Chapter Summaries

Wong led the new students through a magical passage into the Small World, where they discovered the academy’s vibrant landscape and rode dragons to its floating island. After the dragons celebrated being released from training, Wong led the students toward the central mage tower for the opening ceremony.

• Wong guided the students through the Kamar-Taj library to a hidden cave and told them to enter a small wooden hut one by one.
• Sherry entered the hut first, and Shafika followed, emerging into the Small World filled with forests, strange creatures, and flying dragons.
• The students entered the Small World and stared in amazement as Wong welcomed them and summoned the dragons.
• Wong put the students on dragon backs and led them through the sky to the academy on a floating island.
• Wong told Rooney and the other dragons they could stop training for a while, and the dragons wept with joy before flying off.
• Wong told the students to follow him to the central mage tower for the opening ceremony.

Leon welcomed 345 new students to Sorcerer Supreme Academy and introduced its courses, rival academies, and competitions. The students discovered that Leon was Superman, while Shafika hurried through dinner so she could thank him.

• Thor praised Loki as the greatest mage in the Nine Realms while Loki endured his backslaps, and Mordo carried a portrait containing the Ancient One to the gathering.
• Leon allowed Mordo to keep carrying the Ancient One’s portrait as Old Wang led 345 new students into the Mage Tower.
• Leon welcomed the students and explained the academy’s affiliation with Kamar-Taj, its majors, practical combat competitions, and scholarship.
• The students recognized Leon as Superman when his robe revealed his emblem, and Shafika eagerly waited to speak with him after dinner.
• Shafika heard that seeing Thestrals meant witnessing death and remembered Superman saving her from two terrorists, so she hurried to finish eating and thank him.

Thor, Tony, and Mordo disrupted the opening ceremony by competing for the freshmen’s attention, but the students flocked to Leon for autographs instead. Tony suggested Thor join the Avengers, and Thor asked what the Avengers were.

• Thor barged into the freshmen’s meal, introduced Loki as a magic instructor, and promoted him as a possible vice principal.
• Tony challenged Thor’s popularity, and the two competed to offer autographs while Mordo joined in by presenting a portrait of The Ancient One.
• Leon rang the bell and encouraged the freshmen to meet their instructors, prompting Old Wang and the other teachers to introduce themselves.
• The freshmen crowded around Leon for autographs, leaving Tony and Thor ignored as they debated who was more popular.
• Tony suggested Thor could gain popularity by joining the Avengers, and Thor asked what the Avengers were.

Shafika received a personal autograph and encouragement from Leon, inspiring her to pursue the Headmaster’s Scholarship. After the opening ceremony, Loki revealed his plan to use his next Thor movie to make Thor despised by Earthlings.

• Leon remembered Shafika, signed her notebook, and encouraged her to study magic so she could protect her hometown.
• Shafika decided she would work toward becoming the best student and earning the Headmaster’s Scholarship so she could thank Leon again.
• Mordo led the new students from the Mage Tower and arranged their dormitories, while the mentors departed to prepare lessons.
• Loki’s attempt to stab Thor failed when the table knife broke, and Thor told him he planned to join the Avengers.
• Loki boasted that he would portray Thor as a pervert in 'Thor 2' and make Earthlings look down on him.

Loki stabbed Thor with his returned daggers, then fled by dragon after agreeing with Kingo to make Thor dance naked in a movie. As Thor reflected on his relationship with Loki, Leon considered how to prevent the Celestial Tiamut from consuming Earth's intelligent life, deciding that his Blacklight Clone might eat it.

• Thor reassured Loki that Frigga was well and Asgard had weathered the Frost Giants' rebellion, then handed Loki his daggers.
• Loki stabbed Thor in the waist, called Kingo to accept his proposal for another Thor movie, and escaped on a dragon while Thor chased him.
• Tony teased Thor by claiming that Leon was his adopted younger brother and that Thor should reflect on why he and Leon were different.
• Leon recognized Kingo as an Eternal and thought about Tiamut's birth threatening humanity.
• Leon considered moving Tiamut with the Space Stone or feeding it with the Reality Stone, then decided his Blacklight Clone could eat it.

Leon absorbed Tiamut’s flesh and gained perfect genes, then learned that Tiamut wanted to sacrifice himself to protect Earth from the Emergence. Leon proposed moving Tiamut into space and finding another way to complete the Emergence, and began preparing to transport him.

