Ligul knows how to take revenge for failures: Arey has been removed from managing the Russian department of the darkness and is on the run. He has one chance to survive now: find the Chaos map, stolen from Tartar’s office. If a swordsman gains even a small merit before the darkness, it won’t be so easy for Ligul to destroy him. But that isn’t Arey’s only problem. It turns out his daughter is alive—and no one knows what side she will choose: darkness or light.
The same choice confronts Mephodius. The General Guardian of Light Troil ordered him to erase his memory so that his eidos would be determined. And now Meph doesn’t remember either his love for Daf, nor his service to the darkness…