While Wang is held in a monastery of one of the schools of the sacred Tao, his companions Huan, Sir Richard, Childeric the Merovingian are sent to track down a mercenary named Xiang Xuan who collaborates with drifters and specters who are often very vicious shapeshifters and endowed with impressive malice, unlike the drifters, who have either become humans who have become demons through magical and blood union or master demons who come straight from the initial sphere of the lower astral, even deeper than where Wang and his companions had gone. Tracked by the Merovingian who is looking for the spear of destiny, the second artifact missing from him because he now has the holy ampoule of Clovis I, and the alchemist governor Lord Smith wanted to have confirmation of the treachery of a senator who associates with drifters to welcome their sciences for the purpose of destabilizing one of the western states in order to provoke martial law and thus cancel any influence of the aging outgoing patriarch who after more than 80 years of reign wants to retire and the pretenders to his succession are numerous, the weapons given by the drifters are a technology imbued with a secret artifact but known to some, it is one of the ten magical scrolls containing knowledge from ancient times, at the time of the disappeared Empire of Lemuria and the scroll in their possession, that of number 10, modifies the perception of reality capable of controlling the masses. During their meeting, Xiang encounters the drifter in a cave where thousands of drifters, minion demons, work and abuse enslaved humans on a railway transporting the minerals needed to make brainwashing helmets.
It was then that Huan remembered working in one of the mines and met former colleagues before Wang, in his fight, came to destroy one of the ten secret mines. However, now the drifters had become more discreet and cautious, with attacks from the guides and the Confederate States Army. An alchemist was assigned to them, a rather elderly African-American with long white dreadlocks. He was in the service of Lord Richard, dressed in worker camouflage. He entered Xiang's aunt's house and saw Huan again and recognized him, but during their discussion, a cry of alarm was given:
GENERAL ALERT!!!!!!!!! Instrumentals.
It was then that the two ghostly shapeshifters took on the appearance of certain humans; in reality, they were undercover politicians.
Huan: Aren't you ashamed? For several years now, you've been mistreating your people.
Xiang: But my old friend, it's just business. Money has neither smell nor color.
Huan: I hope you rot in hell. Xiang: But where do you think these tunnels are leading us?
Huan: What do you mean? What are you doing here? And what was the senator doing here?
Huan saw photos of the politicians and others as ghosts wearing the same clothes, and realized that they were no longer human, and that the real one was either dead or imprisoned, and that a ghost had taken his place. Xiang then took advantage of the situation to escape, but was later assassinated by a master demon who no longer saw any use for him.
Richard: You have the necessary proof, then.
Huan: But I need to check something before I go ahead. I'll follow you.
Richard: Okay, but where is Childeric the Merovingian?
When they arrived, they split up to gain ground, but Childeric, meanwhile, went in the opposite direction and encountered the master demon. It was the black magician who supposedly sent him to the lower astral plane.
Black Mage: Childeric?
Childeric: I did my part of the bargain, you must do yours. I brought the child to Kakao-PAOK.
Black Mage: And we gave you the holy ampoule of your ancestor Clovis I, and what else do you want?
Childeric: It was agreed that I would meet the great oculus to make my request in person.
Black Mage: You can always tell me, and I'll pass it on to him. To prove his good faith, he gave you a family treasure, and now where is the Spear of Destiny?
Childeric: I don't have it. Hlod has it.
Black Mage: Your cousin, the Carolingian, and what else does he have?
Childeric: He has the sword of Eramus the giant.
In a rage, the master demon, this black mage slaps him! Childeric falls to the ground.
Black Mage: You told us you had it in your possession. No wonder your entire lineage disappeared due to your incompetence.
Childeric gets up, angry but calm.
- During our last fight, he took me by surprise, and the entire brotherhood helped him a lot.
Black Mage: Find her and bring her back to me, now go.
Childeric the Merovingian leaves and finds Richard, who has taken a weapon from a room, electric gloves, capable of projecting lightning and allowing him to cling to a building or a tree. A punch sends an electric shock. During the battle with drifters, minion demons, the assigned alchemist conjures up trees that attack the drifters. Once a branch touches its target, a seed germinates, and another tree grows and blooms, freeing the workers.
Huan rushes to the bottom of the tunnel and discovers a crack between the two worlds, that of humans and demons. He notices some kind of device that transforms humans into undead or demons. Huan destroys it with his chain, but realizes that if there is one here, there are surely several in the territory.
Once outside with proof, they return to Lord Smith, who congratulates them. Wang and Johnny are still at the temple, and the great sorcerer, master of the Temple of the Sacred Tao, asks Wang for his decision.
Wang: After two days here, I've thought it over, great sage, and my decision is made. My friends need me, and if I have to lose my life to help, then I accept my decision.
The great sorcerer: Then so be it!! But you'll need this.
As Wang left, he said to him:
"You have a very special destiny, which is why I'm going to reveal to you where Princess Elizabeth is. She is in the hands of the blue Temple of the Sacred Tao (these are the yellow ones).
Wang_: But how did Taoists get involved in a kidnapping?
The great sorcerer_: The power, there's one of these drifters who supposedly promised our colleagues the magic scroll of the elixir of eternal life, and for your information, your friend Akimo is in danger because the drifters are looking for his people's scroll called the Mayan calendar.