Chapter Summaries

Li Weide and Miravia defeated Sebastian and Cain, but Miravia’s confrontation with Sebastian left her questioning her past and her right to judge him. Li Weide pursued the consciousness that escaped Cain’s body and found it entering the same Great Tomb he had visited in the Soviet Union.

• Li Weide’s Yang lightning struck Sebastian, weakened his vampire healing, and left Miravia to confront him while Li Weide pursued Cain.
• Sebastian accused Miravia of once pursuing power at any cost and recounted how Ominis had sacrificed himself to save her, causing her to drop her wand and doubt herself.
• Li Weide blasted Sebastian away when he saw Miravia falter, then killed him with the Killing Curse; Miravia found Sebastian’s sister Annie Saru at the scene.
• Miravia asked about Cain, and Li Weide said Cain’s body was destroyed but a strange consciousness had escaped; he left on Alduin to track it down.
• Li Weide followed the consciousness to the half-open Great Tomb where he had once rescued Slytherin.

Annie revealed how Sebastian sacrificed his Blood Heart to make her a Blood Progenitor, then attacked Miravia to avenge him. After Miravia countered her strike, the story shifted to Li Weide preparing a way to monitor the Great Tomb before leaving to seek help.

• Annie told Miravia that Sebastian had become a Blood Progenitor to save her, then gave her the Blood Heart so she could become one instead.
• Annie admitted she had let Sebastian die and planned to kill Miravia and eventually Li Weide for revenge.
• Annie pierced Miravia from behind, but the figure she struck dissipated as the real Miravia stood behind her and summoned thunder.
• Li Weide carved a magic array, set up a Two-Way Mirror facing the Great Tomb, and departed on Alduin.
• Li Weide considered asking an Eastern Daoist familiar with feng shui to investigate the Great Tomb.

Li Weide learned that Miravia had killed Annie, a powerful vampire and former friend, and brought Annie’s Blood Heart to Hogwarts. There, Slytherin and the others concluded that a consciousness entity from the Great Tomb had infected and killed Slytherin, and they decided to warn the wider wizarding world.

• Miravia told Li Weide that Sebastian’s younger sister Annie had been the Blood Progenitor, and that she had killed Annie after a fierce battle.
• Li Weide took Annie’s Blood Heart and heard Miravia say that the remaining vampires had fled to Australia, though Annie’s final warning might not be trustworthy.
• At Hogwarts, Dumbledore, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Headmaster Dippet examined the Blood Heart and discussed how a Great Tomb entity had fed on Slytherin before taking his body.
• Li Weide and the others examined the Obscurus and Slytherin, finding no sign that the entity had infected either of them again.
• Li Weide urged Dumbledore to alert others to the danger, and Dumbledore agreed to contact the International Confederation of Wizards.

Li Weide brought powerful wizards to the Eastern European ancient tomb using his transportation array, where they began inspecting the site. He introduced Zhang San to Liu Tao, who sought help reading the tomb’s feng shui, and Zhang San claimed he knew a little.

• Dumbledore gathered International Confederation of Wizards members at the Ministry of Magic, and Li Weide transported them to the Eastern European snow mountains with his array.
• The wizards examined the ancient tomb while Li Weide remained above, and Liu Tao introduced himself as the Chinese Ministry of Magic representative.
• Li Weide and Liu Tao discussed finding someone skilled in feng shui, and Li Weide suggested Zhang San, a descendant of a reclusive family.
• Li Weide summoned Zhang San, and Liu Tao warmly built a connection with him before asking whether he could read tomb feng shui.
• Zhang San said he knew a little about feng shui, reassuring Li Weide and Liu Tao.

Li Weide and the other wizards investigated the ancient tomb, discovered it contained a dangerous sealed force, and agreed to seal and monitor the area. After returning to Hogwarts, Li Weide found Tom waiting to ask whether his ancestor could be restored to life.

