Niian had great difficulty identifying the method used by Morok to parasite his powers. He had never encountered such an intrusion. He could only see the result: his ability to manipulate the dead now served the cause of his enemy. On Earth, corpses rose, and you didn’t have to be a genius to guess their main activity. For the moment, the extent of this manifestation remained limited—after all, even he noted the decline of his power—but soon, combined with Morok’s, they risked spreading at great speed. And what saddened Niian all the more was a certainty that the starting point chosen by this crazy boy was in Russia. In Siberia, to suppress Darya, the only one capable of opposing his mysterious plans—he didn’t understand anything about them, either. Except that there would be many victims,
