Feared worldwide as the Witch's Apprentice, Adonis plots bloody vengeance upon all humanity for the death of his beloved teacher. Yet after his companion Doroka was cruelly robbed of her eyes, the two of them have taken a detour to the Medical Nation of Markpoint, which boasts science so advanced it can even restore sight to the blind. Markpoint presents itself as a beacon of scientific progress, but there is evil and malice at the heart of their utopia—a malice answered in kind by Adonis, who will not be denied.