The Ties That Bind Cayna is slowly adjusting to her new reality in Leadale and all the ways it’s changed over the past two hundred years, from when it was only a game. Right as the seventeen-year-old starts to find her footing, though, a trip to the northern nation of Helshper brings her face-to-face with a famous elf merchant who claims to be her grandson! Just how much has Cayna’s in-game “family” expanded in the two centuries since she last logged on?

Cayna is more than a little overwhelmed by all the changes to the world of Leadale during the unexplained 200-year gap from when she last logged in, but she decides her best move is to leave the remote village where she started to go seek more information. Next stop—the royal capital of Felskeilo, where all her children happen to be employed in various positions of power!

"The last thing she can remember is her life support beginning to fail. Her body had suffered terribly after a fateful accident, and the only freedom left in her life came from the virtual-reality world of Leadale. How did she end up in a place that looks exactly like her game...except that 200 years have gone by?"--

Cayna, Opus, and their three servants are enjoying a bit of rest and relaxation in the remote village when Cayna decides to upgrade one her items: the Pair of Eyes, which transmits footage remotely between two eyeballs. She intends to use it so that the villagers can see and hear things happening in far-off lands. In order to locate this exclusive function, Cayna must return to the Guardian Towers that her old friends left to her, and this time she’s bringing Opus and Siren in tow!

Cayna finally interrogates Opus, who’s been busy with various clandestine activities. He tells her that during the Game Era, Event Monsters in the Brown Kingdom broke out of the system and took corporeal forms, resulting in a mass monster propagation. Those monsters have since been sealed away in an Isolation Barrier, but Opus can tell it’s deteriorating...which is why he’s been searching for other former players reincarnated in this world. In order to protect Leadale, the players must gather in the Abandoned Capital for one big, decisive battle!

One day, Cayna receives an urgent correspondence from Shining Saber, a fellow Leadale player also transported to this new world. It turns out that a horde of monsters is headed for the royal capital, and he needs Cayna to lend her mighty powers to stop the beasts. But when a Guardian Tower in the form of a giant tortoise appears in Cayna's absence, will Exis and Quolke have what it takes to handle it themselves?!

High elf adventurer Cayna was exploring a dungeon and reached the lowest floor where she was reunited with Opus, an old friend from her gaming days. Their reunion was short-lived, however, since Cayna immediately lost consciousness after suddenly exhausting her magical power. Opus takes Cayna and her companions Clofia and Cloffe to his hideaway to rest and recover while he prepares for an imminent event, but what exactly is he so busily preparing for...?

High elf Cayna's life following her recent move to the countryside with her adopted daughter Luka is both eventful and peaceful. One day, Cayna takes a trip out to Felskeilo with the local innkeeper's daughter Lytt, Roxine the maid, and Luka in tow to meet her eldest daughter, Mai-Mai. When they arrive, however, Cayna receives word from a nearby Guardian that another Guardian Tower is running out of MP and needs Cayna's help. There's just one catch--the tower is in the shape of a gargantuan blue whale!

The Search Continues. Now a full-fledged adventurer, the high elf Cayna is back on the road to locate the next Guardian Tower and any other remaining players. She stops at a fishing village where there’s been talk of a palace at the bottom of the ocean—but finds the village covered in a strange fog and overrun by zombies! Investigating this eerie phenomenon leads to a chance reunion with one of her former guild members and the discovery of an orphan girl named Luka. As Cayna’s circle of friends grows, will she acquire any additional insight into how she came to find herself in Leadale…?