Chapter Summaries

The Black Dragon drew on the World Tree’s accumulated karmic sins and battled its sealing measures, while Airand struck him with a golden spear that joined the World Tree’s power to imprison him in Isfe. Before vanishing beneath the land, the dragon named himself Orsaga, or Nidhogg, and vowed to destroy Airand and his people.

• The Black Dragon unleashed a vast Dragon Breath against the World Tree’s runes, plunging Isfe into darkness and silence while nearby realms suffered devastating disturbances.
• Scoti Pantheon gods urged Airand to attack the newly born dragon, but Airand judged that a direct assault risked the pantheon’s rule.
• Airand threw a golden spear at the Black Dragon, and its runes combined with the World Tree’s punitive measures to pin him to Isfe and seal him there.
• The Black Dragon broke free of the spear, found Airand, and declared that he would remember the injury and eventually destroy the god king and his people.
• The Black Dragon identified himself as Orsaga and Nidhogg before sinking into the land of Isfe.

After hundreds of years, Yogmoth activated Phyrexia’s Time-Space Teleporter and tried to return to Dominaria, but Rebecca’s isolation ritual blocked him. He sent his armies through the portal to invade another world instead.

• Yogmoth opened a passage to Dominaria with the Time-Space Teleporter and recognized the familiar world beyond it.
• Rebecca’s isolation ritual stopped Yogmoth from entering Dominaria, and he raged before withdrawing his power to spare his followers.
• Yogmoth reset the teleporter’s coordinates and sent a newly created Phyrexian creature through the portal to assess another world.
• After judging the world not particularly powerful, Yogmoth ordered the Demon Judges to lead his legions in destroying it and plundering its resources.
• The Demon Judges led the waiting Phyrexian and Divine Artifact forces through the portal in an orderly invasion.

After entering an unfamiliar world, Locke and Kras unleashed Glistening Oil to infect its environment and inhabitants. The Phyrexian invasion destroyed the ordinary world within a month, leaving it gray, corrupted, and lifeless.

• Locke landed in the primeval forest and questioned whether the Phyrexians should scout the world first.
• Kras used an energy-reading device to declare the world too weak to threaten them and ordered the attack preparations.
• Kras opened a sealed container of Glistening Oil, which spread into a black storm cloud and infected the rain, rivers, land, and living creatures.
• Tens of thousands of mutated creatures gathered as hundreds of thousands of Phyrexian flying units spread out to locate settlements and deploy more Glistening Oil.
• The Phyrexian legion advanced northward, killing or corrupting everything it encountered and turning the environment into a dead zone.
• Within a month, the world was ruined, with a gray sky, black oily land, and corrupted seas.

After three centuries of conquest and preparation, Yogmoth learned that the ritual barring him from Dominaria World had failed, allowing him to enter through a remote-controlled Phyrexian body. He discovered that excavators had removed two crucial components from an ancient ritual, creating the opening he had been waiting for.

• Yogmoth let the flawed Demon Judges train while Phyrexia World conquered hundreds of worlds and grew stronger.
• Yogmoth built special tubes in Phyrexia World to disrupt Planeswalkers’ teleportation, though their raids continued to damage his conquered worlds.
• Yogmoth sensed that the ritual preventing his entry into Dominaria World had failed and ordered his forces to focus on the worlds they already held before beginning the Holy War.
• Orsaga sensed the change and sent information to Imokku and the others, expecting the coming war to help spread Evolution Moss.
• Yogmoth remotely controlled a specially modified Phyrexian in an ancient underground ruin and found that excavators had removed two core components from the ritual.

Kaisa and Mishra escaped an empty underground ruin in Garidello City with only copied murals and writings. After entering Dominaria World again, Yogmoth chose to investigate its current situation before making war.

• Kaisa excitedly told Mishra that they had uncovered something valuable, but Mishra doubted their strange finds were worth anything.
• Kaisa and Mishra explored a huge underground space beneath Karos Cave, found murals and writings instead of treasure, and fled before other scavengers could discover them.
• Yogmoth entered Dominaria World and restrained his urge to launch an immediate invasion, wary of its formidable forces and changed circumstances.
• Yogmoth left the underground ruin and began a journey to investigate Dominaria World's current situation.

