A touch of mystery poisons you—it infects you with a virus that searches for answers. A regular person from Earth—an engineer—who ends up in another world where magic is used by far-off descendants of settlers from Earth is doomed to seek a solution to the riddle of his own transportation, the riddle of an art beyond his control, the riddle of the past. Unwittingly, he becomes a carrier of this virus, forcing even people whose fates were predetermined by birth and talent to change the course of their lives.