Chapter Summaries

Noah decided to visit the York Magical Association after realizing that Tony’s progress in enchantments was outpacing his ability to teach him and that he needed more magic lessons for Lily. He brought Lily with him to North Yorkshire, where William Moore came out to welcome them.

• Noah assessed Tony’s armor and realized Tony was advancing beyond what Noah could teach him about enchantments and inscriptions.
• Noah decided to visit the York Magical Association and bring Lily along, though she nearly got caught in his departing magic.
• Noah and Lily reached the Association’s hidden entrance in North Yorkshire and introduced themselves to the gatekeeper.
• The gatekeeper recognized Noah Finneal, and William Moore arrived to greet Noah and Lily.

Noah visited the York Magical Association with Lily, thanked its president Alan Moore for the exchange that helped him, and asked for books on Elemental Magic Arrays. Alan agreed but requested that Noah spar with his son William, hoping to curb William’s arrogance.

• William Moore welcomed Noah and Lily to the York Magical Association and introduced his father, its president, Alan Moore.
• Noah sent Lily to study in the Association’s Library, explaining that she was his apprentice and studied Elemental Magic.
• Noah thanked Alan for exchanging the Elementalization spell with William, and Alan said Noah’s Animagus research had helped the Association find a promising direction.
• Noah asked Alan for books on all kinds of Elemental Magic Arrays because his apprentice was interested in them.
• Alan agreed to provide the books but asked Noah to spar with William because he considered his son too arrogant.

Noah sparred with William Moore before the York Magical Association and overwhelmed him with powerful Elemental Magic. The chapter ended with Noah freezing William’s Blazing Storm and sending the spreading frost toward him.

• Noah agreed to Old Moore’s request to spar with William and let the York Magical Association mages watch.
• Noah unleashed a lava-filled Elemental Magic attack that swallowed William’s fire phoenix.
• William began fighting in earnest, but Noah’s magical storm shattered his shield as he completed a Blazing Storm.
• Noah froze the Blazing Storm from the inside out, and the frost spread toward William.

Noah returned from the York Magical Association with Elemental Magic books after impressing Old Moore and William with his spells. Back at his Sanctum, he learned that Tony was investigating the First Civilization’s loom and that Desmond Miles had gone missing after Abstergo captured him.

• Noah thanked Old Moore and William for hosting him, and Old Moore reflected on how Noah’s Elemental Magic had exposed the York Magical Association’s need to advance.
• Old Moore gave Noah books on Elemental Magic Arrays and gave Lily books on Elemental Magic before seeing them off.
• Noah returned to his Sanctum on Wednesday and sent Lily to Hogwarts to spend time with her father and study her new books.
• Noah found Tony in the laboratory calculating how the loom worked, and Tony said the First Civilization’s capabilities surpassed modern technology.
• Tony told Noah that Abstergo had captured Desmond Miles about a week earlier, though Desmond was now listed as missing.
• Noah gave Tony the Elemental Magic Array books to study while Tony continued working on his unstable armor.

Noah gave Tony books on Elemental Magic, then decided to check on Constantine and his companions after learning they had gone to New York to investigate a vampire settlement and a long-lived doctor. He opened a portal to follow them, with Tony tagging along despite not being invited.

• Noah gave Tony the Elemental Magic books he had obtained from the York Magical Association and told him about his visit there with Lily.
• Noah considered threats expected in the coming phases, including the Dark Elves, Star-Lord, and Ultron, and decided Erik could handle Ultron's machines.
• Noah opened a portal to visit Erik, but Tony followed him through.
• Chas told Noah that John and the others had gone to New York to investigate a vampire settlement and a doctor who seemed not to age.
• Noah decided to check on Constantine and the others, opened a portal to New York, and called Constantine as Tony followed him.

Noah reunited with Constantine, Logan, and Selena after they eliminated a group of vampires, then introduced Tony and asked Erik about Wanda and Pietro. Erik revealed that his wife Magda had left him while pregnant after he killed the people in a town, suggesting Wanda and Pietro might be connected to him.

