Chapter Summaries

Sylas led the prisoners he freed from Nullstone Prison toward Dawn Castle, intent on confronting Demacia’s nobles. As the garrison advanced to stop them, Sylas drew on the magic stored in the prison’s Nullstone and began to unleash his power.

• Jiawen III led the nobles to a balcony, where they saw the breach in Nullstone Prison and the prisoners flooding out as garrison troops approached.
• Sylas seized a Magic Seeker’s weapon, used its residual magic to incapacitate him, and called on the freed mages to follow him against the nobles.
• The escaped Magic Corruptors scattered, fled, or joined Sylas, while chaos spread from the prison through the city.
• Demacia’s garrison advanced in formation, and the Magic Corruptors began to falter before the soldiers’ spears.
• Sylas stepped in front of the garrison, drew magic through his Nullstone shackles, and started walking as the ground trembled beneath him.

Sylas used power from the Nullstone Prison to scatter Demacia’s soldiers, helping the Corrupted advance toward Dawn Castle. As the Colossus of Justice arrived over the Grand Plaza, Galio announced his entrance and plunged toward the Corrupted.

• Sylas unleashed magic that shifted the ground, scattered the soldiers, and knocked their captain unconscious.
• The Corrupted rallied behind Sylas and attacked the disorganized soldiers, while a mysterious man from Dawn Castle told Sylas to stop damaging the city.
• Sylas tested the man by attacking a soldier, then continued fighting with less destructive moves as the Corrupted drove the army back.
• The Corrupted used magic to manipulate objects and terrain, pushing the soldiers from the Nullstone Prison to the Grand Plaza.
• Galio flew toward the plaza, and the soldiers regrouped to welcome him as he folded his wings and plunged toward the Corrupted.

Taric reinforced the Grand Plaza instead of helping Demacia’s defenders, causing Galio to stumble and revealing that Taric did not intend to protect Demacia. Jiawen III sent Lux to end the chaos, and she flew toward the Grand Plaza.

• Taric strengthened the plaza’s sculptures and flower beds with starlight, making Galio stumble when he landed and damaged his toe.
• Jiawen III saw Taric’s actions through a Hextech Telescope, while the nobles and officials witnessed what appeared to be his betrayal.
• Jiawen III challenged the Cardinal Bishop over what Taric intended to protect, and Lux declared that Taric was no longer a Demacian.
• Jiawen III ordered Lux to control the Magic Corruptors, and she flew toward the Grand Plaza with radiant wings.

Lux confronted the Guardian Spirit possessing Taric and fought him after he attacked her, while the Silencers prepared to intervene. In the Nullstone Prison, Grandma Ling succumbed to the World Rune Fragment’s influence and battled Eno, who began laying a trap for her ice serpent.

• Galio tried to stop the fighting, but Taric repeatedly obstructed him until Lux arrived and challenged Taric over the Guardian Spirit’s possession of his body.
• The Guardian Spirit attacked Lux, and they fought in midair as the city guards and Magic Corruptors watched in confusion.
• Jiawen III approved Grandma Ling’s request to use the World Rune Fragments, and she hurried to the hidden vault to take the blue fragment.
• Eno confronted Grandma Ling and warned that the World Rune was tempting her, but Grandma Ling summoned a giant ice serpent and attacked.
• Eno dodged the serpent while secretly weaving a net of starlight beneath the ice, searching for a way to trap it.

Eno trapped Grandma Ling and her enormous ice serpent, but the uncontrolled creature proved to be an echo of the Old God Lunde rather than an ordinary elemental being. Grandma Ling recovered her true self and explained the serpent’s origin, leaving Eno facing a creature his usual methods could not defeat.

• Eno lured Grandma Ling’s ice serpent into his Magic Circuit trap, which immobilized it and threw her into a wall, knocking her unconscious.
• The serpent swelled but did not explode, and Eno struggled to restrain it as it regenerated from injuries and showed no visible elemental core.
• Grandma Ling woke with her age restored, moved out of the serpent’s reach, and told Eno that she was herself again.
• Grandma Ling identified the serpent as Lunde’s echo in Runeterra, an Old God’s remnant without an elemental core.
• Grandma Ling explained that Lunde was an Old God of the Freljord slain by Volibear in the Dragon Ridge Mountains.

Eno recognized Grandma Ling’s ice serpent as an Old God incarnation and sealed it for her teacher to study. Meanwhile, Galio drove back the Magic Corruptors as Sylas fled, while Lux and Taric’s battle reached its climax above Demacia City.

