Chapter Summaries

As the yacht crossed a low-magic zone in a violent storm, Jon and Seshatri realized that a creature bearing a divine artifact was drawing huge numbers of marine animals toward them. Seshatri steered for the high-magic region while Jon defended the yacht, but the approaching predators and worsening sea left the crew in danger.

• After Jon and Seshatri finished planning, Seshatri took over as captain while Jon watched the sea.
• At night, the Full Moon Disc reacted, and Seshatri warned Jon that the creature was nearby as the yacht entered a low-magic zone.
• Jon strengthened the protective membrane around the yacht, and Seshatri turned the ship back toward the high-magic region.
• Jon noticed growing schools of fish and enormous predators circling the yacht, and he and Seshatri suspected the creature was secretly driving them.
• Seshatri estimated they would cross the boundary in ten minutes, while Jon warned her to protect the crew as the predators grew more purposeful.
• The swells ahead reached nearly ten meters, and predators, including unfamiliar mutated species, made up nearly one-fifth of the creatures around the yacht.

Jon and Seshatri analyzed the hidden being that was driving sea creatures to chase their yacht away, concluding it used Poseidon’s divine artifact to observe them through schools of fish. They suspected it was concealing its use of the artifact because it feared Poseidon reclaiming it.

• Jon reinforced the Magic Net around the yacht after they returned to the high-magic region, protecting the Muggles aboard.
• Jon and Seshatri sensed that a hidden being was watching them through the surrounding sea creatures but could not locate it.
• Jon explained that the being used Poseidon’s divine artifact to command fish as a surveillance network and track their movements.
• Seshatri examined the changes in the fish and observed that the being’s commands were brief, suggesting it was trying to conceal itself.
• Jon and Seshatri concluded that the being likely feared Poseidon discovering its use of the artifact, though Jon’s mark in the Azure Deep Sea had detected no direct divine interference with the Muggle world.

Jon and Seshatri defended their ship from the fish controlled by the creature hiding in the sea, while Seshatri relied on her connection to Poseidon’s artifact to keep the creature at a disadvantage. Jon then used his force field to discover that the creature had attached pieces of itself to mutated fish as surveillance probes.

• Seshatri left the cabin and killed an attacking eel by controlling another fish to strike it.
• Seshatri explained that the old captain was steering while she focused on defense, and said the ship had enough fuel to outlast the creature.
• Jon used his force field to search the surrounding sea and examine the unusual fish.
• Jon identified the fish’s strange power as an external attachment from the creature possessing Poseidon’s artifact, which let it control them.

Jon dissected the controlled fish and analyzed the ocean-dweller’s crude but effective parasitic surveillance network. He began purging altered fish around the cruise ship, expecting the hidden enemy to send more creatures to watch them and eventually reveal himself.

• Jon dissected a fish and found tiny parasites fused with its nerves to control it and transmit information.
• Jon assessed how the ocean-dweller used magical modifications and groups of similar creatures to manage the drawbacks of controlling different marine species.
• Jon continued purging the fish around the cruise ship, focusing on altered ones among the tens of thousands circling them.
• Seshatri questioned whether the purge would force the hidden enemy out, and Jon explained that he expected the enemy to send more fish to maintain surveillance, exposing his position.

Jon and Seshatri discovered that a mutated fish was being used to spy on them, revealing that an unseen presence in the sea was monitoring their yacht. The watcher intensified the magical pressure around them, and Seshatri exchanged a brief spiritual clash with it.

• Jon and Seshatri examined a dying fish whose unusual gland secreted a dark green substance that helped it recover.
• Jon inserted a water thread into the fish, causing its gland to react and transform into an eye as a distant presence noticed him.
• Thousands of mutated fish around the yacht ignited with blue spiritual flames and turned into eyes, making clear that the presence was watching them.
• Jon recognized that the presence was activating a primitive formation to increase magical pressure and threaten his protective barrier.
• Seshatri released her Spiritual Power to disperse the flaming eyes and probe the presence, and they briefly clashed before both withdrew.

