Aloy and Link reassemble at the Ta'Loh Naeg Shrine.

"Yes of course," Aloy said with realization as she looks out over Kakariko Village. "If anyone would know where that place is, it would have to be Impa."

The duo go down into the village, where they are greeted by the various Sheikah. They walk up to Impa's house where Cato and Dorian are still on guard. Link asks if Impa is inside.

"She is," Cato answered.

"Along with Paya," Dorian added.

The duo walk past them and enter the large house. Inside, Impa is sitting upon her cushions and Paya is nearby washing the floor. Paya stops her washing and looks up at Aloy and Link as they walk up to them.

"Aloy! Master Link! You're back!" Paya exclaimed as she stands.

"Hey there, Paya," Aloy said. "Hey, Impa, we-"

"I sense it," Impa interjected in a solemn tone. "Their presence. Daruk. Urbosa. Revali. Mipha."

"Then it must mean that you know we have conquered all four of the Divine Beasts," Aloy said.

"A hundred years ago, I put my life on the line to fight alongside everyone," Impa said. "But . . . I could not protect them. They died without fulfilling their destinies."

"But thanks to us, they'll be able to fulfill their destinies," Aloy said.

"I have lived all this time thinking they died in vain," Impa continued. "But this energy I feel from their presence . . . It seems they have not given up. I can also sense . . . that they were all overjoyed to see you again, Link." Her tone light-hearted, only to turn grim. "Now you all serve the same purpose! Now it is the time to attack Calamity Ganon, while he is weak! Hurry to the princess! Go, now! I believe you both will find Calamity Ganon in Hyrule Castle. Even with the blessings of the Divine Beasts on your side, you both must be careful. Calamity Ganon will be well protected! Be prepared for anything! By the way," as her tone turns soft yet concerned. "How are you both faring thus far?"

"Better," Aloy answered. "But we came to ask you something. Do you know of a place called the Lost Woods? Something about a sword that cuts darkness is supposed to be in there."

"Yes of course!" Impa stated as if having forgotten something important. "I was so happy that you both managed to free the Divine Beasts and survive to be here that I overlooked the sword that cuts the darkness!" Then more calmly. "That sword is indeed in the Lost Woods, home of the Koroks and the Great Tree . . . which is west of Death Mountain."

"Hey Link, bring up that map," Aloy said.

Link does so and the duo study the map.

"So it's in that area there," Aloy said as she traces her forefinger over the blank space that is to the left of Death Mountain. "So where should we appear to get a head start to that place."

Link selects the Lanayru Tower.

"Then I guess we better get going," Aloy mused. "And since we're in the presence of the descendants of those who created this technology, I guess it would also be okay to travel there from here."

Aloy takes ahold of the corner of the Sheikah Slate and Link presses a button. Before Paya and Impa's eyes, the duo turn into blue light filaments and drift upward through the roof.

Aloy and Link reform atop of the Lanayru Tower and get their bearings of where they are to go.

"Hey, there was a Sheikah Shrine up above us that entire time when we were coming down that road first," Aloy mused as she pointed it out.

Link tells her that they should stop at it first before continuing on to the Lost Woods. They jump and whip out their paragliders as they sail down and land next to that shrine. Link opens it and they enter to go down inside to learn that it is called Soh Kofi and discover that it is merely a battle against a small Guardian armed with an ancient sword and shield. The duo destroy it, at the cost of the knight's claymore, and go to the monk who is veiled with arms raised and fists pressed together to collect their shared spirit orb. They leave and continue their journey.

They walk upon the road in the direction that should take them to the Lost Forest. It passes alongside a river and soon merges with its bank. Further up, they see a Sheikah Shrine on an islet in the river.

"Are you seriously going to swim to that one?" Aloy asked incredulously.

Link tells her that they can get there simply by the use of Revali's Gale when they get further up. They continue onward and encounter a man. There was something odd about this man.

"Step right up," the man proclaimed friendly. "Don't be shy! Check out my fine bananas! They're available to buy! So yellow, they'll make you yell 'oh!' So fresh, you'll think there's a tree around the corner. And the taste-like a dream! Stay right there and buy a pair!"

"Hey Link," Aloy asked. "Are you getting that feeling that the others gave us before that would happen?"

Link stares at Aloy for a moment, then nods as he tells her yes.

"Sorry, but we don't want any bananas," Aloy said to the man.

"What!" The man exclaimed with outrage. "Do you hate bananas?"

"No, we just hate you Yiga," Aloy said as she takes out spear as Link takes out an ancient sword.

"For the bana-" The man shouted as he takes on a battle stance, then corrects himself. "I mean, for the boss!"

The Yiga reveals himself and goes on the attack, only for Link and Aloy to double scewer him through the chest through both sides of his heart. The Yiga falls and vanishes into the usual puff of smoke and flurry of red notes, leaving behind bananas and rupees.

"Is it just me or are these guys getting easier to kill?" Aloy quipped.

