In the eighth book in this action packed series a telephone call sends Justin Imperiale to the South Continent. The caller is a man who claims to be from planet Glyon. Justin flies to the South Continent to talk to the man about re-establishing an ancient Empire along the mountain crests. 

Justin meets the man and convinces him that he, Justin, is the King of The Sky, a legendary warrior who can defeat any man in combat. The man then returns to Glyon. Justin is contacted by a man who claims to be from the South Continent and also claims to have information regarding a major drug shipment, due to leave the South Continent.  The information is supposed to lead Justin into a trap. However, he is clever enough to avoid the trap and seize a couple of drug shipments.

The men from Glyon return. They might be willing to try to set up an Empire, but first they must talk to a High Priest of the Temple of Vorell.

While waiting to make the trip to see the High Priest of the Temple of Vorell, Justin is attacked in his hotel room, but escapes.  He and the men from Glyon then travel to talk with the High Priest of the Temple of Vorell.  It's decided that the people of Glyon will come through the Gate and try to establish a new Empire. The capital will be near the old Empire capital city of Corzaro. The start of the new Empire will be financed by gold and emeralds, mined from jungle mines, discovered by the ancient Empire.

The need to operate mine in the jungle leads Justin and Tapu, the leader of the men from Glyon, into a conference with the jungle people.  Justin reinforces his standing as King of The Sky. Tapu then begins to set up the new Empire.

Justin returns to Zaya to crush the last warlord and also to obtain fighter aircraft for the new Empire.  Glyon mechanics go with Justin and refurbish the aircraft.  Glyon pilot then fly the aircraft back to the South Continent and are attacked on the way.

Justin discovers that the Association of Nations betrayed the Glyon flight and he retaliates by seizing bank accounts.

The Sky Path people attack the Glyon, who use advanced weapons to defeat the attack with little loss of life. Justin makes it appear as if the magic of the King of The Sky caused the defeat and builds the image of the new Empire among the original inhabitants.  After the initial defeat, Justin leads a raid on a Sky Path camp and again defeats the Sky Path people.  Justin also finds evidence that the Association of Nations is secretly funding the Sky Path. Justin then must fight a warrior, recruited by the Sky Path to prove his tight the title King of The Sky.

With the Sky Path well on the way to its defeat, Justin now turns to the problem of the President of Alvarado. Justin has promised to make the sky fall on the President.  So, he uses the space patrol boats and his anti-gravity machines to do a bit of asteroid mining. Astronomers have found a nickel iron asteroid not too far from Corin. He arranges for the asteroid to be dropped on the Presidential Compound of Alvarado. The asteroid ends the problem of the President and the distribution of the nickel iron will create jobs for the subjects of the Empire.

Justin then gets Tapu and the President of the Association of Nations to agree to return a mysterious tribe of original inhabitants from the jungle to the mountain crests.

Justin then leads a small scale military expedition into the area where some of the locals are growing illegal weed.  Justin and his men then seize all the property of the weed growing drug lords, for non-payment of taxes.  He finds that there's to be a major drug shipment up from the South of Zaya and through the territories of the few warlords who still control parts of Zaya.  With the help of professional train controllers, Justin plans a raid on the drug train that's to transport the contraband through Zaya.  With the help of the train controllers, his Commandos and his Voya subjects, who live in the southern jungles of Zaya, Justin steals a train in Golomon, to the South of Zaya, and hijacks the drug train cargo.

Justin gets the stolen train into Zaya, but the train then suffers what the train people call a 'hot box' on one of the wheel assemblies of a car.  The train can't be moved further without damage.  Justin, his Commandos and the Voya set up a defence for the stalled train.  Army forces from Golomon,to the South of Zaya, then try to pursue the stolen train.  There's another jungle war and Justin's forces rout the Golomon forces.  Justin goes to the Association of Nations people in Mervon.  There's a considerable flap about stolen trains.

Justin flim flams the President of the Association of Nations and lets the President know that there will probably be trouble in Golomon.  The trouble will involve Justin's Voya people and Justin will intervene.

Justin then asks the Association of Nations to expel Golomon, after he proves that the train in carrying drugs.  Of course, Justin knows that the Association of Nations won't expel Golomon, but that the discovery of drug smuggling will make further Golomon invasion of Zaya totally impractical politically.

A patrol boat arrives from out of space, piloted by a single, very beautiful woman.  The woman is interrogated by Head Priests of the Temples of Averon and found to be very dangerous trap for Justin.  He arranges to abandon the woman where she'll be captured by the Sky Path people, an original inhabitant revolutionary group.  The woman and the Sky Path people will neutralize each other for a while.  He flies down to the South of Zaya and, with Voya warriors, invades Golomon.  Justin and a pitifully small force manage to fight a delaying action, until Zayan soldiers can arrive.

The arrival of the Zayan soldiers results in a rout of the Golomon Army and Justin becomes the King of Golomon.  In the wrap up of the conquest of Golomon, Justin flies a very sick Voya woman to a hospital in the very South of Golomon.  There, he becomes involved with Mokasato original inhabitants.

Justin then enters the Temple of The Mad King and, as a result, becomes the King of The Sky for the Mokasato.  With the help of the Mokasato, Justin then conquests Helgryn, the country to the South of Golomon. 

Justin then begins the running of his new Kingdoms in Golomon and Helgryn to benefit the citizens and not just a few rich families.

He then receives a message, in the Galactic language from the South Continent.  The sender claims to be from the planet Glyon.