Norrie failed his awakening and was cast out of the pack. He trained for twenty years under three masters who surpassed the Holy Tier, and now he returns in force. At the wolf clan assembly, he shatters the soul-testing stone with a single punch, leaving the whole crowd stunned and doubting reality itself, while the three Golden Leaders kneel before him in public and hail him as their savior. When a vampire army descends to invade, he casually blasts the First Ancestor through seven walls, cowing everyone present. But he has no time to savor the glory, because his mother lies on her sickbed, her breath faint. Years ago, to help him seize a sacred relic, she suffered a backlash of power and has been at death's door ever since. Norrie vows to gather all three sacred relics to save her—yet in the distant mist, a pair of blood-red eyes watches him coldly, as if waiting for something.