Chapter Summaries

Evenson took Sarah for a high-speed ride in his newly repaired Soul Engine-powered car, relying on his S.H.I.E.L.D. ID to avoid trouble. Nick Fury withdrew the surveillance team, while Evenson drove into the wilderness and summoned the demons he had left at the shop.

• Evenson activated the Soul Engine with fel-infused magic and took Sarah for a drive, claiming his S.H.I.E.L.D. ID kept his papers in order.
• Evenson sped along a highway and found the Soul Engine’s quiet operation less satisfying than the roar of an ordinary engine.
• An agent told Nick Fury that Evenson had repaired his car and taken it out for a drive.
• Nick Fury ordered the surveillance team to withdraw and decided he would deliver his message to Evenson himself.
• Evenson drove into the wilderness with Sarah, got out, and summoned the demons left behind in his shop.

Evenson prepared a heavily protected summoning ritual using two high-grade summoning mediums to enslave powerful demons and strengthen himself. As the spell began, he sensed that someone was interfering with it.

• Evenson instructed his demons to draw summoning, suppression, and concealment arrays, but none of them knew how, so he drew the arrays himself.
• Evenson explained that he wanted to summon and enslave powerful demons because Earth was growing more dangerous and he lacked time to strengthen himself through cultivation.
• Evenson placed Soul Crystals at the arrays’ convergence points and set the two summoning mediums on the main array.
• Evenson began casting, and the arrays lit up as energy flowed from the Soul Crystals.
• Evenson noticed the ritual was taking too long, confirmed that the demons had responded, and realized someone was interfering with his spell.

Evenson discovered that another Sorcerer was interfering with his attempt to summon two demons, so he brought out Sathir, the Skull of the Damned, for help. Sathir agreed to challenge the other Sorcerer, leaving the summoning contest poised to begin.

• Evenson realized another Sorcerer had imprisoned or enslaved the demons he was trying to summon and was blocking his spell.
• Sarah warned Evenson that the other Sorcerer was stronger, but Evenson refused to abandon the summoning and decided to seek help.
• Evenson released Sathir's skull while keeping its spine in his private space, and Sathir complained about being incomplete.
• Sathir recognized Evenson's summoning circles and agreed that he could overcome the other Sorcerer, who had neglected to make binding contracts with the demons.

Evenson’s summoning spell brought two powerful Eredar demons into the world after Sathir absorbed the Soul Crystals and broke their binding spells. Aurelles and Saloras emerged free of their former masters, and Evenson faced their demands without attempting to control them.

• Sathir absorbed the Soul Crystals and redirected Evenson’s summoning spell, opening a Demon Gate.
• Evenson realized he could no longer activate his suppression arrays and prepared to face the demons or escape.
• Aurelles and Saloras emerged from the gate and declared that they had escaped the Dark Harvest Council’s control.
• Evenson recognized the pair as Kil'jaeden’s Eredar Twins, who had once guarded Sunwell Plateau.
• Saloras thanked Evenson for freeing them, while Aurelles and Saloras warned him not to expect to control them.
• Evenson narrowed his eyes and said they could leave it at that.

Evenson tried to convince the Eredar Twins that he was loyal to the Legion rather than risk fighting them. He showed them the Legion artifacts he had recovered, and they decided to verify his claim by questioning someone.

• Evenson judged that fighting Aurelles and Saloras would likely get him defeated, especially after his suppression array was destroyed.
• Sathir greeted his former apprentices, Aurelles and Saloras, and Evenson introduced himself as the world's only Sorcerer loyal to the Legion.
• Evenson claimed he had rescued the twins and stolen Legion artifacts from the Dark Harvest Council to help the Legion.
• Aurelles and Saloras challenged Evenson's explanation, so he showed them Sargeras's Staff and Uthalesh alongside the Skull of the Damned.
• The Eredar Twins lowered their battle-ready stances but remained suspicious, and they decided to find someone to ask about Evenson's loyalty.

Evenson tried to convince the Eredar Twins that he was a Burning Legion Sorcerer, but they identified the conduits he had used and summoned Agatha to verify his story. Agatha vouched for Evenson, leaving the Twins to decide whether to trust him.

• Evenson used threats and persuasion to keep Saloras and Aurelles from acting against him.
• Saloras and Aurelles recognized the conduits as weapons they had once left with someone and destroyed them after warning Evenson not to give them a false account.
• Aurelles summoned Agatha, who appeared as a phantom and greeted the Eredar Twins as her mistresses.
• Evenson realized Agatha had mixed the conduits that could summon the Twins among the items she had sold him.
• Aurelles questioned whether Evenson was trustworthy, and Agatha firmly vouched for him.

Evenson tried to send Agatha and the Eredar Twins back to the Void, but the twins chose to remain on Earth and pressed him to offer the world to the Burning Legion. He refused to do so until the timing was right, then demanded that they sign a contract before sharing in what he had built.

