Chapter Summaries

Kaisa visited Archbishop Erebus to negotiate for Evolution Star Potions to help Dominaria World resist Phyrexia, hoping to obtain them on credit despite the immense quantity required. Erebus welcomed him warmly, easing Kaisa’s tension as their meeting began.

• Kaisa assessed the luxurious reception hall and realized the Three Gods of Salvation Cult possessed extraordinary wealth.
• Kaisa considered how Evolution Star Potions could grant useful abilities and how many Dominaria needed to protect its forces from Phyrexian plagues.
• Kaisa prepared to negotiate with Archbishop Erebus, hoping to secure potions at a low price on credit.
• Erebus entered, greeted Kaisa warmly, and invited him to remain seated.
• Kaisa’s tension eased, and he praised Erebus’s renowned charisma in his thoughts.

Erebus spoke with Kaisa, who asked the Three Gods of Salvation Cult to supply Dominaria World with Evolution Star Potion on credit as it prepared for an attack by Phyrexia. Erebus welcomed the enormous order and asked how many vials they needed.

• Erebus read Kaisa's manner and judged that he had become more friendly, then asked why he had come to the cult.
• Kaisa said he represented Dominaria World and wanted to buy a large supply of Evolution Star Potion cheaply, with some of it on credit.
• Kaisa explained that Phyrexia was about to attack and offered guarantees from himself, Brigadier General Gu Fu, Christina, and eight other Planeswalkers, along with future services and proof of their agreement.
• Erebus realized the potion was practically effortless for him to produce and saw the wartime request as a valuable opportunity to sell it.
• Kaisa requested at least ten million vials, specialized to protect against viruses, diseases, and toxins.

Erebus agreed to lend Kaisa Evolution Star Potions on credit, adding more in exchange for help promoting them across worlds. Kaisa returned to Dominaria World with the potions, while Erebus began devising a broad distribution scheme.

• Erebus pretended to hesitate before agreeing to lend Kaisa ten million Evolution Star Potions on credit.
• Erebus offered three million additional potions if Kaisa and the other Planeswalkers helped promote them, and Kaisa accepted the condition.
• Erebus and Kaisa finalized their deal with a written Magic Contract.
• After Kaisa left, Erebus planned to recruit factions and powerful figures as distributors and develop sales manuals for them.
• Kaisa returned to Dominaria World with the potions, and Brigadier General Gu Fu praised him for securing them.
• Kaisa explained the joint declarations and Erebus's promotion condition, which the others considered a minor and generous request.

Dominaria’s leaders celebrated the Evolution Star Potion’s protection against Phyrexian viruses, while Tevish Shat secretly planned to undermine it as Yogmoth’s spy. Brigadier General Gu Fu exposed Tevish Shat and another hostile figure, and he and Kaisa arranged to put them together while Kaisa prepared safeguards for their Titan Engines.

• Over ten million Dominaria natives gained resistance to conventional viruses after drinking the limited supply of Evolution Star Potions.
• Tevish Shat recalled how Phyrexians had destroyed the world he once guarded, then secretly identified viruses that could weaken the potions for Yogmoth’s forces.
• Brigadier General Gu Fu detected Tevish Shat’s hostility with a Magic Ritual and signaled Kaisa that he had uncovered a spy.
• Gu Fu told Kaisa that a second hostile person was nearby and proposed putting the two on the same team so they would kill each other.
• Kaisa agreed and planned to place hidden safeguards on their Titan Engines.

The Phyrexian invasion of Dominaria World began as infected creatures poured through a breach between the worlds. Kaisa unleashed Dominaria’s White Mana defenses, but Yogmoth believed Phyrexia’s stronger Black Mana would overwhelm them.

• The black shadow spread across the sky as the nine Planeswalkers sensed a world drawing closer, and Brigadier General Gu Fu announced its arrival.
• The barrier tore open, releasing crimson magma and countless infected creatures from Phyrexia World into Dominaria World.
• Kaisa activated special war artifacts, firing millions of pillars of concentrated White Mana that purified weaker infected creatures.
• Enormous white metal pillars rose across Dominaria World and formed a vast barrier that weakened Phyrexian viruses.
• Yogmoth watched from Phyrexia World and judged that his superior Black Mana would let him suppress Dominaria’s defenses.

