The race of magicians that existed in ancient times was completely destroyed by their own creations. The last of the cursed line were pursued across many worlds, captured one after another. The goal of the centuries-old war was achieved. Almost. One of the last surviving magicians scattered his genetic code among the inhabitants of the Earth in the hope that someday, in the distant future, his race would be reborn. He turned out to be right... and, at the same time, cruelly mistaken. The hunt has not stopped, the killers have not left the Earth alone, they continue to hunt down and destroy everyone in whom ancient genes are sufficiently manifested. The trouble is that the killers can at any moment decide to eliminate the entire genome at once - that is, destroy the population Earth.