Link tells her that it is not just her, and next explains that maybe it has to do with them having conquered so many dangerous enemies and even the Yiga Clan Hideout that it is only predictable that they would get the hang of killing off such dangerous foes.

"You got a point there," Aloy said. "When I was a kid, Watchers seemed invincible to me. But now I can destroy them without getting winded."

They continue walking, getting ever closer to the shrine in question until they are directly across from it. Link tells Aloy to crouch down next to him as he does so.

"All right," Aloy said with uncertainty. "So now what?"

Link then tells her to get ready to jump and whip out her paraglider as tendrils of updraft appear around them. He yells now as he jumps up, causing Aloy to do the same. He whips out his paraglider as Aloy also does the same thing as well. A powerful updraft carries them upward as the spirit of Revali circles them.

"Whoa! So this is what that Rito Revali gave you!" Aloy marveled. "This will really come in handy!"

Aloy follows Link as he glides toward that shrine. They land upon the islet and Link opens up the shrine. They go down the elevator platform to the bottom where they hear the voice of a monk named Sheh Rata offering this trial to them in the name of the Goddess Hylia.

The shrine before them is a large room and they are up on a platform with a ramp going down to the lower floor. On their left is a turnwheel like the kind they encountered and used inside of Divine Beast Vah Naboris. Link looks over the right side and drops down, saying that he found a chest and opens to proclaim an opal. He drops down and makes his way back up the ramp to Aloy.

"So there's ankle deep water down there," Aloy noted. "I get the feeling that water is going to come into play here in order to get over there."

Across the way from them are three columns, two of which have white objects on top of them and the other is shorter with a device constantly shooting a laser beam. On the wall next to it to the right is an orange crystal switch. Beyond these contraptions is a room seperated by a wall of intricately designed metal grating with a doorway.

"There's the monk over there," Aloy said. "So we just have to get up to that doorway then somehow open it." She then looks to the turnwheel. "Let's turn that and see what happens."

She and Link turn the wheel and the column with the laser beam goes around the left column like a hand going around a clock, moving the beam with it.

"Whoa, that's kinda dangerous," Aloy quipped as she ducks low, along with Link as the beam passes over their heads. But it is still too high up to be a threat to them.

The beam continues going all the way around until it hits the switch and water flows from the white objects on top of the other columns, showing them to be faucets.

The ankle deep water starts getting deeper as the water continues rising.

"I hope it doesn't rise too far," Aloy said.

The water continues to rise increasingly higher until it finally stops upon reaching near the rim of the platform where they are standing. The water continues flowing from those faucets.

"Okay, so we just need to get over there," Aloy said.

Link tells her that he is going to use Revali's Gale once again and Aloy, now knowing what to expect, crouches next to Link. He unleashes the Gale and they glide over to the other side instead of having to swim or use Cryosis to it. They land on the other side to find that the way to the monk is blocked by a bars. Across from the doorway is a pit with a ramp going down into the water from the water that came pouring in. A metal barrel is near it and they can see a large switch in the bottom. Link then says that they should have drifted over to the monk as he was accessible while they were still airborne.

"It's okay," Aloy said. "Since that is a metal barrel, simply use Magnesis on it and place it on that switch down in the water."

Link takes out the Sheikah Slate and does just that to manipulate the metal barrel onto the switch at the bottom. The bars on the doorway blocking access to the monk lift and the duo enter. Link notices another chest up on a platform to their right.

"Here," Aloy said as she walks over and puts her back to the wall and gets into position. "I'll give you a boost up to it, since it's only right up there."

Link goes over and with Aloy's help, climbs to the top of the wall. He opens the chest and finds a giant boomerang. It is two-handed and bladed on one side, of which he takes and gets down from there. They walk up to the monk, who is wearing a face veil with the Sheikah Eye, has head bowed slightly, left knee raised with left arm down, right hand held out with palm up with three brass rings hovering above it in a row.

They get their shared reward of a spirit orb and return outside. They use Revali's Gale to return to the road, landing alongside a pond that turns the road into a strip. There are luminous rocks alongside the pond and they go and destroy them for the luminous rocks there. Keese attack them, but they swat them as if they were flies. Up ahead and off in the distance is a Sheikah Tower, also up ahead and off to one side is Hyrule Castle seemingly aflame with purplish black Malice as the four beams of the Divine Beasts intersect upon the castle. Aloy feels as if her courage is being sucked into it.

"And we have to go in there once you get this sword that cuts through darkness," Aloy noted grimly.

They continue down the road as Hyrule Castle looms across the river. The trail gradually leads them away from the river and they encounter a man running as if from something and stops to take a rest, he asks them if they would be interested in shield-surfing but they turn him down and continue onward, approaching a small area of deciduous trees.

That is when something off to Aloy's left catches her attention and she uses her focus to read the situation.

"There's a Bokoblin over there," she said. "And there's a person lying on the ground before it. They might still be alive."

Aloy and Link sneak up on the Bokoblin, which turns out to be black and armed with a Lynel boomerang sword. They do indeed see someone lying at its feet and the Bokoblin dancing around happily, obvious to the duo's presence. Aloy and Link are close enough and they simultanously stab it through its back and the Bokoblin falls dead. Link picks up a Lynel boomerang sword.

