Recaps

After defeating Pluto Hisoka, Allen returned to Sky City, received a powerful scepter, and shared Dark Magic authority with Hela. He told Wanda that his growing bond with the multiverse meant he had to leave soon, spent their remaining time together, and departed with Artoria and Sakura after the transportation device was ready.

• Allen returned to Sky City, where Edna Bevin presented him with the Supreme Scepter forged by the Guardians.
• Allen shared some of his authority over Dark Magic with Hela, who kissed him before returning to her domain.
• Sakura asked Allen about building a magical domain, while Artoria meditated on the conviction she had felt in battle.
• Allen told Wanda that further growth would bind him to the multiverse and that he planned to leave in one or two weeks.
• Wanda spent the remaining days with Allen, and their time together ended when the departure preparations were complete.
• Allen, Artoria, and Sakura prepared to leave and planned to say goodbye to Tony Stark and receive his farewell gift.

Allen returned to Avengers Alliance Tower, announced that he was leaving, and spoke privately with Tony Stark about the future and Tony’s growing family. The chapter ended with Allen agreeing to prepare gifts for Tony’s two daughters.

• Mordo argued with the American representative that the magical energy was not responsible for the country’s rising crime and unrest.
• Allen appeared through a spatial rift, and security personnel fired on him before Tony Stark froze them and the representatives apologized.
• Thor demanded to know why Allen had not intervened against Thanos, but Allen refused to explain, and Thor left for the bar.
• Allen announced his departure, while Steve Rogers questioned Tony about concealing the news and accepted Tony’s explanation.
• Allen told Quicksilver that Wanda had chosen to stay and had disappeared after completing her preparations.
• Tony told Allen that Pepper was expecting their first biological daughter, and Allen promised gifts for both of Tony’s daughters.

Allen said goodbye to Tony Stark and left Earth’s universe, giving Tony the knowledge and tools to prepare for future threats. Wanda stayed behind, and Oshiet explained that she had chosen separation to preserve her love for Allen as a lasting memory; meanwhile, Allen protected the Azerath Universe as it crossed into an unknown world.

• Allen warned Tony Stark that Earth was protected by hidden forces and advised him to cooperate with them if the planet faced destruction.
• Tony Stark gave Allen a nanotechnology-and-magic device that could form tools, clothing, armor, and other objects, and Allen accepted it before leaving through a spatial rift.
• Natasha asked Tony Stark about Allen’s departure and Wanda’s whereabouts, and Tony said he was preparing Earth for future crises and could not locate Wanda unless she wanted to be found.
• At Vishanti, Oshiet told Wanda she had stayed behind to make herself unforgettable to Allen, and Wanda realized she had wanted to preserve their love rather than risk its sweetness fading.
• As the Azerath Universe crossed into an unknown world, Allen, Hela, Artoria, Sakura, and Sky City’s guardians repelled harassment from hostile forces until the universe passed through the rift.

Allen and Artoria left the Marvel universe and settled into child bodies among Azerath’s early human tribes, where Allen mentored the young Saurfang Torvin. The tribe’s peace ended when enemies approached, and fourteen-year-old Saurfang rallied its people to fight.

• Allen explained that the group would drift through the void for years before reaching the next world, then sparred with Artoria after they argued about Wanda and love.
• Allen used the Descent System to visit a tribe in Azerath and met the newborn Saurfang Torvin, whom he hoped to use to enter history.
• Allen and Artoria created child bodies in the tribe; Artoria trained as a swordswoman while Allen taught Saurfang about politics, philosophy, and warfare.
• A wounded envoy returned with news that enemies had killed the chief and most elders and would soon attack the tribe.
• Saurfang rejected fleeing, urged the tribespeople to defend their food and livestock, and led the way to the square to prepare for battle.

Soladin prepared his tribe to face an invading force, while Allen taught him to use force with restraint and Artoria realized the attack on the former leaders had been orchestrated. The enemy charged into Soladin’s disciplined formation after an arrow volley, and the battle began.

• Allen told Soladin that war required a clear purpose and that force should remain a means, not an end.
• Artoria questioned Allen about the deaths of the chieftain and elders, and Allen implied Soladin had arranged them to seize leadership and gain a pretext for conquest.
• Soladin rallied the tribe, deployed veterans in front and rookies on the flanks, and waited for the attackers he already knew were coming.
• Allen explained that the rival tribes had attacked because they needed supplies to survive winter and had been lured by information Soladin leaked.
• Soladin ordered his archers to fire three volleys, striking the approaching cavalry before the enemy chieftain commanded a full charge into the tribe’s shield-and-spear formation.

