Chapter Summaries

Ryan brought Strange to Kamar-Taj and began teaching him magic so he could learn to heal his hands. As Ryan demonstrated a powerful new way to combine spells, Strange grew discouraged by the contrast with Ryan’s talent, and Mordo took over his lessons.

• The Ancient One tested Strange’s beliefs, had Ryan show him his Astral Form and magic, then ordered Ryan to throw him out so he would be humbled before returning to Kamar-Taj.
• After Strange waited outside, Ryan welcomed him to Kamar-Taj, where a new quest prompted Ryan to teach him magic.
• Ryan explained the basics of magic to Strange, then used Magic Amplification to open multiple Portals and fire a volley of Swords of the Vishanti.
• The Ancient One watched Ryan’s attack shatter the Mirror Dimension and was impressed by his ability to combine spells.
• Strange doubted his Magic Talent after seeing Ryan’s skill, so Mordo reassured him that Ryan’s learning was extraordinary and took over his lessons.

Strange struggled to learn magic at Kamar-Taj, so Ryan gave him the Cloak of Levitation and devised a way to accelerate his training. The chapter ended with Ryan pressing his fingers to Strange’s temple to show him something, startling and worrying Mordo.

• Ryan encouraged Strange to stop comparing himself to others and keep practicing magic.
• Strange failed to cast a Portal and encountered Ryan, who gave him the Cloak of Levitation after it chose Strange.
• Ryan asked Strange to share his thoughts on the Forbidden Book after reading it, then discussed Strange’s lack of progress with Mordo.
• Strange blamed his unnimble fingers for his failures, and Ryan and Mordo discussed whether he needed a life-or-death crisis to learn.
• Strange agreed to Ryan’s plan to speed up his learning, and Ryan touched Strange’s temple with his fingers as Mordo recognized the technique and grew concerned.

Ryan helped Strange learn to open a Portal by showing him sorcerers practicing, then learned Bolts of Balthakk from the Guard and experimented with casting it through a Portal. Days later, Ryan encouraged Strange to study independently as Strange settled into Kamar-Taj.

• Ryan used magic to show Strange sorcerers practicing, and Strange learned to open a Portal; Ryan declined Mordo’s request to teach at Kamar-Taj.
• The Ancient One stopped Ryan from speaking through a Portal, and Ryan later visited the Guard, who offered to teach him Bolts of Balthakk.
• Ryan learned Bolts of Balthakk quickly and combined it with a Portal, accidentally filling Kamar-Taj’s sky with lightning for two hours.
• Mordo brought Ryan to see Strange, who had become adept at controlling magic, and Ryan advised him to study on his own.

Strange learned that Ryan had summoned the strange lightning over Kamar-Taj after only three months of training, and his admiration inspired him to study magic harder. When Strange asked Ryan to heal his fingers, The Ancient One pulled Ryan through a Portal and warned him not to interfere with Strange, who was destined to become the Sorcerer Supreme.

• Strange asked Ryan about the thunder over Kamar-Taj, and Mordo revealed that Ryan had caused it with magic.
• Strange learned Ryan had been at Kamar-Taj for only three months and resolved to train harder so he might one day wield powerful magic.
• Strange asked Ryan to heal his damaged fingers, and Ryan prepared to help him.
• The Ancient One opened a Portal, pulled Ryan through, and told him not to interfere with Strange because Strange was destined to become the Sorcerer Supreme.

Ryan studied the Mirror Dimension under the Ancient One’s guidance and was left in charge of Kamar-Taj when she departed. He agreed to teach Strange combat and brought him to the Training Ground, where he planned to train him alongside Mordo.

• The Ancient One taught Ryan the Mirror Dimension’s principles, transferred control of it to him, and was astonished by how quickly he mastered it.
• The Ancient One asked Ryan whether he would turn against Kamar-Taj, and Ryan promised to protect it.
• After several days of lessons, the Ancient One left Kamar-Taj in Ryan’s care, and Hachir and Wong congratulated him on being groomed as her successor.
• Ryan asked Mordo about Strange, and Mordo persuaded him to teach Strange how to fight.
• Strange dragged Ryan to the Training Ground, where Ryan called over Mordo and announced that they would train Strange by beating him up together.

