Chapter Summaries

Soldier Boy brought Balthazar and Dave to Vought Tower and helped persuade the authorities to prepare for the approaching magical threat. As New York began evacuating, Balthazar and the superheroes waited for the ritual to reveal the enemy’s location, while Balthazar warned Dave that the heroes could not be trusted.

• Soldier Boy brought Balthazar and Dave to Vought Tower, where Madelyn and the president learned that magic users were preparing to destroy the world.
• The president ordered the military to support the superheroes, gather information on the magic users, and evacuate Manhattan before the ritual.
• New Yorkers began evacuating, while conspiracy-minded residents and looters added to the city’s chaos.
• Peggy left New York with her classmates after Dave warned her to escape the danger.
• At Vought Tower, Balthazar explained that the ritual’s disturbance would reveal the enemy’s location and that they would have about half an hour to stop it.
• Homelander mocked Soldier Boy, then was fooled into thinking cameras were filming; Balthazar told Dave that the superheroes were hypocrites and that they would have to save the world themselves.

Andrew used the Dark Portal to draw Dark Mages into illusions inside the Black Prison, where he offered to spare them in exchange for their souls. As Balthazar prepared White Mage reinforcements and the Black Prison ritual began, Drake accepted Andrew’s bargain while Fire Bear pursued a new form of magic.

• Balthazar said he had summoned about twenty White Mages, while Maxim told Andrew that Morgana’s Mark had called Dark Mages to New York.
• Andrew revealed that the Dark Portal could contact and teleport mages, and planned to use it to capture the Dark Mages; Maxim and three arrivals prepared to unseal the Black Prison.
• Maxim sent Drake, Fire Bear, and the maid to channel magic into the Magic Array, which transported each of them into an illusion inside the Black Prison.
• Drake became trapped in a water-tank escape illusion without his Magic Ring and accepted Andrew’s offer to spare his life in exchange for his soul.
• Fire Bear entered a laboratory illusion and tried to combine werewolf genes with his blood using magic, hoping to establish a Druid School.

Fire Bear and the maid girl fell into Andrew's service after he exploited their illusions in the Black Prison. As Maxim summoned the Crow Four Siblings to help open the prison, Andrew intercepted them inside the Magic Array and demanded their submission.

• Fire Bear's werewolf gene experiment caused his body to collapse, and he accepted the mysterious voice's offer, becoming Andrew's servant.
• Andrew trapped the maid girl in an illusion involving a filthy alien invasion, then claimed her soul after offering her power to defeat it.
• Andrew secretly modified the Magic Array to place a Demon King's Mark on prisoners who escaped the Black Prison.
• Maxim completed the Dark Portal and summoned the Crow Four Siblings, who agreed to help open the Black Prison for Morgana.
• The Crow Four Siblings entered Andrew's arena, where Andrew demanded they submit, and Second Sister attacked him with a swarm of fire crows.

Andrew defeated and recruited the Crow Four Siblings in the Illusion Realm, then used the arriving Dark Mages to build a force under his control. As Maxim prepared to open the Black Prison, Andrew announced that it would open now and considered whether a Multiversal Entity might appear.

• Andrew countered the Crow Four Siblings' attacks, froze them with an aura that affected time, and forced them to agree to submit.
• After Andrew sent the siblings out of the Illusion Realm, they blamed Maxim for the trap and swore revenge on him.
• Maxim summoned the Skeleton Wizard Couple, who entered the arena and were also controlled by Andrew.
• The arriving Dark Mages persuaded two reluctant newcomers to join them, while Maxim remained unaware that Andrew controlled the group.
• Maxim questioned why the Black Prison had not opened despite the gathered magic power, and Andrew said it would open now.

Balthazar gathered sixteen White Mages to stop Morgana, while Soldier Boy set his trap for multiversal entities and kept Homelander in check through a livestream. After Morgana began casting Rebellion Magic, the heroes and mages converged on Manhattan as the Dark Mages prepared to fight them.

• Balthazar reunited with sixteen mage friends and led them toward Morgana after she escaped the Black Prison and began her ritual.
• Homelander complained about the mages, but Madelyn warned him that a mysterious camera was livestreaming, prompting him to behave for the audience.
• The mages transformed statues outside Vought Tower into flying animals and rode them toward the black vortex, bringing Dave despite his failure to learn Plasma Ball.
• Soldier Boy reasoned that the livestream could attract multiversal entities and set out by helicopter with his team and A-Train.
• Morgana, using Veronica's body, began casting Rebellion Magic while Maxim assigned the Dark Mages to intercept Balthazar and the others.
• Crow Boss's group planned to trap Homelander and Soldier Boy in the Mirror World, while Homelander sent Hunter to search for the livestream camera and Hunter failed to find it.

