Aloy and Link now stand before a ruined and damaged stone wall built for defense that stretches across the road to Hateno Village, with the road passing through an opening that has a portcullis that is either half-raised or half-lowered.

"Next time, we stick to the roads, okay," Aloy grumbled.

They are a little worse for wear as Link had insisted on taking a shortcut over the grassy field behind the back of the Outskirt Stable. It was full of ruins of stone buildings and whatnot, such as decayed Guardians. Amongst those ruins were a group of Bokoblins that had taken up camp amongst those ruins and spotted the duo, forcing them on the defensive.

Link begins walking toward the entrance, with Aloy falling in step.

"Let's hope we don't encounter any more of those freaks," she sighed. "But I get the feeling we won't have such a luxury."

Once pass the gate, they encounter a thick forest that the road leads them through. Alongside the road is a man standing next to a fire with a cooking pot upon it.

"Check out this angle!" The man said with awe.

"What?" Aloy asked.

"Hiya! My name's Garill," the man said. "Come to see Fort Hateno, I take it?"

Link tells him that he is right.

"Figured as much," Garill stated. "It's well worth seeing! Fort Hateno here was the last line of defense between Hateno Village and the awful tragedy all those years ago. Everyone's got to come and pay their respects at least once in life, right?"

"Right," Aloy said this time.

They continue their walk, passing a ruined covered wagon. Up ahead they encounter a simple house made of wooden planks.

"I wonder if anybody's home?" Aloy mused. "Maybe they could tell us how far Hateno Village is."

She walks up to the door and knocks, but there is no answer. They return to their journey and end up encountering a blue blob with a pair of bulging yellow eyes, of which Link tells Aloy is a blue Chuchu. Link stabs it with a Bokoblin spear, which is nothing more than a sharpened wooden spear, destroying it as it bursts to leave blue globs behind that Link picks up. Nearby are apple trees and they take one.

They continue their walk up the road.

"It's another one of those towers," Aloy pointed in the distance up ahead of them.

Link tells her that they will have to pay a visit to it if he is to get a map of this area. And that they will need to get up there by climbing.

"I can climb pretty good," Aloy assured him.

Alongside the road on their right is a wide river. Across the river is a Bokoblin camp. With no way for them to get at the duo, Aloy and Link walk past unmolested as the Bokoblins have a temper tantrum over being unable to get at them. Link explains to Aloy that most monsters hate deep water, Bokoblins especially as they will not wade through anything that goes up above their waist.

Up ahead on their side, they see a crate, barrels, and explosive barrels down on the shoreline. Link is eager to show Aloy something as he takes out the Sheikah Slate and searches through the runes. He then presses a button and a glowing blue cube suddenly appears out of its screen, of which Link removes.

"What is that?" Aloy asked.

Link holds the cube above his head, then throws it so that it lands amongst the items and makes her back away. He takes out the Sheikah Slate and points it at the cube and there is an explosion that covers that part of the shoreline, startling Aloy.

"Now I get it! You can create blast with that thing!" Aloy exclaimed.

Link shifts through the runes once more and this time produces a glowing blue sphere. Again, he throws it, but this time it rolls. And once again, he detonates it.

"Ha!Ha! That's amazing! What else can you do with that thing?"

Link shifts through a rune and points the slate at the water to use Cryosis, causing a large block of ice to grow up from it. He presses a button again and it shatters. Next, he instructs her to pick up a rock and toss it up in the air. She does so and Link uses Stasis on it, causing it to hover in midair with a yellow glow and brief image of chains appearing around it. Link smacks the rock repeatedly as it glows. The image of broken chains appear briefly and the rock goes flying. He also explains the Magnesis to her, telling her that if they should encounter anything metal, he will demonstrate it.

"That Sheikah Slate is amazing!" Aloy marveled. "The Old Ones never had anything like that! At least as far as I know."

They continue on their way in high spirits. Along the way, they encounter a girl who waves them over with a cheerful smile. She has brown hair done in a bobcut, but is brushed back from her face. She is dressed in traveler attire and wearing a backpack.

"I can tell you two have trained your bodies well," the woman noted respectfully. "I'd say . . . you're familiar with both sword and bow, correct?"

"How about spear?" Aloy asked.

"That too," the woman continued. "Anyway, that's a good skill set. Why don't you join the Yiga Clan?"

"No thank you," Aloy stated grimly as she backs away, pulling on Link's cuff in the process. "We are not interested in serving a misty monster that wants to destroy the world."

"Then I will take your lives," the woman shouted angrily as she takes on a battle stance.

In a puff of smoke and flurry of dark red paper notes, the woman transforms into a lithe figure dressed in brown, dark red, and dark grey fatiques with a bushy topknot and a white mask with an inverted Sheikah Eye, and wielding a sickle. Aloy is quick to pull out her spear as Link takes out a Boko spear. The Yiga laughs and jumps backwards, then waves her arms and a glowing red circle appears behind her with rings of swirls encircling like a clockface. The Yiga disappears in smoke and dark paper notes once again.

A flash appears around Aloy, causing her to get thrown back. She knows she had been struck because that was her Shield Weaver flashing. The Yiga had dropped down upon her all of a sudden.

