"Lord Hal, those monsters have smashed up the whole city, and now they've surrounded the city lord's mansion!"
In a town called Cass, inside Lance family territory, city lord Hal Lance and five other Mage apprentices were at their wits' end.
"Weren't these monsters supposed to have no intelligence? Then why won't they leave the city lord's mansion alone?" one apprentice muttered to himself in utter despair.
They were the only humans left in the city. Everyone else—down to the servants and slaves of the city lord's mansion—had mutated, and one of them had even caught everybody off guard and killed a careless apprentice.
Curses and poisons were worse than useless against the infected; they only spurred the virus to mutate again. So although these apprentices commanded transcendent power, they had no way to deal with the situation.