Recaps

Loki attacked a S.H.I.E.L.D. base to seize the Tesseract, then fought Tony and Steve in Berlin before Thor arrived and failed to capture him. At the Sky Carrier, the group discovered the Tesseract was at Stark Tower and argued over its use, until Loki appeared among them.

• Loki seized the Tesseract from a S.H.I.E.L.D. base, while Ian preserved it after removing the Space Stone.
• Loki defeated Steve and damaged Tony's thruster in Berlin, then escaped when Thor confronted him.
• Fury assembled Tony, Steve, Banner, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Coulson, and Maria Hill on the Sky Carrier to find the stolen item.
• Tony tried and failed to breach S.H.I.E.L.D.'s security, while he and Banner eventually located the item's energy source at Stark Tower.
• Steve revealed that the item was the Tesseract, and he, Banner, and Tony challenged Fury's plan to use it as a weapon.
• Loki appeared in the conference room and greeted the assembled group.

Loki attacked the Sky Carrier and unleashed the Hulk, then his invasion plan opened a portal over New York. After the Avengers fought through several waves of Chitauri, Loki defeated Hulk with ease and prepared to face Thor, leaving the reason for his actions unanswered.

• Loki used the Mind Stone scepter to trigger Banner's transformation, while Thor broke free of Loki's illusion and helped Tony bring the damaged Sky Carrier down; the attack left twelve dead, including Phil Coulson.
• Loki's portal opened above New York, and the Avengers fought off waves of Chitauri while evacuating civilians and seeking Loki.
• Thor, Tony, and Hulk reached the top of Stark Tower, where Loki paralyzed Natasha and Clint and then knocked Hulk unconscious.
• Thor confronted Loki and asked why he would not use his strength to help Asgard, but Loki told him to defeat him to learn the answer.

Loki defeated Thor and subdued the Avengers as part of Ian’s planned invasion lesson, then Ian revealed himself as the Supreme Sorcerer and explained Kamar-Taj’s role in protecting Earth. He told the assembled leaders that a cosmic disaster was approaching and that he had staged the invasion to prepare the Avengers and the world.

• Loki outmaneuvered Thor in battle, but Thor’s final surge forced Loki to protect himself with Ice Coffin before Thor collapsed.
• Loki trapped Steve and Tony in illusions, restrained Steve, and declared his intention to build an empire on Earth.
• Ian arrived and revealed that Loki’s invasion had been staged under his instructions, then healed everyone, restored the Sky Carrier, and revived the fallen agents.
• Ian brought the Avengers and Fury together and introduced his true self as the Supreme Sorcerer of Kamar-Taj.
• Ian explained that his predecessor had foreseen a cosmic disaster and that he had staged the invasion to teach the Avengers and warn Earth’s people.

Ian explained that he had intervened to prepare Earth for a catastrophic multiverse collision, showing the Avengers their foreordained future and the horrors of the Great Convergence. He left to handle unfinished business, while the remaining heroes faced training in the weeks ahead.

• Ian told Steve and Maria Hill that the apparent casualties were fabricated and offered an asteroid’s resources to cover the destruction of New York.
• Ian showed the group the future they would have faced without his intervention, including the deaths of Natasha and Tony and Asgard’s fall.
• Ian explained that the Great Convergence forced universes to merge and showed visions of invading variants and the destruction of entire realities.
• Ian revealed that his team had survived two Convergences by annihilating the approaching universes, and said he needed the group’s help to protect their reality.
• Ian said he would prepare individual training programs after two to four weeks, but Tony refused to join and left to check on Pepper.
• Thor returned to Asgard, while Ian teleported away with his clones and the others remained behind.

Loki accepted a mission to kill Thanos and take over his army, while Ian advanced his Death Corps and Scarlet Witch Project. Tony Stark invented multiverse travel and triggered a Convergence, leaving him stunned as two universes began rushing toward each other.

