Surviving the massacre arranged by the “Gardeners” during the graduation tests, Anton takes back his surname Bazhov. Moscow learns about the revival of the “Green-Eyed Beasts” clan, but its only representative isn’t for political games. Not only did the ritual combine his two source cores into a new element—“liquid flame”—but they also shoved him into a team of the same “generation geniuses.” And as mentors they assigned a person who promised to drive them to death, yet make them the best of the best across the whole polity.