About the book: 2008 / In the world of Fayeran, there are many types of magic - from forbidden, necromantic, to elite, combat. But a special place here is occupied by empathic magic - the kind that They train only students of the mysterious Academy of Bards, boys and girls who have the gift of controlling human emotions. And now Julien Petit, one of the students of the Academy of Bards, faces his first task in the outside world - the investigation of a massacre in a distant border town, committed in an apparently magical way. Who and why did he end hundreds of innocent lives? What magic did the killer use? And how to stop him? This is what Julien and his comrades on a deadly campaign - a battle mage, a powerful blacksmith, a mysterious elf, a beautiful witch and a wise dragon - have to understand…