About the book: 2008 / An ordinary world, an ordinary kingdom... Nobles and peasants, merchants and scientists, explorers of new territories and poets have been living relatively peacefully for many centuries. But in the adjacent reality there is a world full of Nothingness that wants to become Something. And through the emerging “punctures” in reality, more and more new creatures penetrate into Verdland. A small group of magicians protects ordinary people, coping with dangers to the best of their ability. No one knows where the magicians in Verdland came from, but since ancient times they - sometimes openly, sometimes secretly - have been involved in the destinies of both the country and its rulers, and ordinary, insignificant ones. people's first glance. This is what a young man named Griner considered himself to be, until he asked to become an apprentice to an eccentric woman who was staying at a tavern where he was just a servant. He will learn a lot of interesting things about magicians, the true history of the kingdom and, most importantly, about his destiny..