Chapter Summaries

George realized the Roman Orthodox Church planned to use the Apostle Cross to seize Academy City and expand its control over the world. He confronted Orianna to find the Cross, and she was shocked when her blood-manipulation spell failed to harm him.

• Aleister revealed the Roman Orthodox Church's plan to occupy Academy City and use its forces to dominate the world, so George agreed to stop them and take the Apostle Cross.
• Orianna changed clothes in an underground stairwell and told Lidovya that she would continue with their plan to make the city and the world happy.
• George confronted Orianna and asked where she had hidden the Apostle Cross, while she mistook him for Misaka Mikoto.
• Orianna attacked George with a rising wave of earth, but he blasted it apart with electricity.
• Orianna used the earth attack as cover to get behind George and cast Bloodline Explosion, but his body resisted the spell, leaving her stunned.

George defeated Orianna and learned that she had been drawing attention away from Lidovya, who planned to activate the Apostle Cross and cover Academy City. Aleister recognized George's value and George offered to track down Lidovya before the activation.

• Orianna suplexed George, but he emerged unharmed and shocked her with high-voltage electricity.
• Orianna used Element Collection to trap George briefly, then fled, but George broke the spell and captured her.
• George read Orianna's memories and told Aleister that Lidovya held the real Apostle Cross and planned to activate it from outside Academy City.
• Aleister realized George could handle major threats without exposing him, and George offered to track down Lidovya before the Apostle Cross activated.

George captured Lidovya Lorenjeti and recovered the Apostle Cross, then learned from Aleister that Kihara Gensei planned to force Misaka Mikoto into a fatal Level 6 evolution. Aleister revealed that George could join the Misaka Network during the experiment to study the process, leaving George with a possible path toward advancing his own esper ability.

• George handed Orianna over to Kamijo Touma's group, then tracked down Lidovya Lorenjeti and captured her with the Apostle Cross.
• George copied Lidovya's memories and discovered that the Roman Orthodox Church secretly had a powerful four-person group called the Right Seat of God.
• Aleister let George keep the Apostle Cross and told him that Kihara Gensei planned to use the Misaka Network to force Misaka Mikoto to Level 6.
• Aleister explained that George could enter the Misaka Network during Misaka Mikoto's evolution and experience the process, giving him a guide for developing his own power toward Level 6.

George watched Misaka Mikoto’s evolution begin, killed Kihara Gensei, and connected himself to her through the Misaka Network to experience her advancement. When their progress passed fifty percent and they touched the edge of the divine realm, he realized they had to stop before the evolution destroyed them.

• George watched Misaka Mikoto and Konoe Photon win the three-legged race, then observed the Misaka Clone’s kidnapping and Misaka Mikoto’s search without interfering.
• Kihara Gensei took control of the Misaka Network and triggered Misaka Mikoto’s evolution, but George killed him before the experiment could continue.
• George entered the Misaka Network and Misaka Mikoto’s mind, where he threw out Kanzaki Chitose, who had been urging Misaka Mikoto to attack the Windowless Building.
• George experienced Misaka Mikoto’s evolution alongside her, gaining a deep understanding of lightning magic as their progress reached thirty percent.
• Kamijo Touma and Awakening Accelerator arrived and tried to stop the evolution, but George drove Awakening Accelerator back and trapped Kamijo Touma with steel reinforcement bars.
• As the evolution passed fifty percent, George and Misaka Mikoto touched the edge of the divine realm, and George realized they had to stop before they were destroyed.

George stopped Misaka Mikoto’s dangerous advancement, then withdrew to a new world after his main body split its soul again. He awakened in the body of Li Xuan, a Li Family ancestor in the world of Cardcaptor Sakura, and left the family gathered at his funeral stunned.

