Recaps

John reached Muspelheim, found Surtur’s underground palace empty, and examined the Twilight Sword while considering whether to extinguish its flames. At Hogwarts, Neville met Shirley Potts’s sister Pepper and told her Shirley’s final words.

• John survived his spaceship’s crash into Muspelheim’s lava and explored the land’s creatures and mineral wealth.
• John found Surtur’s palace empty, discovered signs of a fight, and concluded Thor had taken Surtur away.
• John considered extinguishing the Twilight Sword’s flames and decided to stay in Muspelheim to gather rare materials.
• Snape worried after the Celestial Sphere activated in Hogwarts’s Underground Chamber, then deducted enough Gryffindor points to make the Slytherins proud.
• Neville met Pepper Potts in Wizard City and told her that Shirley had called her name before dying.

John rebuilt his damaged ship as the Silverwing 2017, seized the Twilight Sword from Muspelheim, and prepared to leave with Paluru and his gathered resources. The ship departed, leaving the remaining fire demons behind.

• John rebuilt the Comet 1909 into the larger Silverwing 2017 and ordered a fire demon to clean it and supervise the miners.
• John froze the Twilight Sword with the Casket of Ancient Winters, shrank it with the red gem, and took it despite the sword refusing to answer him.
• John found Paluru harshly driving the other fire demons to mine, then allowed him to continue working under his supervision.
• John spent two more days collecting and sorting minerals, and placed the Fire Dragon Egg among heat-retaining ores.
• John brought Paluru aboard as the ship's fire-aligned servant and powered the warp drive with energy from the Twilight Sword.
• John launched the Silverwing 2017 and departed Muspelheim as the remaining fire demons watched.

After a Ravager computer exposed the Silver Wing’s location, Starhawk led an attack on John’s ship. John retaliated with MOSS and his own magic, and Starhawk froze when he recognized John’s face.

• John refined Muspelheim ore, and the Ravager computer sent a signal that revealed his location to Starhawk and his crew.
• Starhawk’s ships surrounded John’s ship and announced they would board it, prompting John to connect his phone and order MOSS to teach them a lesson.
• MOSS took control of a Ravager ship while John rammed two ships with the Silver Wing, killing Ravagers and angering Starhawk.
• Starhawk expelled MOSS from the Ravager network, attacked the Silver Wing, and punched a breach into its hull.
• John transformed himself to survive in space, flew out, and attacked the Ravagers while Starhawk rushed to stop him.
• John repelled Starhawk with Protego, and Starhawk froze after seeing John’s face and asked who he was.

John defeated the Ravagers’ attack, negotiated compensation, and learned about Star-Lord before continuing his journey through space. He landed on Vanaheim and set off toward the city.

• Starhawk attacked John after mistaking him for Rambo, while MOSS evaded the Ravager ships and Krug boarded the Silver Wing.
• John blinded Starhawk, returned to the ship, and restrained Krug’s boarding party before confronting the Ravagers with the Four Gems.
• Krug recognized John as a Wizard, and Starhawk agreed to stop fighting after MOSS threatened to destroy the Ravager ships.
• Starhawk paid John with batteries, asked about Rambo, and told him about Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
• John installed the batteries, cared for the dragon egg, and traveled to Vanaheim, where he left the cloaked ship with MOSS and headed toward the city.

John arrived in Vanaheim and discovered that sorcerers had gathered for the opening of the Divine Book, a vast repository of magic. After recruiting the thief Dunbar as a guide, he reached the Seagull Cluster to explore its many magic towers.

• John noticed Anseir probing his mind with magic and struck back with an illusion that terrified him; Mori suspected an attack and reminded Anseir to prepare for the Divine Book's opening.
• John learned that the Divine Book would open within days and that sorcerers had come to Vanaheim to compete for the chance to add their magic to it.
• John caught Dunbar trying to pick his pocket, briefly trapped him inside it, then summoned Paluru to frighten him into acting as a guide.
• Dunbar led John through a shortcut beneath the city, where a resident accidentally drenched himself after John's Shield Charm reflected a basin of water.
• John reached the Seagull Cluster and examined its towers, each of which represented a different kind of magic.

