Chapter Summaries

Adam reunited with Eugene, Bernard, Uther, and Klon and learned how the world had changed after he left. He chose not to turn back time, and the group faced questions about returning from the Hanging Gardens and dealing with the surviving civilizations.

• Adam embraced Eugene, Bernard, Uther, and Klon, and Eugene asked whether Adam would turn back time.
• Adam offered a second playthrough, but Bernard declined and explained that the Human Alliance had fragmented after Adam left.
• Uther described how Britain was destroyed, Egypt fought to the end, and China remained comparatively strong.
• Adam learned that Uther had stayed unmarried because of his position as Pharaoh, while Klon had once married but had no children.
• Adam asked what the group would do next, and Eugene vowed to hunt down everyone involved in attacking Adam.

Adam decided to reassert the Human Alliance after learning that its former members had prepared a magic-tech nuclear bomb for him. He ordered a summons sent to every country, but most foreign ministries no longer remembered the Alliance and discarded the notice.

• Adam rejected Klon's suggestion to let the matter go and insisted the Human Alliance had never dissolved.
• Adam asked whether the Hanging Gardens could still contact the various countries, and Klon said they probably could.
• Adam ordered Klon to summon every country to the Hanging Gardens in the name of the Human Alliance, warning that those who stayed away would regret it.
• Klon sent Adam's message to foreign ministries around the world, and China was the first to receive it in Guanghan City.
• China's foreign minister connected the notice to the recent destruction of Britain's original site and called someone, while most other countries discarded the message as incomprehensible.

Adam reunited with his family and learned that Xiao Hei and Fawkes had guarded the creatures from Hogwarts’ special zones after Earth’s magical hydrogen-bomb attack. He brought the two creatures back to him and learned that Xiao Hei had devastated an American base on Mars in revenge.

• Adam joined Bernard, Eugene, Uther, and Klon for hotpot and learned that Yog had developed the life-support pods using Ancient Magic and technology.
• Adam asked about Hogwarts and Xiao Hei, and Klon explained that the Human Alliance had last observed the black dragon on Pluto.
• Adam discovered that Xiao Hei guarded the creatures on Pluto while Fawkes watched over creatures on Charon.
• Adam summoned Xiao Hei and Fawkes to him, and both recognized him and affectionately greeted him.
• Xiao Hei told Adam of his revenge against the American base on Mars, where he had left a disaster zone covering seven percent of the planet’s surface.

Adam discussed restoring order to the Hanging Gardens and reaffirmed the Human Alliance’s purpose, promising that he would leave and return while ensuring it could endure his absence. He recognized that his past failure to give its leaders confidence had influenced their choices, and admitted that it had been his fault.

• Eugene recalled seeing a Phoenix while Adam petted Xiao Hei and clarified that the people in the Hanging Gardens included distant descendants and Human Alliance personnel.
• Bernard and Eugene did not explain why they had lost contact with their descendants, and Klon said the people in the coffins were devoted Human Alliance personnel who had made Unbreakable Vows.
• Klon admitted that the dedicated personnel had strengthened his belief in the Human Alliance after Adam left, while Uther questioned whether the organization had a future without Adam.
• Adam promised that he would leave and return, and said that his ability to settle matters during his absences would discourage people from plotting against the Human Alliance.
• Adam told Uther that the leaders’ uncertainty about his return had influenced their decision not to use the Clay Tablets to suppress every nation, and accepted blame for failing to make them feel secure.

Adam reflected on how his choices had caused the four women to doubt his return, then discussed how to confront the countries responsible for challenging the Human Alliance. Eugene warned that the outside world might not understand why Adam planned to retaliate, before raising the question of where the people in the life-support pods should live.

• Adam explained that rewinding time had made the four women’s memories of his departure uncertain, and they chose not to rewind time again.
• Adam realized that countries outside the Human Alliance might no longer have Portkeys to the Hanging Gardens and considered going to them himself to settle scores.
• Eugene reminded Adam of his past reckless actions and learned about the missing Portkeys.
• Eugene warned that the countries might not know what had happened to the Human Alliance, but Adam insisted they would face retaliation.
• Eugene said he had come to discuss where the people in the life-support pods should live.

