The heavy cavalry of the Colonial Empire attacks the rogue camp, destroying the rebellion, and Roy is wounded. Sagiron, Arhim and Roy set to seek Roy's father to ask his help to gather people around Yanakhon who could help them in their plan. They flee the camp ruins, knowing that the enemy is after them, and cross a field colony with little trouble, however, Roy's condition is unstable. As they are chased, they are forced to flee to swamplands, where Roy fall mortally ill.

White ghosts appear on a burial mound, and they get separated in the fog, but when Sagiron returns, Roy and Arhim are gone. He flees storm to a castle where he finds Arhim as well, and they practice the lightning power with the Secret. They head for Valon mountains, but find the way through collapsed, and baggat herders advise them of an alternative route.

They get chased by rasacks, but vaskyrs appear from the sky, saving them, and they face Vaskites, accompanied by healed Roy. They have a gift to bring: Miloren, the original thunderblade. After proving himself, Sagiron is gifted with the sword, and they test its powers. They find their way out of the mountains, facing some trouble along the way, and end up in a rivertown. They decide to reveal the Secret to Roy, but the enemy finds out about them and they are forced to flee into Devil's Canyon.

Forced to cross the wasteland, they teach Roy the symbols, and eventually he learns the Secret as well. They are ambushed by Hellornians and fight a sparkon, a shade-drake leather-beast, and flee the wasteland, arriving to Lake Highwater.

They are ambushed again, but now by their old friends Kerwin and Helen, who had fled the home village. The friends head for Blackwater where the imprisoned villagers were taken while the trio heads for Highwater town, where they find Ikhira, Roy's friend and using the Secret, release her and flee down the river in a boat.

Kerwin and Helen head for Blackwater, facing trouble along the way, including rasacks and Metorian knights. They have to flee through the mountains until they reach Blackwater, where they try to find the villagers, but Helen's father, Captain Satalaca has come looking for her daughter, and Kerwin is imprisoned and to be hanged for his crimes.

Back at Highwater, upon learning about Roy's father's nature, Ikhira promises to sail them wherever necessary, and they head down the river to Telengbottom to find more about his father's whereabouts. Sagiron and Arhim are being searched, and as they flee, they meet Arhim's parents, who harbor them for a while. Arhim's father tell a story about the Arkman. Roy and Ikhira seek information and find Roy's friend, Nashira, who has found out the location of the assembly Roy's father will be attending.

They set sail for Telkhen, and after some discord and a long time of waiting, manage to get the message through, and they meet his father Markhen at an inn, however, the enemy has tracked them down and ambushes them. A battle breaks out as they flee to a mountain stronghold, Telkheron.

Brief Synopsis of

The Paths of Destiny