Chapter Summaries

LeBlanc warned that Mordekaiser might return, while Kael and Morgana observed the Black Mist receding. Kaisha and He Xi destroyed Despicable Throat and returned to Lan Hong, who said the remaining powerful enemy would come to them.

• LeBlanc told Gwen and Yorick that Mordekaiser had been sealed beneath Fuguang Island and might be plotting a catastrophe, while Yorick could not give his exact location.
• Kael and Morgana noticed that the Black Mist around Shadow Isles was gradually decreasing and discussed the Celestials’ refusal to resolve the crisis.
• Kaisha and He Xi fought Despicable Throat in its canyon nest; He Xi severed its eight limbs, and Kaisha destroyed the spider and its nest with Holy Cross Slash.
• He Xi returned to the Eternal Well and asked Lan Hong for a reward, and he promised to give her whatever she wanted.
• Kaisha asked about the remaining enemies, and Lan Hong said the final BOSS would come looking for them.

Mordekaiser returned with his Death Legion and attacked the Eternal Well, forcing He Xi, Kaisha, and their allies to fight him. As Kaisha and He Xi battled Mordekaiser, Kael and Morgana entered the Shadow Isles, and Kael weakened his death shield with a strike from above.

• Mordekaiser emerged from the ground, summoned his Death Legion, and ordered it to attack the Eternal Well.
• Kael flew into the Shadow Isles, and Morgana followed her after reflecting that her sister had changed.
• He Xi and Kaisha helped defeat the Death Legion’s vanguard before Mordekaiser confronted LeBlanc and the others.
• Mordekaiser insulted He Xi and Kaisha, and He Xi kicked him away before he charged them with his hammer.
• Kaisha and He Xi counterattacked with radiance, but Mordekaiser shielded himself with the Power of Death.
• Kael struck Mordekaiser’s shield with Judgment of Justice, weakening it, as Morgana arrived.

He Xi, Kaisha, Morgana, and Kael repeatedly destroyed Mordekaiser's armor, but he kept resurrecting until Lan Hong explained that his true soul remained in the Kingdom of the Dead. Lan Hong summoned the soul into the armor, leaving Mordekaiser far stronger and the others facing his true power.

• He Xi, Kaisha, Morgana, and Kael attacked Mordekaiser together and shattered his armor, but it reassembled and he returned from death.
• LeBlanc explained that Mordekaiser could not be killed, while Lan Hong realized his true soul remained in the Kingdom of the Dead.
• Kaisha and He Xi restrained Mordekaiser with radiant chains and Morgana's Soul Chain while they sought a way to stop him.
• Lan Hong explained that Mordekaiser was controlling the armor remotely and offered to summon his true soul from the Kingdom of the Dead.
• Lan Hong performed the summoning, and Mordekaiser broke free with the Power of Death around him more than twice as strong.

Kaisha, He Xi, Kael, and Morgana combined their powers to defeat and completely destroy Mordekaiser’s true soul. Afterward, Lan Hong helped Kaisha and He Xi recover, while the Eternal Well rapidly purified the Black Mist on the Shadow Isles, leaving the land’s future uncertain.

• Morgana bound Mordekaiser with Soul Chain while Kael, Kaisha, and He Xi attacked his shield of death.
• Mordekaiser trapped the fighters in his Death Domain, but Kaisha and He Xi formed a Sacred Domain that dispersed it and suppressed his power.
• Morgana restrained Mordekaiser, Kael struck him with the Judgment of Justice, and Kaisha and He Xi finished him with Divine Judgment, purifying his true soul and destroying his armor and hammer.
• Lan Hong embraced Kaisha and He Xi and helped them recover, while Kael and Morgana disagreed about justice.
• LeBlanc asked whether Mordekaiser was truly dead, and Lan Hong warned her that Kael might judge her for her own actions.
• Lan Hong accelerated the Eternal Well’s purification of the Shadow Isles’ Black Mist, raising the question of whether others would fight over the land once it was cleared.

