A bright flash in the sky, then an all-destroying hurricane, and Kishen-grad was wiped off the face of the earth. And on the Ash Island, the mysterious Funeral Tent of the Dead God appeared. It is here that the journalist Gleb Orlov, better known in Ancient Rus' as Gleb the First Walker (who invented vodka), makes his way through the Perishing Thicket, abandoned to the distant past. The army of a sorcerer entrenched on the island stands in the way of his small detachment. Elder Osmiy, an old acquaintance of Gleb, gained here power over the life and death of humanity. There are only three days left until the final death of the familiar world...