Sergei has become a sworn enemy of the legionnaires and the hunters. Rewards for his head are promised—astronomical ones—and the blow can come from everywhere. His beloved girl has a new life where there is no place for him. The coordinators control every step. The system, at its own whim, both grants and cruelly punishes, and now anyone can challenge Nesterov to a duel—which is a risk of losing everything. Superiority hasn’t been reached yet, but stopping is like death, so only forward. And whatever happens—so be it.