Maria and Uriel surprisingly found Belial, the supposed Khazra leader, who carried a voodoo staff and a yellow gem inside the ram skull attached to his rod.
Uriel wielded a flaming sword, with its purifying flames burning radiantly.
"The Devil summoned thee, influencing the masses with his own language that thou canst understand. Thou blindest them from the truth and hidest them from the reality." said Uriel to the Demon Lord.
"What is truth for thee, archangel? The truth hurteth them; the truth bringeth them to their later misery. Thou understandest not, that the inhabitants in this world have come to believe in so many lies... hide in so many secrets... Where are the people that they can trust, in spite of such saddest truths they feared to tell?"
"And even in spite of such 'saddest truths they feared to tell', art thou aware that there are people who still believe in them, trusting them with all their minds and their hearts? They think, they say, they act, they know how to decide. However, such situations and consequences differ, but as they think, they are aware of it, and they are doing what is good and right to them and to others!"
"When there's a will, there's a way, archangel. The Devil still findeth more and more ways to give them their hearts' desires. Thinkest thou that God will give them everything they need? Look at them now. They thanked Him on their successes, they sought help from Him on their failures; but every single day, they set Him aside."
"They set Him aside, but they will never forget what He has done to them, to us, and even to you!"
"They show their appreciations and prides to God, but their self-centered prides dominate them more. They decide a good turn normally, but they decide an evil turn when under serious troubles. THAT... is reality."
Belial cast an unholy light beam on Uriel, who parried such magic.
"Embrace the reality, or find a way?" asked Uriel.
"There is no other way, archangel!" Belial replied proudly.
Uriel hurled shooting stars from Heaven, and cast them on Belial. Then, he stomped his sword to the ground and scorched the forest with light. The wisps from his body spiraled around the trees supposedly burned, which made them immune to fire.
On the contrary, Belial had his eyes glowed yellow, as the rocks on the ground were suddenly levitated. The wind around him blew harder.
The rocks revolved around Belial as he hurled them at the Archangel.
The wisps around Uriel collided with the hurled rocks and disintegrated them to fine pieces.
Belial was under attack by Uriel's "Flames of Wisdom and Truth", as the Archangel suffered pressure from the Demon Lord's gusts.
The Demon Lord of Lies instantly disappeared, and reappeared behind Uriel to deliver rising spikes of earth at him from his staff through his mind.
The Archangel of Wisdom countered it through his flaming column unleashed from his sword through his mind.
As Maria was with Uriel beforehand, she rushed to the sacrificial flame to find Nick. However, Gabriel and Satan were on a clash. Immense flames of Hell dominated her way towards Nick.
The two opposing angels flew towards the night sky, as the Khazra cultists panicked around the flame.
Maria fired three sacred arrows on the cultists who dared to capture and sacrifice her.
However, a loud screech resonated with the noises of the cultists. A strong wind blew the whole ritual area.
The Khazra cultists who were loyal to Belial slowly felt a burning sensation in their cloaked bodies.
Meanwhile, a falling fireball was seen from above, but both Satan and Gabriel were unseen.
The sacrificial flame exploded as a third demon emerged from it. That demon carried a cursed blade and hurled the flames of Hell towards the remaining cultists.
"Avaunt!" said the demon, who was Nick.
"Nick... thou comest back here. Dost thou still bethink thy charges against the Infernal Legion? I can still sue thee when I got the chance to put thee in the Lake of Fire!"
"How repulsive. Thou art ruling a wrong dominion!"
Nick, on his demon form, cast spiritual flames at the Lord of Darkness, accompanied by Gabriel's power of divine revelation.
"Let thy soul reside outside the abode of man, and let thy mind break thy connections with man! The dark reality may be accepted in this world, but what reigneth supreme is the reality of the Lord!" chanted Gabriel.
"How canst thou?" responded Satan, who screamed and was severely weakened by the divine light.
"Let fear not manipulate thee!" said Nick to Maria and Uriel, who was fighting against Belial.
A binding spell from Uriel forced Nick to deliver a coup de grace at the Demon Lord of Lies. However, the Prince of Darkness was not expecting something from him.
"He will still trick us," said Maria, as she foresaw Belial's transformation.
Belial disappeared through a black mist, corrupting himself and turning into a levitating demon with long, thin arms; a skull of a horned goat as his head, large tentacles on his lower body, with a gigantic human spine and rib as his trunk; large bat skeletal wings, and an encased demonic fell covering his shoulders and head.
Large rocks around him were levitated, spinning around him as he successfully altered the nature of reality itself. Trees were turned to ash, the cultists were disintegrated, the ground around him became quicksand, and the rocks formed a large circle in front of the demon and were infused with corrupted energy.
The souls of the Khazra cultists suddenly turned into numerous Shades and Inferi.
"Very well done. Now finish them in thy endgame. I will demoralize the minds of these angels and men, inflicting pain to them while bringing them into chaos." said the Devil, who was impressed.
Evil souls were released from the circle of stones, screaming in loath and spiraling around the Demon Lord; which invoked an explosion of hell-fire and brimstone.
Uriel telepathically protected Maria and Nick through a Soul Shield. However, Nick chose to sacrifice himself being burned in the hell-fire.
"I can do this. There is more to that fiend than just exorcising him." said the Prince of Darkness.
"Insolent creature!" warned Belial.
The remaining rocks exploded on contact with Nick, but were deflected by his cursed blade.
Meanwhile...
"We are not done yet, Gabriel. Thou art still inferior to me!" said the Devil.
As Satan focused on casting an unholy light beam on Gabriel, the angel of the Lord dodged and disappeared in a ray of holy light.
"I can be inferior to thee, but thou art inferior to our Omnipotent Father!" replied Gabriel, as he reappeared and cast divine flames on Satan.
The Devil collapsed to the ground and struggled to get up in place. However, his last move was to be banished in a demonic pentagram with runes and disappear. Gabriel was supposed to attack him but was met with a sinister laughter.
But Belial was still able to conjure an army of Shades, Inferi, and False Prophets.
"These Inferi that this demon conjured were evil warlocks, and thy sacred book saith that sorcery is of the Devil." analyzed Nick, but Uriel had plans already.
"Thou art one of their kind but thou choosest to betray them?"
"I have a will, and I have a reason to. And I can, even if it meaneth that I will dive in the Lake of Fire."
"Thy wish is our command. We will save thy soul, even if it meaneth releasing the darkness within thee," supported Maria, and Uriel also agreed on her decision.
"Thou art doomed!" Belial cast demonic marks at Nick, but he was immune to them since he was also a demon.
A spreading radiant light blinded the Lord of Lies, but even the Prince of Darkness was blinded as well. When this light faded back to normal, Maria was in her angelic form.
The Shades disappeared with no trace, but the False Prophets and the Inferi would be taken care of by Uriel.