Il racconto del Carogna

Carogna regains his freedom after a period spent in the imperial prison of Deimo for some crimes committed after the dissolution of the Greevo Senzanima company. Knowing his past as a mercenary, the prison superintendent suggests that he join a new company that is waiting for the new captain in the nearby village. The man then decides to implement a Machiavellian plan: with the complicity of two thugs met in an inn, Carogna ambushes the officer of fortune who manages to get rid of the others but is finally killed by him.

Arrived at the camp of the mercenary company, he passes himself off as the new captain, succeeding with his gab and his experience in gaining their trust by renaming it "The lucky ones of Carogna". In his new position he meets Aura who has arrived as the company's new military magician, the only one who discovers the truth about him but which he keeps hidden in exchange for his anonymity.