* The fight with the crystal golem.
** Nova using a pillar first as a club, and then as a spear, nailing the golem to the floor through the chest, destroying it.
--> '''Nova:''' And, that. Is how, you hit it until it stops moving. Sir.
* The first flight of The Hummingbird. Sky Bolt's excitement is palpable.
* Storming the [=ERS=] R&D building is one long series of Crowning Moments.
** The duel between Steel Song and Blade.
** The fight with the golem army, culminating in a frantic escape as the building falls apart around them.
** Nova, who has been up to this point extremely ashamed of and trying to forget an incident in which he almost killed a guard in a feat of panicked spellcasting, finally manages to break away from his DarkAndTroubledPast, pushes through his extreme exhaustion, and casts the fateful spell again, completely freezing the giant golem under a foot-thick layer of ice.
* Steel, having realized that the strange creature they are chasing mimics and amplifies emotions, faces down a hydra while doing everything he can to both not be afraid and calm it down without attacking. It works.