The Weird Times have arrived, making life difficult whether on the Main Affinity Continent or in the Barren Lands.
The Tillage Garden and the Lennon Islands are especially miserable; the former, the beginning of the strange era's descent, has already fallen into the claws of strangeness and become a paradise. The latter, shattered by great power, has turned from dozens of islands into hundreds, or even thousands, of shattered isles.
And the people on them.
For at the dawn of the Weird Times, the Lennon Islands were seen as an idyllic retreat by humankind, free of strangeness and conflict. Looking back now, it's hard to say if it was perhaps some ruse to gather humans.
Among those known to Lu Li, Jojo and Aunt Mary had once sailed to the Lennon Islands to settle.
Lu Li gazed in the direction he had come from. In the primal darkness, an unnameable thing was devouring its way toward him, with no chance of returning, and ahead lay an endless unknown sea.
