None could recall how many seasons had turned since the Tita Legion razed the Priest Tower to ash. In Senbanrou—a realm within the Faya Alliance—yet another campaign was launched against the powers of shadow, as had been done in the years before. But this time, the old patterns did not hold.
At the Sixth Academy of Langping, on a morning that bore no mark of what was to come, news arrived without warning: the Governor's Guard was approaching. And so, a movement unlike any that had come before began to unfold—slowly at first, until it could no longer be turned away from.