Quan Ch closes in on the badly wounded Orthrus, intending to kill the puppy for the quest reward. After Mordecai confirms Carl’s plan will work, Carl has Donut attack Quan and combines Mordecai’s special potion with another item into a throwable healing mixture. Donut’s magic missile reveals that Quan’s celestial robe is protecting him with a powerful shield, so Carl switches tactics and uses a hobgoblin disco ball and explosives to overwhelm Quan’s defenses with smoke, noise, and force. The attack does not kill Quan, but it knocks him out of the air and buys Carl and Donut enough time to heal Orthrus.

The heal restores Orthrus to 70%, but it also makes the puppy active and harder to manage. As Carl pilots toward Emberus, other crawlers and even a small airship also try to attack Orthrus, showing that the whole floor is now converging on the same target. Carl finally sees Emberus up close: the fire god is blind, enraged, and pounding on a bubble, too distracted to notice the struggle happening behind him. Before Carl can solve that problem, Quan returns, strikes Orthrus from behind, and drops the puppy to 2% health and unconsciousness.

Carl responds by diving the unstable biplane straight at Orthrus and throwing the potion ball just before Quan’s next attack lands. The throw succeeds: Orthrus is fully healed and becomes temporarily near-invulnerable, but the maneuver leaves Donut briefly controlling the plane, and the aircraft spins out of control. With Quan approaching again, hostile crawlers below still casting at the dog, and a crash imminent, Carl decides on a desperate solution. He opens the god interface, pledges himself to Emberus, locks the plane’s course, climbs onto the wing with Donut clinging to his back, and throws the celestial grenade at Quan.

The grenade responds to Carl’s new worship choice and summons Emberus instead of a random god. Emberus manifests above them just as Carl leaps from the plane, and Carl receives a Divine Intervention buff that makes him invulnerable for sixty seconds. The crashing plane smashes into the god’s face, and Emberus immediately recognizes Orthrus and speaks to him with relief. Instead of lingering for the full summon duration, Emberus and Orthrus both vanish together, meaning Carl has effectively reunited the dog with the god and removed Orthrus from the floor entirely.

Carl and Donut crash into the land quadrant of the Soulless Prophet. Carl survives unharmed because of Divine Intervention, but Donut is badly burned and briefly unconscious until Carl heals her. Quan ambushes Carl during the last moments of Carl’s invulnerability, not realizing the buff is active, and Carl charges him in a rage. In the fight, Quan tries to flee with his robe’s flying power, but Carl grabs him and rips off his entire arm before Quan escapes into the stairwell. Afterward, the system announces both a failed Orthrus-killing quest and a completed puppy-saving quest, awarding Carl a platinum quest box. Carl tells Imani to proceed with their larger plan despite the risks, notices two new glowing sun tattoos on his hands, and Donut finally breaks the silence by telling Carl that everyone is right: he is truly crazy.