eight years after the bombing of area 51, former soldier, ted anderson lives in grief, being the sole survivor of task force seven. everything he lived for, after attaining a modern world without war, he slowly watches the news and everything he fought for is crumbling to the ground, and his betrayal now meant nothing. he meets some new friends in boston, and in meeting them, can they pull him out of his rut, or will he snap and undo the oppression that chains him in his perpetual despair?after investigating a car crash that left numerous people dead, culain, a spell caster of the administration headquartered in london, he is tasked to find the culprit, who left mana residue on the site, and is now in charge of the single most important man hunt in the history of the world. he is looking for a man, and the only information they have on him is one code name, "ghost".major mccurdy of the u.s army, stationed out in devil's pass leads an crew of cbrn specialists up the pass, only to find that there was another caster looking for the holy grail. reporting this in, she is then charged with stealing the holy grail to keep it safe from unwanted and prying hands, and in so doing, sending the entire caster's administration into vast disarray.