Chapter Summaries

Tepiaoxius buried a powerful crystal sphere in Mycenae’s ley line for Mystra Academy, unaware of its purpose. Across Greece, wizards secretly planted identical spheres at nearly every ley line while the living-dead crisis distracted mortals and gods; the gods noticed the changes only after the operation was complete.

• The raven gave Tepiaoxius a crystal sphere packed with immense magical energy after he accepted the academy’s task.
• Tepiaoxius used Invisibility to bury the sphere in a ley line on a street near the royal palace, then returned home.
• Mystra Academy sent wizards across Greece to bury identical spheres at ley lines, calling on its own elite to handle dangerous sites.
• The living dead overwhelmed battlefields such as Thebes, drawing the attention of city-states, notable figures, and priests away from the wizards’ work.
• Within three days, wizards had planted spheres at nearly every ley line in the Greek divine realm, and the gods noticed only after the operation was finished.

Ares discovered that the dead could not reach the underworld, rescued the God of Death from Sisyphus, and returned him to the underworld. While the gods focused on the crisis, Mystra Academy appeared in the material world before the mages of Heart of Spells, revealing a vast, mysterious magic array.

• Ares saw that the dead in Thebes were becoming living dead because their souls could not enter the underworld, and he learned that the God of Death had been missing for three days.
• Ares told the gods about the crisis, then descended to the mortal world and rescued the God of Death from Sisyphus.
• Ares escorted Sisyphus and the God of Death to the underworld as the gods believed the trouble had been resolved.
• Over the decades, Mystra Academy's graduates and professors established the mage settlement of Heart of Spells on Colchis Island, which grew into a small town.
• Mystra Academy appeared in the material plane as its phases overlapped with the demiplane, drawing the town's mages into the streets.
• The mages saw an immense, intricate magic array glowing in the square before Mystra Castle, but none could understand it.

Ye Ting activated a magic array that drew power from Greece’s ley lines to begin Pandora’s godhood ascension ritual. Pandora connected her consciousness to the array, while Ye Ting’s Mithril Energy Cores linked her soul to the ley-line network—an undertaking her mortal soul might not survive.

• Mages and academy members gathered as the array monopolized Colchis Island’s ley-line power, while many remained confused about the Supervisory Committee’s plan.
• Pandora entered the array and revealed her face, astonishing the watching students and teachers.
• Pandora connected her consciousness to the array and told Ye Ting she was ready; he declared the godhood ascension ritual begun.
• Ye Ting explained that he had made Mithril Energy Cores from Sunwell water and materialized souls, embedding a wisp of Pandora’s soul in each one.
• The activated cores linked Greece’s ley lines to Pandora, but her mortal soul could not withstand controlling the entire network.

Ye Ting linked Pandora to a projection of Mooncell so she could control Greece’s spiritual veins and simulate the birth of a deity. After a brief mana riot subsided, an even greater surge began, with magic from across the Greek divine realm rushing toward Colchis Island.

• Ye Ting explained how Karsus’s attempt to take a goddess’s power had destabilized the Weave and destroyed Netheril, and said he had a solution to prevent Pandora from suffering a similar fate.
• Ye Ting projected a smaller version of Mooncell above Pandora, and she linked her consciousness to it.
• Ye Ting activated the Mithril Energy Cores, causing spiritual veins throughout Greece to glow and their mana to run wild.
• Pandora used Mooncell to control the spiritual veins, ending the mana riots across Greece within a minute.
• A few seconds later, mana across the Greek divine realm surged toward Colchis Island on a much greater scale.

The gods discovered Mystra Academy and the enormous blue crystal drawing magic power to Colchis Island, then failed to destroy it with their attacks. Zeus sent Hermes to investigate, but a woman’s voice rang out from the island before he could begin.

• The gods saw Mystra Academy, its powerful mages and magical beasts, and the gigantic blue crystal on Colchis Island.
• Zeus blamed the gods for overlooking the mages, and Hera criticized Zeus for his behavior in the mortal world.
• Zeus attacked the crystal twice with lightning, but its surrounding magic absorbed both strikes.
• The gods tried other attacks, but none could harm the crystal, so Athena suggested they speak with the mages.
• Zeus ordered Hermes to investigate and bring the person responsible to him, and Hermes arrived on Colchis Island.
• A woman's voice rang out from the center of the sea of magic power before Hermes could investigate.