• Zhang San examined the tomb and concluded that a dangerous entity was sealed inside, so Liu Tao proposed sealing the site rather than disturbing it.
• Viktoria Santos arrived, and the wizards fought off black mist that surged from the tomb door before deciding together to seal the area.
• Brusky Yuriev arrived with Soviet Aurors, agreed to the plan, and assigned the Soviet Ministry of Magic to monitor the site while Li Weide reinforced the teleportation array.
• The wizards sealed the area and marked a hundred-meter boundary; Yuriev asked Li Weide to supply a monitoring device through Hydra Corporation.
• Back at Hogwarts, Li Weide found Tom drinking his tea and learned that Tom wanted to know whether his ancestor could regain a physical body and return to life.

Li Weide warned Tom that bringing Slytherin back to life might be dangerous, but Slytherin ultimately decided to accept death and asked Li Weide to burn his body. After helping the International Confederation of Wizards prepare a device to locate Australia’s vampires, Li Weide received Slytherin’s wand and agreed to respect his farewell.

• Li Weide cautioned Tom that resurrection might draw dangerous attention and urged him to learn what Slytherin wanted before deciding what to do.
• The International Confederation of Wizards commissioned Hydra Corporation to create a wide-area vampire detector, and Li Weide led the team that completed an invisible flying device in two days.
• Slytherin visited Li Weide, explained that Tom had asked whether he wanted to return to life, and gave Li Weide a Serpentwood Wand made with Basilisk horn for Tom.
• Slytherin told Li Weide that he had chosen not to return to life and asked him to burn his body.
• Li Weide accepted Slytherin’s choice as Slytherin left with the incense and prepared to spend his remaining time with old friends.

Tom received Slytherin’s Serpentwood Wand and considered how to treat his living father better, while Li Weide prepared to join the hunt for two vampire lairs in Australia. At the gathering point, Li Weide and Minister of Welfare discussed lucrative transport plans, leaving Grindelwald frustrated and Dumbledore defending Li Weide’s money-making.

• Tom received Slytherin’s Serpentwood Wand and wondered whether to give his Muggle father an expensive gift, before arguing with Li Weide and leaving his room.
• Li Weide told Miravia that the joint force had found two vampire lairs in Australia, and they set out with combat puppets to scout for traps.
• Li Weide and Miravia arrived in Australia on Alduin, while Hydra Corporation’s anti-vampire equipment was still on its way.
• Minister of Welfare dismissed Yuriev’s concern that Li Weide was raising a dragon, then joined Li Weide in discussing transportation investments and profits.
• Grindelwald arrived and grew frustrated when Li Weide and Minister of Welfare ignored him to discuss money, while Dumbledore said Li Weide needed to earn money for research.

Li Weide and the wizard coalition used anti-vampire equipment and Combat Puppets to destroy the vampire lairs, then debated whether vampires possessed their victims’ bodies. On the journey home, Li Weide and Mr. Potter spotted a Veela in France, and Li Weide said he wanted to raise a pure-blood one.

• Mr. Potter delivered the equipment from Britain to Australia by broomstick, and the Minister of Welfare promised funding and authorization for transportation research.
• Li Weide distributed sunglasses and Ultraviolet Wands, then sent Combat Puppets into the vampire caves to scout and fight.
• After a higher vampire destroyed the first puppets, Li Weide sent in stronger ones, and the wizards used their reconnaissance to wipe out the vampires and burn the underground lairs.
• Miravia suggested that vampires might possess people rather than transform them, and Li Weide considered the theory before setting aside the mystery of Sebastian and his sister.
• Li Weide flew home with Mr. Potter, stopped in France so Potter could buy perfume for his wife, and the two spotted a Veela; Li Weide said he wanted to raise a pure-blood Veela.

Li Weide and Mr. Potter encountered Apolline, a powerful Veela who claimed a prophetic dream had led her to Li Weide so she could join his rise to greatness. Li Weide fled with Mr. Potter, but Apolline appeared on Alduin’s back and confronted him for leaving her behind.

