Chapter Summaries

Horatio captured Durmstrang Headmaster Karkaroff and forced him to help gather wizarding souls, while the Emperor’s Banner consumed the school’s fleeing staff and students. Horatio also identified Barty Crouch Jr. as Voldemort’s servant and condemned him to the Myriad Souls Banner.

• Thresh brought Karkaroff, Barty Crouch Jr., and the Bald Professor before Horatio as the Emperor’s Banner tore souls from Durmstrang’s fleeing professors and students.
• Karkaroff admitted that Durmstrang barred Muggle-born students under its former headmaster’s rules, and Horatio threatened him with five undead warhorses.
• Horatio ordered Karkaroff to take a secondary banner to his students’ homes and seal their families’ souls inside it within three days.
• Karkaroff accepted the banner and Apparated away after Horatio restored his magic.
• The Emperor’s Banner seized the Bald Professor, and Horatio recognized Barty Crouch Jr. as Voldemort’s servant and detected the effects of unicorn blood on him.
• Barty Crouch Jr. wondered whether Voldemort could win before the Myriad Souls Banner dragged him away.

Horatio forced the Durmstrang souls to work for the Quibble Group and punished Miyano Akemi and Frigga for letting Hestia watch cartoons. The chapter ended with Horatio comforting Frigga while Miyano Akemi watched in shock.

• Horatio assigned the Durmstrang teachers' and students' souls to work 240 hours a day on the Quibble Group's dream game, then raised their workload to 480 hours after Viktor Krum led a protest.
• The Dementors threatened the souls, and after Viktor Krum was dragged away and attacked, Barty Crouch Jr. and the others began reading their manuals.
• Hestia bit Horatio's head, and Horatio scolded Miyano Akemi and Frigga for letting her watch cartoons.
• Horatio cursed Miyano Akemi and Frigga so soap opera male leads looked and sounded like Snape, prompting them to beg him to undo the curse.
• Horatio told Frigga to exercise with Nut and teach Hestia to fly, then comforted Frigga while Miyano Akemi looked on in shock.

Horatio negotiated with Dumbledore to return Hogwarts to its original location and gave Miyano Shiho and Miyano Akemi admission letters as fourth-year students. After locating Erii’s world, Horatio arranged for her to receive a Hogwarts admission letter, and she accepted.

• Horatio told Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall that he had destroyed Durmstrang and captured Barty Crouch Jr., then showed Dumbledore Barty’s soul as proof of Voldemort’s plan to infiltrate Hogwarts.
• Horatio argued with Dumbledore about Hogwarts security and the headmaster position before agreeing to return Hogwarts to its original location.
• Horatio gave Miyano Shiho and Miyano Akemi Hogwarts admission letters and suggested they join Azkaban Academy.
• Horatio’s system located Erii’s world, and he sent her an admission letter offering her a place as a fourth-year transfer student at Hogwarts.
• Uesugi Erii cautiously read the letter and left her name to accept the offer.

Horatio rescued Hui Liyi from the Dragon Race world and brought her to his magical world, where she began settling in with his friends and family. As Hogwarts prepared to open, they explored Horatio’s immersive game world, and Hui Liyi called him her miracle.

• Horatio separated Hui Liyi’s room from the Dragon Race world, freeing her from the force tormenting her, and persuaded her to leave with him.
• Lu Mingze watched Hyper Zetton’s phantom disappear and began arranging a new plan amid the chaos caused by Hui Liyi’s disappearance.
• On September 1, Horatio brought Pheobe and the others into the completed Ark dream-world, where Hermione complained that Hui Liyi’s sword skills gave her an unfair advantage in Sword Art Online.
• Horatio’s friends teased him over using powerful weapons against Hui Liyi, who called him a cheater and hugged him.
• Hui Liyi reflected on how much she enjoyed life with Horatio’s family and magical creatures, and called Horatio her miracle.

