The following dawn, Nick visited the chapel where Leo resided.

As he opened the door, a girl in white showed. He was shocked and forced himself to remember the past about his battle against the same girl wielding a bow with sacred arrows.

"Come." said the girl.

Inside, Leo was absent. Only Nick and the girl in white dress remained. Suddenly, Nick attempted to cast his fireball but was cancelled by her purification spell.

"Oh... I thought not that thou wert the same girl in white I have faced before. So be it." said he.

"And also with thee." replied she.

Both cancelled their magical powers and returned to their seats.

"But right now, I will be thy ally. I know thou hast mortally sinned before, but the Lord wants thee to come back to Him." spoke the girl in white.

"But He hates sins. How I wish that I will go back to Him while I have sinned a lot against many people? Who can accept a murderer, a dark occultist, and even a person who hath evil plans to mankind?" doubted Nick.

"Yes, He hates sins, but He loves those who hath sinned against anyone, including thee."

"How canst thou explain this?"

"No matter how much we hurt others, or how much they hurt us, we still love each other at all times. What He wanteth us to do is to love each other like people always do to others, and when we made mistakes to others, we shall confess to them and ask them forgiveness, and when they did the same to us, we shall forgive them."

"So thou wantest me to change to someone who can help mankind."

"Exactly. By the way, may I know thy name?"

"Nick."

"And I am Maria. Nice meeting thee."

But, something interrupted their conversation. The whispering wind even blew the candles and chandeliers inside.

"Someone wanteth me dead." warned Nick.

"I will go with thee, Nick." responded the girl in white.

As they went outside, dangerous wraiths haunted the chapel and Riel surprisingly ambushed Nick, grabbed his neck, and forced him inside.

"Surprise." taunted Riel.

"Then hit me." taunted Nick, pushing her to the wall.

Riel equipped a short dagger and attempted to pierce Nick's chest but the demi-fiend disintegrated himself to black smoke.

"What?" Riel was shocked.

"Dost thou think that I will be dead? Think again." Nick reappeared in front of her.

"Grrrrrrrrrr!" exclaimed the angry Riel, who tried to charge at Nick but was blocked by Maria.

"Try me instead, phantom." challenged the girl in white.

"Who art thou?"

"Thou wilt know me soon enough."

Maria shot a sacred arrow at Riel's chest which delivered a blow to her.

"Nick, I will take care of this."

Suddenly, a storm brewed in the town of Caldeum. The souls of the dead screamed while being sucked in at Riel's throat. Lightning flashed before Nick and Maria managed to escape from the chapel. Bats were also summoned as the phantom unleashed a ritual to create her afterimages.

"Disperse, my sisters! Go and feed the souls of our enemies!"

Riel summoned her shadow clones to distract Nick and Maria, in which they were forced to attack them.

"Come to me!" instructed Maria.

"I'm with thee." replied Nick, resulting a teleportation out of the chapel.

Now that Riel and her afterimages were inside the chapel, Maria made an opportunity to shoot multiple sacred arrows at once. Nick rushed near the chapel.

"I will clear the inside."

Nick charged the phantoms with his Gehenna sword and managed to block their spectral daggers.

"Grab them in!" shouted Maria, looking for an opportunity.

Nick purposely grabbed the hands of Riel's phantoms and threw them out of the chapel for Maria to shoot them with holy arrows.

The arrows pierced at their mouths and through their throats, brightening and blinding them to their screaming deaths, disintegrating them into patches of white smoke.

"Riel, I am here. Bring me thy best step to my execution!" taunted Nick.

"I will assure thee that thou wilt feel regret for betraying the Infernal Legion!" challenged the furious Riel.

"So be it. Tell that demon lord of thine that I am ready to be his offering of ritual abuse."

"Arrrrrggggghhhh!"

Instantly, Riel disappeared at Nick's sight as she reappeared near him in order to stab him, but he stepped back to dodge at her spectral daggers. The evil female phantom invoked bolts of lightning since Nick was now outside, and she called the bats to fly at him and bite him.

Nick swung his Gehenna sword, now bestowed with hellfire, to the approaching bats.

The bats, burned in screaming agony, exploded with blood splashing at the Prince of Darkness.

"Traitor! I am not done of thee!" screamed Riel.

Suddenly, a dark vortex summoned thousands of arms and hands of the screaming souls of the damned, grabbing the surprised Nick and dragging him in. The vortex slowly faded.

"Nick! Come back here!" angered Riel, who was replied with a sinister laughter.

"Nick!" screamed Maria.

Riel, seeing no Nick in her eyes, was suddenly attacked by Maria's sacred arrows. Luckily, she disappeared and laughed at the Princess of Light.

The rain had stopped as Maria safely left the chapel.

"Where doth Nick go? This canth be not true!" she exclaimed.

Meanwhile in the woods...

"Majesty, we have to retreat, lest Nick will haunt us again." suggested the exhausted Draven.

"Well then, we need to go back for further reinforcements. Shalt thou leave us again, and I will let thee wander the whole town to slay demons alone. I told ye, Nick is a force to be reckoned with." demanded Sol.

The army of knights paraded back to the castle, but unknowingly, a strange being with an old crown stared at them.

Nick, who was dragged by the damned souls, was transported to another place in Hell, a desolate, dark, barren place where only he can hear the screams of souls and the ground was inscribed with Satan's occult runes.

"Now what?" it was Nick who started to get frustrated.

An ominous laughter haunted him, appearing as a shadow at his back. Nick shivered himself and turned around quickly.

"So let me ask thee a simple question, Nick." said the shadow.

"Lucifer!" Nick was shocked.

"Thou hast made a choice to change thyself, hast thou not?"

"Yes, and I will no longer recognize thee as my Master. This hath become my choice. I have learned from my victims that there is always time for us to change, no matter how difficult the situation is. Every human hath sinned, but it meaneth not that they will be condemned to eternal suffering through hellfire after death. Forgiveness changeth them from sinners to anyone who can help others."

"And why choosest thou to turn away from me?" angered the Devil.

"I learned that thou art not the worst enemy, it is I who is hostile to myself. But, it wast thou who drove me to this self-hostility. I have sinned myself and others because of such manipulation thou hast used on me. Thy rule, right now, is easy to be disobeyed."

"So be it, I have given thee a second chance, so do not defy me. If the Infernal Legion hath seen thee turning back against us again, thou wilt meet thy meaningless death in Hell. Thou art about to witness my eternal wrath."

After these words, the shadow, who was Satan, disappeared. With his disappearance, Nick was dragged back to the town of Caldeum and collapsed.