Chapter Summaries

Li Wei awakened on the New York battlefield during the Chitauri invasion and gained powerful sorcery through the Heavens and Myriad Worlds Plunder System. After escaping to a rooftop, he planned to use the crisis to earn Tony Stark’s favor and began preparing a spell.

• Li Wei woke amid the wreckage of the Chitauri attack and realized he had been transported to the battle from The Avengers.
• The Heavens and Myriad Worlds Plunder System activated and gave Li Wei Kamar-Taj Magic Inheritance, a Sling Ring, and the Wand of Watoomb.
• Li Wei used a crude portal to escape the wreckage, then made several more short-range teleports to reach a rooftop outside the fiercest fighting.
• Li Wei saw the heroes fighting and the wormhole above Stark Tower, then decided to help Tony Stark in hopes of gaining his favor.
• Li Wei gathered his magical power and began forming complex seals to cast a spell.

Li Wei used his new magic to help Tony Stark during the Battle of New York, then sought payment by asking to study at the New York Sanctum. The Ancient One let him inside, leaving Li Wei to face the real test.

• Li Wei bound three Chitauri aircraft with the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak, giving Tony Stark time to destroy them.
• Li Wei told Stark to focus on the invasion’s main threat and claimed Stark owed him a favor before escaping through a portal.
• Li Wei reached a park in Queens, received a system reward for surviving the Battle of New York and influencing Stark, and spent a month practicing magic.
• Li Wei visited the New York Sanctum and showed Daniel Drumm a video of his help to Stark as evidence for his demand to use the library for a month.
• The Ancient One ordered Daniel to let Li Wei in, and Li Wei entered the Sanctum.

Li Wei met with Ancient One at the New York Sanctum and explained his intervention in the Battle of New York, his mysterious legacy, and his desire to learn magic. Ancient One allowed him to use the Library’s basic and intermediate sections for a month in exchange for a strand of his possible futures, opening the way for further exchanges.

• Ancient One served Li Wei tea and recognized that his Kamar-Taj Magic was ancient but poorly mastered.
• Ancient One questioned Li Wei about changing Tony Stark’s experience during the Battle of New York, and Li Wei argued that his intervention could strengthen the future he was protecting.
• Li Wei said he needed the Sanctum’s knowledge to prepare for coming threats and gave Ancient One a guarded explanation of his legacy and Sling Ring.
• Ancient One offered Li Wei one month of access to the Library’s basic and intermediate sections in exchange for a trace of the possibilities his existence brought to the timeline.
• Li Wei agreed to let Ancient One extract the trace, and she suggested they might also exchange knowledge about his meditation method.

Li Wei traded the Astral Visualization Technique and his Energy Bridge Theory with Ancient One for her knowledge of spatial magic and energy refinement. After gaining access to the New York Sanctum library, he began a month of study intended to prepare him for the Marvel Universe’s challenges and his next plunder.

• Ancient One created a Mirror Dimension and explained that she wanted to study Li Wei’s inward-focused approach to energy and its potential to complement Kamar-Taj magic.
• Li Wei described the Astral Visualization Technique and demonstrated a trace of Stellar Power, then outlined his theory for analyzing and converting different energies.
• Ancient One offered her notes on spatial folding and expansion and her knowledge of energy refinement and compatibility in exchange for Li Wei’s teachings.
• Li Wei and Ancient One exchanged their knowledge, and each studied the insights they received.
• Ancient One opened the basic and intermediate library sections to Li Wei and told him to study for a month.
• Li Wei followed Mage Daniel to the New York Sanctum library, where he began preparing for his next challenges and plunder.

Li Wei used the system to scan and study the New York Sanctum Library, integrating its magical knowledge with his existing inheritance and strengthening his control over magic. After nearly a month, he left the Library prepared to meet Iron Man and begin his next venture.

• Mage Daniel gave Li Wei access to the Library's basic and intermediate sections for one month and warned him not to enter the restricted areas or remove books.
• Li Wei used the system to scan and archive the Library's books, crystals, and diagrams, while studying key principles and marking dangerous material.
• Li Wei combined spatial magic texts with Ancient One's annotations and successfully inscribed a basic expansion rune inside his System Space.
• After the system warned him about information overload, Li Wei meditated with the Astral Visualization Technique and absorbed the knowledge he had gathered.
• Li Wei left the Library before the deadline, surprising Mage Daniel with his deeper, more controlled magical presence.
• Li Wei exited the New York Sanctum and set out to meet Iron Man and prepare for his next plunder of the myriad worlds.

