scroll of the Damned. But whoever reads the Scroll, according to legend, will once again start the clock of progress in a dying world. Our heroes will inevitably collide. And only a miracle, a mutual timid feeling will save them from mutual murder. Now they have to figure out what came first - the game or the whole planet. And who is the developer of this beautiful but devilishly dangerous world?