Finding what they come to believe is an unhatched dragon egg, Alice and her friends carry the treasure with renewed determination to reach Arsalia's northern border. Dragons, commonly thought to be long extinct, were once the greatest symbols of military might in the world. With the allure of so much power, even the rumor of a dragon's egg in Arsalia could bring untold dangers upon the girls. But leaving it is out of the question. For with a dragon, Twinkaleni's faint hope of freeing her fellow magic wielders from the chains of the Order become a very real possibility.