On the southern borders of Meekhan, a slave uprising breaks out— the humiliated and deprived want revenge on everyone and spare no one. Genno Lasкольnik and his troops find themselves right in the heart of this war. What are they looking for among the rebels who decided to throw off the age-old yoke?
And thousands of miles away from the outbreak of slaughter, in the north, a detachment of the Mountain Guard is inside a sinister artifact that came from another era, whose secrets have already taken many lives. Meekhan is bleeding, and nothing can stop the flame consuming the empire.
But people fighting each other will have to learn that their land—and even they themselves—have become a battlefield for those who are more terrible and powerful than any human, those who have waited for a very long time for the chance to return. To return and change everything.