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Staying ahead of the local authorities and following up on their only lead from the party, Wax rode a stagecoach toward the construction site in the north east. Along the way, he helped Marasi field test the cube device she had taken from the train robbers, which they took to calling an [[Allomantic grenade]] as it seemed to somehow extend the area of effect of its user’s Allomancy. At the construction site, Wax, Wayne, MeLaan, and Marasi successfully infiltrated the perimeter, discovering that a large, nondescript building was actually a facade, covering up Edwarn’s real effort in New Seran, the construction of what appeared to be a huge, wooden warship.{{book ref|mb6|17}}
Splitting from Marasi and MeLaan, who went in search of ReLuur's stolen spike, Wax and Wayne entered the warship, determined to locate Edwarn himself. Using a spyglass borrowed from MeLaan, Wax immediately changed their plan when he located the chamber where Telsin was being held. Easily bypassing the workmen and engineers blocking his path, Wax quietly entered the room dead set on saving his sister. Finally reunited, Wax was surprised when Telsin immediately took brutal retribution on one of her captors. The years had really changed her, just as, he supposed, they had changed him.{{book ref|mb6|18}}
Briefly stopping their ship to pick up Steris, Wax and Marasi pored over a notebook that she stole from Edwarn's warship, which seemed to show the location of a second work site, south of their position. This corroborated Telsin's claims that Edwarn had been obsessively working to find a great weapon in the south that promised to give the Set the ability to dominate the whole of the [[Basin]]. Telsin warned Wax that their uncle had set off to retrieve the weapon not long ago; it was clear that there wasn't much time. Marasi's notebook also included a map showing a temple marked for excavation in the peaks of the southern mountains, which reignited the palpable fear that the Set could be dangerously close to obtaining the fabled Bands of Mourning, just as VenDell had warned back in Elendel.{{book ref|mb6|21}}
Taking advantage of their more efficient form of travel, Wax's group arrived on the mountain peaks soundly before Edwarn and his men could complete their slow climb through the snow. Locating the temple from Marasi's notebook, Wax ventured inside, proceeding with caution after he encountered the scattered remains of treasure hunters who had been there before him. Making grand use of MeLaan's nigh-invincibility, Wax and Allik worked slowly through the temple's ancient security system, safely triggering traps that would have spelled certain death for any other group of trespassers.{{book ref|mb6|23}}
Halted by a door which was inscribed with writing that none of them could decipher, Wax returned to the entrance of the temple, where Steris, Marasi, and Wayne held Edwarn at gunpoint,
When the temple’s last chamber proved to be missing the Bands, Wax suddenly found himself in an armed standoff with Telsin, who he had rightly suspected to be a mole for the Set. Both siblings fired at once. Wax’s bullet went wild and missed, but Telsin’s shot hit Wax just below the neck. A number of bullets later, Wax fell into a pit, below the Bands’ supposed chamber{{book ref|mb6|26}}. Trailing blood and weakening by the moment, Wax was soon confronted by Edwarn, now also revealed as an Allomancer, by way of
No longer able to hold on,
Wax has a conversation with Harmony where he is eventually offered a choice between freedom and duty, Wax chooses duty and is revived by tapping the power in the Bands of Mourning, using the powers he heals and frees himself and then goes after Mr. Suit and Telsin. {{book ref|mb6|28}} Wax intercepts Suit as he tries to escape, after a brief conversation they fight with Wax coming out as the winner.{{book ref|mb6|29}} {{book ref|mb6|30}}Wax and his group take the [[Southern Scadrian|southerner's]]'s ship back to Elendel where he hands over the Band of Mourning to Kandra for safe keeping. Wax then asks Steris to marry him. {{book ref|mb6|31}} While on his honeymoon with Steris, Wax is woken up by an explosion and sees the coin that was given to him at the party, recognizing the structure of the coin Wax taps the investiture in the coin and then taps the coppermind, showing him a memory.{{book ref|mb6|epilogue}}
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