Chapter Summaries

Mordo’s plans to expand his magical school were interrupted when Allen’s Neutral Magic spread across Earth and the multiverse, awakening magic and empowering living things. Allen demonstrated that his new domain could absorb and transform his enemies’ magic, leaving Sithorn and Set preparing to flee as he confronted them.

• Mordo learned that his Holy Land had reached its safe limit of fifteen hundred apprentices and agreed to stop recruiting for now.
• Silver-gray Neutral Magic erupted across Earth, triggering magical awakenings, mutations, and turmoil while creating a protective barrier against otherworldly threats.
• Tony Stark asked Friday to assess the energy and summoned the Avengers after learning it had come from another dimension and might be connected to Allen.
• Allen explained that Neutral Magic could be used freely and absorb any form of energy, then converted Sithorn and Set’s attacks into a golden beam that burned them.
• Sithorn and Set agreed to join forces and prepare an escape, while Allen mocked their instinct to flee from a stronger opponent.

Allen killed Set by reflecting and converting his attacks through Neutral Magic, then absorbed Set’s corpse and the Sea of Serpents into his domain. Sithorn stood alone against Allen and began his final Dark Magic sacrifice after the other dimensional Demon Gods refused to join him.

• Set and Sithorn combined Neutral and Dark Magic to try to expel Allen from the dimension, but Allen converted Set’s attacks and sent them back at him.
• Set revealed his true form and unleashed seven attacks, which Allen reflected until Set was trapped in a self-consuming loop.
• Allen used the Infinity Stones and Neutral Magic to destroy Set and the Sea of Serpents, then compressed and absorbed them into his domain.
• Sithorn called on the watching dimensional Demon Gods to help him fight Allen, but none stepped forward.
• Allen mocked the other Demon Gods, and Sithorn admitted they lacked the courage to risk their lives before announcing his final Dark Magic sacrifice.
• Allen withdrew his Neutral Magic domain to let Sithorn proceed, and Sithorn transformed his body and soul into a colossal shadow.

Sithorn transformed Pluto Hisoka into the Great Demon Shadow and fought Allen in a battle over the rules of magic. As Allen contested him, Vilnalasath helped awaken Wanda’s Chaos Magic, setting her on a path to becoming the Goddess of Magic before Allen left the universe.

• Sithorn turned the dimension into his home ground and attacked Allen with endless Dark Magic while they struggled for control of magical rules.
• Vilnalasath reassured Wanda, Sakura, and Artoria, explained how magic domains worked, and advised Sakura and Artoria on their paths.
• Dark Magic and Neutral Magic energies flooded into Wanda as Vilnalasath opened a rift, and Sakura sealed her off while she tried to control the returning Chaos Magic.
• Vilnalasath told Allen through their Soul Link that Wanda’s Chaos Magic had been reactivated, and Allen revealed he had arranged it as a parting gift because she would not leave with him.
• The Vishanti watched the battle as Oshiet realized Allen’s Neutral Magic could draw many mages away from them and admitted the Dimensional Demon Gods bullied the weak and feared the strong.

Allen and Hisoka fought as Dark Magic eroded Hisoka’s consciousness, until Hisoka sacrificed his remaining power to reset them both to an earlier state and force a duel on equal terms. The chapter ended with the two clashing in a Roman arena, which their battle quickly destroyed.

• Vilnalasath’s presence distracted Hisoka, allowing Allen to regain ground as their battle continued for hours.
• Allen told Hisoka that Vilnalasath was his other half, while Hisoka’s growing Dark Magic power steadily consumed his consciousness.
• Hisoka unleashed reality-warping attacks on Allen, then used his remaining power to remove their abilities and trap them in a dark space.
• Hisoka explained that he had reverted their shared time, then challenged Allen to settle their fates in a gladiatorial duel.
• Allen praised Hisoka’s Dark Magic and accepted the challenge, and their sword fight destroyed the arena and killed its spectators.

Allen defeated Sithorn in their final battle by exhausting all his power in an arrow that overcame the Ancient god’s regeneration. Sithorn died, and the sealed space created by Dark Magic began to disintegrate, leaving Allen to face the dark sky through a newly opened fissure.

• Sithorn tried to provoke Allen into embracing violence, but Allen defended his humanity and explained that he hunted powerful opponents rather than helpless people.
• Allen told Sithorn he feared boredom more than death and prepared to end the fight with his strongest attack.
• Allen fired an arrow imbued with all his power and guaranteed accuracy, striking Sithorn in the chest despite his attempt to evade it.
• Sithorn’s regeneration briefly resisted the arrow’s destructive force, but his body disintegrated until he could no longer attack Allen.
• Sithorn died protesting that he had been only one step away, and Allen watched the Dark Magic space collapse as a fissure opened in the sky.

Allen defeated Sithorn and gained the authority of both Neutral Magic and Dark Magic, becoming the most powerful source of magic. After asking Oshiet to protect Wanda, he prepared to leave for another world and attacked the Hell Lords and Demon Gods hiding nearby.

• The black sphere shattered, and Allen emerged with Sithorn's power and authority while the dimension returned to its original size.
• Oshiet recognized Allen as the new God of Magic, and Allen gave the Dark Magic energy and dimension to Vilnalasath.
• Oshiet offered to discuss Vishanti's future with Allen, but he declined and asked her to protect Wanda, whom he said would become the true Goddess of Magic.
• Oshiet promised to look after Wanda, and Allen turned on the hidden Hell Lords and Demon Gods, killing their avatars and driving them to flee.

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.