Monsters hide. Love divides. The dead will rise.

When the pillar blooms, the end of the world is not far behind…

Li Ami is an exile. Expelled from friendships, from ordinary magic, and from her own family, Ami is sent to the outermost West to care for her mentally ill father, whose bizarre ravings might actually spell out a dire prophecy. When her father is arrested for stealing from the sacred grounds of the castle, Ami must make herself of use to the presiding Beast by finding a cure to the mysterious blight that is decimating their harvest.

Guardian of Wood... There you are…

As signs of magical corruption arise throughout the Morning Realms and the threat of the Mother of Ten Thousand Demons looms ever larger, the tenuous peace holding the Realms together begins to unravel. Jin Zhara, the newly empowered Guardian of Fire, realizes that she might be out of her element. Her magic is no match for the growing tide of undead; she needs the Guardian of Wood to defeat the revenants razing the countryside. The two must journey to the Root of the World to seal the demon portal there and restore balance to an increasingly chaotic world.