• Ian rewarded Loki with three months in The Library and ordered him to kill Thanos and take over his army; Loki chose to wait for Ian to forge him a versatile, portable weapon.
• Morgana reported that Hydra had not taken the bait, so Ian focused on completing the Death Corps and Scarlet Witch Project, recruiting twelve people capable of wielding Death Rings.
• Tony returned home after checking on Pepper and had Jarvis investigate the invasion victims, discovering their identities had been fabricated two years earlier.
• Ian completed a Scarlet Wizard clone and learned Tony had built multiverse travel technology in two weeks using data from the Stark Satellite.
• Ian secretly redirected Tony's gate to a level-one timeline and contacted the Time Enforcement Team before Tony tested it by traveling through.
• Ian confronted Tony, and Ra confirmed a dimensional anomaly; Tony checked the evidence and realized his gate had erased the barrier between two universes that were now rushing toward each other.

After Tony’s cross-dimensional portal triggered a Convergence, Ian chose to build a Dimensional Stabilizer to prevent catastrophic spacetime destruction and give the universes a chance to merge peacefully. He and Morgana began adapting a barrier to draw energy from surrounding dimensions for the Cosmic Will, and Ian contacted the entity known as Eternal Consciousness.

• Tony admitted that his cross-dimensional portal had triggered a Convergence, and he described the universal destruction expected when the timelines collided.
• Ian rejected waiting decades for Tony to build a Dimensional Stabilizer and said he would construct one himself, while warning the Avengers that they might still have to sacrifice other universes.
• Ian briefed The Ancient One, Odin, Ra, and King T'Chaka on the crisis, and they agreed to help when needed.
• Morgana showed Ian a barrier she had designed as a stabilizer, and he modified it to draw energy from surrounding dimensions and place part of the burden on the Cosmic Will.
• Ian contacted the cosmic entity and learned that it called itself Eternal Consciousness.

Ian activated a stabilizer to protect his universe during the Great Convergence, then watched as inhabitants of a neighboring universe were teleported beside their variants and forced into a lethal conflict. After he and his allies stopped the slaughter, Ian began erasing memories and sealing the survivors’ new powers, while worrying that the Convergence was preparing the Multiverse for a far greater threat.

• Ian persuaded Eternal Consciousness to activate the Dimensional Stabilizer Barrier, then prepared devices to observe the Great Convergence.
• Loki informed Ian that Thanos had been eliminated and the Mind Stone was in his hands.
• Ian joined The Ancient One, Odin, and Ra in weakening a neighboring universe and bringing it closer to their own.
• The Convergence teleported people beside their variants, whose eyes turned red and drove them to kill one another; Ian and Odin intervened to stop the violence.
• Ian told the Avengers that he suspected the Convergence was training the Multiverse to face a terrifying threat, then organized memory erasures and power seals with help from his allies.

Ian prepared to train powerful beings in a dream world while advancing the Scarlet Witch Project, but a new dimensional anomaly appeared on the Moon. He used a Scarlet Wizard clone to recreate the Darkhold and gather Soul Energy, then seized the resulting crystal and Soul Stone after the clone was captured.

• Ian agreed to build a dream world for combat training, while Morgana offered to handle its construction and urged him to focus on his strength and the Scarlet Witch Project.
• Ra reported a dimensional anomaly on the Moon, where Ian and Morgana discovered the Inhumans.
• Ian created the Scarlet Wizard clone with false memories and a Time Crystal, then left him near the Darkhold temple at Mount Wundagore.
• The Scarlet Wizard restored the Darkhold, learned its contents, and gathered Soul Energy from across the Multiverse into a golden crystal using the Soul Stone.
• A long-bearded mage captured the Scarlet Wizard and took him through a portal, after which Ian retrieved the crystal and Soul Stone and told Morgana the clone had become a burden.

Ian completed his Soul Divinity and tested whether he could create internal laws, but learned that forming Void Runes required extensive study of many universes’ laws and further advancement. He updated Kamar-Taj’s missions, continued observing Ajak’s progress, and went to train the Avengers, expecting something extraordinary.

