Chapter Summaries

Li Weide refused to formally take Ravenclaw as his student while he investigated whether he was the mysterious teacher from her future, but she followed him as they traveled through the past. They encountered Godric and Slytherin fleeing bandits, and Li Weide defeated the attackers; Godric then asked him to become his teacher.

• Ravenclaw pleaded to become Li Weide’s student, but he declined and set off without a destination while she followed him.
• Tom worried that the Death God had questioned his puppet about Li Weide’s spatial magic experiments and feared the fake Li Weide could not protect the world.
• Li Weide told Ravenclaw that his son Tom Riddle was dead, and she promised to be his family and continued learning from his casual remarks.
• Li Weide and Ravenclaw investigated a nearby battle and found two young men, Godric and Slytherin, fleeing a bandit camp.
• Li Weide illuminated the night and killed the bandits with his wand and sword, impressing Godric, who asked to become his student.

Li Weide accepted Ravenclaw, Godric Gryffindor, and Salazar Slytherin as students after they agreed to spread knowledge to future young wizards. A month into their travels, he befriended two wild horses and brought them along to pull a carriage, leaving his students astonished by his unconventional methods.

• Ravenclaw tried to stop Li Weide from taking Gryffindor and Slytherin as students, but both young men asked to study under him.
• Li Weide agreed to teach all three if they would pass their knowledge on to other young wizards, and they accepted his condition.
• Li Weide and his students left the campsite after he used Fiendfyre to dispose of the bandits' bodies, frightening Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin.
• During the following month of travel, Li Weide learned that Ravenclaw came from an alchemist family, Slytherin from a Pure-blood family, and Gryffindor from a family skilled in white magic.
• When Li Weide proposed taming wild horses, he walked up to the herd and persuaded two horses, Harriman and Pollych, to travel with them in exchange for hay.
• Li Weide told Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, and Slytherin that the horses would pull a carriage so he could teach them on the journey.

Li Weide taught Slytherin that willing loyalty grew from fair exchanges rather than magical coercion, then used his spatial magic to transform their carriage into a furnished home. The group prepared to travel, and Li Weide hinted that he expected another student to join them.

• Li Weide explained to Slytherin that coercion through the Imperius Curse was unreliable, while loyalty could grow through mutually beneficial exchanges.
• Slytherin realized he was loyal to Li Weide because he valued the knowledge his teacher shared, and Ravenclaw and Gryffindor teased him and each other.
• Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor used Transfiguration to build a carriage, then Li Weide expanded and furnished its interior with spatial magic.
• Ravenclaw asked Li Weide to teach her his adaptive interior-design alchemy, and he promised to plan her lessons after she built a stronger foundation.
• Li Weide explained the carriage's enchanted toilets and said its fifth room was for the student he expected to join them.

Li Weide continued traveling with Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw while searching for Hufflepuff, teaching them how to communicate with animals through a technique based on Legilimency. In a nearby settlement, Gryffindor bought a remarkably delicious dessert, and Li Weide recognized it as a sign that Hufflepuff was close and hurried off to find her.

• Li Weide refused to teach Gryffindor Divination, then asked his horses where they could find a nearby settlement.
• Li Weide explained and taught Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Ravenclaw his method of communicating with animals using Legilimency.
• The group reached a settlement, where Gryffindor bought supplies and desserts while Slytherin stayed away from the Muggle food.
• Ravenclaw praised the dessert, and Li Weide recognized its quality as a clue that Hufflepuff had made it.
• Li Weide hurried toward the inn with Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, while Slytherin remained behind to guard the carriage.

Li Weide visited an inn and discovered that its young cook, Helga Hufflepuff, was a witch with a talent for using magical herbs in food. He invited her to study with him, but she hesitated to leave her widowed father, and the chapter ended with Li Weide accepting her choice.

• Li Weide recognized calming Valerian and other magical protections around the inn, which suggested a powerful wizard lived there.
• Li Weide identified the innkeeper’s daughter as a witch and revealed that he and his students were wizards.
• Li Weide froze everyone else in the inn so he could speak privately with the girl, who introduced herself as Helga Hufflepuff.
• Hufflepuff explained that her mother had taught her magic and that her Muggle father supported her, though she had mostly studied alone since her mother’s death.
• Li Weide offered to teach Hufflepuff, but she hesitated because she did not want to leave her father, and Li Weide restored the inn to normal without forcing her.

