Red Rock has a new owner. It is now clear that the Twelfth Tower has become a place of attraction for various forces for a reason. But who is this man in black who helped the recruits from the Thirteenth Division and is now heading north? And why did it happen that, besides him, the rest of the characters in the play, which has yet to be played on the very border of the White Desert, flock there? Mikhail's detachment, the Thirteenth, the unknown in black and others - they will still collide at a single point. In the meantime, let's watch the long road to the North, through the twelve watchtowers of the Empire in the third book of the Hunters series.