Soladin defeated a coalition of raiders, then used the victory and its spoils to launch a campaign of conquest and establish a feudal order. By around twenty, he had united half the surrounding lands and proclaimed the Arathor Empire, demanding that the remaining tribes submit.

• Soladin's infantry ambushed the charging cavalry, while Artoria and Allen cut down attackers until the raiders broke and fled.
• Soladin remembered to sound the horn, sending the waiting ambushers to cut off the enemy's retreat and slaughter the fleeing raiders.
• After learning the attackers came from neighboring tribes, Soladin rejected an alliance and rallied his warriors to conquer those tribes and seize their wealth.
• Soladin's forces attacked and annexed tribe after tribe, enslaving captives and turning most slaves into tenant farmers who worked lands granted to his warriors.
• Soladin used military force and diplomacy to unite roughly half the surrounding lands, named them after the Arathi tribe, and founded the Arathor Empire.
• Soladin sent the remaining tribes an ultimatum: submit and prosper, or resist and perish.

Thoradin prepared to crush the tribal resistance alliance and discussed the Arathor Empire’s strategy against the Amani Trolls with Allen. The decisive battle began with the poorly organized Allied Forces charging the disciplined imperial army.

• Thoradin invited the resistance alliance to a decisive battle, while secretly using bribed tribal elders to gather intelligence on its leaders and plans.
• Allen advised Thoradin to execute leaders who opposed unification, spare ordinary people, and settle survivors along the Troll frontier; Thoradin identified the Amani Empire as humanity’s greater threat.
• Thoradin gathered thirty thousand professional warriors, and the two armies faced each other on the plains as Artoria and Allen mocked the Allied Forces’ disorder.
• The Allied Forces sounded their horns and charged, and Thoradin calmly ordered the imperial army to begin its response with a volley from its bow and crossbow troops.

Soladin’s army crushed the tribal Allied Forces, bringing their people and territory under the Arathor Empire and recruiting more than a hundred warriors as royal knights. Soladin then planned a political marriage and a defensive wall against the Trolls, while Allen proposed enslaving Trolls and Fish-Men to provide labor and revenue for its construction.

• The Allied Forces’ first charge was devastated by the Empire’s armor-piercing arrows, and the tribal chiefs rallied their warriors for another attack.
• The Allies charged in a spread-out formation, but the Empire’s infantry and Horse Archers routed them and took many survivors captive.
• Artoria recruited formidable enemy warriors, and Soladin gained hundreds of thousands of people along with their land, wealth, and livestock.
• Soladin announced plans to marry a chief’s daughter whose tribe could provide stonemasons to build a defensive wall against the Trolls.
• Allen advised capturing Trolls and Fish-Men as slaves for forced labor and trade, and Soladin agreed to the plan.

Thoradin asked Allen for guidance on ruling and received a revised copy of The Prince, while the two discussed power, Thoradin’s upcoming marriage, and the looming war with the Amani Empire. Allen accepted leave to inspect his territory and rode there with an escort, arriving at fertile farmland.

• Thoradin asked Allen for knowledge about governing the empire, and Allen gave him a revised copy of The Prince.
• Thoradin questioned why Allen had trained him to become Emperor, and Allen explained that he disliked the restraints and sacrifices of power.
• Thoradin described his plans to celebrate his wedding and secure the succession, then admitted he feared the coming war against the Amani Empire.
• Thoradin granted Allen leave to visit his territory, and Allen set out with a cavalry escort.
• Allen’s party endured several days of travel and a Highland Raptor attack before reaching the territory’s farmland.

Allen returned to his vast but underdeveloped territory, inspected its defenses and resources, and learned that Kobolds were disrupting the iron mine while Trolls had used magical totems to raid his lands. As Allen ordered scouts to find the Trolls and prepared to investigate the mine, Soladin arranged a royal matchmaking banquet for Allen and Artoria without their knowledge.

• Allen learned that his territory held about thirty-two thousand tenant households, large herds, and extensive plains, forests, and mountains, but had too few people and soldiers to develop and defend it properly.
• Allen arrived at the fortified town built by Lyle, praised his work, and heard that Kobolds had forced miners to halt excavation of a rich iron mine.
• Lyle reported attacks by Fish-Men and southern Trolls, and Allen identified the Trolls' carved wooden stakes as Elemental Totems, including a Water Totem that healed wounds.
• Allen ordered scouts to track the Trolls, reviewed the territory's accounts, and planned to visit the Kobold-infested mine after lunch.
• At the Royal Court Meeting, Soladin ordered ministers to gather unmarried noble women for a banquet to find Allen a wife, then expanded the plan to include unmarried noble men for Artoria.

