Recaps

Murphy returned from the Ragnarok experiment with divine power and Rhinegold secured for his planned divine prison, then arrived at a tense wizard camp near Camelot. Myrddin Wyllt tried to protect him from the soldiers, but Godson Merlin appeared and seized Myrddin for speaking against him.

• Murphy reflected on the success of the Ragnarok experiment and the divine power he had gathered.
• Murphy used his ring to sense and control the Rhinegold sleeping beneath the Rhine, which he planned to use as the core of a divine prison.
• Murphy teleported to a military camp near Camelot and discovered that it was a gathering place for wizards and other intelligent species.
• An officer accused Murphy of being a spy and ordered the soldiers to seize him.
• Myrddin Wyllt intervened, claiming Murphy was one of Godson Merlin's men, then warned him that Merlin was a warlord rather than a savior of wizards.
• Godson Merlin seized Myrddin by the throat with a hand of branches and vines and threatened to kill him for speaking against him again.

Murphy confronted Merlin, who was enslaving wizards at a camp as part of a war against Christian followers. After Merlin attacked him, Murphy killed him and scanned his brain, learning that Britain’s native gods had created multiple sons of God to rally an army; other powerful figures then surrounded Murphy.

• Merlin threatened Wilt to test Murphy, but Murphy severed the vines and freed Wilt.
• Wilt told Murphy that Merlin and the other sons of God had enslaved wizards to forge weapons for their war against Christians.
• Merlin attacked Murphy with earth and thorny vines, but Murphy emerged unharmed and seized him.
• Murphy used a physical brain scan to kill Merlin and read his memories, discovering the native gods’ plan and that other sons of God were at the camp.
• Several powerful magical presences gathered around Murphy.

Murphy watched a battle between the children of Britain's native gods and a Christian angel legion, as mortal forces attacked their camp. With the gods cut off from their followers and Cú Chulainn near death, Murphy offered Ríg a chance to save his friend.

• Murphy recognized that Britain around 400 CE was contested by Christianity, native gods, and other pantheons, and watched as children of the Tuatha Dé Danann surrounded him.
• An angel legion descended from the clouds while Christian cavalry charged the camp, and Cú Chulainn led the children of gods into battle.
• Four archangels emerged from the angels’ ritual and overwhelmed the children of gods, while Ríg used his healing cauldron to treat the wounded.
• The cavalry broke through the camp’s defenses, most of the children of gods were killed or gravely wounded, and Cú Chulainn was left near death.
• Murphy told Ríg that the Christian God’s power had blocked their prayers and offered to help save Cú Chulainn.

Murphy saved Cú Chulainn’s camp from the Archangels and Crusader cavalry, then revealed that he intended to recruit Britain’s native gods and empower wizards. He declared that he would help the wizards build the Magic Web, leaving the camp poised for a new alliance.

• Murphy destroyed the Archangels and drove off most of the Angel Legion, allowing the godchildren and camp forces to defeat the Crusader cavalry.
• The survivors thanked Murphy, and he asked why the godchildren had gathered wizards in their camp.
• Cú Chulainn explained that they were protecting hunted wizards and teaching them goblin alchemy so they could forge weapons.
• Murphy challenged the godchildren’s belief that wizards were too weak to fight, then summoned thousands of flaming swords over the camp.
• Murphy told the wizards that they could become powerful warriors through the Magic Web and promised to help them build it.

Murphy explained how he would build a Magic Web to strengthen wizards and attract the Godchildren and deities into using it. He planned to make the network a controlled trap, with himself retaining hidden access and authority.

• Murphy described the Magic Web’s components and explained that magical metals, varied magic power, and a ritual would be needed to build it.
• Murphy said he would have the wizards produce the network’s magical materials and use their magic power, while keeping the Godchildren involved only later.
• Murphy planned to equip the Magic Web with a trained neural network that would let users cast spells through simple commands while conserving magic power.
• The Godchildren were overwhelmed by Murphy’s explanation and eagerly left the complex construction work to the wizards.
• Murphy decided the Magic Web would serve as a cage for the deities, who would depend on its power while remaining under his control.

