Chapter Summaries

Stephen experimented with time magic in the Book of Cagliostro and nearly disrupted the timeline before John stopped him. John received the Book of the Vishanti from the Ancient One, while an invasion struck the Library as he arrived.

• Stephen used time magic on an apple, restored torn pages, and opened a space-time disturbance before John shut it down.
• John warned Stephen about the danger of recklessly pursuing knowledge, and Wong and Mordo learned that Stephen had nearly scrambled the timeline.
• John asked the Ancient One why she had let Stephen encounter the Eye of Agamotto, and she explained that he needed to learn caution as a potential Sorcerer Supreme.
• The Ancient One gave John the Book of the Vishanti, hoping its white and defensive magic would steer him away from darkness.
• After Wong and Mordo explained the sorcerers' mission to Stephen, intruders attacked Kamar-Taj through the London Sanctum, and a magical shock wave swept through the Library as John arrived.

John visited the Vishanti to seek answers about fate, but Oshtur urged him to search the universe and Agamotto said fate depended on whether he obeyed or resisted. Meanwhile, the Ancient One lay dying after Kaecilius stabbed her, and Stephen pursued her astral form as John arrived with the Book of the Vishanti.

• John opened the Book of the Vishanti and used magic to create a mirror-like portal to the Vishanti's dimension.
• John asked the Trinity of the Vishanti about fate, and Oshtur advised him to journey through the universe while Agamotto said fate depended on whether he obeyed or resisted.
• John considered traveling through the Nine Realms and left the Library with the Book of the Vishanti.
• Stephen rushed the wounded Ancient One to a hospital, then projected his astral form and followed her drifting soul.
• The Ancient One told Stephen she had grown tired of looking into the future and had chosen him as her successor.
• John's voice reached them, and the Ancient One recognized him as the Wizard King.

The Ancient One chose to die after centuries of protecting Earth, trusting Stephen to become Sorcerer Supreme and hoping her death would awaken his resolve. In astral form, she told John that death was an uncertain journey taken after laying down one’s burdens.

• John reflected on how Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel, Albus Dumbledore, and Gellert Grindelwald had each sought or faced death for different reasons.
• The Ancient One concluded that Stephen could become a steadfast Sorcerer Supreme and that John’s love for his family and friends kept his ambition from endangering the world.
• The Ancient One embraced death as a final lesson for Stephen, while John witnessed her choice with the Book of the Vishanti in his hands.
• At the hospital, John found the Ancient One and Stephen in astral form and asked what death was.
• The Ancient One described death as a sudden, uncertain journey and held Stephen’s hand while reaching toward John.

After the Ancient One died, John absorbed the Dark Dimension’s energy and confronted Dormammu for control of its throne. Their battle left Dormammu unable to kill John and fearing that he would be replaced as king of darkness.

• The Ancient One passed the Sorcerer Supreme title to John before dying, leaving Stephen grieving.
• The Bicorn amulet cracked as dark energy flooded into John, strengthening him without harming him.
• Kaecilius and his Zealots attacked the last Sanctum, and Wong was buried beneath the rubble before Stephen and Mordo arrived.
• Stephen reversed time with the Eye of Agamotto, while John faced Dormammu inside the Dark Dimension.
• John and Dormammu exchanged attacks, but John continually regenerated as the dimension’s dark energy sustained him.
• Dormammu realized that John could take his place as king and asked what he wanted.

John battled Dormammu and negotiated for access to the Dark Dimension, while Stephen Strange entered the realm intending to trap Dormammu in a time loop. The chapter ended with Dormammu weighing John's proposed terms: he would keep the dimension but let John use its power and stay out of John's universe.

• John challenged Dormammu to share the Dark Dimension, and Dormammu eventually called a halt to their battle.
• Stephen entered the Dark Dimension, used a looping time spell, and tried to bargain with Dormammu.
• Dormammu repeatedly killed Stephen, who returned each time, until John interrupted the cycle to resume negotiations.
• John told Dormammu he could keep the Dark Dimension if he let John use its dark energy and stayed out of John's universe.
• Stephen realized John was negotiating with Dormammu as an equal, while Dormammu considered the offer.

John reached a binding agreement with Dormammu to draw energy from the Dark Dimension, then helped Stephen end Kaecilius’s attack and used space-time magic to restore the fallen. He left the remaining city repairs to the wizards after finding traces of an old friend in the Dark Dimension.

• John forced Dormammu to sign a Gate of Matter contract granting him access to the Dark Dimension’s energy, while Dormammu angrily killed Stephen repeatedly.
• Stephen told John he hoped the power would never be used against Earth, and John warned that anyone who came after him could face it.
• Kaecilius’s Zealots were pulled toward the Dark Dimension, and Mordo left after criticizing Stephen for breaking the laws of nature.
• John restored the fallen with space-time magic and assigned the gathered wizards to repair the ruined city.
• John told Stephen that darkness could be used to protect others, then vanished after discovering traces of an old friend in the Dark Dimension.

John went into space and sensed the White Wolf’s presence, then returned to the Wizarding Kingdom to gather what he needed for a dangerous spell. He completed the spell and vanished into a strange space of mirrors, where he approached a wooden door and answered an unseen teacher.

