Chapter Summaries

Dormammu attacked Donnie in the Dark Dimension while Red Devil betrayed their agreement and tried to seize the chance to claim the realm. Donnie turned on Red Devil and killed his incarnation, leaving himself to face Dormammu.

• Dormammu hid inside the skull of his strongest incarnation and rushed toward Donnie, but Donnie’s Transformers army interrupted his attack.
• Red Devil appeared and admitted he wanted to occupy the Dark Dimension, then tried to get Donnie to reveal how to control it.
• Dormammu attacked, and Red Devil offered to flee with Donnie, who agreed and let him reach for his wrist.
• Donnie grabbed Red Devil, broke his arm, and revealed Dormammu had already restricted Red Devil’s spatial powers.
• Donnie kicked Red Devil into Dormammu’s incoming spell, which tore the incarnation apart.

Dormammu abducted Donnie and tortured him to learn how to claim the AllSpark, while Donnie used the Darkforce to analyze the Dark Dimension and reasoned about his X-Gene's connection to the treasure. The chapter ended with Dormammu tearing Donnie's soul from his body, determined to devour it and seize the AllSpark.

• Dormammu swallowed Donnie and escaped before Ancient One and the others arrived; Ancient One said Donnie had succeeded, and they began setting up a monitoring magic array.
• Dormammu took Donnie to a weak point in the Dark Dimension and demanded to know where his unique treasure was.
• Donnie realized Dormammu meant the AllSpark and suspected his X-Gene served as a vessel for it, while the AllSpark analyzed the Dark Dimension.
• Dormammu tortured Donnie with Hellfire, but Donnie insisted the AllSpark was bound to his soul and could not be taken without killing him.
• Dormammu tore Donnie's soul from his body and prepared to devour it to obtain the AllSpark.

Donnie let Dormammu swallow his soul so he could try to enslave Dormammu and claim the Dark Dimension’s core, which Dormammu had hidden within his own soul. As their souls clashed, the AllSpark began to resist Dormammu, and a Parchment Scroll with the aura of hell appeared from Donnie’s clothes.

• Dormammu revealed his true soul and swallowed Donnie, expecting to grind away the weaker soul and seize the AllSpark.
• Donnie explained that he had risked this soul battle to enslave Dormammu and inherit the Dark Dimension, and Dormammu confirmed that its core was in his soul.
• Donnie argued that Dormammu’s true strength was limited to Level Six despite the Dark Dimension’s power, while Dormammu dismissed Donnie’s chance of defeating him.
• The AllSpark began resisting Dormammu as their souls fought, and a Parchment Scroll radiating the aura of hell appeared from Donnie’s clothes.

Donnie summoned Mephisto with an ancient Burning Slave Contract and asked him to enslave Dormammu. As the AllSpark began burning inside Donnie’s soul, Mephisto judged that Donnie’s soul alone was not enough, leaving the bargain unresolved.

• Donnie used the Burning Slave Contract to summon Mephisto into the Dark Dimension while fighting Dormammu.
• Mephisto recognized Dormammu and cautiously assessed the contract and Donnie’s unusual soul.
• Dormammu warned Mephisto to return to hell while tearing another fragment from Donnie’s soul to study the AllSpark.
• Donnie revealed that the contract was meant to enslave Dormammu and ordered Mephisto to carry out that wish.
• The AllSpark began burning again, but Mephisto said Donnie’s soul was not enough and waited for him to offer more.

Donnie used the Parchment Scroll and the AllSpark to fight Dormammu while Mephisto manipulated the battle for his own gain. Donnie rose to Level Five and enslaved Dormammu, leaving Mephisto eager to claim both their souls.

• Mephisto decided to exploit Donnie and Dormammu, while Dormammu warned Donnie that he could offer Mephisto more.
• Mephisto invoked the demonic contract, and the Parchment Scroll burned to ashes as its power enveloped both souls.
• Donnie used the AllSpark's power to tear at Dormammu's soul and draw on its strength.
• Donnie broke through the Level Four shackles and became a Level Five demigod, while Dormammu weakened.
• The contract branded Donnie's mark onto Dormammu's soul and made Dormammu his slave.