Ryan taught Strange how sorcerers fought by arranging a training match against Mordo, then used his Super Brain to guide Strange through Mordo’s attacks. Strange began countering the veteran instructor, but Mordo grew embarrassed and decided to stop holding back, leaving Strange facing a more dangerous fight.

• Mordo used the Staff of the Living Tribunal and his Jumping Shoes to quickly knock Strange down during their first training match.
• Strange asked to fight again, and Ryan simulated the battle and offered to guide him.
• Ryan directed Strange’s movements, allowing him to block and counter Mordo’s familiar attacks.
• Sorcerers gathered to watch Strange hold his own against Mordo, humiliating the instructor.
• Mordo charged his staff with greater force and declared that he would no longer hold back, while Strange asked Ryan what to do.

Strange defeated Mordo after Ryan coached him, then Ryan trained Strange while Mordo struggled to keep the other sorcerers focused. Mordo arranged a no-magic match with Ryan to regain their attention, but Ryan’s passive Steel Body made him impossible to hurt, and Ryan finally prepared to counterattack.

• Ryan coached Strange through Mordo’s attacks, and Strange knocked Mordo down to win their fight.
• The sorcerers clamored for Ryan’s instruction, while Mordo resumed their training and Ryan continued teaching Strange.
• Ryan told Strange he would have liked to be a photographer, then kept coaching him for several days until the watching sorcerers distracted themselves from practice.
• Mordo asked Ryan to stop training Strange outside the Training Ground and proposed a public, no-magic match to make the sorcerers focus on him again.
• Ryan agreed not to use magic, but Mordo’s punches only hurt Mordo because Ryan could not switch off his passive Steel Body ability.
• After enduring Mordo’s attacks without injury, Ryan said it was his turn.

Ryan defeated Mordo in a sparring match, then struggled with the attention his victory brought him. He visited Wong at the Sanctum Sanctorum and asked about capturing Kaecilius without killing him, learning of Cyttorak's Crimson Bands.

• Ryan used Bolsaud's Thunder through a Portal, prompting Mordo to escape and ending their match.
• Ryan encouraged Strange and left him feeling reassured about his potential.
• Sorcerers crowded Ryan for advice at the Spell House and Training Ground, doubling his workload.
• Ryan asked Hachir for time off and visited Wong at the Sanctum Sanctorum.
• Ryan said he wanted to capture Kaecilius rather than kill him, and Wong suggested Cyttorak's Crimson Bands.

Ryan learned the Crimson Bands from Wong, but his experiment with Magic Amplification accidentally destroyed the Sanctum during Kaecilius's attack. He restored it with the Eye of Agamotto, leaving Wong and Kaecilius stunned by his control over time.

• Wong taught Ryan the Crimson Bands, which Ryan mastered immediately, and then left the Sanctum with other sorcerers.
• Kaecilius appeared outside with his followers, confronted Wong, and attacked while Ryan practiced inside.
• Ryan amplified the Crimson Bands, accidentally sending chains through the Sanctum and causing it to collapse.
• Ryan fought Kaecilius, bound his followers, and let Kaecilius escape through a Portal.
• Ryan used the Eye of Agamotto to reverse time, restoring the Sanctum and bringing Kaecilius and his followers back.

Ryan defeated Kaecilius by taking control of the Mirror Dimension and trapping him in a sphere of debris. He returned the bound Kamar-Taj traitors to Kamar-Taj, where Hachir found himself face-to-face with Ryan.

• Kaecilius sent his followers to attack Ryan while searching for a spell that could defeat him.
• Ryan bound Kaecilius's followers, and Kaecilius pulled Ryan and Wong into the Mirror Dimension.
• Ryan stopped Kaecilius from controlling the Mirror Dimension and sealed him inside a sphere of bricks, stones, and dust.
• Ryan and Wong returned to the Sanctum Sanctorum, and Ryan took the bound traitors back to Kamar-Taj.
• Hachir approached the Portal after the sorcerers tumbled out and came face-to-face with Ryan.

Ryan captured Kaecilius and the defecting sorcerers, then returned the Eye of Agamotto to the Ancient One. She named him the New Sorcerer Supreme and asked him to protect the Blue Planet in her place, while warning that an enemy awaited him back home.

