The owners of the Bureau of Magical Services, Elena and Alec, go on vacation. Only a cultural and entertainment trip turns into a dangerous adventure. Within the walls of the ancient monastery, where the magicians came on an excursion, a powerful pagan artifact is kept, and its Guardian is the abbot of this monastery himself. And he will have to repeat the plot of old fairy tales, protect the artifact and defeat the enemy, who should not get the magic item. Alec and Elena need to save the abbot’s life, and at the same time help him return the artifact to those to whom it really belongs, that is, to the gods. Who will you have to meet face to face... This is the seventh part of the "Bureau of Magical Services" series; the novel was previously published by the Eksmo publishing house under the title "The Magus' Cup." Let me remind you that the events of the cycle take place at the very beginning of the 21st century, when the legacy of the “dashing nineties” has not yet been forgotten, because only in those years could the “Bureau” really exist...