Chapter Summaries

Linley countered the American Magical Congress’s defenses by suppressing Smirnov and Davis’s magic and deploying nearly three thousand Purgatory Demon Puppets against the Mechanical Army. The puppets turned the ground battle in the British wizarding world’s favor as its fighters rallied behind Linley’s creations.

• Linley used his Mana Suppression Flame on Smirnov and Davis, but they countered it with stored power of the stars and alchemy formations.
• Linley summoned his black spear and unleashed nearly three thousand Purgatory Demon Puppets onto the battlefield.
• Linley deployed Goblet Immortal Fire puppets as shields, Fiendfyre and Ziwei Heavenly Fire puppets as attackers, and Nirvana Fire puppets as healers.
• Linley scattered puppets made from ordinary magical flames among the Mechanical Army to fight the Mechanical Soldiers.
• The Purgatory Demon Puppets reversed the battle’s momentum, and the Aurors and D.A. army cheered as they recognized Linley’s handiwork.

Josue learned that Linley’s Purgatory Demon Puppets had thrown the American Magical Congress’s invasion plan into disarray, forcing him to order the British battlefield to hold rather than win quickly. Meanwhile, the outnumbered German Aurors faced the Mechanical Army before Gellert Grindelwald appeared among them, leaving the director fearing the German magical world was doomed.

• After the American Magical Congress received battlefield data on Linley’s Purgatory Demon Puppets, its officials sent the unexpected report to Josue in the French wizarding world.
• Josue ordered the British forces to delay the enemy so its Demon King level wizards could not reinforce the German and French battlefields.
• Josue accused Nicolas Flamel of planning the setback, then attacked him with Alchemy Floating Cannons as Nicolas defended himself with Alchemy Formations.
• Josue and Nicolas controlled hundreds of thousands of formations and defenses, relying on their Demon King level Soul strength.
• More than nine hundred German Aurors gathered at the border, where the Mechanical Army’s arrival left them nearly without hope of resisting.
• Gellert Grindelwald appeared among the Aurors, and the director recognized him and realized he had left Nurmengard.

Grindelwald joined the German magical world’s defense against the American Magical Congress and confronted Ares as the Mechanical Soldiers attacked. After Grindelwald’s magic proved the greater threat, Ares was left choosing between retreating and sacrificing his army or risking defeat himself.

• Grindelwald forced the German Aurors to lower their wands and revealed that Dumbledore had asked him to protect the German magical world.
• Ares led two thousand Mechanical Soldiers to the German border, where their immunity to soul-targeting spells helped them kill more than eighty Aurors.
• Grindelwald warned the Aurors that the Mechanical Soldiers were soulless alchemical creations, prompting them to switch to destructive spells.
• Ares attacked Grindelwald with a Cruciatus Curse, but Grindelwald dodged and countered with repeated curses of his own.
• Ares unleashed tens of thousands of Diffindos, and Grindelwald’s Protego Diabolica consumed them as fuel for his Fiendfyre.
• Ares weighed whether to retreat and abandon his Mechanical Soldiers or continue fighting the more experienced Grindelwald.

Grindelwald trapped Ares Craig in the sky and killed him with azure Fiendfyre while the German Aurors were slaughtered by the Mechanical Soldiers below. The chapter ended with Ares’s body and voice consumed by the flames.

• Ares struggled to fight off Grindelwald’s azure Fiendfyre as the Mechanical Soldiers overwhelmed the German Aurors on the ground.
• Grindelwald layered Anti-Apparition Charms around the battlefield, while Ares used Diffindo to break through some of them.
• Grindelwald stopped adding charms and sealed every escape route with azure Fiendfyre.
• Ares pleaded that killing him would mean attacking the American wizarding world, but Grindelwald dismissed his warning.
• Grindelwald sent the Fiendfyre dragon to swallow Ares, killing him and consuming all remains.

Irvin fought Mechanical Soldier Number Two Selvi at the British wizarding world border, where Selvi's energy core powered a relentless barrage of Alchemy Floating Cannons. As hundreds of thousands of golden energy spheres pursued him, Irvin unleashed Ball Lightning to detonate them in a vast storm of annihilating thunderbolts.

• Selvi blocked Irvin's dark purple thunderbolts with golden energy barriers powered by his energy core.
• Selvi deployed more than ten thousand Alchemy Floating Cannons, which fired golden energy spheres at Irvin.
• Irvin transformed into lightning to evade the barrage, but Selvi remotely controlled the spheres to pursue him as their numbers grew beyond three hundred thousand.
• Irvin formed Ball Lightning and hurled it into the center of the golden barrage.
• Irvin's Ball Lightning exploded, unleashing world-destroying thunderbolts across the surrounding sky.