Murphy led the wizards in preparing the Magic Web and, after months of work, completed its large model and began building the first node. He left the gathered wizards and divine children impressed after creating the node’s underground foundation through precise magic.

• Murphy took over Merlin’s identity and used Seeds of the Mind to give thirteen wizards the knowledge and loyalty needed to organize the Magic Web project.
• Over several months, the wizards learned to refine Orichalcum, built a smelting furnace, and gathered specialized magic power while Murphy trained the Magic Web’s large model.
• In the seventh month, Murphy announced the construction ceremony and demonstrated how he could shape his magic power into a sharply bounded area without external tools.
• Murphy transformed the ground into a deep pit, then formed and hardened a cylindrical basin with a complex honeycomb structure underground.
• The watching wizards and divine children were astonished, and Murphy called for the Orichalcum to be brought over.

Murphy completed the first Magic Web node, secretly supplying it with divine magic while a public ritual made the wizards appear to power it. The node awakened, and the wizards discovered they could cast magic with their minds alone.

• Murphy forged a layered Orichalcum circuit motherboard, installed magical chips and functional modules, then sealed the node inside a ceramic casing.
• Hundreds of wizards, led by Murphy's thirteen disciples, performed a ritual to feed the node crystals containing polar magic.
• Murphy secretly added divine magic and concealed his role, while the watching godchildren debated whether the Magic Web was genuine.
• After the ritual ended, a wave passed through the wizards, connecting them to the surrounding magic and giving them a new sensation of ability.
• One wizard produced sparks by willing them into being, and the wizards realized they had finally mastered magic.

Murphy explained that divine children had to contribute magical power to use the Magic Web, which had been built with the wizards’ power. After Cú Chulainn registered and paid into it, he used its support to unleash a devastating spell, leaving him astonished by how effortlessly he could wield magic.

• Gro confronted Murphy when the divine children could not feel the Magic Web’s effects, and Murphy explained that users had to contribute magical power to receive its benefits.
• Murphy said the wizards had funded the Web’s foundation and that later users could register and invest power to gain its feedback.
• Cú Chulainn recited the registration spell and contributed magical power to the Magic Web.
• Cú Chulainn used the Web to cast a fiery attack that destroyed half of a distant mountain.
• Cú Chulainn marveled at how naturally and powerfully the Magic Web let him cast magic.

Murphy drew the divine children and gods toward the Magic Web, then met Morrigan when she arrived to investigate it and demand control. Morrigan recognized that Murphy was using the Web in a hidden scheme against Satan, and invited him to join her against their common enemy.

• Cú Chulainn amazed the divine children with a powerful spell, prompting them to register for the Magic Web.
• Murphy taught his disciples how to replicate Magic Web nodes, while Morrigan secretly observed the camp and his lesson.
• Murphy dismissed the wizards and greeted Morrigan, who questioned his identity and the source of his power.
• Morrigan demanded control of the Magic Web, but Murphy explained that it ran through a self-sustaining feedback mechanism and could not be handed over.
• Morrigan sensed Murphy’s conspiracy and identified Satan as his powerful enemy, then offered him eternal victory if he joined her.

Morrigan tried to persuade Murphy to give her authority over the Magic Web, but he revealed that it could fundamentally strengthen gods by improving their divine power. He explained how its communication and processing abilities could deepen faith and divinity, leaving Morrigan eager to learn more about its potential.

• Morrigan offered Murphy allies and protection in exchange for the Magic Web, while warning him that gods resented his killing of Merlin.
• Murphy told Morrigan that the Magic Web could purify a god's divinity and permanently raise the quality and limit of divine power.
• Morrigan demanded to know how the Magic Web could strengthen gods, and Murphy said the key was communication with believers.
• Murphy explained that the Magic Web could deliver prayers in real time, reduce the cost of miracles, gather believers' thoughts, and let gods communicate with many followers at once.
• Murphy said the Magic Web could imitate a god's routine responses, allowing divine power to rise while reducing the god's workload.