John traded fire ore with Odyssey for elven Wind Magic Armor, then attracted the attention of an Elven Sage seeking powerful mages to help restore Alfheim’s Magic Power Spring. The sage arranged to buy John’s ore, and John demonstrated a magical way to exchange contact details.

• Odyssey arrived at the Seagull Flock, where Moli introduced his pupil Anseir as a candidate to illuminate Njord's ocean radiance.
• John traded refined fire ore to Odyssey for Wind Magic Armor, and Odyssey revealed that he planned to use dragon blood as proof of his magic.
• The Elven Sage approached John, sensing his exceptional magical affinity, and explained that the elves needed mages to restart Alfheim's Magic Power Spring.
• John summoned Paluru and displayed tons of refined fire ore, prompting the Elven Sage to ask for time to gather enough payment.
• John and the Elven Sage exchanged magical contact details after John used the Gate of Matter, astonishing the sage.

John explored Seagull Cluster, where he learned about its mages and their exclusive academy. He met Topps, an ostracized mage mocked as a Waste Stone, and introduced himself as being from Hogwarts.

• John overheard mages discussing Loki’s return to Asgard and his supposed heroic death.
• John examined an old mage’s staff, learned it had been made from a Flora Colossus arm, and judged its craftsmanship wasteful.
• John entered Seagull Cluster’s inner area with Dunbar and saw mages gathering at Vanaheim’s Magic Academy.
• John learned that Topps was excluded from the academy because others considered his research and magical talent worthless.
• John approached the mocked mage, introduced himself as John from Hogwarts, and heard Topps give his name.

John helped Topps return to his magical research in exchange for Topps leaving his magic in the Seagull Cluster. When the divine book’s selection began, John reached a tower and encountered Anseir, who challenged him to a duel with fire magic.

• John praised Topps’s research and gave him a key to the academy in exchange for Topps leaving his magic in the Seagull Cluster.
• John arrived at the Seagull Cluster as its divine book opened, while Anseir searched for him, unaware John’s concealment still hid him.
• John entered the selection, defeated elemental magic users and a horned creature with fire, and broke the tower’s riddle spell with Confringo.
• John entered the magic tower and found Anseir waiting inside, eager to avenge his earlier humiliation.
• Anseir summoned a ring of flames and invoked Mori’s fire magic, while John drew his Wand and prepared to answer with fire of his own.

John defeated Anseir with golden flames and entered the path toward the Divine Book, where he rejected the academy mages’ attempts to guide him and pressed on alone. After discovering the dark corridor was not the intended route, he prepared to cut through its animated suits of armor.

• Anseir attacked John with overlapping Fire Rings and Blazing Sun, but John’s golden flames devoured the fire and swallowed Anseir.
• The Magic Tower opened, and John emerged to find nine Magic Academy instructors waiting; Ayla offered him starlight to guide him toward the Divine Book.
• John caught Ayla’s intangible starlight, told her he came from Hogwarts, and walked deeper into the hall.
• In a dark corridor, John disarmed an animated suit of armor and dismantled it with its own sword.
• John checked the starlight, decided the corridor was not the right path, and coated his sword in golden fire as he prepared to cut through.

John fought through the Seagull Cluster’s trials and waited for Topps to reach the Divine Book. When Topps arrived and offered him the book, John refused it and urged him to prove his own magic, calling it the Wizard King’s highest respect for the Waste Stone.

• John defeated the corridor’s enchanted armor and left his sword behind, which one suit later used to kill a mage and become a new threat.
• Topps entered the Seagull Cluster’s Hall of the Divine Book despite Ayla warning him that the path ahead was dangerous.
• John passed the desk trial by using the Eternal Flame and climbed the desks to reach the hidden door.
• John explored the flying books, read about the Ring of Rejection, and waited for Topps to arrive.
• Topps found John and offered him the Divine Book, but John refused and told Topps to prove the worth of his magic himself.

