With her sword broken, Amaya faces the Sunfire Elf's Sunforge blade with her hands alone. Sunfire Elves engage their human combatants, where they are easily overpowered by the female Sunfire Elf leader, named Janai, wielding a Sunforge blade and makes her way to General Amaya for a rematch. Viren is ecstatic as he learns that all have complied for a summit of the Pentarchy, putting him one step further to rally the other rulers behind Katolis in finishing the war against Xadia. The Crow Master informs him that four messages have arrived, each from the other Human Kingdoms. Meanwhile, Viren notices a crow returning with a scroll and immediately heads to the Crow Lord's keep. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning finally strikes Callum and Zym. When Callum and Zym reach the windmill's roof, Callum is desperate to learn sky magic that he holds the rod and waits to get hit by a lightning strike, but he eventually let go, unwilling to risk his life for the sake of learning magic. Callum spots a windmill getting repeatedly struck by lightning and believes that it is where he needs to be. But Callum makes no progress with the Sky Arcanum, getting frustrated as he desires to practice magic again. Callum takes Zym with him to venture the island. Ezran allows it since Zym is a storm dragon. Rayla is reluctant, especially since Callum asks to take Zym with him. Callum believes that to make a connection with the Sky Arcanum, heading out and facing the storm will finally establish the connection. Villads asks the group to wait out the storm below deck. Sunfire Elves emerge to surround Amaya's forces, trapping the humans within the outpost. Amaya realizes the guard is targeted with an arrow and manages to rescue the soldier from getting hit. General Amaya notices the guard shakily pointing someone behind him. The commander and the rest of the soldiers think the base is secure, so they lower their guard and prepare to leave. A lone soldier of the outpost walks up to them, nervously reporting his failure after sending a late signal to his superior. General Amaya leads the patrol and reaches the outpost, only to find it seemingly abandoned. Villads, with the help of his talking parrot, Berto, guides the ship toward a nearby island amidst large waves and deadly sea stacks, managing to port the ship on the island's pier. Unfortunately, Villads realizes the storm has reached them and eventually grows too strong that they need to find land for safety. But Viren does not trust the mage since he will not reveal his identity and decides to contemplate his choices and leaves the room. Lastly, the elf takes a dagger and tasks Viren to slash his palm and drip his blood on the chalice to finish the ritual. The elf then drinks his chalice, nodding to Viren to drink his also. The elf asks him to imitate his actions by first knitting an unfamiliar rune that gets hit by a spell from the elf, then placing the cloth on a stone before breaking it in half Viren must then pour the stone's contents with water into the chalice. Shortly after, Viren returns with the items.
Viren realizes that the elf is asking him to find the items he gathered. Viren continues to observe the elf mage, where he finally acknowledges Viren. But since they need to hurry, Villads insists that they depart now and hopefully race the storm or get caught by the storm in the middle of the bay and likely get killed. Villads takes them to his ship, The Ruthless, suggesting that they wait a few days since a storm is approaching. The princes introduce Rayla to Villads, a blind ship captain wearing two eye-patches.
Callum and Ezran soon find a suitable captain that can offer his ship for a ride and will not suspect Rayla as an elf and notice Zym. The princes offer to walk around it in respect for her fear of water, but Rayla is willing to venture the waters to get Zym back to her mother as soon as possible. Rayla points out they now need to get across a vast bay to resume their journey to Xadia. Nonetheless, Ezran expresses his gratitude for the flight before she returns to the Moon Nexus. Phoe-Phoe, feeling exhausted, makes a rough landing on the ground. At the Breach, General Amaya orders her lieutenant Fen to gather a small force to inspect their human outpost at the Xadian part of The Border, despite the outpost sending a clear signal that it is secure.
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