Chapter Summaries

Li Weide pursued permission for Hydra Company to intervene in the world war, while preparing for a possible catastrophe in ten years. His first proposal to repeal the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy failed, but a second resolution won support and let Hydra intervene without formally breaking the Statute.

• Li Weide told Miravia that he was preparing for a possible threat to the World Line, though Tom remained distrustful of him.
• Zhang San and Zhang Qiming asked Minister Fawley to support repealing the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy, but he rejected the proposal.
• Li Weide explained that the failed proposal was meant to reveal Hydra Company's intentions and pressure the wizarding world; he also described the first few hundred Clone Warriors.
• The repeal resolution received no votes in favor, and public opinion turned against Hydra Company, prompting some employees and partners to leave.
• Hydra Company proposed secretly intervening in the war while accepting responsibility if discovered, and most representatives supported the resolution.
• Grindelwald realized Li Weide had used the proposals to gain permission for intervention, retain Hydra's supporters, and improve the company's public standing, though he still questioned Li Weide's true goal.

Li Weide secured Minister Fawley’s cooperation on the Floating City project, then convinced Professor Dumbledore that his push to abolish the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy came from wanting to end the war. After showing Dumbledore the atrocities committed in China, Li Weide left him ready to support intervention, while privately planning a devastating strike against Japan.

• Li Weide explained to Miravia that Minister Fawley’s apology letter could help him gain quick approval for Floating City, and he told her to begin preparations for housing trusted company members there.
• Professor Dumbledore visited Li Weide and questioned why he had left Hogwarts and whether someone had influenced his proposal to abolish the statute; Li Weide said he wanted to save innocent lives and end the war.
• Li Weide showed Professor Dumbledore scenes of atrocities in China, including the village Zhang Qiming had intervened to protect, and asked what Dumbledore would have done in his place.
• Professor Dumbledore said he understood Li Weide’s motives and promised to support him, then wondered whether Japan’s wizarding world had secretly intervened in the war.
• Li Weide silently looked east and privately planned to have America drop two bombs on Japan ahead of schedule, with extra ingredients.

Li Weide secured Minister Fawley’s support for the Floating City by proposing an assessment from Nicolas Flamel, then sent Miravia to copy the knowledge of Muggle scientists developing a powerful weapon. At Hogwarts, Tom found a note that led him to conclude Li Weide planned to make Muggles into wizards and use the resulting collapse of the Statute of Secrecy to bring Hydra Company to power, while Li Weide watched him through a Two-way Mirror.

• Li Weide showed Minister Fawley the Floating City and proposed that Nicolas Flamel assess its safety, winning the minister’s approval.
• Li Weide arranged for an owl to invite Nicolas Flamel and his wife, and a Phoenix left Hogwarts soon afterward.
• Li Weide asked Miravia to secretly duplicate the knowledge of Muggle scientists researching a powerful weapon, without harming or alerting them.
• Tom searched Li Weide’s laboratory and found notes comparing magical animals with wizards and Muggles.
• Tom inferred that Li Weide intended to make Muggles capable of magic so the Statute of Secrecy would become invalid and Hydra Company could seize influence amid the resulting chaos.
• Li Weide watched Tom through a Two-way Mirror as Tom sat in the laboratory.

Weide began testing an Enhancement Potion while Tom worried that Weide’s plan to turn all Muggles into wizards would lead to disaster. After Grace encouraged him to confront his friend, Tom decided he could not let Weide continue unchecked; meanwhile, Nicolas Flamel visited Weide and praised his Floating City.

• Weide started an experiment using his blood and ordered a Puppet Researcher to give the tested Enhancement Potion to the first batch of Clone Soldiers.
• Tom considered the dangers of Weide turning Muggles into wizards, including resource shortages, rising numbers of Dark Wizards, and conflict with governments.
• Grace MacLaggen urged Tom to trust his friends and ask Weide directly whether his plan was truly as dangerous as Tom suspected.
• Tom resolved to stop Weide from going down the wrong path and asked Grace if he could trust her.
• Nicolas Flamel flew around the Floating City, showed Weide his impact-dispersing metal boots, and asked how Weide had conceived the city.

