A slave uprising breaks out on the southern borders of Meekhan; the humiliated and dispossessed want to take revenge on everyone and spare no one. Genno Laskolnik and his troops find themselves in the very heart of this war. What are they looking for among the rebels who have decided to throw off the centuries-old yoke? And thousands of miles away from the erupting massacre, in the north, a detachment of the Mountain Guard finds itself inside an ominous artifact that came from another era, the secrets of which have already ruined many lives. Meekhan is bleeding, and nothing can stop the flames consuming the empire. But people fighting each other will have to learn that their land, and they themselves, have become a battlefield for those who are more terrible and powerful than any person, those who have been waiting for a very long time for the opportunity to return. Go back and change everything. The destinies of the North, South, East and West are tightened in a tight knot, and it is no longer possible to predict who will die and who will survive in this battle.