Carl's team breaches Club Vanquisher through chained portals, then unleashes an amplified dread that massacres the lobby.
The plan chains three open doors — Shanty Town into the Temple of The Dagda, temple into the club vestibule, vestibule into the club itself — the last two being true portals that die the moment the club locks down, but only once closed. Carl's original idea was to get himself arrested; instead a mantaur named Joey jams his claws in the ceiling, and Katia bursts in disguised and covered in fake gore made from a broken Food Boxes batch of cherry-and-sausage chowder, shouting about demons and temple defense protocols. Bautista's Eclipse Pyxies switch from stuffed toys to live monsters mid-flight and maul the guards while Carl throws a Potion of Inflict Black Nimbus at Mork.
Li Jun strings three Clock Tower Capacitor Wire leads — one around Carl's wrist, two anchored across the room including the dragon head over the fireplace — so Mistress Tiatha's wire hack can extend Li Na's aura inside. Li Jun, Zhang, Bautista and Katia dispatch the four guards; Zhang secures the vestibule door open. Then Li Na fires Dark Purpose, and the lobby becomes a massacre in seconds. The goal remains reaching the Temple of Khepri through cleared halls.
The chapter's central operation, opening the route toward the Temple of Khepri.