The enormous world is divided by an insurmountable wall of the Mid Ridge. The waters of the great oceans broke through it in only two places, but there is no sailor in the world who could guide his ships through them. And who would come up with such a crazy idea? The people of the North know well that beyond the mountains lies a scorching hell, where there is no life… And what kind of hell is without demons?
Leon appeared out of a pentagram inside a cell for such dangerous criminals that even talking to them is forbidden. Naturally, everyone considers him a demon, though he is an ordinary human being of flesh and blood and has never been beyond the Mid Ridge. Want it or not, Leon will now have to serve his master, who doesn’t believe in either hell or heaven—but knows well what secret the great Mid Ridge Mountains have been hiding since time immemorial…