heavily and rose from behind his desk. When Bleist also wanted to get up, the old man just waved his hand for him to sit down.-Trouble has been piling up since Marshal Zilven left for Mortis to negotiate between Tsar Peter and King Tzeren.- The heavy sigh was an expression of torment.
Draco knew about the constant conflicts between Russia and Mortis, but there had been relative peace for thirteen years. Although, considering the constant skirmishes over disputed enclaves, it was hard to believe. The territories of the kingdoms of mages and non-humans were mostly based on these areas surrounded by natural magical barriers separating reality. The size of the enclaves could vary dramatically, from small ones that could fit at most a small house to those that contained vast tracts of land with mountain ranges, steppes, seas and dense forests. The entrances to these domains, hidden from non-magical beings, were varied and could number up to several dozen. Of course, in addition to the location itself, specific conditions often had to be met in order to enter. It was difficult to say how the enclaves were created, but the general theory was that it was the result of a taboo - the most important and indisputable law of the magical world, which applied to everyone involved in magic. The taboo was a single rule, a prohibition on revealing magic to non-magical beings. It was a law established by the gods at the dawn of time. However, the fact that the greatest ancient magical structures were built outside the enclaves seemed to contradict this. Especially since the five great kingdoms of magicians were founded in a non-magical world. Atlantis, Azgard, Mortis, the Black Citadel, and Arayse were the five capitals and pillars of vast empires. At least until a certain point in history. Around the first century BC, Arayse disappeared. Literally. Overnight, the colossal metropolis mysteriously vanished into the sands of the Sahara, along with hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants. Even stranger was that in the enclaves belonging to the Kingdom of the Flowing Sands, the Sheheds, a native