• Noah and Tony arrived at a warehouse where Constantine, Erik, Logan, and Selena had finished massacring a group of vampires.
• Constantine explained that he and Selena had joined forces to hunt the vampires, and he planned to recruit her for work in London.
• Noah introduced Tony Stark as Ark's new shareholder and confirmed that Henry Morgan seemed to be an ordinary medical examiner.
• Noah told Erik that his prophecy magic had revealed two people named Wanda and Pietro, apparently born in Sokovia.
• Erik connected the names to his past and revealed that Magda had left him while pregnant after he killed the people in a town.

Noah confirmed that Erik’s children were likely Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, though he could not say where they were or when they would meet. A vampire’s attack sparked a heated argument between Erik and Tony, which escalated into a fight as Noah watched.

• Noah asked Erik about his first daughter, and Erik said she had been kind and that he had failed to protect her before declining to discuss her death.
• Erik asked about the children Noah had mentioned, and Noah said they might be in Sokovia and that he expected to meet them in four or five years.
• Selena agreed to try joining Ark Company’s exorcist department after talking with Constantine.
• A young vampire attacked Erik, but Erik redirected the dagger into the vampire’s own chest.
• Tony challenged Erik over killing the vampire, and their argument escalated until they began fighting while Noah, Logan, Constantine, and Selena watched.

After Erik effortlessly defeated Tony, Tony reflected on his identity as a magician and Iron Man and decided his armor was a weapon rather than the source of his strength. Noah accepted Tony’s conclusion, though Tony misread Noah’s praise as a romantic confession.

• Erik immobilized Tony, destroyed the armor’s core components, and left him buried with only his head exposed.
• Noah had Logan pull Tony from the ground and return him to London while Constantine and Erik continued investigating the immortal doctor.
• Noah considered that Wanda and Quicksilver were Erik’s children and wondered how their relationship with Erik might affect the future.
• Tony told Noah that he had reconsidered his defeat and realized he was no longer an ordinary person but a magician as well as Iron Man.
• Tony concluded that he himself was Iron Man and could combine magic and technology to counter opponents like Erik.
• Noah praised Tony, and Tony told him to avoid saying that he liked him because Tony did not accept affection from men.

Over two years, Tony trained in magic and developed a restrained but productive relationship with Erik, while Noah and his students grew stronger. Tony finished a new armor combining magic and technology, and Noah suggested adding a cape to improve its flight.

• Tony studied magic intensely, exchanged knowledge with Erik about magnetism and Legilimency, and began designing armor that fused magic and technology.
• Noah advanced to Tier 7, Level 6, while the children in his Sanctum became qualified mages and Ms. Heifen passed the Magus assessment.
• After two years of study and preparation, Tony completed his new armor, combining runes, elemental spells, magic power cores, and technology.
• Noah examined Tony's armor and suggested adding a cape, prompting Tony to consider enchanting it so it could help him fly without using energy.

Tony hosted Noah, Constantine, Charles, and Erik for an extravagant dinner in London, where the guests disliked the restaurant’s gimmicks and food but eventually relaxed into conversation. As they discussed work and future plans, Noah received an unexpected phone call.

• Tony invited Noah to let him organize a dinner gathering for their friends and paid for a meal at a Michelin-rated London restaurant.
• Noah, Constantine, Charles, and Erik disliked the chocolate menu and caviar, while Tony tried to make the dinner enjoyable.
• Noah asked Charles about the success of the X-Men films, and Charles said he planned to finish the series before working on Iron Man.
• Constantine said little had changed for his group beyond the arrival of Selena and that he had left a cursed doctor’s case after collecting payment.
• As the conversation warmed up, Noah’s phone suddenly rang.

Noah and the others watched Captain America awaken in a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, while Tony learned about Steve Rogers’s connection to Howard Stark. Fury took the group to meet Steve and said he hoped to recruit him for the Avengers, as Noah noted that Cross’s infiltration had brought the Golden Apple closer.

