Chapter Summaries

Fang Mo took Strange to Yinsen Hospital and performed a brutal operation to restore his arms. Strange woke with two arms again, but discovered he could no longer feel his legs.

• Fang Mo brought Strange from Kamar-Taj to New York through the rebuilt sanctums’ teleportation network.
• Fang Mo contacted Yinsen with the Sword of Wisdom and arranged for an operating room at Yinsen Hospital.
• Fang Mo anesthetized Strange’s legs and began cutting into his shoulder with a massive Manyullyn blade while Yinsen assisted.
• Strange passed out during the operation, which lasted about two hours.
• Strange woke with two restored arms, but realized he could no longer feel his legs.

Fang Mo explained Strange’s condition and gave him a magical wheelchair, then government officials arrived to speak with Fang Mo. The officials noticed Strange, whom Fang Mo introduced as his friend Stephen, paralyzed below the waist.

• Strange woke to find his left arm healed and his right arm replaced by a metal one, while Fang Mo admitted he had deliberately left the damage.
• Fang Mo told Strange that Sargeras’s magic had caused his paralysis and described the monstrous transformations Strange had suffered during treatment.
• Strange refused Fang Mo’s offer to restore his legs at the cost of losing his arms, so Fang Mo gave him a magical wheelchair that adapted to his body and thoughts.
• Fang Mo said he still needed a medicinal ingredient to suppress the Fel Fire inside Strange before they could return to Kamar-Taj.
• Yinsen brought two government officials to meet Fang Mo, and Fang Mo introduced Strange as his friend Stephen, paralyzed below the waist.

Fang Mo refused to help government congressmen contact the disbanded Avengers, while they tried to enlist his help over the Burning Cult and the Winter Soldier. Their discussion ended when an explosion blasted open the entrance and sent a bloodied Yinsen crashing into the room.

• Fang Mo dismissed Strange’s introduction and traded jokes with him before the congressmen asked to speak.
• The congressmen asked Fang Mo where the Avengers were, but he said they were vacationing on another planet and refused to contact them for General Ross.
• The congressmen described the Burning Cult’s crimes and told Fang Mo that the King of Wakanda had died in a bombing blamed on the Winter Soldier.
• The taller congressman showed Fang Mo a photograph of the Winter Soldier, hoping Captain America and the Avengers could be drawn into the matter.
• An explosion tore through the entrance, and a bloodied Yinsen flew into the room and struck the operating table.

Fang Mo defeated the Burning Cult fanatics who attacked the hospital and discovered that their leader’s prayers reached him through the Abyssal Wastes. He secretly answered the leader as Sargeras and ordered him to kill the Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One, causing a power to transform the cultist.

• Yinsen warned Fang Mo that fanatics had attacked, and the Burning Cult leader confronted Senators Keori and Enrus over their plans to recall the Avengers.
• The cultists tortured Senator Keori after Fang Mo revealed that the senators had planned to recall the Avengers, while Fang Mo refused to protect them and clarified that he had never joined the Avengers.
• The Burning Cult leader attacked Fang Mo with a cyan Coral Blade, but Fang Mo caught it between two fingers and quickly defeated most of the cultists.
• Fang Mo sensed the leader praying to Sargeras and secretly answered him while asking Strange to watch the captive as he went to treat Yinsen.
• Fang Mo promised the leader power if he killed Ancient One, and the cultist’s eyes turned cyan as tentacles burst from his throat.

Fang Mo and Strange dealt with a cultist corrupted by Sargeras, who escaped after attacking them, while Yinsen woke from surgery. Fang Mo planned to investigate the cult and take Strange and Yinsen back to Kamar-Taj for protection and training.

• The cult leader transformed under the Abyssal Wastes' power, broke free, attacked Fang Mo, and fled when the dust settled.
• Fang Mo healed the injured congressman with his scythe and sent both congressmen away, then Yinsen woke up from the operating table.
• Yinsen learned that the hospital had been badly damaged and discussed the Sokovia Accords and the Avengers with Fang Mo and Strange.
• Fang Mo said he would investigate Sargeras's interest in Strange's hands and insisted Strange stay at Kamar-Taj for protection.
• Fang Mo arranged for Jarvis to hire a construction crew at Stark's expense, then opened a portal to take Strange and Yinsen to Kamar-Taj.