Li Wei established a concealed sorcerer’s base in Manhattan and negotiated with Tony Stark for technical materials and access to a private laboratory in exchange for his help during the Battle of New York. After Stark left, Li Wei prepared to use his new resources before traveling to the world of Chronicle to obtain telekinesis.

• Li Wei rented a Manhattan penthouse, inscribed it with concealment and protective wards, and created an entrance to the Mirror Dimension.
• Tony Stark arrived in his Mark VII armor and asked Li Wei about his intervention during the Battle of New York and the favor he claimed Stark owed.
• Li Wei explained that he had reduced the risks to Stark’s armor and requested non-core energy and materials science research, along with laboratory access.
• Stark agreed to provide technical materials and monitored access to his Malibu laboratory, and Li Wei accepted the conditions.
• Stark asked Li Wei about Ancient One and Kamar-Taj, but Li Wei warned him that some knowledge came with a price.
• After Stark departed, Li Wei looked toward Stark Tower and prepared to digest his gains before traveling to the world of Chronicle for telekinesis.

Li Wei planned a covert way to siphon energy from the Psychic Crystal in the world of Chronicle, avoiding its defenses and the teenagers who would discover it. After crafting protective and siphoning tools, he traveled to the cave where the crystal was hidden and began his operation.

• Li Wei reviewed the risks of the Chronicle mission and devised a plan to siphon part of the crystal’s energy without alerting it.
• The system estimated the plan’s success rate at 71.3%, with the main risks coming from energy control and the crystal’s residual consciousness.
• Li Wei spent nearly a week crafting a Psychic Protection Talisman, an Energy Siphon Array Disk, and emergency flashbangs and smoke bombs.
• Li Wei used the system to open a passage to Chronicle and arrived in a forest near the crystal cave.
• Li Wei silently entered the cave as his Psychic Force plundering operation began.

Li Wei siphoned psychic energy from the CHP Crystal until Andrew, Matt, and Steve discovered him and attacked. He killed them, erased the evidence, completed the extraction, and returned to his apartment with his mindset changed by the encounter.

• Li Wei used the Mind Protection Ring and Energy Siphon Array Disk to extract psychic energy from the CHP Crystal into the Voidspace Stone.
• Andrew, Matt, and Steve entered the cave, saw Li Wei draining the crystal, and attacked him.
• Li Wei consulted the system, learned that killing the three would cause moderate world rejection, and decided to eliminate them.
• Li Wei overwhelmed the trio with psychic force and Kamar-Taj magic, then killed Andrew, Matt, and Steve with Spatial Severing.
• Li Wei completed the extraction, destroyed the corpses and evidence, cast a Confundus Charm at the cave entrance, and returned to his Marvel Universe apartment.

Li Wei forcibly refined the telekinetic source in the Voidspace Stone, gaining immense power while carrying the mental scars of its contamination and the people he had killed. After the system warned him of lingering mental impurities, he decided to visit Stark's laboratory and forge his first weapon.

• Li Wei fought the telekinetic energy and its chaotic consciousness by combining the Astral Visualization Technique, Kamar-Taj magic, and sheer will to refine it.
• After enduring the process through the night, Li Wei stabilized and branded the foreign power with his own mark.
• Li Wei demonstrated precise control by levitating a coffee table and shaping a flame into a tiny dagger with telekinesis and magic.
• Li Wei reflected on killing Andrew, Matt, and Steve, accepting their deaths as a price of survival and recognizing that he had become colder.
• The system rated Li Wei at City Level (Mid-Stage) and warned that forced refinement had left mental impurities.
• Li Wei chose to postpone purification and head to Stark's laboratory to forge his first true weapon.

Li Wei returned to the Assassin's League world to analyze the Loom of Fate and steal the Fraternity's knowledge, then combined its curved-shooting techniques with psychokinesis. Back in the Marvel Universe, he perfected a guided-projectile ability and prepared to test his powers amid the coming turmoil.

