Chapter Summaries

Doctor Strange discovered that an army of Mechanical Lifeforms was preparing to attack sorcerers across the multiverse, but insisted on handling the threat alone. A day later, Wong and Stark went to Sicily to find Daisy at Starlight Manor, where they arrived as she trained with Rachel.

• Doctor Strange found Mechanical Lifeforms hiding between the material realm and the Soul World, erased his mark, and withdrew from Astral Projection.
• Wong suggested seeking S.H.I.E.L.D.'s help, but Doctor Strange refused and said he had to resolve the Sorcerer Supreme's trouble himself.
• Wong and Stark traveled to Sicily to meet Daisy at her new estate, Starlight Manor, which included a lighthouse, defenses, a library, and a Danger Simulation Training Ground.
• Daisy trained with Rachel in a realistic New York simulation, suppressing her strength while they fought amid simulated civilians and destructible buildings.

Daisy trained Rachel to rely on her own abilities instead of the Phoenix Force before learning that Doctor Strange had disappeared, likely after confronting the Materialist Empire alone. Daisy and Stark gathered the Avengers to plan a rescue, but she warned that the interstitial space was too small for her to enter and advised She-Thor to stay out as well.

• Daisy trained Rachel to fight with her own powers and coached her on using her speed, psychic abilities, and Frozen Breath more effectively.
• Daisy learned from Wong and Stark that Doctor Strange had gone missing, with the Materialist Empire suspected of capturing or killing him.
• Stark insisted that Doctor Strange needed to be rescued, while Daisy said she could not enter the interstitial space and could only offer theoretical help.
• Daisy and Stark attended a meeting at the Avengers' new base, where Daisy briefed the assembled Avengers on the rescue mission.
• Daisy warned that She-Thor should also stay out of the interstitial space because Asgardian divine power was essentially a form of magic.

Daisy prepared Holy Light weapons and equipment for a nine-person Avengers team heading into the interstitial space to rescue Doctor Strange. After sending them through a portal, she took Wanda, Storm, and Magik back to New York to organize the material world's defenses.

• Daisy ruled She-Thor, Quicksilver, Wanda, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, and pregnant Spider-Woman out of the rescue mission, leaving seven Avengers along with Stark and Wong to go.
• Daisy forged Holy Light equipment and distributed weapons, armor, and a shield to the Avengers, while Falcon received a pistol with Holy Light Bullets.
• The Avengers tested their new weapons, and Daredevil used his staff to wield golden Holy Light energy.
• Daisy opened a doorway to the interstitial space, and the nine-person team entered to rescue Doctor Strange.
• Daisy told Wanda that she, Storm, and Magik needed to prepare defenses against a possible attack, then chose New York as the battlefield.

The Avengers entered the interstitial space and discovered magical parasites feeding on New Yorkers, then attacked the New York Sanctum after finding a Materialist Empire guard at its entrance. Their raid became a frontal assault as Daisy deployed Holy Light Warriors to protect the magic users and guarded Wanda herself.

• The Avengers entered the gray interstitial space, where they found magical parasites attached to ordinary people and learned that the creatures were draining their emotions and dreams.
• Hawkeye and Black Widow destroyed parasites with their Holy Light weapons, and the other Avengers joined in as they cleared more than half a block.
• Captain America led the Avengers to the New York Sanctum, where they encountered a mechanical guard proclaiming loyalty to the Materialist Empire.
• Captain America began a frontal assault after the guard detected the Avengers and called them intruders.
• Daisy deployed the Holy Light Warriors around the magic users and personally guarded Wanda, who had hidden the Darkhold in Superfluid Space and sealed it away.

Daisy and Wanda staged a crisis to draw out the Materialist Empire’s leader and expose a hidden threat, while attacks struck their allies around the world. Dan used a gemstone to suppress Wanda’s magic, sacrificing himself to power it, as Daisy’s plan reached its dangerous turning point.

• Daisy learned that Storm, Magik, Doctor Voodoo, the Magic Prince, Mr. Xu, and Doctor Doom had all been attacked by the Materialist Empire.
• Daisy and Wanda rehearsed a plan to lure out Chthon, the God of Dark Magic, by making Wanda appear helpless and Daisy appear overwhelmed.
• Daisy opened the concealed spatial passage, and nearly fifty Mechanical Lifeforms poured through before their numbers grew beyond three hundred.
• Dan emerged and recognized Wanda’s Chaos Magic as an extraordinary power that exceeded his calculations.
• Dan activated a gemstone to cut off Wanda’s magical supply, then had it placed inside his skull and sacrificed his life, beliefs, and soul to intensify its power.

