Ugrumyi is an unlucky-in-looks, but experienced stalker—yet people around him don’t take him seriously. He doesn’t go looking for trouble, sells mediocre artifacts for a mediocre price, doesn’t get into conflicts, and neither lends nor borrows money. The only friend Ugrumyi has is the cheerful, high-spirited stalker Munlayt—a madcap joker and prankster. And this strange duo agrees to take a job from a strange young guy who offers any money to those who will escort him through the heart of the Zone—to the Monolith…
Ugrumyi doesn’t believe that the Monolith exists. Munlayt, meanwhile, doesn’t care at all where in the Zone to risk his own skin. But money is money, and a job is a job—so they set off toward the fourth power unit, shrouded in terrible and unbelievable legends…