meanwhile, defilak has gathered a crew for his home-built submarine: gar, idris, and sarda. as they descend into unknown territory, they are soon attacked and trapped by a school of takea sharks, who are led by a bigger, shark-like being who is named pridak. after the submarine is destroyed, pridak demands the mask of life from the crew and throws sarda to the sharks when they claim ignorance. he explains that he is a barraki, one of six warlords banished to the pit millennia ago for their crimes. sarda is subsequently saved by the arrival of toa lesovikk.