Meanwhile, Vi and Caitlyn recover and go to the council. Vi demands an army to invade Zaun and kill Silco. The council refuses—until Jayce, enraged by Silco’s attack on a Piltover shipyard, decides to take matters into his own hands. He builds a massive Hextech hammer. He and Vi lead a raid on a Shimmer factory. The raid is a success, but Vi is forced to spare Sevika when Jayce accidentally kills a Zaunite child in the chaos.
Desperate to prove herself, Vi leads the gang on a heist into the penthouse of a Piltover scientist, . They steal a bag of magical, unstable runes and some revolutionary blue “Hextech” crystals. The heist goes wrong, and a massive explosion rips through Jayce’s apartment, sending Piltover into a panic. 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. Meanwhile, Vi and Caitlyn recover and go to the council
“Here’s to the new us.”