After the Black Mist vanished from the Shadow Isles, Lan Hong and his companions left for Piltover, where Morgana described the conflict between the wealthy Upper City and impoverished Zaun. In Piltover, Ge Xiaolun mistook a local girl for Qi Lin, and the group continued exploring the city.

• Yorick chose to spend his remaining time alone, while Maokai returned to the forest to recover from his curse.
• Vex left the Shadow Isles after the Black Mist disappeared and avoided Lan Hong’s group when she encountered them.
• Lan Hong chose Piltover as their next destination, and Morgana guided the group there.
• Morgana explained that Piltover’s wealth and prosperity came at Zaun’s expense, while He Xi and Kaisha were reminded of the Angels’ past.
• Morgana showed Gwen the Sun Gate, and Ge Xiaolun mistook a local girl for Qi Lin before she jokingly warned the group not to commit crimes.

Ge Xiaolun and the others toured Piltover, where He Xi explained Jayce’s achievements and Hextech’s limitations. As they visited the Clockwork Academy, Viktor plotted to impose Machine Ascension while Zaun prepared to resist Piltover, and the group encountered Heimerdinger.

• Ge Xiaolun noticed that Caitlyn and Vi resembled He Weilan and discussed how familiar faces in this universe had different personalities.
• He Xi explained that Jayce had developed Piltover’s Hextech and described the achievements of his original self, Jegustin.
• He Xi examined Hextech, judged it primitive, and remained interested in studying Shurima’s Ascended and Sun Disc.
• Viktor secretly planned to spread Machine Ascension through Piltover while Zaun’s people organized resistance against the city.
• Lan Hong and the others visited the Clockwork Academy, learned that Piltover sent its industrial pollution to Zaun, and saw Heimerdinger, whose name made Kaisha and He Xi think of Dinghe.

Heimerdinger invited Lan Hong's group to help investigate Hextech after revealing that its abuse could affect the World Runes and endanger Rune Land. Jayce, Ekko, Heimerdinger, and Lan Hong's group headed to the Undercity to inspect Hextech's core, while Jinx faced Caitlyn and Vi.

• Kaisha noticed Ekko's Hextech weapon carried a trace of temporal power, and Heimerdinger invited Lan Hong's group to join his research.
• Lan Hong's group met Jayce, who described Piltover's worsening divisions and warned that Hextech was being abused.
• Heimerdinger revealed that Hextech drew on the World Runes, prompting Morgana to recall the Rune War and Jayce and the others to investigate Hextech's core in the Undercity.
• Jinx, hunted by Piltover and Zaun, confronted Officer Caitlyn and Vi and challenged them to catch her.

Jinx clashed with Caitlyn and Vi in Zaun while Lan Hong and the others investigated a newly formed rune at the Hextech Nexus. The rune reacted to nearby Hextech weapons, and Lan Hong suppressed it as the group debated how to respond.

• Jinx escaped Caitlyn and Vi in Piltover, but they tracked her into Zaun and found her again.
• Lan Hong, He Xi, Jayce, Ekko, and Heimerdinger reached the Hextech Nexus, where Heimerdinger identified a newly formed rune linked to Hextech's abuse.
• Jinx challenged Caitlyn and Vi over Piltover's treatment of Zaun before Vi attacked, and Sevika joined the fight against Caitlyn.
• The rune stirred as the fighters used powerful Hextech weapons, causing Ekko, Jayce, and Heimerdinger to become dizzy.
• Lan Hong suppressed the rune, and Jayce and Heimerdinger argued against shutting down the Hextech Nexus while Lan Hong pointed to the conflict between Piltover and Zaun as the deeper problem.

Lan Hong took Jayce, He Xi, and the others to observe a parallel dimension, where they found a wasteland of humanoid puppets. He Xi suspected that a failed Machine Ascension had destroyed the civilization, and Jayce and Heimerdinger searched for that world’s Viktor.

