Chapter Summaries

After Josue’s Satellite Railgun threatened governments around the world, wizarding and Muggle leaders gathered to seek a defense. Dumbledore said their hope might lie in Linley and Irina reaching the legendary realm of wizarding gods.

• Dumbledore informed the International Confederation of Wizards about Josue and the Satellite Railgun, then urged representatives to warn their Muggle governments.
• Wizarding and Muggle leaders assembled for a secret meeting, with Linley and Irina representing the British Ministry of Magic.
• Mr. Bush proposed launching a nuclear bomb into space, but Linley explained Josue could destroy its satellite before it reached the Satellite Railgun.
• Dumbledore explained that Josue had reached the limit of Demon King level magic and that only legendary wizards could surpass it.
• Dumbledore said no god would save them and suggested that people present might have the potential to become gods, leading Linley and Irina to realize he meant them.

Lynn and Irina agreed to pursue the Legendary Wizard realm to repel the invaders and protect the new world, and Dumbledore offered them the Room of Requirement for seclusion. The meeting then turned to whether governments should warn their citizens, with Mr. Bush raising concerns that the news could cause uncontrollable panic.

• Lynn and Irina reflected that their mastery of magic’s construction and reconstruction had brought them closer to the world’s essence than other Demon King level wizards.
• Lynn and Irina pledged to reach the Legendary Wizard realm and asked for an absolutely quiet place to pursue it.
• Dumbledore offered them the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts and promised to keep them undisturbed until they advanced.
• Dumbledore said each Ministry of Magic would send elite Aurors to protect national leaders and dignitaries from possible satellite beams.
• Linley urged Muggle governments to inform their citizens, but Mr. Bush warned that public panic could cause severe losses and even widespread conflict.

After the nations narrowly voted to reveal Josue and the Satellite Railgun to the public, Linley and Irina went to Hogwarts to study the essence of the world. Josue then fired the railgun at the White House, but Special Envoy Aurors rescued Mr. Bush and the officials before the building was obliterated.

• Linley explained that wizards could help contain unrest and earn the public’s trust by protecting society from Josue.
• Dumbledore held a vote, and the leaders narrowly agreed to tell the public the truth about Josue and the Satellite Railgun.
• Linley and Irina used Fiery Apparition to reach Hogwarts, where Fred and George had fortified the Room of Requirement against intruders.
• After the first twenty-four hours passed, Josue ordered the Satellite Railgun to destroy a government, and the weapon fired a massive white beam at Earth.
• Special Envoy Aurors detected the approaching attack and Apparated Mr. Bush and more than twenty White House officials away just before the White House was destroyed.
• Mr. Bush asked the lead Auror whether Josue’s satellite ray had struck the White House.

Linley and Irina bound their fates through the Pact of Mindscape and explored what ascending to godhood might mean. Meanwhile, Josue’s Satellite Railgun continued destroying government centers, killing thousands and exposing the wizarding world as Aurors tried to keep order.

• Mr. Bush told the officials that they could only wait for good news from the wizarding world.
• Linley and Irina shared their minds and powers through the Pact of Mindscape, binding their fates and their paths toward becoming legendary wizards.
• Irina asked Linley what ascending to godhood meant, and he suggested it could involve a change in perspective, power, or the ability to create.
• Josue’s Satellite Railgun destroyed the British Ministry of Magic after striking the White House, killing more than three hundred Ministry employees and over twenty thousand Muggles in London.
• Media reports revealed the wizarding world and Josue’s threat, while Aurors and police worked together to prevent riots as the railgun struck government centers around the world.

As the Satellite Railgun devastated governments worldwide, Linley and Irina advanced inside Hogwarts' Room of Requirement, transforming into Legendary wizards and gods. Bound by the Pact of Mindscape, they emerged as the Ice and Fire Archons, sharing their powers and attainments.

