An elf, a dwarf, an ogre and a full-time magician are the best sabotage group of the Tenth Shock Army under the command of the hand-to-hand combat master Danai Shelest. In various worlds of the Galaxy, they had to carry out the most difficult tasks on the orders of the Great Empire, which united many intelligent races within its borders. But the most difficult task for the Shelest five was to penetrate the enemy automated citadel in order to steal a magical artifact. That is, the operation itself was quite successful, but during the retreat, a group of saboteurs inexplicably found themselves in a bizarre world, in which to survive it is simply necessary to have large-caliber small arms. It seems that the magical artifact is not at all as simple as it seemed at first...