Garrad graduated from the School of Magical Engineering far from brilliantly, so he could not apply for a prestigious and highly paid position. He didn’t have a particular choice of place to work, and the guy got a job repairing old artifacts in the same old royal palace, where the former monarch lived out his life, who in his declining years passed on power to his son. So the magician-designer would have lived and lived, repairing various gizmos and sending money home, to his mother and younger sister, if the apprentice Arimil had not once invited him to go down to the dungeons of the palace. And something began that Garrad could not have dreamed of in any dream. One could forget about a measured and calm life. And if you become the object of close attention from the secret services, you need to keep your eyes open, do not forget what you were taught, and acquire new skills. Otherwise it will be very difficult...