Yogmoth authorized the Demon Judges to deploy nearly all Phyrexian weapons against Dominaria World, and the Black Demon Judge launched a full-scale offensive. Ryss World awakened its colossal war machines, including the Worldspine Drake, while two other powerful modified beings were mobilized.

• Yogmoth ordered the five Demon Judges to concentrate their forces and use conventional and extermination weapons, while permitting most destructive weapons if necessary.
• The Demon Judges accepted Yogmoth's command, and the Black Demon Judge declared the full-scale offensive against Dominaria World.
• The Black Demon Judge's orders spread across Ryss World, awakening volcano-hidden Dragon Engines and Colossus Engines.
• The Worldspine Drake emerged from deep underground, revealed as a Primordial Drake that Yogmoth had subdued and transformed into a Demigod Artifact creature.
• The Black Demon Judge mobilized three other powerful modified beings, leaving one to guard the rear while two headed toward the battle.

Gu Fu and the other Planeswalkers faced a catastrophic surge of Glistening Oil pouring from the shadow gateway, which drove Phyrexia’s creatures and affected Dominaria’s forces into violent transformations. A colossal Worldspine Drake emerged from the gateway and unleashed a hurricane that flattened mountain ranges.

• Gu Fu remained wary of the seemingly reckless Phyrexian assault, sensing that Yogmoth’s expanding fate vortex foretold an ominous threat.
• A strange fluctuation from the shadow gateway unsettled nearby infectious creatures before a tsunami of Glistening Oil erupted from it.
• The Glistening Oil and black rain spread across the battlefield, driving Phyrexian creatures into berserk transformations and causing bizarre changes among Dominaria’s forces.
• The nine observing Planeswalkers cast spells to stop the oil, but a colossal head with glowing red eyes forced its way through the gateway.
• The enormous creature fully entered Dominaria World, blocked out the sun, and unleashed a black hurricane that shaved mountain ranges into plains.
• Gu Fu recognized the creature as a Worldspine Drake and grew grim.

Kaisa ordered the Titan Engines deployed when the nine Planeswalkers faced at least eight powerful Phyrexian opponents and the Worldspine Drake. Brigadier General Gu Fu moved to intercept the Drake’s devastating breath, and their attacks collided above Dominaria World.

• Kaisa recognized that her side was outmatched by the five Demon Judges and three other powerful Phyrexians, so she ordered the Titan Engines into battle.
• Nine Titan Engines appeared, and the Black Demon Judge admired their construction before ordering the Phyrexian forces to fire their spell-charged cannons.
• The Worldspine Drake gathered a civilization-destroying Dragon Breath, revealing its enormous body stretched into the astral realm.
• Brigadier General Gu Fu jumped his Titan Engine above the Drake and hurled a gigantic golden thunder spear toward its eye.
• The Worldspine Drake redirected its Dragon Breath into the spear, and the collision sent destructive shockwaves through the surrounding stars while Dominaria World’s inner core remained protected.

Brigadier General Gu Fu piloted Kaisa’s Titan Engine against Worldspine Drake, but the Drake swallowed him after he briefly seemed to gain the upper hand. Two days later, with their forces battered and the threat of Yogmoth looming, Gu Fu rejected Kaisa’s proposed final plan and urged him to rely on Clear Sky instead.

• Brigadier General Gu Fu used the Titan Engine and Doom of Fate to bind Worldspine Drake in spacetime and a web of magic.
• Worldspine Drake broke through Gu Fu’s attack and swallowed him in a fiery assault.
• Kaisa rescued Gu Fu from the Drake’s stomach, leaving him gravely injured and wrapped in bandages.
• Kaisa told Gu Fu that three of their nine Planeswalkers were seriously injured, while the battle had devastated Dominaria World.
• Kaisa raised a decapitation plan to infiltrate the Phyrexia World and kill Yogmoth, but Gu Fu called it suicidal and said they should rely on Clear Sky.

Kaisa abandoned his immediate decapitation plan against Yogmoth and returned to building Clear Sky while waiting for a World Tree Seed. Meanwhile, Yogmoth grew hostile toward Boer over the Evolution Star Potion, unaware that Boer’s breakthroughs came from Kojire’s secret help and that both of them were controlled by others.

