Chapter Summaries

Richard resurrected Howard and Maria Stark after Tony insisted that his parents return to life. After reuniting with Tony, Howard and Maria were left together as Richard returned to Kamar-Taj, where Kaecilius’s apprentice Lena immediately started a brutal practice duel with Vivian and Fred.

• Richard explained that Mephisto had kept male succubi in his harem, then asked Tony whether Howard and Maria should be resurrected.
• Tony insisted that Richard bring his parents back, and Richard used chaotic mana to restore their bodies.
• Maria recognized Tony and embraced him as he tearfully called her Mom; Howard watched enviously while Richard slipped away.
• Richard summoned Kaecilius from a lesson, and Kaecilius left Lena in charge of Vivian and Fred.
• Lena canceled the apprentices’ practice time, created a mirror dimension, and hit Vivian and Fred with exploding fireballs.

Kaecilius told Mordo that Richard had resurrected his wife Sara and son Lucas and conquered the Hell Dimension, then asked Mordo to mentor them as Sorcerer Apprentices. Mordo agreed and decided he could make a name for himself by teaching future legendary sorcerers.

• Kaecilius greeted Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers with unusual warmth, and Mordo checked that nothing was wrong.
• Kaecilius told Mordo that Richard had resurrected Sara and Lucas and conquered the Hell Dimension.
• Kaecilius explained that Sara and Lucas had gained sorcery talent comparable to his own and asked Mordo to teach them.
• Mordo agreed to mentor Sara and Lucas, reasoning that teaching powerful sorcerers could make his own name famous.

Kaecilius returned to the training room and found Fred and Vivian badly scorched after Lena’s combat drill. After sending them away to recover, he offered Lena an opportunity and told her he would send her off on the Glory next week.

• Fred and Vivian clung to Kaecilius and blamed Lena for burning them during a combat drill.
• Kaecilius reminded Fred that combat drills simulated real fights and invoked Sorcerer Lenora to make him stop complaining.
• Kaecilius ordered Fred and Vivian to rest until their injuries healed, and they left the training room.
• Kaecilius praised Lena’s resemblance to her aunt Emilia and offered her an opportunity, which Lena eagerly accepted.
• Kaecilius told Lena to pack because he would personally send her off on the Glory next week.
• At the Rat Prison, Nick Fury sneezed three times and wondered if he was catching a cold.

Fred rejected Vivian’s plea for help and threatened to assist her only if she came to his bed that night. After leaving her panicked, he slipped out of Kamar-Taj and called someone from a secluded corner in Kathmandu.

• Vivian apologized to Fred and asked him to use Aunt Lenora’s connection to the Sorcerer Supreme to transfer them to Sorcerer Mordo’s tutelage.
• Fred revealed that he had pursued Vivian to get her into bed and demanded she strip and crawl into his bed in exchange for his help.
• Fred threatened Vivian and left, while she panicked over having no other way to escape her troubles with Lena and Teacher Kaecilius.
• Fred changed into ordinary clothes, secretly left Kamar-Taj, and called someone from a secluded spot in Kathmandu, but the other person hung up.

Fred learned that Aunt Lenora had agents and plans inside Kamar-Taj after her familiar, the Red-tailed Ghost Parrot, punished him for calling her and ordered him to investigate two new Sorcerer Apprentices. The parrot returned to Lenora in a hidden valley, leaving Fred wary but resolved to return to Kamar-Taj.

• The Red-tailed Ghost Parrot attacked Fred for calling Aunt Lenora and warned him that the calls could compromise her plan.
• Fred reported that Kaecilius had been acting strangely and suspected another soul had possessed his body.
• The parrot ordered Fred to investigate Sara and Lucas, two new Sorcerer Apprentices at Kamar-Taj, and learn about their activities and connections.
• After the parrot left, Fred suspected Lenora had planted other agents at Kamar-Taj but chose to return rather than risk being hunted down.
• The Red-tailed Ghost Parrot traveled to a secluded valley and entered the wooden house after Lenora called it Richard.

Lenora summoned the Lord of Evil Spirits, who ordered her to attack the upcoming space exploration team and empowered her with a monstrous new body. After transforming her, he altered her face again, while Lenora celebrated her newfound strength and ambition to rule the world.