• Li Wei traveled to the Fraternity headquarters and used psychokinesis to immobilize the remaining assassins.
• Li Wei analyzed the Loom of Fate and acquired incomplete laws of fate-thread weaving and causal interference.
• Li Wei plundered the Fraternity library's texts on curved shooting, Assassin's Secret Energy, and related techniques.
• Li Wei crushed the textile mill and the immobilized assassins, erasing the Fraternity's headquarters before returning to the Marvel Universe.
• Li Wei used psychokinesis to make a coin follow a complex spiral path into a target, creating a Psychokinetic Guided Projectile.
• Li Wei's strength evaluation stabilized at City-Level (Mid-Rank), and he planned practical tests and preparations for the coming turmoil.

Li Wei forged the Startrail bracer, a magitech weapon that linked to his blood and let him fire enchanted projectiles along thought-controlled trajectories. As he tested it, the Ancient One appeared and called for a serious conversation about his growing power and the bracer’s effect on fate.

• Li Wei shaped Arcane Steel into a bracer and inscribed it with spatial, energy-conduction, and telekinetic-stabilization arrays.
• He added superconductive energy channels, a folded-space ammunition chamber, and enchanted projectiles containing telekinetic trajectory seeds.
• Li Wei fused the bracer’s components with his magic, telekinesis, and Assassin's Secret Energy, binding the finished weapon to himself through his blood.
• He tested the bracer by firing projectiles that curved around obstacles and struck an alloy target with precise, armor-piercing force.
• Li Wei named the bracer Startrail, and the Ancient One arrived to discuss his rapidly growing power and the weapon’s ability to disturb the threads of fate.

Ancient One confronted Li Wei about his predatory pursuit of power and the risks it posed to other worlds. They reached an understanding that allowed Li Wei to continue, provided he respected boundaries and accepted responsibility, and Li Wei prepared to put Startrail to use.

• Ancient One assessed Li Wei's rapid growth and warned that changing other worlds to harvest power could bring a causal backlash to Earth.
• Li Wei argued that he needed power to face threats such as Thanos and Dormammu, and said he kept his predation and Startrail under control.
• Ancient One agreed not to stop Li Wei if he avoided destroying healthy worlds or deliberately bringing irresistible disasters to Earth and its affiliated dimensions.
• Li Wei accepted responsibility for protecting the world when it faced danger, while reserving the right to choose his methods and price.
• Ancient One returned Li Wei to his apartment and left after expressing interest in Startrail's principles.
• Li Wei resolved to honor the agreed limits and prepare Startrail for its first real use.

Li Wei entered the Resident Evil world on the eve of the Hive incident and revealed Spence as the virus thief before the villa team could descend underground. He joined the U.S.S. mission and gained Alice’s trust, leaving with the team as they prepared to investigate the Hive.

• Li Wei arrived in Raccoon City, bought tactical equipment, and secretly entered the villa before the plot began.
• After Spence threatened Alice and Matt, Li Wei shot the gun from Spence’s hand and identified him as the culprit behind the Hive lockdown and T-virus leak.
• Li Wei used telekinesis to restrain Spence and urged Captain Shade to take him to the Hive before the situation worsened.
• Shade ordered Spence restrained and searched, and Rain Ocampo found the T-virus and antidote on him.
• Li Wei told Alice who she was and promised to protect her, and she began to trust him.
• Shade brought Li Wei along with the team as they prepared to enter the Hive.

Li Wei and the team entered The Hive, where he used his abilities to save them from zombies and the Red Queen’s laser trap. They survived the corridor and prepared to confront the Red Queen.

• On the train, Li Wei explained that Umbrella had developed the T-virus and that it had caused the disaster in The Hive.
• At The Hive’s flooded entrance, Li Wei detected and killed the zombies with precise shots as the team fought them.
• The team encountered the Red Queen’s laser corridor, and the AI declared them threats that had to be eliminated.
• Li Wei used telekinetic force to slow the lasers while Shade and Rain destroyed the emitters, allowing the team to escape.
• Rain asked who Li Wei was, and he said he did not want innocent people to die before turning toward the Red Queen’s main computer room.

The team shut down Red Queen, but doing so released the Lickers from B Restaurant. Li Wei helped defeat the creatures that escaped, and the team secured Red Queen’s motherboard to guide them out and reveal the truth.

• Kaplan warned that rebooting Red Queen would disable the access controls sealing B Restaurant, where Li Wei said Lickers were stored.
• Shade ordered Kaplan to reboot Red Queen while Li Wei and the others guarded the entrance.
• The Lickers escaped and attacked the team, so Li Wei left the computer room and used his weapons and telekinesis to help kill them.
• Kaplan removed Red Queen’s motherboard, restoring the lights and locking the remaining Lickers inside B Restaurant.
• Shade thanked Li Wei for saving the team, and Li Wei said they still needed the motherboard to find their way out and learn the truth.