Allen entered a rich mine in the Arathi Highlands to confront the Kobolds who had driven out its miners, hoping to negotiate access to its ore without approaching a dangerous crystal. He captured a Kobold Mage named Kao and marked it with magic so it would return with its tribal chief, leaving the negotiations pending.

• Lyle told Allen that the mine produced most of the territory's iron and steel, along with Bloodstone Ore that could help weapons counter Troll regeneration.
• Allen entered the mine with twenty soldiers and was attacked by a Kobold Mage's Ice Bolt, which froze a soldier without killing him.
• Allen seized the Kobold Mage with life energy, and Lyle's guards bound it before Allen stopped them from killing it.
• The Kobold introduced itself as Kao and explained that its tribe attacked the miners to protect a dangerous crystal.
• Allen offered to negotiate with the Kobold chief and placed a magical mark on Kao, threatening to kill it if it failed to return.

Kao returned to the kobold gathering place with Allen’s offer, but the chieftain rejected negotiations and led warriors to confront him. Allen killed the chieftain and massacred his guards, then persuaded Kao to seize power and rule the tribe on his behalf.

• Kao told the chieftain that Allen promised to stay away from the crystal if the kobolds stopped harassing the humans, and reported that Allen had brought only about twenty people.
• The chieftain gathered warriors, mages, and shamans and rejected Allen’s terms when they met in a cavern.
• Allen killed the chieftain with a single sword strike and ordered his soldiers to kill the kobold warriors while sparing the spellcasters.
• Allen offered Kao the chance to become the new chieftain, and Kao accepted after hearing how he could use force and rewards to secure power.
• Kao returned to the tribe carrying a Lightning Wand and half the chieftain’s head, while Allen’s soldiers bound the captured spellcasters for transport and research.

Allen secured control of the Kobold mine by installing Kao as the Horde’s ruler, then returned to his territory and began dissecting captured Kobold spellcasters. As a neighboring Baron Barov sought a meeting, Allen was still investigating the Kobolds’ unusual physiology.

• Kao seized control of the Horde by blaming its dead chieftain, killing challengers with Allen’s Lightning Wand, and imposing new ranks and harsh punishments.
• Kao knelt before Allen and promised to deliver ore every week in exchange for continued rule over the Kobolds.
• Allen returned to his territory with captured Kobold spellcasters, while Lyle took charge of the mine; a few days later, ore production resumed.
• Allen imprisoned the captured mages and shaman priests in a deep cellar and dissected them to study their brains and magical differences.
• A servant told Allen that Baron Barov had sent a gift and requested a meeting.

Allen and Al Barrowf struck a deal that exchanged the Barov family's gold mine for soldiers and access to weapons, armor, and supplies. The agreement left Al Barrowf poised to expand his Troll-catching business while Allen secured the mine for future trade with the High Elf Kingdom.

• Al Barrowf visited Allen with gold bars to thank him for protecting the Barov territory and seek an alliance.
• Al Barrowf revealed that he had found a gold mine and offered it in exchange for one hundred soldiers.
• Allen agreed to the trade, promised to buy all the Trolls Al Barrowf captured, and warned him to stay away from the western border.
• Al Barrowf signed a contract and received a hundred-man Phalanx, while Allen handed the gold mine to Lyle for mining and storage.

Allen received a warning that a massive Withered Tree Tribe Troll army had entered the northern mountains and prepared his territory for war. As refugees crowded into town, he ordered a cavalry force to ride out and delay the Trolls, leading it himself.

• Allen deflected visiting nobles’ questions about the Empire’s plans with evasive political talk and explained his approach to Lyle.
• A messenger reported that a huge Withered Tree Tribe army had appeared in the northern mountains, alarming the town.
• Allen ordered messengers sent to Stromgarde and nearby lords, residents evacuated, the walls reinforced, and adult men mobilized for training.
• After three days of refugees overwhelmed the town, Allen rejected Lyle’s concerns and ordered a cavalry force to depart and slow the Troll advance.
• Allen armored himself and led 150 cavalrymen toward the Troll army as the Withered Tree Tribe destroyed human settlements along its route.

Allen’s cavalry ambushed and wiped out a Troll force, using poisoned arrows to overcome the Trolls’ regeneration. After securing a brief victory, Allen revealed his plan to lure the Amani Trolls into a territory filled with Thunderstorm Elementals.

