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After the epic battle with the Shermanites at the end of the previous novel, the Pope Sherman is after them. They have to head out of the country and make it to Australia which is the only safe place. Their first stop is in Britain where they hold a funeral and collect survivors with no memories. Then they head to Spain and collect more survivors and have to face storms made of ash and soot. They soon head to Peru where they meet Shaddrach s former lover, Michal. She will be the new villain with her secret power of subtle mind-control. They adventure to Africa where they get trapped fighting Bleeders. Dangerous creatures that bleed a cement-like substance and melt in sunlight. After surviving all of this, Veronica is betrayed by Michal, and she ditches them to stay in Korea in a giant castle where she has to overcome impossible obstacles, tests and mazes by using her knowledge of religious history and getting inside of the Pope s head to uncover clues, which lead her to magical gems that she can use to enhance her powers or help the others. Meanwhile, the rest of the characters settle down in Australia, assuming political roles over this last makeshift excuse for a civilization. The Pope threatens to make his way to Australia to capture Veronica and use her powers to get stronger. Everyone must join together for this epic battle, and their only hope is that they are all left in the dark about the tasks of their friends. The only way this plan works is if everyone is given their assignments in secret whilst being ignorant of the other people s assignments and missions. If one fails, they all fail and that means Sherman will win.

The story begins with Veronica. She is a singer working for a rebellious organization fixed on deterring the Australian Pope's plans. She is living with her fiance and brother. The company finds that the way of destroying the Pope is by Veronica getting experimented on. After Veronica gets abducted, the story splits to Reuben. He is coping with his mother s arrest by joining a gang and doing drugs. When the city gets destroyed, he teams up with Jessica, Mikey, Karishma and the rest of the characters from Veronica s story. They travel through the dilapidated city in search of survivors. Once enough survivors are accumulated, everyone starts to live in the wilderness. They face Sangworms, which are blood sucking parasites that turn you into zombies. They meet Sheva and Shaddrach who are soldiers in search of a promised land (Celsta). They also discovered a radio with communication to Australia. They are led to a safe haven. Stephen, Veronica s fiance, begins falling in love with Jessica after getting infected with a deadly virus. We come back to Veronica who is in outerspace being experimented on. She wakes up with superpowers that she can t understand. Her goal is to escape the outerspace facility and make it back home. There are many obstacles and traps that she must overcome and fight lots of people. This sequence in the book is similar to Escape the Night, Resident Evil, Three Percent, or Saw. After she overcomes all the tests and booby traps and fights other super powered people and creatures, she learns just what this evil Pope is really thinking and gets inside his sick, demented thought-process which is seemingly Biblical or Catholic in nature. She finally makes it back to Earth, but there is nothing left.

Veronica establishes a religious empire that is ruling over what's left of the world. She creates other beings like herself, which she adopts as children. After training them and teaching them how to utilize their powers and become superior beings capable of healing everything and solving any and every conflict, problems arise. Michal begins using her subtle powers of mind-control to deceive Veronica s children into rebelling against her. Now there are beings just as powerful as Veronica trying to destroy everything. They know her every thought, they can see the future, and they have all the powers that Veronica has. Plus, she loves them more than anything. How does she stop a creature just as powerful as herself without hurting them and proving that this mind-controller was responsible. A more sinister plot unfolds. The Bleeders in Africa are getting stronger and strogner and forming an alliance, besides all of this, the man in charge of running the country, Caophe, who is all the books, has developed a bad sex and drug addiction. Besides all of this, Michal has an even bigger chip she is about to play. She is manipulating Veronica s children to resurrect an even more powerful project. Sherman s first project. Michal revives Project Rain and is mind-controlling him. Everything is being blamed on Veronica and her religious empire. Michal corrupts Religious history and conspiracies to make it look like Veronica is an evil dictator while in secret controlling everyone to do evil. One last thing I forgot to mention. Project Rain s power is the control over the reality of life and death. Whatever he touches, whatever he looks at or breathes on or advances toward, dies. Veronica must face death itself and somehow save the lives of her wicked children.

Veronica crash landed on earth all alone with her new found powers. She does a lot of self-reflecting and then goes on her journey to find Celsta. Jessica is guiding Celsta and planning her wedding with Stephen. An intensely dramatic love triangle ensues where Veronica and Jessica fight for Stephen s love since he is dying soon from the virus. Everyone is concerned because of Veronica s powers and the desperate desire the Pope has for finding her. This could be a danger to Celsta. Ally and Luis, who are the contacts from Australia trying to keep everyone around the world alive, are not to be fully trusted. It is also believed that Ally is another prescient character with superpowers. The love triangle escalates to people getting physically harmed and dissension dividing the town into factions. After Veronica wins over Stephen s heart once again, Sheva and Shaddrach convince Jessica to calm down. Karishma and Reve (who is one of the leaders of Celsta) begin making biological weapons using spider venom. When Celsta is attacked, they learn that their contacts from Australia could be working with the evil pope. They assemble together, hoping to use Veronica s powers over the elements and Karishma s bioweapons to make a last stand against the Shermanites. They take out an Aargon ship using arrows with the spider venom and use the ship to their advantage to fight against the villains. In an all out brawl of vengeance and violence, Veronica finds a way to trigger her powers and save the town by doing incredible things that are never before seen in any sci-fi or fantasy adventure novel or movie to this day. Unfortunately there is nothing that she can do about Stephen s mortal condition. Stephen is dying slowly with no cure.

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