Fang Mo sent Strange and Yinsen to Kamar-Taj, where Strange rapidly mastered magic while Fang Mo secretly granted followers’ wishes and organized them into a cult. After Fang Mo staged an assault on the sanctums, Strange watched the Ancient One battle a monstrous cult leader—until a scarlet-robed man appeared and stabbed her.

• Fang Mo brought Strange and Yinsen to Kamar-Taj and arranged for the Ancient One to teach them magic.
• Strange awakened his magical talent on Mount Everest, then quickly learned advanced spells while Yinsen fell behind.
• Fang Mo answered followers’ prayers by curing illnesses and organized the grateful people into a new group.
• After Strange had studied magic, Fang Mo ordered the Burning Cult to attack the Three Sanctums.
• Strange fought attackers at the New York Sanctum, where the Ancient One arrived to battle a tentacled cult leader.
• A scarlet-robed man appeared during the fight and stabbed the unprepared Ancient One with a blood-red blade.

Strange brought the mortally wounded Ancient One to a hospital, where her astral form told him she had no time left and urged him to find Fang Mo after her death. As Strange returned to his body, he found Fang Mo already in the operating room with a coffin, paper money, and a suona.

• The Ancient One was stabbed by the cult leader, and a crimson-robed man kicked her through a portal; Strange followed and brought her to the hospital.
• Christine and Strange prepared to treat the Ancient One, but Christine found no heartbeat, reflexes, or brain activity.
• Strange left his body and followed the Ancient One's astral form, but she said Chagallos's Fear Fang had doomed her.
• The Ancient One told Strange to find Fang Mo and explain her death, then vanished after asking him to admire the snow with her.
• As Strange's soul returned to the operating room, he saw Fang Mo arrive with several Black men carrying a coffin, along with paper money and a suona.

After Ancient One died, Strange accepted her wish for him to become Sorcerer Supreme, while Fang Mo focused on arranging her funeral and seventh-day memorial despite warnings of an approaching threat to Earth. Nick Fury proposed using the seven days before the memorial to save the world.

• Fang Mo explained Ancient One's death and funeral to the stunned doctors and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, while Strange said she had chosen him to inherit the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme.
• Fang Mo supported Strange's new role, and the group placed Ancient One's body in a coffin.
• Strange warned Fang Mo that the Titan Cult and other Dimensional Demon Gods might attack Earth, and he asked Fang Mo to help protect it.
• Strange explained the threat to Nick Fury, who introduced himself to Strange and learned that an evil god planned to destroy Earth.
• Fang Mo insisted on holding Ancient One's seventh-day memorial instead of making plans, until Nick Fury asked whether he could save the world in the seven days before it.

Fang Mo agreed to help stop Sargeras, but first brought the Ancient One’s coffin to Kamar-Taj, where the mages discovered that all Three Sanctums had fallen. Strange and the others returned to New York as Sargeras manifested above the city, and Strange challenged him to explain how he would enslave humanity.

• Fang Mo agreed to help Nick Fury save the world for a few days, then led the funeral procession through Strange’s portal to Kamar-Taj.
• Strange told the Kamar-Taj mages that the Ancient One had died and that they needed to protect the Three Sanctums, but Wong reported that all three had fallen.
• Strange used time magic to restore Kamar-Taj and, after checking the Sanctum nexus, discovered that dark power was gathering in New York.
• Fang Mo, Strange, Wong, Nick Fury, and the others returned to New York, where fel flames filled the sky and Sargeras’s fanatics welcomed his arrival.
• Strange tried time magic while Fang Mo fired the Power Stone at the vortex, but Sargeras appeared and declared his plan to rule humanity.
• Strange flew up and asked Sargeras how he would enslave people, and Sargeras described a regime of workplace benefits, compulsory health, family life, and prayer.

Sargeras tempted New York’s residents and overwhelmed Strange, while Fang Mo waited as the city fell into chaos. General Ross transformed into a giant and struck Sargeras with a punch powerful enough to tear open his fel-energy form, leaving Nick Fury stunned.

• Sargeras offered humanity an end to injustice and tried to recruit Strange, briefly restoring Strange’s legs before Strange refused him again.
• Sargeras blasted Strange away with the force of his voice, and his words helped trigger riots as his Alternate Dimension expanded.
• Fang Mo refused to intervene, introduced Shoggoth as his cat King Jiji, and told Nick Fury that someone else was more eager to act.
• The Military attacked Sargeras with fighter jets and missiles, but Sargeras destroyed the incoming weapons with a beam of fel energy.
• General Ross arrived, ordered his forces to suppress the riots, and transformed into a giant with blazing red eyes and hair.
• Ross launched himself into the sky and punched Sargeras, tearing a huge hole through his fel-energy face and shocking Nick Fury.

