About the book: year / Several... hmm... heroes once again have the honor of defeating the immortal tyrant. Do they want to do this? Who cares? The game drives them forward - destroying the cities in which they lingered, setting off bandits and enemy bloodhounds, destroying those who lent them a helping hand. There is only one way to escape this pressure - by dying ingloriously. How many chances do blind puppies have to survive on the brutal battlefield, under the hooves of war horses, in the fires of captured cities? Not a single one... unless there is someone who can open their eyes. To be honest, is he a human being? The mysterious Gray Prince is by no means a product of the familiar world. The game gives Tactics pawns an ace in the hole - the ability to destroy the Strategist in hand-to-hand combat. But to play this card, the Squad must get close to its target. To the leader of huge armies and invincible fleets? The ruler of an empire surrounded by invincible bodyguards? An inhuman entity possessing powers beyond the understanding of even a mere mortal? Ha! It is impossible to cope with the Demiurge, who has dozens of Games and hundreds of millions of years of experience of the former humanity behind him. The microscopic Squad has only a small chance of slipping through all the barriers, but it is also illusory: the recklessly cheating Player has already dealt them a marked deck. Some miracles cannot happen even in a world where magic reigns. The squad is doomed to defeat. But the Player does not suspect that the current Game has a double bottom. And, perhaps, the current generations of the inhabitants of the planet are still destined to survive the Awakening of the Stars…