Daisy and Wanda used Dan’s self-sacrifice to destroy the Magic-Dispelling Gem and strip away Wanda’s Chaos Magic, leaving Chthon unable to control her. They drove Chthon’s hidden thought out of Wanda’s soul and cut off her hair to remove its last trace.

• Dan sacrificed his life to activate the Magic-Dispelling Gem, which erased Wanda’s Chaos Magic as Daisy destroyed the surrounding Mechanical Lifeforms.
• Daisy connected her spiritual power to Wanda’s and searched her emptied soul for the thought Chthon had hidden there.
• Daisy shielded Wanda and her unborn baby, then joined them in forcing Chthon’s thought out of Wanda’s brain and into her hair.
• Daisy cut off Wanda’s hair with the Halberd of Death to expel Chthon’s remaining thought.

Daisy severed Chthon’s connection to Wanda and burned away his material anchor, but his phantom began rebuilding its power in the material realm. She revealed that she had arranged to use the trial’s golden beam to take Chthon with her, and the beam swept them both away.

• Daisy cut Wanda’s hair to sever Chthon’s connection to her, then used Phoenix Fire to burn the hair and Chthon’s remnants.
• Chthon persisted as a phantom, threatened to return to Wanda, and began channeling energy from the Neutral Space into the material realm.
• Daisy kept Chthon close while Star Mark power enveloped them both, then pointed out the light of her backup arriving.
• Daisy’s plan used the trial’s rules to bring Chthon into her trial with Adam, and The Supreme Being’s golden beam carried them both away.

Daisy and Adam chose technology and magic as rival paths, while Thanos joined the Materialist Empire’s side after choosing technology. They arrived in the Fifth Epoch, where Daisy, Thanos, and the empire’s scattered forces faced a vast magical army.

• Daisy chose technology for her side, while Adam was assigned Chthon and Eternity joined Daisy.
• Thanos considered his options, then chose technology because he would not side with Death’s enemy, Chthon.
• The contest between magic and technology began, and Daisy and Thanos awoke in the Fifth Epoch amid the Materialist Empire’s war against magical civilization.
• Eternity left to fight the Fifth Epoch’s Eternity, leaving Daisy, Thanos, and the empire’s remaining forces to face the magical army.

Daisy and Thanos fought alongside the Materialist Empire as the Magic Empire surrounded their island, and Daisy urged its leaders to escape rather than face certain defeat. After Dan gave Daisy a mysterious metal cube, she struggled to open it while the enemy pursued the retreat, leaving her to hold them off.

• Daisy assessed the Magic Empire's overwhelming numbers and told Dan and Liu to lead the Materialist Empire in a breakout toward the continent to the west.
• Dan asked whether magic would eventually be eliminated, and Daisy assured him that it would.
• Daisy drew the Halberd of Death and killed a Grand Magus from a thousand meters away to draw the enemy's attention.
• Dan and Liu bowed to Daisy, and Dan handed her a dense metal cube before leading the Materialist Empire's forces in their escape.
• Daisy secretly kept the cube from Thanos and failed to figure out how to open it as the Grand Magi pursued the retreat.
• Daisy analyzed the cube while spreading her Star Domain to block the Magic Empire's forces.

Daisy faced Adam, Chthon, and more than fifty Grand Magi empowered by the magic-rich world, while Thanos stood aside. After the mages dismissed Thanos as worthless, Daisy reminded him that Chthon was the God of the Underworld and the creator of the first necromantic spell.

• More than fifty Grand Magi arrived, but Daisy's Star Mark power halted them in the sky.
• Adam revealed that the world had empowered him to nearly the peak of a single universe and offered Daisy a pardon if she surrendered.
• Daisy rejected Adam's offer, pointed to Thanos as her cousin and ally, and dismissed the Grand Magi's heroic reputations as irrelevant to their contest.
• The Grand Magi scorned Thanos as an ordinary, deformed person and discussed using necromantic magic on him.
• Daisy tried to rouse Thanos by telling him that Chthon was the God of the Underworld and had developed the world's first necromantic spell.

