Lucien comes to terms with the choice he has to make: accept that the faith of this war depends on him alone. Meanwhile, Andromeda comes back with the last missing pages and Voivodul is finally resurrected after two thousand years of imprisonment. He will cast certain doom in the ongoing war, not only to the Mineans but also on his own people, thirsty to destroy all those who participated in his retirement long ago. There will be a showdown between Voivodul and Lucien...