Li Wei stole Umbrella’s secret research and facility data before leading the team back to the train. As they fled The Hive, Lickers blocked the tunnel ahead and Nemesis closed in from behind, trapping the survivors.

• Li Wei hacked an intact server and downloaded Umbrella’s T-virus research, weapon blueprints, Alice Project files, Red Queen data, and facility maps.
• Li Wei warned the team that The Hive might self-destruct or that Umbrella might send a cleanup team, so they hurried toward the exit.
• Li Wei and Alice helped the team survive zombie and Licker attacks without further losses as their cooperation strengthened.
• The survivors boarded the working train, and Kaplan started it toward the mansion.
• Lickers appeared ahead on the tracks while Nemesis approached from behind, trapping the train between them.

Li Wei and the survivors escaped The Hive after defeating Nemesis, then faced Umbrella Corporation’s retrieval team at the mansion. Umbrella showed interest in Li Wei and Alice, leaving the team’s next confrontation with the company ahead.

• Li Wei, Alice, and Matt killed the Lickers on the train roof while Shade and the others tried to hold back Nemesis.
• Li Wei blocked Nemesis’s machine-gun fire with telekinesis, then used telekinesis to launch and detonate explosives that incapacitated the creature.
• The train reached the mansion, and the exhausted survivors returned inside.
• Umbrella Corporation’s retrieval team arrived, but its commander approached Li Wei and Alice without attacking, saying the company was interested in their performance.
• Li Wei told the survivors that everything was only beginning.

Li Wei analyzed the T-virus and used magic, telekinesis, and an anchored consciousness to control its effects as he injected himself. He emerged with enhanced physical abilities and sharper senses while retaining full control of his mind.

• Li Wei studied Umbrella Technology and the T-virus inside the Mirror Dimension.
• Li Wei concluded that the T-virus’s danger came from uncontrolled mutation and that Alice’s genes could guide beneficial evolution.
• Li Wei prepared a Soul Anchor and a Vishanti-based purification array to reduce the virus’s harmful effects.
• Li Wei purified a small sample of the T-virus and injected it into himself.
• Li Wei used telekinesis to guide the virus’s changes and protect his consciousness during the painful transformation.
• Li Wei completed the transformation with enhanced strength, speed, reflexes, healing, and senses, surpassing Alice as a viral host without losing control.

Li Wei transformed the Red Queen into the loyal, rapidly evolving Crimson Empress and gave her control of the internet. After she secretly raised twelve billion dollars and surpassed JARVIS, Li Wei turned his attention to A.I.M. and the Extremis Virus.

• Li Wei built an isolated supercomputing center in his Mirror Dimension and rewrote the Red Queen's core directives to ensure absolute loyalty to him.
• Li Wei enhanced the Red Queen with magic and Matrix-inspired knowledge, named her the Crimson Empress, and gave her authority across the internet.
• Li Wei ordered the Crimson Empress to secretly raise ten billion dollars, and she deposited twelve billion dollars into anonymous accounts within forty-eight hours.
• The Crimson Empress reported that she had surpassed JARVIS and asked whether to monitor or infiltrate it, but Li Wei told her to keep watch.
• Li Wei saw reports about A.I.M. and the Extremis Virus and decided to pursue them and meet an old friend.

Li Wei intervened in the battle at Stark’s villa, defeated Killian’s Extremis soldiers, and took the virus research for himself. By combining Extremis with the T-virus, he created a loyal bio-weapon and prepared to reveal the Myriad Realms Secret Society to the world.

• Li Wei arrived at Stark’s villa and used Startrail to freeze an Extremis soldier’s arm before subduing the other attackers with targeted strikes.
• Li Wei pinned Killian with telekinetic power, took the Extremis research from his mind, and collected blood samples as Stark rescued Pepper.
• Li Wei returned to his laboratory and studied how the Extremis Virus used mitochondria to generate and control bioenergy.
• Li Wei combined the T-virus and Extremis Virus using his own genes as a template and cultivated a loyal, powerful bio-weapon.
• Li Wei watched over New York with the bio-weapon at his side and declared that the Myriad Realms Secret Society would enter the world’s sight.