In 1511, under the new governor Afonso de Albuquerque, Magallanes and Serrano participated in the conquest of Malacca. After the conquest their ways parted: Magellan was promoted, with a rich plunder and, in the company of a Malay he had indentured and baptized Enrique of Malacca, he returned to Portugal in 1512.
Albuquerque decided to himself join the fleet to Maluku and the Spice Islands to sure of things, Serrao, Albuquerque and Abreu would embark to the Maluku Islands together in 1512 and successfully docked in Banda and later Maluku, the Portuguese could establish a port in Ternate named Forte de Sao Joao Baptista de Ternate, Albuquerque commended Serrao and Abreu for their successful mission in Maluku and retained the two in his own service, Ferdinand Magellan is invited to return to Malacca which he would accept and return in his service in 1516.
On 1513, Nunez de Balboa would call the ocean west of the Panama as South Sea or Mar del Sur.[1]
1. Mar Del Sur is the old popular name of Oriental Ocean, which in OTL known as the Pacific Ocean.