• Agatha thanked Evenson for saving her mistresses, promised to repay him, and then departed after the Eredar Twins said she could return.
• Aurelles and Saloras refused to leave Earth, and Aurelles teased Evenson that he had to take responsibility for summoning them.
• Aurelles asked Evenson when he planned to offer Earth to the Burning Legion, and he said he would wait until the war in Azeroth ended.
• Evenson realized the twins wanted a share of the spoils and objected to their intrusion, but Aurelles said they would stay regardless.
• Evenson demanded that the Eredar Twins agree to sign a contract.

Evenson negotiated an equal contract with the Eredar Twins to prevent any of them from offering the world to the Burning Legion alone. After they agreed, he took the twins in human form toward the city, where he imagined building Umbrella Corporation.

• Evenson proposed an oath-based contract, and the Eredar Twins demanded to hear its terms.
• Evenson stipulated that all three had to agree before offering the world to the Burning Legion, and the twins accepted.
• Evenson and the Eredar Twins established a contractual bond.
• Saloras and Aurelles used Evenson’s phone to choose human outfits, and Evenson hurriedly replaced images from his saved videos.
• The twins transformed into nearly identical human women, and Evenson considered making Umbrella Corporation a real organization.

The narrator had a fight with their dorm mates, and the dorm supervisor reported it to the principal. The narrator was on their way to the Academic Affairs Office to face discipline, unsure when they would return.

• The narrator got into a fight with their dorm mates.
• The dorm supervisor caught the fight and reported it to the principal.
• The narrator went to the Academic Affairs Office to face disciplinary action.

Evenson brought Sarah and the Eredar Twins to a cheap motel because his home had no room for them, and the Twins mocked his lack of money. He explained that the Order of Mages and S.H.I.E.L.D. were the likeliest groups to expose them, and warned that the Sorcerer Supreme was a formidable threat.

• Evenson took Sarah and the Eredar Twins to a motel after realizing his home could not accommodate them.
• Saloras and Aurelles criticized Evenson for being the poorest Sorcerer they had encountered.
• Evenson tried to brief the Twins on basic customs, but they said their experience infiltrating unfamiliar worlds made his advice unnecessary.
• The Twins asked Evenson which people or organizations might expose them.
• Evenson named the Order of Mages and S.H.I.E.L.D. as the main risks and estimated that the Sorcerer Supreme was weaker than Medivh but possibly stronger than Antonidas.

Evenson explained why the Eredar Twins dismissed the Sorcerer Supreme’s magical system and warned them about S.H.I.E.L.D. He argued that they should protect the world from other threats until the Legion could destroy it and reward them.

• Aurelles and Saloras judged the New York Sanctum’s spatial defenses crude and concluded that the Order’s young magical tradition was no match for Azeroth’s.
• Evenson explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. had informants everywhere, then revealed that the organization had already exposed him and that he now worked for it.
• The Eredar Twins questioned why Evenson would safeguard world peace, given his plan to deliver the world to the Legion.
• Evenson argued that they had to keep the world intact until the Legion arrived so they could secure their reward, and the twins agreed.

Evenson warned the Eredar Twins about S.H.I.E.L.D. and Asgard as they planned to summon the Legion. He proposed disguising themselves and earning Asgard's trust, while the twins concluded that his loyalty to the Legion matched their own.

• Evenson explained how the twins could evade the New York Sanctum's scans and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s surveillance by keeping a low profile.
• Evenson warned Saloras and Aurelles that Asgard's Heimdall could see across the world and might detect a Legion summoning.
• Saloras inferred that Evenson had prepared a countermeasure, so he proposed building trust with Asgard and concealing their plans beneath the appearance of harmless magic.
• Aurelles invited Evenson to have some fun, but he left immediately.
• After Evenson departed, Saloras told Aurelles that his loyalty to the Legion was the same as theirs.

Evenson reconsidered the Eredar Twins’ behavior and concluded that their eagerness to stay in his world concealed a deeper problem. He suspected that they had fallen out of favor with the Burning Legion and were pretending to remain loyal while testing whether he might betray them.

• Evenson told Sarah that the Eredar Twins had ignored the suppression arrays and agreed to his contract too readily.
• He pointed out that Agatha had used him to rescue her former masters, then avoided them after the rescue without explaining what she feared.
• Evenson argued that the Twins had shown little genuine interest in the obstacles to selling his world to the Burning Legion.
• Sarah realized that Agatha might be hiding from demons in the Fel Scar Rift.
• Evenson concluded that the Eredar Twins had likely fallen out of favor with the Burning Legion and were acting loyal because they did not know whether he might sell them out.

Evenson reasoned that the Eredar Twins feared Kil'jaeden more than they feared him, so he decided to keep playing along with their show of loyalty to the Legion. After recalling Tyler and the other demons, he learned they had killed two mages who had discovered their hiding place.

• Evenson explained that the Eredar Twins had betrayed the Legion and feared Kil'jaeden's revenge, but chose not to reveal that he understood their motives.
• Evenson decided to pretend to accept the Twins' loyalty to the Legion until he knew for certain where they stood.
• Sarah reminded Evenson that Tyler and the other demons were still outside, and Evenson summoned them back.
• Tyler told Evenson that two mages had teleported to investigate the demons about two hours after Evenson left.
• Tyler revealed that he had killed the two mages after Hubbs used Spell Lock to stop them from acting.

