2007. A special detachment to combat paranormal phenomena called Jericho goes to the ancient city El Hali, where a strange anomaly was recorded. But for the old order of military magicians, who has been guarded by humanity for centuries, such phenomena were not in a novelty. All their lives they devoted to the struggle with evil, which sought to break into our world through spatial faults. This Evil it was much more ancient than the whole human race, and, if you allow it to break through, everything will come to the end. Jericho was the only force that could prevent it. Members of this unit are specialists of combat occult operations. All of them have supernatural abilities, without which their struggle would not be successful.
Captain Devin Ross – The commander of the detachment Jericho, was a veteran of the Afghan war. While at a hot point, he accidentally discovered the mystical power of healing, and soon the command sent him to the special train. In addition to his leadership qualities, he has a very sharp instinct: Ross easily recognizes the emotions and mood of each of the detachment members and is able to instantly make decisions in non -standard situations.
Father Paul Rowlings – Capellan in the detachment of Jericho. Being a priest, he went through three Vietnamese wars, which did not end with anything good for him. The war shaved not only his political views, but also religious. Having left the army, he began to travel around the world as a missionary, but he did not carry the Word of God, but met representatives of various religions, combining their beliefs into a single system. Rowlings’s life credo: “When your ass is in danger, let it cover it as many gods as possible”. In the detachment, Paul, like Devin, played the role of a physician, and in addition, he was an experienced exorcist.
Abigail "Abby" Black – Sniper. She survived a difficult childhood in which she was constantly subjected to beatings of a drunken father. During them, her telekinetic abilities began to manifest itself, and when his father came to his head that his daughter was obsessed with the devil, he tried to expel him with the help of an iron, which awarded Abby with a scar for his life, and he became a victim of paralysis. Having joined the army, Black proved itself as an excellent shooter, but soon the command began to suspect its hidden nature and sent to Jericho.
Frank Delgado – machine gunner Pyromancer. Half an Indian, he still in his youth sought to know the secrets of his people. Thanks to the knowledge of shamans and alchemy, he learned to call the fiery demon, and for a long time traveled around the world in search of knowledge that would help him take this essence under his control. He received the money necessary for traveling from drug trafficking, which was the reason for his death sentence in one day. However, at the last moment, the military-cultural department (water) saved him from the execution and, in exchange for life, invited him to join Jericho.
Wilhelmin "Billy" – The magician of blood. The sectarians brought up in the family, Billy once divided with her parents, who encouraged miracles that she did with her blood. So the hell received a severe psychological trauma. When the waters found out about her, Rowlings took her under his guardianship, who helped the girl recover, did not let her send her to the psychiatric hospital, and taught him to use supernatural abilities. Nobody still unable to explain the nature of Bill’s forces.
Simone Cole – The cracker. Born with an autistic disorder, she focused on the study of the exact sciences of her attention. Having received an excellent technological education, she entered the service in the National Security Agency. At the site of her work, spatio-temporal anomalies began to occur, which could not be noticed by the Military-cultural department. Cuol is the only one in Jericho, whose skills do not come from supernatural, but from her own intelligence. She can hack reality and change it depending on the needs of the detachment.
Javier Jones – Seer. Traveling around the world with parents of anthropologists in childhood, he learned a lot of cultures and languages, and one Australian sage discovered a gift of providence and the ability to create his astral projection. Later, Jones was engaged in vibrating and fortune telling, and then he entered the service in intelligence, where he could distinguish and attract his unusual, but effective approaches to the attention of water. So Jones got into Jericho. He can see scraps of the past and future, and also has a sharp instinct of abnormal activity, which makes it an indispensable member of the detachment.
These 7 people – 7 nameless guards of the world of people that no one will ever know about – and made up the combat group of Jericho.
The international terrorist was somehow connected with the anomaly of El Hali Arnold Lich, Former special services agent, and in the present – the head of a sect called the Brotherhood of the Dark Dawn. According to local intelligence, on a research center located in the dead city, the fraternity was attacked. Jericho’s task: get to the center and neutralize the enemy.