The President’s attempt to stop the mysterious livestream failed, while Homelander fought the Dark Mages and was banished into Mirror Space. As Balthazar’s group was drawn into battle, he sent Dave to rescue Homelander despite Dave’s lack of experience.

• The President learned that the authorities could not trace the livestream and ordered the Network Team to stop the camera, but it soon filmed him and his staff discussing nuclear weapons aimed at New York.
• Balthazar confronted Maxim and the Dark Mages in the square as Homelander charged into battle and defeated Rock with a single punch.
• Crow Boss lured Homelander into a magic array and banished him to Mirror Space, where Homelander found an empty, silent version of Manhattan.
• Balthazar tried to organize a rescue, but Maxim and the Dark Mages attacked, forcing the White Mages to fight back.
• Balthazar sent Dave to Mirror Space to rescue Homelander, and Dave protested that he did not know how to enter it.

Soldier Boy and the superheroes fought Crow Boss and the dark mages while Dave searched for a mirror to enter the Mirror Space. The battle remained unresolved, with the military struggling and Morgana staying protected by Drake, Fire Bear, and the maid.

• Dave tried to enter the Mirror Space through a mirror, shattered it, and went searching for another one while Soldier Boy led the superheroes into battle.
• Soldier Boy tricked Crow Boss with an illusion and invisibility, struck him hard, and then fought Crow Boss and Crow Fourth Child after a crow rescued the injured mage.
• A mage used puppet magic on A-Train, but Starlight Annie exploited their synchronized movements to attack the mage before A-Train returned to help her break free.
• The superheroes fought the mages with teamwork, while the military's vehicles proved vulnerable to magic and Nathan stayed to fight rather than flee.
• The president ordered the nuclear-bomb vehicle moved away and aircraft carriers kept clear of New York as Drake, Fire Bear, and the maid guarded Morgana.

Dave learned that Merlin had prophesied he would become the next Merlin and the only person able to kill Morgana, while Homelander found a way to break out of the Mirror Space. As Morgana prepared to finish her spell, Chthon secretly aided her and tried to curse Andrew, but Andrew suppressed the wraith and altered the magic knowledge Chthon received to help locate him.

• Balthazar told Dave that Merlin had prophesied he would be the next Merlin and the only one who could kill Morgana, encouraging him to keep trying to enter the Mirror Space.
• Homelander used Death's Eye to spot patterns in the Mirror Space and began striking them to escape.
• Chthon contacted Morgana through a sleeping woman, warned her about Andrew, and traded a way to threaten superheroes for her basic magic knowledge.
• Andrew overheard their conversation and altered the magic knowledge Morgana sent to Chthon so he could track Chthon when he practiced it.
• Morgana accepted Chthon's aura, corrupted soldiers and civilians in Manhattan, and sent the affected civilians toward the square as her ritual continued.
• Chthon sacrificed the woman to send a wraith curse along Andrew's power, but Andrew captured and suppressed it while Chthon corrected flaws in Morgana's magic knowledge.

Homelander escaped Mirror Space and tried to stop Morgana, but her defenses and the soldiers blocked him. Controlled civilians then swarmed the battlefield, turning the fight in the Dark Mages’ favor.

• Andrew watched the battle and planned to use Ganahta to attack Chthon after Chthon began practicing magic.
• Dave mastered Mirror Magic but became stuck halfway between Mirror Space and Reality World after Homelander escaped, inspiring Peggy to pursue becoming a Music Mage.
• Homelander attacked Crow Boss, then followed Soldier Boy’s plea to stop Morgana while Balthazar held Maxim back to protect Veronica.
• Homelander defeated Drake and Fire Bear and knocked the maid aside, but Morgana’s Automatic Defense Magic teleported him away from her.
• Soldiers fired at Homelander to keep him from reaching Morgana, and the Military general said they were not under the Military’s control.
• Thousands of black-eyed civilians attacked the superheroes and mages, allowing the Dark Mages to gain the advantage.

Morgana completed her ritual, unleashing resurrected Death Mages across the world while the heroes and White Mages failed to stop her. Andrew secured the White Mages’ souls in exchange for a promise to save the world, then appeared amid a wash of moonlight.

• Stormfront directed Homelander toward Morgana, but five Dark Mages trapped him with a Slowness Spell.
• Andrew gave Hoggoth authentic Technology Magic information, promised to provide magic gems after the battle, and said he had arranged events to claim the spoils.
• Morgana sacrificed Veronica to accelerate the ritual, and black mist resurrected Death Mages around the world.
• The resurrected mages attacked people as Morgana declared the world belonged to the Dark Mages, leaving the heroes and White Mages powerless.
• Andrew offered to save the world in exchange for one condition, and Balthazar and the other White Mages agreed, surrendering their souls to him.
• Andrew left the Magic Array and appeared beneath the moonlight.