• Li Weide and Mr. Potter watched a Veela’s allure affect the street and hurried away when she seemed to follow them.
• The Veela Apparated in front of them, introduced herself as Apolline, and said she had dreamed that Li Weide would become a hero.
• Apolline explained that her dream had directed her to meet Li Weide at York Street so she could join him and share in his success.
• Li Weide transported Mr. Potter to the countryside and mounted Alduin, leaving Apolline behind as he warned that beautiful women could be liars.
• Apolline suddenly appeared on Alduin’s back and accused Li Weide of abandoning her, while he claimed he had been testing her prophetic ability.

Li Weide brought Apolline to Britain, received the Invisibility Cloak from Mr. Potter, and arranged help for the young werewolves. After Dumbledore told him he would receive a First Class Order of Merlin, Li Weide fell asleep and met the Death God, who said she wanted to take him to Hell.

• Apolline explained the limits of her prophetic dreams, and Li Weide arranged for her to stay at Hydra Corporation’s employee dormitory while he decided whether to trust her.
• Li Weide showed Mr. Potter the Elder Wand and Resurrection Stone, and Mr. Potter gave him the Invisibility Cloak for safekeeping and research.
• After returning to the Moving Castle, Li Weide learned Lucian had asked about the young werewolves and ordered the Puppet Researchers to brew Wolfsbane Potion for them.
• Dumbledore told Li Weide the Ministry of Magic would award him a First Class Order of Merlin the following month, and Li Weide went to sleep.
• Li Weide met the Death God in a dream, learned the Deathly Hallows had led her to him, and discovered she wanted to take him to Hell.

Death God took Li Weide to hell and explained how parallel World Lines, Ancient Magic, and the ancient tomb were connected. He revealed that Li Weide’s system came from another version of himself on a destroyed World Line, leaving Li Weide with the task of repairing it and becoming a god before the threat overwhelmed his world.

• Death God brought Li Weide’s real body to the Great Hell, where Li Weide saw demons gathered around a crack that drew out their consciousness fragments.
• Death God explained that countless choices created branching Timelines and World Lines, and that Ancient Magic could draw similar World Lines together.
• Death God told Li Weide that he was an anomaly from a world beyond Death God’s reach, and that his arrival had given doomed World Lines a chance to survive.
• Death God revealed that the ancient tomb was a passage formed when Li Weide’s World Line collided with the Great Hell thousands of years earlier.
• Death God said Li Weide could stop the destruction by becoming a god through his system, which had been sent back by a version of Li Weide from a destroyed World Line.
• Death God told Li Weide that the system had developed faults and that Li Weide would have to repair it himself; Li Weide asked how much time remained.

In the Great Hell, the Death God warned Li Weide that demons would invade within ten years and explained how he could repair his malfunctioning system by visiting Parallel Worlds. Li Weide accepted that he would have to abandon his conciliatory plans and become a ruthless Dark Lord to unite the world in time.

• The Death God told Li Weide that the demons would open the rift within ten years, earlier than in another World Line because Cain had fled into the ancient tomb.
• The Death God explained that Li Weide's system had malfunctioned because it could not recover Merit Points from Parallel Worlds, and that visiting other worlds could restore its calculations once recovery exceeded seventy percent.
• Li Weide realized that the system's Dark Lord goal was meant to help him unite the world, while the Merit System would keep him from becoming wholly evil.
• The Death God promised Li Weide a way to travel to Parallel Worlds and an anchor to return to the present, while limiting each trip to ten days to prevent changes in this world.
• Li Weide connected the sentient Gubraithian Fire named Lucifer to the Great Demon Lucifer and recognized that the Death God could not confirm the connection.
• Li Weide decided to abandon his gradual strategy and use radical methods to consolidate the world's power, even if former friends opposed him.

Li Weide learned that demons devoured living beings as World Source to grow stronger, and that Death God was struggling to protect the World Lines from the Great Hell. After realizing that demons killed outside Hell could die permanently and be forced to rebuild their ranks, Li Weide planned a counterattack, then returned to the human world determined to keep the plan secret and become strong enough to escape Death God's game.

