In a shabby antique shop in rainy London, ancient book restorer Elias Thorne suffers from the "gift of hearing" - for him, the world is a hell of noise with no peace. A restoration of the mysterious ancient book "The List of Remains of the Gods" dragged him into an abyss of eternal destruction. The moment his fingertips touched, he tore the seal and released the first name: **Astaroth** - The destructive torrent of music instantly destroyed his hearing, leaving only an eternal hum and a cold contract announcement: "The price has been paid, the contract has been completed... There are two hundred and ninety-nine left."
On the verge of death, a second name lured him into the abyss with the "ding" of the dead soul: **Charon, the Ferryman of the Styx**. An Opoles silver coin stained with the breath of the dead became his payment, and it also became a poisonous ivy that sucked up life. He was forced to pay for the life of a living person in exchange for the forbidden rights to glimpse the souls of the dead and pass through the realm of death. The price was that his body slid irreversibly into the ashes of death.
Captured by the mysterious organization "Raven" during his escape, Elias was forced to face the nature of his "key" - his twisted hearing talent was the medium that resonated fatally with the names of the remains of the gods. Deep in the "lair" of Raven's cold steel fortress, on the cruel experimental platform of the liquid metal wise man code-named "Hammer of Daedalus", he was forced to touch the directory again at the cost of his nerves that were on the verge of collapse. This time, he caught the cunning phantom