John granted Topps the chance to challenge him, and Topps’s magic briefly deflected the Wizard King’s fated sword before Topps died fulfilled. A new Magic Tower then appeared, and Topps emerged as the chosen mage, leaving Mori stunned.

• Topps accepted John’s offer to challenge him and faced him with the pride of the Waste Stone’s magic.
• John struck with a sword that reached through time, soul, and space, while Topps’s magic resisted it for an instant.
• Topps died after John praised him, and John captured the Divine Book and used Topps’s magic to reshape it.
• A Magic Tower rose after the Divine Book’s opening, but Topps—not Anseir—walked out holding his rough oak wand.
• Mori froze when he saw Topps emerge from the tower.

John used mind magic to provoke Vanaheim’s mages into attacking him, then revealed that Topps’s Force Field could reflect their spells. God-King Freyr mistook the mass casting for an attack on Vanaheim and activated its barrier as he rushed to investigate.

• John presented a gentle, apparently weak defensive spell to the Divine Book’s witnesses, prompting Mori and the academy instructors to doubt its selection.
• Andrivin called for a test, but John challenged the mages to use their strongest magic and prove their stupidity.
• Mori and Andrivin attacked John with fire and lightning while mind magic stirred the gathered mages into casting together.
• Ayla realized John had planted a suggestion in the mages’ minds, and the magical disturbance alerted God-King Freyr.
• Freyr activated Vanaheim’s defensive barrier and rode out with warriors to investigate the apparent threat.
• John raised Topps’s Force Field, whose brilliant light reflected the spells unleashed against him.

John deflected the combined attack of more than a thousand mages and honored Topps by naming the spell Topps's force field. After the mages acknowledged the magic, the Elven Sage Nason decided John could help save Queen Freya and borrowed supplies from God-King Freyr for a trade with him.

• John deflected the mages' spells, and Andrivin and the other mages offered their staffs in respect.
• John raised a statue honoring Topps, named the spell Topps's force field, and placed the Divine Book before the statue.
• Ayla reconsidered her approach to magic, while Mori left Vanaheim to seek new magic as an apprentice.
• God-King Freyr arrived, and Nason told him he had found a candidate who could awaken the Magic Power Spring and save Queen Freya.
• Nason borrowed supplies from God-King Freyr and set off to meet John, while John tried to shake Dunbar off his leg.

John rejected Dunbar's request to become his apprentice and made him choose between the uncertain pursuit of magic and thirteen gold coins. John then negotiated with the Elven Sage for help traveling to Alfheim, asking to visit the elven library, where ancient magic books awaited.

• John accused Dunbar of wanting wealth and power rather than magic, then offered him a choice between pursuing magic and taking gold coins.
• Dunbar chose the gold and received thirteen coins, unaware that they carried both magic and calamity.
• John recorded his travels as Paluru harvested resources near the spaceship.
• The Elven Sage asked John to help the elves travel to Alfheim and offered friendship and ancient seeds in exchange.
• John agreed to visit the elven library, surprising the Elven Sage, who remembered it contained ancient magic books the elves were still deciphering.

John traveled to Alfheim with the Elven Sage Nason and the other Elves while studying their magic. Nason warned that his dream foretold eternal sleep beginning aboard their spaceship, but they reached Alfheim before discovering its cause.

• John studied Elven magic with Melina and the other young Elves aboard the Silver Hand 2017.
• John examined Topps's Force Field in his workshop while the Elves aboard the spaceship grew increasingly drowsy.
• Nason told John that he had dreamed all living things would fall into eternal sleep and suspected the danger had begun aboard the spaceship.
• John and the Elves arrived in Alfheim and saw the Elves Mother Tree.

Nason returned to the dying Elves Kingdom with John, hoping John could save Queen Freya and restore the wellspring of magic. After John briefly revived magic in one area, Sage Habakak warned that it might be too late, leaving Nason’s hope in doubt.

