In pursuit of its goals, the Hierarchy has experimented with the darkest magics, backed revolts and magical supremacist regimes, and enslaved countless thousands, using them as living batteries and sources of magic then discarding their husks without a second thought. It has taken Emily's innovations, magical and magitech alike, and turned them into tools serving a greater goal, a goal that is now taking shape in a long-forgotten city deep within the Blighted Lands, a goal that will lead to apotheosis or nemesis

Racing against time, Emily and her friends set off to reach the city and stop the Hierarchy before it is too late. But the Hierarchy's goal isn't what she thinks it is, some of her allies are no longer trustworthy, and the price for saving the world one final time may be beyond even her ...