Roan/Lucas keeps wrestling with his conflicting loyalties to now bitter rivals Glinda and Dorothy, unable to betray either but ends up crucified again by Dorothy after magic forces his hand. The wizard seems checkmate and the war doomed when Langwidere ignores her councilors by keeping his -doubled- gold and withholding the weapons, but he prepared a plan B: ninjas taking control of the palace of Ev to force her hand. Noble Jack insists lab scientist Jane, the wizard's scored admirer who wants finally to desert the crazy cause, must save his queen -whom he accidentally shot- like she made him into a tin man. The witches West commandeered for another war rebel, blaming her for the disastrous previous one, but obey Tip who accepts her role of princess heiress Ozma. Dorothy promises Ojo to free his witch wife from the inferno, which Glinda didn't deliver, to mobilize magic against the wizard's.
—KGF Vissers