You can only spend so much time conquering dungeons, slaying legendary beasts, and causing international incidents before refusing to meet with the king stops making you look humble and starts making you look like you’re snubbing the crown. Mukohda, much to his dismay, has run squarely into that limit, and Willem the guildmaster has dragged him to the capital for a long-overdue royal audience!

But a trip to the capital isn’t all bad news. After all, the biggest city in the kingdom is also home to the biggest Adventurer’s guild around, and the guild headquarters is the one place where Mukohda stands any chance of fulfilling his familiars’ biggest objective: getting the leviathan they found in a dungeon butchered! The task is titanic, even by the capital’s standards, and it’s going to take everything and everyone the guild can spare—which means that Mukohda is due for a number of reunions, some much more welcome than others...