• Morgana told Ian that the Darkhold contained powerful dark spells but connected users to Chthon, and she said removing that corruption would take time.
• Ian absorbed the crystal’s Soul Energy, completed his Soul Divinity, and found that his magic, awareness, and abilities had greatly improved.
• Ian tried carving Time and other Law Runes in his Soul Dimension, but each rune vanished before it could become permanent.
• Merlin explained that Ian needed to study the laws of dozens or hundreds of universes and advance further before creating Void Runes and internal Authority.
• Ian used the Time Stone to examine the future and update Kamar-Taj’s missions, then encouraged Ajak to bring Sersi for training.
• Ian went to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and began training the Avengers, sensing that something extraordinary would happen.

Ian began training Hawkeye after a Potential Orb revealed that Clint had extraordinary magical affinities and unusually powerful talents. After five years of accelerated training, Clint reached Tier 4, and Ian prepared to start the next stage with three Divine Artifacts.

• Ian explained that his clones were negotiating an agreement to let the world's armies train for the Great Convergence, then began arranging training for the Avengers.
• Clint volunteered to train first, and Ian used the Potential Orb to test his talents.
• The orb revealed that Clint had exceptional perception and control, eyes with the potential to become an Eye of God, and remarkable affinities for several types of magic, especially Wind Magic.
• Ian suspected Clint's abilities had been engineered through magical bloodline or genetic manipulation and ordered tests on Kamar-Taj mages while a clone began training Clint in an accelerated-time room.
• Ian prepared a bow, an eye artifact, and a quiver for Clint, then returned after five years had passed inside the room and found him at Tier 4.
• Clint learned that only two weeks had passed outside, and Ian summoned the three Divine Artifacts to begin the second stage of his training.

Ian tested Hawkeye and Black Widow’s extraordinary abilities, then planned a dangerous transformation that could make Natasha master the Shadow Dimension. He believed the experiment might also reveal how to develop their own internal laws.

• Ian replaced Hawkeye’s eye with the Eye of Hanuman, and Hawkeye used his new vision and Divine Artifacts to destroy a universe before collapsing from the strain.
• Ian healed Hawkeye with the Soul Stone and summoned Natasha for testing; her results showed exceptional charm, a hidden Metamorphmagus ability, and extraordinary affinity for Shadow magic.
• Ian decided Natasha should train her body and Aura to Tier 4 while studying Shadow magic and witchcraft.
• Ian proposed sealing the Demon God Morag inside Natasha and having her merge with the Shadow Dimension, using research on Nick Morton and a spell from the Cagliostro Library.
• Ian told Morgana the experiment was crucial because it could reveal what they were missing in their efforts to develop internal laws.

Ian and Morgana discussed turning the Soul Dimension into a universe with its own laws, while Ian captured Morag and returned to Natasha. He explained his personality and the systems that kept his Empire stable, leaving Natasha stunned by the existence of his immortal History Committee.

• Ian proposed making the Soul Dimension a perfect universe with its own laws, and Morgana suggested combining the idea with the Power Gate.
• Ian, The Ancient One, and Hawkeye tracked Morag to the Shadow Dimension, captured him, and sealed him.
• Ian moved the Cagliostro Library’s contents to Kamar-Taj and returned to Natasha, apologizing for his clone’s advances.
• Ian told Natasha that he was a magic nerd who disliked politics but loved his family, Empire, and subjects.
• Ian explained that he trusted his allies and relied on Think Tanks to manage the Empire and restrain its competing ambitions.
• Ian revealed that his History Committee included immortal historical figures such as Einstein, Newton, Plato, Confucius, Al-Khwarizmi, and Buddha, stunning Natasha.

Ian prepared Natasha for a ritual that gave her access to Morag’s power, but her new Shadow Form overwhelmed her mind and will. He postponed her remaining training and arranged for her to strengthen herself and undergo magical psychotherapy before welcoming Steve Rogers for training.

