Dream, a hunter from across the lands, is searching for his past with only a clue left for him by his adoptive parents. He travels to the Artician Empire, only to find he needs to be an adventurer of B-rank in order to access the quest from which he was found. By chance, he forms a party with the wannabe knight George, a man from a small, crumbling village to the north who hopes to save his home by amassing wealth and fame. Later Sapnap, an intrepid fire mage, joins their party having lost the only home he's ever known and seeing the teacher he's respected murdered. He vows to use the connections of an adventurer to discover the forces behind the murder and make them pay. Together they take on quests and through luck or perhaps bad luck, they rise quickly in the guild ranks as they are met with unforeseen danger. They fight the undead, meet unlikely allies, and uncover secrets about the strange dungeons that have been appearing throughout the continent for centuries. Meanwhile, in the Empire's capital, efforts to strengthen the Empire of Articia through the trade for an Eternal Crystal are being foiled as plans to assassinate the Crown Prince lurk in the shadows. Clues about Dream's mysterious connections to the ruins and the strange writings on the inside of his mask may be lost to him and the rest of the Team if they are unable to stop the assassins in time and save the Crown Prince's life.

The trio find themselves upstate with Tyler's family for Christmas after Tyler is threatened with blackmail for skipping the last couple years. Normally he'd be okay with seeing the family again, but this time Mike and Onity will be there with him, around family that they've never met before. Family that might not understand their relationship. Family that might not support them. Also Onity isn't sure he remembers bringing The cat along with them.

Your rank. Your life. Or that is what Adam always thought was the straight-forward road of life. However all of that changed when he happens across a mysterious necklace that instantly connects with him. And unfortunately for those entrusted with the necklace, Adam is now the caretaker of the necklace and must be brought back to the AHD, the place where heroes are born, and the place the necklace was created. Adam has long since been an admirer of the AHD. He's heard the stories of the great Players. Players have the rare gift of a respawn, where they can die over and over again and live. While Humans like Adam only have one life. But since finding the necklace, Adam is shocked to discover that the one who created it, created it to grant normal humans like him, Player like abilities. For the first time ever, Adam has the chance to follow an impossible dream. A dream only accomplished by a chance encounter. For Adam, this meant a grand adventure as a hero himself. But things aren't all that they seem in the Association of Human Defense... Everywhere Adam seems to go he finds even the people he looked up to aren't all that great. Adam discovers a world filled with corruption and an ancient war that has been hidden from the public for centuries. Adam is faced with reality where he doesn't know who's just and who's not. As the number of problems keep piling up, he's no longer sure if they are worth the effort to fix. Art and Story (c): CATtheDrawer/WrittenDarkness