Rhea, an S-rank Beast Master tied to a recent headquarters anomaly, meets Frank Jones, vice president of Royal University, who offers her a place in the elite gifted program. Jones awards an S-rank Talent Stone and awakens an S-rank talent in Rhea's Blazing Dragon, making her the only S-rank with an S-rank talent this year. Rhea boasts she'll become the alliance's most revered Beast Master and taunts a rival, Fred. The celebration is cut short by an emergency alert: a Citybreaker Thunder Beast detected 20 miles southeast of Riverton, leaving her new power untested and the city on edge.