Hecate completed her ascension and became the God of Magic, creating the Magic Web that linked magic and mages throughout Greece. Zeus invited her to join the Olympian pantheon, while Ye Ting’s plan pointed toward a direct confrontation with Zeus the next day.

• Hecate declared that magic and the spiritual veins of Greece would take her as their source, and she formed the Magic Web across the land.
• Zeus and the other gods tried to stop Hecate’s ascension, but she finished the ritual and absorbed Mooncell’s remaining magical power.
• Hecate emerged as a goddess, and mages across Greece recognized her as their deity.
• Hecate rejected her former identity as Pandora and declared herself the God of Magic, separating herself from the gods who had created her.
• Zeus congratulated Hecate and invited her to join the Olympian pantheon.
• Ye Ting’s plan neared its culmination, with a confrontation against Zeus set for the following day.

Hecate rejected Zeus’s offer to join the Olympian pantheon as a chief god and condemned the gods for using and abandoning her after the destruction of humanity. She openly challenged Zeus and showed no fear of becoming Olympus’s enemy.

• Zeus offered Hecate a chief god position, and she asked which current chief god would have to give up their seat.
• Hecate refused the offer and said she enjoyed telling no to people who thought too highly of themselves.
• Hecate accused the gods of making her their tool to destroy humanity and abandoning her afterward, while acknowledging Athena for preserving her power of hope.
• Athena admitted that she had only helped Hecate in secret to ease her conscience, and Hecate told her that this was enough.
• Hecate blamed Zeus for shifting responsibility for humanity’s destruction onto her, and Zeus angrily threatened her.
• Hecate asked what it mattered if she became Olympus’s enemy and stood by her confidence in her power as the Goddess of Magic.

Zeus attacked Hecate after she humiliated him, but her magic shielded Colchis Island and then overwhelmed the gods with a relentless barrage of powerful spells. Hecate’s use of the Weave left Zeus and the other gods struggling to defend themselves.

• Zeus hurled a massive sphere of lightning at Hecate, threatening to destroy Colchis Island.
• Hecate raised a Prismatic Wall that blocked Zeus’s attack and protected the island.
• Zeus exhausted the wall with repeated strikes, but Hecate immediately created another one.
• Hecate unleashed countless high-circle spells, drawing continuously on the Weave and forcing the gods to rely on their divine shields.
• Hecate’s barrage filled the sky with magic as the gods struggled to withstand it.

The gods countered Hecate’s elemental magic by invoking their own divine authorities, weakening her attacks and forcing her onto the defensive. Hecate struggled to adapt because she was a newly ascended goddess with little combat experience, while Ye Ting understood her limitations and believed she would grow stronger with time.

• Zeus changed tactics and called on Hephaestus, who weakened Hecate’s fire spells.
• Demeter, Poseidon, Aeolus, Apollo, Artemis, Nyx, and Zeus used their authorities to suppress Hecate’s earth, water, wind, light, shadow, and lightning magic.
• Hecate tried other spells, but her limited skill and combat experience left her unable to overcome the gods’ defenses.
• Ye Ting recognized that Hecate’s inexperience was not a fatal weakness and expected her magical repertoire to expand as she matured.

Hecate transferred more than half her divine power to Ye Ting, who used it to repel the gods' assault. After Zeus blocked his control over space, Ye Ting began a spell that transformed the battlefield and challenged Zeus's claim over Olympus.

• Hecate struggled to hold off the attacking gods, then yielded the battle to Ye Ting.
• Hecate bestowed more than half her power on Ye Ting without taking control of his body.
• Ye Ting used his newfound divine power to stretch space and turn the gods' attacks back on them.
• Zeus invoked his authority over Olympus to prevent Ye Ting from using space magic.
• Ye Ting began a powerful spell and declared that the battlefield was no longer Zeus's territory.

Ye Ting trapped Zeus and the other gods in his Reality Marble, a realm modeled on the Sea of Chaos where they could not draw on their divine realms and faced dangerous space-time storms. After repelling their attacks with an AT Field, he revealed that the Reality Marble could materialize any otherworld he imagined.

