Chapter Summaries

Tony Stark was held in a basement while General Ross launched an operation to capture Bruce Banner and control Hulk. Hulk broke through the military’s attack and destroyed one of its sonic-equipped vehicles.

• Tony Stark woke in a basement, discovered that his kidnappers had left his chest electromagnet in place, and searched for a way out.
• General Ross prepared an ambush at a university, with Major Longinus and sonic weapons ready to confront Hulk.
• Bruce Banner walked through a glass corridor, troubled by his relationship with Betty Ross and his inability to control Hulk.
• Ross ordered tear gas fired at Banner, triggering his transformation into Hulk; the impact shook Tony’s basement.
• Hulk shrugged off gunfire and rockets, killed several soldiers, and fled the sonic weapons’ range before smashing one of their vehicles.

Hulk devastated the university and nearly killed General Thaddeus Ross before Betty Ross reached him and helped Dr. Banner regain control, prompting Hulk to flee. Meanwhile, a Hydra squad entered Tony Stark’s basement and took over the space, leaving him sleeping on the floor.

• Hulk tore through the soldiers and their equipment, while General Thaddeus Ross entrusted Major Longinus with stopping him.
• Major Longinus attacked Hulk with grenades and a knife, but Hulk healed instantly and knocked him unconscious.
• Hulk charged toward General Thaddeus Ross, but Betty Ross intervened, and Dr. Banner’s will forced Hulk to retreat.
• A Hydra squad hiding near Tony Stark’s basement waited for the military operation to subside before making its move.
• The squad barged into Tony Stark’s basement, dismantled his furniture to make beds, and ordered him to sleep on the floor.

Taylor trained Gwen in wizard knowledge and studied the Blood God's core rune, while the Ancient One sent the Blood God a warning not to interfere. The Blood God abandoned his attempt to trace Taylor and decided to let the Ancient One’s future debt-borrowing antics involve other dimension rulers too.

• Sargeras drilled the Burning Legion’s elemental puppets, while Taylor watched and considered the legion’s training.
• Gwen continued studying wizard knowledge with Taylor, struggling to reconcile it with her scientific way of thinking.
• Taylor began researching the Blood Rune in his laboratory, hoping to decipher the foundation of the Blood God’s rune system.
• The Blood God sensed Taylor studying his core rune and prepared to trace the connection, but a golden letter from the Ancient One ordered him not to interfere and to lend Taylor power if asked.
• The Blood God gave up on pursuing Taylor after reading the Ancient One’s threat, then decided he wanted to see the other dimension demon gods suffer the same treatment.

Tony Stark struggled to sleep while Hydra soldiers watched him, and Taylor’s plans converged on Doctor Banner’s blood as Major Longinus tried to gain Hulk-like power. The chapter ended with Blue Doctor injecting Banner’s blood into Longinus under threat of death.

• Tony Stark asked the Hydra soldiers to stop staring at him, but they continued guarding him as he lay awake.
• Doctor Banner returned to the university, and Blue Doctor helped him make an inhibitor to suppress the Hulk; Banner left with Betty Ross after deciding he wanted the monster gone.
• Blue Doctor chose to destroy Banner’s remaining pure blood samples, but a hooked-nosed adjutant brought the injured Major Longinus to the laboratory.
• Major Longinus seized the two vials at gunpoint and ordered Blue Doctor to inject the blood into him and irradiate him with gamma rays.
• Blue Doctor reluctantly started the injection while Longinus kept his pistol trained on him.

Taylor sealed the mutated Doctor in a Mirror Dimension, then opened a portal to the chaos in New York, where Abomination rampaged against a weakened Hulk. As General Ross abandoned the scene and the monsters devastated the city, Tony Stark and his Hydra captors remained trapped underground.

• Taylor used psychic power to halt the Doctor’s brain mutation and confined him in a Mirror Dimension.
• Abomination fought Hulk through New York while police and military forces failed to contain the destruction.
• General Ross accepted the hooked-nosed adjutant’s offer to take the blame, then had him arrested and fled by helicopter with his daughter.
• Abomination attacked the military and killed soldiers as Commissioner George led the police to retreat and evacuate civilians.
• Trapped in a basement with his Hydra captors, Tony begged to escape and prayed that someone would rescue him.

