Since the thirty-first century and for a thousand years thereafter, a successive line of extraordinary men have assumed the mantle of Rai, national protector of Japan. Now, with Japan shattered and Earth being conquered, one man has become the last Rai. Fighting alongside a last alliance of the future's greatest heroes, they seek to defend not a nation but the entire planet from all that would threaten it.
With the end of the Malev war and the reign of the Starwatchers, a new age of peace comes to the 41st century. Spylocke now stands guard over the Blood of Heroes until a new hero can be found, one worthy to bear the mantle of Rai! Will Takao Konishi's infant son Obadiah grow up to be that hero?