• Nason returned to Alfheim with John and the elves, where the withering Mother Tree showed that the kingdom’s magic was failing.
• John gave a Fire Fairy a Magic Crystal, then used more crystals, herbs, and soil to create a Magic Circle that amplified magic beneath a tree and revived the nearby Pixies.
• Nason asked John to teach him the method, but John explained that the circle only amplified existing magic and that restoring the wellspring would be much harder.
• At the kingdom gates, Nason reassured guards Luther and Lor that he had found a solution, then introduced John to Sage Habakak as a powerful Wizard who might awaken the wellspring.
• Habakak doubted that John’s method could work and warned that it might once have been possible, while Queen Freya lay asleep in the spring.

John and Nason reached the source of magic in Alfheim and found Queen Freya and the Elves Mother Tree close to death. John agreed to awaken the source in exchange for the Elves Kingdom’s most precious treasure, then began channeling the Four Gems’ power into it.

• Nason learned from Sage Habakak that the Elves Mother Tree was dying and Queen Freya had fallen into slumber.
• John told Nason that the source of magic was being drawn back in, then confirmed it could be awakened by an external surge of magic.
• John and Nason reached the source of magic and found Queen Freya unconscious beside its still pool.
• Nason despaired that the spell would require far more magic than he could provide, so John offered to cast it in exchange for sufficient payment.
• Nason promised the Elves Kingdom’s most precious treasure, and John accepted the deal.
• John entered the source of magic, raised his wand, and activated the Four Gems to awaken it.

John poured immense power into Alfheim’s Magic Power Spring, reviving it and transforming the Elves Mother Tree into a golden, thriving tree. After the spring awakened, Queen Freya emerged from its water and welcomed John, saying the spring believed he was better suited to be king of magic.

• John converted energy from the Infinity Stones and the Dark Dimension into magic power, overwhelming the elves and forcing them to flee the Magic Power Spring.
• John compressed the vast magic power into a small sphere and sent it into the spring, shielding the stone platform with his Golden Wings when it detonated.
• The released magic power revived the Magic Power Spring and transformed the Elves Mother Tree, prompting Sage Habakak and Sage Nason to kneel in reverence.
• John awoke inside the spring and discovered Queen Freya there, then introduced himself as the Wizard King who had come at Sage Nason’s invitation.
• Queen Freya welcomed John to Alfheim and told him that the Magic Power Spring favored him as king of magic, while she also welcomed him as a possible king of Alfheim.

John studied Alfheim’s library and its writings on prophecy and magic while Nason prepared the promised treasure. At the palace, Queen Freya called John her husband, leaving him stunned before a gathering of elves.

• Queen Freya sensed that John was the king of magic Alfheim had been awaiting, while Nason worried until John emerged from the Magic Power Spring.
• John reminded Nason of his promised treasure, then entered the Golden Tree library and studied elven prophecies, fate, and magic for several days.
• Nason arrived to take John to the palace and tried to learn what he thought of Queen Freya; John praised her resolve and called her beautiful.
• Nason brought John before a gathering of elves, and Queen Freya descended and called him her husband.

John rejected Queen Freya’s proposal and insisted that love and marriage must be chosen freely. When God King Freyr arrived and took offense at the rejection, the golden tree empowered John, and their confrontation nearly turned into a battle.

• John told Queen Freya he did not love her and would not marry her, despite her belief that magic and love had chosen him.
• Queen Freya accepted that she had acted rashly, apologized, and said she would be ready.
• God King Freyr arrived expecting to witness his sister’s wedding, but John clarified that he was not getting married.
• Freyr grew furious at John’s rejection, and John prepared to fight while the golden tree strengthened him and filled Alfheim with his magic.
• Freyr recognized John’s formidable power and withdrew his aura, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

John learned that his arrival had altered an ancient elven prophecy, while Queen Freya offered him a lead on the fate-seeing Council of Elders. The God-King Freyr warned that Odin’s children had plunged Asgard into upheaval and that Hela’s return threatened war across the Nine Realms.

