On the bridge, a firefight erupts. Jinx shoots Caitlyn in the side. Vi is forced to choose: chase Jinx or save Caitlyn. Gritting her teeth, Vi saves Caitlyn, carrying her back to Piltover. Jinx, watching them leave, whispers, “She’s not my sister anymore.” In Piltover, Jayce has become disillusioned. He sees the council’s corruption and is haunted by the cost of his progress. Viktor, his body now half-metal and sustained by a dangerous, sentient Hexcore (a magical heart that is beginning to think for itself), reveals his Shimmer augmentation. Jayce is horrified. Their partnership fractures.
Horrified by the violence he caused, Jayce calls a truce. He goes behind Vi’s back and meets Silco. He offers Zaun its complete independence in exchange for Silco handing over Jinx. Silco, who genuinely loves Jinx as a daughter, is torn. But he agrees, believing he can later double-cross Jayce. arcane temporada 1
The story reignites when a frustrated, now-teenage Jayce and a desperate Viktor conduct a secret experiment. Using a corrupted Shimmer-like mutation, Viktor begins to augment his own failing body, crossing a moral line. Meanwhile, a shimmer heist goes wrong, and Piltover’s new, earnest enforcer (a sharp-shooting, upper-class sheriff’s deputy) finds a single clue: the heist used old blue crystals. She follows the trail to the prison. On the bridge, a firefight erupts
Vi leads a small gang: the strong but dim-witted and the gentle giant Claggor . Powder wants to help but her inventions always explode, earning Mylo’s cruel mockery. Her only comfort is her collection of odd blue crystals she found in a destroyed hextech lab. Gritting her teeth, Vi saves Caitlyn, carrying her
To save them, Vander surrenders himself. Silco takes him to a cannery, intending to inject him with Shimmer. Vi, Mylo, and Claggor break in to save him. But Powder, left behind and desperate to help, sees a way to use her blue crystals. She builds a monkey bomb and sends it into the cannery.
Jinx is broken. All the love she had left is gone. Vi screams for her to remember who she is. But Jinx looks at Vi, then at the Hextech gemstone on her belt—the final piece of the puzzle. She smiles, not as Powder, but as someone new.