General Dronov Auctoritas Tenebris and his entourage flee the restaurant and split themselves under two routes: toward the Helix, their headquarters in the Weatherlight, where the barracks of the Tenebris army are located, and towards the reserve base in the center of Tridecapolis. The military men are sharp and manage to mobilize a hungry and combative Tenebris army in a short time, but they still have to man the right positions for that.

The Tenebris army has also recently started using the un-citizen monitor, a tracking system for civilians who can be followed without their knowledge via their minidig.

The Resistance are in the Ice Peaks looking for the possessed Para, who left traces that they follow.

To their great shock, they encounter gruesome, incredibly large black beasts, which according to the Bestiary are called bickbearels, where Toai gets bitten again. After a bloodcurdling fight, where even the strong Toai lose consciousness, Modi, Eep and Cali manage to defeat them and then discover a large fortress in the distance, the Absconditrum, whose name they do not yet know. They continue towards the hidden fortress, convinced that Para must have gone there.

Vlad and Ristato, who at this point know nothing of an Uprising in Tridecapolis, after Yurian's visit to Quints, are on their way to the Ice Peaks, hoping to find Modi somewhere, accompanied by his friends. They hide Vlad's work mobile among the golden green hills and continue on foot.

Shante en dokter Hotan, die met de bionische mecha-klonen van Angus aan de gang willen, worden afgeleid door de Opstand, maar werken verder aan de bionische-mecha-klonen van Angus.

In Tridecapolis , the Uprising is a bloody chaos, and it soon becomes apparent that they are gaining the upper hand over the center of the metropolis. Mutual frustrations are fought out on the streets by the residents of the city. But something beautiful also happens, the citizens of the city get new hope, that they might get a better future through the Uprising.