Chapter Summaries

Sion launched himself from a catapult into Demacia’s capital and began destroying its gate and walls, while He Shenyan warned Kronos about trouble ahead in Shurima. The chapter left Kronos alone in the streets after He Shenyan vanished, with the mage’s warning that events would not unfold as Kronos wished.

• Hayden spotted a giant approaching Demacia’s side gate, sounded the alarm, and watched Sion smash through the gate and kill the defending soldiers.
• Hayden leapt at Sion with his sword, but the blade broke against Sion’s skin and Sion killed him.
• Sion ignored the Noxian generals’ objections and used a catapult to launch himself into Demacia’s capital, prompting Darius to regret not keeping watch over him.
• He Shenyan and Kronos walked through the rebuilding Immortal Bastion and discussed Sion’s attack and the new Primarchs He Shenyan had found.
• He Shenyan warned Kronos that Shurima’s Ascended might resist Noxus and that the region faced a Void-related crisis; he planned to return in a year to help.
• He Shenyan vanished, leaving Kronos with the warning that events would not develop as he wanted.

Thanos, now an ordinary human, fought off the men pursuing him and learned that the Brotherhood of violent children was tied to a club of powerful fathers involved in terrible crimes. After killing his last pursuer, Thanos decided to act against them, accepting that his former life had already been overturned.

• Thanos fought his way through a warehouse and subdued the last gunman pursuing him.
• The gunman asked Thanos to deliver money to someone at an address, and Thanos promised to consider it.
• The gunman explained that the Brotherhood was a front for a club whose members were the children's fathers, who committed brutal crimes and ran criminal trades.
• Thanos killed the gunman and decided to take action against the people behind the Brotherhood.
• Thanos reflected on his ordinary life and realized that someone else had already negated his past before he walked outside with his gun.

Monroe Alston watched Sion tear through Demacia’s defenses and learned that the Mageseekers had brutalized a young Mage named Anna Altis. When they forced Anna to attack Sion and she collapsed, Sion unleashed his full fury against the Demacians, while Monroe turned away from the Mageseeker and charged into battle.

• Sion broke through Demacia’s defensive lines, leaving Monroe Alston unable to stop him with ordinary soldiers.
• A Mageseeker brought the battered Anna Altis to Monroe and proposed using her magic against Sion.
• Monroe was horrified by Anna’s injuries but allowed the Mageseekers to take her to the battlefield.
• Anna hurled a fireball at Sion and collapsed, but the attack did not harm him.
• Sion condemned the Demacians for sending a child against him and began a far more violent assault.
• Monroe let the Mageseeker leave and charged toward Sion as a Demacian soldier.

Thanos killed Jonathan Tate after wiping out his murderous club, then sent evidence of their crimes to television stations. In Demacia, Sion carried an exhausted girl away from Capital City, while Garen learned of the king’s death and a noble conspiracy and began planning with Malsenor and his sister.

• Thanos confronted the wounded Jonathan Tate, killed him, and later sent evidence of the club’s murders to major television stations.
• Monroe Alston lay incapacitated as Sion defeated the last defenders, found the still-living girl, and carried her away from Dawn Castle, leaving his axes behind.
• Garen Crownguard learned from Malsenor that one Noxian had broken through Capital City’s defenses, Jarvan III was dead, and the prince was under house arrest.
• Malsenor told Garen that nobles were conspiring against the Crownguard family and had been close to recalling him from the front.
• Garen gave Malsenor a medal and ordered him to deliver the warning to Garen’s sister at the Crownguard estate, while Garen waited for the nobles to expose an opening.

Morey received evidence of a secret annual murder contest and published it, while Thanos continued farming. At the front, Sion ordered a rescue for a horribly injured child and prepared to launch an attack on Demacia the next morning.

• Morey read an anonymous submission describing powerful people who held annual murder contests and downloaded its attached evidence.
• The Texas Vanguard reported the scandal, which quickly spread across social media and television.
• Thanos continued farming as his phone vibrated with calls.
• Sion's military physicians fought to save the child Sion had brought back, who had lost an arm and both eyes.
• Sion told Darius to prepare an attack on Demacia for the next morning, determined to end the war.

Sion told Elena that her magic was a gift and arranged for the Crimson Society to try to restore her sight. Malsenor warned Luxanna that nobles were plotting against Garen, while Garen persuaded the Dauntless Vanguard to return to Capital City; no soldier chose to stay.

