Recaps

Patrick toured an Umbrella Industries facility, where Murphy demonstrated enchanted firearms that multiplied bullets and automatically tracked marked targets. The tour left Patrick considering how the weapons could let individual soldiers overwhelm entire infantry units.

• Murphy welcomed Patrick to Umbrella Industries and led him to the light weapons demonstration range.
• A tester demonstrated the Rainstorm Machine Gun, whose enchanted bullets multiplied into as many as sixteen rounds and produced heavy suppressive fire.
• Murphy explained that the Duplication Charm enchantment could shape the multiplied bullets into different firing patterns.
• A tester demonstrated the Eye of Death scope by marking targets and hitting them with shots aimed elsewhere.
• Murphy explained that the scope used the Oppugno Jinx to guide specially enchanted bullets toward marked targets, potentially making any soldier a highly accurate marksman.

Murphy showed Patrick magical drones and aerospace weapons, revealing plans for a global strike network. Patrick realized Murphy was preparing for world conquest, and Murphy proposed secretly launching ten thousand satellites despite the Outer Space Treaty.

• Murphy showed Patrick Swarm Drones, describing their low cost, stealth, swarm control, and precision strikes.
• Murphy presented Falcon drones, which could operate at extreme range and carry missiles or bombs, and claimed a squadron could destroy an enemy brigade.
• Murphy introduced Hela, a heavily armed stealth drone capable of carrying strategic weapons and destroying an enemy division.
• Patrick concluded that Murphy’s weapons could make Britain great again and make conquest seem achievable.
• Murphy showed Patrick presentations for space-based weapons and global strike systems, then said they could quietly launch ten thousand satellites into orbit.

The Soviet Union began implementing the three-stage OGAS Plan, while Murphy visited the Empress in Arkaim to discuss recruiting wizard workers and her worsening hypersomnia. Her nightmare about an iron chain led Murphy to suspect a connection to the black ship and the prophet Miriam, leaving him uneasy about Miriam’s relationship to the Empress.

• The Soviet Union approved the OGAS Plan, setting out plans for government computer networks, nationwide wireless communications, and a gradual transition toward semi-marketization.
• Murphy asked the Empress for permission to recruit wizard workers, and she agreed despite Arkaim’s shortage of personnel.
• Murphy learned that the Empress’s hypersomnia had worsened about three months earlier, after she dreamed of being captured by someone wielding an iron chain.
• The Empress’s dream reminded Murphy of the black ship’s chain that had vanished into the void, and he wondered whether it had targeted Miriam beyond the Door of Rebirth.
• Murphy asked Sophia about Miriam, and she said the prophet was her ancestor and that the Door of Rebirth had remained closed since its last opening.
• Murphy promised to have the laboratory research treatments for vampire defects, while Sophia returned to bed and awaited her distant dream.

Murphy advanced research into vampire defects and wizard genomes, then learned that Lucius Malfoy and others had disappeared during a magical-disaster exercise in a swamp. After Narcissa asked for his help, Murphy set out to learn where Lucius had gone.

• Murphy asked David Deamer about the vampire research, urged the team to build a sequencing prototype, and added wizard genomes to their research.
• A Lightning Raven alerted Murphy that Narcissa Malfoy was seeking help because Lucius Malfoy had gone missing.
• Narcissa explained that Lucius and a special training team had vanished in a swamp during a magical-disaster exercise, and two Aurors sent to search for them had also disappeared.
• Murphy connected the disappearances to a wider rise in magical disasters and asked Narcissa where Lucius had gone.

Murphy arrived at Ashdown Forest, where a magical fog had trapped a Ministry training team and the Aurors sent to find them. He gave Serika access to the Starlink Satellite through the Mind Network, and Lucas used a Weather Spell to clear the fog so the rescue team could enter.

• Serika Wood and the Aurors failed to dispel the fog, which had trapped the Special Training Group's recruits and the Aurors searching for them.
• Murphy arrived and learned from Serika that Muggles had disappeared in the area and that the Ministry team was trapped inside.
• Murphy updated Serika's Mind Network permissions and instructed her to ask Lucas to clear the fog with a hurricane.
• Lucas used the Starlink Satellite to cast a Weather Spell, creating a tornado that swept away the fog and devastated part of the forest.
• Murphy told Serika to lead her people into the cleared area and investigate the source of the trouble.