"Where the hell did she come from?!" Aloy yelled.

The Yiga disappears in a flurry of red notes and smoke once again.

"Oh great! It's like fighting a Stalker!" Aloy griped.

The Yiga reappears above Link, but he is quick to jump back before he can get struck. They attack the Yiga, but the Yiga is faster and jumps back once again, further this time. The Yiga runs toward Link with sickle wide, intending to slash him. Aloy is further out and is unable to counter. The Yiga swings, but Link is faster and does a back flip, throwing the Yiga off balance. Link rushes forward and delivers a barrage of stabs with the Boko spear. Given that the Boko spear is but a sharpened stick, it does not do as much damage, but it does slow the Yiga down as the pain shows.

Aloy takes that opportunity to rush forward as well and stab the Yiga through the chest, being certain to aim for her heart. The Yiga gurgles as she clutches at her chest, blood flowing down, then falls to her knees.

"You are both . . . doomed," the Yiga rasped. "Lord Ganon . . . will triumph!"

The Yiga finally falls forward and goes still, then disappears in a puff of smoke and a flurry of paper notes.

"Wh-Where?!" Aloy asked while looking around.

Link deduces to Aloy that it must be how the Yiga died, or at least they teleported away to die elsewhere.

The Yiga had left behind its weapon, rupees, and what Aloy understands to be bananas as they also exist back in her world as well. It was back in Sunfall when she overheard a guard talking about how he would like to have one.

She picks up one of the bananas, then peels and eats it.

"Mmm, this is good," she muffled. "It has a nice taste to it."

The trail leads them up a hill, overlooking a cliff. A Bokoblin with dark blue skin and wielding a hoe comes running out to attack them. They kill it easily and Link extracts two of the creature's fangs from it. They cross a stone bridge that is a part of the mountain from both sides in order to get to the other tower that looms over them on the other side. Two Bokoblins, one reddish brown and armed with a broom and a dark blue one armed with a pitchfork, rush them. Aloy takes on the one with the broom, viciously knocking the broom aside with her spear to throw it off balance and following through with a stab through its belly, causing it to drop its weapon and shriek in pain while clasping its stomach. Aloy is quick to put it out of its misery by stabbing it through the throat, feeling the tip sever its spinal column in its neck. Link had chopped the other's head clean off with the Edge of Duality after breaking the Boko spear on it.

They go upward, but just around the corner they run into a Moblin.

"This worked on the last one I fought," Aloy said as she takes out her tripcaster. "Come on, let's lead it further down.

They run back and Aloy shoots one end into one side and the other end into the other side, to create that perpendicular rope that will be tripped up in.

"Then again, it'll probably avoid that," Aloy noted.

But the Moblin continues to stride forward and hits the rope, thinking maybe that it can kick it aside. No such thing happens as the explosives detonate, knocking the hulking creature down. Aloy and Link each take out their respective bows, with Link taking out a Soldier's Bow, and launch their respective arrows into its face. The Moblin dies. Link goes forward to extract two of its fangs and its horn before they continue up the embankment towards the tower.

They see another Moblin nearby and it too notices them and begins striding toward them. Once again, Aloy uses the same tactic on it as she had done on the last one. They encounter two blue Chuchus and destroy them. They also encounter wild horses as well.

"I guess they don't eat horses then," Aloy noted, since something like a Moblin will need to eat a lot to keep up its size.

More monsters attack them as well, fortunately not all at once. One of them, a Moblin wielding a club the size of a small tree trunk. With their experiences, they manage to defeat them all as well.

It is as they come upon a Bokoblin and Moblin both armed with clubs and speaking to each other. Too engrossed in their conversation to notice Aloy and Link.

"I got an idea," Aloy whispered to Link, and she takes out an arrow with that telltale yellow mist about it. "Watch."

She nocks that sinister looking arrow and lets it loose at the Moblin. It strikes the Moblin, but does not kill it and it begins to swoon. The Bokoblin looks at where the arrow had come and lets out a shriek as it raises its club upon seeing Link and Aloy. The Moblin suddenly swings its massive club, striking the Bokoblin to send it flying in Aloy and Link's direction as it squalls loudly. The Bokoblin lands near them and does not get back up.

"Corruption arrows," Aloy said. "It seems they also work on the creatures of this world as well. Come on, let's make use of that Moblin before it wears off."

They hurry toward the Moblin, but it does not bother them. They encourage the Moblin to follow them and it does. They come upon a dark blue Bokoblin sitting near a cooking pot and an apple tree with a thorn bush around it. The Bokoblin notices them and rushes at them with a stick, which turns out to be a torch. The Moblin strides forward with purpose and the Bokoblin stops to look up at it in confusion. The Moblin raises its club and the Bokoblin suddenly shrieks as if demanding to know what it was doing. The Moblin slams its club down onto the hapless Bokoblin, and continues to pound on the Bokoblin until there is nothing left but a smear in the ground. The yellow mist around the Moblin's head clears up, leaving it standing there confused.

