Alternate Earth. When trying to create an absolute weapon, the magicians of a research base lost in Siberia, experimenting with the school of Space, punch a Wormhole into another Universe. After two decades, the drift of physical and magical constants stops the Invasion that has begun, but an area with a radius of one hundred sixteen kilometers becomes an outpost of another world for many years. With mutated flora and fauna, which, among other things, is regularly visited by living creatures and, most importantly, intelligent inhabitants of the Other Side, slightly more developed than earthlings. But the magic-technological breakthrough of the two Empires, made at the expense of trophies obtained from the bodies of the Korkhs, arouses the envy of all other earthlings. And their attempt to “establish relations with representatives of another universe” leads to disaster: a sharp increase in the density of someone else’s magophone, and with it the diameter of the Crimson Zone. And then humanity finds itself faced with the eternal questions: “What to do?” and “Who is to blame?”...