Daniel Stevens is a young man who spent most of his life training as a fighter. Alone in Chicago at nineteen years of age, he finds himself saving a convenience store clerk from being robbed and killed. After thwarting the robber in the only way he knows how, he is given a job offer by a mysterious woman. A chance to bring the criminals that run rampant within the city to a very unconventional form of justice. For years, he makes rapists, murderers and thieves pay for the crimes they commit, never realizing that every move he makes, brings a sinister plot closer and closer to fruition.

Phoenix has left his family, and is on a mission to rid the land of Demetrius' influence all by himself. The stone has taken him over almost completely, removing his conscience, and making him capable of horrible acts of violence, murder, and other atrocities. Can Ember, Lindani and Spedro save him before it's too late? Or will he cut a path across the land, leaving a trail of smoke and bodies in his wake?