A wild field. Land between Russia and the Crimean Khanate, ravaged for many years by raids until it was utterly devastated. On the border of these lands, the Batov brothers received plots of land and began to settle there. Gregory Batov runs the farm with his young wife, a former (or perhaps future) member of the Olympic archery team. And on the Khan’s lands appears a candidate of physical sciences, Alexander Terts—someone who hates his country so much that he is ready to sweep it off the face of the earth. He entered into trust with the Tatars, and with inhuman persistence began organizing raids on Russian lands, and also secured support through sorcery. But in the path of the raids lies the Batov homestead…