Andrew arrived to confront Morgana and turned the battle in the heroes’ favor, resurrecting Fire Dragon and defeating waves of Dark Mages with his magic. Morgana animated a skyscraper to fight Fire Dragon, while Balthazar and Maxim resumed their argument over who had been Merlin’s best student.

• Andrew appeared above the square, absorbed Morgana’s and the Dark Mages’ attacks, and resurrected Fire Dragon from Dave’s Dragon Ring and a dragon tooth.
• Andrew denied being Merlin reincarnated, fought Morgana with a black umbrella, and knocked her out of the sky.
• Andrew used a Super Electromagnetic Cannon to blast away many Dark Mages while Balthazar and the White Mages fought to support him.
• Morgana summoned the Undead Mages and animated a skyscraper, which struck Fire Dragon and sent him flying.
• Balthazar attacked Maxim after Maxim claimed he had been Merlin’s best student before betraying him.

Andrew defeated Morgana and her undead army in a public battle, saving Manhattan and cementing his fame as its most popular superhero. Morgana and the vortex were destroyed, while the multiversal entities began considering how to respond to Andrew’s open display of power.

• Andrew enlarged his fire dragon, which fought the skyscraper giant while rubble and shock waves devastated the plaza.
• Andrew redirected Morgana’s attacks, trapped her, and took Veronica’s Magic Ring, but Morgana escaped his grasp using a second ring bound to her soul.
• Andrew’s magic helped Veronica regain partial control of her body, and he summoned a sun that purified the undead mages pouring from the vortex.
• Veronica held their body in place to stop Morgana, but Morgana fled in soul form; Andrew caught her and sent her into the sun, destroying her, the vortex, and the undead army.
• Andrew collected the magic gems as viewers and superheroes cheered, while Homelander resented his loss of fame and the multiversal entities considered how to deal with him.

After Morgana’s defeat, Andrew Wang captured the remaining mages and brought them to the Wasteland World, where he revealed that he controlled their souls. The crisis ended, but the superheroes faced a damaged reputation, and Dave remained stranded without a mage to help him.

• The president approved a superhero support organization as Morgana’s victims collapsed and the building giant fell.
• Andrew trapped the Dark Mages in a Spatial Vortex, pulled in the White Mages too, and left the superheroes to deal with the aftermath.
• Andrew dismissed Homelander’s anger, warned the superheroes to grow stronger, and departed with Fire Dragon.
• The president realized Dave might be Earth’s last mage and sent someone to contact him while the viewers laughed at Dave’s predicament.
• In the Wasteland World, Rock urged Balthazar to join forces against Andrew, but Veronica persuaded Balthazar to wait and hear Andrew out.
• Andrew arrived and revealed that he had claimed the souls of the White and Dark Mages, while Balthazar accepted his new master.

Andrew brought the captured mages to the Wasteland World and assigned them to help rebuild the city and cleanse radiation, while Queen Maeve warned that radiation sickness was killing its people. He then sent Maxim and Fire Dragon to hunt evil creatures in the Van Helsing World, promising Maxim he could save Veronica, who was happily planning a future with Balthazar.

• Andrew forced the Dark Mages to help save the Wasteland World and bound the soul of one who attacked him into a sand guard.
• Andrew let the White Mages choose to stay or return to Earth, but forbade them from sharing magic or magic gems without his permission.
• Veronica chose to stay with Balthazar and the other White Mages, and Andrew assigned the mages to Queen Maeve to build New City and clear radiation.
• Queen Maeve told Andrew that radiation sickness had left nearly everyone unhealthy and shortened most residents’ lives, so Andrew asked the mages to seek a cure.
• Andrew took Maxim and Fire Dragon to the Van Helsing World to eliminate evil creatures and promised Maxim that he could save Veronica.
• Maxim worked tirelessly to earn time back in the Wasteland World, while Veronica and Balthazar planned to have a child.

Andrew used magic and technology to locate and send the stranded Main World people in the Van Helsing World home, erasing memories and evidence that could disrupt Tracy’s rise. Afterward, he told Tracy that she had two sisters and was one of triplets created by an organization, and promised to investigate it.

• Andrew visited Tracy, who explained that stranded New Yorkers were sharing future knowledge and technology that threatened to alter her world’s development.
• Andrew used a Paper Crane and satellite to locate seventy Main World people, then took Tracy to rescue a programmer imprisoned and forced to write about the future.
• Andrew sent the programmer home, erased memories, and destroyed his manuscripts before repeating the process until only Andrew and Tracy remained as outsiders in the Van Helsing World.
• Andrew told Tracy that her sisters were Nicky, who had a split personality named Jessica, and Barbara, and that the three of them were experimental products of an organization.
• Andrew promised to investigate the organization, planning to have Soldier Boy lead a team while Banner conducted a secret inquiry.

