Ren, Callum, and Dael emerge to find the battle ending. Demons lose cohesion as the Crucible's network dies. The army advances. Ren walks the battlefield counting the cost, then finds Nella alive on the eastern flank. Three returned from twelve.

In the reconstructed guild hall, Ren and the demon speak. The demon recites guild code fragments and specific memories including Sera's death and the first lock lesson, but its memory breaks at the hatch where Tik died.

On the third morning, Ren scouts from a ridge and discovers a camp of five survivors: Harsk the craftsman, Nella the ex-soldier, Fossick the thief, Brother Callum the priest, and the mysterious Moth.

While clearing an unnamed village three days after Greyhollow, Callum notices boneglass formations in the church follow pre-existing geometric channels.

Three days after the recording, the team discovers Thorne is purging all evidence from his Olympic Peninsula compound. With the FBI warrant stalled by a corrupt judge and the news cycle fading, Kate decides on a final raid. The team prepares through the night and drives north into the dark forests.

Chen's 72-hour assessment confirms Reeves meets all Phase Six criteria. All factions defer to Marcus. Before he can sign the form, God arrives — appearing as the homeless woman Marcus barely noticed at the Cardelli murder scene three years ago.

Wilson wakes in hospital. Emily reveals she monitored his vitals every 90 minutes all night and keeps her own list of 14 dead. Yellowknife under martial law. James forces an impossible split between hospital and school; 114 die.

The entity detects Traq and launches a direct psychic assault, trying to intimidate him into destroying the archive data. Traq resists through sheer irrational defiance - the exact quality the entity cannot model.

Team assaults a peripheral Ninth Circle staging area to capture ritual materials. Cultists fight with dark-blessed weapons that burn through protective gear. The weeping zealots and true believers are people, not monsters — Haatim enforces non-lethal.