Chapter Summaries

Jon and Seshatri discussed their monotonous training and the weakening teams sent into the gauntlet as they waited to reach the central district. Seshatri sensed that the Full Moon Disc was growing stronger, perhaps because a moon was about to appear, and warned Jon that the moon held special significance in the Underworld.

• Jon reflected that the newcomers were growing weaker and that the host kept forcing them into the gauntlet, which benefited Jon's team.
• Seshatri returned from outside and told Jon that defeating the latest teams had been easy, while Jon acknowledged that his outlook had shifted after killing many people.
• Jon and Seshatri discussed their two months in the training grounds and how the surrounding environment seemed close to reaching its peak.
• Jon and Seshatri noted that five months had passed inside the world, likely amounting to about a year outside.
• Seshatri said the Full Moon Disc had begun absorbing more power and suggested that a moon might appear, then explained that the moon was more important than the sun in the Underworld.

Jon and Seshatri discussed the moon’s role in empowering the dead and the mystery surrounding Osiris’s actions. Jon proposed that an even more powerful god might still be alive, leaving Seshatri alarmed by the possibility that Helga had survived.

• Jon told Seshatri to stop changing the subject and explain the moon, while she worried that Lord Pluto might overhear them.
• Seshatri explained that the moon provided power to the dead and beings with abnormal existences, and described Lord Pluto’s rule and the gods who had provoked conflict against him.
• Jon and Seshatri considered the mismatch between Osiris’s gentle nature and the death and slaughter surrounding their situation.
• Jon took Seshatri’s hand and suggested that a more powerful god than Lord Pluto might have awakened.
• Seshatri feared that Helga might still be alive, and Jon said gods like Helga could have ways to prolong their lives.

Seshatri and Jon considered how to warn Senior Helga about the changing situation and planned to use a passage left by China to send information out of the Small World. Their discussion was interrupted by an explosion, and a full moon appeared in the suddenly clear sky.

• Seshatri and Jon worried that Osiris might not be the ultimate target and that Senior Helga might not know the situation had changed.
• Seshatri proposed using a passage left by China to send compressed information beyond the Small World, and she and Jon prepared to investigate the gods’ rivalries.
• A violent explosion sounded nearby, and Luo Hua and the other two rushed to protect Seshatri and Jon from the aftershocks.
• Jon suspected the hall they had come from had exploded, but Seshatri pointed out that the world itself might have changed as a full moon appeared in the clear sky.

Jon and Seshatri learned that the first stage had ended and everyone was being moved to the Central Urban District, then reflected on their relationship and Jon’s altered state after removing Helga’s bloodline. The training ground stopped moving as dawn approached, and Jon sensed a scorching presence and distortions in time and space to the south.

• Seshatri and Jon realized the other locations had been cleared and that the survivors had to gather in the Central Urban District.
• Jon and Seshatri joked about being single and considered how they might never see each other after leaving the Small World.
• Jon reflected that removing Helga’s World Tree bloodline had left the aggressive Mysterious Bird bloodline with greater influence over his personality.
• The training ground stopped moving, the sky began to brighten, and Jon sensed a scorching aura and warped time and space to the south.

Seshatri told Jon that she was leaving with Luo Hua and the other two, while warning him about the risks of his plan and giving him a cord that could alter his appearance. After Seshatri departed, Jon boarded the other carriage to attend the gods’ feast and continue his plan.

• Seshatri explained that she would return her Ancient Egyptian bloodline to Osiris and leave with Luo Hua and the other two.
• Seshatri gave Jon a red cord to disguise his appearance and warned that the deep-sea will might make him a replacement god if Helga failed.
• Seshatri suggested that Jon could use the Mysterious Bird’s power to steal the foundation of the world.
• Seshatri took the three companions away in a carriage, leaving Jon behind.
• Jon put on his gloves, agreed to the monstrous coachman’s offer, and rode toward the feast.

Jon learned from Helga that his failure to leave with Sally had made him suspicious, but she promised to get him out safely. After arriving in an ancient Egyptian city, he saw a mysterious woman in the mist and found that his upper garment had vanished, replaced by noble attire.

• Helga told Jon that his identity was under investigation because he had stayed behind with the glove connected to Osiris.
• Helga advised Jon to act normally and promised to get him out safely while she sought to provoke a war that would let the World Will intervene.
• A chime announced their arrival, and Jon saw ancient Egyptian temples, palaces, and statues where the modern city had been.
• Jon sensed someone watching him and glimpsed a beautiful woman with emerald eyes in the mist.
• Jon briefly lost control of his body and then discovered that his upper garment had disappeared and his clothing had changed into Ancient Egyptian noble attire.

Jon rode toward the palace under a concealed identity while Helga warned him to survive until the final confrontation, where he might seize enough power to become a Sage. As the carriage approached its destination, the pressure around him grew, and he accepted that he would use his body to summon the Ancestor’s descent.

