Glockt's mentor has a problem. How to protect a city surrounded by enemies and full of traitors, if the allies can not be trusted, and the predecessor disappeared without a trace? This is enough to torture the master wanted to escape - if he could only move without a cane Northerners poured across the border of Inglia and carry fire and death across the frozen country Crown Prince Ladislav intends to throw them away and win eternal glory There is only one problem: he commands the most poorly armed, poorly trained, and poorly managed army in the world. And Bayaz, the First of the Magi, leads a group of brave travelers on a dangerous mission through the ruins of the past. The most hated woman of the South, the most terrible man of the North and the most selfish guy of the Union make a strange alliance, but deadly. Perhaps they would even have a chance to save humanity from the eaters. If only they didn’t hate each other so much. Ancient secrets will be revealed . Bloody battles won and lost . The worst enemies will be forgiven, but not before they are hanged.