Murphy explained the Magic Web’s benefits to Morrigan, who reported its success to Dagda and learned the gods planned to kill Murphy once he had taught the wizards. Knowing Vivian had betrayed him, Murphy teleported his disciples away and prepared to fight the gods trapping him.

• Murphy convinced Morrigan that the Magic Web could improve communication with believers and increase divine power, provided gods invested divinity in it.
• Morrigan told Dagda that the Magic Web had strengthened her, and they agreed to imprison the wizards and kill Murphy after he taught them.
• Murphy warned his thirteen disciples to learn, scatter, and seek shelter among different gods, then revealed that he intended to die rather than let the gods trust the Magic Web’s investment.
• Murphy identified Vivian as the one who had alerted the gods, forgave her, and teleported his disciples away as the gods arrived.
• Vivian spoke in Morrigan’s voice while a giant cauldron trapped Murphy, who declared that he would fight rather than surrender.

A young priest oversaw the burning of a village and a little witch, convinced he was sending her soul to God's side. Murphy arrived, froze the knights and priest, and rescued the girl before vanishing with her.

• A young priest confronted the knight captain about burning the village and learned the dead villagers had been accused of helping a witch.
• The priest identified the terrified girl as a witch, ordered her tied to the pyre, and lit the oil-soaked wood.
• As the girl burned, the priest's cross trembled violently and broke free when Murphy approached.
• Murphy's chilling presence extinguished the village fires and froze the knights, while he twisted the cross into scrap metal and froze the priest to death.
• Murphy carried the unconscious silver-haired girl away and vanished.

Murphy rescued Miriam from an execution, softened her traumatic memories, and left her in Martin’s care. After discovering that the Magic Web was absent nearby, he found a working node in London.

• Miriam woke from a nightmare, and Murphy used magic to blur her memories of the execution.
• Murphy carried the sleeping Miriam to a forest cabin in Cornwall and asked Martin to care for her.
• Martin accepted Miriam after Murphy stopped and turned his arrow into gold as payment.
• Murphy found no Magic Web coverage near Cornwall, then scanned for a node and located one in London.

Murphy connected thirty-seven mana nodes, completing a rudimentary Magic Web, while Morrigan summoned Merlin's skeleton to learn how to control it. Merlin revealed a spell that could control every node, but Odin's raven escaped with the secret.

• Murphy connected the mana nodes in the Tuatha Dé Danann and Aesir camps and established links to thirty-seven nodes, completing the Magic Web.
• Morrigan summoned Merlin's skeleton and accused him of spreading Magic Web technology among the gods.
• Merlin resisted Morrigan's threats and told her that a spell called Patong Re Kesar could create a core for controlling every Magic Web node.
• Odin's raven overheard the spell and escaped the cave to carry the message to Odin.
• Morrigan smashed Merlin's skeleton, but its skull kept laughing and cursed that it would be waiting for her in Avalon.

Murphy used a controlled conversation to reveal the Magic Web core incantation to Odin, who withdrew his troops and told his followers they could gain control of the network. Loki arrived, was accused of betrayal, and left after giving Odin the same incantation and returning a golden spear.

• Munin reported to Odin that he had overheard the incantation for creating a Magic Web core, after Murphy and Miss Sharp Branch had arranged for him to hear it.
• Odin ordered his troops to retreat and told Vidar, Vali, and the others that the incantation could let them control every Magic Web node, though it also required the world's strongest material.
• Loki entered the camp and embraced Odin, but Vidar and Vali accused him of causing Ragnarok and betraying the Norse gods.
• Loki admitted bringing the Ring of the Nibelung but denied betraying Odin, then left after saying he should not have come.
• Loki gave Odin the incantation, Patong Re Kesar, and returned a golden spear he had found at the bottom of the Nine Realms before saying goodbye.

Odin and Vali searched the Rhine River for Rhinegold, following Gungnir to a riverside house where Vali found the nugget. After Vali injured a boy and Odin’s party tried to leave, a high-ranking angel descended to confront them.

