The Slavic principality grows by gaining new lands and people. Masters and scholars gather in Novgorod to live a new life. Cities are built, a trading route to Constantinople is opened, and the threat of Avar raids disappears. A complex reconnaissance operation of the young principality to place its agent into the thick of world politics succeeds. Kind-hearted Deaty, a warrior of the Secret Office, becomes King of Burgundy. Will he be able to hold onto the throne? After all, he has so many enemies…