More than a year after finding two mysterious stones in Karos Cave, Kaisa and Mishra learned they were Sollan secret treasures that could affect Divine Artifacts and their makers. Unable to safely sell them, the brothers decided to teach themselves Divine Artifact craftsmanship using salvaged materials.

• Kaisa found a record identifying the Power Stone and Weak Stone as Sollan secret treasures, and called Mishra over to see it.
• Mishra and Kaisa realized they had each taken one of the stones from Karos Cave and celebrated their potential value.
• The brothers concluded that revealing or selling the stones was too dangerous and that they could not turn them into money for years.
• Kaisa proposed that they use the stones to become Divine Artifact Craftsmen, and suggested learning from materials and remains they had excavated.
• Despite Mishra's doubts about their limited literacy and the difficulty of the craft, he accepted Kaisa's proposal, and the brothers began teaching themselves.

Kaisa and Mishra’s rivalry over the Power Stone and Weak Stone destroyed their brotherly bond, and their teacher Tokashiya died while trying to mediate their conflict. Years later, Yogmoth found Mishra in his secret base and had Mishra’s own divine artifacts maim him, leaving his fate in Yogmoth’s hands.

• Kaisa and Mishra grew increasingly hostile over their refusal to give up the Power Stone and Weak Stone, while Tokashiya failed to reconcile them.
• Tokashiya died in a clash between the brothers, and after burying her, Kaisa left the desert while Mishra stayed behind and built their forces separately.
• Years later, Mishra researched in a secret base in the Faraji Region when Yogmoth arrived and revealed that he was the God of Phyrexia.
• Mishra tried to reach an escape measure, but his own divine artifacts attacked him, severing his limbs and leaving him bleeding on the ground.
• Yogmoth approached the helpless Mishra and said he would make him fulfill his purpose.

Yogmoth tortured Mishra, transformed him into a Demigod Artifact creature, and made him his servant. Decades later, Mishra and his brother Kaisa led vast armies into battle, while Kaisa noticed Mishra’s modifications but failed to recognize Yogmoth’s influence.

• Yogmoth tortured Mishra and revealed that he had helped create the Weak Stone.
• Yogmoth forcibly altered Mishra’s body and rewrote his Self-Awareness, making him a fanatical servant.
• Mishra absorbed Fallen Knowledge from the Phyrexia World and expanded his power with tireless artifact armies.
• Decades later, Mishra and Kaisa ruled powerful kingdoms and clashed with millions of artifacts and Divine Artifact creatures.
• Kaisa noticed signs of modification on Mishra but dismissed them as evidence that his younger brother had changed over time.

Kaisa uncovered evidence that Mishra had been altered and, after confirming he was no longer truly his brother, activated the super Divine Artifact Same Omen to destroy him. The weapon devastated the battlefield and continent, plunged Dominaria World into catastrophe, and destabilized its spacetime.

• Kaisa investigated Mishra’s strange research and learned that his interests and advanced creations had changed after an event seventy-six years earlier.
• Five years later, Kaisa fought Mishra and confirmed that the being before him was not truly his brother, though it might contain part of him.
• As his forces faced defeat, Kaisa accused Phyrexia World of destroying his blood kin and vowed to make them pay.
• Kaisa activated Same Omen beneath the battlefield and amplified it with the Power Stone.
• Same Omen annihilated the battlefield and vast regions, severed and sank the continent, unleashed disasters across the world, and disturbed Dominaria World’s spacetime.

Kaisa survived Same Omen’s catastrophic blast by awakening as a Planeswalker, while the disaster devastated Dominaria World and killed Mishra. In a distant time and space, Orsaga noticed the damage had affected surrounding space-times and began considering what Dominaria World’s hidden structure meant.

• As Same Omen struck, Kaisa’s senses transformed, the Power Stone and Weak Stone fused into him, and he became a Planeswalker.
• Kaisa instinctively withdrew into another space and entered a dormant state, leaving Dominaria World’s powerful beings unable to find him as they searched for the cause of the disaster.
• With witnesses and nearby factions wiped out, the circumstances of Same Omen’s destruction became nearly impossible to establish.
• Yogmoth learned that Mishra had died and, despite losing a useful agent, welcomed the damage Same Omen had inflicted on Dominaria World.
• Orsaga observed that the catastrophe had altered surrounding space-times and wondered whether Dominaria World was a weak point or important node in the plane.

