Chapter Summaries

Five Oxford students discovered a remote Greek-style temple beside a clear lake and began setting up camp to investigate it. After a preliminary inspection, George and Croft concluded that the ruins could be the First Temple of Artemis.

• George, Tom, Elsa, Hans, and Croft reached a secluded lake and spotted temple ruins beneath the northern cliffs.
• George assigned Tom to find a campsite, sent Elsa to help him, and had Hans film the expedition.
• George and Croft inspected the ruins while Tom and Elsa chose a campsite on the northern shore.
• The five students finished setting up camp and gathered around a campfire for a meal.
• George told the group that the ruins could be the First Temple of Artemis, and Tom celebrated the discovery.

George, Croft, Elsa, Hans, and Tom continued researching an ancient Temple of Artemis hidden in the woods, which they believed was over ten thousand years old. After a day of work and an evening around the campfire, Elsa and Tom saw the lake begin to glow and heard laughter from the east.

• George explained that the temple was at least eight thousand years old, and Croft identified Artemis as the deity worshipped there from the symbols carved into its pillars.
• The five friends rested, then George, Croft, Elsa, and Hans resumed their research while Tom watched over the camp.
• After dark, the group ate dinner and talked about revealing their discovery before George and the others went to bed, leaving Tom and Elsa on watch.
• Elsa asked Tom what he would do if something unexpected happened, and Tom said he would protect everyone.
• Tom and Elsa saw the lake emit a faint white glow and heard laughter coming from the east side of the camp.

Tom, Elsa, George, Hans, and Croft prepared to defend their campsite after hearing laughter from the woods beside a glowing lake. The laughter came from a group of Dryads, who flew out of the forest and greeted them.

• Tom and Elsa heard laughter in the woods and woke George, Hans, and Croft.
• George planned to investigate with Tom and Croft, but Hans persuaded everyone to stay together, call for help, and defend the campsite.
• Croft called her father in London, while George and Tom retrieved the group's handguns and ammunition.
• Hans spotted more than a dozen large, human-bodied butterfly creatures on his camera and recognized them as Dryads.
• The Dryads flew toward the group, surprised to find humans, and greeted them in a language resembling Greek.

George, Tom, Croft, Hans, and Elsa encountered friendly Dryads at a ruined temple dedicated to Artemis and considered whether a Greek god or demigod might be nearby. A flight of advanced aircraft arrived, and Umbrella's 141 approached the group while Sui Bian watched the Dryads through Price's point of view.

• Tom hesitated to shoot the approaching Dryads, and George suggested they try speaking with them; the Dryads gathered around the five without hostility.
• Hans said the Dryads might be young and suggested that a Greek god or demigod could be nearby, prompting George to ask Croft to have her father keep the temple quiet.
• Tom spotted three aircraft approaching, and two Osprey-Fishers and a Cassowary landed on the north shore, frightening the Dryads.
• Ghost, Price, Soap, and Roach advanced from the Osprey-Fishers in TPS Power Armor, and George told the others to put down their weapons.
• Price scanned the Dryads, called for the investigation staff to come out, and Sui Bian viewed the creatures through Price's point of view.

After White Queen reported the Temple of Artemis anomaly, Sui Bian ordered Task Force 141 to follow the Dryads, who spoke of demons and asked for help saving their lord. Price led the team and technicians into a mountain passage filled with glowing plants.

• White Queen briefed Sui Bian on the intercepted call, the Dryads, and the Temple of Artemis investigation.
• Sui Bian asked White Queen to monitor Lara Croft and approved forming an archaeological intelligence team that could recruit Earl Richard Croft and an archaeologist who discovered Göbekli.
• Sui Bian recognized the Dryads' Ancient Greek questions about demons and their lord, then ordered Price to follow them.
• Price left Soap and Roach to guard the students and flying boat, then led Ghost, Task Force 141, and five technicians after the Dryads.
• The Dryads guided Price's group through the woods to a narrow fissure that opened into a passage filled with glowing plants.

Price and the 141 operatives discovered a vast underground garden beneath the Temple of Artemis, where they found the long-missing Ceryneian Hind and a comatose Artemis pinned by the Spear of Cassius. After learning that Artemis’s divine power was Psionic Power and acquiring rights to her spear and bow, Sui Bian prepared to take Lion and the Dark Angels to meet the Olympian gods.

