安东在学习使用自己的新能力的时候，被格谢尔派去协助苏格兰的守夜人巡查队调查一宗谋杀案。一个年轻的俄罗斯男人在一座“吸血鬼城堡”里被谋杀了，城堡是有名的旅游景点。证据表明，他显然是被吸血鬼杀死的。案情比表面上看来的更为神秘。有人想用远程控制的枪来袭击安东。最终，苏格兰守夜人巡查队的头儿，Thomas Lermont托马斯·勒蒙，发现有人从梅林的墓里偷出了一件神器，而且显然在试图用这个神器来打开梅林的秘密贮藏室。

Final Watch

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Final Watch AKA The Last Watch

Final Watch

Author Sergei Lukyanenko

Country Russia

Series World of Watches

Genre(s) Fantasy

Media type Print ()

ISBN 978-1401309275

Preceded by Night Watch, Day Watch and Twilight Watch

(Posledniy Dozor, Последний дозор) a fantasy novel by Russian writer Sergey Lukyanenko, sequel to The Night Watch, Day Watch, and Twilight Watch.

The English title of the book is The Last Watch and is to be released 14 Oct 2008 in the U.S./Canada and 2 Oct 2008 in the UK.

大意：安东在学习使用自己的新能力的时候，被格谢尔派去协助苏格兰的守夜人巡查队调查一宗谋杀案。一个年轻的俄罗斯男人在一座“吸血鬼城堡”里被谋杀了，城堡是有名的旅游景点。证据表明，他显然是被吸血鬼杀死的。案情比表面上看来的更为神秘。有人想用远程控制的枪来袭击安东。最终，苏格兰守夜人巡查队的头儿，Thomas Lermont托马斯·勒蒙，发现有人从梅林的墓里偷出了一件神器，而且显然在试图用这个神器来打开梅林的秘密贮藏室。在这里，梅林藏了“Crown of All”（字面意思为“一切的皇冠”），没人知道那是什么。在守夜人巡查队被装备了魔法护身符和子弹的普通人袭击之后，托马斯和安东跟着某人进入了黄昏界。他们一直达到了黄昏界的第六层（安东的第一次），但是只发现事情的背后有三个人：一个光明力量的他者，一个黑暗力量的他者，和一个宗教裁判。托马斯还告诉安东，黄昏界的第七层是他者的天堂，在那里他们可以和平共处（以超越死亡的形式，他者just消失在黄昏界中）。梅林把“Crown of All”藏在了黄昏界的第七层里。

所有的他者对所发生的事情都感到十分忧虑。格谢尔让安东去乌兹别克斯坦，去寻找Rustam卢斯塔姆，梅林当时的朋友，也是格谢尔曾经的朋友，后来的敌人。他也许知道一些关于皇冠被藏匿的地点以及皇冠本身的事情。安东在拜访乌兹别克斯坦的守夜人巡查队的时候，他们再次被带着护身符和魔法武器的人类攻击。各种线索开始表明安东的朋友，科斯加邵什金，是其中一个嫌犯，尽管他显然已经死了。安东设法找到了卢斯塔姆。卢斯塔姆告诉安东，“Crown of All”是一个咒语，可以毁坏黄昏界各个层次之间的障碍，也能毁灭黄昏界和现实之间的障碍。咒语也许会导致世界末日，吸干所有他者的力量或者甚至杀死他们－卢斯塔姆不清楚，也不在乎。他们再次被袭击，安东发现他曾经的朋友，宗教裁判埃德加是那个神秘的他者三人组中的一个。

回到莫斯科，安东找出了神秘三人组中的黑暗他者－Gennadiy Saushkin根那迪·邵什金，科斯加的爸爸。他们认不出那个光明他者。两个巡查队都指派了人手去保护安东和斯维特拉娜五岁的女儿，娜佳，世界上唯一一个零度的他者（她不能产生任何的魔力，只能吸收别人的，因此她的魔法力量实际上是无穷的； 梅林也是一个零度他者，跟耶稣一样。）只有零度他者可以到达黄昏界的第七层。埃德加和根那迪绑架了安东（他们抓不到娜佳），把他逮到了爱丁堡，这样他就可以帮助他们想出得到皇冠的办法。他们告诉安东，娜佳死了，因为他们在他的公寓旁边放置了一颗核弹。核弹是唯一能毁灭黄昏界所有层次的武器。埃德加从宗教法庭的档案中找到了一些信息，说“Crown of All”能给予所有进入黄昏界的他者最想要的东西。埃德加认为皇冠能让他们复活，他想要与自己被杀的妻子重聚。根那迪想要回自己的儿子和妻子。他们同三人组（他们自称为最后的守护者the final watch）的第三个人，女巫阿利娜见面了，她设法把自己转变成了光明力量。她还揭露道，她毁坏了核弹，让其无法爆炸，因为她新的光明力量身份禁止对如此多无辜者的毁灭。安东发现了梅林的秘密，但是他知道最后的守护者不会喜欢这样，因此对他们撒了谎。他们把他带到了黄昏界的第五层，遇到了梅林的守卫。最后的守护者忙于战斗的时候，安东来到了第六层。他在那里碰见了梅林，小虎，伊戈尔，阿丽思和其他所有进入了黄昏界的朋友们，包括科斯加（科斯加说自己不怪安东）。他们都期待着安东能够触发皇冠。不管怎样，他不能回去，因为最后的守护者在那里而且他无法向前进入第七层，因为他的力量不够。这个时候，娜佳出现了－斯维特拉娜刚刚激发了她，让她来找到父亲。在黄昏界的所有层中前进对娜佳来说不算什么问题。她带着安东往前行，回到了现实世界。黄昏界成为了一个圆圈，第七层成为了我们所有人所在的世界。

