Waver is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of Ernest Fargo, the father of one of his former students, Mary. Upon arriving at the Fargo mansion, Waver meets Mary, her cousin Alec, Ernest's research partner Fernando Li and the family maid Claire. They show Waver Ernest's body, which has been separated into seven pieces spread throughout the mansion. The suspicion is that Ernest's body is being used for some sort of Magecraft ritual, but nobody has been able to figure it out. Upon observing the mansion's residents, Waver deduces all four of them had motive to kill Ernest; Mary stands to inherit his fortune, Alec owed massive debts to him, Fernando may be trying to steal his research and Claire was being physically abused by him...