• The Red-tailed Ghost Parrot reported that the Red Order, Stark Industries, and Kamar-Taj planned a space exploration mission with Tony Stark and Kaecilius, and Lenora ordered it to gather information on Stark Industries.
• Lenora’s black fog nearly destroyed the Red-tailed Ghost Parrot as it fled, forcing it to sacrifice much of its Soul Origin to escape.
• Lenora entered a hidden cavern, offered her blood to the statue, and summoned the Lord of Evil Spirits.
• The Lord of Evil Spirits told Lenora to attack the exploration team on the day it departed, then infused her with black energy that transformed her body.
• The Lord of Evil Spirits recoiled at Lenora’s true face and altered it before she awoke, sensed her new power, and vowed to rule the world.

Lenora accepted the Lord of Evil Spirits’ task and became enamored with her magically restored beauty. After testing her enhanced power, she contacted Richard, startling his ghost-parrot form into revealing itself at Stark Industries.

• The Lord of Evil Spirits restored Lenora’s appearance and ordered her not to disappoint him, then withdrew into the heretic god statue.
• Lenora admired her new face, destroyed her old cosmetics and beauty heads, and transformed to test her strength, which she believed surpassed The Ancient One’s.
• Lenora contacted Richard through a red-tailed parrot puppet while the red-tailed ghost parrot was sneaking into New Stark Headquarters.
• The ghost parrot was startled by Lenora’s voice, revealed itself to Happy, and fled after Happy’s coffee passed through it and splashed a female employee.

Happy was mistaken for assaulting May Parker after accidentally spilling coffee on her and trying to wipe it away. Meanwhile, Lenora punished the Red-tailed Ghost Parrot for resisting her order to gather the Sutherland Family.

• Happy spilled hot coffee on May Parker and frantically tried to wipe it from her chest, prompting onlookers to accuse him of indecent assault.
• Stark Industries employees restrained Happy, shoved a damp rag into his mouth, and heard May Parker threaten to send him to prison.
• Pepper ordered her staff to take Happy and Ms. May Parker to a conference room and promised the company would handle the matter fairly.
• The Red-tailed Ghost Parrot escaped to an isolated Atlantic island and received Lenora's order to gather all members of the Sutherland Family.
• Lenora burned the Red-tailed Ghost Parrot's soul through the wooden carving until it begged for mercy, then stopped and left the carving scorched and cracked.

Lenora ordered the Sutherland family to gather in New York and prepare to attack a Stark Industries exploration spaceship. At Stark Industries, Pepper reviewed the surveillance footage of Happy accidentally spilling coffee on May Parker and touching her chest, then stripped him of his Security Director position and offered May compensation or the option of calling the police; May had not yet chosen.

• Lenora threatened Richard and ordered him to summon the Sutherland family to New York for an attack on Stark Industries’ exploration spaceship in one week.
• Pepper arrived at the conference room where employees had detained Happy over his alleged harassment of May Parker.
• Matilda played security footage showing Happy spill coffee on May and rub her chest while trying to wipe it away.
• Happy apologized to May and denied intending to sexually harass her, while admitting that he had acted wrongly.
• Pepper removed Happy as Security Director, offered May one million dollars in compensation, and gave her the choice to accept a settlement or call the police.
• May hesitated over whether to take the compensation or let the police handle the incident.

May Parker accepted compensation and a month of leave while Pepper and Tony investigated a red-tailed parrot that appeared to target Stark Industries. A Red Order force joined the launch of the Glory, and Lena eagerly boarded the exploration ship as the team prepared to depart.

• Happy raised May Parker's compensation to three million dollars, and Pepper granted her a month of leave and promised she could return to Stark Industries.
• Pepper and Happy reviewed surveillance footage of a red phantom, and Tony concluded the red-tailed parrot was a transcendent creature targeting Stark Industries.
• Tony sent the footage to High Priestess Strucker, who dispatched an elite Arbiter force to protect the headquarters and the Glory.
• On departure day, Simmons rallied the exploration team on the rooftop, and Tony introduced the Glory before the crew boarded under Simmons's command.
• Zoe led the Crimson Battle Sister guards aboard, and Lena hurried to join the exploration team, greeting a weathered man with an eyepatch.

Lena and the sorcerers boarded the spaceship Glory, which was attacked by Lenora and the Sutherland Bloodline Wizards after it departed. The Glory’s defenses held, and its enchanted turret killed several attackers before the survivors reinforced their formation against its beams.