• Death God explained that demons invaded World Lines to devour life as World Source, and revealed that the Great Hell's Lucifer was the same one who had defeated Li Weide.
• Death God explained that he used the souls of the dead to maintain barriers around Hell, and that the ancient tomb had sealed a crack through which demons could send consciousness projections.
• Li Weide learned that demons killed inside the Great Hell were reborn with their ranks reset, but demons killed in other worlds died permanently.
• Li Weide proposed attacking the Great Hell, and Death God acknowledged that Li Weide might be able to take the final step needed to make a counterattack possible.
• Li Weide awoke in the human world with a black Emblem Mark and the smell of Sulfur, realizing the crack could let beings travel between Hell and his world.
• Li Weide remembered Death God's warning not to tell anyone about their conversation, accepted that his coming actions might turn his former friends against him, and resolved to become a god.

Li Weide revived Slytherin in a young, powerful body while preparing for a calamity ten years away. After being dragged beneath the Black Lake, Li Weide entered a dry cave, and Hufflepuff began explaining to Slytherin how she had lived so long.

• Li Weide watched Tom Cat catch the Golden Snitch and lead Gryffindor to victory, then left the Quidditch stands.
• Li Weide gave Slytherin a suitcase containing a new body and said he had arranged with the Death God for Slytherin to return to the human world.
• Slytherin possessed the body, discovered he could not leave it, and decided to live again before accidentally walking into a wall.
• Li Weide weighed whether to tell Dumbledore about the Great Hell and resolved to trust the Death God's warning and proceed with his gamble.
• A tentacle pulled Li Weide into the Black Lake, where he emerged in a dry cave beyond an invisible barrier.
• Slytherin ate with Hufflepuff, who revealed that she had known he would be revived and could now explain how she had lived so long.

Helga told Salazar Slytherin that their master had secretly saved her and assigned her to wait for Slytherin’s resurrection and follow the orders of the person bearing a black Emblem Mark. Li Weide found Gryffindor in a cave, revealed his mark, and defeated him in a duel, winning Gryffindor’s respect.

• Helga explained that their master had healed her, preserved her with a Life Seed, and instructed her to wait until Salazar Slytherin returned and then find the bearer of a black Emblem Mark.
• Slytherin and Helga suspected Li Weide was part of the mission and heard someone approaching, believing the arrival was connected to their master’s plans.
• Li Weide reached the cave’s end, met Gryffindor, and showed him the black Emblem Mark that confirmed Li Weide was the person he had been waiting for.
• Gryffindor challenged Li Weide to a duel, and the cavern transformed into a vast arena.
• Li Weide countered Gryffindor’s sword-and-magic assault with lightning, Fiendfyre, animated metal swords, stone spikes, and a water dragon, eventually trapping him and forcing his surrender.
• Gryffindor admitted that Li Weide’s fighting style surpassed his own.

Li Weide reunited with Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff, explained what he had learned about the Death God and the coming demonic invasion, and gained their support. He proposed turning all humanity and other living beings into stronger fighters, leaving the founders to prepare for a radical plan that could provoke opposition.

• Li Weide defeated Gryffindor, earned his respect, and offered to improve Gryffindor’s sword before asking him for help.
• Gryffindor reunited with Slytherin and Hufflepuff, and Li Weide brought them to the Moving Castle to compare what they knew about the Death God and their teacher.
• Li Weide told the founders about the Great Hell and his previous World Line, then revealed that Ravenclaw had refused to return and that her copied consciousness was preserved in her diadem.
• Li Weide explained that the demons would invade in ten years and said they needed to unify the world’s power to survive.
• Li Weide proposed eliminating the divide between Muggles and wizards by making everyone, and even other living beings, stronger; Slytherin, Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff agreed to follow him despite the likely opposition.

