Ligul knows how to take revenge for failures - Arey is removed from the management of the Russian department of darkness and is on the run. He now has one chance to survive: to find the Chaos map stolen from Tartarus’s office. If the swordsman has even a small merit in front of the darkness, it will not be easy for Ligul to destroy him. But this is not Ares's only problem. It turns out that his daughter is alive, and no one knows which side she will choose - darkness or light. Methodius faces the same choice. The general guardian of light, Troil, ordered his memory to be erased so that his eidos would be determined. And now Meph does not remember either his love for Daph or his service to darkness...