Chapter Summaries

The Witch Council learned that the Old Witch of Engeland had been killed by Rhine, while Maleficent sought details of his role in recent events. As Rhine and Aurora entered the White Kingdom, he recognized its Snow White connection and decided to pass through without investigating the Queen, whose Magic Mirror might draw him into Witch Council affairs.

• A Witch told the Witch Council that the Old Witch of Engeland was probably killed by Rhine, prompting Maleficent to demand information about his role in the West Asia Kingdom’s alliance with the merfolk.
• The Engeland Emperor ordered his Royal Pirates to avoid West Asia Kingdom ships, and Magridore offered to replace the dead Court Witch in exchange for support, promising secrets about a wish-granting Magic Lamp and the Land of Oz.
• Rhine and Aurora crossed into the White Kingdom, where Rhine learned that Snow White’s stepmother was the current Queen and might be the Witch Council’s Queen.
• Rhine decided to pass through the White Kingdom without investigating the Queen or her Magic Mirror, then wondered whether the Mirror would still call her the most beautiful in a world crowded with princesses and queens.

The Queen learned from her Magic Mirror that Aurora was the most beautiful woman in the White Kingdom and ordered a hunter to kill her. The hunter entered the forest to find Aurora, who was resting by a river with Rhine.

• The Queen questioned her Magic Mirror until it named Aurora as the most beautiful woman in the White Kingdom.
• After seeing Aurora riding with Rhine in the Mirror, the Queen decided to kill the stranger before the King could see her.
• The Queen summoned a hunter, gave him Aurora’s portrait and location, and ordered him to bring back her heart.
• The hunter accepted the mission and headed into the forest, while the Queen worried he might spare Aurora because she reminded him of his daughter.
• Rhine and Aurora stopped by a river to rest their horses and saw the hunter approaching with a dagger.

Angus failed to kill Aurora, confessed that the Queen had sent him, and received a pearl from Rhine before leaving. The Queen learned Aurora was alive at the Seven Dwarfs’ cottage, imprisoned Angus, and prepared to attack Aurora herself.

• Angus attacked Aurora, but her steel-hard skin stopped his dagger, and Rhine used a Crystal Ball to uncover Angus’s identity and family.
• Rhine confirmed the Queen had ordered Aurora’s murder, let Angus go, and gave him a valuable pearl; he also noted that Angus’s adoptive father might be important.
• The Seven Dwarfs invited Rhine and Aurora to their cottage, and the two children accepted.
• Angus returned to the Queen with a wild boar’s heart, but the Magic Mirror revealed that Aurora was alive at the Seven Dwarfs’ cottage.
• The Queen accused Angus of deception, had the guards drag him to prison, and began making three Black Magic murder tools so she could attack Aurora herself.

The Queen prepared poisoned gifts to kill Aurora, while worrying about her future and Snow White. Rhine decided to confront the Queen, but Aurora rejected the Queen’s disguised attempt to poison her.

• The Queen made a Black Magic ribbon, a poisoned comb, and Poison Apples, then stopped Snow White from touching the apples.
• The Queen worried that Snow White might someday become more beautiful than her and considered the dangers awaiting her as she aged.
• Slave Owner visited the palace looking for the Queen, but the Magic Mirror refused to answer her questions or reveal the Queen’s whereabouts.
• Aurora used household magic to impress the Seven Dwarfs, and Rhine learned from his Crystal Ball that the Queen had targeted Aurora because she was prettier.
• Rhine decided to stay and intervene, while the disguised Queen arrived at the cottage and offered Aurora a ribbon, comb, and apples.
• Aurora refused the Queen’s wares and shut the window.

The disguised Queen tried to kill Aurora with a bewitched ribbon and poisoned apples, but Rhine and Aurora were protected from both. The Queen ate a poisoned apple and collapsed, leaving Aurora to ask what they should do with her.

• The Queen sold Aurora a bewitched ribbon, but its strangling magic could not harm Aurora.
• The Queen offered Aurora poisoned apples, but Aurora only complained that the first one was sour.
• Rhine bought more apples and persuaded the Queen to eat the apple Aurora had left behind.
• The poison knocked the Queen unconscious and dispelled her disguise.
• Rhine explained Aurora’s protections, and Aurora asked whether they should kill the Queen.

