Bel leads a final assault on Hommlett with a coalition of allies, including Azail the summoner, Oro, coin paladins, dark paladins, Order wizards, the governor of Mor’Koc and Sir Di’Do. The army fights through a battlefield of dragons and cultists, with Ents and elves supporting the flank. Ancient red and blue dragons single out Bel; her banishment spells fail to remove them.
Escorting Azail to the summoning circle, Bel confronts a shadowed figure known as the Hooded Man. Azail is slain and she is briefly flung into a sewage ditch, but she returns and presses on. Spells, sword strikes and pleas to the gods have no effect on the Hooded Man or the glowing ritual circle. Unable to destroy it, Bel watches helplessly as the summoning continues. Her desperate counterspell does not stop the ritual, and the loop resets once again.