For many hundreds of years, humanity has been fighting the Khemrids, the nightmarish creatures of the divine thousand-eyed snake that lives in the very heart of the planet. Only the church saves people from extermination. In return, the ruling Cardinals demand only unquestioning obedience. Ancient texts that question the structure of the world are destroyed, the recalcitrant rot in church cellars by the hundreds, those who are too submissive, on the contrary, become Saints and suffer martyrdom. From their bodies, the churchmen kindle a special flame — the Holy Fire, which the khemrids hate and fear. But the main weapon of the Church is the immortal Hunters, people able to fight the khemrids on equal terms.
A girl fleeing from the khemrids pursuing her loses the most precious thing in the fight; a self-propelled carriage powered by the power of the Holy Fire, a ridiculous old man who knows more than he says... The city destroyed by the invasion becomes a home and a battlefi...
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