The Wretched World. Volume 2. Book 2

A world where everything is decided in advance. The merchant’s son will become a merchant, the garbage collector’s son—will become a garbage collector, and the senator’s son… you already know what comes next. The Empire sleeps on, sated and complacent, for a thousand and a half years, not seeing a real war. But this isn’t just a sound sleep—it’s paralysis, like a lethargy.

Now imagine a landfill. And on it— a boy. No name, no caste, not the slightest hope. “Hey, trash-boy!”—that’s all he’s ever heard from the world, a world that is about to tremble.

He was born amid trash—a powerless “trash-boy” with no lineage and no place. They expected him to dissolve into the dirt of the outskirts and vanish without leaving a trace. But fate—or someone’s malicious intent—decided otherwise. Taken into the hands of the Catchers of the Stalking Service, the homeless kid Ei-Bumba becomes a secret agent of the Empire and receives a new name: Attiy Buzma, heir to an ancient trading house.

Now his path leads where all routes end, and the cliffs guard memories of the Ancient sorcerers. Attiy won’t merely have to survive—he’ll have to choose: remain a piece on someone else’s board, or risk everything to break the course of history.. He will face true Evil. Or… see it in himself.

Even gods won’t save you here. Only the one who carries an infernal fire burns within him can help. Woe to anyone who stands in its way.

Want to know how to survive when the whole world is against you? Ask the one who was born in the dump.

A dynamic, harsh, and truly alive novel about how to become “one of your own” among strangers—and “a stranger” among your own.