Taylor intervened in the New York battle, sent Abomination through a portal to fight Sargeras, and turned his power against Hulk. The fight left Hulk crashing into the basement where Tony Stark was being held.

• Taylor used his influence to order Chief George to evacuate civilians and fall back from the monsters.
• Taylor opened a golden portal and sent Abomination through it, where Sargeras met him and began a brutal fistfight in the wasteland.
• With Abomination gone, Hulk turned on Taylor, who deflected Hulk’s gust and blasted him into a skyscraper with a Gravity Beam.
• Hulk charged back at Taylor, but Taylor formed a spiked fist from the Blood Dimension and punched Hulk into the basement holding Tony Stark.

Taylor rescued Tony from the underground wreckage, brought him to Silver Castle, and healed his injuries. After waking, Tony followed a puppet through the castle and met Taylor, eager to learn what kind of person—and what kind of power—had saved him.

• Hydra soldiers prepared to evacuate Tony, but Hulk smashed through the road and ceiling, killing them.
• Taylor pinned Hulk with Gravity Beams, then teleported Hulk and Tony to Silver Castle as S.H.I.E.L.D. helicopters arrived.
• Tony collapsed from exhaustion after reaching Silver Castle, while Sargeras left the wasteland with Abomination’s skull to summon cleanup crews.
• Tony woke healed in the castle, discovered his chest wound and electromagnet were gone, and followed a puppet through the library.
• Tony met Taylor on a balcony and regarded him as a powerful, mysterious benefactor.

Taylor rescued Tony Stark and befriended him, then showed him magic while explaining that his powers came from learned wizardry rather than an inborn ability. Tony ended the chapter astonished and curious about Taylor’s magic.

• Tony drank Taylor’s calming beverage from the Merfolk World and recounted his brutal ordeal in the desert.
• Taylor told Tony they were in Queens, New York, though Tony dismissed the claim after seeing the strange landscape and castle.
• Tony thanked Taylor for saving his life and declared him his best friend, and Taylor accepted the friendship.
• Taylor and Tony exchanged ideas about science and magic, and Taylor used golden lightning to demonstrate his explanation of electromagnetism.
• Tony asked whether Taylor had an inborn special ability, and Taylor explained that he was a wizard whose power came from mental strength, magic, and accumulated knowledge.

Taylor explained the wizard system to Tony, tested his talent, and agreed to teach him. Tony left determined to handle his family affairs and shut down Stark Industries’ weapons division, while beginning to consider new ideas for his miniature reactor.

• Taylor explained that wizards pursued knowledge and truth, with runes serving as the foundation of their power and system.
• Tony asked whether he could become a wizard, and Taylor tested him with a crystal ball, confirming that he had the necessary talent.
• Tony asked Taylor to teach him, and Taylor agreed to take him on as an apprentice alongside his female apprentice.
• Taylor warned Tony to settle his family matters before beginning his studies, and Tony assured him he could handle them.
• On the way home with Happy, Tony decided to shut down the weapons division and began forming ideas about his miniature reactor.

The Church of the Light’s war divided the continent, and it prepared to summon angels in the Land of Light while wizards plotted to exploit the coming clash between angels and demons. Kano learned of the summoning and began preparing to bring Taylor into the conflict.

• The Church of the Light waged war across the continent, prompting the kingdoms to ally with the Demon King Army and divide the land between them and the Church.
• Archbishop Marty persuaded the Church to summon angels in the Land of Light, angering the other Heroes who expected to share the spoils.
• Wizard Moust revealed that the wizards planned to trace the archangel and use the arrival of angels and demons to begin conquering the plane.
• Wizard Vincent reported that the Demon King Army also planned to summon demons in the north, hoping to profit from a fight between them and the angels.
• Kano organized paid work to build an angel-summoning platform and ordered his subordinates to calm the commoners.
• Kano crushed a Plane Anchor to notify Taylor and prepare to divide the plane.

Taylor left Silver Castle after Kano's Plane Anchor was crushed and joined Kano and Bobby in the Greenleaf Kingdom to prepare for the coming angel-summoning ritual and planar war. Bobby reported that he had completed three hundred elemental puppets for Sargeras's Burning Legion.