The detachment passes through underground structures on the outskirts of El Hali, over which a sandstone was raging, but getting to the surface on the other side, the team did not see a storm or any signs of life. Even the sun disappeared from the sky, and the smell of death hung in the air. However, soon several strange creatures arose in the way of seven, only reminiscent of people. Dead people. Ross tried to make contact with them, but the creatures attacked the detachment and the pigs stuffed died out completely. The detachment is divided into two groups.
Another creature is on the way to Ross, but it differed from those mutilated walking corpses with huge blades instead of hands. It was like a child. He was seen by the rest of the detachment. The unfamiliar essence of either appearing, then disappearing again, leads Jericho to the massive doors of the research center. Inside, the heroes meet the only surviving – Muriel, – Old familiar Rowlings. However, she met the floor, instructing him a muzzle of a machine gun, and did not immediately believe that he was real. Muriel began to say something incoherent, something about the operation “The Seal of the Lord”, something about the fact that “they” opened the gap, and that “it” had already broken out. But there was no time for the explanation.
The second group was attacked, and Ross, God Odds Casino leaving Muriel, leads the rest to the aid. There were more and more creatures. The atmosphere was heated. As soon as the detachment reunited, Jericho again headed to the research center, from where, after a long silence, he began to scream and call for help Muriel. When the detachment returns to the center, they find only the torn remains of Rowlings’s friend. However, there was no time to grieve, a wave of ugly monsters from the other world again fell on Jericho again. It turns out that the lich committing terrorist attacks all these years accumulated the energy of his victims, and thanks to this he was able to discover a spatial break at the intersection of seven energy flows exactly over El Haha. Having determined the exact location of the gap, Jericho is advanced. He had to close the break, no matter what it costs him, even at the cost of the life of the members of the detachment and, even worse, even if they have to stay on the other side forever ..
All this time, Lich followed Jericho and threw more and more monsters at the detachment, among which winged creatures appeared. Fighting off the next attack, Delgado demanded answers from Rowlings. What is the "seal of the Lord"? The priest replies that there is an ancient text that speaks of a creature created before a person. He was locked on the other side, and all this time he called to those who could free him and let him into the real world. Arnold Lich became one of these people, although he has long been not a man … Suddenly a strange child, seen by a grew in a dream, and was a detachment in an ancient city,. Heroes call Davin not to go to him, but the commander does not listen to them. As a result, a collapse opens right in front of him and what was used to attack Ross that was a l. The terrible wounds received from him were unable to heal even Rowlings. The army of monsters surrounds the detachment. The commander dies, and Jericho rushes inside the fault.
It turned out that the spirit of Ross remained intact. He followed the heroes, settling in Delgado’s head. So, having lost his body, Ross discovered a new ability: now he could move from one body to another, forcing him to squeeze the consciousness of his true owner. As soon as the detachment realized this and reconciled, the heroes continue to move. There were even more monsters on this side. After the next fight between Delgado and Rowolings, a new skirmish occurs, from which it turns out that the previous group of magicians 65 years ago also entered the gap, but did not return. Such a prospect did not suit a semi-indoor and Frank kills a priest. Here it turns out that despite the loss of his own body, Ross was still able to resurrect associates. Rowolings gets into operation again.
The commander of the detachment of psychics of the Third Reich speaks with Jericho Hannah Lichthammer, which has been locked in the fault since the Second World War. Rowlings offers her to miss a detachment without a fight, and in return, Jericho would help her get out of the gap. The witch responds to this with an attack. It was not so simple to cope with her, the creature did not want to die, but someone helped the heroes, and Hannah disappeared. Soon the detachment meets the past group of Jericho, the very one that disappeared in a fault 65 years ago. Major Patrick Buckland Enters the heroes into the essence of the matter ..
Nothing matters here in Pixis … Everything is unusual here: death, hunger, day, night! If you die, flies will be taken away, and when you return … you may look like a person, but at the same time belong to the firstborn. You know who the firstborn is?