Orsaga offered to help Cosmic Serpent - Koma destroy the Scoti Pantheon, and Koma demanded proof of his strength before agreeing. After preparing for their fight, Koma lunged at Orsaga.

• Orsaga offered to help Koma destroy the Scoti Pantheon so Koma could regain its peak state.
• Koma questioned Orsaga's identity and power, then proposed a fight as a test.
• Orsaga accepted Koma's challenge.
• Koma's warm-up movements devastated the Small Realm and killed its inhabitants.
• Koma swallowed the realm's sun, declared itself ready, and lunged at Orsaga.

Orsaga stopped Koma’s enormous collision with one hand and turned its force back against him, revealing that the feat came from combat technique rather than a special ability. Angered by Orsaga’s dismissive attitude, Koma formed a hypergravity field and began reinforcing his scales with matter and energy.

• Koma collided with Orsaga, who absorbed the impact with one hand and redirected it into Koma’s body, injuring him from within.
• Koma asked whether Orsaga had used a Special Ability, and Orsaga explained that he had relied on technique learned and developed throughout his life.
• Koma grew angry after hearing Orsaga dismiss the technique as a bit of skill.
• Koma generated a hypergravity field that drew in nearby matter and energy, crushing it into material that reinforced his antimatter scales.

Orsaga defeated Koma in a brief battle and persuaded it to join his plan. Koma accepted after realizing that its reckless attempt to swallow Orsaga had led to its defeat.

• Orsaga isolated the realm and struck Koma with a punch that caused it immense pain.
• Koma swallowed Orsaga and a vast stretch of land, then flooded its stomach with corrosive gastric acid.
• Orsaga used an avatar to unleash crimson flames inside Koma, burning through its body as it struggled.
• Koma's forehead burst, and a smaller snake escaped before the giant body burned to dust.
• Orsaga reappeared and explained his trick, and Koma agreed to join his plan.

Orsaga covertly empowered Phyrexia World, while Yogmoth created a new world as a staging ground for invading Dominaria. Kaisa awakened as a Planeswalker and resolved to avenge Mishra, but lacked Phyrexia’s coordinates and avoided a hopeless attack.

• Orsaga’s influence filled Phyrexians with drive and inspiration, preventing them from recognizing that anything was wrong.
• Yogmoth prepared an invasion of Dominaria and created a new world of magma between it and Phyrexia as a backup and staging ground.
• Kaisa awoke in a space-time interlayer with the Power Stone and Weak Stone embedded in his eyelids and realized he had become a Planeswalker.
• Kaisa vowed to avenge Mishra and felt confident in his new power, but he did not know Phyrexia’s coordinates and could not attack it.
• Kaisa’s newborn strength would not have been enough to survive against Yogmoth’s Demon Judges.

Kaisa returned to Dominaria World and discovered the devastation caused by detonating Same Omen, then spent centuries investigating Phyrexia while honing his powers. He finally reached Ryss World, where he attacked its forces after recognizing the Divine Artifact creatures as technology connected to Mishra.

• Kaisa returned to Dominaria World and found its land transformed into a frozen swamp surrounding a vast sinkhole where he had fought Mishra.
• Kaisa realized that detonating Same Omen had caused catastrophic damage and deaths, then left his ruined homeland and concealed his identity as a Divine Artifact Craftsman.
• Over several centuries, Kaisa honed his Planeswalker powers and secretly investigated Phyrexia World until he obtained Ryss World's Spacetime Coordinate.
• Kaisa forced his way into Ryss World despite Yogmoth's preparations to disrupt spacetime, appearing before a Phyrexian patrol.
• Dragon Engines attacked Kaisa with volleys of rounds, but he detonated them with lightning and crushed the nearby Phyrexians.
• Kaisa recognized the Dragon Engines' construction as technology Mishra had used and declared that he had finally found his target.

Kaisa entered Ryss World to investigate the Phyrexians and discovered an enormous force of powerful Divine Artifact creatures. Three Demon Judges confronted him and began secretly preparing to prevent his escape.

