A terrible war, in which the forces of Darkness and the forces of Light simultaneously oppose the necromancer, begins. Under the walls of the Black Tower, father-executor Etlau brings thousands of warriors, whose death should be the last straw on the scales of Good and Evil and allow the Destroyer to incarnate. However, events take an unexpected turn. Fess, not wanting to play the role assigned to him by Western Darkness, breaks out of the encirclement, and not at all at the cost that was prescribed. Where will the road lead him now? Who will stand with him shoulder to shoulder in the name of protecting Evial and all that is Ordered?