her motive corso follows balkan's car but his car gets stuck in the middle of a river losing his former client he takes his belongings from the car and finds the silver-haired man's gun still in his pocket as he rests and dries his clothes at a diner he remembers the postcard balkan sent to kessler unable to move past the mystery corso makes his way to the ruined castle in the postcard with the sun setting he navigates around the castle seeing the light in one of the turrets balkan's voice echoes as he lays down the engraving in preparation to unlock the ninth gate balkan spots corso and tells him to leave and take his payment from his new york office however corso refuses seeing how balkan killed for the pages of the books corso aims a gun at balkan but is quickly overpowered he sinks into broken floorboards where balkan allows him to watch the ritual to gain power equal to god balkan douses the floorboards with gas and kneels offering his soul to his master he breaks a lamp onto the ground burning the floor with him at the center high with pride vulcan relishes in flames believing that it makes him invulnerable and invincible after he plays with the flames in his hands claiming that he doesn't feel the heat porso challenges him to show further proof of his invincibility with crazed eyes balkan bates in the fuel and allows himself to burn laughing maniacally but as the flames reach his face balkan panics the ritual did not work he screams in pain while corso sinks further into the floor allowing him to escape below corso climbs back up and retrieves the stolen pages before shooting balkan putting him out of his misery corso walks out with a castle in flames and finds the woman waiting for him in the car she touches him softly her eyes glowing against the flames the woman kisses him seducing him to an intimate evening in front of a burning castle the following day the woman reveals the ninth page was a forgery hence why balkan's ritual didn't work after stopping for gas the woman disappears again leaving a note that directs him back to the ceniza brothers corso heads to their shop but finds that it's being cleaned out the brothers are no longer around when the workers inside remove the brothers bookcase a dusty page falls from the top corso picks up the page discovering the real ninth engraving the engraving shows a woman pointing to a different castle as he looks closer the woman in the engraving looks like the blonde woman he's been with knowing that he's been chosen by the woman corso returns to the castle consumed by the same darkness as balkan the ninth gate opens for him where a golden light spills welcoming him inside subscribe to watch more videos like this turn on notifications and leave a like it really helps the channel out thank you for watching
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