Keith and Usis have already discovered their journey through Hell is more than they had bargained for. On the way to the next Plane, they and their guide Calmet are attacked by an unknown force. When finally they make it to the Plane of Gluttony they meet the innkeeper Bell, a fellow Earthling. They are introduced to the Overlord of Gluttony, a horrific creature, where they learn of his collection of souls. In that collection, Keith finds another person from earth, the epidemy of Greed and Avarice, a TV personality who later became President and helped set in motion the ruin of his homeworld. On the fourth Plane Keith meets a very unlikely looking overlord who controls all the resources The Host and Hell filters back into the many Creations from their torture and harvest of suffering from. He learns how these minerals are the very thing that continues to fuel all of Creation.