• Sion reassured Elena that she was a natural-born Mage, told her to rest, and asked the Crimson Society to see whether her sight could be restored.
• Malsenor visited Luxanna with Garen's medal and reported that nobles were conspiring against Garen with the Mageseekers' support.
• Luxanna told Malsenor that the Colossus had a will of his own and would not obey nobles who mistreated him.
• Garen told his adjutant that Noxians had breached Capital City's defenses and announced that he would take the Dauntless Vanguard back there.
• Garen explained the danger to the Dauntless Vanguard and offered soldiers the choice to stay; none raised a hand.

Sion sent Darius to lead the newly formed legion against Demacia, intending to use the battle to train his troops. In Dawn Castle, Schutell revealed that he planned to exploit Jarvan IV and Tianna Crownguard’s confinement and unleash a colossus against the Noxians as the battle began.

• Sion told Darius to wipe out the Mageseekers and lead the legion against the Demacians.
• Jarvan IV and Tianna Crownguard discussed their confinement and the likely consequences of the political upheaval.
• Schutell told Jarvan IV and Tianna that the Dauntless Vanguard and Silverwing Raptor Knights would be absent during the Noxian attack.
• Schutell sat on Jarvan III’s throne and agreed with a Mageseeker to activate a colossus powered by three hundred mages.
• Darius prepared to fight the Demacians in their capital and welcomed the challenge.

He Shenyan returned to his Mage Tower, reunited with Feng, and relaxed while Nezus struggled under Shurima’s growing administrative workload. Nezus briefly escaped his office for a walk, but after Aatrox fled from a request to review documents, he went back to work.

• He Shenyan found the Mage Tower empty, reunited with Feng, asked about Zed, and fell asleep against her.
• Nezus discovered his room was buried in official documents and approved a proposal to build another temple.
• Nezus left his room after half a month and told Aris to have the documents moved and pass along instructions about merchant applications.
• Nezus walked through Shurima’s improved streets and city walls, proud of the city’s revival.
• Aatrox found Nezus, then flew away when Nezus asked him to review documents for a day.
• Nezus returned to his room and resumed working on the official documents.

Noxus pressed its attack against Demacia’s final city defenses while Sav waited in vain for reinforcements and a secret weapon. Sylas was taken from prison to Guardian Plaza, where the Mageseekers prepared to kill prisoners, until a colossal statue awakened; Garen arrived overhead as Darius prepared to face it.

• Darius stayed within the Noxian formation as his silent, relentless soldiers overwhelmed Demacia’s defenders, and Sav struggled to hold the final line with only three thousand troops.
• Sav learned that the Mageseekers’ secret weapon was not ready and that the Dauntless Vanguard, Silverwing Raptor Knights, and Royal Heavy Cavalry were absent.
• A Mageseeker led Sylas from prison to Guardian Plaza, where he found hundreds of prisoners being lined up and counted by the Mageseekers.
• Garen and the Silverwing Raptor Knights flew toward the city and saw a colossal statue awaken in Guardian Plaza, roaring at the Mageseekers and prisoners below.
• Darius looked up at the giant and resolved to fight it before General Sion arrived.

Sylas witnessed Galio awaken and slaughter the Mageseekers who had tried to harvest magic from the shackled prisoners. Sion reached the Capital City, ordered Darius to attack, and began fighting Galio, leaving the battle poised as Sion prepared to strike the colossus’s left hand.

• Sylas was stabbed as Mageseekers killed the prisoners and transferred their magic into Galio, who awakened and destroyed them in a storm.
• Sav realized the Mageseekers had failed to control Galio, while Sion resisted the blood god’s summons and raced toward the Capital City.
• Sion arrived with Darius, recovered his axes, ordered Darius to clear the city and kill resisting soldiers, and smashed through the inner wall.
• Galio turned to confront the Noxian force, but Sion chopped through his ankle, climbed him, and blinded both of his eyes.
• Galio struck at his own face while Sion moved onto his left arm and raised his axes, waiting for Galio’s hand to come within reach.

Sion fought Galio until the colossus exhausted its magic, then rescued the sole survivor as Demacian leader Schutell faced Xin Zhao. Noxian soldiers continued securing the capital, and one soldier expected the war to end soon.

