After the Siege of Bombay, Max and Magnus land in India with a vengeance. Their armies and fleet take on the powerful Gupta Empire, but Emperor Chandra has cemented catapult towers to deny them access to the Ganges river system. Chan's boulders break harmlessly against these walls, so Magnus finds another way to win. The Gupta get help from the Vakataka, Kadamba, and Naga kingdoms. When the Maximus family loses another loved one, there will be hell...