• Natasha asked whether Ian’s home could shelter people from Earth if the Great Convergence went badly, and Ian said he needed to find his missing spaceship first.
• Natasha studied the Cagliostro Library’s knowledge and sealing materials while Ian prepared a ritual to bind Morag’s power to her.
• Natasha completed the ritual, gained a rune and shadow powers, and transformed into Shadow Form, which raised her power from Tier 6 to Tier 8.
• Morag’s influence and the immense power corrupted Natasha’s mind, so Ian ended her transformation and gave her a potion.
• Ian postponed Natasha’s further procedures and assigned her soul and willpower training along with magical psychotherapy.
• Ian escorted Natasha from the magic tower and welcomed Steve Rogers as the next Avenger to train.

Ian tested Steve Rogers and proposed making him the universe’s guardian, but the Eternal Consciousness found Steve’s attachments to Peggy and Bucky kept him from fully succeeding. Steve returned to Ian’s tower with new cosmic power after deciding to seek Peggy’s help.

• Steve told Ian how overwhelmed he felt after waking in a changed world and learning about cosmic threats.
• Ian and Morgana tested Steve and discussed training him as a paladin or asking the Cosmic Will to make him the timeline’s guardian.
• Steve agreed to meet the Eternal Consciousness, which tested him and granted him a galaxy-patterned shield and power drawn from the universe.
• The Eternal Consciousness identified Steve’s feelings for Peggy and Bucky as flaws preventing him from becoming a perfect guardian.
• Ian offered to restore Peggy’s youth, and Steve flew away to ask her before returning ten minutes later.

Ian restored Peggy’s youth and strength, then prepared Steve and Banner for the threats ahead by discussing Steve’s Cosmic Guardian status and beginning Hulk’s training. Banner left training to strengthen his soul and control his Gamma-powered potential.

• Ian altered Peggy’s Life Code, restoring her youth and enhancing her body, and lifted the seal on her memories.
• Steve returned as a Tier 9 Cosmic Guardian, admitted he still did not know where Bucky was, and agreed to acquire another power system as a safeguard.
• Ian told Steve to inform Sam that he was on the Avengers’ training list, while Morgana urged Ian to address Tony’s parents and Ian said he had marked Steve to collect data.
• Ian told Banner that his Hulk power would be needed against destructive variants and explained that people close to him could help him retain his humanity.
• Morgana identified Banner’s exceptional Gamma Energy affinity, and Ian assigned him advanced Meditation, Gamma Energy absorption, combat practice, and soul defense.
• Ian created a Divine Artifact of soul defense for Banner and Hulk because Hulk’s powerful soul was vulnerable to outside influence.

Tony Stark took a potential test and chose a technology-focused path combined with magic, then negotiated a long-term contract with Ian for access to advanced knowledge. Ian told Tony that Hydra had arranged his parents’ deaths and advised him to use resurrection or time travel to bring them back without changing the past.

• Hulk left the training room and called Tony through a portal to take his potential test.
• Ian explained how the test worked, and Tony learned that his talents strongly favored technology.
• Tony chose a technology-focused path combined with magic and signed a contract requiring him to share invention data with Ian for twenty-five thousand years.
• Ian told Tony that Hydra and Bucky were responsible for his parents’ deaths, and Tony vowed to kill Bucky.
• Ian said Tony could not kill Bucky because of Steve and suggested resurrecting his parents or bringing them to the present from just before their deaths.

Ian tested Fury, Coulson, and Maria Hill, then recruited Fury for a dangerous intelligence mission in a timeline inhabited by Multiverse-level entities. Fury accepted the plan to be reincarnated with protective magic and a Divine Artifact, while Ian promised to preserve his memories in case he died.

