About the book: 2021 / Ancient Rus'...The time when the epic heroes, defending the capital Kyiv city, fought to the death with the hordes of the Pechenegs. The time when the Magi, the servants of the old the gods, set the evil spirits that lived in the cursed thicket, nicknamed Black Pain, against the heroic outposts, and the Alatyr-stone, lost in the forests, fulfilled the wishes of those who managed to reach it alive... True, only one warrior reached it - the peasant son Ilya Muromets. And now Sniper, whom fate threw ten centuries ago, needs to repeat the feat of the legendary hero, passing through a terrible place that a thousand years later people will call the Chernobyl zone…