Li Weide offered to stay near Hufflepuff so she could seek his guidance, and her father ultimately encouraged her to leave and study with him. After Li Weide and Gryffindor arranged protection and a place for her father to live and work, Hufflepuff joined them; elsewhere, Li Weide’s clone remained unconcerned when the Death God appeared to test him again.

• Li Weide decided to stay near Hufflepuff for a few days, and Ravenclaw helped Gryffindor understand that he was offering her a chance to ask questions.
• Hufflepuff packed her books and her mother’s wand to leave, but her father discovered her plans and urged her to pursue her magical gifts.
• Hufflepuff joined Li Weide’s group, and Gryffindor offered her father a shop on his family’s land so he could live safely.
• Li Weide’s clone continued his studies and leisure activities while Tom grew frustrated that the original Li Weide was absent.
• The Death God appeared at a wizard bar and froze the dancers, but Li Weide told him to let the music and dancing continue.

Li Weide helped Helga Hufflepuff’s father relocate, then discussed friendship and a shared mission with his students as they continued their studies. Over dinner, the students proposed creating a school for young wizards, and Li Weide suggested dividing it into four houses to resolve their disagreement over whom to teach.

• Li Weide arranged for Godric Gryffindor’s family to take Mr. Hufflepuff and his belongings to safety, allowing Helga to study without distraction.
• Godric complained that Salazar Slytherin had used him to block bandits’ knives, and Li Weide reassured him that Salazar trusted his strength and cared about him.
• Rowena Ravenclaw explained that the students shared Li Weide’s goal of spreading knowledge, and Helga pledged to join their effort.
• After a week of lessons and Helga’s cooking, Rowena proposed building a school, while Salazar suggested using alchemical items to identify talented young wizards.
• Helga argued that Muggle-born wizards deserved education, but Salazar favored recruiting pure-blood students.
• Li Weide proposed creating four houses, each managed by one of the students, and Godric immediately agreed.

Li Weide left the Four Founders to study while he returned to his own time and caught up with Tom. After defeating Tom and his Clone, he stepped back outside to face a stack of bills run up by the Clone.

• Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Slytherin, and Hufflepuff chose the qualities they wanted in their students and agreed that Li Weide would be headmaster of their future school.
• Li Weide taught the four students at a lakeside camp, prepared a library of books for them, and left them to continue studying while he took care of something alone.
• Li Weide used the space-time Portal to return to his Small Space, where Tom confronted him before recognizing him.
• Tom challenged Li Weide to a duel, lost five times in ten minutes, and then lost again to Li Weide's Clone after Li Weide departed.
• Li Weide returned outside, where Toby handed him the bills from the shops and Li Weide realized he would have to pay for his Clone's spending.

Li Weide discovered that his Philosopher’s Stone had developed life but needed soul power to complete its transformation. He traveled to a parallel world after World War II, where the stone transformed into a living Philosopher’s Stone that could change shape.

• Li Weide hid the strength he had gained from the Death God, then reviewed Hydra Company's work and visited his laboratory.
• Ravenclaw's Diadem showed Li Weide that the green stone had begun producing Law of Life power by itself, though it had stopped absorbing more.
• Nicolas Flamel explained that a Philosopher’s Stone needed soul power to complete its final transformation, and Li Weide realized the war’s souls had been taken away before the stone could absorb them.
• Li Weide took Miravia to a parallel world where World War II had just ended, and the stone absorbed the scattered soul power and transformed into a scarlet Philosopher’s Stone.
• The living Philosopher’s Stone changed into a ring and then a wand at Li Weide’s command.

Li Weide tested the Philosopher's Stone wand, while Grindelwald quit his exhausting Ministry of Magic post and asked to return to Hydra Company. Li Weide revealed that he had already planned a job for Grindelwald, leaving him to discover what it was.

• Li Weide tested the Philosopher's Stone's wand form, which amplified his magic enough to blast apart a distant hill, then promised to strengthen Miravia's weapon.
• Overwhelmed by endless Department of Education paperwork, Grindelwald went to Minister Fawley's home and resigned, demanding to return to Hydra Company.
• Grindelwald appointed Dumbledore to take over the Department of Education, leaving Headmaster Dippet upset about losing his capable assistant.
• Li Weide returned from the Parallel World after filling Miravia's little flag with souls, though the trip earned too few Merit Points to advance the system's repair.
• Grindelwald told Li Weide he had quit the Ministry, and Li Weide handed him a document revealing that a different job had already been planned for him.

