The threat of destruction hangs over the Sunset Abode, the last refuge of the witch family. The Sredinniki, a people capable of controlling time, are ready to wipe out the monastery and its inhabitants from the face of the earth. And all this because of the ancient prophecy about the connecting magician. But who is he, the one who is feared in the endless labyrinth of the Middle Worlds? Will he be able to resist enemies whose strategy is almost win-win - after all, the predictions of clairvoyants help them make their next moves in the great confrontation. How to change the destined course of events and avoid what was prepared? What to do, knowing that the termination of a kind of “chess” game means universal destruction? Ancient witchcraft books and the blood of misty dragons are the key to unraveling the prophecy about Binding Magic...