Chapter Summaries

Waver and Iskandar discussed Kenneth’s defeat before Wes invited them to drink at an abandoned shrine in Fuyuki City. As Wes poured wine, Golden Flash suddenly appeared and confronted them.

• Waver doubted that his teacher had gone back, and Iskandar confirmed that Kenneth had lost to Lancer.
• Waver questioned whether he could survive the Holy Grail War, but Iskandar reassured him that they would win.
• Wes appeared at the airport and invited Iskandar and Waver for a drink; Iskandar accepted.
• Wes cleared a ruined shrine’s grounds with magic and set out tables and chairs for their gathering.
• Wes praised Iskandar’s influence over Waver and poured three cups of fine wine.
• Golden Flash appeared in a burst of golden light and looked down on Wes, Iskandar, and Waver with contempt.

Wes, Iskandar, and Golden Flash shared wine and discussed why they had entered the Holy Grail War. The gathering ended with the three facing off, ready for battle.

• Wes invited Golden Flash and Iskandar to drink wine preserved by the people of Asgard for God King Odin.
• Iskandar praised the wine, and Golden Flash reluctantly admitted it was good before offering a jar from his Gate of Babylon.
• Iskandar said he wanted to regain a physical body and conquer the world, while Wes said he sought The Root to advance magic.
• Golden Flash offered the Holy Grail if Wes and Iskandar submitted to him, but both refused.
• Golden Flash stood, and he, Iskandar, and Wes took positions in a tense triangle, prepared to fight.

Iskandar summoned his legendary army with Army of the King and prepared to face the battle ahead. Waver used all three of his Command Spells to order Iskandar to win the war.

• Iskandar transported himself, Waver, Golden Flash, and their surroundings into a desert battlefield with Army of the King.
• Iskandar summoned tens of thousands of Heroic Spirits, including his former followers and Bucephalus, to fight beside him.
• Waver admired Iskandar but feared for his safety as the army looked to its king for battle.
• Iskandar set Waver down and told him to survive, saying the coming battle was his alone.
• Waver used all three Command Spells to order Iskandar to win the war.

Iskandar led his army and Wes in an attack on Golden Flash, who countered with his Noble Phantasms and Chains of Heaven. Iskandar’s chariot charge injured and briefly paralyzed Golden Flash, but Golden Flash retaliated with Enuma Elish, and the chapter ended as Iskandar tried to evade his pursuit.

• Iskandar rallied tens of thousands of Heroic Spirits and led them charging at Golden Flash.
• Golden Flash launched countless Noble Phantasms, but Wes stopped them in midair and challenged him to fight them both.
• Golden Flash unleashed the Chains of Heaven, and Wes pinned them down with iron rods long enough for Iskandar to attack.
• Iskandar charged Golden Flash in his chariot, shattered his shield, and struck him with lightning.
• Golden Flash slashed at Iskandar with Enuma Elish, splitting the space behind him, but Iskandar dodged and pulled his chariot into the air.
• Golden Flash pursued the fleeing Iskandar.

Gilgamesh used Vimana and Enuma Elish to destroy Iskandar’s divine bull and chariot, then mocked Iskandar and his army. Iskandar rallied his surviving soldiers and charged Gilgamesh on Bucephalus.

• Gilgamesh caught Iskandar in Vimana and struck his divine bull and Chariot of the Divine with Enuma Elish, sending Iskandar falling from the sky.
• Golden Flash pursued Iskandar, but an arrow barrage intercepted him long enough for Iskandar to land and regroup.
• Golden Flash deflected the soldiers’ arrows and dismissed Iskandar’s army as worthless.
• Golden Flash sent the Chains of Heaven through the ranks, scattering soldiers while Iskandar watched his legion be insulted.
• Iskandar mounted Bucephalus and led his tens of thousands of soldiers in a charge toward Golden Flash.

Wes allowed Golden Flash to defeat Iskandar so the Holy Grail would descend, then revealed the Grail’s corrupted Black Mud and tested whether the Mind Stone could absorb it. As the Mind Stone consumed the malice, Golden Flash became captivated by it and demanded that Wes hand it over.

• Golden Flash used Enuma Elish to destroy Iskandar’s army and fatally wound Iskandar, who stopped Waver from healing him and returned to the Throne of Heroes.
• Golden Flash turned on Wes, but Wes revealed and erased Berserker, causing the Greater Grail to appear beneath Ryuudou Temple.
• The contaminated Holy Grail released Black Mud that flooded the shrine and began spreading across the city.
• Wes used the Mind Scepter to repel the Black Mud, then let the Mind Stone absorb it.
• Golden Flash admired the Mind Stone and demanded that Wes return it to him.

Wes consumed the last of the Black Mud with the Mind Stone, trapped Golden Flash in an illusion, and used the Holy Grail to witness the Root, suffering an overwhelming mental backlash. He escaped to Marvel’s universe aboard Thor’s ship, set course for Xandar, and then remembered Kariya Matou and Sakura Matou, bringing them aboard.

