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;Characters: [[Vin]], [[Elend Venture]], [[Sazed]], [[Human]]
;Summary
Vin watches as the refugees flee to the kandra caverns. Ruin continues to taunt her. She sees the approaching doom, and grows angry and attacks Ruin. This surprises Ruin as he did not think attacking was possible due to Preservation's intent. She is not able to defeat Ruin since they are too evenly matched.
Sazed tells Elend that the atium is Ruin's body and advises him not to surrender it to their foe since the world would probably be immediately doomed. Sazed calmly tells Elend not to worry since Vin will save everyone. Demoux arrives and gives a status report on their forces. He says that all of his soldiers took metals but none of them showed allomantic abilities. Elend has Demoux eat an atium bead and Demoux is able to burn it, and Elend deduces that his group are likely all Seers.
Vin watches as Elend gives a speech to motivate his small group of soldiers as they prepare to fight the koloss. She tells him not to fight, but him and his men rush out and attack. Elend and his group glow brightly and she realizes they are all burning atium.
Elend fights and burns through a massive quantity of atium, unconcerned due to the vast supply of it on hand. Sazed stands by the cave exit to resupply any soldiers who need more.
Ruin is frustrated and tries to attack Vin but is rebuffed.
Sazed watches the battle, telling those nearby that Vin would appear.
Elend has been fighting for hours, but the koloss army still numbers in the thousands, while the atium mistings are being overwhelmed. Marsh suddenly appears, and he is also burning atium.
Human roams the kandra tunnels under Ruin's control, leading other koloss, and killing everyone they encounter. They believe that they find the atium cache and Ruin yells in pleasure.
Marsh attacks Elend burning the atium he got from a kandra. Elend's pewter runs out, but he is still able to burn pewter somehow. He looks up and sees Vin, and sees a dark force guiding Marsh. Elend then burns duralumin and atium, and has a flash of insight and knowledge. Elend buries his sword in Marsh's neck as Marsh's axe takes him in the chest. However Marsh is able to heal his wound while Elend isn't. Marsh claims victory but Elend says that he is wrong and that Elend won.
Human searches the storage location where the atium was stored and finds it empty.
Elend tells Marsh that all the atium has been burned up and none is left for Ruin.
Vin watches as Marsh decapitates Elend, and Ruin gloats over this. With nothing left to live for, she attacks Ruin and manages to kill both of them.
Sazed remains at the cave entrance, accompanied only by Demoux who is badly injured and missing a hand. The heat from the sun is oven-like and koloss continue to rampage, but Sazed believes in Vin. He sees the bodies of Vin and a stranger appear besides Elends corpse, and wearing all his copperminds, he taps steel to reach them safely. He cries out in anguish and despair. Then he notices white mist and black smoke leaking from Vin and the stranger and he reaches out to take the powers but hesitates, insecure in his ability to use the powers intelligently. He sees his copperminds, on his arms, and remembers the prophecies. Sazed draws both powers in, and withdraws the knowledge from all his copperminds. Using the wisdom passed down by the religions he studied, he is able to restore the world and people to their pre-ascension state. Sazed realizes that he would retain and combine the powers as they were intended, and watch over Scadrial using both powers of Preservation and Ruin, in [[Harmony]].
== Chapter 82 ==
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