• Ryan handed the bound defecting sorcerers over to Hachir, and Mordo learned that Ryan had trapped Kaecilius in the Mirror Dimension.
• Ryan showed Mordo the stone mass containing Kaecilius, then left Kaecilius sealed inside after rejecting his attempt to recruit him for Dormammu.
• The Ancient One confronted Ryan about the Eye of Agamotto, which he had taken, and Ryan returned it to its place.
• The Ancient One named Ryan the New Sorcerer Supreme, saying she could not see his future and wanted him to protect the Blue Planet.
• The Ancient One told Ryan that an enemy awaited him back home and said she needed him to do something immediately.

Ryan arrived in New York to guard the Sanctum before the Chitauri invasion and learned that Kaecilius had died, unlocking a new chat-box plugin. At the Sanctum, Ryan considered finding the Cosmic Cube before the invasion, and the system gave him a quest to join S.H.I.E.L.D.

• The Ancient One warned Ryan that the Chitauri invasion might unfold differently and sent him to guard the New York Sanctum.
• Ryan reached New York and received the Dimensional Chat Box plugin after the system confirmed Kaecilius had killed himself.
• The Sanctum guardian welcomed Ryan and let him inspect its artifacts, while Ryan considered taking the Cosmic Cube to prevent the invasion.
• The system gave Ryan a new quest to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and study the Cosmic Cube.

Ryan joined S.H.I.E.L.D. to study the Cosmic Cube, but its activation brought Loki through a Portal and let him mind-control Hawkeye and other agents. Ryan resisted Loki, seized his Scepter, and beat him while taking a call from Magneto.

• Ryan used the system’s knowledge to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and help study the Cosmic Cube, then received a mission to repel the Chitauri invasion.
• Ryan activated the Cube repeatedly until it opened a Portal, and Loki emerged from it with his Scepter.
• Loki’s attack knocked down Nick and the agents, and he used the Scepter to bring Hawkeye and others under his control.
• Ryan grabbed Loki by the neck before the Scepter could affect him, then took the Scepter and answered Magneto’s call.
• Ryan slammed Loki into the floor and mocked him after Loki called himself a god.

Ryan took the Scepter and Cosmic Cube from Loki and escaped with Loki and Hawkeye as the secret base collapsed. After Loki shielded their SUV from a helicopter and shot it down, Ryan asked why Loki had come to Blue Planet, and Loki learned that many people like Ryan were there.

• Ryan took Loki's Scepter and the Cosmic Cube while Nick's bullets bounced off him and Hawkeye fired at Nick to cover their escape.
• Ryan put the Cosmic Cube in a case, gave it to Hawkeye, and led Hawkeye and Loki out of the collapsing secret base.
• Hawkeye drove the SUV while Ryan refused to give Loki back the Scepter, and Loki reluctantly used it to shield the vehicle from a helicopter's cannon fire.
• Loki shot down the pursuing helicopter with the Scepter and returned to the SUV.
• Ryan asked Loki why he had come to Blue Planet, and Loki said he wanted to be king before asking whether there were many people like Ryan.

Ryan helped Loki develop a machine to open a Portal for the Chitauri while secretly preparing a failsafe to shut it down, and he learned some of Loki’s magic. Loki staged a public attack so he could be captured, while Ryan infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and joined Dr. Banner aboard the helicarrier to search for the Cosmic Cube.

• Loki agreed to teach Ryan magic in exchange for Ryan’s help opening the Portal, and Ryan secretly planned to shut it down afterward.
• Nick sent an agent to find Dr. Banner and increased S.H.I.E.L.D.’s efforts to locate the missing Cosmic Cube.
• Ryan helped Loki build the Portal machine, secretly worked on its failsafe, and exchanged messages with Joker about burning the world.
• Loki proposed that Ryan infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D. under false identities, and Ryan agreed after learning a shapeshifting spell.
• Loki attacked guests at a New York hotel and surrendered when Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and Black Widow arrived, while Ryan boarded the helicarrier.
• Nick introduced Ryan to Dr. Banner and assigned them a laboratory, where Dr. Banner told Ryan that he was always angry.

Ryan and the others questioned Loki’s capture and searched for the Cosmic Cube, while Tony exposed S.H.I.E.L.D.’s plans for it. The group began analyzing Loki’s Scepter and found it appeared to be made of the same material as the Cube.