Irvin destroyed Selvi and recovered the Mechanical Soldier’s remains so Linley could study their alchemy technology. On the ground battlefield, Harry began disarming the Mechanical Soldiers by pulling the alchemy chips from their heads.

• Irvin unleashed a second Ball Lightning, destroying Selvi’s Alchemy Floating Cannons and badly damaging his body.
• Irvin pierced Selvi’s head with a Lightning Spear, severing his connection to his body, then stored the remains for Linley.
• Linley hoped to study the Mechanical Soldiers’ parts and discover new alchemy techniques; Selvi’s energy core stored vast energy and absorbed magic from its surroundings.
• Harry reached the front of the ground battlefield and cast Expelliarmus at the Mechanical Soldiers.
• Harry’s spell split into more than a hundred beams and pulled the alchemy chips from nearly a hundred Mechanical Soldiers’ heads.

Harry used his advanced Disarming Charm to disable more than a thousand Mechanical Soldiers, but Davis intercepted him and forced him into a desperate aerial fight. Meanwhile, Astoria attacked Bartlett, who countered her blood-red spears with his superior close-combat skill.

• Harry designated the alchemy chips inside Mechanical Soldiers as weapons and disarmed them, causing nearly a hundred to collapse with each cast.
• Smirnov ordered Davis to leave the Sky Battlefield and intercept Harry after Harry had brought down more than a thousand Mechanical Soldiers.
• Harry hit Davis with a barrage of red beams, but Davis sacrificed metal shields to block them and fired destructive icy-blue rays at Harry.
• Harry took the fight into the air to keep Davis's laser storm away from the Aurors and D.A. Army, then struggled to dodge while holding him back.
• Astoria sent a barrage of blood-red spears at Bartlett, who weaved through them and countered with his silver spear.

Astoria used her blood to plant the transfigurative Blood Curse in Bartlett’s mechanical body, exploiting its vulnerability to alterations in its alchemical components. Bartlett realized something was wrong and impaled Astoria with his spear, leaving her severely wounded.

• Bartlett shattered Astoria’s blood-red spears and advanced until she raised a barrier made from her own blood.
• Bartlett destroyed the barrier, while its cursed fragments silently entered his body.
• Astoria secretly spread the Blood Curse through Bartlett’s mechanical form, aiming to transform and disrupt its alchemical components.
• Bartlett sensed the unknown force in his body, confronted Astoria, and pierced her abdomen with his silver spear.

Astoria used her cursed blood to sabotage Bartlett’s mechanical body, destroying his alchemical chip and capturing Mechanical Soldier Number Five. Meanwhile, Fred and George trapped Mechanical Soldier Number Four Owens inside a Demon King Barrier, where both sides began a battle of Alchemy Formations.

• Astoria let Bartlett pierce her so her cursed blood could enter his body, then triggered the Blood Curse and rushed at him as blood-red light.
• Astoria destroyed the alchemical chip in Bartlett’s head, severing his control of Mechanical Soldier Number Five, and stored the soldier and silver spear in her enchanted pocket.
• Fred and George activated more than ten thousand Alchemy Formations around Owens, trapping him inside a powered Demon King Barrier that also blocked communication.
• Owens created more than six thousand Alchemy Formations and fired golden rays that collided with the twins’ barrage.

Fred and George used stellar power and Mana Suppression to exhaust Owens, then destroyed him with a massive Golden Pupil beam that also devastated the Mechanical Army. Elsewhere, Dumbledore and Elebic fought fiercely, with Dumbledore’s water pythons pursuing the mechanical duelist.

• Fred and George replaced the power source of the alchemical matrix and Demon King Barrier with stellar power.
• Fred and George used Mana Suppression to force Owens to rely on his limited reserve of stellar power, then wore it down with the matrix’s attacks.
• Fred and George summoned the Golden Pupil and fired a beam that annihilated Owens and destroyed more than six hundred Mechanical Soldiers.
• Elebic attacked Dumbledore with six different spells, forcing him to evade with Fawkes’s Fiery Apparition.
• Dumbledore summoned streams of water that became pursuing pythons and lunged at Elebic.

Dumbledore used the Vanishment Charm, Water Prison Curse, and Fiendfyre to destroy Elebic after Elebic trapped the battlefield in a Space Lockdown Formation. Elsewhere, Linley and Irina pursued Smirnov, who resisted their attacks with his Human Alchemy-enhanced body.

