On the southern borders of Meekhan, a revolt of slaves breaks out, the humiliated and destitute want revenge on everyone and do not spare anyone. Genno Laskolnik and his troops find themselves at the heart of this war. What are they looking for among the rioters who decided to throw off the age-old yoke? And thousands of miles from the flaring massacre, in the north, a detachment of the Mountain Guard finds itself inside a sinister artifact that came from another era, the secrets of which have already ruined many lives. Meekhan bleeds and nothing can stop the flames devouring the empire. But people fighting each other will have to find out that their land, and they themselves, have become the battlefield of those who are worse and more powerful than any person, those who have been waiting for a very long time to return. Go back and change everything.