The tyrant sorcerer Azarvil is destroyed, and now a hunt is on for his inheritance and for his former associates. Let it happen—after all, evil must be wiped out at its root, right? A month ago, Larisa Vetlitskaya, an ordinary student at a Moscow university, would have answered “yes” to that question. But now, for some reason, everyone around her considers her evil. What can she do? The choice is small: hide and live in fear, or accept a rather peculiar offer from a fallen dark magician.