More than twenty years ago, Bannick fled the place called No Man's Land with no intention of returning. Now, though, he is a powerful red-collared Crown priest, his duty to fight the many dangerous creatures that plague the country, and exorcise the demons all too frequently summoned by the unwise.Ordered out to contend with a likely dire, an undead monster difficult to stop, he instead finds himself facing off against the worst abomination of them all: a dire demon, which he can't hope to defeat himself. Only a necromancer can stop a dire demon, but the nearest necromancer might not arrive in time...