Animals that people once loved suddenly turned into magical beasts and turned the world upside down.With the mines destroyed and later occupied by magical beasts, humanity was starved of the resources needed to continue fighting them.Fortunately, beings from another world lent their power to humans in the form of avatars. Every human would awaken an avatar and use its power to grow stronger and fight against the beasts.Yet Auric found himself unable to awaken a single avatar.An avatar wasn’t supposed to leave the body of its partner, but his father’s avatar—the black dragon—mysteriously appeared before him, unraveling a series of secrets he had never known before.Did he really fail to awaken an avatar?What exactly was an avatar? Did they really come from another world?