• Lena greeted Nick Fury and nearly crushed his hand with mana before Sorcerer Adeline arrived and led her away.
• Nick Fury eyed the Kamar-Taj sorcerers and Zoe Quinn’s squad, and Zoe’s magical rebuke made him cover his ears in pain.
• Captain Simmons launched the Glory under stealth and warp power as Tony and Strucker watched from the ground.
• Lenora led the Sutherland Bloodline Wizards in a surprise attack, but the Glory’s shield blocked their strike and its cannons failed to break their defense formation.
• The Sutherland wizards charged the ship, and Simmons fired the Glory’s enchanted turret, vaporizing several attackers and forcing Lenora’s group to pour mana into their formation.

Lenora and the Sutherland Bloodline Wizards struggled to hold their Defense Formation against the Glory starship’s main cannon while Simmons escalated the attack. The formation collapsed under the cannon’s second phase, vaporizing Lenora and the defending wizards.

• Lenora rejected Sabrina’s suggestion to retreat, while the returning, badly injured Price was healed and brought inside the Defense Formation.
• Simmons ordered the Glory’s main cannon to fire, forcing Lenora and the Sutherland Bloodline Wizards to pour their magic energy into the trembling barrier.
• Lena nearly fell aboard the Glory, and Nick Fury caught her; she teased him by mispronouncing his name.
• Tony explained that the Glory’s main cannon had nine enchantment effects, and Kaecilius reminded him that a Celestials baby lay at Earth’s core.
• A young witch urged the Sutherland Bloodline Wizards to flee, so Lenora killed her and absorbed her essence to restore her strength.
• Simmons activated Phase Two Attack, the main cannon shattered the Defense Formation, and its energy beam vaporized Lenora and the Sutherland Bloodline Wizards.

After the Glory departed with the exploration team, Tony returned home to find Wanda, Pietro, Howard, and Maria at the California villa. His arrival led to another argument with Howard, which Maria stopped as the family gathered together.

• The Glory left Earth after destroying the attackers, and Tony returned to his laboratory after the others declined his invitation for a drink.
• Pepper reminded Tony to come home because Wanda and Pietro had a three-day school holiday, and Tony abandoned his plan to continue working on his enchanted armor.
• At the California villa, Pietro beat Howard in basketball and teased Wanda about her math competition loss to Gwen Stacy.
• Tony arrived through a Crimson Portal, and Wanda, Pietro, Howard, and Maria greeted him.
• Tony and Howard traded insults about Tony's absence and Howard's rent, until Maria ordered them both to stop arguing.

Tony apologized to Wanda and Pietro for neglecting them, then promised to come home every day and share their important moments. That night, Wanda entered a dream where she met an adult version of herself from another world, who was startled by the differences in Wanda’s life and asked about Lord Yan.

• Maria reprimanded Howard and Tony for their strained relationship and Tony’s absence from his family, prompting Tony to apologize to Wanda and Pietro and promise to be home every day.
• The Stark family held a barbecue, after which Tony went with Pepper, Howard took Maria for a drive, and Pietro watched a basketball game.
• Wanda cast a Silence Array and entered a crimson dream world, where an adult Wanda arrived and identified herself as Wanda Maximoff from the future.
• Little Wanda asked about her future with Lord Yan, but adult Wanda did not know him and insisted that Vision was the person Wanda was meant to love.
• Adult Wanda learned that Little Wanda lived with Tony and Pepper as her adoptive family, and Little Wanda questioned her about her origins while sipping water she created with Chaotic Mana.

Adult Wanda shared her memories with little Wanda, then learned that Richard had changed the younger Wanda’s world and warned her to be careful of him. Adult Wanda left little Wanda trapped in her crimson world, but sent her back with a final gift as the world collapsed.

• Adult Wanda gave little Wanda her memories, and little Wanda discovered their lives diverged after the missile attack and that adult Wanda had loved Vision and pursued her children across the multiverse.
• Little Wanda asked whether adult Wanda intended to destroy her world, and adult Wanda swore she would not harm it.
• Little Wanda gave adult Wanda her own memories, revealing that Richard had changed the fates of people in her world and that his name was shielded in adult Wanda’s memories.
• Adult Wanda warned little Wanda to stay away from Richard, but the two argued over him and adult Wanda flew away without sending little Wanda home.
• Little Wanda realized she had been left alone in the crimson world and began to cry, then adult Wanda struck her with crimson lightning and wished for her dreams to come true as the world collapsed.

Little Wanda returned from the Crimson World with her body transformed into an eighteen-year-old, alarming her family and prompting a medical examination. After Tony drove off a researcher who seemed to covet Wanda’s unusual health, Richard arrived to investigate the scarlet energy and Gray Light Dot inside her.