Li Weide shared the Floating City's plans with Nicolas Flamel, who was so impressed by his generosity that he offered to teach him the secrets of the Philosopher's Stone. After Miravia returned from her mission, Tom asked her whether Li Weide's radical plan involved turning Muggles into wizards, and she confirmed it.

• Li Weide asked Nicolas Flamel to review the Floating City plans and explained that sharing knowledge helped alchemy advance.
• Nicolas Flamel offered to share the Philosopher's Stone secrets, and Li Weide accepted while feeling guilty about having deceived him.
• Nicolas Flamel accepted Li Weide as his student and agreed to pass on his knowledge.
• Miravia returned from her mission and found Tom waiting outside the Mobile Castle, hesitant to go in.
• Tom asked whether Li Weide's radical method was to turn Muggles into wizards, and Miravia confirmed that it was.

Tom confronted Li Weide about his plan to transform Muggles and other living things, but Li Weide revealed that he wanted to remake the world into one where technology and magic coexisted. He dismissed Tom’s fears of conflict and asked him to choose a side, leaving Tom pleading with him to turn back.

• Miravia told Tom to trust Li Weide and ask him directly what was troubling him.
• Nicolas Flamel demonstrated a method of transforming materials and began teaching Li Weide advanced alchemy.
• Li Weide received Tom in a soundproof room and listened as Tom asked whether he planned to turn Muggles into wizards.
• Li Weide revealed that he also wanted to transform animals and plants, creating a world where technology and magic coexisted.
• Tom warned that Li Weide’s plan could bring resource shortages, conflict, and innocent deaths, but Li Weide said he did not care and asked whether Tom would stand with him or against him.
• Tom called the path an endless abyss and begged Li Weide to turn back.

Tom urged Li Weide to turn back, but Li Weide let him leave while warning him not to join his enemies. As Tom quietly continued serving him, Li Weide advanced in alchemy, gained legal approval for the Floating City, and received a book that could teach him to create a Philosopher’s Stone; he then began considering how to improve Nicolas Flamel’s failing body.

• Tom tried to explain his doubts to Li Weide, who praised his concern for innocents but warned that he would be disappointed if Tom stood with his enemies.
• Li Weide told Miravia that Tom had changed into a good person and that he would rather have Tom oppose him than become a villain.
• Tom continued managing the school and following Li Weide’s principles, while Li Weide’s alchemy improved under Nicolas Flamel’s instruction.
• Minister Fawley sent Li Weide the permits that legalized the Floating City, revealing its existence to people such as Grindelwald.
• Li Weide transmuted iron into gold, and Nicolas Flamel gave him The Book of Abraham, whose illustrations could reveal a reader’s own method for creating a Philosopher’s Stone.
• After Nicolas Flamel showed Li Weide the Philosopher’s Stone and explained that its Elixir of Life could not prevent bodily decay, Li Weide decided to investigate whether he could improve Flamel’s condition.

Li Weide reviewed Hydra Company's covert intervention in the war, welcomed employees to the Floating City, and sent Andrews to take revenge and seize control of the Soviet Ministry of Magic. After practicing swordsmanship with Gryffindor, Li Weide embraced the idea that wizards should wield both wands and greatswords.

• Li Weide read reports of Hydra Company's covert wartime actions and ordered its agents to deal especially ruthlessly with Japanese wizards.
• Mr. Flamel departed for France, leaving Li Weide an ancient book, while the first company employees moved into the Floating Island dormitories.
• Li Weide revealed to Andrews that Apolline could have prophetic dreams and told him he was ready to take revenge on the Soviet Union.
• Li Weide gave Andrews control of a Soviet Auror squad and sent him to take revenge and quietly gain control of the Soviet Ministry of Magic.
• Gryffindor sparred with Li Weide and taught him swordsmanship, leading Li Weide to declare that wizards should fight with a wand and a greatsword.

