Semyon, a young man who managed to finish both university and serve in the army, helped his friend clean up his new house—and afterward also wash down the event. But it turned out that while cleaning, Semyon saved from the fire an old folder of newspapers. One of them contained a strange advertisement offering to join the service of the Magic Palace. Drunk at the time, Semyon boldly reads the spell—but evidently he makes some mistake, and in front of him appears not the Magic Palace, but the Magic Thief—a magic medallion with exceptional intelligence created for one purpose only: to help people steal. And then events begin to unfold at a rapid pace: now our main hero—just Semyon, an unwilling thief—is already famous across the entire Disc as Simeon the Artful, the most famous thief.