General Ross became Cyttorak’s vessel and fought Sargeras over New York while the city descended into chaos. As Strange recovered and the heroes considered using the Infinity Stones, a nuclear bomb detonated over the city.

• The President ordered Ross to contain Sargeras and contact Fang Mo, but a mysterious man gave Ross a blood-red crystal that let Cyttorak possess him.
• Ross, speaking as Cyttorak, attacked Sargeras, who raised a barrier to shield New York from their explosive battle.
• Ross’s soldiers opened fire on Sargeras’s fanatics, turning the civilians against the Military as the demon gods continued fighting.
• Wong asked Fang Mo to heal Strange, and Fang Mo restored him with the Scythe of Shenanigans; Strange then learned that Ross was possessed by Cyttorak.
• Rhodey spotted a fighter jet approaching, and Fang Mo identified its payload as a nuclear missile before it exploded over New York.

Two nuclear missiles struck New York, and Sargeras exhausted himself protecting the city before Cyttorak drove him from Earth. Cyttorak trapped the citizens under radioactive fallout, but Strange flew up to negotiate with him.

• A nuclear missile detonated above New York, and Sargeras shielded the city with a magical barrier while fighting Cyttorak.
• When a second missile approached, Sargeras struggled to maintain the barrier as cultists and Kamar-Taj sorcerers opened portals to evacuate the citizens.
• The second explosion shattered Sargeras's barrier, and Cyttorak overwhelmed him and drove his consciousness from Earth.
• Cyttorak erased the evacuation portals and unleashed radioactive dust over New York, leaving the citizens in despair.
• Strange flew toward Cyttorak and said he had come to discuss terms.

Strange used a time loop to force Cyttorak to negotiate and leave General Ross’s body. As Fang Mo and the Ancient One discussed Strange’s trial, a system prompt announced that new mod traits had been detected.

• Strange repeatedly died and reset the time loop, trapping Cyttorak and preventing him from destroying New York.
• Strange insisted that Cyttorak leave General Ross’s body and never descend upon Earth again, and Cyttorak finally agreed.
• Fang Mo told the Ancient One that Strange had passed his trial and joked about her memorial and hair loss.
• A system prompt told Fang Mo that new mod traits had been detected and that download permission could be obtained after research.

Fang Mo unlocked and loaded the Capitalist Mod, then absorbed Ancient One into his Ender Greatsword and gained her magical abilities. After Strange reversed the destruction of New York and removed the nuclear bombs, Fang Mo told Nick Fury that he had played Sargeras and Cyttorak to pressure the world into rebuilding the Avengers; Strange returned, and Fang Mo joked about breaking his healed legs.

• Fang Mo unlocked the Capitalist Mod after his system detected greed, hatred, opposition, and enslavement, then loaded it and received a Lucky Block.
• Strange reversed the nuclear destruction of New York with the Eye of Agamotto and sent the restored nuclear bombs away through a portal.
• Ancient One gave Fang Mo an Ender Greatsword, which absorbed her and granted him her magical skills.
• Fang Mo returned to Nick Fury and admitted that he had acted as Sargeras and Cyttorak to show Earth what it was like without the Avengers.
• Fang Mo told Nick Fury that General Ross had been bewitched by Cyttorak and would soon wake without remembering what happened.
• Strange returned in a wheelchair, stepped out after healing his legs, and Fang Mo joked that he could break them again.

Fang Mo joked with Strange and Nick Fury before Strange agreed to join the Avengers as Doctor Strange. They divided the aftermath of the New York disaster between them, while Fang Mo gave them six days to finish their tasks before Ancient One’s seventh-day memorial.

• Fang Mo teased Strange about his legs and explained that force, not moral appeals, was what made people listen.
• Nick Fury joked along with Fang Mo and persuaded Strange to join the Avengers by offering help and shared relief from Fang Mo’s antics.
• Strange told Nick Fury that time magic had removed the nuclear bombs and radioactive dust, but most New Yorkers still remembered the attack and resented the politicians.
• Nick Fury agreed to handle the political fallout, while Strange took responsibility for rebuilding and reinforcing the Three Sanctums.
• Fang Mo gave Nick Fury and Strange six days to complete their work and planned to gather everyone on Ego planet for Ancient One’s seventh-day memorial.

