One hundred years have passed since the events described in «Сквозной прыжок» (“Through the Leap”). The only surviving Great Mage learns that the world he lives in is an artificial reality. His goal becomes to leave it, even at the cost of destroying the planet. To do so, he must gather new allies: a historian who has quarreled with the leadership of his institute; a talented engineer whom the secret government of his country uses to achieve its own ends; a reconnaissance agent trying to protect his country from a full-scale war; and a rough high-level bureaucrat whose attempts to save her country’s power grid fail due to the actions of an enemy spy.