Lady Jeanne revives Ren, but wonders how long the X-LAWs will allow him to remain alive, and a weakened Horohoro wanders right into a gang of Hao's thugs and tries to help the Ice Men they are overpowering.
Yoh is teamed up with moody Faust on the journey to the Patch Village, where the pair forms strange alliances that test everyone's strength and loyalties in unexpected ways.
Discusses the civilization of the Anasazi people, who farmed the land of Mesa Verdi, a plateau in southwest Colorado, around 550 A.D. and dug their homes in the cliffs.
Simple text and illustrations present the life story of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer and conquistador Francisco Coronado, covering his search for the Seven Cities of Gold.