Everything was going well for a magician named Svent. In the kingdom of Baal where he lived, there was no shortage of work for wizards—and they were paid in full weight coins. So what, exactly, was required of a magician? Drive away the dragon that was destroying cows in a peasant village, or keep out robbers from the estate of some landowner—an easy job for our hero…
But it happened that one fine moment he took part in a ritual that brought an ancient evil back to life. And soon it became clear that it was precisely Svent who determined the fate of the whole kingdom.