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At the end of the first book the main character, Nick Sobolev, is the winner of the great “Ritual” Competition. This brings him to the attention of Princess Cleo who finds herself reacting to his bravery and skills. Feeling a very strong connection to Nick, she asks him to help her find her lost half-brother. He had disappeared in the Forest several years ago.
However, plans to rescue her brother are delayed when the local biological apocalypse known as the Exodus begins on the planet. Once every ten years the, the Forest spews out a horde of creatures. These mutant animals fall upon human settlements devouring everything in sight.
After the Exodus, a group of people travel through the devastated territory and across a mountain range to find the Old City. There they hope to find the answers to so many of their questions.
Their expedition is filled with danger and one adventure after another leading them to quickly understand that the Forest is not just a place that trees and plant grow and animals live. It is much more. It is affecting their minds, their thoughts and diverting their path away from the Old City. How can this happen? Who is controlling this? What secrets are being protected? Most importantly what is the destiny for the inhabitants of this planet? Is it because of the strange opposition of the Forest that the protagonists lose their remaining satellites?
As they try to survive alone in the Forest jungle, they unexpectedly find their first answers to some of the riddles of the hidden planet.