Angels from Heaven come to observe the ruins of Hell. Meanwhile, Lucifer crushes all of Hell and its inhabitants beneath a collapsing stone sky, then travels to New York, resolving to make a name for himself. The Harrowers discover a wormhole that leads them to a desert road in Arizona. The Priest blinds Harry and rapes Norma to death before escaping the lake. The desiccated remnants of the Hell Priest confront the Harrowers on the shores of the lake. The Harrowers, Norma, and surviving demons all flee the cathedral. After a vicious battle, Lucifer disembowels the Hell Priest and announces his intention to destroy Hell. Enraged that he must once more endure existence without God, he engages the Priest in battle. The removal of the armor inadvertently causes Lucifer's resurrection. Armies led by Hell's surviving generals raid the cathedral but the Hell Priest, his power increased by Lucifer's armor, easily defeats many of them. Enraged, the Priest strips Lucifer's body of its armor, dons it, and declares himself the new Lord of Hell. The Harrowers and the Priest discover the cathedral is in fact Lucifer's tomb, erected after he had committed suicide due to being exiled from the presence of God. He wishes to hold an audience with the Devil and experience a spiritual revelation. The Priest and Norma have already secured passage to the island, where the Priest hopes to find a cathedral rumored to be Lucifer's throne room. The Harrowers follow the Priest into the Wastelands and discover a tribe of inbred demons willing to take them across a cursed lake to a tiny island in the center. The Priest has been using his accrued knowledge of magic to kill Hell's various ruling classes, in order to eliminate any who might prevent his pilgrimage into a forbidden region of Hell called the Wastelands. Harry and his group - dubbed the Harrowers - discover Lucifer has disappeared from Hell and a thriving demon civilization has arisen in his absence. Harry's survival of his assassination attempt has convinced the Hell Priest that the detective is the perfect individual to write an account of the events. The Priest emerges, absconds with Norma, and confirms a momentous event in Hell's history is about to occur. Joined by Dale, they attempt to transport Norma, only to witness the opening of a portal to Hell in Manhattan. Harry enlists the help of his friend Caz to move Norma to a safe house operated by their mutual acquaintance, Lana. She tells Harry a monumental event is about to occur in the spirit world. Dale sends Harry back to New York City to attend to Norma. Harry is rescued by Dale, a middle aged Southern man who experiences moments of precognition. Harry learns the assignment is a lethal trap set by the Hell Priest, who sees the detective as a potential obstacle to completing his mission. Occult detective Harry D'Amour travels to New Orleans, having been hired by a recently deceased magician (via a medium named Norma Paine) to destroy evidence of his occult activities before his family can discover them in his home. He degrades and massacres all of the magicians save for one, Felixson, whom he enslaves. The Hell Priest arrives, having been alerted by the spell that resurrected Ragowski. Their only hope of avoiding his fate, he says, is to simply give the Priest the location of all of their grimoires and talismans. Ragowski informs them the Priest is determined to obtain every source of magic known on Earth and is too powerful to be defeated by so few magicians. After years of this, the last remaining magicians gather to resurrect Ragowski, a member of their order killed by the Hell Priest five years before. The Hell Priest, a demonic Cenobite known to some of them as "Pinhead" (a nickname the Cenobite abhors), is murdering the world's true magicians, practitioners of true magic.
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