• Zeus and the gods found themselves stranded with Colchis Island in an unfamiliar, chaotic realm, unable to sense or draw upon their divine realms.
• Ye Ting identified the realm as the Sea of Chaos and explained that he had brought them there with his Reality Marble.
• Zeus ordered an attack and charged Ye Ting while the Goddess of Sun and Moon fired two arrows, one deliberately aimed to miss.
• Ye Ting blocked the arrows and Zeus's lightning with an AT Field, absorbing the attacks and leaving Zeus baffled.
• Ye Ting told the gods that his Reality Marble could materialize any otherworld within his imagination.

Ye Ting summoned powerful beings from other worlds to demonstrate their reality and battle the Greek gods. The gods struggled against his creatures, while Slifer the Sky Dragon, The Winged Dragon of Ra, and Obelisk the Tormentor blocked their attack on Ye Ting.

• Ye Ting summoned Palkia and Dialga and ordered them to attack the gods with Spacial Rend and Roar of Time.
• Zeus blocked Roar of Time with Aegis while Poseidon tried to contain Spacial Rend with a torrent of seawater.
• Zeus called on Hades to kill the divine beasts, and Ye Ting summoned Giratina to confront the invisible god with Shadow Force.
• Zeus ordered Hermes, Ares, and Apollo to attack Ye Ting while the other gods held off his creatures.
• Ye Ting summoned Slifer the Sky Dragon to face Hermes, The Winged Dragon of Ra to face Apollo, and Obelisk the Tormentor to face Ares.

Ye Ting’s summoned divine beasts kept the Olympian gods on the defensive, but his Reality Marble was nearing its limit. He summoned Arceus to deliver a decisive blow, leaving the gods facing a god of creation far mightier than the beasts they had fought.

• Slifer the Sky Dragon battled Hermes, The Winged Dragon of Ra fought Apollo, and Obelisk the Tormentor fought Ares.
• Hera recognized the Egyptian gods’ powers in the three divine beasts and mistakenly concluded that the Egyptian pantheon had sent them.
• The Olympian gods held off Ye Ting’s Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! divine beasts, while Ye Ting felt the strain of maintaining his Reality Marble.
• Ye Ting summoned Palkia, Dialga, and Giratina to call forth Arceus, and the three beasts withdrew from battle.
• Arceus appeared, and the gods sensed that the god of creation surpassed the combined power of the three divine beasts.

Ye Ting summoned Arceus and fused The Three Egyptian Gods into Holactie, terrifying the Olympian gods. As the gods poured their remaining strength into Zeus’s Aegis, Ye Ting prepared a final attack before his Reality Marble collapsed.

• Arceus appeared in Ye Ting’s Reality Marble, and Zeus realized the Olympian gods could not match its power.
• Ye Ting ordered Slifer the Sky Dragon, The Winged Dragon of Ra, and Obelisk the Tormentor to merge into Holactie the Creator of Light.
• The Olympian gods recognized Ye Ting as their greatest threat, and Zeus urged them to combine their power in Aegis.
• Ye Ting sensed that his Reality Marble could withstand only one more wave of attacks and ordered Arceus to use Judgment and Holactie to unleash the Light of Creation.

Ye Ting intervened when Hecate prepared to renew her attack on the weakened Olympian gods, then tried to negotiate peace by pointing out that their domains did not overlap and urging them to compensate her for past wrongs. Hecate remained unconvinced and threatened to seize Mount Olympus by force, leaving Zeus fearing the consequences of the Olympians’ weakness.

• Hecate rejected Zeus’s request for peace talks and prepared to attack the wounded Olympian gods.
• Ye Ting arrived and persuaded Hecate to hear his proposal before fighting again.
• Ye Ting argued that Hecate’s domains did not overlap with Olympus’s and suggested allowing more mages to join her.
• Zeus agreed that the Olympians could accept more followers for Hecate and offered to make amends for their past treatment of her.
• Hecate dismissed the offer and threatened to crush the Olympians and take Mount Olympus.
• Zeus realized that the weakened Olympians might have to flee if Hecate attacked.