• George entered Misaka Mikoto’s mental world, broke through the darkness around her Spirit Body, and used Sealing Techniques to suppress her advancement.
• Kamijo Touma used Imagine Breaker to erase the black lightning, and George gave Misaka Mikoto clothes before leaving to enter seclusion.
• George’s main body split its soul again, and he took over Li Xuan’s body in a new world, recognizing it as the world of Cardcaptor Sakura Magic Cards.
• George woke in his coffin on the seventh day after Li Xuan’s death, while Li Yelan and the Li Family kept vigil nearby.
• A teenage Li Family member saw George sit up and shouted that the ancestor’s corpse had risen, prompting the family to ready their Daoist tools.
• George told the Li Family members that he was not a risen corpse and ordered them to hold their hands.

George revived in Li Xuan’s body and convinced the Li Family that he had attained enlightenment, demonstrating overwhelming power with a thunder spell. After the family accepted him as a formidable protector, he revealed to himself that he had actually used Harry Potter’s ancient magic.

• Li Yelan stopped the clan members from attacking George after confirming he had no corpse, ghost, or demon aura.
• George claimed he had gained enlightenment as he died, and Li Yelan and the older clan members considered his explanation plausible.
• Li Yelan hoped George’s new strength would protect the Li Family from mages who coveted its Daoist arts.
• George summoned a storm over Hong Kong, convincing the Li Family that he had attained enlightenment.
• George dispersed the storm and realized that he had cast Harry Potter’s ancient magic rather than Daoist arts.

After attaining enlightenment, George agreed to accompany Li Syaoran to Japan to collect the Clow Cards. Li Yelan arranged their departure for the next morning, keeping the mission and George’s newfound strength secret.

• George’s mastery of lightning magic deepened after he sensed the divine realm, and the Li Family celebrated his enlightenment while Li Yelan kept it secret.
• Li Yelan told George that the family’s artifact had detected the Clow Cards in Tomoda Town and asked him to accompany Li Syaoran to collect them.
• George agreed, hoping to study the Clow Cards’ magic rather than claim them for himself.
• Li Yelan said George and Li Syaoran would fly to Tokyo the next morning, where family personnel would take them to Tomoda Town.

George and Li Syaoran arrived in Tomoda Town, where George helped Syaoran settle in and prepared him for school. That night, Syaoran began searching for the Clow Cards with a compass left by Clow Reed.

• On the flight to Tokyo, Syaoran vowed to collect the Clow Cards, while George encouraged him and privately hoped he would grow close to Sakura.
• George considered studying the Li Family’s Taoist arts to better understand the magic behind the Clow Cards.
• After landing in Tokyo, George and Syaoran were driven to Tomoda Town by Li Qingshan, who showed them their villa and confirmed Syaoran’s transfer to Tomoe Elementary School.
• George advised Li Qingshan to exercise and used a spell to restore his thinning hair.
• After Li Qingshan left, Syaoran donned his Taoist robe and used Clow Reed’s compass and an incantation to search for the Clow Cards.

George and Li Syaoran tracked a Clow Card to an art museum, where they encountered Sakura, Tomoyo, and Kero. Syaoran challenged Sakura over who should collect the cards, but George stopped him and pointed out that they still needed to deal with the card inside.

• Li Syaoran’s compass led him and George to an art museum, where George recognized the Clow Card as The Silent.
• Sakura and Tomoyo entered the museum, and Li Syaoran confronted them after sensing Clow Card magic around Sakura.
• Kero introduced himself as Cerberus and explained that Sakura was collecting the cards, while Li Syaoran dismissed her ability and demanded that she hand them over.
• Kero defended Sakura, and Li Syaoran proposed a duel to decide who would inherit the Clow Cards.
• George stopped Li Syaoran from challenging Sakura and directed their attention to The Silent inside the museum.

George helped Sakura, Tomoyo, Syaoran, Kero, and the child in the hat confront the Silence Card in the museum, then encouraged them to work together while they searched for a way to capture it. After repeated failures and a snack break, Sakura realized how to proceed and began releasing her staff's true form.