• Jon considered why he had been treated as an honored guest and realized his wrist cord was likely concealing his identity.
• Helga left Jon a message explaining that his disguise came from the wrist cord and that he must stay safe until the final battlefield inside the palace.
• Helga told Jon that the danger could let him advance to Sage, and Jon recognized the opportunity to draw power from the Small World.
• Jon greeted the monstrous coachman from the carriage, which continued onward through the mist.
• Jon felt the surrounding pressure intensify but endured it with support from the Hufflepuff bloodline in his changing body.
• Jon understood that he would summon the Ancestor’s descent through his own body.

Jon infiltrated a gathering in the divine kingdom of the Ancient Egyptian Pantheon under the identity of a priest and passed the palace guards’ inspection. He reached a grand hall and took an inconspicuous seat, where he waited for the gathering to continue.

• Jon deduced that someone close to Osiris had arranged his entry, though Osiris seemed to disapprove of some part of the plan.
• Jon left the carriage disguised as a young nobleman and learned that he was being treated as a priest.
• Jon joined the other nobles and passed the palace guards’ identity check without difficulty.
• A beautiful woman approached Jon, but he declined her offer of help and stayed where he was.
• Jon asked an attendant to lead him to the hall, found an inconspicuous seat, and waited.

Jon waited for Helga at a sinister banquet, using the food and wine to study how her power transformed his magic. As the revelry grew increasingly disturbing, a bewitching force began to overwhelm him, and Helga’s voice sounded beside his ear.

• Jon stayed inconspicuous among the monstrous nobles and sampled the banquet’s magical food and wine.
• Jon sensed Helga guiding the banquet’s power into magic better suited to her, revealing the gap between their abilities.
• Jon suspected the feast was a ceremony for a hidden god who would return through a body provided by the outsiders.
• The nobles’ revelry intensified as magic transformed objects into dancing maids, and Jon began to feel his mind being pulled apart.
• Jon sensed a bewitching power in the dance, then heard Helga’s voice beside his ear.

Jon saw the immense, beautiful goddess whose roots drained the outsiders in the hall, but Osiris pulled his soul back before the being could notice him. Helga explained that the figure was the body of the god they sought, though its true soul was elsewhere, and questioned why the contestants had been made to fight in the Small World.

• Helga warned Jon to prepare himself before he examined the hidden presence.
• Jon separated his soul from his body and saw Osiris, drained of power, feeding an enormous goddess-like being.
• Jon saw roots extending from the being and extracting power from the outsiders, while Osiris's gift protected him.
• Osiris pulled Jon's soul back before the goddess could see him, leaving Jon shaken and drenched in sweat.
• Jon asked Helga whether Osiris meant to nourish the monster with the pantheon, and she said the being was the god's body but did not contain its true soul.
• Helga rejected the idea that the Small World's battles were meant to choose a human vessel for the god's reincarnation.

Jon and Seshatri discovered that Isis was behind Osiris and had planned the events surrounding him. Jon worried that Helga could not seize the godhood of such a powerful goddess, whose resurrection threatened the World Will’s hold over the Western magical world.

• Helga revealed that Isis, Osiris’s sister and lover, was the force behind Osiris’s actions.
• Jon considered Isis’s vast influence, magical power, and role in Osiris’s resurrection.
• The account described how Isis poisoned Ra, forced him to reveal his true name, and took his divine power and authority.
• Jon worried that Helga could not claim Isis’s godhood because of the goddess’s immense power and status.
• Jon recognized that Isis’s resurrection could pull the Western world away from the World Will.

Jon realized that Helga and Osiris had treated him as a tool while Isis drained the souls, but Helga cast him out of the Small World as a slaughtering god attacked. From the Azure Deep Sea, Jon watched the attacker reach Isis, Osiris disappear, and the goddess awaken.

• Jon suspected that Osiris had protected him only to preserve him as a source of power, and he realized Helga had known about the plan.
• A powerful slaughtering god stormed into the palace, killing monsters and tearing through its ceiling and magical defenses.
• Helga seized control of Jon's body and cast his soul through the passage out of the Small World.
• The World Will returned Jon to the Azure Deep Sea, where he watched the slaughtering god assault the palace with blades, fire, and magical weapons.
• Helga used the Patronus's beast instincts to approach Isis while Osiris smiled at the attacker, glanced at Jon, and dissipated.
• Isis opened her eyes and awakened.

Jon watched Helga and the World Will confront Isis inside the Small World, while Chinese Archmages discussed using Swan to strengthen their pantheon. The Archmages decided Isis’s defeat was certain and prepared to leave for Swan.

• The World Will’s view shifted to Helga’s perspective as she maneuvered through the distorted, chaotic space inside the Small World.
• Jon recognized the God of Slaughter as the World Will’s representative and concluded that Helga and the World Will would eventually defeat Isis.
• Several Chinese Archmages watching from outside discussed how Swan and the Zhu Family might help replenish their pantheon’s missing traces of immortals and demons.
• The Archmages judged Isis’s defeat inevitable, and Master drew a bamboo-scroll divine artifact from the void.

The Chinese pantheon pulled its power and the bamboo scroll out of Ancient Egypt’s Divine Miracle, leaving Isis vulnerable to Helga and the God of Slaughter. After Isis fell, Helga faced a perilous attempt to claim her Godhead, and the High God sent Jon’s Mysterious Bird power into the Small World to help her.