• Grandma Ling explained that her ancestors worshiped the Rakkor Serpent and that her bloodline had once carried the power of the Iceborn.
• Eno rejected Grandma Ling’s claim that the giant serpent was only elemental resonance and used starlight and a Magic Circuit to seal its weakened incarnation.
• Eno said Taric was no match for Lux as Lux gained the upper hand in their fight above the Grand Plaza.
• Galio absorbed Sylas’s spell and pursued him, but Sylas drained a Magic Corruptor’s wind talent to escape into the air.
• Galio handed the drained Magic Corruptor to the garrison soldiers and helped them fight the fleeing attackers.
• The nobles watched Lux and Taric’s battle reach its final moments as Lux’s broken blade appeared to darken beneath the clouds.

Lux and Karya worked to awaken Taric’s will while Lux kept the Guardian Spirit occupied, and Taric chose to resist the Great God’s control. The Guardian Spirit fled after Lux’s strike severed Taric’s arm and leg, and Galio caught the falling Taric and Lux.

• Lux used Darkin and apparent demonic power to distract the Guardian Spirit while Karya used Mordekaiser’s nightmare power to awaken Taric.
• Taric saw a nightmare vision of Demacia falling under Noxian invasion and began to doubt whether the Guardian Spirit would protect mortals.
• Lux urged Taric to choose Demacia and reminded him that embracing heavenly light did not mean abandoning mortal life.
• Taric seized control of one arm and one leg as Lux’s Light Sword struck, severing the exposed limbs and injuring the Guardian Spirit.
• The Guardian Great God left Taric’s body and fled to the Heavenly Realm, while Lux and Taric fell toward the ground.
• Galio caught the falling Lux and Taric and joked about Taric’s missing limbs.

Lux and Karya arranged for Taric to claim a demon had bewitched him, giving Demacia a political explanation for the crisis and a way to spare him. The Noble Council agreed to send the Magic Corruptors to the northern frontier for labor, and Jiawen III asked Envoy Alzhen to respond to Lux’s claim about the embassy massacre.

• Karya told Lux that the nobles would support sending the Magic Corruptors to the border and advised her to blame Taric’s actions on a demon.
• Lux told the Noble Council that a demon had bewitched Taric, and Taric backed her story by blaming the demon for the embassy massacre.
• Jiawen III proposed having a specialist investigate Lux’s evidence, and the Noble Council agreed to the inquiry.
• The Noble Council agreed to release the Magic Corruptors from Nullstone Prison and send them north to repair fortresses, build roads, and construct bridges.
• Envoy Alzhen arrived at Dawn Castle, and Jiawen III asked what he thought of Lux’s claim that a demon caused the embassy case.

Lux used Alzhen’s testimony to support the claim that a demon had bewitched Taric, and the royal court rewarded her by making her Earl of Freljord. She accepted responsibility for the northern defenses and took more than a thousand Magic Corruptors with her, seeing the impoverished territory as a chance to build a new community.

• Alzhen confirmed that the power Lux displayed matched the energy he had investigated at the embassy, supporting the explanation that a demon had bewitched Taric.
• The Noble Council and Jiawen III accepted the account, while the Illuminators faced humiliation and their Cardinal Bishop was expected to retire.
• Lux insisted on being sent north and on giving the Magic Corruptors a chance at redemption, so the court granted her the title of Earl and a Freljord fief.
• The court allowed Lux to raise a local militia freely and assigned her more than a thousand Magic Corruptors from Nullstone Prison.
• Lux welcomed the burden of defending Freljord and planned to turn the region into a new home for the mages and their families.

While Lux prepared for her investiture and Eno joined the Silencers as an elder, Eno met the secret Guardian in a Rune tree grove. The Guardian tried to question her about Demacia’s turmoil and offer her access to World Rune power, but their meeting was interrupted by a laughing newcomer.

• Lux spent the weeks before her investiture with Ogesha while Eno helped manage the Magic Corruptors and joined the Silencers as an elder.
• Three days after Grandma Ling predicted the Guardian’s arrival, a messenger summoned Eno to the Silencers’ secret vault.
• Eno touched the vault’s sigil and was transported to a grove of Rune trees, where she met the hooded Guardian.
• The Guardian offered Eno limited access to the source of magic after a test, but she refused World Rune power and pressed him to answer her questions.
• Eno identified the grove as a Rune tree cultivation laboratory and tried to take a sample, prompting the Guardian to order her away.
• A wild laugh sounded as the sky turned red, and the Guardian’s unseen former teacher addressed him.

