The members of the Witch Council, who guard the Witches' Prison, are killed and the Queen plans to release another plague curse using the imprisoned witches as a magical power source. 36, who is recovering, encourages Kaulder to continue fighting. Though he kills Belial in a confrontation, the Queen reenters the world through the sacrifice of another witch and escapes into the city, stealing Kaulder's immortality.
Leaving Chloe and the 37th Dolan behind, Kaulder goes to face Belial to prevent the Queen from returning. They also realize that Belial's real plan is to revive the Queen. They deduce that 36 was attacked because he knew of where the heart was hidden and was tortured into revealing its location. He discovers that, though the Queen's body burned to ash, the first Dolan chose to spare her heart if the heart was destroyed, Kaulder would die. Kaulder asks Chloe to enter his mind and pull out the memory. Chloe, revealed to be a dream-walker, is able to enter his trance and free his mind and the pair escape. However, Danique casts an endless memory spell on Kaulder, planning to entrap him in his dream forever. To get the rare ingredient to create another memory spell, they visit another witch, Danique. After Miranda is killed by Belial, Chloe agrees to help Kaulder get what he needs to kill him.
37 and Kaulder work together to determine the witch's name-Baltasar Ketola, aka Belial. He later attacks Chloe at her apartment, though Kaulder saves her. During the process of reliving Kaulder's memory, the bar is attacked by the witch who cursed the 36th Dolan. Chloe eventually agrees to perform the spell.
Using clues that 36 left behind, Kaulder goes to a witch bar, owned by Chloe and Miranda, to buy a memory spell to help him remember how he died and came back. It is revealed that 36 is not dead but under a dark magic spell that can only be broken if the witch that cast it is killed. While tracking down the witch, Kaulder finds traces of old dark magic, not seen since before he killed the Queen. Kaulder and the 37th Dolan deduce that 36 was murdered by a witch. The 36th Dolan tells Kaulder that he is retiring from his duties and has chosen a new Dolan for him, but dies in his sleep. He is aided by a priest called "Dolan", a tradition carried from the battle to destroy the Witch Queen. Kaulder is revealed to be working as a witch hunter for an organization called the Axe and Cross, which aims to keep the truce between humans and witches and either executes or imprisons the witches who break the law. In the present day, Kaulder prevents a teenage witch from unintentionally destroying an airplane with weather-controlling runes. Before dying, the Witch Queen curses Kaulder with eternal life. A band of knights, including a widowed Kaulder, storms her lair and defeats her. Eight hundred years ago, the Witch Queen unleashes the Black Plague to wipe out humanity.
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