• Elebic forged a Space Lockdown Formation that prevented Dumbledore and Fawkes from using Fiery Apparition to escape his spells.
• Dumbledore erased Elebic's spells and golden energy barriers with the Vanishment Charm, then trapped him in a torrent of water dragons.
• Dumbledore unleashed Fire God's Path against the Water Prison Curse, vaporizing Elebic's mechanical body.
• Linley and Irina pursued Smirnov after he sent Mechanical Soldier Number Five Davis to hold back Harry.
• Smirnov's Human Alchemy-enhanced body withstood Irina's Ice Crystal Spear, leaving him difficult to kill.

Linley and Irina cornered Smirnov and blocked his attempt to escape across the Atlantic using an Alchemy Formation. They unleashed a combined attack of ice and fire that smashed through his defenses, leaving his fate unresolved.

• The chapter explained why Grindelwald could defeat Ares Craig and why Dumbledore and the others could destroy the Mechanical Soldiers, contrasting them with the difficulty of killing true Demon King level wizards.
• Linley and Irina pursued Smirnov, who used a teleportation Alchemy Formation to try to escape to the American wizarding world.
• Linley sealed the Sky Battlefield with a Space Lockdown Formation and used his own Alchemy Formations to immobilize Smirnov.
• Linley and Irina combined their fire and ice magic into a tornado that tore through Smirnov's hastily raised barriers.

Linley, Irina, and their allies killed Smirnov, the Mechanical Army’s commander, on the sky battlefield. Linley then unleashed Fiendfyre across the ground battlefield, while recognizing that the Mechanical Army could not be permanently defeated without destroying its hidden Alchemy Laboratory.

• Linley and Irina’s ice-and-fire tornado destroyed Smirnov’s defenses and left his body near death.
• Smirnov tried to escape using an Alchemy Obelisk made by Josue, but Dumbledore, Irvin, Astoria, and the Weasley twins attacked and destroyed it.
• Linley and Irina struck Smirnov’s head with fire and ice, killing him and leaving Mechanical Soldier Number Five Davis as the last Demon King-level wizard on the battlefield.
• Linley sent Irvin and Astoria to help Harry, then used Fiery Apparition to reach the ground battlefield.
• Linley unleashed Fiendfyre across the Mechanical Army, destroying its soldiers and scorching the battlefield.
• Linley considered the hidden Alchemy Laboratory that could rebuild the Mechanical Soldiers and raised his Wand.

Linley’s Goblet Immortal Fire puppets secured the borders of Britain, France, and Germany while the war against the American Magical Congress continued. At an International Confederation of Wizards meeting, Linley called for the Congress to be destroyed and a new American Ministry of Magic to be established in its place.

• Linley deployed five thousand Purgatory Demon Puppets to defend Britain as Harry, Irvin, and Astoria defeated Mechanical Soldier Number Five Davis and captured him intact.
• Linley isolated Nicolas Flamel and Josue’s duel, then sent more than five thousand puppets to France, where they relieved the Aurors and alchemists defending the borders.
• Linley deployed more than five thousand puppets in Germany and brought Grindelwald back, while the German Aurors’ losses were revealed to be nearly total.
• The International Confederation of Wizards convened to discuss the war and the International Secrecy Law.
• Linley argued that the American Magical Congress had launched a war of annexation and urged the Confederation to eradicate it and help establish a new American Ministry of Magic.

The International Confederation of Wizards voted overwhelmingly to eliminate the American Magical Congress and support a new American Ministry of Magic. Linley and Irina argued that Muggle technology made coexistence necessary, leaving the representatives to consider abolishing the International Secrecy Law.

• Dumbledore announced the vote to eliminate the American Magical Congress had passed with 182 votes in favor, 4 against, and 6 abstentions.
• Linley argued that Muggle governments were willing to recognize wizards and that abolishing the International Secrecy Law would help prevent conflict.
• The representatives recalled Linley's demonstrations of Muggle weapons, including nuclear weapons capable of destroying wizarding settlements.
• Irina said neither wizards nor Muggles could become the other's vassal and that cooperation was the path to victory for both sides.

The International Confederation of Wizards voted to abolish the International Secrecy Law and directed wizarding governments to work with ordinary governments to reveal the magical world. Linley, Irina, and representatives from France and Germany then met President Bush at the White House to introduce him to wizardkind.

