-considering Bloodshed Ink will be defeated soon, maybe we could go for a sort of plot twist that he had a backup plan in the cult? Not sure how that would work exactly, but maybe he had a cultist who could take his place as the leader in case he died?
-Another thing I'm thinking of as a possible option is doing something similar to AToTC, but on a much smaller scale. I could have Vani get turned evil again (oof) and make her a side character for a while, to make space to add April temporarily, and Bloodshed could maybe somehow summon her from her home world (which is in the Minecraft universe) to the AA world, along with maybe a powerful mob from a random mod (with the mob summon possibly being a genuine accident?)?