• Tony struggled to learn wizardry while Taylor guided him and Gwen at Silver Castle, then continued studying alongside Gwen.
• Taylor sensed that Kano's Plane Anchor had been crushed, stored his forces, and told Tony and Gwen he was leaving for another world.
• Taylor gave Tony and Gwen a crystal containing basic guidance, then traveled through a mirror to his wizard tower in the Greenleaf Kingdom.
• Taylor reached Kano's cathedral and met Kano and Bobby, who had been trimming a flower and polishing his nails.
• Kano shared intelligence about the upcoming angel-summoning ritual, which he had arranged to take place in the Land of Light.
• Bobby reported that he had made one hundred fire puppets, one hundred granite puppets, and one hundred fire-and-earth puppets for Sargeras's Burning Legion.

Taylor won the White Wizards’ respect and prepared them for the coming Angel and demon summoning, while Sargeras and Hawkes’s rivalry escalated into a destructive fight. The chapter left Taylor worried that the plane’s growing instability could make the coming battle destroy its central continent.

• Taylor answered the White Wizards’ questions in a day-long academic exchange, and Wizard Moust formally welcomed him into their circle.
• Taylor explained his preparations to bind and weaken a summoned Angel, while Wizard Vincent reported plans to summon demons through an Orc blood sacrifice.
• Sargeras and Hawkes insulted each other and fought across the Land of Light, causing widespread elemental damage and shaking the region.
• Taylor stopped the fight by sending Sargeras and Hawkes into a Mirror Dimension, then repaired the damaged terrain with Kano’s help.
• Taylor examined the rising mana concentration and feared that the plane’s expanding spatial breaches could cause its central continent to collapse.

The Church of the Light summoned an Angel, but Wizard Moust and the other wizards attacked her as soon as the Heaven Gate closed. After killing and dismembering her, Moust used her soul to locate the Angels’ base and ordered the wizards to prepare to invade their False Heaven.

• The Church of the Light’s leaders performed a ritual that opened a Heaven Gate, while Kano slipped away unnoticed.
• A female Angel descended, and the wizards waited until the Heaven Gate closed before attacking her with powerful spells.
• The wizards killed the Angel and divided her remains, while Wizard Moust captured her soul in a special container.
• Wizard Moust traced the Angel soul’s spatial connection to the Angels’ base and ordered the teams to prepare for an assault on their False Heaven.

Taylor gathered his forces and prepared to invade the angels’ False Heaven and the central continent. After the Floating City arrived in the north, the Burning Legion and other monster puppets began their march toward the continent’s center.

• Wizards defeated the Demon King Army’s upper ranks and harvested the demons’ bodies for research materials.
• Taylor examined an angel’s forearm, then found Kano destroying the Church of the Light’s ceremonial robes after his humiliating ritual dance.
• Taylor ordered Hawkes to lead the Achilles Warriors against the angels’ False Heaven and Sargeras to drive the Burning Legion into the central continent.
• Taylor gathered Kano and Bobby for the angel expedition and prepared to abandon the temporary wizard tower as his puppet armies assembled.
• The Floating City broke through the plane’s crystal wall and arrived above the north, releasing monster puppets to march toward the continent’s center.
• Sargeras led the Burning Legion in a charge toward the central continent to plunder and destroy it.

The wizard army devastated the continent while Sargeras led the Burning Legion through cities and crushed the Church of the Light’s resistance. Meanwhile, the wizards’ invasion of the angels’ False Heaven stalled as the angels and their allied forces fought them to a standstill.

• The Church of the Light, the Demon King Army, and the continent’s remaining powers united against the invading wizards after realizing the missing heroes had betrayed them.
• Sargeras led a vast wizard-controlled army through the continent, burning cities and forcing survivors to surrender or die.
• A Grand Knight charged Sargeras, but Sargeras caught him, crushed him, and continued his attack on the Church of the Light’s forces.
• The White Tower Alliance prepared to gather surrendered civilians and resettle them in planes that needed population and labor.
• In the False Heaven, the Archangel’s angels, affiliated races, and believer warriors resisted the wizards, leaving the battle evenly matched.

Taylor fought five Radiant Wyverns in Ghidorah Mode while the angels’ forces kept the wizards and their allies pinned down across the battlefield. The chapter left Taylor unable to reach an angel and Hawkes held in place by two Radiant Lions as the Achilles Warriors struggled to advance.