Li Weide learned from the Death God that Ancient Magic could help him transform invisible matter through alchemy, then awakened the Law of Life while strengthening his magic. The Death God urged him to make use of the new power and prepare for his Parallel World journey, but left before explaining how to use it.

• Li Weide asked the Death God how alchemy could create something from nothing, and she taught him that even air could be transformed with Ancient Magic.
• Li Weide tried to transmute a ball of air but failed when the attempt caused intense pain, and the Death God explained that he needed to use his divine power.
• Li Weide stopped practicing alchemy and used Ancient Magic to enlarge the pit in his soul, eventually falling asleep from exhaustion.
• A green liquid formed in the pit and woke Li Weide, and the Death God identified it as the Law of Life.
• The Death God explained that Li Weide had awakened a law on his path to becoming a god, told him to prepare for his Parallel World journey, and disappeared before explaining how to use the Law of Life.

Li Weide discovered that the Law of Life could heal injuries, restore vitality, and replenish itself, then used it to accelerate his practice and make progress in Creation from Nothing. At Hogwarts, Grindelwald warned Dumbledore that Li Weide was about to become the Dark Lord and asked whether he would intervene.

• Li Weide learned to direct the Law of Life through his body, healing his wounds and reviving a dead flower.
• After experimenting through the night, Li Weide used the Law of Life on Miravia, removing her exhaustion and dark circles, and explained how she might awaken her own law.
• Li Weide found that the Law of Life replenished itself and helped him practice Spirit Aperture development and Creation from Nothing more often.
• After half a month, Li Weide managed to create tiny, impure grains of metal from air and dust, though he still found no clue to the Philosopher's Stone.
• Dumbledore reflected on how the Mutual Aid Club had improved Hogwarts students' independent thinking before Grindelwald entered his office.
• Grindelwald told Dumbledore that Li Weide was about to become the Dark Lord and asked whether he would do anything about it.

Grindelwald confronted Dumbledore and Li Weide over Li Weide’s growing power, but Dumbledore defended his student as someone who helped rather than harmed people. After Nicolas Flamel moved to the Floating City and began teaching Li Weide alchemy, Grindelwald visited Li Weide, who argued that his ambition benefited others and began to offer a way to change Dumbledore’s view of him.

• Grindelwald called Li Weide a future Dark Lord, but Dumbledore challenged him to name innocent people Li Weide had harmed and defended his student’s record.
• Nicolas Flamel returned to the Floating City with Perenelle and his belongings, then taught Li Weide alchemy as Li Weide demonstrated Creation from Nothing using Ancient Magic.
• Li Weide and Nicolas Flamel improved the creation of metal from air, while Li Weide explained his plans for a commercial Outer City around the Inner City fortress.
• Grindelwald arrived at the Floating City with Wizarding Supremacists and was confronted by Li Weide’s armored Patrol Squad and concealed Clone Warriors.
• Li Weide told Grindelwald that Dumbledore accepted his altruistic ambition because he helped others, unlike Grindelwald’s self-serving ambition.
• Grindelwald refused to hear Li Weide’s proposal at first, but Li Weide teased him for acting like a tsundere and claimed the proposal could change Dumbledore’s view of him.

Li Weide persuaded Grindelwald to bring his followers into his camp by offering benefits and promising to help Dumbledore change his opinion of him. Grindelwald left the Floating City realizing that his vision of standing beside Li Weide had always placed Li Weide in the lead, while Li Weide prepared to unite forces against the coming calamity.

• Grindelwald inferred from Li Weide’s growing military strength that he had abandoned gradual influence for a more forceful strategy.
• Li Weide revealed that he intended to absorb Grindelwald’s faction and offered benefits if Grindelwald and his followers joined willingly.
• Grindelwald agreed to join Li Weide and said he would collect a list of what his followers wanted.
• Grindelwald asked whether Dumbledore could change his opinion of him, and Li Weide promised to help by directing Grindelwald to do good deeds.
• Grindelwald left the Floating City, reflecting that Li Weide—not himself—was the central figure in his vision of their shared triumph.
• Li Weide watched Grindelwald depart and resolved to unite every force he could against the calamity expected in ten years.