• Price and the 141 operatives followed the Dryads through an underground tunnel and found a garden beneath the lake, lit by glowing moss and protected from the water by a crystal-like barrier.
• Price spotted the Ceryneian Hind, which the company had first recorded nine years earlier, and requested technical support to contain it.
• Price sent Ghost and a squad to guard the tunnel while he led the others toward the garden’s central mound.
• Price’s team found Artemis unconscious and impaled by a blood-red spear, with her golden bow lying beside her.
• Sui Bian learned from the system that Artemis was gravely injured and that Greek gods wielded Psionic Power, then bought full usage rights to the Spear of Cassius and the Bow of the Hunt.
• Sui Bian told Red Queen to remind Lion that he would soon take Lion and the Dark Angels to meet the Olympian gods.

Sui Bian brought Lion, the Dark Angels, and the Ghost trainees aboard the Gryphon to visit the Ceryneian Hind in the Garden beneath a lake. The Hind resisted the team trying to capture it, but an unseen intervention knocked it unconscious.

• The Gryphon flew from the Starport toward Europe with Sui Bian, Lion, the Dark Angels, and the Ghost trainees aboard.
• Lion and four Dark Angels donned their armor, and Lion received his custom Power Sword, the Lion King.
• Sui Bian met Nova and the Ghost trainees in the hangar and told them they would see an anomalous phenomenon.
• Sui Bian's group traveled through a narrow crevice to reach the Garden beneath the lake.
• Technicians and members of the 141st approached the Ceryneian Hind with a titanium-fiber capture net, but the Hind tried to attack them.
• The Ceryneian Hind cried out and collapsed unconscious before it could attack.

Sui Bian subdued Artemis by plundering all of her Psionic Power, then ordered her, the Dryads, and the Ceryneian Hind transferred to the Göbekli Research Center. He left with Lion carrying Artemis’s bow and spear, while Price stayed behind to oversee the transfer.

• Sui Bian continued toward Artemis after the Ceryneian Hind collapsed at his glance, and the Dryads fainted when they sensed him.
• Sui Bian picked up the Bow of the Hunt, and Lion said it would suit Sanguinius better than himself.
• Sui Bian pulled the Spear of Cassius from the ground and used Psionic Plunder on Artemis, leaving her alive but apparently unconscious.
• Lion and the others readied their weapons when Artemis showed signs of pain, then stood down as she returned to a peaceful state.
• Sui Bian ordered the technicians to transfer Artemis, the Dryads, and the Ceryneian Hind to the Göbekli Research Center, then left with Lion and the others.
• Sui Bian asked the White Queen to notify Alexia that he wanted her to examine the living Greek god.

Alexia examined the captured Artemis, while Sui Bian interrogated her about the ancient conflict between the Greek gods and demons. After Artemis identified Samael and confirmed that Ares had fought the Blood Demon Gorefiend, she revealed that Hephaestus was on Thera, and Sui Bian sent a team to find him.

• Alexia found that ordinary metal could not cut Artemis and collected samples as Artemis's wound healed.
• Alexia told Sui Bian that Artemis had no Psionic Power activity, and Sui Bian said he wanted to learn about the God of Craftsmen.
• Sui Bian interrogated Artemis, who said Samael had attacked her after Ares drove off another demon.
• Artemis identified the Blood Demon Gorefiend as the creature Ares had driven away and said Zeus had defeated Samael.
• Artemis told Sui Bian that Hephaestus had been on Thera before she fell asleep.
• Lion, Sanguinius, and their Astartes squads approached Santorini Volcano with Artemis as their guide to find Hephaestus.

Artemis led Lion, Sanguinius, and the Astartes through Santorini’s ruins and into the volcano, where they searched for Hephaestus. Inside, they encountered Medusa’s Gorgons, who attacked them.

• Artemis led the group past the ruined settlement to a hidden fissure on the rocky shore.
• The Primarchs and Astartes followed Artemis through tunnels above a river of lava.
• The group found lifelike male statues, and Artemis warned them that Medusa could turn them to stone with her gaze.
• Lion, Sanguinius, and the Astartes rounded a corner and encountered a group of Gorgons.
• The Gorgons attacked the group.