Murphy investigated a rise in magical disasters and found evidence that the moon might be a vast source of magic, containing at least ten thousand tons of primordial matter. He was left wondering whether the substance was divine flesh and blood—and whether it was dead or alive.

• Murphy rescued Draco Malfoy and other Special Training Group members from a swamp hag’s illusion curse, and Draco explained why he had joined the group before Murphy arranged for his family to collect him.
• Murphy asked Serika to investigate magical disasters, and her report showed that their number had risen by more than thirty percent in the past three months.
• Murphy visited the Eye of Odin in Siberia, where Dennis Gelfins showed him that magical background radiation had steadily increased over six months in step with the number of people aware of magic.
• Dennis revealed that magical radiation fluctuated like tides, grew stronger toward the moon, and that scans suggested the moon held at least ten thousand tons of primordial matter.
• Murphy considered whether the primordial matter was divine flesh and blood and wondered whether it was dead or alive.

Murphy learned that the number of young wizards in Britain had tripled and proposed a Muggle government department to manage the effects of rising magic. The Magic Revival Countermeasures Bureau began selecting soldiers for its War Wolf unit, whose recruits faced a choice about taking a dangerous enhancement potion.

• Snape showed Murphy Hogwarts's Book of Admittance, which had recorded more than six hundred young wizards that year, three times the number from five years earlier.
• Murphy concluded that magical education for Muggle-born children needed to begin earlier and proposed cooperation between the Muggle and wizarding governments.
• Murphy proposed establishing the Magic Revival Countermeasures Bureau to address magical disasters and manage Muggle-born wizards, with a combat force enhanced by an improved werewolf potion.
• Two months later, the British Army and Royal Marines selected five hundred soldiers for the War Wolf unit after intensive tests and training.
• At the Transformation Center, an instructor explained the War Wolf Potion's benefits and risks and asked the reservists to choose whether to undergo modification.

David Watson and Draco Malfoy’s War Wolf squad encountered a far stronger Chimera than expected, losing teammates before escaping. David suspected magical creatures were regaining the power they had possessed in mythology.

• David Watson became a werewolf, joined Draco Malfoy’s seven-person squad, and completed training to become part of the War Wolf Unit, Twelfth Squad.
• The squad assisted an all-wizard team by killing Quintapeds and then took on routine magical-disaster missions.
• A Chimera ambushed the squad, killed Zate and Rooney, and burned Yulian to charcoal while resisting their weapons and spells.
• Deputy Captain Shamira led the surviving squad members, including David and Draco, to retreat using Portkey amulets.
• David suggested the Chimera’s unusual strength came from magical creatures evolving or restoring their former mythical powers.

Murphy asked Dumbledore about the ancient oath that had hidden magic from the world and driven the gods away. Dumbledore explained what little he knew, leaving Murphy to conclude that he could not recreate the oath and that magic’s revival was inevitable.

• Murphy told Dumbledore he planned to turn Hogwarts into a research and archaeological base while promising to protect the school.
• Murphy asked Dumbledore about the oath, and Dumbledore identified it as the ancient magic called a Geis or Geasa, which granted power at a cost.
• Dumbledore said ancient Druids had guarded the oath and that he learned about it through the Order of Merlin, but he had found no proof that Merlin created it.
• Murphy asked why the oath drove out the gods and how it had been enacted, but Dumbledore said he did not know.
• Murphy said he wanted to use the oath to weaken or seal the gods again, but Dumbledore explained that its secrecy and the destruction of records made its method unknowable.
• Murphy concluded that he could not reproduce the oath and that the revival of magic was inevitable.

Murphy responded to magical resurgence and growing opposition by creating the Wizard Guild and using detailed reports to expose wizarding speculators. The chapter left speculators worldwide choosing between resisting him and joining the Wizard Alliance after its Aurors rescued a Danish wizard from arrest.

• Murphy explained magical resurgence to Dumbledore, who offered help with the Muggle force's troubles.
• Murphy and Dumbledore discussed foreign opposition, the International Confederation of Wizards, and wizarding speculators, and Murphy decided to report illegal businesses.
• The Wizard Alliance established the Wizard Guild and granted its citizens protection and enforcement of Alliance law anywhere in the world.
• Murphy used Umbrella Corporation research and Muggle communications to expose speculators, prompting crackdowns and the confiscation of over a million Galleons.
• A Danish wizard joined the Wizard Guild, and British Aurors and Watchmen rescued him from Danish Aurors trying to arrest him.
• The Danish wizard began distributing Umbrella Corporation potions to Muggles, and speculators worldwide saw the benefits of joining Murphy's organization.