• Little Wanda discovered that Adult Wanda’s final gift had matured her body to eighteen, and Tony, Pepper, and Pietro rushed her to the Stark medical laboratory for tests.
• Professor Donald recommended keeping Wanda for further research, but Tony recognized his greed and had security escort him out.
• Howard and Maria arrived at the laboratory, and Tony took the family back to the Seaside Villa, where Wanda told them about Adult Wanda and the crimson lightning.
• Tony contacted Richard, who examined Wanda and found a Gray Light Dot wrapped in scarlet energy deep inside her body.

Richard discovered a Dream Dimension Rule Fragment inside Wanda and explained that it could let her replace Nightmare as Lord of Dreams, though Nightmare might seek it. After hearing about Wanda’s dreams of her future self, Richard took her away to conduct an experiment, while Tony learned Wanda had a crush on Richard and angrily ordered Jarvis to demand her return.

• Richard removed the crimson energy around the fragment, causing Wanda to begin reverting to her younger form, then returned the fragment and restored her eighteen-year-old appearance.
• Richard identified the gray light as a Dream Dimension Rule Fragment and told Tony that Wanda might someday replace Nightmare as Lord of Dreams.
• Wanda recounted her recurring dreams about meeting her future adult self and explained that her future self’s robot husband’s name had once been blocked from her hearing.
• Richard proposed an experiment, and he left with Wanda while Pepper, Maria, and Old Howard departed after Tony failed to understand their concerns.
• Pietro told Tony that Wanda had always had a crush on Richard, and Tony ordered Jarvis to contact Xiao Bai and demand that Richard send Wanda back.

Richard tested Wanda’s memories in the Dimensional Void and discovered that Vision’s name alone was censored because Vision would never appear in this altered universe. Tony mistook Richard’s affectionate gesture toward Wanda for an embrace, attacked him, and was left powerless; after footage proved Tony wrong, Wanda ran off and Richard remained angry.

• Tony learned from Pietro that Wanda and fourteen other girls belonged to a secret chat community discussing how to get close to Richard.
• Richard took Wanda to the Dimensional Void and found that she could hear every name he listed except Vision.
• Richard explained that Vision would never appear in the altered universe, and Wanda was delighted that her future lover would not be a robot.
• Tony saw Richard ruffle Wanda’s hair, mistook it for an embrace, and attacked him; Richard neutralized Tony’s powers and disappeared after demanding an explanation.
• Wanda ran away in tears after Tony accused Richard of holding her, and surveillance footage confirmed Tony had misunderstood.
• Tony realized Richard was angry as his family urged him to accept the footage and stop making excuses.

Tony learned that his family was threatened by the Red Order and received a magical recovery from Richard, though their friendship remained broken. Richard continued testing Mephisto’s reincarnations, then tracked an unfamiliar dimensional deity to a hidden world in Africa and pursued the being concealed inside a painting.

• Old Howard warned Tony that the Red Order could destroy the Stark family unless Tony obtained Richard’s forgiveness, and Tony asked the White Queen to contact Richard.
• The White Queen relayed Richard’s decision to let the misunderstanding end, and crimson mana restored Tony’s strength.
• Richard visited Tiamut and discussed Mephisto’s repeated path of conquest before Tiamut reset the virtual world for another test.
• Tiamut told Richard that a dimensional deity’s clone had entered Earth, and Richard followed its trace to a concealed portal beneath an African oasis.
• Richard entered the hidden world, captured the Red-tailed Ghost Parrot, exposed its lies, and destroyed it after extracting its memories.
• Richard sent his Magic Clone into a painting, and the clone slipped through a black energy barrier into the world beyond it.

Richard captured the Lord of Evil Spirits’ clone and forced it to promise compensation before sealing it away. After Kamar-Taj finished uncovering spies, Loki arrived to meet Richard, and Richard noticed a red glimmer in Loki’s eyes that suggested he had the Reality Stone.

• Richard’s magic clone returned with the heretic god statue, and Richard restrained the Lord of Evil Spirits’ clone with crimson chains.
• Richard tortured the trapped clone until it agreed to pay one hundred star cores and three hundred pure souls, then sealed it in a Sealing Spirit Orb and closed the small world’s entrance.
• Mordo and Kaecilius reported that their cleanup had uncovered spies beyond Fred’s faction, and Richard reassured Mordo before dismissing them.
• The White Queen told Richard that Loki had contacted her, and Loki appeared at Kamar-Taj to meet him.
• Loki drank two cups of Richard’s soul-refining tea, and Richard noticed a red glimmer in Loki’s eyes that he suspected came from the Reality Stone.