Hot on the trail of their erstwhile comrade Alexei, Stefan Kumansky finds his journey taking him slowly towards the Empire. But the mutating power of Chaos is an ever present danger and they find the landscape changing as they move ever closer. Stefan must find Alexei before his friend's soul is irrevocably lost to the Dark Powers. But when this mutating power seeps into the very soil of the land, how can they possible prevail?…