Three years before the "Mystery of the Olko beads," story, a great famine hits the Yakunko lands claiming all food crops except for the "Unnu'(sunflower) crop! A southern farmer known as Yudo Ramundo discovers the Unnu crop could survive through the famine and introduces sunflower bread. Today sunflower fields form walls of food around hundreds of southern villages. When reports come, monsters and unusual wild beasts of old, once defeated by man and pushed back into the darker shadows of the shadowlands, forgotten and become a myth, were woke. Whatever they were after, was nowhere related to humans' need for survival. They are back with a purpose more significant than the search for food in the midst of chronic famine. Unfortunately, a divide is inevitable amongst the village elders when Tsote, a thirteen-year-old boy and his best friend Opit Ramundo spring out of sleep claiming to have had two relatively similar dreams depicting the fall of Chiefdoms of men in the Down-south regions of the Shadowlands... Very few will believe and trust the authenticity of two typically playful and stubborn village boy's dreams! Hence, Menshi Yudo Ramundo, an honourable and beloved sunflower bread baker remains the last thin line between the hungry, angry and yet hopeless village elders, their people and the boys... for trust and unification against dangerous ancient mythology come alive...!

The East African community finally agrees to join hands to become one as a nation. Presidents already served two terms and above in their respective states are denied participation in the Union's pre-presidential election. As the Union prepares for its pre-presidential elections, President Salim Savimbi of Uganda threatens to withdraw from the Union. The union terms his withdrawal as illegal and a threat to the future of the union. Amidst the confusion, President Salim invites the USA Interpol into Uganda. The Interpol was on a regional search for RAT, a weapon of mass destruction the US made first hoping to cripple Japan's might in the East in 1943. Unfortunately, the US lost the weapon in a raging storm over the East African great lakes region... until 2031. Shortly after the US Interpol's arrival, a C4 bomb explodes in Kampala claiming several high-profile lives. President Salim is alleged to be the murderer! This stirs up the Union making civil war inevitable! Nevertheless, President Salim shows no fear for a pack of barking dogs. What happens when a wounded and very angry puppy bites his pride?

Tsote's return from the magnificent city of Sambura marks a profound transformation within him. He feels a newfound strength and confidence, yet his deep-rooted bias against the Yakunko Ikhanka gift remains unaltered. Despite this, the very essence of Ikhanka flows through his veins, tying him to generations of animosity between the Yakunko and their nine sister tribes. With the final Ikhankara games on the horizon, a malevolent force rises from the shadowlands, capable of corrupting and darkening the Yakunko warriors' Ikhanka gift. As the Yakunko King and the council of elders grapple with suppressing uprisings from the sister tribes, the impending threat looms over the entire realm. Tsote stands at a critical juncture, facing a momentous decision. His choice could either lead to the birth of a darker and mightier Yakunko Empire or the obliteration of his people's gift. The nine sister tribes, seeking revenge for the millennia of Yakunko's greed and cruelty, intensify the gravity of his dilemma. Amidst his fears and uncertainties, Tsote's path guides him to confront the darkness he resents. There, he discovers the true potential and significance of the "Mysterious Olko beads," his mother's sole inheritance. Unravelling their secrets, he realizes that the fate of every Gebian shadowland hangs in the balance, and his decisions will shape the destiny of his people and their ancient power.