Rhine and Aurora spared the unconscious Queen and traveled to the White Kingdom’s Royal City to learn how its people wanted her handled. They met Geppetto, whose foster son Angus had been imprisoned and sentenced to hang, and Rhine promised to rescue him.

• Aurora suggested killing the Queen, but Rhine argued that her death could plunge the White Kingdom into chaos and said she might be persuaded to change.
• The Dwarves advised letting the people of the White Kingdom decide the Queen’s fate, so they secured her in a Crystal Coffin before Rhine and Aurora teleported to the Royal City.
• Rhine and Aurora saw poverty, disorder, and soldiers abusing people in the streets, then found Geppetto pleading to visit his imprisoned foster son.
• After soldiers stole Geppetto’s pearl and beat him, Rhine used magic to turn their clubs against them, healed Geppetto, and pulled him away.
• Geppetto told Rhine that Angus had been arrested and would be hanged next week, and Rhine promised to rescue him.

Rhine planned to use the unconscious Queen and her Magic Mirror to repair the White Kingdom and deprive the Witch Council of its intelligence source. After granting life to Geppetto’s talking piece of wood, Pinocchio, Rhine teleported with Aurora to the royal palace to begin his plan.

• Geppetto told Rhine and Aurora that the new Queen’s rule had ruined the White Kingdom, and Rhine suspected the Witch Council was behind her rise to power.
• Rhine told Aurora he had a plan to restore the kingdom and take control of the Queen’s Magic Mirror, which the Witch Council used for intelligence.
• Geppetto introduced his talking piece of wood, which asked to be carved into a puppet so it could move like his adopted son, Hunter Angus.
• Aurora scolded the wood for speaking lightly about Angus’s impending execution, and Geppetto assured it that Rhine would save him.
• Rhine used his Grant Life ability to make the wood move and promised it could walk and run once Geppetto carved it into a puppet.
• Rhine said he would try to have the Queen order Angus’s release rather than break him out of prison, then teleported with Aurora to the royal palace.

Aurora used Mistaken Love perfume to impersonate the Queen and take control of the King of the White Kingdom. She introduced Rhine as her magical assistant, and the King agreed to keep the Queen’s supposed work secret and undisturbed.

• The King asked the Magic Mirror where the missing Queen had gone, then threatened to send the army into the mountains if she did not return by morning.
• Rhine and Aurora overheard the King and learned that only the Queen could use the Magic Mirror.
• Rhine gave Aurora Mistaken Love perfume, which made anyone who saw her believe she was the person they loved most.
• Aurora, disguised as the Queen, told the King she had returned and ordered him to keep everyone away while she studied magic and concocted potions.
• Aurora introduced Rhine as the Queen’s assistant, and the King eagerly welcomed the famous magician.

Aurora used the Mistaken Love perfume to make the King and Magic Mirror see her as the Queen, then discovered that Snow White also loved her as a mother. With Rhine’s help, she asked the Magic Mirror about the Witch codenamed Slave Owner, learning that the Witch came from the Land of Oz.

• Aurora persuaded the King to release Angus, compensate him, and honor Great Magician Rhine.
• The Magic Mirror accepted Aurora as its beloved Queen and agreed to obey her instructions.
• Snow White emerged from behind a screen, mistook Aurora for her mother, and embraced her.
• Aurora gently sent Snow White away before asking the Magic Mirror about Slave Owner’s identity and travel item.
• The Magic Mirror began answering and revealed that Slave Owner came from the Land of Oz.

Aurora and Rhine used the Magic Mirror to uncover more about the Witch Council, including the identity and location of its most dangerous members. After the mirror suffered a backlash trying to perceive the Founder, Aurora revealed Rhine’s plan to put it to work answering 1,024 questions.

• The Magic Mirror identified Slave Owner as the Eastern Witch of Oz and described her silver shoes, which let her travel vast distances instantly.
• The Magic Mirror said Red Heart was in a Secret Realm, the Middle Eastern Witch was in the Middle Eastern Country, and the Witch Council Founder was in the Far Eastern Empire.
• The Magic Mirror suffered a painful backlash and began cracking when it tried to perceive the Witch Council Founder, so Aurora stopped it.
• Rhine and Aurora concluded that the Founder was the Council’s most terrifying member and that the Queen and Sea Hag held the lowest standing.
• Aurora pretended to embrace a new purpose as Queen and Witch, then presented the Magic Mirror with Rhine’s list of 1,024 questions.