Donnie stripped Dormammu of his power and Dark Core, then refused Mephisto’s demand to return to Hell. Mephisto activated the contract binding Donnie, but Donnie claimed he had no trump cards, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Mephisto celebrated gaining two demigod souls as the contract forced Dormammu to accept Donnie’s brand and prevented him from revealing Donnie’s secret.
• Donnie used the AllSpark to analyze and absorb Dormammu’s power while pulling the Dark Core from his soul.
• Mephisto ordered Donnie and Dormammu to return to Hell, boasting that the contract bound them both to him.
• Donnie refused Mephisto and said he intended to kill him after taking Dormammu’s Dark Core.
• Mephisto made the demonic symbols on Donnie’s soul writhe, causing him pain, while Dormammu urged Donnie to use a countermeasure.
• Donnie denied having any trump cards, leaving Dormammu bewildered.

Donnie escaped Mephisto’s grasp when the Ancient One arrived, restored Donnie to his body, and explained how the demonic contract could be broken. The Ancient One then named Donnie Earth’s new Sorcerer Supreme and set off to hunt Mephisto.

• Donnie revealed that he had relied on the Ancient One to detect Mephisto, and she appeared through a golden portal and destroyed his projected avatar.
• The Ancient One returned Donnie’s soul to his body and used soul magic to punish Dormammu, who remained Donnie’s slave.
• Donnie asked how to break Mephisto’s contract, and the Ancient One explained that killing Mephisto or reaching cosmic power could end its hold.
• The Ancient One said she would hunt Mephisto and clear Donnie’s future troubles, then named Donnie Earth’s new Sorcerer Supreme and Kamar-Taj’s Supreme Venerable.

After returning from the Dark Dimension, Donnie took over as Kamar-Taj’s Sorcerer Supreme and adopted a harsh policy toward extradimensional visitors to protect Earth. He discussed threats from the World Tree pantheons with Mordo and warned that he might fuse with the Dark Core if the gods attacked.

• Donnie became Earth’s new Sorcerer Supreme and ordered extradimensional visitors to be turned away or killed if they resisted.
• Mordo warned Donnie that treating every visitor as an enemy could damage his reputation, but Donnie said Earth’s safety required force.
• Mordo explained that Donnie’s title and his enslavement of Dormammu had already spread through the universe and made others wary of him.
• Donnie asked Mordo about Asgard and the surviving World Tree pantheons, learning that Asgard had made no moves, Olympus was missing, and the Heavenly Court was wandering through the universe.
• Donnie identified Zeus and the Jade Emperor as likely threats and said he might fuse with the Dark Core to reach the cosmic level if they attacked Earth.

Donnie studied Kamar-Taj’s destructive spells under Mordo’s supervision while discussing his ambitions for soul magic and the dangers of the Dark Dimension. He then prepared to contact the Vishanti, the source of magic power.

• Mordo forbade Donnie from using Darkforce and insisted he learn Kamar-Taj’s secret magic, so Donnie agreed to study the spellbooks.
• Mordo warned Donnie that creating complete life meant allowing it to develop independently, and Donnie admitted he could not give every Transformer a complete soul.
• Donnie learned that Dormammu remained imprisoned and ordered Wong to capture Constantine and lock him in Dormammu’s cell after Constantine stole two secret magic arts again.
• Donnie told Mordo to prepare a ritual so he could meet the Vishanti, then steadied himself to connect with the source of magic power.

Donnie used Kamar-Taj’s ritual to reach the Vishanti, but the Speed Force Wall attacked him as he tried to cross into the God Realm. Agamotto explained that the Wall targeted Donnie because he had once released Savitar, and the chapter ended with Donnie learning how dangerous Savitar had been.

• Donnie began the ritual to contact the Vishanti using the Eye of Agamotto, the Time Stone, and the Book of Vishanti.
• Donnie crossed the Blood Region and encountered the Speed Force Wall, which attacked his consciousness as he approached it.
• A beam of light pulled Donnie through the barrier and brought him before the Vishanti Trinity in the God Realm.
• Agamotto told Donnie that the Speed Force Wall was hostile because Donnie had once released Savitar.
• Agamotto explained that Savitar had tried to become the God of Speed, fought the Speed Force, and was eventually imprisoned after his defeat.

