Service at the border is rarely a quiet affair. Especially when a civil war has been raging in neighboring China for several years now, to which two foreign invasions have recently been added. Third-rank battle mage Oleg Korobeinikov would never have ventured into such a boiling cauldron of his own free will. He lived very well in his own house, almost like in his own apartment, left in another world! However, circumstances, which are mixed with the interests of high authorities, often turn out to be stronger than people’s desires. And even though peace officially reigns, the Russian expeditionary force still goes on a military campaign!