After the Mana Surge in Fitoa, all of Paul's family members are missing except for Norn and he asks for his contacts to make search parties to find them. Meanwhile, to accomplish a quest, Rudeus' party look for a mysterious monster in the middle of a forest. They encounter two other parties also searching for the monster. One of the parties is ambushed by monsters, but Rudeus decides to wait, which ends with one of the adventurers being killed. The monster they are looking for attacks and kills the other party before it is slain by Rudeus and co...