Under the threat of overwhelming monstrous hordes, both strongholds are about to fall. Their loss would be a death blow to Empress Catharina’s empire, but Tallah refuses to let valiant warriors perish for the sake of her own vengeance. Using ancient arts learned in Grefe and the absorbed souls of enemy mages, she risks her powers to devastate the relentless army of mutations, even as her healer friend, Sil, breaks away from the secretive teachings of the School of Healing and the Other, Vergil, begins to peek through the heavy curtain of amnesia that’s plagued him for so long.