Jon and Seshatri continued their struggle against the being in the sea, whose Poseidon's divine artifact they wanted to take. As the two sides’ powers disrupted the ocean and the boundary between the spiritual and material worlds, Jon used his pendant and the World Tree to stabilize the space around the yacht while the Mysterious Bird searched for an opening.

• Jon and Seshatri pursued the artifact wielder in the sea, knowing that giving up Poseidon's divine artifact would likely mean its death and that it would probably resist them.
• The artifact wielder and the pair restrained themselves while concealing their intentions, but their growing clashes steadily undermined their uneasy understanding.
• The being’s soul power collided with Jon’s will and Seshatri’s soul defense, intensifying the ocean’s storms and magical chaos.
• Seshatri’s soul power drew on the Full Moon Disc, causing its stored moonlight power to stir and the material and spiritual storms to merge.
• Jon strengthened the yacht’s defenses with his soul force and Perenall’s pendant, summoning the World Tree to stabilize nearby space while the Mysterious Bird searched for an opening.

Jon and Seshatri defended their yacht against a powerful presence from the sea, whose spiritual attacks harmed the ordinary passengers and summoned strange eyes and unnatural fog. As the enemy’s pressure abruptly withdrew, the fog continued to spread, leaving Jon puzzled about what had changed.

• Seshatri rushed into the cabin to save the ordinary passengers, while Jon reinforced his force field against the spiritual clashes.
• Jon detected the enemy’s distorted location and struck back, destroying many of the sea eyes and killing countless marine creatures in the collision.
• Seshatri returned with the Full Moon Disc’s power emerging, and she and Jon watched unnatural fog engulf the yacht.
• Jon and Seshatri suspected the enemy had come in person, and Jon prepared to confront it if it came within ten miles.
• The surrounding pressure suddenly withdrew, but the fog grew thicker and wider, leaving Jon uncertain why the enemy had retreated.

Jon and Seshatri navigated a dense, artificially created fog that produced dangerous illusions as they sought Poseidon's divine artifact. Jon used the Earth Scepter to steady the ship and prepared to investigate the fog.

• Jon recognized that the dense sea fog was artificial and warned himself to avoid looking directly at its illusions.
• Seshatri explained that the fog was hallucinogenic, while Jon used water-vapor threads to observe the surroundings without relying on his eyes.
• Jon concluded that the realistic, material-based illusion could endanger most of the sailors and that he could not break it with overwhelming force without risking their lives.
• Jon took out the Earth Scepter, a powerful Hogwarts relic once used by Helga Hufflepuff, which Dumbledore had given him for the sea voyage.
• The Earth Scepter suppressed the storm and steadied the ship, allowing Jon to begin investigating the fog.

Jon and Seshatri searched for the source of a powerful illusion surrounding their ship while a hidden force strengthened it with fog, boiling water, and a Siren-like song. As Jon kept deciphering the illusion, controlled sailors attacked them, leaving Seshatri to decide what to do with the helpless Muggles.

• Jon told Seshatri that the fog was likely an illusion created by an illusion master using the sea creature’s power, and they worked together to find its foundation.
• Shadowy figures emerged and the seawater boiled as Jon and Seshatri resisted the illusion’s growing force.
• Jon and Seshatri heard a faint sound stirring the fog, and Seshatri suggested the illusion was recreating the song of the Sirens.
• Seshatri placed a barrier around them to guard against the song and the illusion’s influence.
• Controlled sailors rushed from the cabin and attacked the barrier with knives, forks, and tools.
• Jon warned that the sailors had been controlled, while Seshatri remained silent as he asked whether she wanted to save them.

Jon and Seshatri fought to escape a vast sea illusion, killing the sailors and destroying their ship to break its anchor point. The fog began to thicken again, but the Full Moon Disc revealed a strange creature controlling it.

• Jon read the old captain’s memories while Seshatri restrained the sailors.
• Jon killed the sailors when they overwhelmed Seshatri’s restraints.
• Harpies attacked Jon’s water-thread defense as he searched the fog for the illusion’s anchor point.
• Jon discovered the anchor point and smashed the ship with the Earth Scepter, causing the strange eyes and Harpies to vanish.
• Seshatri used the Full Moon Disc to thin the fog and reveal a clam-like creature gripping a sea-blue light.