• Noah asked Tony to scan Fury’s surveillance room, and J.A.R.V.I.S. detected several listening signals.
• Fury showed the group the thawed man on the monitor, and Noah revealed that he was a man who had been frozen for nearly seventy years.
• The group recognized the man as Captain America, and Fury told Tony that Howard Stark had made Steve Rogers’s shield.
• Steve Rogers exposed a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent’s lie, escaped confinement, and knocked down guards as Fury went to handle the situation.
• Fury told Noah that he planned to recruit Steve Rogers for the Avengers, and Noah asked about Cross’s infiltration and the Golden Apple.

Noah reflected on the coming alien threat and whether sorcerers should intervene, then visited The Ancient One with Wong. The Ancient One asked Noah how he would handle aliens if she could defeat them easily but wanted to train young heroes without allowing the threat to cause serious harm.

• Noah considered giving the Golden Apple to Tony and visiting Victor, who might become a fusion of magic and technology.
• Fury persuaded Steve Rogers to accept his explanation of the unfamiliar modern world, while Noah and his companions left.
• Noah returned to London and planned how sorcerers might respond to the coming disaster, including using his “Ark” for a trial run.
• After roughly two months, Noah brought Wong to Kamar-Taj to meet The Ancient One.
• The Ancient One asked Noah what he would do if aliens threatened Earth while she and another powerful being wanted to train young people.

Noah discussed the coming alien invasion with The Ancient One and realized that she and Odin intended to leave the next generation to protect Earth. The Ancient One revealed that she might attempt a trial in five or six years and told Noah that Earth’s future would be his responsibility.

• Noah inferred that Odin was the powerful figure behind the plan to temper the young generation, and the system reassured him that his influence could lead the world toward a better future.
• Noah told The Ancient One that he would act against an alien invasion and identified Thor and the Avengers as the newcomers she hoped to prepare.
• The Ancient One said Noah’s presence had blurred the future but filled it with new possibilities, and Noah promised to do his best to protect those around him.
• The Ancient One explained that powerful supernatural beings faced a trial that could take them into a new realm and leave Earth without their protection.
• The Ancient One told Noah she might attempt the trial in five or six years and urged him to risk his life, entrusting the future to him.

After learning that The Ancient One faced a dangerous Divinity Conversion, Noah asked the system about the process and began investigating the idea of a magical domain. The system analyzed Noah’s memories and presented him with a basic synthesized domain in the System Space.

• Noah told Wong that Divinity Conversion could make The Ancient One a true god but might require her to abandon her body and exist as a soul.
• Noah suspected The Ancient One might not survive long enough to protect Earth after completing her conversion, and Wong accepted her achievement optimistically.
• The system explained that Divinity Conversion was a leap into a higher realm through a deeper understanding of the universe, and that a soul-and-power-focused existence could still lead to the final step.
• Noah recalled that powerful mages could wield domains and asked the system to analyze his memories about them.
• The system showed Noah a magical domain formed by elements moving in a special pattern, but Noah could not sense it and learned it was only a basic synthesized domain.

Noah discovered that the system had created an unstable domain, and reducing it to the four natural elements triggered a powerful explosion that knocked him unconscious. At S.H.I.E.L.D., Loki arrived through the Tesseract, attacked the agents, and demanded the device while Fury revealed that it belonged to Noah Finneal.

• Noah asked the system to remove Space and dark magic from the domain, and the remaining elements began building immense power before the domain exploded and knocked him out.
• Fury and Maria Hill investigated the Tesseract’s eruption at S.H.I.E.L.D. and saw an azure gate transport Loki into the underground chamber.
• Loki attacked Fury, defeated the agents, and used his scepter to control Barton and another S.H.I.E.L.D. agent.
• Fury packed up the Tesseract, but Loki stopped him and demanded the case.
• Fury told Loki that the Tesseract belonged to Noah Finneal, a mage from a world of mages on Earth.

After waking from the explosion that damaged the System and left him briefly amnesiac, Noah considered how to stabilize his Domain without sacrificing his strongest magic. He asked the System to keep simulating a four-element Domain based on light, darkness, time, and space, then hoped its experiments would succeed.

