About the book: 2012 / It’s good to be a powerful, certified magician. Clothes, food, wine, furs... gold almost flows like a river. It's bad to be a graduate of the best shadow academy. To survive the final assignments, you need to have nine lives left, like a cat! Don’t believe me? But in vain. The inseparable five didn’t believe it either. And what happened in the end? They were either wet, dirty, almost took a bath in troll soup, or almost burned at the stake for insulting a shrine. Either they have to awaken the gods from artifacts, or sell them on slave markets... But all they wanted was a peaceful life. So they wove a Conspiracy on their own head. Now it would be better not to bring it to the end, but to stay alive ourselves. However, there are powerful allies, there are true friends. So the main thing is to step forward, and then everything will come naturally, you’ll see, it will work out!