The victim is a girl with black hair done up into a ponytail. Aloy touches her neck.

"Good, she's still alive and only seems to have been knocked out."

The girl groans as she stirs and clutches the back of her head as she winces in pain, then opens her eyes and looks up.

"It's okay, " Aloy said. "We rescued you from a Bokoblin."

The girl sighs and gets up. "My aching head . . . Why did I think it was a good idead to take this road? I like watching the river flow by . . . Is that such a crime?"

"Apparently it was to that Bokoblin," Aloy said dryly as she looks down at it.

"Seeing the water stream by so peacefully makes it hard to believe that the Great Calamity really happened," the girl said.

"Yeah, I know the feeling," Aloy said as she thinks about the beauty to be found back on Earth, even though its original beauty was obliterated nearly one thousand years ago.

"Then monsters attack out of nowhere and I think-oh right," as the girl remembers something important. "Time to head back to the stable."

"Is the stable far from here?" Aloy asked.

"No, it's just right over there," the girl answered as she thumbs over her shoulder. "Ugh . . . Whatever. Typical. Just typical. I try to have a day out, just watching the river go by and now. Ugh. I'm going back to the stable."

"You want protection because we're on our way there too," Aloy said.

"Fine," the girl answered.

They leave the forest and head to the road. Sure enough the stable is but a stone's throw from them, along with a Sheikah Shrine that is next to a pond that the stable is also next to.

"What is the name of that stable?" Aloy asked.

"Woodland Stable," the girl answered.

They arrive at Woodland Stable and the girl goes inside. The place has a large planked open area with a fence around it and a single round table within it with somebody sitting there. Near the stable and next to a tree is a large strange tree, and Link goes toward it with Aloy in tow.

"What is it Link?" Aloy asked.

They stop before the strange tree and it speaks to them.

"Shalaka?!" The tree squeaked. "It's you again!"

Aloy is taken aback by the sight of a man-shaped tree with a red ball in each hand that are attached to a handle.

"What is that?!" Aloy whispered to Link. "And it seems to know you."

Link explains that it is a Korok and is named Hestu. He met him before while going up to Kakariko Village and helped him get his maracas back from Bokoblins that were camped up by the side of the road. And also find Korok seeds that were scattered about the place for his maracas, which he has in his hands.

"I also remember meeting you too!" Hestu squeaked in a voice that is unusually high-pitched for someone his size.

"Um . . . Me!" Aloy mused. "I don't recall meeting someone like you? And there's no way I could ever forget meeting someone like you!"

"It was on the trail going up the mountain toward Kakariko Village!" Hestu said. "Oh wait! That's right, you weren't able to see or hear me, while I was able to see and hear you!"

"So why am I seeing and hearing you now?" Aloy asked.

Link theorizes that it may have to do with his own presence here. Hylians can see the Koroks while other non-Hylians have trouble detecting their presence unless a Hylian is with them.

"Makes sense," Aloy mused.

"I'm trying to get back to Korok Forest, but I've lost my way," Hestu said with a dejected tone. "The folks from the stable here say we're right on the border between the Eldin Region and the Great Hyrule Forest. Shaka! That means Korok Forest must be very near! But as long as I'm here, I may as well rest up. Ah, wait a minute," then begins sniffing the air. "I'd know that smell anywhere . . . It's a Korok seed! You've collected a Korok seed from the forest children, haven't you?!"

"What are Korok seeds?" Aloy asked.

Link takes one out and shows her while explaining that before he met her he had been collecting them on his way over to Kakariko Village from various places that had a small Korok whom he managed to find and give him one. When he met Hestu and helped get his macaranas back, he gave him the Korok seeds and had his stashes expanded for a certain number of Korok seeds. After having met Hestu for the first time and continuing on to Kakariko Village, he found two more Koroks up ahead.

"If you give me Korok seeds," Hestu said, "I'll increase the size of one of your stashes! Now which stash do you want to expand?"

Link tells him his bow stash.

"Shokay!" Hestu squeaked. "I'll just need one Korok seed. Deal?"

Link agrees.

"Let the expansion begin!" Hestu said.

Hestu starts shaking his macaranas and creates a burst of lights with a squeak. "Expand-a-band-band . . . bow stash!"

Link shows Aloy how his stash has gotten bigger.

"That is the strangest way to get larger stashes," Aloy mused. "This world just keeps getting stranger and stranger."

"So then-a-den-den," Hestu squeaked. "Do you want to expand another stash?"

Link tells him shield stash and the whole ritual is done again for one Korok seed.

That is when Hestu thinks on something then laughs.

"Ah, what's wrong?" Aloy asked.

"I . . . I think I remember how to get back to Korok Forest!" Hestu exclaimed. "Maybe I'll head back now. I bet Grandpa is waiting for me. Thanks for the Korok seeds! I'm off to Korok Forest! Come visit me there sometime."

And Hestu simply disappears.