Eno and Ryze faced Ryze’s former apprentice Brand, who had been corrupted by the World Runes and attacked them. Ryze trapped Brand in an Arcane Prison, and the chapter ended with Ryze unfastening the scroll from his back.

• Brand arrived and mistook Eno for Ryze’s new apprentice, then ordered her to leave.
• Ryze explained that Brand’s mind had been consumed by the World Runes and attacked him with arcane magic.
• Eno provoked Brand and blocked his fireball with Ice Walls, then helped Ryze by stopping Brand’s escape with Ice Spikes.
• Brand tried to flee as a blazing meteor, but Ryze sealed him inside an Arcane Prison.
• Eno examined the trapped Brand as Ryze unfastened the scroll from his back.

Eno watched Ryze seal Brand and learned that Demacia’s Silencers possessed only an echo of a World Rune, not the real one. When Ryze investigated the archive chamber with her, he found an unexplained, seemingly insubstantial World Rune and began considering Eno as a possible apprentice.

• Ryze reinforced Brand’s Arcane Prison and sealed him inside a hollow Rune tree, then thanked Eno for helping.
• Eno asked Ryze about the Silencers and the World Runes, and Ryze revealed he had left an echo to deter them after taking the real rune away.
• Eno warned Ryze that Grandma Ling’s loss of reason suggested something more than an echo was involved, so Ryze teleported with her to the Silencers’ archive chamber.
• Ryze discovered that Grandma Ling had lost her magic and opened the archive chamber, where he found and sealed a strange, seemingly intangible World Rune.
• Ryze wondered whether World Runes could arise naturally, added three more layers of seals, and considered taking Eno on as an apprentice.

Ryze moved the World Rune from the Silencers’ secret vault and left Eno to explain its absence. As the elders resisted losing their power and refused Grandma Ling’s call to join Luxanna in the north, Eno concluded that the Silencers were privileged like Demacia’s nobles.

• Ryze asked Eno to become his disciple, but accepted that she already had a teacher and could not follow his lonely quest; he then vanished with the World Rune.
• Eno told the gathered Silencer elders that Ryze had moved the unstable World Rune to keep everyone safe, and the elders demanded more answers.
• Grandma Ling silenced the elders, rebuked Permas for questioning Eno, and reminded everyone that the Silencers’ duty was to protect Demacia rather than seek powerful magic.
• Grandma Ling proposed going north with Countess Luxanna, but none of the elders agreed to join her.
• Eno left with Grandma Ling and saw the Silencers as privileged members of Demacian society, valuing only their history and magical traditions.

Eno learned that Lux was recruiting a private army to escort the Magic Corruptors north, while Cisilia arrived in the Imperial Capital hoping to join the Fearless Vanguard. The chapter ended as Fiora arrived at Lux’s recruitment window, surprising Cisilia and the young man in line behind her.

• Eno discovered that Lux and the other Crown Guard family members were away recruiting soldiers, then learned from Lestara that Lux had royal permission to recruit troops for her northern territory.
• Eno returned to Crown Guard Manor to read rather than search for Lux, knowing she could not help with recruiting.
• Cisilia waited in the crowded Imperial Capital to apply for the Fearless Vanguard after passing a preliminary test in Tobicia.
• Cisilia learned from a young man in line that Countess Luxanna was recruiting a private army for the Northern Border Army to travel to Freljord.
• Fiora arrived at the Northern Border Army recruitment window, and the young man behind Cisilia recognized her with surprise.

Fiora enlisted as an ordinary soldier in Luxanna’s army so she could travel north, seek worthy opponents, and improve her swordsmanship. Her decision also gave the Laurent family a way to repay the Crownguards’ support and restore their reputation.

• Cisilia learned that Fiora had judged the tournament, then watched in surprise as Fiora received an ordinary soldier’s uniform.
• Luxanna questioned Fiora’s choice, and Fiora explained that she wanted to patrol in the north, challenge Freljordian warriors, and eventually spar with Luxanna.
• Luxanna welcomed Fiora and saw her enlistment as a way to attract recruits to the army in Freljord.
• The chapter revealed that Fiora’s father, Sebastian, and Fiora had agreed she would go north while the Laurent family used her choice to demonstrate loyalty to the Crownguards.
• Sebastian planned to promote the Laurent family as a promising match for other noble houses, noting that three of Fiora’s six legitimate brothers were unmarried.

