Planet Janaidar hides a terrible secret—a powerful artificial sapience built as the ultimate weapon over 5,000-years ago by conquering intergalactic slavers. The WuShi now lies hidden deep within The-Sleeping-City forever suppressed by the Huan Long Shui Sisteren and Guardian Dragons of Orion. As a peaceful, low-tech world, Janaidar's utopia is about to be invaded.
High Priestess Alahna discovers spacefaring aliens abducting her people. In her quest to find a hero somewhere in the multiverse, she activates the Pillars-of-Thoth awakening the Wushi into its most dangerous state—The-Creeping-Darkness—as he ultimate taboo.
Sinister and silent, the WuShi charges its accumulators with enough dark-energy to generate a transdimensional-arc and find a new power-master to help it enslave the entire multiverse.
On Earth, a swirling transdimensional-arc overlays the outer wall of Elijah's house. Peering through in terror, he sees a beautiful sorceress suspended in the fiery air above naked adherents dancing through liquid fire on a Pentakulum. A dragon appears out of nowhere and flames them all. The hapless earth-man does not die but finds himself transformed by The-Creeping-Darkness of the WuShi.