Li Weide appointed Grindelwald to lead Hydra Company’s new intelligence department, then investigated whether the Death God had lied about the danger facing their world. After revealing his suspicions to Miravia and Tom, he pressed Miravia to help him enter the World of the Dead, but she demanded more evidence before agreeing.

• Li Weide recruited Grindelwald to monitor dangerous figures and gather intelligence, and Grindelwald left to organize the new department with his former subordinates.
• Li Weide suspected the Death God had lied about his inability to reveal the truth and decided he needed to verify what was happening.
• Li Weide brought Miravia into the Small Space, where she found Tom training against Li Weide’s clone, and explained his suspicions about the Death God to them both.
• Li Weide asked Miravia whether she could send him to the World of the Dead, and she admitted she might be able to but feared she could not bring him back.
• Tom and Miravia argued against Li Weide’s dangerous plan, but he insisted that finding the real Death God could change their situation.
• Miravia offered to send Li Weide to the World of the Dead only if he found more evidence to convince her.

Li Weide devised a way to locate the true Death God by testing whether Death God could appear in increasingly distant pasts, while claiming he wanted help finding Ancient Magic Hotspots. He and Miravia tested the plan across Parallel Worlds and arrived at a thousand years in the past for a second time, where they prepared to summon Death God again.

• Miravia and Tom persuaded Li Weide not to enter the World of the Dead, and Tom suggested the true Death God might be found in the human world.
• Li Weide realized he could test when the true Death God had been trapped by summoning Death God in Parallel Worlds from different eras.
• Li Weide asked Death God to provide Ancient Magic Hotspot locations across Parallel Worlds, and she agreed to travel with him, Miravia, and Caroline.
• Li Weide and his companions visited more than ten Parallel Worlds, gathering Hotspot locations while disguising their tests as a search for ancient knowledge and power.
• After Death God failed to appear during one visit to a thousand years in the past but appeared in other eras, Li Weide and Miravia returned to that era to summon her again.

Li Weide received a Diary from the real Death God, who revealed that he had been tricked into the Great Hell and could not return, then tasked Li Weide with helping punish another version of himself. The Diary gave Li Weide concealment magic, and he prepared to obscure Miravia and Caroline’s memories as they learned about his enemy.

• As Li Weide, Miravia, and Caroline prepared to return from the thousand-years-ago world, an unseen attacker struck Li Weide with a mysterious black Diary.
• Li Weide opened the Diary and used Fiendfyre to communicate with its writer, who revealed himself as the real Death God and accused Li Weide of deceiving him.
• The real Death God explained that he was trapped in the Great Hell, that the fake Death God was acting through a subordinate, and that Li Weide was to help punish another version of himself.
• The fake Death God spoke with a raven in the Great Hell and resolved to complete her final step without mistakes.
• The Diary entered Li Weide’s System Shop and granted him magic that concealed his Death Mark.
• Li Weide told Miravia and Caroline that he would use the Diary’s power to cover up their memories.

Li Weide concluded that his enemy was a ruthless alternate version of himself, isolated in a severed World Line and seeking to absorb him as a final source of power. Seeking a way to gain an advantage, Li Weide considered mastering powers he had overlooked and asked the Diary what love was; it urged him to travel a thousand years into the past and experience it.

• Li Weide explained to Miravia and Caroline that the Fourth Calamity was likely another version of himself, and that isolating their World Line prevented him from raising rival counterparts.
• Li Weide feared he had already failed once and said he had to win this time, while Miravia suggested he consider powers he had previously dismissed.
• At the Portal, Death God claimed that crossing more than a thousand years would drain the power needed to stabilize other Parallel Worlds, and Li Weide concealed his suspicions.
• Li Weide went to the Small Space and asked Tom what love was, then concluded that the Fourth Calamity had forgotten it.
• Li Weide returned to his four students, who had been waiting anxiously, and revealed that the Diary had suggested he travel a thousand years into the past to rediscover love.

Li Weide set aside his ambitions and spent a month enjoying life with his students, which led to a major breakthrough in his understanding of magic. As the group left the lakeside, he realized they had been at the future site of Hogwarts and the Black Lake.

• Li Weide returned to camp, reassured his worried students, and shared a warm evening with them by the bonfire.
• Li Weide began enjoying his life as a teacher and went fishing, where he caught a sword and discovered Gryffindor had been secretly placing fish on his hook.
• After a month of living comfortably with his students, Li Weide found that his soul and the power of laws had advanced more than they had through deliberate cultivation.
• Li Weide raised the entire lake with little effort and reflected that magic followed the mind and state of the caster; his students fled back inside when he asked about their assignments.
• A week later, the group set out again, and Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff discussed building a school beside the lake and naming it the Black Lake.
• Li Weide recognized the landscape as the future site of Hogwarts.