• Lan Hong explained that runes could connect parallel dimensions, then activated one to let the group observe another world.
• Vi let Jinx escape after a little girl intervened, then argued with Caitlyn over Jinx and her mother’s death.
• Vi learned that Zaun had begun treating Jinx as a hero, while the gas leak into Piltover pushed its councilors to approve plans against Zaun.
• The group arrived at a god’s-eye view of a wasteland filled with puppet-like beings, and He Xi suggested a failed Machine Ascension had ended the civilization.
• Jayce feared Viktor had caused the disaster, but Heimerdinger urged caution, so they searched the parallel dimension and found its Viktor.

Heimerdinger, Jayce, and Ekko investigated the parallel spacetime where Viktor’s failed Machine Ascension had destroyed a civilization, learning that he had secretly experimented on Zaunites through Consciousness Sharing. After Viktor’s body stopped functioning, they returned to Lan Hong and moved on to another spacetime, while Vi and Jinx reconciled enough to sit together after another fight.

• He Xi and Kaisha explained that Machine Ascension could work for individuals but that civilization-wide Consciousness Sharing left one Main Consciousness in control and risked destroying everyone.
• Lan Hong sent Heimerdinger, Jayce, and Ekko into the parallel spacetime, where they confirmed that Viktor’s Machine Ascension experiment had failed catastrophically.
• Heimerdinger activated Viktor’s body, which revealed that Viktor had treated Zaunites as test subjects and used Consciousness Sharing to control them.
• Viktor’s body broke down after answering Heimerdinger’s questions, and Jayce agreed to search for a way to undo Consciousness Sharing rather than act rashly.
• Lan Hong brought Heimerdinger, Jayce, and Ekko back, then shifted their view to another spacetime.
• Vi found Jinx in Zaun, and after fighting again, the two sat down together.

Jinx led Zaun’s resistance against Piltover’s oppression, while Jayce, Ekko, and Heimerdinger rejected Lan Hong’s offer to remain in a peaceful parallel world. After Jinx rescued the captured fighters, she discovered that the werewolf attacking them was her adoptive father, Vander.

• Vi and Jinx argued over whether Zaun could resist the upper city, and the next day Zaun’s resistance fighters gathered under Jinx’s leadership.
• Noxian forces captured most of the gathered fighters, while Vi hid and Singed was arrested after deliberately shedding blood to summon his werewolf creation.
• Lan Hong showed Jayce, Ekko, and Heimerdinger a peaceful parallel world and offered Jayce and Ekko the chance to stay, but they chose to return to their original timeline.
• Jinx rescued the imprisoned resistance fighters, but a werewolf attacked them, so she stayed behind to hold it off as the others escaped.
• Jinx’s weapon failed, and the werewolf recognized her; Jinx realized it was Vander, who had survived and been transformed by Singed.
• Vander fled the prison with Jinx following, and Caitlyn arrived afterward and questioned Ambessa, who refused to answer.

Ambessa freed Singed, who revealed his efforts to revive his daughter and sought the werewolf for his research. Vi and Jinx reunited with Vander in his werewolf form, while Jayce and his allies confronted Viktor’s growing influence and headed toward Evolution Village, where the sisters brought Vander for treatment.

• Caitlyn questioned Singed, but he evaded her questions; Ambessa then negotiated with him and released him, and he showed her and Caitlyn his dead daughter in his laboratory.
• Singed told Ambessa he needed to find the werewolf for its healing factor, so Ambessa gathered people to capture it.
• Jinx told Vi that Vander was alive, and the sisters searched the mines, argued and fought, then found a letter from Vander to Silco before a blood-frenzied werewolf attacked them.
• Vi and Jinx recognized the werewolf as Vander; when he was about to kill Vi, he regained his senses and embraced both sisters, though his condition remained dangerous.
• After returning from the parallel timeline, Lan Hong and the others found councilor Rosa taking the Hextech energy core under Viktor’s control; Jayce knocked Rosa down, and the group decided to confront Viktor at his Evolution Village in Zaun.
• Vi and Jinx brought Vander to Evolution Village for treatment and surrendered their weapons at its entrance, sensing danger beneath its peaceful appearance.