Every time some crazy idiot is trying to release Firstborn, His forces are growing, and as soon as the guards locked it back, he captures a piece of reality with him, and each time he takes more and more, in proportion to growing in it. And every time the seven magicians, sacrificing themselves, had to go in a break to close it from the inside … All this multilayer spatial prison of the firstborn is called Pixis. At each of its levels, the detachments of Jericho from different eras who left the real world fight with darkness. In order not to become another group stuck in Pixis, and prevent all further attempts by the firstborn to get out of it, the Ross team had to go through all the faults and meet with evil face to face.
But first, they needed to get to Hannah standing in their way. Grabbing the Nazi witch, Rowlings conducted the ritual of exorcism and found out that it was because of her that Jericho could not find a second gap. Somehow Hannah merged with the portal, turning into a sort of "key". The detachment required another ritual, this time with the help of blood magic. Before her death, Hannah managed to spit out a few words ..
… and after that, cutting the witch the throat, she was thrown down. A new fault opened immediately and Jerichon moved inside.
The portal moved the detachment in 1213, or rather to the part that Pixis absorbed. Here the struggle went even more fiercely. Lights burned in the sky, and rivers flowed on the ground. Having made his way through the army of evil spirits to the castle of the Templars, the heroes met the head of the order, but a moment, which appeared from nowhere, hit the detachment at the moment he crossed the bridge. Only half managed to cross the abyss, the rest along with the fragments of the bridge fell down. But even those who managed to survive were lucky no more. After proceeding behind the Templar, they fall into the trap. It turned out that the crusaders of Jericho succumbed to the influence of the demon, who was mistaken for Seraphim Gabriel, and without question began to execute his orders.
Trying to find a way out of the castle, the heroes descend into the dungeon, where the dungeons were located, and come across there on a prisoner, who apparently once was one of the knights, of those who did not give in to the influence of the firstborn. He says that in 1213 the bishop Malteus, Having headed the crusader army, he went to El Khali, under the pretext that there is the Eden garden there, and that he was in the hands of the infidels. Knights from Jericho, followed him to stop Maltteus. The bishop assured the pope that the Saracens weapons would not harm the child, and therefore the army of children was sent ahead. All of them died, and thanks to this victim, a break was opened. Since then, the knights have been at this level of Pixis with Maltateus and its minions.
Moving further along the catacombs, the surviving Jerichons penetrate the crypt, where Malteus should have been located according to the prisoner knight with his children. And soon the team is faced with these “children”, or rather, what they turned into … The mental connection with the second group did not explode after the events by the bridge, which means they were still alive. Bypassing a few halls and corridors, Jericho is reunited. However, the second group got stronger. The ghosts of children penetrated consciousness and almost drove them crazy, especially got a coole, but Abby manages to bring her to her senses. The detachment is advanced in search of the next gap that Bishop Malteus guarded ..
Another hot battle begins, at the end of which a weakened Malteus is killed by his own "children". A break appears, and the heroes go inside. This time they find themselves in 39 n.e. Here, the seven Praetorians should have opposed evil, but only one of them remained alive and the detachment was crucified on the cross.
The Praetorian, through Jones’s consciousness associated with him, tells Jericho about the governor Vikus Kasus, who, according to the instigation of the firstborn, plunged El Chalki in the "riot of vice and debauchery", thereby opening a break. The heroes had to find him and destroy him to get to the next level of Pixis. The Praetorian warned them about what price should be paid so that the evil does not penetrate the real world, and that the cycle will be repeated again and again until the firstborn receives what he needed … but what he wanted? The Praetorian does not answer this question, and the heroes go in search of Vikus.
Having dealt with the new army of monsters, this time changed by the darkness of the Roman legionnaires, Jericho finally meets the governor. But not daring to make the first shot on the monster, which itself acted in open, the detachment again falls into the trap. They fail underground, after which, having made their way along a series of corridors, rise to the surface … and find themselves in the giant arena, where the Vicus directs its gladiators. Having defeated them in a difficult battle, the detachment takes on the governor himself, and another battle takes place. The murder of the ruler opens the last gap and the heroes have no choice but to step into the unknown.