Adam addressed the Human Alliance’s shortage of housing by restoring part of North America and creating a place for its people to live. As Bernard and the others questioned his plan to confront several countries, Adam built a castle and apartments and declared that they must obey him or defeat him.

• Adam asked the thawing Human Alliance personnel what they wanted, and Eugene explained that radiation made most of Earth uninhabitable.
• Adam revealed that he could reverse time across a region, surprising Eugene, then chose purification magic to restore the North American wasteland instead.
• Klon reflected on the history of the land while Bernard, Eugene, and Klon questioned whether attacking several countries would make the Human Alliance seem too radical or untrustworthy.
• Uther argued that gentle methods had failed before, while Adam said he would prioritize his own feelings and confront those who preferred force.
• Adam used Ancient Magic to create a castle and nearby apartment buildings, then challenged his opponents to obey him or defeat him.

Klon agreed to join Adam in reclaiming the power he had lost, and Adam decided to leave for Mars after the date in the notice. China unexpectedly arrived at the Hanging Gardens with its preserved Portkey, leaving Adam to explain that no other parties had come and the meeting had only one guest.

• Klon told Adam he would accompany him when the time came to reclaim his power, and Adam agreed.
• Adam said he, Xiao Hei, and Klon would leave for Mars the day after the notice's stated date.
• Adam decided the Hanging Gardens would continue receiving visitors in case someone genuinely intended to come.
• A Chinese delegation arrived through the Portkey, and its Foreign Ministry representative said China had believed Adam would return.
• Adam pointed out that China was the only party to attend, while the office representative wondered whether Adam's power truly came from magic.

Adam told China that the Human Alliance would settle accounts with the countries that had attacked it, beginning the next day, and postponed their meeting. China evacuated citizens from Mars, while other nations grew alarmed by the vague warning.

• China's representatives proposed continuing China's role as a permanent member, but Adam said the old meeting's circumstances no longer applied and announced he would settle accounts with former attackers the next day.
• Adam assured China it was not among the attackers and postponed the meeting until after he had settled accounts with the others.
• After returning from the Hanging Gardens, China's representatives ordered citizens abroad to evacuate, prioritizing those on Mars.
• China's leaders feared Adam might use the Clay Tablets to attack Mars, which was why China had claimed Yue instead of competing for Mars.
• Other nations on Mars questioned China's evacuation warning, and China said it hoped certain countries would not be overly sensitive.

Adam left to return to the Human Alliance, prompting China to track a black dragon that appeared in the ruins of Hogwarts and headed toward New New York. As the delegation monitored it, another development emerged above a European Union ecological zone.

• China's delegation waited aboard the spaceship past midnight for Adam, but detected no sign of him.
• Adam stopped playing a game, vanished, and told Klon it was time to get to work.
• The director of The Office told the Chinese experts that the Black Dragon had appeared in the ruins of Hogwarts and was likely heading for New New York.
• China's delegation began tracking the Black Dragon and preparing to document its movements.
• The director detected a new development above a European Union ecological zone and displayed it to the delegation.

Adam attacked the European Union’s elite ecological estates on Mars with a massive lightning storm, while Fiendfyre ravaged Germany and Italy. The Office’s observers concluded that the targeted estates’ occupants were likely dead as the assaults continued.

• Adam invoked a thunder spell from the Wand of Darkness, unleashing a storm over the European Union’s ecological zones on Mars.
• Workers outside the zones watched the lightning and prayed as it illuminated the sky.
• Adam directed the lightning at the wealthy inner estates, sparing the surrounding population, and reacted to the workers’ prayers to the Potato God.
• The Office reviewed damaged sensor data and assessed that the lightning was at least as destructive as natural lightning.
• The Office saw the private estates melting and discovered Fiendfyre burning Germany and Italy.

As Adam’s attacks crippled the European Union, Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, observers struggled to determine whether a new world war had begun. Xiao Hei reached Mars, where American forces confronted him, convinced that space was the dragon’s weakest environment.