• The Mind Stone devoured the remaining Black Mud, and Wes trapped Golden Flash in an illusory world.
• Wes wished through the Holy Grail to witness the Root, receiving a flood of knowledge that left him in severe pain.
• Wes returned to the Marvel world before Golden Flash could escape the illusion and recovered aboard the golden spaceship Thor had given him.
• Wes decided to head for Xandar as his first stop for contact with cosmic civilizations.
• Wes opened a rift and brought Kariya Matou and Sakura Matou onto the ship, where they saw the starry sky outside.

Wes traveled with Kariya Matou and Sakura Matou to Xandar, where Sakura admired the stars before falling asleep during the journey. After arriving, Wes explored the orderly spaceport and the city’s advanced technology, leaving him in the midst of Xandar’s bustling alien metropolis.

• Sakura Matou watched the stars with Kariya Matou, but the long journey soon made her sleepy.
• Wes warned Kariya Matou and Sakura Matou to return to the ship before making a wormhole jump.
• Wes guided the ship through the wormhole and arrived at Xandar.
• Wes parked at Xandar’s enormous, orderly port and received high-tech glasses that translated languages and provided travel information.
• Wes entered Xandar’s city and saw its diverse alien residents, towering buildings, and advanced transportation.

Wes explored Xandar, bought a maintenance robot, and used star charts to travel to The Void. After destroying a ship that attacked him, he docked at the dangerous port, where even pirates followed rules.

• Frigga had opened an account for Wes and transferred money to fund his travels.
• Wes explored Xandar and bought a lifelike maintenance robot to follow him.
• Wes bought star charts from adventurers at a bar and chose The Void as his next destination.
• Wes arrived at The Void, where ships fought amid the chaos surrounding a gigantic Celestial Head.
• When a ship demanded his position and fired on him, Wes's ship blocked the attack and destroyed it with a golden beam.
• Wes docked at the port, where he followed The Void's rule that visitors had to keep the peace inside.

Wes entered the Void’s Black Market after learning its location from Little Red’s memories, hoping to find something he needed. After hours of searching without success, he followed Anya, one of the market’s people in charge, who offered to show him better goods.

• Wes used his power to read Little Red’s memories, then left as Little Red attacked his companions.
• Wes found the Black Market’s entrance and paid the admission fee to enter.
• Wes wandered among the market’s illegal goods but found nothing that interested him.
• Anya approached Wes and introduced herself as one of the Black Market’s people in charge.
• Anya offered to show Wes better goods, and Wes decided to follow her.

Anya led Wes to the luxurious underground Black Market, where he bought rare materials before returning to his created space. There, Wes began transforming the land by expanding it and shaping mountains, rivers, forests, glaciers, basins, and deserts.

• Anya explained that Wes’s ship was one only Asgard’s Royal Family could board, and she brought him to the real Black Market beneath the surface.
• Wes explored the Black Market, recognized The Collector as its owner, and bought several rare materials until most of his money was spent.
• Anya was delighted by Wes’s spending because she earned a commission for bringing him there.
• Wes returned to his space, settled Jandi, Kariya Matou, and Sakura Matou, and began expanding the land.
• Wes shaped mountains and rivers, grew forests from scattered seeds, and created glaciers, basins, and a desert.

Wes completed and refined a small world and built a Mage Tower capable of withstanding the Reality Stone. He then began fulfilling his promise to Kariya Matou by removing the Crest Worms from Sakura Matou, and she landed peacefully after the procedure.

• Wes shaped the terrain and weather of his new space and raised a nine-story Mage Tower from rare materials.
• Wes placed the Reality Stone in the Mage Tower's control console, and the tower endured its power.
• Wes reassured Kariya Matou and led Sakura Matou into a Magic Circle to begin removing the Crest Worms.
• Wes used silver threads to find and crush the Crest Worms throughout Sakura Matou's body.
• Sakura Matou drifted gently to the ground ten minutes later, calm and peaceful.

Wes freed Sakura Matou and Kariya Matou from their Crest Worms, but Kariya Matou remained gravely ill and chose to return to Fuyuki City with Sakura. After Wes reached Wizard level 7, news of the Collector’s bounty on the Cosmic Orb drew him back to The Void.

• Wes removed the Crest Worms from Sakura Matou, and she embraced Kariya Matou in gratitude.
• Wes cleared the many Crest Worms from Kariya Matou and gave him a potion that could only keep him alive temporarily.
• Wes left Kariya Matou and Sakura Matou to talk, then spent several days organizing magical knowledge in the library and reached Wizard level 7.
• Kariya Matou asked Wes to return him and Sakura Matou to Fuyuki City so he could reunite her with her mother.
• Wes sent Kariya Matou and Sakura Matou to Fuyuki City, then returned to The Void after hearing that the Collector had placed a bounty on the Cosmic Orb.

Wes waited in The Void as Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, Groot, and Drax clashed over the Cosmic Orb and then joined forces against the bounty hunters. Just as the exhausted group was surrounded, hundreds of warships arrived and opened fire on everyone below.

