Woken by a nightmare in the middle of the night, he discovers his men have been drugged and that the nuns, who are actually the servants of a Lamiahn vampire queen, have been feeding soldiers to their mistress.

He convinces his remaining men not to take their wine that night; they recover their weaponry and kill the vampire and her servants, then leave the convent to find more fugitives.

A regiment of Dwarfs allied to the Averland army is all but wiped out when their leader, Skor Lokkinson, disdains the humans' decision to retreat and orders his troops to keep fighting despite the hopeless odds.

Vargni accepts this explanation and joins the remaining Imperial soldiers as they launch their suicidal counterattack in the pass, hoping only to delay the Chaos army long enough to buy time for the rest of the Empire.

Both warriors assist the protagonist, Witch Hunter Magnus Gault, and Vogal relates that their force was rescued at the last minute by a massive Imperial army that arrived and defeated the Chaos host.