In their search for answers after the death of a group of scout rangers, Anton Trese and his daughter, Alexandra, visit Corporal Paul Lanares, who is a patient in the National Center for Mental Health in Mandaluyong. Through him, they learn the story of how the soldiers who, in their quest for "the strength of a batallion," performed a ritual that led them to meet the The Warrior, The General, The Datu of War.