Li Weide arranged for the Founders to stay at the Moving Castle and questioned Apolline about her prophetic dream of him addressing a crowd before a final battle. He entered a memory of the dream and found himself in a vast plaza, facing a platform with familiar people and a colossal Floating City hovering behind it.

• Li Weide explained to Slytherin that he intended to turn Muggles into wizards, then gave Slytherin, Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff Hydra Rings and arranged their new homes.
• Gryffindor and Slytherin headed to the Moving Castle's training ground, while Hufflepuff returned to Hogwarts to serve as Castle Administrator.
• Li Weide found Apolline overwhelmed at Hydra Corporation's front desk and asked her to recount the prophetic dream in which he appeared as a hero.
• Apolline described a huge crowd, a wrapped monster's head, and a celebration that felt like a final revelry before battle, then gave Li Weide the dream memory.
• Li Weide entered the memory in a Pensieve and saw himself on a platform with familiar faces, while a colossal Floating City hovered behind it.

Li Weide examined Apolline’s prophetic dream with Death God, who explained that Li Weide had begun pursuing godhood through Ancient Magic and the Spiritual Root. After making plans to strengthen the Floating City and win over potential allies, Li Weide returned to the Moving Castle, where Miravia demanded to know why Gryffindor and Slytherin had appeared there; he urged her to keep trusting his decisions without revealing the reason.

• Li Weide questioned why Apolline’s dream showed the Floating City, and Death God admitted she had added it to the memory and promised to give Li Weide accurate hints when appropriate.
• Death God said Li Weide had already begun the path to godhood by borrowing the power of gods, and Li Weide resolved to improve the Floating City and win over people who stood beside him in the dream.
• Miravia explained that Gryffindor and Slytherin had moved into the Moving Castle and that she had helped Gryffindor adapt his fighting style, but neither founder had told her why they were there.
• Li Weide arranged for Apolline to stay in the Hydra Corporation dormitories, sleep, and report her prophetic dreams; Apolline wondered why he seemed unaffected by her Veela charm.
• Miravia smelled a Veela on Li Weide when he returned to the Moving Castle and accused him of keeping one.
• Li Weide asked Miravia to trust his coming aggressive change in strategy without asking questions, and Miravia angrily accused him of messing with her.

Li Weide told Miravia about the Great Hell and the Death God, then decided to unite the world to stop the war and prepare for the coming invasion. He revealed a sealed plan to create a wizard army using biological cloning and consciousness creation.

• The Death God told Li Weide that Miravia was independent of this World Line and could be trusted with the truth.
• Li Weide explained the Great Hell and the coming threat to Miravia, who agreed to help him.
• Miravia suggested that Li Weide use the World War as a reason to unite the world and marshal its strength against the invasion.
• Li Weide took Miravia to his laboratory and ordered two Puppet Researchers to carry out the Troop Deployment Plan and related preparations.
• Li Weide revealed that he would use biological cloning and consciousness creation to build an army, leaving Miravia shocked by how much his plans resembled a rebellion.

Li Weide began preparing to unite the world by building up his forces, recruiting Tom Riddle, and exploring ways to empower Muggles. As he and Miravia strengthened themselves with Ancient Magic, Tom returned to the Moving Castle and met the resurrected Gryffindor.

• Li Weide launched the Troop Deployment Plan, expanded the grounds beside the Moving Castle, and ordered research into its weapons.
• Li Weide recruited Tom Riddle in the Room of Requirement, but concealed what had made him impatient to pursue world rule through more radical methods.
• Tom agreed to join Li Weide and began winning over Hogwarts students, helping shift the Mutual Aid Society's doctrine.
• Li Weide used Ancient Magic to enlarge a hole in his soul and strengthen himself, and Miravia copied the method.
• Li Weide and Miravia discussed creating a contagious, nonlethal disease that would turn Muggles into wizards.
• Tom returned the Serpentwood Wand to Slytherin and met Gryffindor, realizing Li Weide's ambitions might be greater than he had thought.