After British Aurors killed two Danish Aurors while preventing an arrest, Denmark’s Minister Sorensen considered an alliance with France and other countries against Britain. Meanwhile, Murphy toured a Soviet aerospace laboratory and backed restarting the moon landing program to find lunar prime matter and investigate what lay on the moon.

• At a Danish wizarding hospital, healer Hippocrates Smethwyck treated the Aurors injured in a clash with the British Ministry of Magic, but two died.
• Auror captain Lenstrom told Minister Sorensen that two Danish Aurors had been killed and urged him to respond to Britain’s interference.
• A French wizard offered Sorensen an alliance and proposed recapturing Petersen to draw the British into a trap.
• Murphy told laboratory director Shakhlin Popolov that the Soviet central government had agreed to restart the moon landing program.
• Murphy explained that magical spells and advances in technology could improve rocket capacity and make a lunar landing easier, while a return mission could bring back prime matter.

Murphy visited the Department of Mysteries and learned from researcher Jim Best that its native magic was human-generated energy routed through a vast ritual. Best’s findings led Murphy to suspect that the Department itself was a node of the Magic Web.

• Murphy encouraged the moon-landing project, then returned to the Ministry of Magic and saw a fountain sculpture modeled after himself.
• Murphy went to the Department of Mysteries and asked Jim Best about his research on native magic.
• Best explained that native magic was artificial, shaped by human minds, and that the Department drew in hundreds of thousands of Habers of magic each second.
• Best said the Department’s ritual sustained Ministry systems and might be copied to provide a stable power source.
• Murphy connected Best’s description of the Department as a magical node to the Magic Web and wondered whether the Department was one of its concrete nodes.

Murphy’s researchers studied the Department of Mysteries’ conceptual energies and developed a Time Accelerator capable of placing its user in a hundredfold time flow. Murphy then combined time devices into a Time Magic Box that could cast time stop, time reversal, and time loops.

• Murphy’s researchers investigated the Department of Mysteries’ death, brain, and time-related magic, including the veil’s connection to the Spirit World and the green solution’s effects on brains.
• Funes Bachmann and Omid Abbott studied living brains to build a neural-network model that could aid Murphy’s research into thought and Horcrux’s processing power.
• A gray-haired researcher gave Murphy the completed Time Accelerator, which could let him move through time at up to a hundred times the outside speed.
• Murphy tried the Time Accelerator but set it aside after finding few uses for it outside combat.
• Murphy combined a Time-Turner and the Time Accelerator to create a Time Magic Box that could cast time stop, time reversal, and time loops.

Murphy considered how time magic could accelerate research and established a long-term project to study the safe use of magic. Meanwhile, Danish Aurors captured Petersen, but news that British forces had broken into Denmark’s Ministry of Magic left Sorensen warning that it was about to fall.

• Murphy considered the applications and risks of time magic, then established a sociological research project through Pioneer to study its use.
• Lenstrom and the Danish Aurors captured Petersen in Odense and ignored a warning from the Wizard Alliance demanding his release.
• At the Danish Magical Prison, Sorensen learned that British forces had broken into the Ministry of Magic while Lenstrom was away.
• An Auror warned Sorensen that no one could stop the British and that the Ministry of Magic was about to fall.

Murphy subdued Denmark and brought its Ministry of Magic into the Wizard Alliance, then expanded the Alliance’s efforts to recruit members by offering support for wizards entering Muggle businesses. The Alliance remained without a full government, but its new entrepreneurship plan promised guidance, loans, and staff to prospective wizard entrepreneurs.

• Rasim captured Danish Minister of Magic Sorensen after defeating the Danish Aurors, and Murphy used mind magic to make Sorensen his puppet.
• Three days later, Denmark joined the Wizard Alliance, triggering outrage abroad and encouraging wizards in other countries to join.
• Murphy kept the Alliance under British Ministry leadership for now and recruited laid-off Soviet government workers to train as administrative staff.
• A clerk at the Alliance’s British Office told Swiss wizard Fausto Campbell about expanding his family’s magical-cloak business into Muggle society.
• The clerk gave Fausto a booklet describing the Alliance Wizard Entrepreneurship Support Plan, including business consultations, interest-free loans, and access to professional staff.

