Dead games are getting closer, attempts to kill are becoming more sophisticated, and more and more secrets of one’s own blood are being revealed... Ria Caro never expected that the blood of the dark ones would awaken in the rector of Nekros, Lord Gaer-ash, but an even bigger surprise was that the attempt To cope with burnout, she turned a young necromancer-artifactor into a death mage. One of those who is capable of destroying the apostates. And those who are sentenced to death on the territory of the Fourth Kingdom. But Riya will still not give up participating in the Dead Games, even if she has to challenge the invincible Gaer-ash. And ahead is a fierce battle between the heirs of the two kingdoms with Riallin as a prize and a truly brutal battle with those on whose path she was unlucky to find herself.