• Experts debated whether the destruction across Mars would trigger a Fifth World War, while the European Union’s military bases and armories burned.
• Klon searched beneath Germany and Italy’s Fiendfyre while their ecological zones, spacecraft, and munitions were destroyed.
• Wanda and Pietro attacked the Soviet Union, with Wanda relying on the Scarlet Demon to control her Chaos Magic.
• Uther, Eugene, and Bernard used Adam’s observation equipment to watch the battle and discovered that the Human Alliance database contained extensive high-definition entertainment archives.
• Xiao Hei arrived outside Mars’s atmosphere, where American spacecraft intercepted him and an officer declared that space would be the dragon’s undoing.

Xiao Hei devastated America’s space station and New New York, using his abilities in space and swallowing a nuclear reactor. As the black dragon flew away before sunset, Chinese experts recorded its powers and speculated about why America had been treated differently.

• Xiao Hei’s illusions overwhelmed America’s space station, and someone accidentally triggered a spacecraft launch that ended in an explosion.
• Chinese experts recorded that Xiao Hei could perceive distant events and use his abilities normally in outer space.
• Xiao Hei flew toward New New York as the Great Storm wrecked incoming spacecraft, fighters, and missiles.
• Xiao Hei tore a reactor from a nuclear power plant, swallowed it, and changed to a blue glow.
• Chinese experts debated why America had been treated differently, while one professor warned another not to speculate about Adam’s intentions.
• Xiao Hei finished the operation and flew away, his shadow nearly covering America’s ecological zone before sunset.

Adam confronted the people who had undermined the Human Alliance and explained that he had pulled them out of human history to punish them. He began by offering one defiant wizard a cup of Elixir of Life.

• The four major powers on Mars blamed Huaxia for successful attacks on their military infrastructure, while Huaxia demanded evidence and challenged them to fight.
• A group in a Martian ecological zone celebrated the attacks and planned to claim responsibility in the name of the Human Alliance.
• Adam questioned why people had broken the rules he had established, then used his magic to pull those who had destroyed human order out of history.
• Adam read the captives’ thoughts and explained that they had assumed his authority had faded because he had been absent for so long.
• When an Icelandic wizard dared Adam to kill or torture him, Adam promised to treat him well and produced a vat of Elixir of Life.

Adam made Wanda and Pietro force prisoners to drink the Elixir of Life, explaining that its endless cycle made them experience their suffering anew. After Uther reported that Sakura Country had declared war on America, Adam ordered limited aid for the weaker side while keeping the Human Alliance focused on helping Mars’s lower-class population.

• Adam ordered Wanda and Pietro to force the prisoners to drink the Elixir of Life, and Uther questioned why they did not use a time-resetting spell.
• Adam explained that the potion made its victims experience their suffering repeatedly, and the prisoners broke down in fear.
• Uther told Adam that Sakura Country had declared war on America, and Adam recalled that Xiao Hei had recently damaged American military assets.
• Uther judged that Sakura Country was unlikely to defeat America because it had been severely weakened and had few people left.
• Adam ordered the Human Alliance to provide limited battlefield support to whichever side was weaker while prioritizing food and medical supplies for Mars’s lower-class population.

China and the Human Alliance investigated how Adam had supplied Mars with vast amounts of food and medicine, while the Alliance struggled to obtain potions from a hostile pharmaceutical company. Adam ordered a massive purchase at the company’s inflated prices and demanded delivery within three days.

• A Chinese staff member wondered why a Clay Tablet spell had left a giant palm print, while the Mars conflict continued and the Human Alliance supported Sakura Country.
• China’s observers noted that Adam’s supplies across Mars amounted to several times the annual output and speculated about how he had produced them.
• Eugene reported that the Human Alliance lacked potions, and Uther proposed using Fawkes’s tears before Bernard rejected the idea.
• Adam told the Alliance to request the potions openly, and the pharmaceutical company replied with prices hundreds of times higher than normal.
• Adam ordered one billion bottles, instructed the Alliance to borrow foreign currency from China using gold, and demanded the goods within three days.

