Flares of sky-borne weapons blaze over the Field of Kuru, burning everything alive; hero after hero and ordinary fighters perish— and even the gods, the Lord-keepers of the world, can no longer stop this slaughter. The world is sliding into a pit; in the paradise gardens demons appear—rakshasas—while the breaker of fortresses at the same time is busy… studying the archives of a hundred years ago!
Save the collapsing world? Yes! But where is the source of today’s lightless apocalypse? Perhaps the answer lies in the story of the life of the Mentor, Drone, the great brahmin and great warrior—born not of a woman?