Disaster has struck the cities of the Five Duchies...Fire dragons are burning them out one by one for no apparent reason. The population is terrified. Warriors and combat alchemists turned out to be powerless - neither weapons nor magic can take the dragons. It turned out that for some reason the dragons avoided the three cities. Alchemist Walter sets off on a dangerous journey to find out the reason for such “lack of attention” to these cities on the part of fire-breathing monsters. Meanwhile, his younger brother Greg finds young Aliche in the ruins - the only one of the town’s residents who survived the raid...