That is when it suddenly gets hit by first a tearblast arrow, which makes that droning buzz then explodes, and next a bomb arrow to cause the Moblin's head to disappear so that it ends up falling. They walk forward and Link harvests what he can from the creatures.

They look up at the tower and note that it is surrounded by vicious looking thorn bushes that also grow up the side of the tower in various places. Link directs Aloy's attention to the cooking pot and places a piece of flint next to it. Taking out a woodcutter's axe, he strikes it to create a fire.

"So you wanna cook some stuff?" Aloy mused, then looks up at the sky. "It's getting late though. It might be sunset by the time we reach this Hateno Village."

Link assures her that it won't take long and he puts some items into the cooking pot. First, food items such as hearty mushroom skewer, enduring mushroom skewer, and mighty simmered fruit. Then the other less savory items to produce elixirs such as fairy tonic and spicy elixir that he pours into bottles. He gives Aloy a hearty mushroom skewer, enduring mushroom skewer, and mighty simmered fruit, along with a fairy tonic and a spicy elixir.

"Why thank you," she said gratefully as she puts them into her sachel. "I ran out of my own rations."

They look toward the Sheikah Tower that they need to climb.

"That is a long way up," Aloy mused. "And there are those thorn bushes to deal with. Maybe we should burn them away with our arrows?"

Link agrees and takes out a fire arrow, as does Aloy. Together they shoot their respective arrows at the various places and soon a fire breaks out to burn away the thorn bushes. They walk up to the tower that is seemingly perched upon a mound of massive boulders.

Together, they begin to climb that tower, having to avoid other thorns upon it as well.

They climb ever higher. Aloy reaches the first platform and crawls upon it. She turns around and extends a hand down to Link for him to grab, of which he does and she helps pull him up.

"Ah, that went well," Aloy noted, then looks up. "It looks like this tower was indeed meant for climbing as there are platforms placed at various intervals."

They climb once again, successfully reaching the platforms and each helping the other up onto it for a brief rest. Onward they repeat this endeavor until they are finally passing through a brief tunnel that takes them to the top.

Aloy stands upon the black platform that is the top of the tower. Overhead is an apparatus held up by four arches with a large pyramid shaped crystal hanging upside down over a pedestal not unlike the ones that the Sheikah Shrines have. Link walks up to the pedestal and places the Sheikah Slate into it and it lowers into the pedestal. A ring with a symbol on it suddenly glows blue near Aloy, causing her to look. The sound of humming is heard and parts moving causes her to look around then up at the apparatus above them. Aloy watches as the crystal begins to glow blue as strange glyphs flow downward at the tip to form into a Sheikah symbol at the end. A blue drop of fluid forms and drops down onto the Sheikah Slate with a slash that dissipates. The pedestal casual ejects the Sheikah Slate and Link takes it back.

"So now what?" Aloy said as she looks around.

They are surrounded by mountains and a wind blows underneath an overcast sky. The day has since grown dimmer as this world is heading into its evening.

"This is quite the view from up here," Aloy continued. "Maybe we will see Hateno Village from here. Hey, that must be it over there?" As she points.

Aloy and Link see a village in the distance built upon a hillside. The buildings have red-tiled rooves, some of which have towers. There are windmills amongst them. At the highest point is a lone building with a tower upon it.

"Hey, Link, look at that," Aloy said as she points elsewhere. Together, they see that it is something very distant that they cannot make out distinctively, but it is flying.

"In my world, we have these machines called storm birds," Aloy explained. "And that one . . . looks huge." Emphasizing that last word.

Looking around some more, she can see a very distant volcano. At least that is what it looks like, since she had once heard about mountains that churned out smoke as this one is doing. Again, like the massive stormbird they can see, this one is very distant too. They turn their attention back to Hateno Village.

"So how are we going to get down?" Aloy asked.

Link's answer is to jump as he pulls out his paraglider.

"Link! Wait! I don't have one of those!"

Link leans back and attempts to turn his paraglider around. Slowly he does so, but he keeps getting ever lower in doing it. He manages to skillfully move it toward the tower, out of Aloy's sight.

"Link! Link!" As she runs over to the opening from where they came up.

For a moment there is no answer and Aloy wonders if he is okay. Link glides into view to land on the platform just beneath her and put his paraglider away. He looks up at her.

"What were you thinking?!" Aloy called back down at him.

He explains that it was a force of habit as he had used that to get off of the Great Plateau and another Sheikah Tower nearest to Kakariko Village.

"Well, I don't have one of those!" Aloy called back down to him. "Hang on, I'm coming back down."

Aloy shifts herself around and slowly crawls back down. It proves more difficult climbing back down than climbing up. She makes it to the bottom and Link helps her when she is close enough.

Link stares at her for a moment then grudgingly admits that he won't be able to use his paraglider so readily.

"I'm sorry," Aloy said regretfully.

Link smiles assuredly at her and clasps her arm. They look over the side.

"I think that we can jump down upon the platforms the rest of the way," Aloy said.

Link agrees and one at a time, they take turns dropping down to the next platform until they reach the bottom.

"Well now that was far from easy," Aloy said.

Link urges her to hurry along as it will be at least sunset by the time they arrive at Hateno Village.