• Three months of Satellite Railgun strikes killed more than a million civilians and left governments worldwide in fear.
• Magic around Hogwarts Castle surged, and Dumbledore and Grindelwald suspected Linley and Irina's advancement was causing it.
• Linley and Irina deconstructed and reconstructed matter and magic as their souls transformed and power from the world's origin strengthened them.
• Linley's flames became platinum divine fire, while Irina's ice gained the power to freeze even time.
• Linley and Irina reached godhood as the Ice and Fire Archons, sharing their powers and knowledge through the Pact of Mindscape.

Linley and Irina reached the legendary wizard realm and confronted Josue in the French wizarding world. They destroyed his defenses and erased him, ending his campaign of conquest.

• Linley and Irina became legendary wizards and told Dumbledore they would end the conflict in the French wizarding world.
• Linley and Irina arrived in France, where Nicholas Flamel and Josue had been confronting each other.
• Josue fired the Satellite Railgun at Linley and Irina, but Linley swallowed its beam with platinum flames.
• Irina trapped Josue in a frozen wasteland as Linley’s platinum flames joined the attack.
• Linley and Irina engulfed Josue in ice and fire, destroying his body and soul without leaving a trace.

Linley and Irina killed Josue and destroyed the Satellite Railgun, then restored the ruined magical institutions and helped dismantle the American Magical Congress. Over the next five years, magic and ordinary society integrated successfully, leaving wizards and ordinary people to live together in prosperity.

• After killing Josue, Linley and Irina traveled to low Earth orbit and pulverized the Satellite Railgun with their combined magic.
• Over the next three days, Linley and Irina restored destroyed official buildings and Ministries of Magic, recovering and resealing dangerous magical creations.
• Mr. Bush and the Special Envoy Aurors arrested Josue's remaining followers, dismissed the American Magical Congress's employees, and established a new American Ministry of Magic a week later.
• The International Confederation of Wizards and Aurors purged Dark Wizard gathering places and drove Dark Wizards into hiding.
• Over the next five years, wizards integrated into ordinary society, while ordinary people benefited from magical products and longer, healthier lives.

Five years after the world’s salvation, Linley and Irina married at Hogwarts before leaders, friends, and thousands of well-wishers. They later bid farewell to Dumbledore and set out to travel the world together, planning to settle somewhere peaceful and eventually begin a greater journey.

• Five years after the satellite beam strike, people had accepted magic, and world leaders and thousands of citizens gathered at Hogwarts for Linley and Irina’s wedding.
• Irina left Gryffindor Common Room with her bridesmaids, while Linley waited by the Black Lake with his groomsmen and guests looked on.
• Linley and Irina completed the wedding ceremony, toasted their guests, and shared a quiet moment together beneath the moonlight.
• At midnight, Linley and Irina vanished from the Black Lake and remained away for five days and five nights.
• Linley and Irina visited Dumbledore to say farewell and told him they planned to travel widely, settle in a peaceful place, and share the future of their dreams.

In 1786, Josue revealed that he had created an ageless alchemical body using the lives of his family, hundreds of wizards, and thousands of Muggles, and argued that continuance was the only meaning of existence. After trapping and killing his teacher Isaac Fanes, Josue planned to spread Human Alchemy through the French wizarding world and seek Nicholas Flamel’s Philosopher’s Stone to make his soul immortal.

• Isaac Fanes found Josue’s secret laboratory and confronted him over his forbidden Human Alchemy experiments.
• Josue revealed his mechanical body and defended his pursuit of eternal continuance, while Fanes condemned his murder of his family and thousands of others.
• Josue offered Fanes a chance to join him, but Fanes refused and prepared to destroy him and reclaim the forbidden knowledge.
• Josue activated the Human Alchemy armor he had secretly given Fanes, draining his magic and binding him before killing him with spikes from the armor.
• Josue erased Fanes’s body and resolved to spread Human Alchemy to advance to Demon King level and seek Nicholas Flamel’s Philosopher’s Stone to anchor his soul.