

He can sink into the ground and walk through plants, but he can't get all the way through the stone wall into the castle. He touches the walls of the stone and sees another planet's green landscape.

Kelsier creeps up to an enormous, glowing fortress. See The Well of Ascension, Chapter 57 and Chapter 58 The power rips through Ruin's prison, and he escapes.

Vin is distraught, but she releases the power anyway, being deceived by Ruin. He tells Leras to stab Elend, but he can't do it, so Kelsier grabs his arm and slashes Elend for him. Vin and Elend enter the chamber, and Kelsier gets an idea to motivate Vin to use the power instead of releasing it. Kelsier suggests that he could take the power instead, but Leras tells him that wouldn't work in his current state, and in any case, he doesn't have enough Connection to him. Leras tries to stop her, but Ruin's tools are too strong. Ruin has confused Vin and made her distrust Preservation. He tells Kelsier that the power must not be released, but Vin will probably do just that, thinking it's right, just like Alendi would have. He has a plan in place that he can't remember. His appearance is becoming less human-like, with half of his face missing and other parts of his "body" decaying away. Preservation is spending more time near the Well. While Kelsier doesn't understand much of it, he has a new reason to fight and live. He lectures Kelsier on the three Realms: Physical, Cognitive, and Spiritual.

Leras shows up and Kelsier tells him what happened. He triumphantly grabs one of the Lerasium beads and leaves. Hoid goes to the center of the pool and transitions to the Physical Realm. Hoid easily beats him up but doesn't actually damage his soul Kelsier's pain is his own creation, his mind creating the pain that he expects. Hoid shows interest in the pool of power, so Kelsier punches him when he approaches. Hoid shows up and chides Kelsier for destroying the Pits of Hathsin, the only perpendicularity that was easy to access. He gets really bored and starts talking to himself. He decides to gaze upon it, and he sees infinite decay and destruction. He starts to sense "whisperings" and pulses from the power. So Leras "preserves" him by making him part of the power of the Well, trapped, like Ruin, but "alive." Kelsier tricks Leras into revealing the location of the Well, and he races there, begging Leras for help in staying alive. Leras explains that Kelsier saw into the Spiritual Realm when he flared the Eleventh Metal and saw Rashek's Connection and past. Other people, victims of the Lord Ruler's purge, arrive in the Realm with Kelsier and are almost immediately pulled away to the Beyond. Despite his being a god, Leras appears to be weak and unstable. In this new Realm, things in the Physical Realm appear misty, except for metal, which shines. He sees a vision of Rashek taking the power at the Well of Ascension and changing the world. The Lord Ruler slaps him, and he flares the Eleventh Metal.
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He sees a vision of the Lord Ruler's past as Rashek but can't figure out how to use the information. Kelsier stands before the Lord Ruler after his defeat of the Inquisitor and burns the Eleventh Metal.