• Murphy spread news of Rhinegold by sending lightning crows in every direction.
• Odin used Gungnir to guide him and Vali toward Rhinegold, but the spear struck a wooden house by the Rhine River.
• Vali searched the ruins, found a gold nugget buried in foul soil, and recognized it as Rhinegold.
• Vali kicked aside the injured boy, Vic, and took his bundle; Odin offered the grieving old man a divine berry seed as compensation.
• As Odin and Vali prepared to leave, the old man rose and accused them of hurting someone, and a high-ranking angel descended.

Odin fled the pursuing angels so Vali could carry the Rhinegold to Asgard, then fought off four archangels before the seraph ensnared him with visions of his loved ones. Loki arrived and cut off two of the seraph’s wings, pulling Odin free.

• Odin escaped with Vali, then gave him the Rhinegold and sent him to Asgard to seek Thor’s help.
• Odin stayed behind on the mountain and fought four archangels, defeating them one by one, including Tyr.
• Odin pierced the seraph with Gungnir and saw the tortured faces of gods and friends fused inside it.
• The seraph showed Odin visions of his loved ones and began pulling him into its radiance.
• Loki cut off two of the seraph’s wings and rescued Odin from its grasp.

Loki stayed behind to confront the Seraphs while secretly forcing Odin out of the battle, then offered the Christian God a deal in exchange for Rhinegold. The angel rejected him and surrounded him with reinforcements, claiming it would uncover Loki’s true ambitions by eating him.

• Loki and Odin fought together and killed one Seraph, but both were badly wounded.
• Odin prepared to sacrifice himself with Gungnir, but Loki used their shared divine power to send him away.
• Loki revealed his identity as Murphy and asked the Christian God to talk, offering to help obtain Rhinegold.
• Loki proposed helping the Christian God rule the world in exchange for becoming god-king of Asgard and Olympus, but the angel refused.
• The Christian God summoned Archangels and three Seraphs, accused Loki of plotting for centuries, and threatened to eat him to discover his true intentions.

Thor watched an unknown god battle the Angel Legion in a distant wasteland and resolved to seize the Magic Web using the core he had obtained. Murphy deliberately let the angels capture him so their divine power would attempt to convert him, and the chapter left him enduring the transformation while welcoming it as a temptation.

• Thor saw the unknown god kill Archangels despite facing the Angel Legion and concluded that he needed more power.
• Thor confirmed that Rhinegold and Vali’s incantation had created a Magic Web Core, then vowed to wage war for control of the nodes.
• Murphy slaughtered angels with his magic but deliberately let the Angel Legion injure him and assumed the form of a demon god.
• The surviving angels bound Murphy in a cross-shaped phased array and summoned divine power to convert him.
• Murphy endured the foreign divine power tearing through his body and urged the angels to turn him into an angel.

The Christian God transformed Satan into Lucifer, the King of Angels, and learned from his memories that Satan had been his primordial counterpart and enemy. Recovered from the transformation, he ordered Lucifer to attack Asgard and seize Rhinegold.

• The Christian God spent ten days transforming Satan into an angel, exhausting both their powers before Satan became Lucifer.
• The Christian God named Lucifer the King of Angels, and Heaven celebrated his transformation.
• The Christian God read Satan's memories and learned about their shared origins and opposing roles as successors of the One True God.
• The Christian God discovered Satan's scheme as the God of Schemes and Lies and decided it would aid his own plan.
• After recovering his divine power, the Christian God ordered Lucifer to attack Asgard and seize Rhinegold.

Ten years later, Merlin trained young wizards while serving Lucifer and guiding Arthur toward his destiny. Lucifer sent Merlin to take Arthur to a lakeside for a new sword, then led the Angel Legion in an assault on Olympus.

• Merlin taught Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Miriam, and the other young wizards, warning them against learning about the Magic Web.
• Lucifer summoned Merlin, who reported that Arthur was growing into kingship but had broken his sword in a duel with King Pellinore.
• Lucifer told Merlin to take Arthur to a lakeside in a few days, where Arthur would receive a sword, and praised Merlin for keeping Magic Web incantations from the Order.
• Merlin warned Lucifer that mysterious forces were approaching the Knights of the Round Table, but Lucifer dismissed them as the work of evil gods.
• Lucifer led tens of thousands of angels toward Mount Olympus, declaring that the endgame had begun.