• Kaisa saw that many Divine Artifact creatures had survived his attack and realized the Phyrexians possessed more powerful models than he had expected.
• Kaisa sensed a large gathering of beings and moved toward what he suspected was the Phyrexians' main stronghold.
• The three Demon Judges learned that a patrol squad had vanished and agreed to attack the intruder before he could reveal the planned invasion of Dominaria World.
• Kaisa discovered more than a hundred thousand powerful Divine Artifact creatures in Ryss World and recognized the danger they posed to Dominaria World.
• The Demon Judges ambushed Kaisa, identified him as a Planeswalker, and secretly began preparing a spell to block his spatial-temporal teleportation.

After Kaisa escaped the Demon Judges, Yogmoth learned that his former creation had become a Planeswalker and ordered a merciless hunt. Decades later, as Ryss World neared Dominaria, Kaisa and nine Planeswalkers prepared to face the approaching threat.

• The Black Demon Judge reported that Kaisa had escaped after a sudden weakening of the Demon Judges allowed him to flee.
• Yogmoth recognized Kaisa and the Power Stone and Weak Stone in his eyes, realized the stones had weakened his creations, and ordered his forces to kill Kaisa cruelly.
• Two Demon Judges led a hunting party of Divine Artifact creatures across multiple worlds to pursue Kaisa.
• Over the following decades, Kaisa fled Phyrexia’s pursuit, and Phyrexia destroyed several worlds where he had hidden.
• On a plain in Dominaria, Kaisa told his companion that Ryss World would connect with Dominaria in two or three days.
• Brigadier General Gu Fu identified the approaching shadow as another world and reflected on Yogmoth’s growing power as nine Planeswalkers gathered in Dominaria.

Brigadier General Gu Fu warned Bo. Riva and Kaisa that Yogmoth had become the multiverse’s strongest Black Mana Spellcaster and that surrender would doom Dominaria World. He said Kaisa was the key to defeating Yogmoth, leaving Kaisa bewildered by the claim.

• Bo. Riva asked Brigadier General Gu Fu to predict their chances of victory, and Kaisa listened eagerly.
• Brigadier General Gu Fu described Yogmoth as a terrifying force who consumed fates and had grown immensely powerful after merging with Phyrexia.
• Bo. Riva doubted Gu Fu’s assessment, but Gu Fu said repeated divinations confirmed Yogmoth was the strongest Black Mana Spellcaster.
• Bo. Riva suggested surrendering, but Gu Fu warned they would be transformed into artifact creatures and Yogmoth would become the King of Darkness.
• Brigadier General Gu Fu declared Kaisa was fated to counter Yogmoth and was the key to wearing him down, leaving Kaisa confused.

Kaisa explained that the nearly completed Titan Engines could provide decisive support against Phyrexia World, while Brigadier General Gu Fu revealed that a shortage of a rare potion was obstructing the effort. Kaisa offered to negotiate for it, and Gu Fu identified it as the Star of Evolution from Huai Sha World.

• Kaisa described the Titan Engines, enormous weapons designed to destroy enemies and bolster the morale of Dominaria World's troops.
• Brigadier General Gu Fu said that the Titan Engines were nearly finished but that scarce reserve resources had made other supplies difficult to obtain.
• Kaisa asked what item they needed and offered to seek a trade using Divine Artifacts or Divine Artifact creatures.
• Brigadier General Gu Fu explained that they needed the Star of Evolution, a potion from Huai Sha World that granted abilities such as Limb Regeneration, Toxin Adaptation, and Rapid Recovery.

Ranika World’s Three Gods of Salvation Cult controlled a major market through its lucrative Star of Evolution potion trade. When Erebus received word of a major deal, he left a meeting with the Ten Great Guilds, while his history as a cunning religious schemer was revealed.

• The Three Gods of Salvation Cult prospered in Ranika World by selling Star of Evolution potions under exclusive distribution rights granted by Boer.
• Archbishop Erebus met with representatives of the Ten Great Guilds for routine business discussions.
• A black-robed figure whispered news of a major deal to Erebus, who excused himself and handed the representatives over to Bishop Ayer.
• Erebus had been summoned by Orsaga to help Imokku establish the cult, and he built its influence through manipulation, religious conflict, and a carefully crafted saintly image.