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Upon the Magic Roads (2021)

★ 6.8 · 312 ratings on TMDB
Upon the Magic Roads poster★ 6.8

Romantic John the Fool and his friend Foal set out on a series of unpredictable adventures in different magical worlds. The two buddies will have to outsmart an evil tyrant king, catch the firebird, and find John’s true love.

DirectorOleg Pogodin
CastAleksandr Semchev, Anton Shagin, Lyaysan Utyasheva, Mikhail Efremov, Oleg Taktarov, Paulina Andreeva
GenresAdventure, Fantasy
The emergence reading

Upon the Magic Roads keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, authority, tradition, love, purpose.

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Same rung, same subject

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