Zoya, Tamar Kir-Bataar, and Tolya Yul-Bataar accompany the king. He hopes that doing so will allow him to complete a purification ritual and dispel the monster within him. When Yuri Vedenen, a follower of the Cult of the Starless Saint, asks Nikolai to name the Darkling a Saint, Nikolai decides to travel with Yuri to the Tula Valley, where the Shadow Fold once stood and where the Darkling died. Determined to prevent a war, Nikolai plans a lavish festival to bring everyone together and gather whatever information he can. Ravka's border countries, Shu Han and Fjerda, are both poised to attack the weakened nation. Things are difficult for Ravka, as their closest allies- Novyi Zem and Kerch-may soon go to war with each other, and Ravka must pick a side. However, with miracles appearing across Ravka and his country suffering after the war, Nikolai is determined to rule.
It is revealed on the way back to Os Alta that this monster is the king, Nikolai Lantsov, who has been transforming into this monster unwillingly in his sleep for the last six months and no one knows how to stop it. Zoya Nazyalensky saves a child, Dima, from a dangerous monster. But some secrets aren't meant to stay buried-and some wounds aren't meant to heal. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka's coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army. No one knows what he endured in his country's bloody civil war-and he intends to keep it that way.
Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible.
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