The Mystic Swordsman becomes the living link with the awesome power of a vanished super-race. In the dark swamp where toadmen croak and cower, slumbers an ancient relic of the days when creatures from the stars ruled the Earth. In the booty captured in a savage raid, Kane discovers a ring, a bloodstone, which is the key to the power that lies buried, inactive but not dead, within the forest. Now Kane, whose bloddy sword has slashed and killed for the glory of other rulers, can scheme to rule the Earth — himself!
