The people of Zol, after years of civil war, have the neighboring Aquafa securely under their thumb. Val, a war-weary former soldier from the now dispersed Broken Antlers (an elite fighting squad of the Aquafa people), is reduced to working in a mining camp alongside fellow Aquafa’s just to earn a meager living. Val still mourns his family who were lost to a disease brought on by a mysterious pack of wolves killing anyone they attack and bite, but whom oddly tend to steer clear of the Aquafa people. Assumed long since gone, the fear of these wolf packs has waned but after attacking several groups of people throughout the kingdom including the Emperor and everyone in Val’s mining town, many are dying from the disease they carry called Black Wolf Fever or mittsual. Both Val and a young girl, Yuna, are bitten but somehow survive the attack and escape their servitude finding a small village to settle in.