A magic knife that once belonged to a herald of death—a representative of a powerful clan of merciless killers—accidentally falls into the hands of Antip, a village boy from Belozemlye. This find fundamentally changes Antip's life. Facing imminent retribution, he is forced to set out wandering through the Boundless World, in the course of which he learns about the history of his planet, which has survived a terrible cataclysm caused by a breach of otherworldly reality. Antip communicates with the keepers of ancient secrets, gradually masters the combat magic of the terrible weapon that has come into his possession, and himself becomes its next victim…