And here he is the last level. El Hali in his original form. But this place was not like the heart of evil. As Rowlings put it, it was only a “cocoon”, but the darkness was somewhere inside him. The lich was already here ..
Suddenly Jones falls to his knees. Through him with a detachment, he began to speak Antadurunn – Founder of the Order of Jericho. All this time he was waiting for those to whom he could tell how to forever expel the firstborn. Antadurunn was one of the Sumerian priests who were supposed to close the very first spatial gap, open due to the fault of the supreme priestess Erishkagal. The Firstborn appeared to her in dreams, seduced her to the darkness and eventually spoke about bloody rites. From the city of UR, she brought with her 10 thousand warriors who erected the temple in El Chali, and then they were sacrificed. So the first break appeared, and the firstborn first stepped into the world of people. The seven priests had to stop him. All died except Antadurunn. He closed the gap and sealed Pixis, forever remaining inside. However, he was able to transfer the message to the outside world. The priest understood that the seal could not restrain evil forever, so he urged people to create the Order of Guardians in case of the return of the firstborn. Only the priest could again impose a seal to break, but his strength was taken away by the demons guarding the entrance to the heart of darkness. Jericho had to kill them and restore the body of Antadurunn.
The matter was done. Antadurunn meets the heroes at the gap leading to the firstborn. He reports that now he can close it, after which Jericho, together with the priest, will remain at this level of Pixis and will wait for a new threat to the world of people.
We will fall asleep until they call us. In order to direct our brothers and sisters again … It will be a dream without dreams, and, having joined us, you will share all the knowledge of those who came to you and stand next to them.
It was a duty, the sacred duty of members of the Order of Jericho. With a sense of fulfillment, the heroes are preparing to accept their fate, but suddenly ..
He is lying! You believe in this nonsense dog about sleep without dreams!? Or just I listened to him alone? How about the rest? Templars, centurion? They don’t sleep! They did not merge together with an outrage. They slowly go crazy in purgatory, and it is there that we will find ourselves when he will close this gap!
Between Delgado and Rowolings, the quarrel starts once again. But in some way Frank was right and the members of the detachment understand this. Ross’s voice turns out to be decisive. He takes the side of Delgado, who puts the bullet in the head of the priest.
Die is cast. Jericho goes to the last battle.
True original evil, the firstborn turns out to be that child, whose ghost Jericho saw at the beginning of the operation. While Ross is trying to pull time, and Cole calculates the enemy’s weaknesses, the firstborn strikes. Jones’s body is torn into pieces, and after a second he follows Simon. With the rest the enemy begins to fight with their own abilities, but ultimately suffers defeat. Cleaned with a blade, it falls to the ground. At this moment, the lich is nailed to the wall of the cave, who realized that all this time was only a puppet, bursts out of the trap and with the words: “I started it, I will end it,” he picks up the firstborn and takes away from where he appeared from where he appeared. The cave begins to crumble. Ross commands the detachment to jump into the water. Having sailed along the underwater part of the caves, the survivors emerge the endless sea in the sun -flooded sun … And on this the story ends.
Whether they returned to the real world, or, like all the previous Jerichon detachments, enclosed in Pixis with scraps of their eras, remained on the other side? We will never know this again ..
P.S. One of my viewers expressed a very interesting version about the ending.
Xellvis: "I understood the ending like this: there is no good without evil. That is, the firstborn, as an absolute evil is opposed to the world of people, for which Jericho fights. And the Sumerian magician did not just want to close it precisely. I think he understood that if you kill the firstborn, then the world of people would disappear. Therefore, all the previous detachments of Jericho closed it, sacrificing themselves, because they also understood this. And that vast ocean is “our reality”, only the one that it became without the firstborn, that is, nothing. Emptiness."