Somewhere across the sea, the treacherous Romans are hiding the prince’s mother, and the traitor who sold her to them has disappeared without a trace. Vaclav, the Emperor's Dog, set off on his journey, who was given the task of punishing the scoundrel and kidnapping the Emperor's mother. Meanwhile, in the west, the young Burgundian king is holding back the full power of the Frankish kingdom. The Novgorod principality does not yet have the strength to resist the most terrible force in Europe. The prince’s labors were not in vain. People around him began to adopt what he was doing, and for the first time Samo was faced with a sophisticated cunning that was not inferior to his own. The enemy is preparing a strike where no one is waiting. The book partially overlaps in time and events with the previous volume!