Chapter Summaries

Miles discovered a hidden force of Dusk Knights beneath the Dusk Church while Emma Frost arranged separate meetings with him and Anna’s group. Emma revealed White Court’s ties to Vespera and challenged Miles to explain why he believed he could defeat the Black Spirit King.

• Callisto told Anna, Quentin, and Hisako Ichiki that Emma Frost would meet them in two hours but would not see Miles yet.
• Miles investigated the Dusk Church and sensed about a hundred Dusk Knights hidden in a vast chamber beneath it.
• Emma Frost contacted Miles through a woman, revealed she had been tracking him, and invited him to a private meeting at the Old Commodity Exchange’s clock tower.
• Emma Frost met Anna, Quentin, and Hisako Ichiki alongside Kandela, the Dusk Church’s bishop and White Court’s church affairs officer, and proposed seeking a peaceful resolution with Vespera over Ororo.
• Emma Frost told Anna’s group she would take them to see the Black Spirit King, then met Miles separately and admitted that negotiating with Vespera would not work.
• Emma Frost asked Miles what gave him confidence that he could defeat the Black Spirit King.

As Oasis prepared to evacuate, Cable left to pursue his own plans while Think Tank’s body continued to succumb to Feirotus. In the White Court, Miles investigated Feirotus and Nathaniel’s work, but the cult found him through Feirotus, allowing Kandela to locate him.

• Lorna organized Oasis’s evacuation and told Cable that the settlement would meet him again within a week; Cable left without giving up on rescuing Ororo.
• Cable learned from Daniel that Feirotus was corroding Think Tank’s life-support systems and planned to travel to the White Court to meet Miles and the others.
• Miles told Emma Frost that understanding Feirotus and the Black Spirit King was essential to rescuing Ororo, and Emma directed him to Nathaniel’s hidden base in Lakeport.
• Kandela demanded that Anna, Quentin, and Hisako Ichiki submit to the Black Spirit King, then asked Emma Frost where Miles was; Emma denied knowing his location.
• Emma Frost warned Miles to hide after sensing that Kandela had learned something, but a Dusk Church priest spotted him and invoked the Gospel of Feirotus, overwhelming his mind and dispelling his concealment.
• Kandela returned to the Dusk Church, opened her eyes, and declared that she had found Miles.

Miles fought his way through White Court after the Dusk Church tracked him, but Bishop Kandela suppressed his mutant powers before he unleashed the Phoenix Brand and escaped. He later reached an abandoned Essex warehouse, where Emma Frost revealed she had been watching his fight as a test of whether he could challenge the ruler on Vespera’s throne.

• Miles used Telekinetic Binding and Psychic Invasion on a red-robed priest, learning that Kandela and the Cult’s personnel were gathering in White Court.
• Miles fled toward the railway station, where Kandela stopped him, suppressed his mutant abilities, and overpowered him with Telekinesis.
• Miles activated the Phoenix Avatar and blasted Kandela, then escaped while she regenerated from her injuries and ordered the Priests to search White Court.
• Miles hid in the Harbor District as the Phoenix Brand cleared some of the rust and partially restored his suppressed powers.
• Miles entered an abandoned Essex Biotech warehouse and found Emma Frost, who said she had observed his fight with Kandela as a test of his potential.

Miles discovered that Aurora survived within the Sentinel Prime network and learned that Nathaniel's Rebirth Project resurrected the Black Spirit King at the University of Kansas Hospital. Meanwhile, Kandela defeated Anna, Hisako Ichiki, and Quentin, leaving Quentin captive as Miles uncovered the project's location.

• Quentin sensed Miles was in danger, and he, Anna, and Hisako Ichiki set out for the Dusk Church after hearing that Kandela had attacked the station platform.
• Kandela fought Anna, corroded her steel arm with Feirotus's Touch, stripped Hisako Ichiki of her powers, and captured Quentin.
• Miles and Emma Frost examined a Sentinel Prime head in Nathaniel's underground laboratory, and Miles accessed its data core.
• The Prime Model's records showed that Aurora had survived by hiding within its network, but she awakened after the Black Spirit King's defeat.
• Miles told Emma Frost that Nathaniel's Rebirth Project had resurrected the Black Spirit King at the University of Kansas Hospital.