• Kaisa judged his Soul Bomb powerful enough to kill Yogmoth, but Brigadier General Gu Fu repeatedly warned that attempting the strike would be suicide.
• Kaisa accepted Gu Fu’s opposition and resumed constructing Clear Sky while waiting for the World Tree Seed.
• The Demon Judges discussed how the Evolution Star Potion had made many Dominaria World natives resistant to Phyrexian viruses and diseases.
• After Tavis Shat told Yogmoth about the potion, Yogmoth studied it and tried to develop stronger viruses to overcome its effects.
• Yogmoth developed intense hostility toward Boer, whom he believed had created the Evolution Star Potion, while Kojire was secretly helping Boer produce it.
• The chapter revealed that Orsaga controlled Yogmoth and Kojire controlled Boer, making Yogmoth’s hostility futile.

Orsaga watched Yogmoth and Kaisa’s Destinies rise, judging that Yogmoth would likely need to be sacrificed before an Abyss Lord appeared. In Asgard, the ruby continued to corrupt the Valkyries in secret, turning newborn Valkyries toward the Crimson King while his followers waited for older Valkyries to succumb.

• Orsaga foresaw Yogmoth nearing his peak and judged that Kaisa’s Clear Sky could sharply reduce Yogmoth’s chance of victory if it was completed soon.
• Orsaga decided that Yogmoth could not be allowed to turn the tables, since he needed to finish his harvest before an Abyss Lord emerged.
• Orsaga turned his attention to the World Tree’s realms, considering the ripening fruit there a potential contribution to the sacrifice needed to open a passage for his main body.
• For more than a thousand years, Emiryna and Domilia made brief visits to Asgard without arousing suspicion about the ruby in Emiryna’s room.
• The ruby subtly influenced older Valkyries and twisted the Self-Awareness of newborn Valkyries, who secretly revered the Crimson King while continuing their duties.
• The corrupted Valkyries waited for the ruby to affect their elders and planned to help a few unusually resistant Valkyries join the Crimson King’s faction.

Mishir enjoyed tea prepared by her descendant Fennijane, unaware that it contained the Crimson King’s power. Fennijane also steered her away from sharing pastries that had been brought to Mishir and Phyllis.

• Mishir admired the flowers in her garden and asked Fennijane why she had recently taken up tea-making.
• Fennijane served Mishir tea made from buds of a newly cultivated Nottolo Tea Tree, and Mishir praised its fragrance and unusual flavor.
• Mishir offered to share pastries Emiryna had brought for her and Phyllis, but Fennijane declined and urged her to finish them herself.
• Mishir drank the tea without realizing it contained the Crimson King's power.

Domilia reported that the corruption of the Death Reapers’ and Life Shepherds’ queens was nearing completion, while the heroic spirits had already been corrupted. Orsaga ordered preparations to destroy the World Tree in twenty years, allowing ten extra years before the attack.

• Domilia knelt before Nidhogg in the Iffis Realm and reflected that the dragon’s apparent seal was only a cover for his growing power.
• Domilia told Orsaga that Phyllis, Mishir, and the upper ranks of the Goddess of War would likely be corrupted within ten years.
• Domilia reported that the heroic spirits in the Hall of Valor had already been corrupted.
• Orsaga ordered Domilia to prepare to destroy the World Tree in twenty years and allowed the heroic spirits to be deployed as needed.

Domilia carried out Orsaga’s orders while Nidhogg’s destructive power spread through the World Tree’s roots, threatening the Scoti Pantheon and the races dependent on it. Orsaga gleefully planned to fulfill his promise to destroy Airand and the Scoti Pantheon, even if he had to wait until their world perished.

• Domilia accepted Orsaga’s orders and returned to the Asgard Realm, eager to earn his trust through her accomplishments.
• Nidhogg’s power of destruction and malice spread unnoticed from the Black Dragon’s body through the World Tree’s roots and internal tissues.
• Orsaga’s corruption threatened the resources that sustained the World Tree’s inhabitants, including the Scoti Pantheon, whose Titanium Crystal came from purified World Tree sap.
• Orsaga laughed as he considered the harm his actions would bring to the Scoti Pantheon.
• Orsaga vowed to pursue Airand and destroy the Scoti Pantheon, even if he had to wait for the plane to perish and resurrect them afterward.

In Kaidheim Realm, Valkyrie grew resentful of the Scoti Pantheon and devised a scheme to move the Hall of Gods to Iffis Realm, near the land of the dead. He left to carry out the plan while Halva suspected he was plotting another prank but did not stop him.