Li Weide asked the Death God for guidance through the Diary as he struggled to understand how emotions affected magic and how he could grow strong enough to oppose another version of himself. The Death God explained that the key lay in understanding magic as a tool, leaving Li Weide pondering why tools made work more efficient.

• Li Weide exchanged the system shop’s refreshed items and stored them in a space created with the Law of Space.
• Li Weide contacted the Death God through the Diary and learned that a mad version of himself had cut off and hidden similar Parallel Worlds across a span of time.
• The Death God warned that the madman planned to devour Li Weide, seize the Death God’s godhood, and target other gods across different worlds.
• Li Weide realized that the woman calling herself the Death God in later generations might be the madman’s chosen successor, and that his ambition could spread across the heavens and myriad worlds.
• Li Weide described his insights about emotions and magic, and the Death God compared wizards to primitives who had not learned to use tools.
• The Death God asked Li Weide why tools were invented and why particular tools made tasks more efficient, leaving him to consider the questions.

Li Weide learned from the Death God that Ancient Magic let him use his will and emotions to alter the world’s rules, making magic far more powerful and efficient. He understood his potential and, reassured by the Death God’s promise to protect his world and loved ones if he failed, felt less burdened.

• Li Weide realized that lifting the Black Lake had worked by changing the rules governing water, not by relying on his own magic power.
• Li Weide focused his will to protect and summoned a clearer, more solid Bai Ze Patronus without an incantation.
• The Death God explained that Ancient Magic gave Li Weide the potential to become a god by opening the way to control the world’s rules.
• Li Weide recognized that Ancient Magic had been unconsciously altering rules when he amplified spells and shrank Nagini.
• Li Weide thanked the Death God, who promised to preserve his world, friends, and family if Li Weide ultimately failed.

Li Weide awakened his full Ancient Magic power while his students mistook his stillness for death and nearly cremated him. After revealing his new ability to alter rules, he concealed his strength again and began considering how to prepare for the powerful version of himself threatening him.

• Li Weide used Ancient Magic to strip away his soul's outer garment, transforming his ordinary magic into Ancient Magic and realizing that the supposed laws awakened by the fake Death God had been a deception.
• When Li Weide failed to answer the door, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin entered his room, found him motionless, and believed he had died.
• The students carried Li Weide outside and set his body among burning firewood, but he woke unharmed and scolded them for nearly cremating him.
• Li Weide discovered that his awakened power made him immune to the flames and let him restore charcoal to wood and grow it into a sapling by altering rules.
• Li Weide put his soul cloak back on to hide his strength, then recognized that his new abilities gave him a chance to prepare against the powerful alternate version of himself.

Li Weide concealed his Ancient Magic and discovered that he could understand animals without a spell. He transformed two horses into Nymphadoras and told his students that Ancient Sages passed down a mission to make the world better.

• Li Weide disguised his Ancient Magic as ordinary magic and realized the fake Death God had exposed himself by rushing his growth.
• Li Weide understood a horse’s complaint, healed its bite, and translated a boasting match between it and Ravenclaw’s White Eagle, Mina.
• Li Weide transformed two wild horses into snow-white Nymphadoras, and they flew off with Mina chasing after them.
• Li Weide’s students watched the carriage take flight and asked how he had changed the horses into a different species.
• Li Weide told his students that Ancient Magic was a gift that could not be learned and that each Ancient Sage inherited a mission to make the world better.

Li Weide invented a successor-searching excuse to explain his absences, then returned to the modern era after mastering Ancient Magic. He sent Tom home with his strength disguised, where Tom discovered Li Weide had arranged for his clone to accept Grace’s confession.

• Li Weide told the four students that Ancient Magic talents were rare and usually awakened late, prompting them to plan for older transfer students and late-blooming wizards at their future school.
• Ten days later, Li Weide left the four students with books and homework and returned to the modern era.
• Tom celebrated defeating Li Weide’s fifth-year clone, and Li Weide offered to disguise his strength so he could safely go home.
• Tom returned to Riddle Manor and found Grace MacLaggen holding his arm; he realized his clone had accepted her confession and cursed Li Weide at the hidden camera.
• Li Weide watched Tom’s reaction and laughed as Tom discovered the surprise gift.