Jon and Seshatri identified the enormous sea creature as an Eastern Mirage Beast while Seshatri struggled to pull Poseidon's divine artifact from its grasp. They prepared to attack, with Seshatri taking the artifact and Jon fighting the beast.

• Jon used Helga's Earth Scepter to create floating ice and a steady platform for himself and Seshatri.
• Seshatri learned from the Full Moon Disc that the creature was a Mirage Beast from the East.
• Jon explained that its shell was an illusory form and its tentacle-like inner body was serpentine, while Seshatri warned him about the creature's Dragon bloodline.
• Jon and Seshatri agreed that she would secure Poseidon's divine artifact while he attacked the Mirage Beast.

Jon used the Earth Scepter to trap the Mirage Beast and draw on the laws surrounding the battle. As the Mirage Beast tried to escape with the divine artifact, Jon broke through a restraint and the Mysterious Bird cried out.

• The Mirage Beast slipped underwater to avoid Jon's attack, and Seshatri warned him that the water would weaken his attacks.
• Jon pierced his hand on the Earth Scepter's gemstone and unleashed All Things Solidify, freezing the water around the Mirage Beast's tentacle.
• Jon used the power drawn from the laws to seal the battlefield with the phantom of the World Tree.
• The Mirage Beast intensified the winds, waves, and mist as it tried to flee with the divine artifact.
• Jon stepped forward as a restraint shattered, and the Mysterious Bird cried out.

Jon transformed through the Mysterious Bird’s power and broke through to the peak of the Scholar stage while battling the Mirage Beast. He shattered its shell and exposed Poseidon’s divine artifact, then forced the creature to choose between releasing it and being destroyed.

• Jon’s transformation and the power flowing through him helped him advance to the peak of the Scholar stage.
• Jon froze the raging sea into a stable battlefield and attacked the Mirage Beast’s hardened shell with the Earth Scepter.
• The Mirage Beast formed mist tentacles and attacked, but Jon’s speed let him evade them and strike at the shell’s weak points.
• Jon shattered the shell, exposing the Mirage Beast’s soft body and the unstable divine artifact that Sally was trying to free.
• Jon focused destructive magic around the artifact and threatened the Mirage Beast until it released the divine artifact or faced death.

Jon exhausted his borrowed power and fell unconscious after escaping the Mirage Beast with Seshatri, while a mysterious middle-aged man captured the creature. The High God and two other beings later transformed the Mirage Beast into a real divine being called Mirage Tower, leaving it with a new destiny.

• Jon tricked the Mirage Beast into fleeing with its artifact, then grabbed Seshatri and tried to escape before losing consciousness.
• Seshatri caught Jon, carried him onto an ice ship, and used the azure artifact to sail toward land.
• A middle-aged man appeared, shrank the Mirage Beast, and said he would give it another chance to become a god.
• The Mirage Beast awoke with its memories erased and faced the High God, the Dragon, and the Sea God.
• The High God and the Sea God bestowed divinity, authority, and life on the Mirage Beast, making it a real being named Mirage Tower and a Servant of Destiny.

Jon woke after exhausting himself, recovered with the divine artifact Tears of Atlantis, and discovered that his transformation had made him an adult and freed him from Trace Magic. He and Seshatri set off from the island, uncertain what challenges or direction lay ahead.

• Jon woke beside Seshatri, reinforced the rack with magic, and learned he had advanced after solving his earlier problem.
• Seshatri gave Jon the divine artifact Tears of Atlantis, which fused with him and restored his strength and soul power.
• Jon noticed his wristband had shattered and realized he had grown taller and become an adult after losing Trace Magic.
• Seshatri told Jon he had traded at least five years of his lifespan for a major increase in power, and Jon said he would make the same trade again.
• Jon changed into fresh clothes, and he and Seshatri left the island to continue their journey.

