Wherever they appear, hoping for a quiet refuge, war eventually arrives there—and it doesn’t matter which reality Novikov, Levashov, Shulgin, and their comrades from the “Andreev Brotherhood” find themselves in this time. Is it a terrible pattern, a cruel fate, or hypothetical World Holders deciding again and again to test them for strength or to reveal the infamous limit of their capabilities? This time, a kaleidoscope of worlds and times carries the friends from the battlefield-stricken Transvaal to Valhalla, which instantly turned into a “field of slaughter,” forcing them at last to make a decision about the final and decisive battle against the duggurs, whose invasion threatens the very existence of humankind. But not everything is so simple and unambiguous, and victory in the battle doesn’t always mean that the war has been won…