Murphy explained how his entrepreneurship program would help wizards enter the Muggle market while keeping the growing industry under his supervision. On the Sky Street Terrace, Sophia proposed marrying him and making him ruler of Arkaim, and Murphy ended by asking about the betrothal customs for marrying an Empress.

• Murphy described the support program he had created to help wizards establish legal businesses in the Muggle world and guide the integration of the two societies.
• Sophia agreed to publicize the program in Arkaim, and she and Murphy joked about her tiring responsibilities as Empress.
• Sophia suggested abdicating to Murphy or marrying him so he could lead Arkaim, explaining that she felt too immature to rule and suffered from lethargy.
• Murphy told Sophia that researchers had completed the human genome project and were close to mapping the wizard genome, raising hope of treating her vampire symptoms.
• Sophia hesitated when Murphy asked whether she still wanted to marry him, and Murphy asked how much betrothal gift was customary for marrying an Empress.

Murphy searched his memories for genetic knowledge that could help treat Sophia’s vampire condition, but his attempt to identify a photosensitivity gene led him into a vivid, unfamiliar memory. He awoke from it unsure whose memories he had witnessed.

• Jawad told Murphy that researchers had identified the rough functions of only twenty-three vampire-specific genes, and that finding the cause of photophobia would take years.
• Murphy asked Jawad to list the genes’ positions, numbers, and first thirty base pairs, then returned to Soviet Science City to use Total Recall beside his supercomputer Horcrux.
• Murphy searched his memories for relevant research and found information about the HFE gene and hereditary hemochromatosis, but realized it did not explain vampires’ symptoms.
• Murphy’s consciousness entered a memory of someone fleeing zombies through a ruined European-style building, and he abruptly woke in the Pioneer machine room.

Murphy used Total Recall to recover medical and genetic knowledge, enabling research into a vampire treatment, while his plans reshaped Britain and deepened its alliance with the Soviet Union. He went to watch a lunar exploration launch, eager to see what the satellite would find on the moon.

• Murphy gave Jawad recovered research materials to verify and promised to find vampire volunteers for animal-tested treatment trials.
• The Soviet OGAS Plan neared completion, while Patrick abolished the monarchy and House of Lords, imposed taxes on the wealthy, and used the revenue for public projects.
• Britain and the Soviet Union connected their networks by undersea fiber-optic cable, allowing Murphy's Horcrux Pioneer to access Britain's internet.
• Murphy visited the Aerospace Laboratory as Shakhlin Popolov prepared a modified Proton rocket to launch lunar exploration satellites and test key technologies.
• Murphy learned that the satellite would orbit the moon, land on its far side, and broadcast its observations, and he prepared to watch the results.

The landing module reached the Moon’s far side and revealed a valley filled with ancient stone statues, which awakened and attacked it. A crimson spearhead entered the escaping lander, and the control room saw it unexpectedly return to lunar orbit.

• Murphy and the command room watched the landing module descend toward the Soviet Mountains on the lunar far side.
• The landing module’s camera showed strangely regular ring-shaped rocks and stone pillars before a crimson flash cut off the signal.
• Stone statues awakened, fired a red beam that struck the valley’s transparent barrier, and tried to attack the lander.
• Chains restrained the statues, but one statue hurled a blood-red spear through the barrier; its broken tip entered the landing module.
• The lander’s legs sprang to life, and it warped away from pursuing chains before accelerating toward the command module.
• A researcher noticed that the lander was returning to lunar orbit, although it had not been scheduled to do so.

Murphy pursued the strange entity that had escaped from the lunar lander and returned to Earth, preparing Soviet and magical defenses. After it possessed sea creatures and formed a body in the Atlantic, Murphy struck it with the Avada Planet-Destroying Cannon, leaving its fate uncertain.

• Murphy ordered the lunar service module destroyed, but the lander rendezvoused with it and the module began returning to Earth before its signal vanished.
• Murphy readied Soviet missile forces and Starlink satellites to find and attack the returning entity.
• Two days later, the lander crashed into the Atlantic, and a crimson worm escaped before taking control of a fish and then a sea snake.
• Murphy detected the entity with the Eye of Odin and tracked it with Starlink satellites, but it repeatedly teleported away.
• The entity took over a shark, formed a massive body, and announced that Tyr had returned.
• Murphy struck Tyr with the Avada Planet-Destroying Cannon, driving him into the sea and vaporizing the surrounding water.