Horatio brought Hui Liyi and the Miyano Sisters to Diagon Alley to buy Magic Wands, while Harry and Ronie waited at King's Cross because Bellatrix had delayed the Hogwarts Express for an important guest. The chapter ended with Horatio offering Ollivander bizarre wand materials and Merlin warning the founders, “No trade, no killing.”

• Pheobe scolded Horatio for forgetting to prepare Magic Wands for Hui Liyi and the Miyano Sisters before school began.
• Harry and Ronie found the Hogwarts Express delayed, and Sirius Black learned from Bellatrix that it would not leave until a distinguished guest arrived.
• Horatio led Hui Liyi and the others into Diagon Alley and placed a spell on the entrance that required a quick multiplication calculation or a password.
• Horatio showed Ollivander the Elder Wand and Merlin's magic wand, then offered Merlin's beard and underwear as wand-making materials.
• The founders asked Merlin about the strange chill they felt, and Merlin answered, “No trade, no killing.”

Horatio took Hui Liyi and the Miyano Sisters to Ollivander’s Wand Shop, where they received wands and Ollivander abandoned his plan to use Ravenclaw’s hair as a wand core. Horatio then brought the women to the Hogwarts Express, where he rewarded the train staff with a fivefold salary increase.

• Ollivander refused Horatio’s proposal but ordered Ravenclaw’s long hair from him, while Horatio brought Hui Liyi and the Miyano Sisters to choose wands.
• After two hours, Miyano Akemi chose a pearwood wand with unicorn tail hair, Miyano Shiho chose a walnut wand with dragon heartstring, and Hui Liyi chose a cherrywood wand with Phoenix Tail Feather.
• Horatio summoned Ravenclaw to Ollivander’s shop, but Ollivander panicked and withdrew his request for her hair, forfeiting his deposit and three wands.
• Hui Liyi kissed Horatio, and Miyano Akemi kissed him while Miyano Shiho watched in confusion.
• Horatio took the women through a Portal to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, where Bellatrix welcomed them aboard his Hogwarts Express.
• Horatio raised the train staff’s salaries fivefold, and they cheered for him.

Horatio entertained his companions on the train before arriving at Hogwarts, where a transformed Snape greeted Lily and argued with Sirius Black over Harry. Horatio skipped the welcome feast and returned to his greenhouse, leaving Liu Maoxing and the house-elves to prepare dinner.

• Horatio used Barty Crouch Jr. and the other captured spoils as sparring partners for Hestia, while the group played Werewolf on the train.
• Horatio joined the Werewolf game, but the girls made him the moderator because he kept identifying the wolves.
• At Hogsmeade Station, Horatio was startled to find Snape waiting in a suit with neatly cut hair, and Snape greeted Lily and took her luggage.
• Snape claimed Harry was his son and argued with Sirius Black over taking him to Hogwarts, while Horatio cheered them on.
• Emma Dobbs noticed Horatio's floating Azkaban Academy common room as the first-years arrived at Hogwarts.
• Horatio returned to his greenhouse instead of attending the welcome feast, where Liu Maoxing and the house-elves prepared dinner.

Horatio disrupted Hogwarts’ Sorting Ceremony and feast with advertisements and terrible food, while Dumbledore discovered that Horatio had redirected the kitchen staff. The chapter ended with Gabrielle unleashing a massive magical attack on Beauxbatons.

• The Sorting Hat sang Horatio’s advertisement, and Dumbledore confronted Horatio, who admitted to installing it.
• The Sorting Ceremony ended without any students joining Azkaban Academy, while Horatio kept a larger surprise in reserve.
• Dumbledore found cold Houttuynia cordata salad and plain instant noodles at the feast, then learned Horatio had cut the food budget and taken the house-elves to his greenhouse.
• Karkaroff and Maxime faced problems caused by Horatio, including Durmstrang’s students being forced to work in the Emperor’s Banner.
• Gabrielle announced herself as the Genius Magical Girl and fired a huge beam from a Red Ball at the Beauxbatons courtyard.