• Noah woke in his room with a painful head and called the weakened System to ask what had happened.
• The System showed Noah its memory of the explosion, reminding him that his magic had automatically protected him and that the blast had damaged the System.
• The System assured Noah it could recover by drawing on his magic power without slowing his growth.
• Noah asked the System to continue simulating the Domain, and it warned that a successful fusion might cost him his other magic.
• The System suggested combining mutually dependent or opposing elements, inspiring Noah to pursue a Domain built around light, darkness, time, and space.
• Noah asked the System to study angelic powers and use angels as opponents while it continued simulating the Domain; then his phone rang.

After Loki stole the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D., Noah gathered allies to prepare for the coming operation and revealed that the Tesseract was the Space Stone, one of six Infinity Stones. Fury learned how dangerous the situation might be, while Noah kept secret that Earth held two other Stones.

• Fury told Noah that Loki had stolen the Tesseract and beaten him after Fury said it belonged to Noah.
• Fury invited Noah to join the operation and presented his Avengers files, prompting Noah to summon Constantine, Erik, Charles, Tony, and Wong.
• Noah explained that the Tesseract contained spatial energy and that S.H.I.E.L.D. had failed to recognize its teleportation properties.
• Noah revealed that the Tesseract was the Space Stone and explained the six Infinity Stones and their destructive power.
• Fury realized the crisis was far more serious than he had expected, while Noah withheld that two other Infinity Stones were on Earth.

Fury realized that keeping the Tesseract put Earth in danger, and Noah’s group joined S.H.I.E.L.D. as it prepared to respond to Loki’s theft. The group gathered Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner and was ready to head to the Helicarrier.

• Fury regretted accepting the Tesseract and learned Noah had left it with S.H.I.E.L.D. at the Ancient One’s request.
• Fury led Noah’s group of six to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s temporary New York command center to meet Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner.
• Fury asked Tony whether he needed to return to Stark Tower, and Tony insisted he remained Iron Man even without his armor.
• Tony greeted Steve, who recognized him as Howard Stark’s son, and Steve agreed to leave immediately.
• Fury asked Noah and the others whether they were ready to fly to the Helicarrier, and Noah said he did not mind.

Noah and his companions boarded S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Sky Carrier, where Steve studied Noah and Natasha questioned him about his influence over S.H.I.E.L.D. After the carrier rose into the sky, Fury welcomed everyone on the bridge, and Tony called out his insincere greeting.

• Steve studied Noah during the flight, while Noah realized Fury’s presence had prevented Coulson from having his planned conversation with Steve.
• Coulson eagerly spoke with Steve on the landing deck, and Wong told Tony he could destroy the Sky Carrier without much effort.
• Noah recognized that Steve and Bruce had met and realized he had encountered every original Avenger.
• Natasha asked Noah why she could discuss him when Fury and Coulson could not, and Noah said her low rank meant she posed no threat to him.
• Natasha warned everyone to enter the carrier before it went airborne, but Steve and Bruce watched it rise before heading inside.
• Fury welcomed the group on the bridge, and Tony mocked him for pretending he had not traveled with them.

Noah introduced his magical companions to Fury, Steve, and Banner, then discussed the danger surrounding the gemstone and Earth’s protectors. A call from Germany revealed a suspicious, possibly alien wizard in Stuttgart and that the Sorcerer Supreme had appointed Noah as the magical authorities’ point of contact.

• Noah introduced himself and his companions to Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner, and Fury explained that they came from the magical world.
• Fury asked Noah about the gemstone, and Noah warned that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s research might have helped trigger the danger while reassuring him that Earth had powerful protectors.
• Noah received a call from Josef Sebastian, who reported that Aurors had found a suspicious wizard in Stuttgart whose magic seemed unlike that of Earth’s wizards.
• Sebastian told Noah that the Sorcerer Supreme had instructed magical authorities to contact him about problems, and congratulated him as Guardian Lord Phileas.