If you are a talented hacker, know that one day the Others will notice you. Maybe they will even hire you and you will become an Initiate. The purpose of this work? Hacking the Machine! The thing that controls parallel worlds, builds the Big Metro and sends Guardians there. Which can do everything! Do you think it's that easy to deal with? Who said that this ancient Aggregate is an obedient magic wand? No! Everything is much more complicated than in fairy tales. This is a mysterious, technological reality. Strength and cunning will not help here... However, there is a way out - in collaboration with a fugitive hacker named Tungus. Oh, this man is up to something! Something that is better not to be told in fairy tales, but is worth trying to convey with a pen. The reader is presented with the background to the events described in the novels “Massandragora” and “Massandragora. Call of the Rat King"; acquaintance of Solomon and Tungus. First successes and... not the last secrets.