After arriving in Darshuun and losing Jessamine to the Sultan Darius, things couldn't be worse. Jessamine was unresponsive when Shiro last saw the lamp. But he can't go back to save her. Not yet. Because first Shiro must set out with the very same top-tier adventurer who stole her away, known as the Black Cobra of Mar'a Thul, in a desperate effort to rescue Ali before he's tortured and executed.