Artemis, Lion, Sanguinius, and the Astartes fought through the Banshees and killed Medusa, while Sui Bian considered whether Hephaestus had been corrupted. Beyond Medusa’s chamber, the group discovered a palace surrounded by lava and filled with daemons indulging in extreme acts.

• Eight Astartes killed the Banshees in the tunnel as Artemis sensed a demonic presence among them.
• Artemis and the others entered an underground plaza, where they found Medusa commanding more Banshees to attack.
• Lion hurled the Spear of Cassius at Medusa while Sanguinius shot her with a golden Psionic Arrow, killing her.
• Sui Bian used Psionic Plunder on Medusa and wondered whether Hephaestus had fallen to corruption.
• Artemis, the two Primarchs, and the Astartes passed through Medusa’s chamber and found a lava-ringed palace filled with purple-skinned daemons.

Artemis, Lion, Sanguinius, and the Astartes entered a palace where former Olympian servants and gods indulged in depravity, and Lion and the others attacked them. A powerful psionic shield halted their assault, and Artemis recognized the figure who emerged from the palace as Aphrodite.

• Artemis saw that the daemons in the palace wore clothing and armor once belonging to Olympus’s gods and Divine Servant Soldiers.
• Lion and the Dark Angels opened fire on the daemons, and Sanguinius joined them with psionic arrows that vaporized their targets.
• A voice welcomed the newcomers as Lion, Sanguinius, and the Astartes continued killing daemons despite Artemis telling them to wait.
• The voice raised a purple psionic shield over the palace, stopping the attacks and drawing the Primarchs and Astartes into a tense standstill.
• A crowned goddess in a gauzy dress emerged from the palace, and Artemis recognized her as Aphrodite.

Aphrodite tried to seduce Artemis’s Primarchs and Astartes, but Sanguinius and Lion attacked her instead. Lion’s forces stormed her palace and slaughtered its Chaos demons, leaving Aphrodite pinned and unable to fight.

• Aphrodite mocked Artemis and invited the Primarchs and Astartes to join her, but Sanguinius and Lion rejected her advances.
• Sanguinius shattered Aphrodite’s Psionic Shield with an arrow, and Lion impaled her with the Spear of Cassius, pinning her to the palace floor.
• Lion charged into the palace with eight Astartes, while Sanguinius stayed behind to shoot demons from a distance.
• Lion and the Astartes cut through the Chaos demons and fallen servants as they advanced through the palace.
• A Dark Angel killed an armored demon with his Chainsword and smashed the head of another demon attacking him from behind.

The chapter listed the Primarchs by rank and noted that three had not appeared. It left their identities unrevealed.

• The ranking placed Robert (Smurf) first.
• The ranking placed John (117/Master Chief) second and Lion (Lion King) third.
• The ranking placed Russ (Husky) fourth, Roger (Diorama) fifth, and Corax (Raven King) sixth.
• The ranking placed Sanguinius (Angel) tenth and noted that three Primarchs had not appeared.

Lion and Sanguinius killed Aphrodite after Artemis questioned her about Olympus, and Sui Bian claimed her as she vanished. The Blood Angels then reported finding someone suspected to be the God of Craftsmen and six captives.

• The Dark Angels and Blood Angels slaughtered the demons in the palace while Artemis reflected on their loyalty to Sui Bian.
• Lion pinned Aphrodite down and prevented her from using her powers as she tried to seduce him.
• Artemis asked Aphrodite what had happened to Olympus and where Zeus and the other gods were, but Aphrodite claimed that they were all false gods and that her master had granted her continued existence.
• Artemis asked Lion and Sanguinius to kill Aphrodite, and they severed her head and destroyed her body with a Psionic Arrow.
• Sui Bian spent 1,500 points to claim Aphrodite, and the Primarchs and Artemis sensed her complete disappearance.
• A Blood Angel reported finding a target suspected to be the God of Craftsmen and six humanoid captives.