• Taylor reflected on the overwhelming number of powerful lifeforms in the Folded Plane and recognized that becoming a first-tier wizard did not make him strong by its standards.
• Taylor transformed into a Three-Headed Golden Dragon and battled five Radiant Wyverns with Lava Fire, Gravity Beams, and spatial attacks.
• An angel’s Radiant Wyverns surrounded Taylor and used their regeneration and evasive tactics to keep him from reaching the angel.
• Hawkes led the Achilles Warriors against a vastly larger pride of Radiant Lions, whose rotating assaults and encirclement stalled their advance.
• Two first-tier Radiant Lions held Hawkes back while the Achilles Warriors remained pinned by the lions’ hit-and-run attacks.

Taylor, Kano, Bobby, and Hawkes fought through the light creatures, but the angel’s forces slowed their advance. Taylor trapped the angel in the Mirror Dimension, where their battle began with both combatants proving formidable.

• Hawkes fought the two Lion Kings while Radiant Lions surrounded the Achilles Warriors and limited the Bolters’ effectiveness.
• Taylor’s group struggled against five Radiant Wyverns until Taylor killed them with Spatial Blades and stored their bodies.
• Taylor and his companions pursued a fleeing angel, who turned back with reinforcements and tried to surround them.
• Taylor, Kano, and Bobby pulled the angel into Taylor’s Mirror Dimension, leaving his forces outside to search for him.
• The angel refused to surrender and attacked Taylor with a flaming longsword, matching him in their opening exchanges.

Taylor defeated the Angel after shattering the Mirror Dimension, then helped the Achilles Warriors and Wizard reinforcements rout the enemy’s flying forces. As he retreated, a second Angel struck him with a platinum-white flaming slash that severed nearly half his body, and Taylor fell unconscious in the Wizard army’s rear position.

• Taylor shattered the Mirror Dimension and killed the Angel with spatial turbulence and Gravity Beams, though its wounds and final blow left him badly injured.
• Hawkes and the Achilles Warriors broke through the enemy formation, and Taylor rejoined them to help rout the Angel’s followers and faith warriors.
• Taylor declined to pursue the fleeing enemies and ordered Hawkes to retreat with his troops so he could recover.
• A two-pair-winged Angel slashed Taylor with platinum-white flames, severing nearly half his body and the head representing Bobby.
• Taylor cut away the burning parts, gathered his severed body and blood, and fell unconscious into the Wizards’ battlefield, where Hawkes ordered the troops to protect him.

Taylor fell unconscious after his battle, leaving the platinum flames in his mental space for three consciousnesses to contain while Hawkes and the Achilles Warriors protected him. Elsewhere, Sargeras fought a Mountain Kingdom sword saint and decided to recruit him into the Burning Legion.

• Taylor crashed into a hill, and greedy magical beasts approached his unconscious body, hoping to devour him and gain power.
• Hawkes arrived with the Achilles Warriors, killed the beasts threatening Taylor, and ordered his troops to guard the crater.
• Sargeras clashed with a Mountain Kingdom sword saint whose earth magic and physical strength impressed him.
• Sargeras offered the sword saint a place fighting alongside his master, but the sword saint insisted on defeating him first.
• Sargeras renewed his attack, intent on capturing the sword saint for the Burning Legion.

Taylor chose to absorb the Angel's persistent platinum-white flame, which began restoring his injuries and increasing his affinity for light. Meanwhile, Sargeras defeated the Sword Saint, secured the Mountain Kingdom's surrender, and welcomed Archimonde into the Burning Legion as its second-in-command.

• Kano urged Taylor to turn the platinum-white flame into a source of strength, and Taylor ordered its absorption.
• Kano and Bobby used Lava Fire and Energy Absorption to break down the flame, while Taylor absorbed its runes and his body began to heal and grow stronger.
• Sargeras defeated the Sword Saint, then promised to spare the Mountain Kingdom if it surrendered.
• The Sword Saint agreed to submit, revealed his name was Archimonde, and accepted Sargeras's offer to become second-in-command of the Burning Legion.
• Sargeras told Archimonde to watch for the Achilles Warriors, then explained that they served the same master and were merely rivals for his favor.