Archives of Ages' lost

Joan Archebus, professor of History and languages at the University of Margen, is tasked to retrieve archaeological founding and bring them to the city of San Vale where the seat of Archaeology is. Accompanied by Alessia a student dreaming of becoming a cartograph, they set out expecting to be done in under a month. However a month later they have yet to reach the archaeological site and a lot seem to have happened.

Can they reach their destination and complete their mission? Why are they being hunted down so relentlessly? Is there sometimes they weren't told about their mission ?

Art by me.