Andrew met Hoggoth and Ganahta on the moon to plan an ambush on Chthon, whom he had located. They chose a risky attempt to trap and kill her in an Affiliated World, then began preparing by discussing their abilities.

• Andrew contacted Hoggoth and arranged to meet her on the moon, where he revealed that he had found their target without naming her.
• Ganahta joined them, and Andrew and Hoggoth agreed they might be strong enough to eliminate the target if they worked together.
• Andrew proposed teleporting the target into an Affiliated World, where her escape and resurrection methods would be less effective.
• Hoggoth warned that the plan had only a ten percent chance of killing the target, while an ambush in the Main World would likely only injure her.
• Andrew, Hoggoth, and Ganahta all chose the riskier plan and agreed to refine it, starting by explaining their respective abilities.

Andrew prepared to exploit Chthon’s search for a magic gem while strengthening his position, and Homelander plotted to regain public favor by staging disasters. Death reappeared and offered to help Homelander create an organization of powerful enemies for him to defeat.

• Ganahta explained her energy-dependent Galactus form, Hoggoth revealed her Inheritance ability, and Andrew gave her a Magic Ring before the three planned to kill their enemy.
• Chthon tried using fate and sacrificed souls to locate a remaining magic gem, while Andrew interfered to keep Chthon occupied and conceal that he knew his location.
• Andrew strengthened New York’s Magic Arrays, assessed his gains in Technology Magic and the Magic World, and called Chthon’s location another harvest.
• Homelander grew furious over losing his popularity to the Director of S.W.O.R.D. and decided to create recurring disasters so he could pose as their savior.
• Homelander recruited Hunter to help stage the disasters, and Death contacted him, proposing to use Compound Five and her divine power to create envoys for the Death Organization.

Death, Homelander, and Hunter established the Death Organization and began creating powerful individuals, while Soldier Boy and Edgar investigated a rival ability-producing organization. Vought traced the rival organization to Linderman, and Soldier Boy assembled a team to attack his base.

• Death revealed to Hunter that his purpose was to kill Homelander, then recruited him and helped Homelander establish the Death Organization.
• The Death Organization abducted homeless people to experiment on with compound five and Death's divine power.
• Soldier Boy gave Edgar a vial of Nicky's blood and told him about an organization that could awaken abilities with a drug.
• Vought's researchers found that Nicky's ability had been awakened by a drug from a different system, and Edgar ordered an investigation into it.
• Vought traced the organization to Linderman, and Soldier Boy gathered Black Noir, Nicky, DL, A-Train, and Stormfront for a mission to attack Linderman's base and capture him.

Soldier Boy led his allies to raid Linderman’s manor, while Nathan and Peter visited Linderman and discovered that their parents belonged to Organization. Linderman revealed a plan to make Nathan president through Peter’s nuclear explosion in New York, then trapped the brothers with Ability Users and bugs that caused Peter severe pain; the chapter ended with Nathan and Peter surrounded.

• Soldier Boy explained that Organization was hidden beneath Linderman’s manor and took his allies to Las Vegas to raid it.
• Nathan brought Peter to Linderman’s manor, where the brothers met the super-speed Ability User Daphne and shared dinner with Linderman.
• Linderman showed Nathan a Painting of the Future depicting him as president and revealed that Angela and the brothers’ father belonged to Organization.
• Peter recognized Organization and learned that its plan required him to undergo a nuclear explosion in New York so Nathan could become president.
• Peter attacked Linderman and Daphne, but Linderman revealed that bugs hidden in Peter’s steak were biting his stomach.
• Peter struck down a bald Ability User with Telekinesis, but Daphne knocked Nathan into the surrounding Ability Users as the bugs continued to torment Peter.

Nathan learned the Organization planned to make him President by causing a nuclear explosion in New York, and agreed after hearing Peter would survive and the Organization sought godlike immortality through perfected abilities. As Soldier Boy and other Vought heroes confronted Linderman at the Manor, Linderman ordered his Ability Users to attack.

• Jeff took control of Peter, and Angela told Nathan that Peter had inherited Claire's Healing Ability and would survive the planned explosion.
• Linderman revealed the Organization wanted Nathan to become President so it could capture Ability Users, recruit scientists, and improve its Molecular Formula; he also disclosed that Arthur had ordered Nathan's car accident and Angela had poisoned Arthur.
• Linderman explained that the Organization wanted to provoke the superheroes to remove obstacles and obtain Vought International's ability-activating drug, Compound Five.
• A-Train entered the Manor to seize Linderman, but Jeff used Peter's Telekinesis to throw him outside, and Stormfront and Soldier Boy led the other heroes into the Manor.
• Andrew learned of the plan through Nathan and Peter's memories, while Daphne took Nathan away; Linderman ordered his Ability Users to kill Soldier Boy and the other intruders.