Viktor tried to treat Vander the Werewolf while Singed and Ambessa arrived to take him. Vi and Jinx defended Vander, and as Ambessa prepared to attack Evolution Village, Vander awakened and saved Jinx.

• Viktor agreed to treat Vander, but explained that restoring his consciousness required more energy than he had available, so Vander had to be confined at night.
• Vi and Jinx enjoyed a brief respite in Evolution Village, while Singed informed Ambessa of Vander’s location and brought an army to surround the village.
• Singed urged Viktor to hand over Vander and offered to combine Shimmer Technology with Hextech, but Viktor refused; Singed then set a plan in motion to stop the treatment and seize Vander.
• Caitlyn confronted Vi, then chose to help her by pretending to capture her, but Ambessa saw through the scheme and restrained Vi while Singed went after Vander.
• Jinx knocked Singed unconscious but was overwhelmed by his burly companion; Vander awakened, struck the man away, and saved Jinx.
• Vi escaped with Caitlyn’s help and hurried back to Vander, while Ambessa lost patience and prepared to seize Evolution Village by force.

Jayce tried to stop Viktor’s Glorious Evolution, but his attack disrupted Viktor’s control over Evolution Village and unleashed Vander’s transformed wolfman nature. As the battle raged, Heimerdinger considered whether Piltover and Zaun could overcome their conflict, leaving the decision of how to intervene unresolved.

• Lan Hong and the others entered Evolution Village despite the Noxian army surrounding it, and Jayce confronted Viktor to persuade him to abandon Glorious Evolution.
• Viktor refused to stop, so Jayce attacked him, causing the people connected to Viktor’s power to collapse and Vander’s suppressed feral nature to erupt.
• Vander became a blazing, magma-like wolfman and urged Jinx and Vi to run as Ambessa ordered the Noxian soldiers to attack him.
• Ekko asked Lan Hong and the others to end the battle, but they discussed whether the crisis could become an opportunity for Piltover and Zaun to resolve their conflict.
• Heimerdinger proposed using overwhelming military force and redistributing resources to reconcile the cities, while Lan Hong warned that outside rule would make them Piltover and Zaun’s rulers.
• Heimerdinger admitted that he could no longer ignore Piltover’s decline and the injustice between the upper city and the undercity, and said he wanted to end the conflict.

Ge Xiaolun suppressed the Noxus army and killed Ambessa, declaring that he would end the divide between Piltover and Zaun. After Jayce killed the dying Viktor, Jinx begged for Vander’s life, and Lan Hong left Ge Xiaolun to decide what would happen to him.

• Ge Xiaolun flew in and stopped the Noxus soldiers, then subdued werewolf Vander.
• Ge Xiaolun rejected Ambessa’s offer and killed him, forcing the leaderless Noxus army to retreat.
• He Xi praised Ge Xiaolun’s leadership, and he said he would work with Jayce, Ekko, and Heimerdinger to change Piltover and Zaun.
• Heimerdinger told Jayce that Viktor was being kept alive by his last Hextech energy, so Jayce ended Viktor’s life.
• Jinx pleaded with Ekko and then Lan Hong’s group to save Vander, and Lan Hong asked Ge Xiaolun to decide Vander’s fate.

Ge Xiaolun secured Jinx’s cooperation in reconciling Zaun and Piltover, while He Xi cured Vander’s madness. He returned to Piltover with Jayce and Heimerdinger, where their attempt to reclaim power met resistance and Ge Xiaolun began enforcing the reforms by force.

• Ge Xiaolun promised to cure Vander if Jinx helped coordinate Zaun’s lower city, and Jinx agreed while warning him not to deceive its people.
• He Xi restored Vander’s consciousness, and Jinx, Vi, and Vander embraced; Caitlyn then offered to help Ge Xiaolun with the reforms.
• Ge Xiaolun took Jayce, Caitlyn, and Heimerdinger back to Piltover, while Ekko and Jinx stayed in Zaun to gather support and Lan Hong’s group remained to address the toxic gas and Zaun’s internal factions.
• Jayce summoned Piltover’s councilors, but they rejected his and Heimerdinger’s plan to reclaim authority and allied against them.
• Ge Xiaolun declared himself Piltover’s leader and ordered the councilors to surrender power or die, then killed one of them with the Void Greatsword.

