Semyon, a young man who had already finished university and served in the army, was helping his friend clean up his new house and then celebrating the occasion afterward. But it so happened that during the clean-up he rescued a folder of old newspapers from a fire. In one of them he came across a strange advertisement in which the "advertiser" offered employment at the Magic Court. Semyon, already drunk by this point, boldly reads out the spell, but apparently makes a mistake somewhere, and before him stands not the Magic Court but a Magic Thief โ a magical medallion of remarkable intelligence, created for one purpose alone: to help its owner steal. From that point events begin to unfold rapidly, and our hero, who was just a moment ago Semyon the reluctant thief, is already celebrated across the entire Universal Disc as Simeon the Artful, the most famous thief of all.