Hard times have come for the Misty Kingdom and its queen. Her husband is on his deathbed, and the king's brother aims to take the throne from her young son. But the most severe blow for the queen is the transformation that happened to her daughter. On a stormy autumn night before the death of the king, accidentally looking out of her bedroom window, the queen sees a girl crawling like a spider along the sheer wall of the castle. The queen will never forget the night when she realized that her daughter had become like the monster of the Black Forest. Has the girl really been overtaken by the steppe curse, a strange disease that either kills the sick person or gives him frightening abilities? What if the disease is carried by those who hate monsters the most—the priests of eternity? So one night, looking out of the castle window, the queen witnessed a secret battle. Her small world, lost between the Wild Mountains and a huge river, turned out to be the arena of the struggle between two magics, dead and living. An arena of battle that never ends...