Mel finds out the location of the first Icon, but then a distress signal leads the Defenders to a port city where they meet a man shooting at a Sigil Slayer, which is eventually defeated. Von Faustien tells them that after the war against the Ethos left him whit no family he dedicated his life to hunting down those Ethos war dogs. Then he shows them to the tomb of Yan-Mara where the first Icon is located, only to find that a woman, Lady K'tash, has gotten there first and is waiting for them.