Daisy and Thanos attacked Chthon and the Grand Magi of the Magic Empire. Thanos pushed toward Chthon while Daisy killed two mages and fought off the others, and Adam Warlock finally joined the battle with the Soul Staff.

• Thanos charged at Chthon, and the Royal Magic Legion commander tried to stop him.
• Daisy rushed the mage Daniela, broke through her defenses, and killed her with a halberd strike.
• A male mage tried to avenge Daniela with a self-destruction attack, but Daisy stopped him and killed him too.
• Thanos killed the Royal Magic Legion commander as Daisy killed another Grand Magus and crippled one more.
• At the old dean’s urging, Adam Warlock took out the Soul Staff and entered the battle.

Daisy tested Adam’s magical skill, then faced his vastly enlarged force of Grand Magi as they besieged her. After bonding with Scream to withstand their magic, she charged into the mages and began slaughtering them.

• Daisy judged Adam’s raw power insufficient, but he used Mirror Images and an advanced illusion to buy time for a spell that summoned projections of more than fifty Grand Magi, swelling the attackers to three hundred.
• Adam’s mages bombarded Daisy while she dodged through a maze of disrupted spatial coordinates, and an old dean took responsibility for their lack of chivalry.
• As soul magic and other attacks wounded her, Daisy released Scream from its container and pressed the symbiote onto herself, using it as armor with exceptional magical resistance.
• Daisy charged into the mages and unleashed her halberd, Heat Ray, Frozen Breath, and Vibration powers, killing more than fifty before the attackers scattered.

Daisy fought Adam and the mages, using the old dean’s corpse to restore Scream and provoke her enemies into a chaotic assault. As the battle left the Grand Magi and lower-level mages with heavy casualties, the survivors summoned demons and other creatures to attack her.

• Daisy endured the mages’ bombardment, killed the old dean, and was wounded when Adam struck her with the Soul Staff.
• Daisy used Matter Recomposition to break down the old dean’s corpse, strengthen Scream, and create a magic-using symbiote that mimicked his appearance.
• The enraged mages ignored Adam’s orders, and Daisy used the ensuing disorder to kill high-level mages and other prominent targets.
• A Grand Magus cursed Daisy before dying, slowing her enough for a female mage to survive her halberd strike.
• The mages summoned demons, sea monsters, and other creatures to form a new front against Daisy.

Daisy and Thanos fought the Magic Empire’s mages and Chthon as the battlefield descended into chaos. Daisy gave Thanos a Magic-Dispelling Gem, but he revealed a different trump card powered by Death, drawing the attention of Chthon and Eternity.

• Daisy used summons, daggers, and Holy Light to disrupt the mages, while Chthon raised the fallen as undead and created undead demons.
• Thanos joined Daisy, badly injured, and demanded to know when she would use her trump card.
• Daisy revealed two Magic-Dispelling Gems, gave one to Thanos, and explained how it worked.
• Thanos said it was not yet time to use the gem and offered to unleash a move that could suppress the mages.
• Daisy killed the remaining summoned creatures, and Thanos raised his right fist as black ripples of Death’s power surged within it.
• Eternity and Chthon turned their attention to Thanos.

Thanos unleashed a death attack that killed nearly every mage on the battlefield and restored his strength, while Daisy continued fighting the survivors. As the Magic Empire’s forces retreated, Adam challenged Daisy and trapped them both in a vast Sea of Souls, where she fought strange monsters as he sank beneath the water.

• Thanos spread death mist across the battlefield, killing almost every mage within ten thousand meters and healing his injuries.
• Daisy returned from the Astral Plane and resumed fighting as the surviving mages called for reinforcements and charged the pair.
• Daisy created a black hole that swallowed more than a thousand mages before Adam and several Grand Magi destroyed it.
• The remaining mages and Grand Magi fled, ending the encirclement of the Materialist Empire.
• Adam confronted Daisy and formed a Sea of Souls beneath them, where Daisy killed a giant worm-like monster and cut apart its tentacles as Adam sank into the sea.