Aurora used the Magic Mirror to uncover corruption and overlooked talent throughout the White Kingdom, then persuaded the King to support sweeping reforms. Rhine was appointed Sage of the White Kingdom and planned to stay for two months as the ministers celebrated the kingdom’s renewed prospects.

• Aurora asked the Magic Mirror a series of questions about corruption, spies, criminals, and potential recruits, and it produced extensive answers.
• Rhine and Aurora learned that the kingdom was deeply corrupted, while the Mirror identified overlooked talents such as Herodotus.
• Rhine brought the King to the Queen’s chambers, where he saw the Magic Mirror’s records and heard Aurora explain their reform plans.
• Aurora’s persuasive voice convinced the King to support her efforts to reform the kingdom and reward Rhine.
• The King appointed Rhine Sage of the White Kingdom and granted him authority second only to the King and Queen.
• The loyal ministers heard that the Queen would use the Magic Mirror to govern and cheered that the White Kingdom was saved.

Rhine and Aurora’s reforms transformed the White Kingdom, restoring Geppetto’s pearl and freeing Hunter Angus while punishing corrupt officials. Two months later, the Witch Council heard that the Queen was governing with the Magic Mirror and worried about her sudden change.

• A corrupt officer accepted Geppetto’s stolen pearl from his soldier, but the Queen’s men arrested him for corruption and extortion.
• Soldiers returned the pearl to Geppetto, freed Hunter Angus, and told them the Queen was reforming the kingdom with Rhine’s help.
• Aurora told Rhine she wanted to become a ruler who could address widespread injustice, rather than a hero who saved only a few people.
• Aurora asked Rhine what she looked like to him while wearing Mistaken Love perfume, and he said she still looked like herself.
• Two months later, Maleficent told the Witch Council that the Queen was using the Magic Mirror to govern, and the Eastern Witch urged them to investigate.

The Eastern Witch traveled to the White Kingdom to test the Queen’s loyalty to the Witch Council and claim the Magic Mirror if necessary. In the Royal City, she learned that Queen Karen and Sage Rhine had transformed the kingdom, and she recognized Rhine as the mage who had thwarted the Witch Council before; she then turned back to punish the people who had answered her questions.

• The Eastern Witch told Maleficent and the other witches she would visit the White Kingdom and kill the Queen if she would not serve the Witch Council.
• The Eastern Witch traveled to the Royal City and noticed that the streets and patrols had changed under the Queen’s reforms.
• Commoners explained that the Queen and Sage Rhine used the Magic Mirror’s numerical attributes to identify talent, promote capable people, and expose spies and criminals.
• The Eastern Witch learned that Sage Rhine had helped the Queen and was the same mage she blamed for killing the First Witch of Engeland.
• The Eastern Witch headed toward the palace, then turned back toward the crowd and threatened to punish them.

The Eastern Witch killed more than a dozen White Kingdom residents, prompting the kingdom’s guards and Karen to investigate the atrocity. Meanwhile, Rhine and Aurora discussed Prince Henry’s possible role as Snow White’s Prince Charming and planned to awaken the real Queen before traveling to the Land of Oz, just as the Eastern Witch arrived at the palace.

• The Eastern Witch transformed people in the city into fish and killed them before leaving for the palace.
• Karen recognized the dead as his neighbors and vowed that the kingdom would find the murderer and deliver justice.
• Geppetto and Hunter Angus caught Pinocchio near the murder scene and explained that the victims were dead.
• The Eastern Witch announced herself at the palace gates as Witch Slave Owner and waited to see whether the Queen would receive her.
• Aurora asked Rhine about Prince Henry, and Rhine wondered whether Henry was Snow White’s Prince Charming.
• Rhine told Aurora that they would awaken the real Queen and then travel to the Land of Oz, but the King interrupted to report the Eastern Witch’s arrival.

After the Eastern Witch killed more than a dozen people in the White Kingdom, Rhine and Aurora learned her identity and resolved to eliminate her or take her silver shoes. They then set out to awaken the real Queen, while Prince Henry discovered her Crystal Coffin at the Seven Dwarfs’ cabin.