• George used a Confundus Charm to daze a patrolling guard and urged Sakura and Syaoran to focus on subduing the Silence Card.
• Sakura, Tomoyo, Syaoran, Kero, and the child in the hat entered the museum exhibition hall, but the Silence Card sent them back outside whenever they made noise.
• George conjured a blanket and snacks, and the group paused to eat while discussing how to capture the card without speaking an incantation.
• Syaoran explained that George was his ninety-eight-year-old ancestor, and George told him to call him Grandpa outside the family.
• Sakura stood up, raised the key, and began chanting to release its true form.

Sakura captured the Silence Card with the Shadow Card’s help, and George proposed that she and Syaoran compete to collect the Clow Cards. The next morning, Sakura and Syaoran met as classmates and began a friendly rivalry, while George prepared to study the Li Family’s time-related Daoist arts.

• Sakura used the Shadow Card as a medium to free the Silence Card from the painting and capture it.
• George suggested that Sakura and Syaoran compete to subdue Clow Cards, and both agreed to try to collect more than the other.
• George used Apparition to take Syaoran back to the villa, then studied the Li Family’s Daoist arts, including a text on time techniques.
• George set out for Tomoe Elementary School with Syaoran, where Sakura greeted them and introduced herself to Syaoran.
• Sakura and Syaoran shook hands, then Syaoran insisted he would not give her the Clow Cards as George watched them fondly.

George and Li Syaoran confronted the Thunder Card, and George kept the Thunder Beast occupied so Syaoran and Sakura could capture it. The chapter left Sakura and Syaoran flying toward the battle while George deflected the Beast’s lightning around them.

• George finished Li Syaoran’s enrollment and returned to his villa.
• George sensed unusual magic in the thunderclouds and took Li Syaoran to investigate a possible Clow Card.
• George and Li Syaoran found the Thunder Beast, and George judged its lightning weaker than his own powers.
• George flew down to the park and asked Li Syaoran to find a way to capture the Thunder Card.
• Sakura used the Fly Card to fly into the sky with Li Syaoran, while Tomoyo stayed below.
• George stopped dodging the Thunder Beast’s lightning and deflected its bolts around Sakura and Li Syaoran.

George sealed the Thunder Beast and let Sakura and Syaoran know he would release the Thunder Card for them to capture fairly. After discussing Syaoran’s chances of inheriting the Clow Cards with Li Yelan, George researched the Thunder Card until a mysterious spell reversed time by twenty-four hours.

• George sealed the Thunder Beast, then told Sakura and Syaoran that either of them could claim the Thunder Card by recapturing it.
• George encouraged Syaoran to collect the Clow Cards through his own abilities and sent him to do his homework.
• George proposed to Li Yelan that Syaoran could give Sakura his Clow Cards as a betrothal gift and marry her into the Li family.
• Sakura captured the Sword, Flower, and Shield Cards while George researched the Thunder Card and Li family Thunder Magic.
• As George tested Thunder Magic, bells rang throughout town and time across the world reversed by twenty-four hours.

George studied the Thunder Card while Sakura and Syaoran sealed the Time Card, then released Morgana to learn the secrets of the Book of the Dead. After extracting the Resurrection Spell’s knowledge and Morgana’s soul from Veronica, he attacked her as she tried to flee.

• George continued studying the Thunder Card as Sakura and Syaoran joined forces to seal the Time Card, which went to Syaoran.
• George took the Matryoshka Doll to a deserted island and unsealed Morgana while David and Balthazar were away.
• George restrained Morgana with powerful lightning and searched her memories, discovering the Book of the Dead’s Resurrection Spell and its method of controlling undead souls.
• George forcibly separated Morgana’s soul from Veronica’s body, but Morgana broke free of his lightning and attacked with magical flames.
• George swallowed Morgana’s flames and struck her soul with Dragon Slayer Magic: Fire Dragon’s Roar, and Morgana fled toward the edge of the island.