• The chapter described how the Scoti Pantheon ruled Kaidheim Realm and gathered in the Hall of Gods.
• Valkyrie looked down on his fellow gods and blamed them for shunning him after his repeated malicious pranks.
• As Thorav and Halva competed in martial skill, Valkyrie decided to move the Hall of Gods to Iffis Realm and send it to the bottom of the World Tree.
• Valkyrie left the hall to enact his scheme, and Halva noticed his suspicious behavior but assumed he planned another prank.

Valkyrie used a divine-artifact bridle and a story about Spirit Horse—Windfer to lure Thorav out of the Hall of Gods. Halva suspected a trick but failed to stop Thorav, who ran outside to confront the spirit horse.

• Thorav and Halva continued their contest in the Hall of Gods until Valkyrie burst in.
• Valkyrie claimed he had caught Spirit Horse—Windfer but lacked the strength to tame it with his divine-artifact bridle.
• Thorav eagerly offered to tame the spirit horse himself and took the bridle.
• Halva suspected Valkyrie was plotting something and tried to warn Thorav, but Thorav ignored him and ran outside.

Thorav pursued the untamed Spirit Horse—Wunderfer across vast distances after it fled from him, while an Omen Road appeared near a human settlement in the Bitajia Realm. The local tribes gathered to face the unknown visitors who might emerge from it.

• Thorav recognized that Valkyrie had not tamed Wunderfer and presented it with divine artifact-grade reins.
• Wunderfer refused to be ridden, leaped over the courtyard wall, and fled at tremendous speed.
• Thorav waited before chasing Wunderfer, matching its speed with his Thunder God power.
• A day later, an Omen Road appeared near a human settlement in the Fetma Prairie Region of the Bitajia Realm.
• Human warriors gathered around the Omen Road, anxious about possible attackers but hopeful for valuable resources.

Socha prepared his settlement for threats from the Omen Road while considering an expedition into the unknown realm beyond it. The passage erupted with lightning and violent winds, sweeping people skyward as a terrifying divine presence descended.

• Socha watched the contracting Omen Road from a mountain peak and treated the gathered outsiders as potential combat strength.
• Socha ordered his deputy and the runemasters to finish defenses around the Omen Road before he organized an exploration team.
• The Omen Road began shaking, and the nearby people retreated while runemasters hurried to carve defensive runes.
• A blinding light burst from the passage, followed by lightning and violent winds that lifted hundreds and thousands of people into the sky.
• Divine might descended, and the surviving mortals trembled and fell to their knees in terror.

Thorav chased Spirit Horse—Windfer across the realms and caught it near the forbidden Iffis Realm, only to discover that Valkyrie had used the reins to teleport the Hall of Gods to his location. The Hall appeared beside Nidhogg’s territory, leaving Nidhogg wondering why its expected “takeout” had arrived before the twenty-year deadline.

• Spirit Horse—Windfer and Thorav raced through several realms, devastating the landscape and terrifying mortals caught in their path.
• After two days of pursuit, Thorav realized they were nearing the Iffis Realm and sped up to avoid violating God king Ailande’s prohibition.
• Thorav finally pounced on Spirit Horse—Windfer and secured the reins as it struggled beneath him.
• Magical runes activated on the reins, triggering a spell that transported the Hall of Gods and the Kaidheim Realm’s center to Thorav’s location.
• Thorav realized Valkyrie had tricked him, while Nidhogg stared in confusion at the Hall of Gods appearing near the Iffis Realm.

After Valkyrie secretly relocated the Hall of Gods, Ailande identified his prank and declared a reward for anyone who captured him, sentencing him to three thousand years of confinement. Halva questioned why Ailande had not moved the Hall back to Kaidheim Realm, and Ailande revealed that he was satisfied with its new location.

• Ailande used his Divine Eye to understand that Valkyrie had moved the Hall of Gods, but could not find him because he had hidden himself.
• Ailande announced that Valkyrie was responsible, and Tegrid and other gods demanded punishment for his prank.
• Ailande offered a reward to anyone who captured Valkyrie and declared that Valkyrie would be confined for three thousand years.
• Several gods set off to hunt for Valkyrie, while Halva approved of the punishment but wondered why Ailande had not returned the Hall to Kaidheim Realm.
• Ailande told Halva there was no need to move the Hall back because he was satisfied with its current situation.