After traveling to the Sacred Silverwater Sea, Anos and his companions successfully win their first Silverwater Ranking Skirmish and join the academic alliance of Pablohetra, where they encounter the Institute of Mythical Beasts—the group that once attacked Militia’s World. But while Anos deals with them, his mother Izabella is attacked by an assassin. And while a mysterious man is able to foil the attempt on her life, Izabella still collapses from a high fever. The man claims to be from the same homeworld as the Institute of Mythical Beasts and insists Izabella is the spitting image of his late sister. According to him, it is her lingering connection to the Ruinous Abyss World—even after her reincarnation—that is causing her illness...
