The world is great and dangerous: sky is patrolled by riders on enormous birds, the ground dragons, and four-footed people, are led in caves - зверуины - manage a justice on the earth. Who knows, that would become with a boy-slave, if once a reckless old man did not teach to his simple invocation: "Copper king, Copper king. Take, that is expensive me, give, that needs" me! But does a man know, that he needs actually? And what it is possible to endow for the sake of to the great aim?The action of new novel of Marina and Sergey Дяченко takes place in the world, described in a novel "Varan". "Copper king" is an epic saga, complete battles, wandering, and main - searches of sense of life.