• Queen Freya thanked John for helping Alfheim and told him that the elven sage’s sealed prophecy had named Ambrosius, also known as Merlin.
• The God-King Freyr and Odyssey recounted how Merlin had appeared in Vanaheim, then vanished as petals after saying he had come too early to see beautiful magic bloom.
• Nason revealed that John’s actions had changed the prophecy, which said a mighty magical figure would enter the spring and the golden-haired queen would sleep beneath its waters.
• Queen Freya told John that Nidam had found a member of the Council of Elders, who might help him search for fate.
• The God-King Freyr announced that Loki had impersonated Odin, Thor had exposed him after defeating Surtur, and Hela had returned to Asgard, threatening to lead its forces into war.

John rejected Queen Freya’s offer to become king of Alfheim, then traveled to Sakaar to seek the Grandmaster and investigate the elves’ mysterious sleep. After meeting Valkyrie, he learned Thor was on Sakaar and saw him call out from the Arena.

• Queen Freya confessed her love to John and asked him to become king of Alfheim, but John turned her down.
• Nason gave John the Grandmaster’s location on Sakaar and asked him to seek the source of the elves’ slumber.
• John recorded his visit to Alfheim in his Logbook and secretly acquired the Alfheim Directory from the Golden Tree.
• On Sakaar, John burned the would-be abductors in the Scrapyard with Fiendfyre and met the drunken Valkyrie, who agreed to guide him.
• Thor, imprisoned on Sakaar and forced to fight in the Arena, spotted John in the VIP Stand and called out to him.

John arrived on Sakaar and met Grandmaster, who recognized him as a being like the Elders of the Universe and invited him to join them. As Grandmaster welcomed Thor into the arena, Thor was immediately struck by a Minotaur and sent flying.

• Valkyrie brought John to Grandmaster, who sensed the complex magic within him and treated him as an honored guest.
• John recognized Loki in Grandmaster's VIP stands, and Loki awkwardly greeted him as the Wizard King.
• Grandmaster explained that the Elders of the Universe had seemingly endless lives and formed an organization to keep their minds from wearing away.
• Grandmaster said Ego had been killed by the Guardians of the Galaxy and proposed that John take his place among the Elders.
• Grandmaster cheered as Thor entered the arena, but a Minotaur struck Thor with a hammer and sent him flying.

Hela returned to Asgard and demanded its army swear allegiance, but Hogun and the soldiers rejected her claim in favor of Thor. On Sakaar, John explained Hela’s place in Asgard’s history to Loki, then reunited with Thor and exposed Loki’s attempt to hide from his brother.

• Hela entered Asgard, declared herself Odin’s firstborn and rightful ruler, and called on the army to join her conquest.
• Hogun rejected Hela’s claim and attacked, prompting her to decide to kill the soldiers and rebuild the Asgard Legion.
• On Sakaar, John questioned Loki’s belief that Hela would endanger the Nine Realms and argued that she deserved her place in the succession.
• John told Loki that Hela could help them survive Ragnarok and suggested that she and Thor settle their dispute through a fight.
• John entered Thor’s room, where Thor recognized him and spotted Loki hiding nearby.
• John dragged Loki out of his illusion, leaving him to face Thor’s anger.

John explained Hela’s history to Thor and Loki, revealing Odin’s conquest of the Nine Realms and his erasure of Hela’s past. Thor chose to train for a duel with Hela rather than involve Asgard’s people, and John reassured him that time passed differently in the Grandmaster’s realm.

• Thor punched Loki at John’s prompting, then asked John for help returning to Asgard to oppose Hela.
• John told Thor that Hela’s power was greatest in Asgard and showed him a vision of her lost army and the Underworld.
• John revealed that Odin had hidden his conquests and Hela’s role beneath the palace murals, forcing Thor and Loki to reconsider their father’s history.
• John warned Thor that Asgard had chosen Hela and that fighting her through the people could require destroying Asgard.
• Thor accepted John’s guidance to prepare for a one-on-one duel with Hela and asked her to protect Asgard’s people if he died.
• John told Thor that time in the Grandmaster’s realm passed differently from time in Asgard.