Ballad of The Hired Blades

Pilet Whydah dreams of joining the Hired Blades Association the world's premier Mercenary organization. The brash young high school drop-out would soon find his prayers answered; when Faxion of the Deadeye a notorious member of the famed group passes through his mountain village. Before long Pilet finds himself on a perilous crash course with this new friend and mentor as he struggles to train for the deadly Hired Blades Exam. Meeting a trio of fearsome friends along the way; swordsman Max Quinn and the aura-casting arcane sisters Faith and Yuuna Sierro the group sets forth in their quest to become revered Licensed Hired Blades. But under the surface lies traces of a force far more sinister than what anyone had imagined. A parasitic entity called The Wurm begins to mysteriously grip the creatures of this world and only The Hired Blades have the power to stop them.