Horatio rejected Hermione’s campaign for house-elves’ rights, arguing that many wizarding families would exploit or discard them if they were paid. At Hogwarts, Dumbledore announced changes to dining, a new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, and the Eight-Champion Tournament, whose details remained undecided.

• Hermione asked Horatio to support house-elves’ rights, but he warned that paid house-elves could be thrown out or used in Dark Arts and potion experiments.
• Astoria supported Hermione, and Horatio pinched her cheek until Hermione conceded that some pure-blood families would reject house-elves rather than pay them.
• Horatio returned to dinner with his family while Hogwarts students ate the cold salad he had prepared.
• Dumbledore announced that only Azkaban Academy students could use the kitchens’ late-night snack service, prompting Hufflepuffs led by Cedric to plan a protest.
• Dumbledore introduced Lily Evans as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, and Lily winked at Harry while Snape watched grimly.
• Dumbledore announced that Quidditch was canceled and that Hogwarts would host the Eight-Champion Tournament with seven visiting schools beginning in October, though its format was not yet settled.

Horatio received a second First Class Order of Merlin medal after creating weakened counter-curses for the Unforgivable Curses, then continued his experiments on Voldemort’s and Nagini’s souls. He left Nagini’s fate to Dumbledore and learned that his subordinates had been building his influence while he thought they were merely running a company.

• McGonagall reported Horatio’s counter-curses to Dumbledore, and Azkaban Academy’s score rose to ∞ as Dumbledore promoted the weakened spells.
• The Ministry awarded Horatio a First Class Order of Merlin medal, and The Daily Prophet helped portray him as the light of Wizards.
• Horatio removed the Obscurus magic from Voldemort’s soul while Fafnir and Valkyrie beat Nagini, then examined the woman’s soul inside the snake and decided to leave her rescue to Dumbledore.
• Horatio opened a Portal to Dumbledore’s office and found Grindelwald back from hunting Death Eaters.
• Grindelwald told Horatio that his four subordinates were controlling public opinion and finances, recruiting Wizards, clearing Knockturn Alley, and hiring werewolves; Horatio denied knowing about their methods.
• Dumbledore praised Horatio’s two First Class Order of Merlin medals, and Horatio mistook the remark for proof that Dumbledore would not mock him.

Horatio rescued Ariana’s soul from the Obscurus and restored her in a Homunculus body, but she woke believing Horatio was her son. He brought Ariana home to Paradise Lost, where his companions suspected him of being a pervert.

• Horatio told Dumbledore he could save the woman’s soul inside Nagini, and Grindelwald agreed to pay for the materials.
• Horatio used Fawkes as a coordinate to locate Ariana’s soul in the Time-Space Pocket and removed the Obscurus surrounding it.
• Horatio placed Ariana’s soul in a Homunculus body and restored her, and Ariana woke and called him her son.
• Ariana refused to go home with Dumbledore and Aberforth and insisted on leaving with Horatio.
• Horatio took Ariana to Paradise Lost and introduced her as possibly his mother, prompting Pheobe to call the Aurors and Hui Liyi to call him a pervert.

Ariana and the black-haired girl discussed caring for Horatio as a child and worried that he had not yet used the magic wand to cast Dark Arts. As rumors about Ariana being Horatio’s mother spread through Hogwarts, Horatio discreetly tried to collect on Dumbledore’s promise to become his house-elf, while Ariana reflected on why she had agreed to care for him.

• Ariana tucked Horatio into bed, and after he fell asleep, the black-haired girl emerged from his body and spoke with her about raising him for five years.
• Ariana asked whether Horatio had used the magic wand to cast Dark Arts, and the black-haired girl said he had not.
• Dumbledore questioned Grindelwald about Horatio’s biological parents, but their investigation found no information beyond his childhood at the orphanage.
• Hermione and Astoria wondered how Ariana could be Horatio’s mother despite seeming younger than them.
• Rumors about Horatio and Ariana spread around Hogwarts, and the school’s factions faced punishment from the anti-badmouthing-Horatio system, Hyper Zetton, or Grindelwald.
• Horatio hinted to Ariana that Dumbledore owed him service as a house-elf, while Ariana remembered agreeing to care for Horatio as a last hope for the world.

