The Ninth Circle

Arthur wakes in hospital after a week. Frieda reveals the political fallout - 27 dead, Council furious. When Arthur learns the Council considers killing Abigail as potentially compromised, he threatens anyone who touches her. The Council grants him guardianship.

Arthur enters the nine-sided ritual chamber where thirteen cultists perform the Rite of the Ninth Gate. He slaughters the entranced cultists before they can sacrifice 7-year-old Abigail. Arthur confronts Mal'akheth directly, enduring psychological torment about his family's death.

Arthur fights through the manor, sustaining a gunshot wound to his left arm and additional injuries fighting a possessed cultist. Despite his wounds, he follows the screams of a captive child, dispatching demons and cultists, finally reaching a reinforced door leading to the ritual chamber.

The Hunters approach and breach the cult's Victorian manor. Arthur enters through the front as a diversion, killing multiple cultists. He confronts a demon in the ballroom but breaks past it when he hears a child screaming, pursuing deeper into the manor where the real ritual is taking place.

Arthur Vangeest, grief-stricken after his wife Eleanor and daughter Grace were murdered by the Ninth Circle cult two weeks ago, prepares for a raid on the cult's manor stronghold. He meets with Council mentor Frieda and fellow Hunters (Charles, Mildred Greathouse, Dexter Colson).

The trip back to reality was difficult. The first part of it was sheer pain, agonizing and overwhelming and enough to make it clear to him that he wasn't dead yet. Or, at least, if he was that he was in hell. Breathing was nearly impossible, and he couldn't open his eyes more than a few...

Arthur moved quietly in the direction of the screams. His arm and side were wet where the bullet had struck him, and it was getting harder to keep his footing, but he knew he was getting close now. The voices were louder and the words more recognizable. The words were being chanted in Latin,...

Arthur stepped out of the courtyard and into an empty dining area of the manor that looked mostly unused. It was dusty and filled with broken chairs and tables that had deteriorated with age. Behind him in the courtyard he heard more cultists jumping to the ground from the second floor window....

Frieda stopped the car along the road about two kilometers from their destination, parking out of sight along an old access road. Their target was an old manor built in the mid-nineteenth century that had long since fallen into disrepair. The estate wasn't near any cities and was difficult to...