Everyone needs a queen snail. Both pirates looked for it, and the Sonaarians—resentful of mankind—also hunted for it. Yet it ended up at Peter Blood’s side, even though he wasn’t involved in the hunt for it. And an ancient prophecy begins to come true. Blood doesn’t even suspect it—nor does he have time for prophecies. The captain of the Arra-Bella would need to get his mad crew and his galaxy-scale deranged villain to deal with the consequences of a love triangle that has pulled his friends into a deadly whirl of the most dangerous events— and now, you see, there’s some prophecy! If Captain Arra-Bella knew what the hunt was really about, he wouldn’t be so careless.
Deep within the bottomless cold cosmos, full of countless secrets, a gigantic ship sleeps—the Ark, the cradle of a vanished civilization, destroyed by its own might…