Stephen Strange awoke from a car accident to find that his hands were too damaged for him to continue operating, and his pride and career collapsed with the news. He returned home in despair, where a photograph of his dead younger brother Victor Strange recalled another unresolved car accident.

• Stephen begged Nicktimus to tell him his hands could still be healed, but Nicktimus could only urge him to rest.
• Stephen accused Nicktimus of operating without permission, though he knew the surgery had been necessary to save what movement remained in his hands.
• Nicktimus resigned and left the hospital, while Stephen wept over the end of his surgical career.
• Stephen left the hospital in his gown, passed unnoticed through the streets, and returned to his luxurious home.
• Stephen saw a photograph of Victor Strange and remembered that officials had told him his brother died in a car accident.

The chapter described the worldwide fallout from the battle between Ancient One, Shazam, and Dormammu, which expanded the Sky Eye Society’s influence and changed how people viewed superpowered beings. On Basement Level Seventeen, Klein entered the Sky Eye Society’s secret prison, Circus.

• The battle’s projections spread across Earth, driving people to debate myths, form religions, and fear the expanding cracks in the sky.
• Donnie’s briefings taught government officials about power levels and interstellar civilizations, including the Kree’s capture of Eternals and Thanos’s origins.
• Klein arrived at the entrance to Basement Level Seventeen with Deathknell, whom he called a partner.
• Deathknell objected that he was not Klein’s subordinate, then left after Klein insisted they were partners.
• Klein passed the prison’s security checks and entered Circus, the Sky Eye Society’s heavily warded secret prison.

Klein freed Raven after the Sky Eye Society contacted Magneto, while Deathknell endured being mistaken for Deadpool by reporters and passersby. Disguised as an ordinary man, he overheard someone pleading with a basketball player to reveal who had healed his paralyzed spine.

• Klein told Raven that Donnie had ordered her release and that the Sky Eye Society had found traces of her son, Blue Devil.
• Raven considered killing Klein and taking over the Sky Eye Society, but left the prison without attacking him.
• Deathknell emerged from the Sky Eye Society headquarters and was mistaken for Deadpool by a passerby and a crowd of reporters.
• Deathknell drew his sword in anger at the reporters’ questions, then left before he could attack them.
• Deathknell changed out of his combat suit and heard a man pleading with a basketball player to name the person who had healed his paralyzed spine.

Stephen Strange sought a cure for his ruined hands and followed Painburn’s account of Kamar-Taj to Nepal, where Mordo brought him to the hidden sanctuary. Donnie questioned Stephen, but worried that copying the Ancient One’s method of knocking his soul from his body would kill him.

• Stephen asked Painburn how he had recovered from complete spinal injuries, and Painburn credited the Sorcerer Supreme at Kamar-Taj.
• Painburn gave Stephen a rough address, while Deathknell accepted a Sky Eye Society mission to secretly protect Stephen on his journey.
• Stephen spent his remaining savings to travel to Nepal, where locals refused to direct him to Kamar-Taj and thugs beat him.
• Mordo found Stephen and led him through a hidden doorway into Kamar-Taj, where Stephen met Donnie.
• Donnie asked Stephen why he had come, while privately wondering whether a punch meant to expose Stephen to the supernatural would kill him.

Donnie showed Stephen Strange that magic existed by punching his soul from his body, whereupon Vishanti's magic replenished it. Stephen accepted magic as real and asked to learn it to heal his hands, but Donnie refused and ordered Mordo to throw him out.

• Donnie explained that he planned to train Stephen as a future Sorcerer Supreme before pursuing his own goals beyond Earth.
• Stephen came to Kamar-Taj seeking a magical cure for his hands, but insisted that science could explain magic.
• Donnie punched Stephen's soul out of his body, and Mordo warned that the experience could harm Stephen's fragile soul.
• Donnie saw magical particles gather around Stephen and restore his soul power, realizing the Vishanti favored him greatly.
• Donnie pulled Stephen's soul back into his body, and Stephen accepted that magic existed.
• Stephen begged Donnie to teach him magic so he could heal his hands, but Donnie ordered Mordo to throw him out.

Donnie ordered Mordo to bring Stephen Strange into Kamar-Taj and guide him, then encountered an unknown visitor proposing to Wanda in the library. The visitor recognized Donnie, who recognized him in turn and became furious.