Li Weide visited Dumbledore on Christmas Eve and warned him that he might take radical measures and be called a Dark Lord, though he did not want to. Dumbledore said he still trusted him, and Li Weide summoned a Patronus as Tom watched in disbelief.

• Li Weide took black mist from the Ancient Tomb, then met Lucien at the Werewolves' Ancestral Land and learned that more than three hundred rescued children were orphans.
• Li Weide told Lucien that some children could choose to become noninfectious werewolf warriors, while those who refused could be sent to an orphanage.
• Li Weide visited Dumbledore at Hogwarts, invited him to the Floating City, and admitted he could not return home.
• Tom arrived at Dumbledore's office with a bulging schoolbag, intending to raise suspicions about Li Weide, but Li Weide warned Dumbledore that he might become a Dark Lord for a deeper reason.
• Dumbledore said he believed Li Weide despite the warning, and Li Weide summoned a white Patronus before a stunned Tom.

Li Weide summoned a Bai Ze Patronus, convincing Dumbledore that he could be trusted and revealing that Grindelwald had agreed to join his camp. Dumbledore agreed to stay at the Mobile Castle and supervise Grindelwald’s magical contract, while Tom accepted Li Weide’s invitation to the Christmas feast, defeated by how hard it was to oppose him.

• Li Weide summoned a Bai Ze Patronus, and Dumbledore recognized it as genuine while Tom wondered whether it was bewitching magic.
• Dumbledore offered to help Li Weide against Grindelwald, and Li Weide revealed that Grindelwald had promised to join his camp.
• Dumbledore warned Li Weide that Grindelwald might betray him and asked to supervise the magical contract; Li Weide invited Dumbledore to the Mobile Castle for the holiday.
• Dumbledore agreed to stay at the Mobile Castle, and Li Weide invited Tom to Professor Hufflepuff’s Christmas feast.
• Tom agreed to attend the feast and left Dumbledore’s office feeling that opposing Li Weide was too difficult.

At a Christmas banquet in the Mobile Castle, Li Weide spoke with the Death God, who refined the Elder Wand and urged him to unite everyone around him. He then told Tom that he knew about his secret investigation and asked him to trust him, but stopped himself before explaining what he meant by one day being gone.

• Dumbledore and Tom arrived at the Mobile Castle and saw the revived Slytherin and Gryffindor gathered with Hufflepuff around Li Weide.
• Hufflepuff hosted a lavish Christmas banquet, where the guests ate, drank, and celebrated while Li Weide watched from a corner.
• The Death God appeared to Li Weide, explained that she was the sole god behind many names and avatars, and said she hoped he and Miravia would complete her task.
• The Death God encouraged Li Weide to keep gathering people around him and refined the Elder Wand with green light before vanishing.
• After the banquet, Li Weide summoned Tom and admitted he had known about Tom's investigation since Tom entered his laboratory.
• Li Weide asked Tom to trust him despite withholding his reason for acting so aggressively, and Tom agreed for the time being before Li Weide abruptly ended their conversation.

Li Weide learned that Death God had altered the Resurrection Stone to summon real spirits briefly, helping Dumbledore and Tom unlock their potential. Death God confirmed that souls who had entered the World of the Dead could not be revived, but Li Weide realized he might be able to resurrect some Hogwarts ghosts and found another loophole in Death God’s rules.

• Dumbledore visited Li Weide late at night and asked whether he could use the Resurrection Stone to resurrect his family, but Li Weide said he could not.
• Li Weide offered to try anyway, but Dumbledore refused and left, choosing to accept that his family had passed away.
• Death God appeared and explained that souls in the World of the Dead could not return, though they could visit briefly, and revealed that he had modified the Resurrection Stone.
• Death God said he had summoned the spirits of Dumbledore’s loved ones and Tom’s mother to help both men overcome emotional restraints and reach their full potential.
• Li Weide realized some Hogwarts ghosts might still be revivable because their circumstances differed from Slytherin’s, and Death God told him to solve the problem himself.
• Li Weide raised another idea for exploiting Death God’s rules, and Death God acknowledged that he had found a loophole as long as he followed the rules.

