In this Volume is The Initiate, The Adept, and the short story The Village Protector.
Once thought to become the world's first Celestial, Silas now seeks the quiet life. Kyoto Village seems the perfect landscape for him and his wife, Himari, to make a home and start a family. His apprentice Reiko shows promise and with Silas as his master in Cultivation and showing him how to become an Arcanist, he could be the one to break through.
When an Oracle comes to the village, will fate tip the scales and throw Silas's life into a world of turmoil?
Silas was once considered a prodigy; thought to be one of the first people to become a Celestial, the highest any Sacred Artist could become. Following a viscous attack, he was left crippled and alone. Devoid of his powers, he has become a shell of his former self, but there may be something new hidden inside him. His village, family and apprentice gone; Silas is left to figure out what happened.