• Leon sent the Blacklight Clone into Tiamut’s body and used the Eternals’ linked genes to overcome the resistance to devouring him.
• The Blacklight Clone absorbed Tiamut’s flesh, reached perfect genes, and was replenished with cosmic energy through a connection to Tiamut.
• Tiamut told Leon to devour him to save Earth from the Emergence, but Leon proposed moving him into space instead.
• Tiamut agreed to try Leon’s plan despite warning that leaving Earth’s core would cause severe imbalance.
• Leon introduced himself to Tiamut and began using the Space Stone and Reality Stone to move him into space.

Leon moved Tiamut away from Earth's core and used the Infinity Stones, the Anti-Life Equation, and World Power to synthesize energy that could trigger the Celestial's Emergence without consuming humanity. As Tiamut began to grow, Arishem arrived beyond Earth, captured the Eternals, and began questioning them about the missing Celestial.

• Leon transported Tiamut from Earth's core into space and replaced the missing mass with molten material using the Reality Stone.
• Leon studied the human energy drifting toward Tiamut and discovered that consciousness and emotions could nourish a Celestial infant.
• Leon brought JARVIS to space, then moved Tiamut and JARVIS into his Inner World to induce the Emergence.
• Leon used World Power and the Infinity Stones to synthesize energy for Tiamut, whose body began growing and glowing as the process succeeded.
• Arishem arrived beyond Earth with the ten Eternals bound in his hand and demanded to know what had happened to the missing Celestial.
• Ajak told Arishem that the Eternals knew nothing about Tiamut's disappearance, and Arishem said he would search their memories.

Arishem attacked Earth after concluding that Leon had absorbed Tiamut, but Leon survived the strike and transformed into Ultraman Legend. Recognizing Leon as a conceptual entity, Arishem stopped fighting and called the attack a misunderstanding.

• Arishem probed the Eternals' memories, suspected Leon might be another Agatha, and decided to judge Earth.
• Leon appeared before Arishem's attack and revealed that Tiamut was undergoing the Emergence.
• Arishem struck Leon, destroying the Solar System's matter and creating a black hole, but Leon escaped and restored the area with the Infinity Stones.
• Arishem attacked again with greater cosmic energy, badly injuring Leon and damaging his Dormammu Battle Armor.
• Leon transformed into Ultraman Legend, and Arishem recognized him as a conceptual entity and apologized for the misunderstanding.

Leon confronted Arishem for threatening Earth and learned that Arishem had acted out of fear after hearing that Agatha absorbed Celestials in another universe. After Tiamut completed the Emergence with Leon’s help, Leon defended Earth against Arishem’s cosmic-cycle rationale and asked whether he knew about the Time Variance Authority.

• Leon questioned Arishem’s decision to destroy Earth, and Arishem apologized, explaining that he feared a Celestial had been absorbed because Agatha had absorbed Celestials in another universe.
• Leon restored the Solar System and released Tiamut after his Emergence, and Tiamut thanked Leon for saving Earth and billions of humans.
• Arishem demanded to know how Tiamut had completed the Emergence, then condemned his use of the Infinity Stones as a violation of the Celestials’ cycle of creation and destruction.
• Tiamut said he would rather not be born than cause Earth’s destruction, while Leon told Arishem that planting a Celestial seed inside Earth had been wrong.
• Leon told Arishem that Earth mattered to him because he had grown up there, then asked whether Arishem knew about the Time Variance Authority.

Leon told Arishem and Tiamut that Anchor Beings were Earthlings whose deaths could destroy their universes, and warned that the Celestials’ seeds put them at risk. The shaken Celestials left to alert their counterparts, while Arishem gave Leon another Arishem’s corpse as compensation for his ruined armor.

• Leon explained that Anchor Beings were the cores of universes and that their deaths could destroy those universes.
• Leon warned Arishem that planting Celestial seeds on Earth endangered Anchor Beings and asked whether Arishem had destroyed any Earths.
• Tiamut realized the danger to the Celestials’ plans and urged Arishem to leave and warn their counterparts in other universes.
• Arishem tore open a spatial passage and prepared to depart with Tiamut and the ten Eternals.
• Leon called Arishem back and pointed out his ruined Dormammu Battle Armor.
• Arishem gave Leon a Celestial corpse that looked like another Arishem, then left with Tiamut and the Eternals.

