Retired lieutenant Ray Saleh leaves the army, leaving his left leg, hair, a couple of square meters of skin and a gentle character on the battlefields. Now let him lie towards a peaceful life, to study as a wizard. On the way he meets a very sad and very drunk man young aristocrat, Richard Greenriver. Later it turns out that Richard is also a future wizard, and he also has a simply magical ability to ruin relationships with people. It would seem, well, which of them are heroes? An evil, arrogant and arrogant aristocrat with a god complex, and a cruel thug, devoid of all empathy, who is sure that violence is the pinnacle of pedagogical art. But the money and connections of the father of the younger Greenriver easily open the way to any, the most sophisticated troubles, and the short postscript SMDG (death to the horizon) in the personal file of a disabled person easily attracts the attention of the powers that be. Still thinking which of these two are the heroes? Ask anyone, and everyone will answer you: * brave.