Seven Words alter physics. Once they sourced Greek myths, now these Words are used by Atlantean mages in an interstellar struggle against evil. A fisherman, Praxis, must take first-test in pankration, an ancient MMA-style contest, to become Zeus 25, last dynastic ruler of Atlantis. His path to Olympian glory is interrupted by an interstellar journey which exposes him to a deadly threat to all mages of AvoDar - science.