Daisy used Holy Light to redeem the souls in Adam’s Sea of Souls and created Holy Light Island, giving the dead a new choice while disrupting Adam’s control. Adam withdrew the Sea of Souls, but found his powers sluggish and himself unable to continue fighting.

• Daisy summoned a spiritual aspect of herself and sang a hymn to convert Star Mark power into Holy Light, purifying the souls in Adam’s Sea of Souls.
• Adam tried to suppress Daisy’s Holy Light, while Thanos intensified his attack and drove Chthon back.
• Daisy gathered the purified soul dust and formed Holy Light Island inside the Sea of Souls.
• Daisy placed a statue of herself on the island, and more than a dozen souls arrived, gained independent thoughts, and praised her as the God of Light.
• Adam withdrew the Sea of Souls but discovered that his soul power and magic had become sluggish, leaving him unable to fight.

Daisy returned from the First Sequence without its promised knowledge gifts, then helped Wanda reconnect with Chaos magic after Chthon’s power was removed. She found the Saintess Cult had lost its magic too and gave its members Holy Light, directing their absorbed power to Adam’s Soul Space.

• Eternity ended the mock battle, declared Daisy the winner, and killed Chthon’s projection; Thanos and Adam disappeared with apparent compensations while Daisy received no new knowledge.
• Daisy returned to the moment when she and Chthon had been taken away, where Wanda was severely weakened and Daisy used stored Star Mark power to sustain her and Franklin.
• Daisy guided Wanda in reconnecting with Chaos magic by introducing Phoenix Force as an opposing power for Wanda to resist.
• Daisy discovered that the Saintess Cult’s members had been drawing Chaos magic through Wanda and had lost access when Wanda’s connection was severed.
• Daisy bestowed Holy Light on the Saintess Cult and sent the power it absorbed to Adam’s Soul Space.

Daisy established the Holy Light Cult and made Mr. Goblin its first Holy Light Knight, then discovered Wanda’s condition had worsened because her body could not cope with losing her powers. She sought a blood transfusion for Wanda and learned that Quicksilver’s constant super speed had made even donating blood dangerous.

• Daisy let the Holy Light initiation kill nearly two thousand people, then used her power to turn Mr. Goblin into the first Holy Light Knight.
• Daisy surveyed the turmoil across the universe and promised both sides in the Shi'ar conflict that she would protect whichever side was weaker.
• Daisy returned to Earth and found Wanda pale, cold, and slipping toward unconsciousness because her weakened body had lost too much blood.
• Daisy learned that Wanda had a rare blood type, so she called Quicksilver to donate blood while Crystal accompanied him.
• Quicksilver's blood shot out with enormous force when the nurse pierced his skin, so Daisy slowed time around him and brought his speed down to normal.

Daisy arranged transfusions from Quicksilver and Lorna to save Wanda, then helped Wanda recover her Chaos magic. After a spell gave Daisy an idea for a stabilizing device, Wanda asked what it was.

• Daisy brought Lorna to Sicily and revealed that she, Wanda, and Quicksilver shared the same father, Magneto.
• Daisy confirmed their close blood relation with a test, and Lorna joined Quicksilver in donating blood to Wanda.
• After three days of intermittent transfusions, Wanda woke and began working with Daisy to recover her Chaos magic.
• Daisy used a wish spell to find a way to help Wanda wield her magic again.
• Daisy proposed storing Wanda's excess magic in a stabilizing device, and Wanda asked what kind of device she meant.

Daisy made dark-magic outfits for Wanda and speed-reducing equipment for Quicksilver while learning Captain America's team had been missing for three days. The Avengers defeated the Materialist Empire and Doctor Strange's fear monster in the New York Sanctum, then discovered that magic had vanished outside and hurried back.

• Daisy crafted a dark-magic outfit with Wanda's help and made Quicksilver equipment that could reduce his speed.
• Captain America's team fought through the New York Sanctum and found Doctor Strange battling the Materialist Empire alongside the fear he had separated from himself.
• The fear monster attacked the Avengers after reacting to their Holy Light Weapons, and Hawkeye destroyed its humanoid phantom with a Holy Light arrow.
• Captain America defeated Liu, and the Avengers asked Doctor Strange to lead them back through Daisy's entrance because he had almost no magic left.
• Black Widow noticed the Magic Parasites had disappeared, and Doctor Strange sensed that magic was gone as the group rushed to return.