Centuries ago, on a tormented planet, peoples entered into a Vowed Truce to end wars once and for all. They entrusted their interests to highly professional fighters, the grivard knights, to defend their interests in hand-to-hand combat. One of these famous knights was Murray Pearson. He was until the moment when he lost the battle on which the further fate of his homeland depended. Now he is just a Citadel scout, a hunter of potential champions. In the dark slums of the Underdark, a young street kid named Sego fights in the arena. Murray believes that this teenager is worthy of admission to the Lyceum, a prestigious institution where the best martial artists train grivars for future exploits. But the problem is that Sego is a slave, and the price of his freedom is victory in fierce battles, from which it is not easy to come out alive. For the first time in Russian!