• Sion endured Galio's wind attack, blinded the colossus, and fought until Galio ran out of magic.
• Galio asked Sion to save the only surviving man, who urged Sion to kill the Noxians, and Sion carried him away.
• Schutell tried to plan his escape, but Xin Zhao confronted him and killed him for murdering Jarvan III.
• A Noxian soldier left a commoner's home without harming the family and rejoined his squad in the capital.
• The soldier followed the legion's silent communication tradition and thought the war would soon be over.

Orlando entered He Shenyan’s Mage Tower to ask for help treating his sick mother, while He Shenyan asked him about a group of people who frightened him. In Noxus, Sion ordered a wounded man kept alive because magic had no effect on him, then learned that Jarvan IV and Demacia’s marshal wanted to meet.

• Orlando followed Feng into the Mage Tower and met He Shenyan, asking for help because his mother remained ill despite taking medicine.
• He Shenyan gave Orlando a sapphire and asked who the people were; Orlando left the tower in a hurry.
• He Shenyan stopped Feng from sneaking out to play and teased her before carrying her upstairs.
• A member of the Crimson Society told Sion that blood magic could not heal a wounded man whose body absorbed the magic.
• Sion ordered the physicians to keep the man alive and learned from Darius that Jarvan IV and Demacia’s marshal wanted to meet him.

Sion questioned Jarvan IV about Demacia’s fall and invited him to join the Noxian army, explaining that Noxus sought to unite humanity against threats beyond their world. Jarvan decided to enlist despite Tianna Crownguard’s objections and awaited dawn so he could tell Sion.

• Darius told Sion that Demacian civilians welcomed the king’s death and the execution of the Mageseekers, and Sion suspected a third party had turned the people against the royal family.
• Jarvan IV told Sion that he suspected a hidden mastermind had contributed to Demacia’s downfall, but he had no evidence.
• Sion invited Jarvan IV to join his legion and explained that Noxus aimed to unite humanity against dangers in the wider universe.
• Jarvan IV told Tianna Crownguard that he intended to join the Noxian army, but she accused him of betrayal and suspected Noxian mind magic.
• After Tianna left, Jarvan IV stayed awake and resolved to join the army and discover whether Sion’s vision of a united humanity was real.

Garen reunited with Lux in a Noxian field hospital, where she comforted a dying Demacian soldier and eased his final moments with a small light spell. Lux insisted that helping the wounded was her responsibility, while Garen accepted that Demacia had fallen and that his family was all he had left.

• Darius introduced himself to Garen and took him through the occupied capital to meet Lux, saying Garen was a civilian and would soon be released.
• Darius left Garen at a camp for wounded Demacian soldiers, where Lux had been serving as a nursing aide.
• A physician summoned Lux to help a mortally wounded soldier; she learned his name was Aisa and stayed with him as he spoke about his fear and wish to have learned painting.
• After Aisa died, Lux placed a faint point of light beneath his hand to comfort herself and give him a glow in his coffin.
• Lux recognized Garen and embraced him, then explained that easing the dying soldiers' pain was the only duty she could fulfill now.
• Garen accepted Lux's view that Demacia's fall had been inevitable and reflected that his family was all he had left.

Gwyndolin met the Ashen One, who brought a life-bearing sapling and a message from He Shenyan, and He Shenyan arrived to make them a proposal. In Noxus, Swain learned of a swift victory and planned his next moves, while Kronos discovered that a recruit was seriously ill and suspected something unusual.

• Gwyndolin received the Ashen One and recognized the sapling from Firelink Shrine as a sign of life; the Ashen One said He Shenyan had left it and directed him to Gwyndolin.
• He Shenyan appeared through a blue light, greeted Gwyndolin and the Ashen One, and announced that he had a proposal for them.
• Swain celebrated news of a rapid conquest, marked Demacia on his map, and asked the guards to arrange a meeting with Instructor Kronos.
• Kronos watched the new recruits train and called over Number 134 after noticing he had fallen behind.
• Kronos sent Number 134 to the medic, telling him he was seriously ill, and suspected the sickness might be connected to a strange purple light.

Kronos warned Swain about a possible Nurgle plague while they discussed Noxus’s conquest of Demacia. In Lordran, He Shenyan secured agreement to evacuate its remaining lucid inhabitants, and the Ashen One chose to leave rather than link the dying flame.