• Wes waited in The Void for Star-Lord to arrive with the Power Stone inside the Cosmic Orb.
• Gamora took the Cosmic Orb from Rocket, and Star-Lord intervened, sparking a fight among Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, Groot, and Drax.
• Ravager squads and The Void's guards surrounded the five, forcing them to work together and drive back hundreds of attackers.
• More pirates and bounty hunters overwhelmed the group, leaving them exhausted and surrounded.
• Hundreds of warships appeared overhead and attacked both Star-Lord's group and the Ravagers.

Ronan led the Kree to The Void to seize the Cosmic Orb, launching an attack that forced the Ravagers and local defenders to fight back. When Ronan attacked Gamora, Drax blocked him and demanded to know why Thanos had not come.

• Ronan learned the Cosmic Orb was on The Void and ordered Kree ships to land.
• The Kree attacked everyone they encountered, and the Ravagers, space pirates, and guards joined forces to resist.
• Gamora, Star-Lord, and Rocket fought the Kree while trying to escape, and Gamora questioned how Ronan had learned about the Orb.
• Ronan received the Orb's coordinates, found Gamora, and accused her of betraying Thanos.
• Ronan struck at Gamora with his warhammer, but Drax blocked the attack and demanded to know where Thanos was.

The Guardians and the other defenders struggled against Ronan and the Kree, who destroyed the ships and devastated The Void before looting it. As Wes prepared to seize the Cosmic Orb, a hidden voice behind him revealed that someone had been watching his decision.

• Drax admitted that he had drawn the Kree to The Void, angering Gamora, Rocket, and Groot.
• The Guardians held off Ronan and the Kree long enough for the others to launch a counterattack.
• Ronan ordered the Kree mothership to destroy the Ravager and space pirate ships, then bombard The Void.
• The Kree plundered The Void while The Collector remained absent, leaving Wes to wonder why he had not intervened.
• Wes decided to seize the Cosmic Orb, but an unseen person spoke from behind him and startled him.

Wes encountered The Collector, who said Wes’s appearance had made the future uncertain, then vanished. Wes joined the battle for the Power Stone and froze the Kree’s elite Slaughterers, while the Kree fleet remained in the fight.

• Wes layered shields around himself and discovered that the stranger was The Collector, who said he had seen Wes in countless futures and wanted to collect him.
• Wes attacked The Collector, but the black ray was deflected; The Collector then vanished, leaving Wes puzzled about his warnings and apparent wariness.
• Wes decided to pursue the Power Stone to strengthen himself and entered the battlefield against the Kree.
• Wes used Light Magic Rain to destroy Kree ships, but their detectors revealed his position and their artillery barrage left him unharmed.
• Wes used gravity manipulation to send Kree spacecraft crashing down, but the fleet activated anti-gravity devices and deployed its Slaughterers.
• Wes cast Blizzard, slowing the charging Slaughterers until the freezing wind encased them in ice.

Wes annihilated the Kree Slaughterers while Ronan battled Star-Lord and the others. Nebula stopped Gamora from killing Ronan and claimed her sister as her own target.

• Wes killed hundreds of Slaughterers with a thin thread, leaving their adjutant devastated.
• Ronan learned of the Slaughterers' deaths and attacked Star-Lord, Drax, Groot, Rocket, and Gamora more furiously.
• Ronan knocked Drax and Groot aside, resisted Rocket's bombs, and kicked Rocket away.
• Gamora nearly stabbed Ronan in the eye, but Nebula blocked her dagger.
• Ronan struck Gamora and sent her flying, then Nebula stopped him and moved to confront her sister.

Wes stole the Cosmic Orb from Star-Lord during the battle in The Void and escaped the pursuing Kree. On a secluded prehistoric planet, he prepared to study the Power Stone and opened the Orb to reveal it.

• Nebula attacked Gamora while Drax, Groot, and Star-Lord fought Ronan, but Wes restrained Star-Lord and took the Cosmic Orb.
• Ronan charged after Wes, who used magic to delay him before teleporting back to his spaceship with the Orb.
• Groot rescued his companions from a swamp, and the Kree withdrew from The Void to pursue Wes; Nebula abandoned her attack on Gamora and left with them.
• Star-Lord told Gamora that Wes had taken the Orb, prompting Rocket and the others to argue over their lost bounty.
• Wes escaped the Kree in a space jump and traveled to a remote planet recorded by the Asgardians.
• Wes concealed himself with a Magic Circle, opened the Cosmic Orb, and revealed the glowing Power Stone.

Wes endured the Power Stone’s energy and evolved, reaching Wizard level 9 with immense physical strength. He expanded his space and considered recruiting people to manage it, while hoping Kingpin had prepared the items he needed.

• Wes used healing magic and repeatedly reforged his body as the Power Stone’s energy battered him.
• Wes gained control of the Power Stone’s energy and discovered he could crush rock and knead iron with ease.
• Wes checked his interface and found that his Wizard level had risen to level 9.
• Wes explored the planet, collected creatures for his space, and found that they soon died without a complete ecosystem.
• Wes expanded and reinforced his space, then considered recruiting people to help manage it.