The magician's path passes through the very heart of Darkness, but even the most sophisticated adept of darkness will curse the hour when his path crosses the path along which Hunter, a hunter of hellish creatures, walks. For Hunter knows the laws of sword and sorcery, ritual knives and threads of fate - and knows neither fear nor the desire to retreat. However, Evil is also strong, it changes shapes, like clothes, sneaks in the night, waits in the wings, and there will be no end to this eternal war as long as there is Light and Darkness on earth...Hunter was right. The black magicians send a gray magician, a professional killer, in his wake. And again Lysandra is involved in what is happening, trying to implement her plans. The gray magician and the vampire appear almost simultaneously in the city where Hunter lives. As a result of further developments, Hunter learns that, it turns out, somewhere far away there is a valley in which some inhuman creatures are preparing new black magicians.