The Blood Angels found Hephaestus and six surviving Divine Servant Soldiers imprisoned in the underground palace, and Artemis confirmed none had been corrupted. Sui Bian plundered Hephaestus’s Psionic Power and ordered the group escorted to the surface after decontamination, while severing the palace’s connection to the Warp.

• The Blood Angels discovered Hephaestus and six maimed Divine Servant Soldiers in cages inside the palace’s eastern area.
• Artemis arrived with Lion and Sanguinius, and the surviving soldiers recognized her as a source of hope.
• Sui Bian learned that Hephaestus could still forge divine weapons after his Psionic Power was plundered, then took all of that power for himself.
• Red Queen reported that Artemis had sworn Hephaestus and the soldiers were uncorrupted, and Sui Bian considered forming a special unit to fight the Warp.
• Sui Bian ordered decontamination and an escort for Artemis, Hephaestus, and the six soldiers, then severed the underground palace’s connection to the Warp.

Sui Bian watched Artemis question Hephaestus and learned how the Olympian Gods declined after Zeus led an army into the Warp. Hephaestus revealed that Aphrodite had corrupted and enslaved the remaining gods and soldiers, and was preparing for the True God’s full descent.

• Sui Bian watched Artemis question Hephaestus at the Göbekli Research Center.
• Hephaestus recounted how Zeus entered the Warp with an army to destroy its demons and never returned, leaving Olympus cut off from its forces.
• Hephaestus explained that Hera withdrew after Ares and Lilith killed each other, and Aphrodite’s corruption spread among the surviving gods and Divine Servant Soldiers.
• Hephaestus said Aphrodite seized his home, mutilated him, and forced him to forge weapons and armor while corrupted gods tortured their captives beneath Thera.
• Hephaestus revealed that Aphrodite followed the True God’s teachings and ordered him to prepare weapons and armor for its eventual descent.

Sui Bian learned how the Greek gods had fought the Warp and recruited Hephaestus and Artemis to help Umbrella. He planned to restore the wounded soldiers’ limbs and form a special team with them and the two gods.

• Sui Bian concluded that high-level demons competed for intelligent species and that Zeus’s expedition into the Warp had protected Earth from low-level demons for ten thousand years.
• Artemis told Hephaestus that Aphrodite had likely stolen its divine power before her death, and Sui Bian realized Artemis knew he was responsible.
• Sui Bian met Lion and Sanguinius and brought them to the conference room where Hephaestus and Artemis were waiting.
• Sui Bian asked Hephaestus to forge special armor and weapons for his sons, and Hephaestus agreed.
• Sui Bian asked Artemis to produce Full Moon Water to cleanse demonic corruption, then offered to restore the soldiers’ limbs and recruit them and the two gods into a special team.

Sui Bian arranged prosthetic limbs for Hephaestus and the Divine Servants while a new base took shape at Full Moon Lake. He discussed plans for training Warp-fighting forces on Titan and revealed his ideal of a Great Crusade, but said humanity was not yet ready for one.

• Sui Bian instructed Alexia to design custom prosthetic limbs for Hephaestus and the six Divine Servants.
• Sanguinius and four Blood Angels boarded an Osprey-Fisher at Göbekli and departed for the Hope.
• Sui Bian and Lion discussed the Full Moon Lake base, future Grey Knights and Ghost Operatives, and training them on Titan.
• Sui Bian told Lion that he dreamed of a Great Crusade and asked whether he would want to be Warmaster.
• Lion declined, saying Robert would be better suited and that he preferred to lead the Dark Angels at Sui Bian's side.
• Sui Bian laughed and said humanity had too few people and spacecraft for a Great Crusade.

Isaac prepared to leave Raccoon City on a business trip while his wife, Nicole, planned to take her parents to Umbrella’s hospital. He joined his coworkers on a company bus bound for the Starport, reflecting the routine life and advanced technology of longtime Umbrella employees.

• Nicole woke Isaac and reminded him to get ready for his business trip.
• Isaac and Nicole ate breakfast, and Nicole said she planned to take her parents to the company hospital for checkups.
• Isaac said his trip could last up to two months, then said goodbye to Nicole and boarded the company bus.
• Isaac’s coworkers teased him about not having children as the bus headed to Raccoon City Starport.