Li Weide received Christmas gifts, began the Diadem’s second stage of research, and agreed to let Apolline stay in the castle. After Tom was captivated by Apolline’s Veela charm, he and Li Weide bickered like old times, leaving Tom wondering whether he should keep trusting Li Weide.

• Toby delivered Li Weide’s Christmas gifts, including a magical gramophone sent by the Death God, and Li Weide spent the morning opening them.
• Li Weide told the Diadem to begin the second stage of research and prepare to continue without him if he did not return.
• Apolline persuaded Li Weide to let her stay in the castle, then drank Nutrient Solution and felt her strength and magic increase.
• Tom came across Apolline and was affected by her Veela charm until she hid behind Li Weide and put on a mask.
• Li Weide and Tom argued about Apolline and the secretaries Tom had found, and Tom considered whether he should keep believing in Li Weide.

Li Weide reviewed Grindelwald’s followers’ demands and signed a binding contract with him, with Dumbledore overseeing the agreement. As the new term approached, Li Weide prepared to leave on a dangerous journey, leaving Tom anxious, and offered to examine Nicolas Flamel’s frail body.

• Li Weide reviewed Grindelwald’s form, marking followers for investigation and saying those deemed too evil would be given Puppet Worms and put to work under his command.
• Dumbledore arrived, revealed his support for the deal, and presented the contract he had drafted; Grindelwald and Li Weide signed it, binding themselves to its terms.
• During the Christmas break, Tom stayed in the Mobile Castle and learned from Slytherin and Gryffindor, while Li Weide improved his use of the Law of Life and his alchemy.
• Li Weide hinted to Tom that he might leave and might not return, which made Tom anxious again.
• Li Weide told Nicolas Flamel he planned to travel in search of ancient documents and offered to examine Flamel’s frail body.

Li Weide discovered that his Law of Life magic could restore some of Nicolas Flamel’s lost vitality, though the effort exhausted his power. The discovery left him wondering whether the Law of Life had also helped Hufflepuff and Gryffindor survive for so long.

• Li Weide sensed that Nicolas Flamel’s soul remained vigorous while his body had severely lost vitality, and Nicolas explained that the Elixir of Life could no longer repair his aging body.
• Li Weide proposed creating a young body from Nicolas Flamel’s bloodline and transferring his soul, but Nicolas declined to risk the procedure for now.
• When Li Weide wished he could restore Nicolas Flamel’s vitality, the Law of Life stirred and began to renew the skin on Nicolas’s wrist.
• Li Weide used the power of the Law of Life to make Nicolas Flamel feel stronger and somewhat younger, but depleted his Spirit Aperture in the process.
• Nicolas Flamel praised Li Weide’s discovery and suggested it could have an even greater effect on younger elderly wizards, prompting Li Weide to consider whether the Law of Life was connected to Hufflepuff and Gryffindor’s longevity.

Li Weide spent months using the Law of Life to rejuvenate Nicolas Flamel and others, strengthening his abilities until Death God warned him that changing lifespans disrupted World Lines and revealed that his life-infused iron was the start of a Philosopher’s Stone. Later, he summoned Tom to the Floating City and invited him on a journey to another world to meet a bald man with no nose.

• Li Weide repeatedly treated Nicolas Flamel, then rejuvenated Madame Flamel and Dumbledore as his Law of Life grew stronger.
• Over the next month, Li Weide treated elderly residents of the Mobile Castle, increased his law power, and created life-infused metal while practicing Alchemy.
• Death God warned Li Weide that extending people’s lives created disruptive World Lines, then identified his life-infused metal as an embryonic Philosopher’s Stone.
• Two months later, Tom left Hogwarts for the Floating City, where he found Li Weide preparing a magic array near the energy core.
• Li Weide invited Tom to travel with him to another world and see a bald man with no nose, and Tom realized what he meant.