Humanity has entered into long-awaited contact with the Higher Mind. Not without the help of a highly developed pan-galactic society, it has gone beyond the solar system and is beginning to explore the planets. The Earth Alliance, a military-political organization of people that appeared immediately after the first contact, strives to take its rightful place among the other star factions. The aggressively hypocritical policies of people cause bewilderment and anger among the galaxies. Some races openly ignore the Alliance, considering it a bunch of barbarians, while others admire their desperate courage and determination in achieving their goals. To prove that people can become useful allies, the Alliance is seeking to enroll human quantifiers - Dmitry Aleshin - into the recruits. Quantifiers - upon completion of their studies, combine the positions of law enforcement officers, judges and secret agents in one person. Endowed with extraordinary powers, they are invested with the highest confidence of the entire stellar community. But before you become a quantifier, you need to go through many difficult tests. The isolated planet Chloria, where barbarism and bloody Dedric sacrifices are combined with high technology, becomes a serious obstacle to the desired goal. Meanwhile, the forces that almost destroyed the Earth are preparing to finish what they started, believing that it is people who can become an obstacle to Galactic dominion in the future. The situation is complicated by vital information from an ancient dedrov relay that ended up in Dmitry Aleshin’s possession. This information is so important that a hunt begins for him, which will certainly end in death. But who? The man or his pursuers?