About the book: 2003 / Who dared to call Darkness Evil and Light Good?! Who called black magicians adepts of Hatred, and light ones adepts of Love?! This is the story of black. Black, who gave his soul to Darkness in order to take revenge on the light ones - the killers of his father. He still has little power - only a magic rod and a sword... He still has few companions - only a gang of dashing mercenaries and a detachment of “living dead”... But he already has a GOAL. And this goal is to someday grapple on an equal footing with the God of Light himself!..