While the world of mages is recovering from the disaster on Thanedd, and the kingdoms of men and elves are preparing to start a new war, the witch Geralt, barely recovered from his wounds in Brokilon, sets out to save Ciri. However, where can he find her if the Gull Tower has been destroyed to the ground, and in his dreams about his adopted daughter, the witch sees something completely different from what is said about her fate? Travelling in the company of the poet Lyubystok, the half-dryad Milva, the Nilfgardian Kagir, and the five-hundred-year-old vampire Regis, Geralt realises that he can no longer tolerate the rivers of blood that are spilling around him. Humans and elves are now more ferocious than the creatures he was trained to fight. It is no longer enough for the witch to undergo a baptism of fire and save only Ciri....