George destroyed Morgana’s soul with the Li Family’s Demon-Breaking Thunder Law, freed Veronica, and left to study necromancy. Balthazar returned to the secret base, reunited with Veronica, and learned that George had dealt with Morgana.

• George used Demon-Breaking Thunder Law to obliterate Morgana’s escaping soul.
• Veronica questioned George after waking, and he brought her to David’s secret base before teleporting away to study the Book of the Dead.
• Balthazar returned to the secret base, where Veronica rushed to embrace him.
• Balthazar learned that George had freed Veronica and defeated Morgana, then carried Veronica off to a room.

George planned to visit Thingol in the Kingdom of the Grey Elves, hoping to persuade him to cooperate by demonstrating human magic. Finrod arranged for his sister to meet George at Doriath’s forest and guide him inside.

• Finrod told George that Thingol had refused to send troops or allow Grey Elves to visit the Elven City for magical exchange.
• George explained that Thingol likely refused because he prioritized his people’s safety and saw little benefit in helping or exchanging knowledge.
• George decided to travel to the Kingdom of the Grey Elves and demonstrate the power of human magic to Thingol.
• Finrod agreed to notify his sister and have her guide George into the kingdom.

George trained Elves and humans in magic before traveling to Doriath to ask Thingol for military aid. At the forest barrier, he met Galadriel, who doubted the mission would succeed.

• George taught meditation, Light Magic, and Giant Magic at the academy, while human students such as Beren learned quickly.
• George reflected that changes to the Great Music had altered Beren and Lúthien's likely future, and reasoned that Ilúvatar did not object.
• Finrod told George that Galadriel would meet him near the River Escar-dúin, and George flew south toward Doriath.
• George crossed the Mountains of Terror and the Valley of Death, then examined Melian's rainbow barrier around the forest.
• Galadriel emerged from the barrier, thanked George for saving her brothers, and warned him that Thingol would not send troops.

George entered the Grey Elves’ enchanted forest with Galadriel and used his flight to keep pace with her, impressing her. As they neared Minas Tirith, Galadriel redirected him toward Lúthien, whose extraordinary beauty left George captivated.

• Galadriel led George through the barrier into the forest and warned him that the Grey Elves might not welcome humans.
• Galadriel raced ahead through the trees, but George caught up by flying with his white wings.
• George carried Galadriel through the air while she guided him and explained the Kingdom of the Grey Elves.
• Near Minas Tirith, Galadriel spotted Lúthien and urged George to seek her help with magical exchanges.
• George flew to the meadow, saw Lúthien dancing, and was stunned by her beauty.

George met Lúthien after arriving with Galadriel and discussed his magical feats and the need for the Grey Elves to fight Morgoth. Lúthien agreed to help persuade Thingol to send troops and led George and Galadriel to see him.

• Lúthien recognized Galadriel and questioned George about the heroic deeds Angrod and Aegnor had described.
• George clarified that he had shared credit for driving back Sauron and killing the dragon, while Galadriel asked to see his magic.
• George explained that he planned to demonstrate his magic to Thingol and seek Grey Elf troops against Morgoth.
• George urged Lúthien to consider the dangers of ignoring future threats, and she promised to do her best to persuade her father.
• Galadriel embraced Lúthien, and Lúthien led George and Galadriel to meet Thingol.

George entered the Thousand Caves Palace with Lúthien and Galadriel, where Thingol agreed to hear his proposal before the gathered Grey Elf nobles. The chapter ended with the nobles turning their attention to George as he prepared to make his case.

• Lúthien asked an Elf guard where Thingol was and learned that twenty-two nobles had come to seek an audience.
• Galadriel suspected that the nobles had gathered to ask for Lúthien’s hand, while Lúthien led her and George into the palace.
• Lúthien and Galadriel introduced George to Thingol and urged him to hear what George had to say.
• Thingol remembered Finrod’s earlier request and granted George another chance to state his case because Lúthien supported him.
• The twenty-two noble leaders and their heirs turned their attention to George, with curiosity, appreciation, or jealousy.