Baroness Victory confirms the stolen money purchased two generation ships, requiring the destruction of an orc yacht carrying children. Rosetta reflects on Porthus’s plan: Crawler families board one ship while trading the second for passage to the Impetus Point.

Justice Light urges action against the war mages. Rosetta questions Agatha’s motives. She recalls her mother’s death on the first day and the satisfaction of decapitating Rust. She decides to fight for her comrades, trusting Porthus, and orders all forces to defend Larracos.

Carl observes the battle formation rolling toward him. He fears war mages have conscripted one of the gods trapped inside the ball. Li Na reveals she installed Li Jun’s eye into her own socket and stopped a war mage from reaching Harpocrates.

Fopsy, a crawler controlled by a valtay worm, theorizes Agatha wants to end the crawl quickly to trigger the AI’s shutdown sequence. Victory notes Agatha was made co-warlord alongside Akuma. Donut casts a spell on corpses, creating flying flesh-monsters. After realizing the war mages may be trying to conscript the trapped gods, Carl orders Donut to stop.

He leads his group through the doggy-door entrance into Larracos, emerging into chaos—zarogoths attack everywhere while lava pours in. Donut locates the zarogoth generator inside the Piccadilly Theater. They have under 30 minutes before the defense system activates.

Carl pushes through the college gates. Juice Box demands Louis’s status: He is paralyzed and bound in the Reaver castle. Juice Box offers Samantha any body in exchange for rescuing Louis.

Someone is breaching the Nest tower. Toyotomi, Bomo, and Sergeant Bret S are killed defending it. Carl drops his bomb inventory toward the Piccadilly Theater, destroying the generator but accidentally activating the defense system early. Harpocrates stands at Shanty Town’s edge, blocked by changeling guards disguised as basilica ogres. Carl activates Hi-Yo Silver to summon Rend.

Carl enters the Nest tower as Donut activates the Donkey Kong barrel defense. Li Na enters behind him, face covered in blood from installing Li Jun’s eye, and hands Carl the duplicated Hell-Kissed Conscription Potion before leaving to use the original on Harpocrates.

Donut summons Raul the crab, now level 110, who collides with Lucia on the ramp. Harpocrates is successfully conscripted by Li Na. Carl smashes the potion on Lucia’s head, conscripting her. A personality named Diah speaks through Lucia, explaining multiple people are trapped inside her.

Mongo descends with clockwork copies. Gustavo’s Porcupine Defense quills impale Mongo. Carl summons Rend with Wrecking Ball, smashing through Gustavo and saving Mongo. Lucia heals Mongo, then warns Carl that killing Gustavo gave the Eulogist another ally, and he cannot kill her without causing the deaths of all Earth’s children. She is teleported away by an admin.

Zev confirms the AI cannot extract Lucia; if she dies, the children may die too. Harpocrates beats Yarilo to death with the ball, damning the god to the Nothing. Carl rushes up the Nest tower and reunites with Donut, now level 74. Rosetta, Edgar, and Milk arrive.

Agatha is removed as co-warlord; Akuma becomes sole warlord. Carl confirms Epitome Tagg (the rich leader of the Dream Faction) and Warlord Fangs are trapped in the ball, along with unaffiliated outworlders. Harpocrates stands motionless, clutching the ball.

Carl speaks with Zev, confirming Lucia is linked to 120,000 children and the Eulogist is the center system AI. The War Crime spell combines two chosen spells unpredictably and knocks the caster’s health to 1%.

A second anti-escape net has activated around the tower. Carl realizes if Donut casts War Crime with Wall of Fire, it will destroy the tower with them trapped inside.

The revised plan replaces Wall of Fire with Bijanbi, a spell that drags enemies to a designated location. Edgar tattoos the spell onto Donut’s shaved flank. Milk writes Words of Power over the tattoo, boosting Bijanbi to level 15. Milk gives Carl Stayfast Ink and a fountain pen for the Book of Voodoo. Rosetta, Edgar, and Milk jump from the tower.

Li Na sends Harpocrates in. He throws the ball into the Larracos funnel. The castle water turns to acid. Donut discovers the second net is still active. Li Na announces the ball has broken.

Donut casts the terrible War Crime spell, combining Bijanbi and Astral Paw. The system declares it her third Atrocity, granting Oak Fell class and Champion of Nekhebit title. A spinner locks in the Harpocrates benefit: level 15 Pied Piper.

Time freezes. Eris appears and reveals the war mages traded the Gate of the Feral Gods to Paca at the Midnight Market. She tells Carl to give the gate to Justice Light, warns Britney is possessed, mentions Carl is already married, and disappears.

A massive ethereal cat’s paw appears, pulling all enemies upward. Li Na constructs a chain lattice beneath it. Donut swipes her paw downward repeatedly, slamming enemies through the chains until the screaming stops. Carl vomits over the tower’s edge.

Meatus is destroyed; Harpocrates departs. Donut has no player-killer skulls, confirming the spell targeted only enemies. She is now level 135 with three new benefits. Li Na reached maximum base stats of 300 in all categories—unprecedented at only level 87.

Carl realizes Li Na marked all enemies with the Ring of Divine Suffering, but Tagg and Fangs escaped alive. The War Mage Rebellion abandons the throne room; the Princess Posse briefly captures it before it reverts to Team Retribution.

In the chat, the group reassures Donut they have no memory of being in the ball. Zhang tells her Li Jun would be proud. Donut reveals Li Na blamed her for Li Jun’s death and that she and Katia have a secret plan Carl cannot know.

The battlefield is devastated, covered with gore, ash, blood, and cooling lava. Donut trembles in Carl’s arms but says she is not ready to cry. Forces prepare to storm the castle while war mages regroup somewhere unknown. Carl and Donut stand together in the Nest tower looking out over the destruction, with hours of combat still ahead.