Ge Xiaolun crushed the councilors’ armed revolt in Piltover, then left Jayce and Heimerdinger to handle the aftermath. In Zaun, Jinx, Vi, and Ekko continued unifying the lower city as Lan Hong and the others departed, leaving Ge Xiaolun behind.

• Ge Xiaolun warned Piltover’s councilors to carry out his reforms, while Jayce and Heimerdinger urged him to avoid excessive bloodshed.
• Caitlyn’s family confined her, and the councilors gathered armed forces with her family’s help to surround city hall.
• Ge Xiaolun confronted the armed force, killed the councilors who ordered them to fire, and forced the soldiers to surrender.
• Ge Xiaolun left Jayce and Heimerdinger to manage Piltover’s aftermath and promised peace for Piltover and Zaun.
• Jinx and Vi joined forces with Ekko and Vander to purge dissenting factions and unify lower Zaun.
• Lan Hong and the others left Zaun, leaving Ge Xiaolun to handle the follow-up matters.

Morgana and LeBlanc explained Shurima’s history, from the Ascended and the Void War to Xerath’s betrayal, the empire’s destruction, and the Darkin War. Morgana said Shurima might be rebuilt if one of its Ascended returned from beneath the Yellow Sand.

• Morgana told Lan Hong and the others that Shurima’s Sun Disc granted Ascension, transforming people into half-human, half-beast beings such as Nasus and Renekton.
• Morgana described how a rebellion unleashed Void creatures in the Void War, leaving Shurima weakened and many Ascended corrupted.
• LeBlanc explained that Xerath betrayed Azir during the Ascension ritual, causing the Sun Disc to collapse and destroy Shurima; Nasus and Renekton later fought Xerath.
• Morgana said the corrupted Ascended became Darkin, whose war ended only after the Celestials taught people how to seal them.
• Morgana told the group that Shurima could be rebuilt if one of its Ascended returned from beneath the Yellow Sand.

Cassiopeia betrayed Sivir while searching for Ascended power, but the tomb’s curse transformed Cassiopeia into a snake-like monster and Sivir’s blood awakened Azir. At Dawn Oasis, Azir explained his return to Lan Hong’s group, then gained Ascension Power and transformed into a golden eagle.

• Cassiopeia hired Sivir to explore a tomb, then stabbed Sivir when they opened its gate.
• A statue snake bit Cassiopeia, and she escaped before transforming into a half-human, half-snake creature; her mercenaries abandoned her.
• Sivir survived, and her blood awakened Azir, her descendant, who carried her to Dawn Oasis and healed her in its restored waters.
• Lan Hong’s group met Azir, who said Xerath had betrayed him and that Sivir’s blood had brought him back to life.
• A ray of light struck Azir after Kaisha noted he lacked Ascension Power, transforming him into a golden, eagle-like Ascended being.

Azir completed his Ascension, restored Shurima’s capital, and witnessed illusions of his lost family and warriors vanish again, driving him to seek revenge on Xerath. Sivir rejected his invitation to help rebuild the empire, while Nasus sensed Azir’s return and set out to meet him.

• Azir became an Ascended, gained control over Yellow Sand, and restored the Sun Disc and Shurima’s capital.
• Azir watched illusions of his family and warriors turn to ash again and shouted Xerath’s name, choosing revenge over rebuilding the empire.
• Sivir awoke, learned that Azir was her ancestor and had saved her, but refused to join him and left to pursue Cassiopeia.
• Morgana warned Azir that the Righteous Star Spirit would oppose him if he started a war, and Azir declared that no one could stop Shurima’s return.
• Nasus sensed Azir’s resurrection and left his secluded dwelling to meet the former emperor.