In present time Patrick Hammel wakes to a voice calling him Pogul and telling him to kill Mandar. He then drives to a trucking company where Manny Silva is a security guard. He pulls a gun on Manny whose extreme rage pulls Patrick from a stupor and chases Patrick away. The event prompts Manny to quit the security job and begin his quest to the pyramids in Central American in order to find proof of the lost continent of Atlantis. He is following the readings of Edgar Cayce who believed Atlantis was a high tech continent in the Atlantic Ocean. In Central America Manny develops extreme dysentery and in a delusional state becomes the incarnation of MANDAR of Atlantis twelve thousand years ago. MANDAR along with his Lessor slave Lugaar, crash their airship while traveling to Angleland to bring a barbarian couple to Atlantis for a conference about beasts overtaking the world. Angeland is a country violently controlled by the evil Priest of Inanna, Zarharrab, and his mother. It was their magic harp which drove Patrick Hammel to kill Manny Silva in the future and disabled MANDAR's airship. Their plan is to capture the female barbarian, Sulina, and use her to travel to the underworld to release an army of monsters and conquer Atlantis. A contingent of Zarharrab's minions led by Pogul capture Sulina and her husband, the loathsome Kirack. Kirack had married Sulina, a chief's daughter to gain power. MANDAR rescues the couple from Pogul. During their adventures MANDAR and Sulina fall in love. Sulina is recaptured by Zarharrab's and taken to the Temple of Inanna where she is tortured into leading Zarharrab and his mother to the underworld. MANDAR, with the help of natives and Lugaar enter the underworld where he kills Zarharrab's mother and frees Sulina. Zarharrab leads his unearthly army out of their captivity and chases MANDAR, Lugaar, Sulina, and Kirack. With more help from Angleland natives, MANDAR battles his way to a Forbidden Causeway leading back to Atlantis. On the way he promises to help free the Lessor slaves and defend Atlantis from the Beasts.