• A Troll Warlord ordered his forces to hunt down Soladin and destroy human armies, while promising the task to whoever first defeated a human army and killed an important noble.
• Allen’s 150 cavalrymen met a Troll force of more than 400 in the hills and rained neurotoxin-coated arrows down on them from higher ground.
• Allen’s cavalry killed every Troll in the encounter, losing seven men, and stacked the Trolls’ heads as a warning.
• A knight urged Allen to withdraw, admitting he feared his decisions could get them all killed, but Allen reassured him and proposed a trap.
• Allen told the knight that they would lure the Trolls into a nearby containment array surrounded by thousands of Thunderstorm Elementals.

After the Amani Trolls discovered their warriors had been killed by poisoned arrows, the warlord sent Gale and the Raptor Cavalry after Allen. Allen challenged them to a Sacred Duel, killed their first champion instantly, and faced a mounted Troll Berserker as he charged.

• The Troll reinforcements found their headless dead, and their Witch Doctors determined that poisoned arrows had made the warriors suffocate.
• The warlord ordered Gale to lead the Raptor Cavalry after the humans and capture their leader alive.
• Gale caught up with Allen and his cavalry, while Allen ordered his men to follow the plan and not interfere with him.
• Allen issued a Sacred Duel challenge, and a Troll Raptor Cavalryman accepted.
• Allen crushed the first challenger with a single blow from his greatsword, prompting Gale to send his deputy to fight mounted.
• The deputy charged Allen on his armored raptor as Allen refused to mount a horse.

Allen killed a Troll Berserker in a Sacred Duel while provoking Commander Gale, drawing the Trolls’ attention away from the Human Cavalry. The cavalry lured thousands of Thunderstorm Elementals toward the Trolls, and Gale ordered his forces to attack the approaching humans without realizing what followed them.

• Allen killed the raptor with a greatsword, then mocked the Troll Berserker and provoked him about the Amani Empire’s defeat by the High Elves.
• The Troll Berserker attacked Allen, but Allen split him in two, shocking Gale and the other Trolls.
• Gale failed to notice that the Human Cavalry had vanished, while the knight led them toward the Thunderstorm Elementals surrounding the sealing formation.
• The Human Cavalry fired flaming arrows at the elementals, enraging them, then fled toward the Troll Raptor Cavalry with thousands of elementals in pursuit.
• Gale saw the Human Cavalry approaching and ordered the Trolls to kill them, unaware of the elemental horde behind them.

Allen used the Thunderstorm Elementals to destroy the Amani Empire’s Raptor Cavalry, then killed Commander Gale and the last Troll riders with a rage-powered strike. The Human Cavalry began stripping the battlefield while one knight wondered what Allen would demand in exchange for teaching him the same power.

• Gale dismissed the Human Cavalry’s charge and declared that the Amani Empire would destroy Arathor and sacrifice Emperor Soladin.
• Allen revealed that the Human Cavalry had lured the Thunderstorm Elementals toward the Trolls, and the elementals devastated the Raptor Cavalry while human archers attacked those trying to flee.
• Nearly forty Human Cavalrymen died in the chaos, but the Thunderstorm Elementals withdrew after the Raptor Cavalry was almost wiped out.
• Enraged, Gale charged Allen with the six remaining Raptor Cavalrymen, and Allen killed them with a rage-fueled strike that carved a deep sword mark through the ground.
• The soldiers finished off surviving Trolls and stripped equipment from the corpses, while one knight wondered whether he could learn Allen’s power.

After defeating the Amani Raptor Cavalry, Allen sent his troops back and rode alone toward the main Troll army with Gale’s head to undermine enemy morale. In Stromgarde, Soladin dispatched two thousand cavalry to support Allen, while Artoria reassured him that the Trolls were the ones in danger.

• Allen ordered Gale’s head hung from a saddle and explained that he would deliver it alone to the Troll commander to shatter the Amani Trolls’ morale.
• Allen sent his eighty-seven surviving soldiers back to regroup while he rode alone toward the main Troll army.
• In Stromgarde, Soladin concluded that Allen intended to hold the Trolls in place and decided to send help despite his uncertainty about Allen’s plan.
• Soladin ordered a weathered middle-aged man to lead two thousand cavalry north, tie down the Trolls, and follow Allen’s orders if they made contact.
• Artoria told Soladin that he should worry about the Trolls rather than Allen, and her confidence eased his concerns about the war.