Adam learned that Sakura Country was near extinction before the Human Alliance could make its dramatic entrance as a mediator. As he considered ways to create a suitable stage on Mars, he and Eugene discussed inciting America’s states to split apart.

• The pharmaceutical company’s chairman learned that its staff, Potion Makers, and security personnel had resigned, while the general manager presented his own resignation and held the chairman at gunpoint.
• Adam received the report that the pharmaceutical company had returned the Human Alliance’s payment and included the previously ordered potions as a bonus.
• Eugene told Adam that Sakura Country was on the verge of being wiped out by America, with its population on Mars reduced to double digits despite the Human Alliance’s support.
• Adam lamented that Sakura Country’s collapse had left the Human Alliance without a proper mediation entrance, and Eugene suggested inciting America’s states to split apart.

Adam and the Human Alliance tried to spark a civil war in America, but the revolt spread until states and even neighborhoods demanded independence. After the Alliance let the states break away and guaranteed their survival, Adam met a Chinese delegation more than a month later to discuss business.

• Adam sent Eugene to help the people of America pursue freedom, and Bernard's efforts sparked gunfire across the country within three days.
• As the fighting spread from state to state and even neighborhoods declared independence, Klon and Uther discussed the chaos with Adam and Eugene.
• Adam decided to let every state become independent, with the Human Alliance guaranteeing their basic survival.
• More than a month later, Adam met a well-prepared Chinese delegation in the Great Hall and said he was relieved to speak with people he could communicate with normally.
• The Foreign Ministry representative sympathized with Adam, who set aside his painful memories and proposed discussing business.

Adam restored Earth's polluted environment and discussed how the Human Alliance would charge nations that wanted to reclaim their former territories. The chapter ended with Adam wondering whether he could avoid leaving after Uther pointed out that staying would spare him from such planning.

• Adam began restoring Earth by erasing pollution-adapted creatures and replacing them with animals from the past.
• Adam explained to Uther that cockroaches remained part of Earth's ecosystem, then denied deliberately introducing them to the moon.
• Uther warned that nations on Mars might want to return to their abandoned territories now that Earth was habitable again.
• Adam said the Human Alliance would charge restoration and yearly maintenance fees to nations using the restored land.
• Adam explained that he wanted the nations to remember the Human Alliance's strength and fund its operations.
• Uther said Adam would not need to plan such matters if he did not have to leave, and Adam realized staying might be possible.

Adam left behind a fully connected duplicate in the Harry Potter World while his main body departed for the final coordinates Merlin had provided, taking Wanda and Pietro with him. He reassured the others that the duplicate could act as him, then distracted Klon from his upcoming meeting with food.

• Adam created a duplicate linked to his consciousness and explained that its death would damage his foundation.
• Adam left the duplicate in the Harry Potter World with the Book of Sealing and the Sealing Wand, and showed Uther that he had another set of equipment.
• Adam departed to meet Lord Lao at Merlin's final coordinates, bringing his laboratory, Wanda, and Pietro while Kero, Suppi, and Mimi stayed behind.
• The others teased Adam about leaving them again, and Adam promised the remaining duplicate would not leave after this.
• Klon remembered he had a meeting, but Adam suggested eating during it and brought out unfamiliar delicacies.

Adam shared a meal of magical beasts with Eugene, Uther, and Bernard while traveling through the Sea of Worlds. A hostile figure dressed as White Impermanence attacked Adam, and after he defeated it, another figure dressed as Black Impermanence followed his trail.

• Adam served Eugene, Uther, and Bernard dishes made from the Gluttony Witch’s White Whale, Multi-Rabbit, and Black Serpent, and they discussed other magical beasts they had eaten.
• Eugene asked whether Adam might encounter an enemy in the Sea of Worlds, and Adam admitted that a hostile being was approaching him.
• Adam recognized the enormous figure as someone impersonating White Impermanence and attacked it with magic.
• White Impermanence evaded Adam’s first attack, but Adam used the Nothing’s magic and his cards to erase it and break its counterattack.
• After Adam continued on his way, a figure dressed as Black Impermanence appeared and followed him.