• Ian tested Fury, Coulson, and Maria Hill and identified Fury's exceptional Luck as a talent that helped him survive danger.
• Ian asked Fury to infiltrate a timeline with Multiverse-level entities, warning that the mission could be fatal even for someone like him.
• Ian proposed reincarnating Fury with the Eye of Fortune and a [Synthesizer] that could create what he needed, including Tier 10 battle armor.
• Fury agreed to the mission, and Ian explained that he would be born away from Earth and that the Synthesizer would erase his soul if a Tier 11 entity captured him.
• Ian told Fury that the Phoenix Project would preserve his memories and transfer them into a clone if his soul died.

Ian began training Fury, Maria Hill, and Coulson for their roles in the Empire’s plans. Fury prepared for a secret mission, Maria began training to command fleets, and Coulson was tasked with leading S.H.I.E.L.D. as the Great Convergence approached.

• Fury accepted the Phoenix Project’s form of resurrection and asked Ian how he could send intelligence securely; Ian explained how his Speed Force clones transmitted information through the Blank Domain.
• Ian bought Tier 11 knowledge from the Akashic Records by selling a large amount of the Empire’s knowledge, after discovering he could not afford the cheapest option otherwise.
• Ian identified Maria Hill’s Psychic and starship-command talents and planned to train her to command millions of combat spaceships, while admitting the Empire’s commander training program had limitations.
• Ian told Coulson that his leadership talent made him the choice to replace Fury as S.H.I.E.L.D.’s director, and explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. would expand across the universe as the Great Convergence neared.
• Ian started training the three agents: Fury studied in virtual reality, Maria learned military and space-warfare subjects, and Coulson began leadership training in a simulated universe where he had to extend S.H.I.E.L.D.’s influence across the Milky Way Galaxy.

Maria Hill completed Ian’s fleet-command training with top marks, then received a massive spacecraft fleet. Ian summoned Sam Wilson for training and discovered that his talent was Beast Taming, allowing him to control all beasts.

• Maria Hill defeated a fleet four times larger than hers and earned an [S]-rank evaluation, the highest score recorded for the test.
• Maria scored [S-] in combat against powerful individuals after a spirit summoner nearly broke through her mental defenses.
• Ian told Maria she had met the minimum training requirement, confirmed Fury was alive, and transferred access to a fleet of more than ten million spacecraft.
• Morgana teased Ian about Maria, but Ian dismissed the subject and summoned Sam Wilson for his training.
• Ian tested Sam and found that, after receiving Grace, Sam had gained the ability to control all beasts.

Ian developed the Beast Tamer's Path and trained Sam to fuse with contracted beasts, then Death Lady unexpectedly summoned Ian to meet her. The chapter ended with Ian calmly asking what she wanted from him.

• Ian and Morgana decided to train Sam as a Beast Tamer, using his Soul Dimension to develop a new path for storing and fusing with contracted beasts.
• Ian's experiments showed that living creatures could not enter the Soul Dimension directly, so contracted beasts had to convert their bodies into a spiritual state.
• Sam passed a simulation by fusing with a beast and briefly reaching Tier 7, then agreed to train his physical body and report abnormalities in his Beast Taming world.
• Ian moved Beidou into his Soul Dimension and discussed the lack of news from Ajak and Olivia with Morgana.
• Death Lady teleported Ian into a dark room, and Ian identified her before politely asking how he could serve her.

Death Lady asked Ian to kill Deadpool across as many timelines as possible, offering him control of the Authority of Death and her mentorship. Ian refused to accept without learning her true motive, and after she sent him away, he concluded that she had spared him because he amused her and resolved to gain power that could threaten her.

• Death Lady revealed that she knew Ian had caused countless deaths through the Speedster Plan and asked him to eliminate Deadpool across timelines.
• Ian refused, suspecting that killing Deadpool would bring consequences he could not foresee, but Death Lady offered him the Authority of Death and her mentorship.
• Ian agreed to her offer only if she explained her real reason for wanting Deadpool dead.
• Death Lady transformed into her skull-faced form, threatened that she could kill Ian without consequences, and then vanished him.
• Ian used a soul-nourishing potion and told Morgana he believed Death Lady had spared him because she found him useful and entertaining.
• Ian decided that he and Morgana needed enough power to threaten Death Lady so she would have to consider the consequences of killing them.

