The Last Graduate

Content Warning: This section of the guide features discussion of sexual content, graphic violence, and child death.

With no need to run the graduation gauntlet, the seniors are initially at a loss. El’s desire for them to fix the school contradicts every selfish, self-preserving instinct that life in the Scholomance has taught them. Leisel eventually explains that the seniors are extremely well-protected. The principle of balance that exists in magic dictates that the seniors must use their current safety to protect the other students; if they do not, the school will likely withdraw that protection. With the encouragement of the school itself, which begins cutting off essential services to the seniors, the students begin brainstorming plans to fix the school. Aadhya is proud of El, who has finally learned to ask for help instead of acting alone.

After working through many improbable plans, the seniors finally decide to use Liu’s idea to lead everyone out of the school; El and Orion will protect them until the last student has escaped. They will use a honeypot spell, which must be played on the sirenspider lute, in order to attract as many mals as possible into the school and then push them and the school into the void that surrounds the school.