Allen confronted the Troll Warlord with Gale’s severed head, then escaped the Troll army after killing many warriors and wounding the Warlord. He returned to the fortified town, where he reported the victory and began planning how to exploit the Trolls’ lost cavalry, but Lyle warned that their poison supply was limited.

• The starving Troll army marched across the plains, and the Warlord learned that Allen had destroyed Gale’s Raptor Cavalry.
• Allen showed Gale’s head to the Trolls, declared that their era had ended, and called the Warlord doomed to defeat.
• The Warlord ordered his warriors to seize Allen, but Allen cut through the encirclement, scarred the Warlord, and escaped on horseback.
• Allen returned to the fortified town, ordered compensation and tax relief for fallen soldiers’ families, and told Lyle the Trolls would be unable to attack for a week.
• Allen proposed using horse archers to harass the Trolls, but Lyle warned that the town had enough poison for only ten to twelve thousand arrows.

Allen prepared poison arrows and planned to use them against the invading Amani Trolls, while recruiting a skilled young woman into his cavalry. At a wartime banquet, he told Al Barrowf he would harass the Troll army and proposed capturing hundreds of thousands of Trolls as slaves.

• Allen inspected the poison workshop, ordered at least ten thousand arrows to be poisoned within three days, and promised a worker he would avenge those killed by the Trolls.
• A young woman asked to join the army, and Allen assigned her to the cavalry for the upcoming march after learning she could shoot accurately from horseback.
• Allen welcomed nobles who had brought soldiers to support him, and Al Barrowf questioned the lavish banquet during wartime.
• Allen told Al Barrowf that his cavalry would harass the Troll army and that poison arrows would overcome the Trolls' regeneration.
• Allen invited Al Barrowf to discuss a plan to capture Trolls as slave labor, and Al Barrowf followed him to the study.

Allen joined forces with Ignatius and their cavalry to exploit the Trolls’ vulnerability to poisoned arrows and horse archers, devastating a seven-thousand-strong vanguard. The survivors fled as an Amani Troll Warlord arrived, and Allen warned Ignatius about the warlord’s witchcraft and toxins.

• Ignatius arrived with two thousand reinforcements, including a thousand Highland Cavalrymen, and learned that Allen had destroyed the Trolls’ Raptor Cavalry using Thunderstorm Elementals.
• Allen revealed his poisoned arrows made with Deathvine, and Ignatius recognized the plant as a toxin that had nearly killed him in his youth.
• Allen and Ignatius led their cavalry northwest and used circling maneuvers and horse archers to break the Troll vanguard’s shield formation.
• The Trolls’ vanguard collapsed after more than forty minutes of fighting, with over two-thirds of its roughly seven thousand warriors killed and the survivors fleeing.
• An Amani Troll Warlord arrived in a rage, and Allen warned Ignatius that the warlord wielded witchcraft and could use deadly toxins.

Allen and Ignatius planned a night attack on the Troll army using burning grease-laden boats and a released lake flood. As the demoralized Trolls camped, the ground began to tremble and a thunderous roar approached.

• Allen withdrew his cavalry after harassing the Trolls, and the Troll Warlord seethed at his unconventional tactics.
• Allen and Ignatius discussed the battle, agreed to share poison-making knowledge, and planned a night attack using burning boats and floodwater.
• Ignatius prepared crude fire ships while Allen’s Horse Archers harassed Trolls building their camp.
• The Troll Warlord’s adjutant promised that capturing a nearby town would restore morale, but the Warlord warned that human horse archers could become a major threat.
• The Troll Warlord felt the ground tremble, then heard a roar approaching like thousands of galloping horses.

Allen used a flood, fire, cavalry, and horse archers to devastate the Troll army, then harried it with a second surprise attack and smaller raids. Five days later, the exhausted Trolls reached Allen’s heavily fortified fortress, where they faced a difficult siege with few supplies or siege weapons.

• Allen destroyed the irrigation dams, flooding the Troll camp as burning boats and grease spread fire through the fleeing warriors.
• Ignatius led two thousand cavalrymen into the chaos while Allen’s Horse Archers fired volleys, and the two forces withdrew after inflicting heavy losses.
• Allen and Ignatius met at an abandoned village, exchanged tactical knowledge, and returned before dawn to raid the exhausted Troll camp again.
• Allen’s attacks and patrol hunts slowed the Trolls’ march for five days, leaving them hungry and worn out when they reached his fortress.
• The Troll Warlord saw the fortress’s layered walls, arrow towers, and swift moat, while Allen and Ignatius judged that the Trolls had little choice but to attack.