• The people from China pulled the bamboo scroll and their power back into their pantheon, causing Isis to bleed as the God of Slaughter attacked her.
• Helga used Jon’s body and the Earth Scepter to drain Isis’s life while the God of Slaughter struck from the front.
• Helga’s male body shattered and a sacred female form emerged as she gathered a Godhead, while the High God, Poseidon, and the Old Dragon King watched.
• The God of Slaughter delivered the final slash that tore Isis apart, and Helga hesitated to claim the Godhead because her foundation had become unstable.
• Helga drew out a trace of Mysterious Bird bloodline, and the High God sent Jon’s Mysterious Bird power into the Small World.

Helga failed to complete her transformation into a higher realm because she could not bring the divinity within her to bear on herself in the wrong world. The High God gave her a Chinese treasure bead that halted her decline and let her advance, while Jon watched her prepare to leave the Small World.

• Helga exhausted her methods but failed to overcome the barrier to her transformation, and the World Tree phantom remained unable to advance.
• The High God decided that Helga needed a trace of law from the right world and drew power from the Chinese divine system.
• The High God sent Helga the purple treasure bead Zi Xiao, which stopped the divinity draining from her body and transformed the ruined Egyptian palace into a Chinese pavilion.
• Helga accepted the aid and advanced toward the higher realm she desired, choosing it over being bound to the Small World as its World Will.
• Jon watched as the three gods vanished, and Helga prepared to leave after greeting the World Will.

Helga returned Jon to Magic Fairy Castle, where he entered the prepared body so his resurrection could begin. Helga had become the conscious world itself, while Jon set out to resume his own path.

• Helga brought Jon back to Magic Fairy Castle in a deteriorating form made from his old body.
• Helga explained that Deler would guide Jon to the place he had prepared for his resurrection and help if anything went wrong.
• Jon rejected becoming a Creation God bound to the World Will and resolved to keep advancing on his own terms.
• Helga transformed into the conscious Azure Deep Sea, gaining control of her world and the ability to replace the real world's World Will in a crisis.
• Jon entered the body he had prepared, with Deler and the Garden Elf chief waiting in the great hall.

Harry witnessed Cedric’s murder, was captured by Peter Pettigrew, and saw Voldemort restored through a dark ritual. Five minutes earlier, Jon returned to Hogwarts as a twenty-year-old pseudo-Legendary Wizard and sent for Stephen.

• Harry and Cedric arrived at an unknown place, where a dark figure killed Cedric with the Avada Kedavra curse.
• Peter Pettigrew restrained Harry and used his blood in a ritual to restore Voldemort.
• Voldemort rose from the cauldron and ordered someone to dress him.
• Jon emerged from the passage between the Magic Net and Magic Fairy Castle and sensed a flood of new events around Hogwarts.
• Jon sent the Magic Net back to the Forbidden Forest, summoned Stephen, and entered the cabin while floating through the air.

Jon returned after nearly two years away and learned from Stephen that Harry Potter had become a champion in the Goblet of Fire, whose third task was underway. Sensing that Harry was in danger and Voldemort’s resurrection was imminent, Jon vanished to intervene while Stephen rushed to warn Dumbledore.

• Jon reunited with Stephen, explained that he had lost part of his lifespan, and asked about the school’s situation.
• Stephen reported that the school had been peaceful apart from Harry Potter becoming a Goblet of Fire champion, and said the third task was underway.
• Jon asked after Grindelwald and learned that Stephen had no way to track the Legendary Wizard.
• Jon sensed that Harry was in danger but could not remember where Voldemort would be resurrected.
• Jon told Stephen to warn Dumbledore that events might be out of control, then vanished.
• Stephen hurried back to the arena to deliver Jon’s warning.

Jon secretly watched Voldemort force Harry into a duel in the Riddle family graveyard and healed Harry’s bleeding wound, allowing him to recover his strength. Harry dodged Voldemort’s next attack and rushed out from behind a gravestone with his wand raised.

• Jon arrived at the graveyard and watched Voldemort make Harry bow before beginning their duel.
• Voldemort hit Harry with the Cruciatus Curse, and Harry screamed as his mother’s protection failed to stop it.
• Jon saw that Harry was losing blood and quietly healed his wound.
• Harry regained strength, dodged Voldemort’s next spell, and shattered a gravestone with the curse.
• Harry rushed out from behind the gravestone with his wand raised as Jon continued to watch without revealing himself.

Jon intervened in Harry's duel with Voldemort, helping create a magical net that let Harry escape with Cedric's body. After returning from the graveyard, Jon preserved Cedric's remaining soul and considered whether he could restore him to life.

• Jon guided the connection between Harry's and Voldemort's wands, causing a golden net to form around them.
• Jon used the net to let Harry hear Cedric and his parents tell him to take Cedric's body and reach the Portkey.
• Harry snapped the wand connection, ran to Cedric's body, and summoned the trophy with Accio Trophy.
• Jon restrained Voldemort with manifested souls, then left after Harry and the others escaped.
• Jon preserved Cedric's remaining soul and recognized that careful magical nurturing might bring him back to life.