Lux used a striking poster featuring Fiora to draw reservists toward Freljord’s new army, then persuaded Cisilia, a talented recruit who had dreamed of joining the Fearless Vanguard, to enlist in the planned Dragon Rider squad. Cisilia joined the border army after Lux suggested she could lead Winged soldiers.

• Lux created a bold recruitment poster featuring Fiora, and it attracted reservists with promises of good pay, prospects, and border allowances.
• Cisilia left the long Fearless Vanguard line to try Lux’s recruitment process, where she excelled in the physical tests and won a game of King’s Assertion.
• Cisilia declined to register, explaining that joining the Fearless Vanguard had been her lifelong dream.
• Lux met Cisilia, praised her talent with the Winged in King’s Assertion, and invited her to join Freljord’s planned Dragon Rider squad.
• Cisilia presented her reservist credentials and joined Freljord’s border army.

Sona persuaded Lestara to let her follow Lux to Freljord and received support for a trade caravan, while Eno and Karya set out for Silvermine City. On the road, Karya advised Eno to be open with Lux about keeping Ryze’s secrets, and Eno learned their northern journey would include searching for an Elemental Dragon.

• Sona convinced Lestara to let her travel to Freljord, and Lestara provided people to form a trade caravan and protect her.
• Lux continued organizing recruitment, while Sona assembled the caravan and Eno prepared to visit Silvermine City and find mounts for the winged cavalry.
• Eno and Karya left Demacia City three days before Lux’s ennoblement ceremony, with Karya choosing to accompany Eno rather than stay with Lux and Sona.
• During the journey, Eno told Karya about Ryze and the World Runes, explaining that she had kept the encounter from Lux because Lux already had too much to worry about.
• Karya urged Eno to tell Lux that some matters had to remain secret, and Eno was surprised to learn they would search for traces of an Elemental Dragon.

Eno and Karya searched for Elemental Dragons by following local legends, and a bard’s new song led them to a recent dragon disaster in Old Gate. They decided to investigate the area, though the dragons might have already moved on and Noxians could also be pursuing them.

• Karya explained that Elemental Dragons could be tamed if they had enough elemental energy, and that Freljord could support a few small dragon-rider squads.
• Eno visited taverns and listened to bards’ dragon stories as she traveled toward Silvermine City.
• In Rizos, a bard sang about Kalifin, who had found two dragons near Green Tooth Peak and brought three scales back to Old Gate.
• The bard told Eno that Old Gate had suffered a dragon disaster about a month earlier, and Karya confirmed that the disaster was real.
• Karya advised Eno to gather more information near Old Gate, warning that the dragons might have left and that Noxians could come looking for them.
• Eno and Karya set out to investigate the dragon sightings.

Eno used Karya’s Dragon-Seeking Art to track elemental disturbances toward Green Tooth Peak, where Shyvana fled her mother Yiva and slipped past Demacia’s checkpoint. Eno spotted Shyvana’s fiery trail in the sky and pursued her through the mountains.

• Karya taught Eno to find dragons by sensing active elemental energy, and Eno used the technique while investigating the Old Gate disaster.
• Eno saw exiled Magic Corruptors and people weakened by suppression potions, and Karya said they needed to make a fresh start in Freljord.
• Shyvana recalled how Yiva had attacked her and her adoptive father, then escaped to Green Tooth Peak after their battle at Old Gate.
• Shyvana transformed into a dragon and flew over the Demacian defenses, entering the kingdom unseen by the soldiers.
• Eno detected Shyvana’s trail of fire element and chased after her on Floating Ice, praising Karya’s Dragon-Seeking Art.

Eno followed an Elemental Dragon’s trail into the woods and found Shyvana, who was preparing to fight her mother, Yiva. As Shyvana struggled against Yiva, Eno and Karya joined the battle, and Eno’s ice extinguished Yiva’s fire and froze the river.

• Eno searched the woods for the missing dragon and encountered Shyvana in human form.
• Shyvana warned Eno to leave before Yiva arrived, while Karya recognized Shyvana as a mutated Elemental Dragon.
• Yiva set the riverside woods ablaze, forcing Shyvana to transform and fight her mother in the air.
• Yiva overpowered Shyvana until Shyvana used the river to recover, but Yiva waited for her to surface.
• Eno raced to the river on Floating Ice and froze Yiva’s dragonfire and the water, giving Shyvana a chance to bite Yiva’s neck.
• Shyvana and Yiva crashed onto the frozen river as ice shards flew around them.