After Tiamut and Arishem left, Leon stored Arishem’s corpse and returned to Earth, then used the next two and a half years to train while his Super-Skrulls seized the Power and Mind Stones amid a devastating interstellar war. The chapter leaves Leon floating before the sun, on the verge of achieving the Perfect Gene.

• Leon stored Arishem’s corpse in his Inner World and returned to Earth, where Tony and the others asked about the Celestials and his Ultraman form.
• Leon gained power from the Justice and Order feedback caused by helping Tiamut, protecting Earth, and confronting Arishem.
• Six months later, Leon learned that the Super-Skrulls had found the Power Stone and ordered them to send it to Earth while pursuing the Mind Stone.
• After another year, the Super-Skrulls captured the Mind Stone following a war that killed or crippled leaders and forces across the universe.
• Leon gained the Mind Stone and further Order feedback as the weakened factions entered a brief period of peace, while he continued training.
• Two and a half years after Arishem and Tiamut left, Leon floated before the sun on the verge of breaking through to the Perfect Gene.

Leon achieved the Perfect Gene by integrating every Kryptonian genetic template, then returned to Earth after several days near the sun. He discovered that Tony had called an Avengers meeting to discuss something behind his back.

• Leon grew to ninety thousand kilometers tall as his genetic level reached 10,081 times and he achieved the Perfect Gene.
• Leon realized his Kryptonian body had gained limitless potential and rapidly increasing strength, then used a secret technique to return to normal size.
• Leon flew back to Earth in July 2011, put on a new suit, and landed at home while Kara sunbathed on the balcony.
• Leon checked the Avengers group chat and found Tony arranging a meeting while he was away, prompting suspicion from Natasha and questions from the others.

Leon returned to Earth and discovered that Tony had staged an elaborate proposal to Pepper, who was now pregnant. He accepted JARVIS's invitation to be best man at their wedding and agreed to name their child.

• Leon read the Avengers' chat logs and learned that Tony had secretly organized an elaborate proposal to Pepper while Leon was away.
• Leon watched videos of Pepper overcoming the staged obstacles and saving Tony before accepting his proposal amid fireworks and music.
• JARVIS invited Leon to attend Tony and Pepper's wedding that Sunday as the best man, and Leon accepted.
• JARVIS told Leon that Pepper was pregnant, and Leon realized he would soon be an uncle.
• Leon suggested naming the baby Morgan if it was a girl and James if it was a boy.

Tony and Pepper got married in Central Park, where Leon delivered a teasing speech and Tony later shared his fears about becoming a husband and father. At the reception, Tony and Thor argued over whose partner was greater, just as a red flash appeared beneath Leon.

• Tony and Pepper exchanged vows and rings at their Central Park wedding.
• Leon roasted Tony in his wedding speech, recalled how he had encouraged Tony to pursue Pepper, and wished the couple a life together.
• The wedding party gave speeches and performances before guests enjoyed a lavish buffet.
• Tony told Leon he had feared marriage would change everything and worried he might become like Howard, but the idea of taking responsibility had pushed him to propose.
• Thor said he planned to marry Jane, and he and Tony argued over whose partner was more outstanding.
• Leon prepared to mention Wanda when a red flash streaked beneath his feet.

At Tony and Pepper’s wedding, Wanda warned Leon that something serious had happened in the Parallel World, while Holland Spider reported that Thanos was involved in a crisis in a neighboring universe. Tony suited up in his upgraded Anti-Superman Armor and left with Leon and Wanda to investigate, leaving the wedding behind.

• Leon declined Wanda’s invitation, then chatted with Tony about Pepper, Jane, and the name James while they ate at the wedding.
• Wanda arrived in her bridesmaid’s dress, transformed into her scarlet mage robes, and told Leon that the other Wanda had contacted her about a serious problem in the Parallel World.
• Holland Spider emerged from a TVA portal and tried to explain that Thanos had caused trouble in a neighboring universe.
• Leon suggested visiting the TVA before traveling to the Parallel World, but Tony put on his Anti-Superman Armor and decided to join the mission.
• Tony pushed Holland Spider through the portal and left for the crisis, and Leon and Wanda followed.

