About the book: 2008 / All geniuses are a little crazy. What if such a madman turns out to be a powerful dark magician? Any world for him is just a chessboard. And the figures on it are magicians of the light and dark monasteries. Playing out his sophisticated games, he is preparing to start a war in which not only magicians die, but entire worlds are destroyed. But will the dark genius be able to predict the emergence of unforeseen figures who are able to resist him and destroy all his plans? What if the impossible happens and a friendship develops between the head of a squad of light magicians and a mysterious exile from the dark monastery? What if a light magician refuses to fulfill the mission entrusted to him? What if the dark magician turns out to be capable of good deeds? But the mad genius is cunning, and in the sleeve of his robe lies a dark horse, ready to make the last fatal move…