Fang Mo returned to Ego planet and found that Stark and the others had transformed his medieval town into a neon-lit, magic-powered modern city. He questioned Stark about the changes, then joked about whether Stark had built a strip club before learning more.

• Fang Mo returned to Ego planet and was stunned to find his medieval town replaced by a rapidly expanding sci-fi city.
• Fang Mo saw Stark’s teams combine nanotechnology, magic, goblin labor, and Hayakawa Aki’s clones to construct buildings.
• Fang Mo teleported Stark over and asked how the promised magic city had become Night City.
• Stark explained that the city used magical fire to power steam turbines and that Hayakawa Aki had volunteered to help using the Kurama Sword.
• Fang Mo teased Stark about his past playboy reputation and asked whether he had secretly built a strip club.

Fang Mo inspected Stark’s city, sent the Avengers back, and fused his Dark Hyperspace with Dormammu’s Dark Dimension. The new dimension remained unstable, and the black cat in his arms reacted strangely as Fang Mo considered what to name it.

• Fang Mo teased Stark, then inspected the city with him and found its infrastructure and factories functioning well.
• Fang Mo tested Stark’s magical-energy conversion device with Stormbreaker lightning and realized it could generate power.
• Fang Mo gathered the Avengers and teleported them back outside while he stayed behind to work on dimensional fusion.
• Fang Mo moved to the Dark Hyperspace and spent several days learning to fuse it with the Dark Dimension.
• Fang Mo completed a preliminary fusion, leaving the new dimension’s authority fragments disordered, and the black cat in his arms grew restless.

Shoggoth suffered as the newly fused darkness resisted her authority, so Fang Mo gave her his Lord of Dimensions authority and left her to stabilize the realm. He then tasked the Supreme Intelligence with managing Ego’s city before returning to Kamar-Taj, where Wong told him that Strange had been attacked and the Time Stone stolen.

• Shoggoth writhed in pain as the Dark Dimension and Fang Mo’s Dark Hyperspace fused, and Fang Mo realized their conflicting darkness was causing her suffering.
• Fang Mo transferred his Lord of Dimensions authority to Shoggoth, turning her into a Dimensional Demon God who began organizing the chaotic realm.
• Fang Mo returned to Ego and installed the Supreme Intelligence in the central server, ordering her to manage security and construction in the city.
• Fang Mo went to Kamar-Taj to arrange Ancient One’s seventh-day memorial, but Wong reported that Strange had been attacked and the Time Stone stolen.

Wong told Fang Mo that Thanos had attacked Strange and stolen the Time Stone, prompting Fang Mo to head to the hospital after explaining the Infinity Stones and Thanos’s threat. Fang Mo revived Strange with a healing potion, and Nick Fury arrived at the operating room just as Strange thanked Fang Mo.

• Wong reported that Thanos had injured Strange and stolen the Time Stone, and Fang Mo identified the attacker as the Mad Titan.
• Fang Mo revealed that he had once possessed four Infinity Stones and warned that Thanos was collecting them to destroy the world.
• Fang Mo went through Wong’s portal to the New York hospital, where Christine and the doctors were treating Strange.
• Strange’s heart stopped, so Fang Mo had Christine give him a healing potion and recite “Revive, my love,” which restored his heartbeat and began healing his wound.
• Strange thanked Fang Mo for saving him, and Nick Fury entered the operating room and confronted Fang Mo.

After Strange recovered from Thanos's ambush, the Avengers gathered to discuss the Infinity Stones and their next move. Stark proposed destroying the two stones Fang Mo held, but before they could settle the matter, Iron Armor suits attacked the hospital and Fang Mo accused Stark of turning against them.

• Fang Mo healed Strange, and Nick Fury told him that Thanos had collected four Infinity Stones and planned to gather all six.
• Stark, Captain America, and the other Avengers arrived, and Strange described how Thanos had ambushed him and taken the Eye of Agamotto.
• Captain America grew uneasy when the Winter Soldier came up, but Nick Fury redirected the group to discuss Thanos.
• Stark argued that Fang Mo should destroy the remaining two stones, and Strange and Fang Mo threatened to operate on Stark when he pushed the idea.
• Iron Armor suits burst into the operating room and attacked everyone, leaving Fang Mo to accuse Stark of having gone rogue.