• Banner and Ryan watched Loki arrive in custody, and Ryan identified him as the thief who had stolen the Cosmic Cube.
• Tony told the group that Loki planned to use the Cube to open a portal for a Chitauri army.
• Thor threatened Banner for insulting Loki, then told Ryan that Loki was adopted and they were not close.
• The group moved into the laboratory and made a plan to find the Cube while Tony questioned S.H.I.E.L.D.’s motives.
• Tony used data from a panel to show Ryan that S.H.I.E.L.D. planned to use the Cube for energy research and superweapons.
• Ryan and Banner analyzed Loki’s Scepter and discovered it seemed to be made of the same substance as the Cosmic Cube.

Ryan joined the Avengers as a support member, but when Loki's invasion of New York turned against the team, Nick's decision to shoot down the plane carrying a Nuclear Bomb left Ryan without the weapon needed to stop the Chitauri. He decided to bring Kamar-Taj into the fight.

• Ryan and Banner studied the Scepter until an aircraft attacked the helicarrier and damaged its propulsion system.
• Loki tricked Thor into the glass cell and dropped him from the helicarrier, then told Ryan he planned to open a Portal for the Chitauri army.
• A few days later, Nick invited Ryan to join the Avengers, and Ryan accepted a support role while claiming Loki had controlled him.
• Loki opened a Portal above New York, and Ryan watched the Avengers struggle against the Chitauri from the New York Sanctum.
• Nick told Ryan he had shot down the plane carrying the Nuclear Bomb, so Ryan urged him to launch another one and promised to send it through the Portal.
• Ryan decided Kamar-Taj would join the fight, and the Sanctum Guardian told him The Ancient One had left the decision to him.

Ryan took command of the New York Sanctum Sanctorum's sorcerers and flew into the battle, where he blocked the Chitauri Portal with two Portals and destroyed a massive Chitauri machine. He then faced the Chitauri air force alone and summoned fiery Sword of the Vishanti blades through more Portals.

• Ryan ordered the New York Sanctum Sanctorum's guardian to gather sorcerers for its defense, then flew off to fight the Chitauri.
• Ryan surveyed New York and saw the Avengers struggling against the invading army while Tony realized the Portal was sustaining the attack.
• Ryan placed two Portals around the Chitauri Portal, cutting off reinforcements, then split a mechanical whale in two with Laser Eyes.
• The Chitauri air force turned toward Ryan, while Tony and Loki watched him face the fleet alone.
• Ryan opened more Portals in the sky and sent fiery Sword of the Vishanti blades through them toward the Chitauri.

Ryan stopped the Chitauri invasion of New York, sent their nuclear missiles back through the closing Portal, and returned to Kamar-Taj before using the Time-Space Instrument to leave for the world of The Boys. The chapter ended as General Zod sensed a terrifying presence descending in New York.

• Ryan destroyed the Chitauri forces with falling blades, storms, thunder, and his Laser Eyes, then threw two nuclear missiles through the closing Portal.
• Ryan met the Avengers after the invasion, and Thor stopped Hawkeye from killing the captured Loki.
• Ryan returned to Kamar-Taj, where The Ancient One named him her successor and Sorcerer Supreme.
• Ryan activated the Time-Space Instrument and vanished, while The Ancient One said she would train Strange to take over.
• In the world of The Boys, General Zod sensed a terrifying presence descending over New York.

Ryan used magic to overpower Zod as the Kryptonian general attacked New York and vowed to remake Earth as Krypton. With Zod blinded and missing an arm, Ryan continued his assault while Homelander watched the broadcast and resolved to become stronger.

• Zod declared that he would turn Earth into a new Krypton, while Ryan challenged him before the watching crowds.
• Ryan opened Portals around Zod, trapped one of his arms, and held it as the Portal slowly cut through it.
• Zod attacked Ryan with punches and Laser Eyes, but Ryan blocked the blows and forced Zod's beams back into his eyes.
• Ryan struck Zod with Energy Shield-covered fists until Zod lost an arm and was left blind and unable to fight back.
• A Drone broadcast Zod's defeat, and Homelander watched Ryan win before deciding that he needed to get stronger.