Ye Ting persuaded Hecate to consider peace with the Olympian gods by pointing out the burdens of ruling the divine realm. Zeus agreed to give up half Olympus’s treasury and apologize publicly, but Hecate then demanded one of the major gods as her subordinate, leaving Ye Ting to suggest that one Olympian had little connection to Zeus’s family.

• Ye Ting convinced Hecate that ruling the Greek divine realm would saddle her with duties she did not want, and she agreed to consider peace talks.
• Ye Ting demanded half the Olympian treasury, and Zeus reluctantly agreed to give it up.
• Ye Ting required Zeus to apologize publicly, and Zeus accepted the condition.
• Hecate demanded that one of Olympus’s major gods become her subordinate, and Zeus refused to surrender a member of his family.
• Ye Ting reminded Zeus that one of the Twelve Olympian gods had little to do with his family.

Ye Ting persuaded Zeus to offer Aphrodite to Hecate as a condition for peace, and Zeus presented the demand to the Olympian gods as if Aphrodite alone had to decide. Having learned the original terms through Ye Ting’s telepathic link, Aphrodite accepted, leaving Zeus’s betrayal exposed to her.

• Zeus initially resisted Ye Ting’s proposal but agreed to consider sending Aphrodite, whom he viewed as an unrelated and troublesome outsider, to Hecate.
• Zeus returned to the gods, who mostly accepted paying half the treasury as compensation.
• Zeus concealed that Hecate had asked for any major goddess and told the gods that Aphrodite specifically had to join Hecate.
• Zeus told Aphrodite that Olympus would rather be destroyed than yield if she refused, and Aphrodite recognized the coldness behind his appeal.
• Aphrodite, who had heard the negotiations through Ye Ting’s telepathic link, accepted the condition.

After Aphrodite chose to join Hecate, the Olympian-Hecate divine war ended with a treaty and Hecate’s victory spread across Greece. Hecate’s protection and the Magic Web’s rewards drew mages to worship her, establishing them as a rising force in the Greek Divine Realm.

• Aphrodite chose Hecate’s side, easing Zeus’s concern, while Athena, Hestia, and Artemis reacted to her departure.
• Zeus and Hecate concluded a reconciliation treaty, ending the divine war and requiring the Olympians to cede territory and gods, pay reparations, and apologize publicly.
• Gods across Greece heard that Hecate had defeated the Olympians, and the Olympian pantheon drove off challengers who mistook the defeat for weakness.
• Hecate’s Magic Web recorded spells and gave worshipping mages assistance and greater permissions according to their faith and contributions.
• Mages gained status under Hecate’s protection, and large numbers began worshipping her as they rose into a new force in Greece.

Aphrodite secretly joined the Magic Pantheon and reunited with Ye Ting and Hecate at Hecate’s temple. After she described Zeus’s attempt to use her as a spy, she challenged Ye Ting for calling her weaker than Hecate.

• Ye Ting agreed to keep Aphrodite’s move to the Magic Pantheon secret so the pantheons could preserve friendly relations.
• Aphrodite arrived at Hecate’s temple with her loyal subordinate gods and nymphs.
• Aphrodite rushed into Ye Ting’s arms, and Hecate warmly welcomed her, surprising their attendants.
• Aphrodite told Ye Ting that Zeus had wanted her to spy on the Magic Pantheon and promised she could return to Olympus if it won.
• Ye Ting explained that Zeus had put Aphrodite in danger because she was weaker in combat than Hecate, and Aphrodite challenged his comparison.

Ye Ting and Aphrodite discussed how they had bluffed Zeus into making peace, while Hecate recovered her confidence after being comforted. With the Magic Pantheon now able to rival Olympus, small gods began seeking its protection, and a trustworthy applicant soon appeared.

• Aphrodite revealed that she had pretended to accept the Olympians’ orders so Ye Ting could use the scheme to gather intelligence.
• Ye Ting and Aphrodite reassured Hecate, who felt inadequate after her battle with the Olympian gods.
• Ye Ting and Hecate admitted that they had bluffed Zeus because their strength was nearly exhausted, securing compensation and Aphrodite’s freedom through the deception.
• Aphrodite flirted with Ye Ting, and Sakuya Izayoi shut the temple doors after hearing them inside.
• After news of the Magic Pantheon’s victory spread, local gods began applying for its protection, and a trustworthy applicant soon appeared.