Alexia grew up in the orphanage “Cradle of the Damned” since childhood, but not by her own will. A witch guarded the child from a terrible death. The Lord of Demons himself announced a hunt for the last bright creature in the empire. The jackals roamed the imperial lands searching for a surviving representative of an ancient race of mages. A special scent of enge led them, but the witch reliably hid it, wrapping Alexia in a stench of potions being boiled in the Cradle cauldrons. But life locked up in confinement became so unbearable for the girl that she escaped the orphanage to taste even a little freedom. When she returned, the Supreme Demon knocked at the gates. The cruelest, soulless, merciless servant of the Lord…