When Paul Gebler is successfully caught up on Centroid, reuniting with his wife Lorel and son Chiko, he turns 250 years of age, and so are the rest of the family. Never showing a sign of old age, they remain in their glorified bodies. Suddenly though, the cropters invade Centroid and arrested Paul’s team of troidants. As the cropters hoard the captives into their giant ship, the leader Lucifernus decides to annihilate all their captives at once while on Centroid’s atmosphere.

The Troidants arrested by the cropters were about to be annihilated … but “don’t you still know that we are non-perishables?” asked one troidant. And they remained unscathed as their bodies are glorified and do not die.
Shocked, the cropters see that they could not kill the troidants, they are taken aback and terrified as they themselves are soon vanished back to the Old Earth—which is becoming like Hades.