Murphy used magic satellites to attack Tyr, who destroyed several of them but was repeatedly ambushed and displaced. As green beams closed in on Tyr in space, two cylindrical projectiles struck him and unleashed a blinding explosion.

• The magic satellite’s green beam badly burned Tyr until he escaped by teleporting, but another satellite immediately resumed the attack.
• Tyr teleported into orbit and destroyed a satellite, only to be riddled with its high-speed fragments before recovering with a divine barrier.
• Murphy coordinated more satellites to trap Tyr, and Tyr destroyed several of them with his sword while evading their beams.
• A figure intercepted Tyr’s sword, battered him with punches, and used spatial vortices to send him between a satellite’s firing line and distant locations.
• Tyr burned away the Portkey on his back, but two green beams trapped him as two cylindrical projectiles struck him and filled the scene with light.

After Murphy confirmed that the nuclear strikes had killed Tyr, he considered the political fallout and the unexplained barrier keeping the gods on the moon. The battle also led him to seek ways to improve his magical precision by connecting technological devices to Pioneer as external prosthetics.

• Murphy searched the blast site and scanned the globe, found no magical signals, and concluded that Tyr was dead.
• Murphy recognized that the nuclear launches and damaged satellites would cause a global crisis, but left it to Valery and the others to handle.
• Murphy reconsidered attacking the far side of the moon, suspecting that its deep-well structure might be trapping the gods.
• Murphy assessed his limited ability to control magic precisely and considered solving his genetic disorder so he could resume the Transfiguration Pathway.
• Murphy realized he could connect devices such as electron tunneling microscopes and nanoscale probes to Pioneer to enhance his perception and control.

Murphy learned that Tyr’s lingering contamination was spreading through Atlantic fish, though its effects seemed limited and impossible to contain. He also found that networked probes could not improve his magical control, leaving magic chips as the key obstacle to his prosthetic-limb project.

• A fishing crew caught mutated fish in the Atlantic and reported that the contamination rate remained high and its area was expanding.
• Researchers told Murphy that the contaminated water had low magic levels, the fish showed modest mutations, and the spread could not be stopped with current detection methods.
• Murphy suspected Tyr’s contaminated flesh might be a hidden backup, but he ordered continued observation because he had no way to cleanse the ocean.
• Murphy connected precision instruments to Pioneer but found that network signals could relay sensory information without letting his magic pass through to control the devices.
• Murphy concluded that precision equipment needed magic-compatible control chips and identified manufacturing magic chips as the remaining solution.

Murphy visited the Magic Research Institute, where Hordan’s team was building the Hive to test whether a magical structure could connect to the worldwide Magic Web and provide energy. He then found Denzel Evans struggling to develop magical semiconductors and suggested that magical resistance could store historical information, introducing artificial neural networks and memristors.

• Murphy saw Hordan’s team constructing the Hive and learned it would test whether the Department of Mysteries could serve as a Magic Web node and energy source.
• Hordan explained that magic in the Department of Mysteries, the Holy City Magic Nexus, and the Danish Magic Source Room was connected, and that the Hive imitated the Department’s structure to join the network.
• Hordan described how the team extracted pure fear magic from compressed Dementors for use as one of the Hive’s extreme energies.
• Murphy encouraged Hordan to finish the Hive’s verification experiment within a month and pursue magical energy as a replacement for the Philosopher’s Stone.
• Murphy found Denzel Evans testing magical silicon carbide and heard him conclude that its changing magical resistance made it unsuitable as a semiconductor.
• Murphy told Denzel that the material’s resistance could preserve information and asked whether he had heard of artificial neural networks and memristors.

Murphy organized a research team to develop magical neural network chips based on Denzel Evans’s magical memristor discovery, supplying researchers with advanced materials from the future. He offered time acceleration and life extension to speed their work against the invasion of the gods, and Denzel proposed accelerating the whole project team together.

• Murphy recognized that Denzel Evans’s magical silicon carbide material could serve as a memristor for artificial neural network chips and formed a project team to study it.
• Murphy gave the researchers future research materials and explained that magical chips were needed to bring magical technology to the precision of modern technology.
• Murphy warned that the gods were invading and offered researchers time acceleration and free life-extension methods, while cautioning them about the mental toll of accelerated research.
• Researchers asked about compensation, vampire life extension, acceleration limits, and the safety of accelerating an entire facility, and several said they wanted to participate.
• Denzel Evans proposed accelerating the magical chip project team collectively so its members could keep their research progress aligned.