Jonas and Clark investigated a faint magical fluctuation outside New York and discovered the remains of Evenson’s forbidden summoning ritual. A monstrous creature trapped them as a tall attacker charged, leaving the two mages facing a fight they had not prepared for.

• Jonas and Clark detected a faint magical fluctuation while on watch at the New York Sanctum and decided to investigate.
• Clark opened a portal and led Jonas to the site where Evenson had summoned the Eredar Twins.
• Jonas and Clark recognized the foul aura and ritual markings as evidence of a powerful dark wizard’s forbidden ritual.
• A red-scaled monster absorbed their portal with its tentacles, preventing them from escaping.
• As Clark prepared to open another portal, a tall figure attacked them with a battle axe, and Clark raised a magical shield.

Tyler's group ambushed Clark and Jonas after they emerged from a portal, and the demons overwhelmed the two mages. Clark was left gravely wounded as Tyler prepared to finish him.

• Tyler's group hid in the darkness, and Hubbs destroyed the portal after Clark and Jonas came through.
• Tyler attacked Clark while Dumen redirected Jonas's spells, and Hubbs interrupted Jonas's attempt to open a portal and killed him.
• Hubbs's howl temporarily stopped Clark from using magic, so Clark tried to fend off Tyler with his staff while waiting for his powers to return.
• Tripsy shot a fireball that blew off Clark's lower body, and Tyler raised his axe over the dying mage.

After Tyler explained how he disposed of the bodies and crime scene, Evenson slept briefly before Nick Fury summoned him and told him to begin his job as Tony Stark’s health consultant. Evenson would arrive in two days, ahead of Natasha Romanoff’s undercover operation, and avoid revealing that he knew her.

• Tyler told Evenson that the bodies and scene had been absorbed into East Dumen, leaving only a deep pit behind.
• Evenson went to sleep, then Nick Fury called him in early the next morning and teased him about spending the night with three women.
• Nick Fury reminded Evenson that he had agreed to work as Tony Stark’s health consultant and said it was time to start.
• Natasha Romanoff explained that Evenson should treat her as a stranger when she joined Tony under another identity.
• Nick Fury said Evenson would go to Tony in two days because Tony was in Washington for a hearing about Iron Man.

Evenson and Nick Fury discussed the government’s sudden hearing to pressure Tony Stark into surrendering Iron Man technology, which could distract the public from the Hulk and Abomination disaster. Nick revealed that Justin Hammer would support the effort, while other arms magnates stayed away, and Tony was expected to resist.

• Evenson questioned why the government had called a hearing so soon after Hulk and Abomination’s battle.
• Nick Fury explained that the hearing could divert public attention from the government’s response to the disaster.
• Evenson said Tony Stark would not surrender the Iron Man suit’s technology easily and that his own health-consultant paycheck would remain secure.
• Nick Fury told Evenson that Justin Hammer would attend as a weapons expert and arms supplier cooperating with the Department of Defense.
• Nick Fury explained that other arms magnates had avoided the affair because they feared its long-term costs more than they wanted to profit from Stark Industries’ troubles.

Nick Fury explained that the hearing would fail to force Tony Stark to surrender the Iron Man suit, but warned that politicians might target Tony through an accident. He asked Evenson to watch over Tony, though Evenson objected that he had agreed to be a health consultant, not a security consultant.

• Nick Fury and Evenson discussed why powerful private interests opposed the government’s attempt to seize Tony’s Iron Man suit, while Justin Hammer supported the effort as a pawn.
• Nick Fury warned that Colonel James Rhodes’s fair assessment of Iron Man could be taken out of context to favor the politicians.
• Evenson pressed Nick Fury to explain why he had summoned him, and Nick Fury said the hearing would fail but the politicians would keep pursuing Tony.
• Nick Fury asked Evenson to protect Tony from a possible staged accident, noting that Tony was physically vulnerable without the suit.
• Evenson pointed out that he had agreed to serve as a health consultant, not a security consultant, and Nick Fury argued that safety was part of health.

Evenson complained about his unpaid work, then drove Sarah home while she discussed her plans for an upcoming mission. After Tony’s Senate hearing ended in his favor, Evenson reported for work as his health consultant and watched Natasha begin her new role as Tony’s secretary.

• Evenson protested Nick Fury’s unpaid extra work, and Natasha told him she planned to apply for Tony’s secretary position before him.
• Sarah enthusiastically introduced herself to Natasha, then admitted she had briefly forgotten the preparations for Ms. Valentine’s matter.
• Evenson reminded Sarah to review the plan and promised she could get close to the woman she wanted to meet during the mission.
• Tony left his Senate hearing victorious, and Pepper told him Evenson had arrived to work as his health consultant.
• Natasha joined Tony and Rapi in the boxing ring, while Evenson photographed Natasha’s lingerie picture from Tony’s computer for Sarah’s collection.
• Natasha defeated Rapi with a scissor hold.