Orphen finds himself living in a quiet town and mentoring a student - Majic Lin, the son of his landlord. Life is calm and relatively lazy until the day Cleao Everlasting returns from boarding school and accidentally disrupts Orphen's carefully laid plans regarding the sword that rests on her family's mantle: the Sword Of Baltanders. It turns out that the sword is actually one of three magical artifacts Orphen needs to save Azalie, and was, in fact, the very sword Azalie used in her experiment that led to her unfortunate transformation. Before he can secure it, however, the Bloody August attacks the town in search of the sword. To locate the other Baltander relics, Orphen embarks on a journey with his apprentice, little miss Everlasting, and two short-statured misfits.
