

In the sun-drenched city of Mafate, Sheïd, a former legionary now mostly surviving off smuggling, is offered a mission too tempting to decline. However, as the abduction of his target — an old archeologist — suddenly takes a turn for the worse, Sheïd’s troubles increase dramatically as he inadvertently crossed the wrong kind of greed-driven elite whose relentless exploitation of a very ancient form of magic could threaten the world itself.