The turning point in the political situation between the Elirov Empire and the Shaterian Caliphate has arrived. War has begun. And the yesterday’s first-year mage students have to go to the fort on the border of the two states to perform military service—if we’re honest, in a very uncertain capacity, since only two out of the famous five have kept their abilities in the Craft.
Zakeri Nikers has mastered an artifact capable of raising legions of dead—yet it turns out that for everything you have to pay, including for the power he unexpectedly gained. And ahead of him are Dangerous Cursed Lands inhabited by creatures mutated by constant magical influence, searches for the mysterious Temple of the Keepers, and participation in the confrontation of two Great Houses that are striving to seize the imperial throne.