The animation isn't just an upgrade, it's proof that a tower defense game can look like cinema. Every frame breathes with detail that has nothing to do with the mechanics back home, from dust settling in Lungmen's streets to the quiet devastation on infected faces as Oripathy takes them. Eight episodes is barely enough to contain what this show is actually trying to do, and it knows it.

Oripathy is an incurable illness that slowly turns the bodies of the infected to crystal until they die. Rhodes Island, a pharmaceutical company, searches for a cure and works to ease the troubles the disease brings. Under contract with the Yanese city of Lungmen, it opposes Reunion Movement, a terrorist group that claims to fight for the salvation of the Infected. Amiya is still grieving after the battle against Skullshatterer, unable to accept that Misha could not be saved. Meanwhile, Rhodes Island sends a scouting squad to an abandoned city found in the Lungmen countryside, where its members notice a strange phenomenon taking place. Reunion commander FrostNova, whose wintry powers make those who stand against her slowly perish in frost, emerges as a formidable foe. The eight-episode action fantasy adapts Hypergryph's tower defense mobile game.