The second book is about the Arvars - the northern peoples that the Roman Empire could not cope with, suffering defeat after defeat from them. Nearby, Romea formed a new powerful state of the descendants of the army of Alexander the Great - Artavan. Their priests claim that somewhere in the world there is a living God, Ara Dagdar Urbad - an immortal who can give them the truth. The Artavan princess Avezdra discovered him in Romea in the form of a giant slave who had been working in the quarry for more than two hundred years. The princess buys the slave for fabulous money and gives him the main relic of her people, “Astra”. But the giant refuses the title of God, claiming that he is just an Arvar from the Rus clan. Meanwhile, in the lands of the Rus themselves there is a change of religion and a coup d'état. In this book, Sergei Alekseev continues to artistically rework the events of early European history, giving them the correct meaning.