Lucifer presented the Christian God with Rhinegold and proposed using it to create the Holy Grail as the centerpiece of a ritual to destroy the evil gods' remaining faith. The plan would turn Arthur Weasley's quest into the Legend of King Arthur and culminate in a wish that spread God's glory across the world.

• Lucifer offered the Christian God a piece of Rhinegold, giving Him access to the Magic Web and its immense power.
• Lucifer explained that destroying the evil gods' remaining faith required royal authority, public exposure of their evil, and a new miracle.
• Lucifer chose Arthur Weasley as a devout king and proposed telling his quest as the Legend of King Arthur.
• Lucifer outlined a ritual in which Rhinegold would create an increasingly powerful Holy Grail, while Arthur's oath, victories, and the deaths of people and gods strengthened it.
• Lucifer planned for Arthur to wish for God's glory to shine across the world after completing his quest, and vowed the Angel Legion would ensure the ritual succeeded.

Five years after the gods’ schemes began threatening Camelot, Murphy Darkholme arrived to meet Merlin, then broke into an Abyssal cavern and took Miriam and several prisoner slaves. Merlin healed under the King of Angels’ power and ordered the ritual to release Nidhogg, leaving Camelot’s plans in motion ahead of schedule.

• Merlin recalled the gods’ plots against Camelot and ordered Salazar to send sick prisoners to Nidhogg after Gryffindor interfered with their handling.
• Gryffindor showed Merlin a prophetic note from Miriam about the Messiah, but Merlin ordered him to stop investigating her disappearance.
• Murphy Darkholme arrived in Camelot and introduced himself to Merlin as a wizard from the modern era.
• A black-robed wizard shoved Salazar into the Abyss, and Merlin rescued him while the intruder took Miriam and several prisoner slaves.
• Merlin recognized the intruder as Murphy, received healing from the King of Angels, and ordered the ritual to release Nidhogg.

Five years after Sophia’s first arrival, she woke in Miriam’s body on Rathlin Island and read that the free wizards were hiding from a world consumed by war and plague. Meanwhile, Lugh and the surviving Tuatha Dé Danann faced imminent destruction, but Morrigan revealed she still had an unplayed piece.

• Sophia woke in a village of free wizards on Rathlin Island and found Miriam’s letter and diary prepared for her.
• Miriam’s letter explained that Sophia had arrived from a thousand years in the future, would return to her own body within days, and had previously helped Miriam meet Lord Murphy.
• Miriam warned Sophia that gods and mortals were at war, free wizards were being hunted, and the Dragon Plague was spreading across Great Britain.
• Lugh surveyed the ruined Tuatha Dé Danann and blamed Merlin and Arthur for helping the Christian God seize control of the Magic Web through a ritual of conquest and sacrifice.
• Lugh despaired that Arthur was protected by Lucifer and the Archangels, but Morrigan said she still had one piece left to enter the board.

Lucifer ordered Arthur Weasley to return immediately and crush Mordred’s rebellion, while Morrigan revealed that Mordred had been conceived as a mortal weapon against Arthur. At Camlann Hill, Arthur’s battle with Mordred erupted despite a warning, and the gods’ fight widened as Norse raiders and Roman warriors arrived to aid the Danu gods.

• Merlin told Lucifer that Mordred had rebelled, spread rumors of Arthur Weasley’s death, and planned to marry Guinevere, so Lucifer ordered Arthur to depart for Great Britain at once.
• Morrigan explained to Lugh that Mordred was a mortal born after she arranged for Morgan to conceive him with Arthur, intending him to kill the Holy Son.
• An angel disguised as Sir Gawain warned Arthur in a dream that he would die if he fought that day, and Arthur postponed his planned attack on Mordred.
• A snake appeared during negotiations between Arthur’s and Mordred’s forces, triggering a brutal battle at Camlann Hill.
• Uriel’s Archangels attacked the outnumbered Danu gods, but Viking longships and chariots carrying Roman warrior souls arrived, surprising Uriel.