Xigg Village's 1852 Adventure Class students are ready for their Qualifying Quest - if they pass, then they have their full Explorers' License and are allowed to join a guild or strike out on their own. Dulsie Stryke is faced with a fatal quest when she is assigned to bring the cursed spider - Leivarre - to the Forgotten Forest, where no one has returned from in centuries. Determined to see the quest through and return to her ailing mother, Dulsie faces the challenge head-on.