Horatio gathered his house-elves at Azkaban, where he forced Dumbledore and Grindelwald into servitude and put everyone through punishing exercise. He handed out Ox and Horse Charms to help them train, then assigned them to audit the Quibble Group’s vast assets, leaving the group struggling with basic arithmetic.

• Horatio summoned the house-elves to Azkaban and warned Snape that he could strip the dark side from Lily’s soul if Snape refused to come.
• Harry, Neville, Malfoy, Ronnie, Snape, and Sirius arrived to find Dumbledore and Grindelwald captured and made into house-elves.
• Horatio used a Truth or Dare Curse to make Sirius obey, then banned magic and ordered everyone to do one hundred push-ups.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald injured their backs, Snape and the others quickly exhausted themselves, and Harry and Neville managed sixty push-ups.
• Horatio gave everyone Ox Charms and Horse Charms, restoring their strength and health, then ordered them to complete ten thousand push-ups.
• Horatio assigned the house-elves to audit the Quibble Group’s assets, but Harry, Sirius, and Snape gave wrong answers when asked what nine times nine was.

Madam Maxime and the Beauxbatons students arrived at Hogwarts, where Gabrielle reunited with Horatio and Pheobe. After discussing Beauxbatons’ damage and its flying horses, Madam Maxime warned Pheobe to avoid bringing her future husband back to France.

• Madam Maxime arrived at Hogwarts with the Beauxbatons students and confronted Horatio with a glare before greeting Dumbledore.
• Gabrielle ran to Horatio, complained that he had ignored her letters, and said an evil witch had taken the artifact he gave her.
• Madam Maxime asked to speak with Horatio and explained that Gabrielle’s artifact had caused extensive damage to Beauxbatons.
• Horatio sent Sif to slap Hagrid awake, and Hagrid agreed to care for Beauxbatons’ flying horses, which drank pure malt whisky.
• Horatio offered to cover Beauxbatons’ repair costs, but Madam Maxime declined because Nicolas Flamel’s inheritance had already funded the repairs.
• Madam Maxime told Pheobe not to return to France with her future husband after she married into England.

Horatio tried to forget his questions about parallel worlds and endured a dress-up session before opening the Eight-Champion Tournament with a long speech and a punishment called Anti-Addiction Mode. He then introduced the headmasters’ challenge, leaving them to choose dungeon difficulty through a spicy food test.

• A Black-haired girl secretly arranged for Ariana to interrupt Horatio’s thoughts because she feared he might encounter her previous master.
• Pheobe, Hermione, Astoria, Hui Liyi, and the others dressed Horatio in several costumes, and he recorded his grudge in the Death Note.
• Horatio gave the students a four-hour speech, then activated Anti-Addiction Mode after they failed his quiz, restricting their entertainment and food.
• Horatio explained that the headmasters would enter small worlds to solve puzzles, with difficulty determined by a spicy food challenge.
• Dumbledore chose mildly spicy, most headmasters chose extra spicy, Avonsky reached for blooming, and Karkaroff chose extinction.

After surviving Horatio’s extinction-level hot sauce, Karkaroff entered the easiest dungeon and repeatedly died while answering a shape-shifting weasel’s question. Horatio then sent Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the other headmasters into their dungeons, with Dumbledore and Grindelwald choosing to challenge one together.