B-15 showed Leon and the others a timeline where Thanos attacked Wakanda to demand the Mind Stone, which had been taken to another universe. Thanos left Earth to search for it, and Thor arrived too late to find him.

• B-15 told Leon that Thanos had disrupted the Multiverse and showed the group footage from Wakanda.
• Holland Spider explained that Doctor Strange had been taken by Thanos and that, in another timeline, he had given Thanos the Time Stone to save Tony.
• Thanos demanded the Mind Stone from Captain America and explained his plan to halve the population of every planet.
• Captain America and Iron Man led the Avengers and Wakandan forces against Thanos, but Thanos learned the Mind Stone was in another universe and left Earth to find it.
• Thor arrived in Wakanda and asked where Thanos was, but he was already gone.

The TVA watched footage of Thanos variants forming a multiversal alliance, helping one another snap away half of life before turning on Earth and destroying a universe. Leon and the others realized they faced a dangerous group of Six-Stone Thanoses, and B-15 began explaining the TVA’s system.

• Tony asked whether the missing Mind Stone was the one on JARVIS, and Leon confirmed it was.
• Thanos used Pym Particles and the Quantum Realm to travel between universes, then formed the Multiversal Thanos Mutual Aid Squad with another Thanos.
• The Thanos variants traveled between worlds to help other versions collect Infinity Stones and complete their snaps, sometimes recruiting or killing Ultron.
• When the variants arrived as Iron Man defeated Thanos’s army, they massacred the Avengers and resolved to destroy their universes and create new ones.
• Holland Spider explained that Aunt May had urged him to keep smiling, and Leon praised him for becoming more like an older Peter Parker.
• Tony called for facing the Thanos threat, and B-15 said she needed to explain the TVA’s system first.

B-15 explained how the Thanos Council was destroying universes and said the team needed to stop each Thanos at the moment of his snap. Deadpool briefly appeared, but Holland Spider kicked him through a time portal and closed it; Leon agreed to join the operation as its captain.

• B-15 showed Leon and the others that the Thanos Council's actions had caused branches in more than twenty timelines to collapse into destruction.
• B-15 explained that the team had to travel to the moment each Thanos snapped and stop him before he destroyed his universe.
• Deadpool arrived through a time portal, and Holland Spider webbed his mouth, kicked him back through the portal, took the Time Tablet, and closed the portal.
• B-15 agreed not to bring Deadpool on the mission, and Leon agreed to join as captain, saying he bore some responsibility for the Thanos incident.

Leon began gathering the Infinity Stones to confront Thanos, taking the Reality Stone from its Earthly seal and setting out to obtain the Soul Stone. He left Tony, Wanda, and Holland Spider at Tony’s wedding, then brought Gamora and Nebula to Thanos’s warship to make them help him.

• B-15 explained that Superman’s theft of the Mind Stone had helped alter events and warned Leon that meddling across universes could destabilize the Multiverse.
• Leon took the Time Tablets from Holland Spider and led the group through a portal, then returned to Tony’s wedding and left the others behind while he gathered the Stones.
• B-15 watched footage of Thanos nullifying the TVA’s Time Crusher and concluded that the TVA had to rely on Leon once all six Stones were gathered.
• Leon retrieved the Reality Stone from its dimensional seal on Earth and stored it in his Inner World.
• Leon pulled Gamora and Nebula out of their work in Kamar-Taj’s Small World and brought them to Thanos’s warship, demanding their help finding the Soul Stone.

Leon brought Thanos, Gamora, and Nebula to Vormir, where the Soul Stone required the sacrifice of a loved one. After Thanos tried to sacrifice Gamora, Leon knocked him out and told the sisters to throw Thanos from the cliff instead.

• Leon opened a portal to Vormir, and Gamora, Nebula, and a wary Thanos followed him there.
• Red Skull explained that the Soul Stone required the sacrifice of the person each seeker loved most.
• Thanos tearfully seized Gamora and threw her toward the cliff, intending to sacrifice her for the Soul Stone.
• Leon caught Thanos's wrist, punched him unconscious, and revealed that he wanted the sisters to sacrifice Thanos.
• Gamora and Nebula denied loving Thanos, with Nebula recalling how he turned parts of her into machinery after she lost to Gamora.