Ian and Morgana discussed ways to increase his strength, including making Soul Potions with Soul Stones and raiding weak timelines to obtain them. Ian then explained his theory that Death Lady was targeting immortal beings like Deadpool and Wolverine because the Cosmic Will might be giving them a chance to become unique powers capable of helping in the coming war.

• Morgana urged Ian to reclaim the Floating City, build Ea and Chains of Heaven, and raise his power, but Ian explained the risks and delays involved.
• Ian and Morgana considered using Soul Stones to strengthen Ian's soul, while ruling out robbing the TVA or contacting the speedster clone.
• Ian proposed paying others to plunder Soul Stones from weak timelines and destroy those timelines afterward.
• Ian suggested Death Lady was concerned that immortals like Deadpool and Wolverine disrupted the Law of Death, and that the Cosmic Will might be giving them a chance to become powerful unique beings.

Ian managed Kaecilius’s secret contact with Mephisto while overseeing the Avengers, his clones, and Wakanda’s rapid technological progress. After Ian and Morgana noticed Arishem had gone silent, urgent messages arrived from Ra and the Time Force.

• Ian reviewed the Avengers’ public-relations work and his clones’ military training, then learned Loki wanted him to forge a staff and Thor would be ready to face Hela within six months to a year.
• Morgana told Ian that Wakanda had built an eighth-generation Black Panther Suit and a Quantum Time Force Field, and that Shuri showed talent comparable to the Young Saints; Ian had Morgana correct flaws in the experiment’s plans.
• Kaecilius told Ian that Mephisto had offered him his family’s souls and recruited him to rebel, so Ian resurrected Kaecilius’s family and gave him a token for scheduled visits.
• After Kaecilius warned that Mephisto was probing his mind, Ian sent him a Mental Origin Rune to conceal or alter his memories, while Morgana cautioned that Kaecilius might be playing both sides.
• Ian and Morgana discussed Arishem’s silence and the lack of contact with the Eternals, then Ian received urgent messages from Ra and the Time Force.

After Celestials accidentally breached the timeline’s defenses and entered a dangerous Tier 3 dimension, Ian organized a defense and rescue mission. As his forces prepared for battle, Ian wondered what would become of his Empire if he died.

• Ra told Ian that a group of Celestials had broken through the timeline barrier and entered a dimension with at least two Demon God Kings.
• Ian convened the Council, where its members discussed their ability to fight the Kings and agreed to try to rescue the Celestials.
• Ian assigned Stark, Banner, Sam, Natasha, and Wong to infiltrate the dimension and find the Celestials, while Clint would scout and Steve and Agent Maria would remain on standby.
• Ian told Agent Coulson to activate the Last Stand Plan if the Council fell, transporting their universe away from its coordinates to escape danger.
• Ian stationed Clint in a tower in the Blank Realm, then prepared for battle and reflected with Morgana on the future of his Empire if he died.

Jean Augustus Claude led an expedition to invade a Tier 8 plane, but negotiations with its Planar Will failed and the tower’s descent met strong resistance. After a new spell weakened the suppression at a steep energy cost, the crew detected nearby life far closer than expected, suggesting the plane’s civilization had spatial powers.

• Jean Augustus Claude recalled his past and reprimanded apprentice Andrew Schwartz for carrying food outside the cafeteria.
• Jean Augustus Claude learned that negotiations with the Planar Will had failed and ordered the tower to begin its descent into the plane.
• Jean Augustus Claude activated the new Law Resonance spell, which reduced the Planar Will’s suppression but drained the tower’s energy to 73%.
• Jean Augustus Claude’s crew detected signs of life five kilometers away instead of the expected 120 kilometers, and he ordered them to deploy Wizard’s Eye.