Jon and Seshatri returned to Britain and learned from Reel that Grindelwald was in the Southern Hemisphere, while a letter from him confirmed Sirius was safe in Azkaban. With Grindelwald leaving the Golden Goblet’s retrieval to them, Jon and Seshatri decided to go to Gringotts that night.

• Jon and Seshatri reached the mainland and went to Reel’s home to ask how to contact Grindelwald.
• Reel told them Grindelwald had left for the Southern Hemisphere two days earlier, and Jon realized they had missed the news while away.
• Seshatri decided they should proceed with retrieving the Golden Goblet rather than wait for Grindelwald.
• Rank returned with Dumbledore’s letter, which said Sirius was safe and Grindelwald would retrieve the Golden Goblet himself if they failed.
• Jon and Seshatri agreed to go to Gringotts that night.

Jon and Seshatri prepared to retrieve Hufflepuff’s Golden Goblet from Gringotts without alerting Voldemort. They entered the alley beside the bank, ready to begin the dangerous operation together.

• Jon explained that he needed to retrieve the Golden Goblet himself because mishandling a Horcrux could alert Voldemort and weaken his soul further.
• Jon asked how the replacement Goblet was progressing, and Seshatri said the House-elves had made a hollow copy that could be disguised with a Confundus Charm.
• Jon reflected on the legendary treasures used as Horcruxes and reaffirmed his determination to kill Voldemort and preserve his own life.
• Seshatri reassured Jon that she would accompany him into Gringotts and help avoid the Goblins and the Dragon guarding the lower levels.
• Jon and Seshatri joined hands in an alley beside Gringotts and agreed to finish the operation quickly.

Jon and Seshatri broke into the Gringotts vault containing Voldemort’s Golden Goblet and replaced it with a substitute. Jon escaped with the Horcrux sealed away in his ring, leaving its destruction for later.

• Jon reviewed the plan to isolate the Golden Goblet from Voldemort’s influence, while Seshatri asked how taking it would affect Harry and the others’ mission.
• Jon entered Gringotts legally and visited the Smith Family vault with Seshatri accompanying him.
• Seshatri subdued the Goblin guard as Jon flew down to the vault and found a way through its alchemical defenses.
• Jon used the Tears of Atlantis and the Termination Charm to sever the Goblet’s connection, remove it, and replace it with a substitute.
• Jon placed the Golden Goblet in his ring and Apparated out before the vault’s defenses could catch them.

Jon and Seshatri secured their valuables and discovered that an ancient Chinese painting was a Tang Dynasty Cloud Scroll bearing a poem by Li Shangyin. After spending the night at Joanne’s house, Jon prepared to leave with Seshatri for Egypt, where they would investigate the Pantheon Revival.

• Jon sealed the Golden Goblet and other valuables in an enchanted box while Seshatri examined an ancient scroll.
• Seshatri identified the scroll as a rare Tang Dynasty Cloud Scroll and recognized its inscription as a poem by Li Shangyin.
• Jon offered the painting to Seshatri, who agreed to collect it later if they both survived their journey.
• Jon and Seshatri returned to Joanne’s house, where Joanne arranged their sleeping quarters for the night.
• Jon rested in his old room and considered the information Grindelwald had sent about the Pantheon Revival before their planned trip to Egypt.

Jon prepared to leave on a long journey while Joanne gave him keepsakes and a dangerous alchemical formula, affirming her support for his plan. He set out to leave that afternoon, with both siblings facing the pressure of challenging the wall between the wizarding and Muggle worlds.

• Jon packed the clothes Reel had ordered and learned that he and Seshatri would leave that afternoon on a cruise ship.
• Joanne gave Jon an iron clasp she had found in ruins and a copied MI0 formula for a substance that rapidly burned corpses to ashes.
• Jon recognized the formula's potential use against wizards, memorized it, and burned the written page.
• Jon warned Joanne that dismantling the wall between the wizarding and Muggle worlds would bring immense pressure, especially with him leaving.
• Joanne reaffirmed that she chose to support Jon's plan and urged him to take care of himself.