Nikolai Drozdov, once in the star empire, seems to have settled down well thanks to his mental abilities and the discovered mothballed base of the long-disappeared Atlan civilization. However, these successes turned into serious problems: mentalists of this level are being hunted, everyone wants to use them to their advantage, and for the knowledge gained on the basis of a powerful civilization, he promised to revive the Atlan empire. Now it's time to fulfill the promise.