• Irina proposed abolishing the International Secrecy Law, and Dumbledore gave wizard representatives three days to consult their Ministries and vote.
• Dumbledore announced the result: 188 votes in favor, one against, and three abstentions, and declared the law abolished.
• Dumbledore proposed that the British, French, and German wizarding communities jointly negotiate with the United States, and Linley, Irina, and both representatives agreed.
• Ministers of Magic began consulting their ordinary governments about revealing the magical world.
• Two days later, Linley, Irina, and the French and German representatives Apparated into the White House and met President Bush.
• Linley reassured Bush and began explaining wizards, magic, and the magical world to him.

Linley and Irina explained to Mr. Bush that the American Magical Congress had attacked the wizarding world and been defeated, then proposed that wizards and ordinary people cooperate to replace it with an American Ministry of Magic. The chapter ended with Mr. Bush asking how people without magic could help.

• Linley told Mr. Bush that American wizards and ordinary people had been kept apart by the American Magical Congress's hostility.
• Irina explained that the American Magical Congress had launched a war of annexation, but the International Confederation of Wizards defeated its Mechanical Army and Nicolas Flamel stopped Josue.
• Linley refused to reveal the Philosopher's Stone and explained that Nicolas Flamel's extraordinary longevity was an exception.
• Linley proposed integrating American wizards into ordinary society, abolishing the International Secrecy Law, and rebuilding the American Ministry of Magic.
• Linley offered magical products such as healing potions, Invisibility Cloaks, Felix Felicis, and Polyjuice Potion as benefits of cooperation.
• Mr. Bush recognized the American Magical Congress as a threat to the United States, then asked how ordinary people could help Linley and the wizards.

Linley persuaded Mr. Bush to authorize a nuclear strike on the American Magical Congress's Alchemy Laboratory, offering an oil field and magical rewards in exchange. Bush agreed to the plan, and Linley prepared to make the alchemist Josue experience a nuclear strike.

• Linley explained that ordinary weapons could evade the laboratory's magical detection and asked Mr. Bush to launch a nuclear strike.
• Linley offered Bush an oil field, healing potions, and Felix Felicis, but Bush worried about the political consequences and the wizards' ability to control the government.
• Linley assured Bush that the Confederation strictly limited memory and confusion spells, and Bush agreed to cooperate and arrange an evacuation near the Woolworth Building.
• Linley secretly gave Bush half a spoonful of Felix Felicis during their handshake, and they agreed on the strike's timing and coordinates three kilometers south of the laboratory.
• Linley left the White House and looked toward the laboratory, anticipating the nuclear strike.

Linley, Irina, and Dumbledore destroyed the American Magical Congress's Alchemy Laboratory with a nuclear strike, then used magic to contain and erase the radioactive contamination. Josue sensed the laboratory's destruction during his battle with Nicholas and erupted in rage, while Nicholas declared that Josue had brought the consequences upon himself.

• Linley explained that a B-2 bomber carrying a nuclear bomb was approaching the Alchemy Laboratory, and he, Irina, and Dumbledore prepared to contain the blast and remove its radiation.
• The nuclear bomb destroyed the Alchemy Laboratory, vaporizing its alchemists, wrecking more than a thousand Mechanical Soldiers, and disabling the Human Alchemy research equipment.
• Linley cast defensive spells and Irina sealed the area to keep radioactive contamination from spreading.
• Dumbledore used a Vanishment Charm to erase the laboratory's remains and its radioactive contamination, leaving only a crater.
• Josue sensed the laboratory's destruction during his fight with Nicholas and attacked more fiercely as he lamented the loss of more than two hundred years of research.
• Nicholas told Josue that his pursuit of Human Alchemy and the war it provoked had brought this destruction upon him.

Josue revealed a Satellite Railgun and threatened to use it to control the world’s technological development, while Nicholas recognized the weapon as a dire threat. Josue demanded that Nicholas make the Englishmen surrender, threatening to strike a government every twenty-four hours.

• Josue dismissed Nicholas’s objections and summoned a villa-sized alchemical device from his body.
• Josue launched the device, revealed it was a Satellite Railgun, and used defensive Alchemy Formations to block Nicholas’s attacks.
• Josue explained that he intended to use the railgun to prevent Muggles from advancing technologically and to guide civilization forever.
• Nicholas accused Josue of endangering humanity and the planet, but Josue rejected his criticism.
• Josue threatened to fire on a magical or Muggle government every twenty-four system hours unless Nicholas stopped the Englishmen’s resistance.