"Bellug, spectral knight.""Leander, wizard.""Alyse, battlemage.""Ninet, thief.""Krys, sorcerer.""Cort, conjurer.""Lira, assassin.""Rancar, mechanist.""Beladon, bowmaster.""Shadow, mystic warrior."Of the physical and magical disciplines that defended a kingdom, mystic warriors were rare and sometimes chosen by the nature goddess to be catalysts of destiny. Shadow, a newly trained mystic warrior, and nine students of other disciplines are sent to the kingdom of Leo to prove their mettle and join an elite fighting unit. But dark magic moves unseen, causing monsters to rise and ravage the land, age-old protections to erode, and kingdoms to fall. Young and inexperienced, can the only elite team left in the west be welded into a force capable of facing the coming war?