• Kronos recounted his discovery to Swain and warned that the suspected Nurgle plague could be real.
• Swain said Sion had incorporated Demacia into Noxus, but Kronos complained that the campaign had taken too long.
• He Shenyan asked Gwyndolin to help identify Lordran’s remaining survivors, including the twin princes, Farron’s Undead Legion, Firelink Shrine’s residents, and the Painted World.
• The Fire Keeper and the Ashen One told He Shenyan they trusted his plan to transfer people out of Lordran.
• The Ashen One revealed to Gwyndolin that he had linked the fire before without choosing to, and that this time he wanted to follow his own will.
• He Shenyan departed with Gwyndolin, while the Ashen One and Fire Keeper discussed the better world she had glimpsed beyond the flame and the possibility of returning someday.

Kronos investigated Number 134’s unexplained bouts of exhaustion and feared a Nurgle plague had reached Runeterra. Jarvan trained with the Silent Wolf Legion while He Shenyan brought Gwyndolin to a recreated Irithyll, where Gwyndolin kissed him.

• The army physician told Kronos that Number 134 was healthy but suffered thirteen unpredictable episodes of exhaustion and bodily damage in five days.
• Kronos ordered continued monitoring, notified Swain, and extended the camp’s training period while forbidding anyone to enter or leave.
• Jarvan lost a sparring match against Klein, who took him to Healer Lymansa for treatment of his injured leg.
• He Shenyan transported Gwyndolin to the wilderness and created a structure resembling Irithyll for him.
• Gwyndolin kissed He Shenyan, then ran up the steps with his ears red and called it his reward.

The Ashen One agreed to travel to the Freljord to retrieve He Shenyan’s disciple and deliver a message to Lissandra, while the Fire Keeper joined him as a companion. Elsewhere, Jarvan settled into life among the Silent Wolf Legion, and Sion decided to return to the Empire after receiving Kronos’s warning of a possible catastrophe.

• He Shenyan gave the Ashen One a map and asked him to find his disciple in the Freljord and tell Lissandra that he wanted her help.
• The Ashen One tasted He Shenyan’s fruit wine, and He Shenyan arranged for the Fire Keeper to accompany him on the journey.
• Gwyndolin gave He Shenyan a ring as thanks, and He Shenyan told him that a ring signified marriage in his homeland.
• Jarvan endured Doctor Lymansa’s treatment with Klein, then reflected that Demacia’s oppressive army culture had helped cause its defeat.
• Darius showed Sion a warning from Instructor Kronos about a disaster that could devastate the Empire, and Sion resolved to return and stop it.

James Potter failed again to reconcile with Snape after his jealous outburst led Lily Evans to divorce him, while Lily and Harley continued their lives without him. He Shenyan returned to Hogwarts, where he praised the school’s progress and Snape’s magical innovations before leaving again after only a few days.

• Snape rejected James Potter’s attempt to apologize, reminding him that Snape had saved his life.
• James returned home to Lily Evans, who told him she had found a job, was moving out, and had custody of Harley.
• The chapter recounted how James attacked Snape after his resurrection, prompting Lily to leave him and file for divorce.
• Harley came home after a quarrel with Malfoy, and her concern for James moved him to tears when she called him Dad.
• He Shenyan visited Headmistress McGonagall and learned that Hogwarts had adopted new rules allowing Blink and teleportation while banning offensive magic.
• He Shenyan praised Snape’s work on Hogwarts’s magical inscriptions and told McGonagall he would stay only a few days.

Snape taught his new Basic Use of Magic course before talking with He Shenyan, while Ashen One and the Fire Keeper traveled toward Freljord and encountered a corrupted stranger. In Freljord, Kedar buried a mysterious dead woman and returned to find intruders eating his food.

• Snape warned his students against attempting spells before mastering them, and He Shenyan praised his teaching and magical rune work.
• Ashen One and the Fire Keeper rode west toward Freljord and found a feral man with pulsing purple-red veins; Ashen One killed and burned him.
• Kedar hunted a deer and left its entrails for the wolves that shared the wilderness around his cabin.
• Kedar found a bloodied, naked woman outside his home, but she screamed and died when he spoke; he buried her before nightfall.
• Kedar heard men and a dog inside his cabin discussing the woman's footprints and eating his food, so he kicked the door open.