• Horatio sent Karkaroff into a dungeon as a reward for being the first Champion to challenge his extinction-level spicy food.
• Karkaroff repeatedly died after giving the weasel the wrong answer to whether it looked like a human or a god.
• The Durmstrang students watched the weasel transform into absurd forms while Horatio enjoyed the spectacle.
• Horatio urged the headmasters to eat the hot sauce and enter their dungeons.
• Grindelwald asked to accompany Dumbledore, and the two decided to challenge a dungeon together.
• Dumbledore, Grindelwald, and the other headmasters stepped through Horatio’s Portal into the dungeon world.

The headmasters were transported into dangerous dungeon scenarios, while Dumbledore and Grindelwald landed on an isolated island and took on roles as teacher and investigator. As they searched for clues about Atilina, Dumbledore admitted he longed for a quiet life teaching, and he and Grindelwald promised to seek one together after the dungeon ended.

• Avonsky, Fontana, Madam Maxime, Kikyo, Babatus, and Nataxi arrived in separate scenarios with dangers approaching, while the students watching them grew anxious.
• Dumbledore and Grindelwald met Jacob and armed villagers on Otmatierla Island, where their magic was gone and they surrendered.
• Dumbledore persuaded Jacob that they were a couple whose plane had crashed, and Jacob asked him to teach the village children.
• Dumbledore began teaching while Grindelwald investigated Atilina, but the villagers refused to explain who she was.
• Dumbledore confessed he missed the simple life of teaching, and Grindelwald promised they would find a village and live together after the dungeon ended.

Horatio studied a weasel’s transformation technique, combined it with Alchemy, and created Jade pendants that gave animals human forms while preserving their features. After Hathor’s transformation stirred jealousy among Horatio’s companions, he put pendants on several more animals, leaving the room full of animal-eared girls.

• Horatio threw Karkaroff out of the dungeon world without canceling his first-place score, then forced a weasel to seek ordainment abroad instead of preying on people from Dragon Country.
• The weasel agreed to take its followers to America to become gods and gave Horatio an ancient book about transformation.
• Horatio studied the technique, combined it with Alchemy, and made Jade pendants that could turn animals into humans while retaining animal traits.
• Horatio put a Jade pendant on Hathor, transforming her into a girl with cat ears and a tail.
• Hermione, Astoria, and Pheobe worried about Hathor’s closeness to Horatio, while Horatio put more pendants on his companions and filled the room with animal-eared girls.

Grindelwald and Dumbledore set out to find the Little Girl, but a terrifying supernatural vision enveloped them in the forest. Meanwhile, Harry was chased by Hestia until Frigga took her home, and Horatio continued trying to obtain a Shiny Sif.

• Grindelwald decided to seek out the Little Girl, and Dumbledore insisted on accompanying him beyond the village.
• A white mist swallowed Grindelwald and Dumbledore, revealing a blood-red, bone-covered forest and a winged monster attacking them.
• Hestia chased Harry with fireballs after mistaking his attempt to help her for a kidnapping, while the students mocked him.
• Frigga reassured Hestia, who insisted only her Master could touch her horns, then took her home for food.
• The students realized Frigga and Hestia were Horatio's dragon and phoenix after they transformed and flew away.
• Horatio repeatedly released and recalled Sif in an attempt to get a Shiny one, confusing Hermione.

Dumbledore and Grindelwald learned from Sharifa that the island was the body of a slain goddess and that world-threatening filth was about to erupt. They remained wary of Sharifa’s account, but Grindelwald revealed he could wield blue flame as they prepared to investigate.

• Dumbledore woke in a cave beside Grindelwald, and Sharifa offered him medicinal soup before leading them outside.
• Sharifa explained that humans had killed her mother, the Goddess of Ocean and Life, and that the goddess’s death had left the world’s filth to accumulate.
• Sharifa said the island’s villagers had imprisoned her with God-Slaying Blade shackles and drew her blood each month, while warning the filth would engulf the world within a week.
• Dumbledore chose to investigate before deciding whether to help, and he and Grindelwald suspected Sharifa might be the island deity seeking revenge on the village.
• Grindelwald advised Dumbledore to drink the soup and revealed that he could summon blue flame.