CONQUEST

A youth named Ilias leaves his family in his paradise home for the wilderness. He receives a magic bow from his father to mark his passage into manhood. Ilias enters a land where creatures terrorize small tribes. While in a drugged state, Ocron, the creature's masked leader, sees a faceless youth with a magic bow who dares to attack her. She sends her creatures out to look for the man.

A gang of Ocron's marauders later tries to steal the bow and capture Ilias. But they are foiled when outlaw Mace appears and beats up the marauders, who flee. Mace teams up with Ilias on his quest to rid the land of evil. Later, while training with the bow, Mace kills a random hunter, and both he and Ilias steal the dying man's game.

Next, Ocron sends Fado, her creatures' leader, to capture Ilias and the bow. Ilias and Mace stop for the night to rest and eat with a tribe in caves and offer them a fresh animal kill as a gift. Ilias recognizes a young girl of the tribe seen earlier in the journey, and the two of them go off together. Masked attackers soon kill the girl and abduct Ilias, stealing his bow. Mace tracks them down to a camp and rescues Ilias in a bloody fight.

At Ocron's lair, Fado gets burned on a giant hot plate as punishment for failing to capture the bow. Ocron summons the Great Zora, a spirit who resides in the body of a white wolf. She offers herself, body and soul, to Zora if he can kill Ilias.

Meanwhile, Mace refuses to continue aiding Ilias, thinking that Ocron is too powerful to combat. Mace agrees to escort Ilias as far as the seashore, from where the latter must sail to Ocron's fortress. The surrounding shrubbery eventually fires hundreds of tiny poisoned arrows at the two of them. One arrow hits Ilias in the arm, soon breaking out in boils. Mace sails with him along the coast to a place where a unique plant grows that will cure his affliction of the poison. Leaving Ilias on the boat, Mace jumps ashore and soon battles zombies and, later, a double of himself. Mace wins the fight, and his double is revealed as Zora, who disappears.

The plant works, and Ilias is restored to health. However, he has become disenchanted and decides to sail home, pleading with Mace to go with him. Mace refuses and also refuses to take ownership of the bow. No sooner have they parted when cobweb-covered monsters attack Mace. They tie Mace to a wooden cross and interrogate him about the whereabouts of Ilias. Mace refuses to cooperate. Ilias saves him with his bow and arrows. But Mace falls off a cliff and into the sea during the rescue. Super-intelligent dolphins bite at the ropes that tie Mace to the cross and he is washed ashore, barely conscious. Ilias arrives and says that he has had a change of heart and decided to return to be with Mace and defeat Ocron.

That night, Ilias is grabbed and sucked down into a lair inhabited by subterranean monsters. Mace follows and is forced to battle them while chasing after Ilias. Venturing further into the caves, Mace finds Ilias, hanging upside down with his head cut off. Zora delivers Ilias's severed head and the bow to Ocron. Mace lights a funeral pyre for Ilias. Ilias' spirit then speaks inside Mace's mind and tells him to anoint himself with the ashes. This will pass along the power Cronos gave to Ilias, and the bow will be Mace's.

The next morning, Mace confronts Ocron in her lair. The bow soon flies out of her hands, and into his. He takes on all of Ocron's werewolves, shooting them with magic arrows. One arrow penetrates Ocron's mask, revealing the face of a ghoul atop her human body. Ocron dies, and her corpse transforms into a wolf, which runs off into the wilderness with the wolf Zora. Mace decides to continue Ilias's quest to rid the land of evil.