It has been a year since Captain Mimico, Purron, Bastet, Kabu and Durga left Agrest behind in promise of taking Bastet home to Egyptos and in search of the Ark of Shamarkand on board of The Sea Wanderer. But a storm washes them on the shores of Egyptos, the problem is that Egyptos has changed, and a mysterious archeological society is turning the wooly folk of Egyptos into slaves in search of the very first pyramid ever built; a pyramid created by the wooly folk of Shamarkand.