Recruit new allies to help with mission. Few Hunters remain but find sympathetic operatives. Build small team for Arthur rescue. Each ally brings skills needed for Hell incursion.

Hunt for The Ninth Circle begins. Using Aram intelligence. Tracking cult cells. First strikes against enemy. Taking fight to those responsible. Gathering information on Arthur location.

Survivors regroup and assess situation. Six Hunters remaining. Must rebuild from nothing. Discuss priorities: rescue Arthur, hunt conspirators, rebuild Council. Begin picking up pieces. Frieda leads.

Team deals with aftermath. Father-son relationship destroyed. Team divided on Aram fate. Haatim isolated. Survivors must move forward despite broken bonds. Tension within group.

Aram confesses full details of his deal with enemies. Explains motivations and justifications. Believed protecting Haatim. Reveals scope of intelligence provided. Names other conspirators. Haatim learns complete truth of betrayal.

Haatim confronts Aram about betrayal. Father-son relationship shattered. Haatim struggles with whether to kill father. Aram wounded from headquarters attack. Haatim rage and pain. Leaves Aram alive but relationship destroyed.

Prologue. Context setting for book 3. May show Arthur in Hell being tortured by Surgat. Or show The Ninth Circle operations. Or survivors six months later. Sets stage for rescue mission and final battle.

Epilogue. Six survivors vow to rebuild Council and continue fight. Frieda takes leadership as sole Council member. Team commits to hunting down conspirators and Nida. Plan to find Arthur in Hell. Prepare for war. Despite devastating losses, determination to continue.

Aftermath of headquarters massacre. Six Hunters remain alive: Frieda, Abigail, Haatim, Dominick, and two others. Counting the dead. Nearly entire Council and Hunter organization slaughtered. Frieda sole surviving Council member. Team shell-shocked by losses.