 Suspecting the serpent's identity, Lao and Jimmy order to agents to free her lest awakening the wrath every dragon on the planet, while Nguyen and Ikeda argue that releasing the dragon will cause the portals to collapse, displacing every citizen and refugee that had settled in the portal-city.Rejecting both Jimmy and Nguyen's arguments, Amadeus attempts to come up with an alternate solution the could save the dragon without disrupting the Pan portals.When Lao warns Amadeus that he is running out of time, a massive storm begins engulfing the city.