安东去触发Crown of All，它确实藏在第七层。梅林把咒语放在了爱丁堡城堡古老的石头里。最后的守护者出现了，但是安东不为所动。埃德加把所有事情都弄错了。黄昏界里的他者最渴望的不是复苏，而是死亡。那里没有天堂，他们被永远困在一个所有东西都是灰白影子的世界，困在真实生活的临摹件里。他们想要结束这样的生活，因为一旦他们真正的死亡，就能重新重生。梅林预见到了这个结果，因此创造了那个咒语（它毁坏黄昏界的效果只是暂时的）。不过，失落的他者们向安东请求原谅，因此他允许根那迪和埃德加死亡，这样他们可以在被送进黄昏界之前就与他们所爱的人团聚。阿利娜选择生存。然后安东触发了皇冠（念出了咒语）。

Plot summary

Anton Gorodetsky is learning to use his new power, when Geser sends him to assist the Scottish Night Watch in Edinburgh in a murder investigation. A young Russian man has been murdered in a "Vampire Castle", a tourist attraction; the evidence shows that he was apparently killed by a vampire. The mystery is greater than it seemed. Someone tries to attack Anton using remote controlled guns. Finally the head of Scottish Night Watch, Thomas Lermont, reveals that someone stole an artifact from Merlin's grave and is apparently trying to use this artifact to open Merlin's secret storage. In that mysterious place Merlin apparently hid the "Crown of All" (nobody knows what it is). After the Night Watch is attacked by ordinary humans equipped with magical amulets and bullets, Thomas and Anton follow someone to the Twilight. They get as far as the sixth level (first time for Anton), but all they find out is that there are three people behind this - a Light Other, a Dark Other and an Inquisitor. Thomas also tells Anton that the seventh level of the Twilight is the Others' paradise, where they can exist in peace together (upon death, Others just vanish into the Twilight). Merlin has hidden the Crown of All in the seventh level of the Twilight.

All Others are very worried about these happenings. Geser sends Anton to Uzbekistan, to look up Rustam, a contemporary and friend of Merlin, and a former friend - later an enemy - of Geser. He might know something about where the Crown is hidden and what it is. When Anton is visiting the Night Watch in Uzbekistan, they are once again attacked by humans with amulets and magical weapons. Various clues begin to point to Anton's friend, Kostya Saushkin, as one of the perpetrators, even though he is certainly dead. Anton manages to find Rustam. He tells him that the Crown of All is a spell which will destroy the barriers dividing individual levels of the Twilight, as well as the barrier between the Twilight and reality. It might cause the end of the world, strip all Others of their powers or maybe kill them - Rustam doesn't know, nor does he care. They are attacked again and Anton learns that his one-time friend, the Inquisitor Edgar, is one of the mysterious trio of Others.

Back in Moscow, Anton figures out who is the Dark Other in the mysterious trio - it is Gennadiy Saushkin, Kostya's father. They can't identify the Light Other. Both Watches assign operatives to protect Anton's and Svetlana's five-year-old daughter, Nadya, the only zero-level Other in the world (she does not produce any magical energy, she can only absorb, therefore her power is practically unlimited; Merlin was also a zero-level Other, as was Jesus). Only zero-level Others may get to the seventh level of the Twilight. Edgar and Gennadiy kidnap Anton (they can't get to Nadya) and take him to Edinburgh, so that he can help them figure out a way to get to the Crown. They tell Anton that Nadya is dead due to them planting a nuclear explosive near his apartment building. A nuclear bomb is the only weapon capable of destroying matter on all Twilight levels. Edgar found some information in the archives of the Inquisition saying that the Crown of All will give all the Others who departed into the Twilight the thing they want most. In Edgar's interpretation it will bring them back to life, and he wants to reunite with his wife who was killed. Gennadiy wants to get his son and wife back. They meet the third part of the trio, or as they call themselves, the Final Watch - the witch Arina, who managed to change her affiliation to Light. She also reveals that she sabotaged the nuclear bomb not to go off, as her new Light affiliation forbids the destruction of so many innocents. Anton does figure out Merlin's secret, but he knows the Final Watch will not like it and he manages to lie to them. They take him to the fifth level of the Twilight, were they encounter Merlin's guardian. While the Final Watch is busy fighting it, Anton gets to the sixth level. There he meets Merlin as well as Tiger Cub, Igor, Alice and all his Other friends who departed into the Twilight, including Kostya (who tells him he doesn't blame him). They are all hoping he will activate the Crown. However, he cannot go back, because the Final Watch is there and he cannot go forward to the seventh level, because he doesn't have enough power. At this point Nadya appears - Svetlana just initiated her and sent her to get her father. Travelling through all levels of the Twilight is not a problem for Nadya. She takes Anton forward - back to the real world. The Twilight goes in a circle. The seventh level is the one we all live in.

Anton goes to activate the Crown of All, which is indeed hidden in the seventh level. Merlin put the spell in the ancient stones of the Edinburgh Castle. The Final Watch appears, but Anton will not be bothered with them. Edgar got things wrong. The thing the Others in the Twilight want most is not resurrection, but death. There is no paradise there, they are stuck forever in a world where everything is just a pale copy, trapped in an imitation of life. They want it to end, because once they fully die, they can be reborn. Merlin has foreseen this and created his spell (its Twilight-destroying effect is temporary). However, the lost Others asked Anton to forgive, so he allows Gennadiy and Edgar to die, so that they can join their loved ones before it's too late. Arina chooses to live. Then Anton activates the Crown.