After the ritual with sacrificial rebirth, the “Luck Hunters” are left in peace for a long time—but an endless lull can’t last. As it so often happens by Murphy’s law, unexpected events begin at the worst possible moment. An operation connected to the Tree of Death has to be postponed indefinitely, and then problems multiply like a runaway snowball rolling down a mountain. The time of the coming storm is already close, and the trials awaiting the clan may break it—or temper it—with equal likelihood… both the clan’s fighters and its leader, Zuboskalyal…