• Donnie told Mordo to bring Stephen inside after another hour and guide him, predicting that the Cloak of Levitation would accept Stephen.
• Donnie offered Mordo access to the Dark Dimension and Dormammu's teaching, but Mordo refused to study dark magic and vowed to monitor its users.
• Donnie entered the library, sensed a power that ignored spacetime, and found that his spell had been transferred elsewhere.
• Donnie heard a man proposing to Wanda and threatening to reveal his identity only after she agreed to marry him.
• Donnie burst into the hidden space and saw the man kneeling with roses beneath a glowing “MARRY ME” sign; Wanda said she did not know him.
• The man recognized Donnie, and Donnie recognized the visitor's voice as the two angrily confronted each other.

Donnie confronted Mister Mxyzptlk, the Fifth Dimension being who had interfered with his attempt to kill Hulk, while Wanda explained that Mxyzptlk had proposed to her and displaced Wang. Donnie recognized the danger Mxyzptlk posed and accused him of helping Savitar escape, leaving the two arguing over the incident.

• Donnie recognized Mister Mxyzptlk as the being who had stopped him from killing Hulk, and Wanda took shelter behind Donnie.
• Mister Mxyzptlk said he had sent Wang elsewhere and warned Donnie that the Eye of Agamotto was useless against him.
• Mister Mxyzptlk introduced himself and again proposed to Wanda, who rejected him.
• Donnie identified Mister Mxyzptlk as a powerful being from the Fifth Dimension and warned that the five-dimensional court could punish him.
• Donnie accused Mister Mxyzptlk of causing Savitar to escape, and Mxyzptlk angrily denied it while blaming Donnie's time magic.

Donnie tried to make Mister Mxyzptlk leave Earth instead of taking Wanda, but Mxyzptlk became obsessed with marrying her and demanded a duel. When Donnie proposed settling their conflict another way, Mxyzptlk misunderstood and transported them both away to fight.

• Donnie blamed Mister Mxyzptlk for freeing Savitar and threatened to report him to the Fifth-Dimensional Court.
• Mister Mxyzptlk demanded that Donnie hand over Wanda, then transformed the library into a wedding setting and dressed her in a wedding gown.
• Donnie stood between Wanda and Mister Mxyzptlk and refused to let him take her.
• Wanda rejected Mxyzptlk, who insisted she would fall in love with him and threatened Donnie.
• Donnie tried to challenge Mxyzptlk to settle the dispute another way, and Mxyzptlk interpreted it as a deadly duel and teleported them both away.

Wang returned to Kamar-Taj after a mysterious man stripped him and sent him to Central City, where Barry met him and told Cisco about the bare-chested wizard. Donnie challenged Mister Mxyzptlk to a game with Earth as the stakes and ended by asking him to create a stone he could not lift.

• Wang appeared naked in Central City, refused a passerby's offer to call the police, and opened a portal back to Kamar-Taj to confront the man who had humiliated him.
• Barry excitedly told Cisco that he had just met a bare-chested wizard who opened a portal and vanished.
• Donnie found himself in an empty opera house dressed as a knight alongside Mister Mxyzptlk, who proposed a duel to win Wanda.
• Donnie rejected Mister Mxyzptlk's duel, proposed a game where the loser would leave Earth, and made Mister Mxyzptlk agree to play by his rules.
• Donnie asked the supposedly all-powerful Mister Mxyzptlk to create a stone he could not lift.

Donnie defeated Mister Mxyzptlk by trapping him in a paradox about creating a rock he could not lift. Mister Mxyzptlk left Earth after conceding, but warned Donnie that the destructive weapon Doomsday was nearing his universe.

• Mister Mxyzptlk created a small rock after agreeing to Donnie’s rules for their game.
• Donnie explained that Mxyzptlk had lost because he could not satisfy the request to be omnipotent and create a rock he could not lift.
• Mister Mxyzptlk transformed into his bald old-man form and conceded that Wanda belonged to Donnie under the game’s rules.
• Donnie ordered Mister Mxyzptlk to leave Earth and not return without permission.
• Mister Mxyzptlk warned Donnie that Doomsday was destroying nearby universes and was very close to his own.