• Aurora rejected the Eastern Witch’s request to meet, and the Witch vowed to bring disaster to the White Kingdom.
• The Eastern Witch killed more than a dozen people by turning them into fish, and the Magic Mirror revealed her as the Witch Council member called Slave Owner.
• Rhine and Aurora decided the Eastern Witch must die or lose her silver shoes, and Rhine assured the ministers that even powerful mages would face the law.
• Rhine and Aurora vanished to awaken the real Queen, who lay asleep in a Crystal Coffin at the Seven Dwarfs’ cabin.
• Prince Henry entered the cabin, found the Queen in her Crystal Coffin, and marveled at her beauty.

Prince Henry tried to kiss the sleeping Queen, but his clumsy fall dislodged the Poison Apple and woke her. The Queen fled toward the Royal City, then summoned Slave Owner to help her get there faster.

• Henry tried to kiss the Queen in her Crystal Coffin while the Dwarves secretly watched, then panicked when they caught him.
• Rhine and Aurora revealed themselves, and Henry fainted after learning they had witnessed his attempt.
• Henry's fall knocked the Poison Apple from the Queen's throat, waking her and restoring her memories.
• The Queen fled the cabin, and Henry fainted again after his attendants told him she was the Queen of the White Kingdom.
• The Queen rode her Flying Broom into the forest, then contacted Slave Owner through a dressing mirror and asked her for help.

Eastern Witch lured the Queen into a forest clearing and tried to kill her, but Rhine’s command of birds interrupted the attack. Eastern Witch countered the birds with powerful curses and dark water magic, while the Queen remained in danger.

• Eastern Witch grew furious at the Queen’s earlier rejection and decided to kill her when the Queen contacted her for a ride to the Royal City.
• Eastern Witch teleported to the Queen and revealed her plan to kill her and imprison her soul.
• Rhine sent a vast flock of birds to attack Eastern Witch, forcing her to halt her assault on the Queen.
• Eastern Witch transformed the birds into animals that fell from the sky, then used Water of Inevitable Sinking to drag more birds into a lake.
• Eastern Witch recalled Madam President’s description of the spell as “Three Thousand Weak Waters Deep,” while the Queen remained nearby in danger.

Rhine used a flock of birds and a decoy to steal one of the Eastern Witch’s Silver Shoes, disrupting her ability to travel freely. The Queen escaped through the forest and reached the outskirts of her Royal City, while Rhine remained facing the Eastern Witch.

• The Eastern Witch called out the hidden magician, and Rhine revealed himself as a colorful bird to negotiate for the Silver Shoes.
• Rhine’s colorful-bird decoy drew the Eastern Witch’s attack while the real Rhine hid among the flock.
• A disguised bird brushed the Eastern Witch’s right Silver Shoe, allowing Rhine to take it with his magic.
• The Eastern Witch realized Rhine had tricked her and confronted him as he held her stolen shoe.
• The Queen fled on foot through the forest and reached the mountain overlooking her Royal City.

The Queen returned to the Royal City and found it transformed by reforms she could not remember making with Magic Mirror. In the woods, Rhine’s layered plan left the Eastern Witch facing a sword thrust from Aurora.

• The Queen flew back to the Royal City and was astonished by its clean streets and renovated districts.
• The Queen heard citizens and guards praise her rule and Magic Mirror, while officials asked her to decide kingdom affairs she did not remember handling.
• The Queen wondered whether she was still dreaming as the crowd escorted her toward the palace.
• Rhine examined the Eastern Witch’s Silver Shoe while she charged at him, and a disguised Big Dog attacked her from above.
• The Eastern Witch dodged the Big Dog and thought Rhine had run out of tricks, but Aurora stabbed her in the back with a longsword.

Rhine and Aurora fought the Eastern Witch after she transformed into a dragon to reclaim the remaining Silver Shoe. When the Witch took to the sky, Rhine used the Scepter of the Sea to turn her own Water of Inevitable Sinking against her, grounding her in the flooded clearing.

• The Eastern Witch transformed into a dragon and attacked Rhine, but Aurora protected him and fought through the dragon's flames.
• Aurora adapted to the dragon's attacks and grew more skilled at finding openings while Rhine distracted the Witch with birds and Big Dogs.
• The Eastern Witch flew out of Aurora's reach and cast a Transformation Curse, but Rhine and Aurora vanished to evade it.
• Rhine used the Scepter of the Sea to draw lake water beneath the dragon, triggering the Witch's Water of Inevitable Sinking and sending her crashing to the ground.
• Rhine spread the water across the clearing, preventing the Eastern Witch from flying as she angrily realized he had used her own magic against her.