When Field Marshal Tamas overthrew the monarch in the kingdom of Ardo, the rotten nobility went to the scaffold, and the starving people got bread. But soon wars broke out between the countries of the Nine Earths, royalist fanatics rebelled, and the church, workers' unions and mercenary armies - all those on whom the conspirators were counting - refused to help. And in addition, rumors spread throughout the kingdom about ominous omens: supposedly formidable ancient gods would soon wake up and come to earth. Of course, educated modern people do not believe in stupid peasant legends, but what if there is no smoke without fire? Tamas entrusts his son Taniel, a gunpowder magician and the best shooter in the country, to solve this mystery. And to help him he gives the former inspector of the metropolitan police Adamant, not suspecting that this man is being blackmailed by the enemies of the field marshal.