• John reflected on the White Wolf and Thor’s efforts to prevent Ragnarok, then flew into space and felt an impending danger.
• John fell into the sea near Bikini Bottom, returned to shore, and learned from MOSS that the Wizarding Kingdom’s network was under attack.
• John traveled back to the Wizarding Kingdom and broke a fragment from the ice sculpture on the Magic Tower’s Throne.
• John sent Riddle away and combined magic power, souls, time, and a curse to cast a spell that pulled him into another space.
• John saw mirrors, a burning oak tree, and a young wizard studying alchemy before approaching a wooden door and calling the aged voice his teacher.

John met Nicolas Flamel in the Gate of Matter and exchanged dark energy for the Casket of Ancient Winters. He fused two Caskets into the true artifact, claimed it as his own, and returned to the Magic Tower, where he asked where Basil had gone.

• John reunited with his teacher, Nicolas Flamel, who warned him about the fire tree and urged him not to treat death as a release.
• John entered the Silver Gate and traded dark energy drawn from Dormammu’s Dark Dimension for the Casket of Ancient Winters.
• John merged the two Caskets, used the mark over his heart to establish himself as the true Casket’s master, and considered using it against the White Wolf.
• Nicolas Flamel and his wife watched John’s gift transform their barren world into an Ideal Land.
• John returned to the Magic Tower, greeted Riddle, and asked where Basil had gone.

Peter was followed by Basil, an owl that attacked Flash at school, while Peter hoped to attend Liz Toomes’s party. At the party, Liz welcomed her Uncle Ferdinand, and Peter discovered that Michelle Jones had fed Basil.

• Basil followed Peter for days and flew into PE class, kicking Flash and slapping Coach Wilson with a wing before flying away.
• Peter told his classmates he had met Spider-Man through the Stark internship program, and Liz invited him to her party.
• Adrian Toomes worried about Liz’s party and asked Ferdinand to keep the boys away from her.
• Peter and Ned arrived at the Toomes house, where Ferdinand showed up in a blue sports car and Liz greeted him as her uncle.
• Ferdinand took over the party music, and Peter spotted Michelle Jones holding food after noticing Basil had a dried fish in its beak.

At a school party, Basil repeatedly attacked people who approached Peter, including Flash, while Michelle realized the owl was trying to play matchmaker. Michelle persuaded Basil to stop targeting Peter’s friends, though Basil’s intentions toward Peter remained unclear.

• Peter asked Michelle whether she had been feeding Basil, and Michelle explained that she had met the owl and named her Bad Temper.
• Flash mocked Peter and Ned, but Basil flew in through the open window and beat Flash while the partygoers mistook the commotion for part of the music.
• Basil flew toward Ned, prompting him to run, but stopped before attacking him; Peter wondered why she targeted people near him but not Michelle.
• Michelle went outside and told Basil that she could not force Peter and Michelle together or attack people who approached Peter.
• Basil nodded after Michelle asked her to stop attacking Peter’s companions, and Michelle offered her dried fish.

Peter left the Toomes party when his Spider-Sense warned him of danger and was chased by two armed men using stolen Chitauri technology. Ferdinand helped him escape, and Peter changed into Spider-Man to confront a pursuing Flying Soldier, whose weapons left him scrambling for a defense.

• Basil snatched Michelle’s dried fish, while Peter noticed the owl watching something and hurried outside.
• Ferdinand learned from Adrian that Damage Control had been robbed, then saw armed men attack Peter with stolen weapons.
• Ferdinand rammed one attacker with his car and drove Peter away as another pursued them on an Antigravity Aircraft.
• Peter changed into his Spider-Man suit and webbed the Flying Soldier out of the sky, but the man cut through the webbing with Arm Blades.
• Peter grabbed a trash can lid for protection, and the Flying Soldier drove both Arm Blades through it.

Peter and Ferdinand survived a Skrull’s explosive attack and learned that Lies had targeted Peter by name. After Ferdinand revealed that John Wick had acted as Peter’s godfather, Peter followed the traced phone signal to a slaughterhouse.

• Peter webbed the flying Skrull, but Ferdinand crashed a sports car into him and knocked him unconscious.
• Ferdinand answered the Skrull’s phone and handed it to Peter, who dodged the phone bomb when his Spider-Sense warned him.
• The Skrull activated his weapons and sacrificed himself in a blast that destroyed the car and stripped away the surrounding ground and walls.
• Peter learned from Ferdinand that John Wick had acted as his godfather, then left the party to pursue Lies.
• Peter followed Karen’s traced signal to a slaughterhouse and crawled along the ceiling inside.

Peter pursued Lies to a cold storage room and was tricked into believing its door was rigged to a bomb near Liz's House, so he stayed trapped as he froze. Tony remotely controlled the Red and Gold Armor to rescue him, revealing there had been no bomb and no Lies outside.

• Peter found Lies's phone in the cold storage room, but Lies shut the door and locked him inside.
• Lies claimed that damaging the room would trigger a bomb at Liz's House, and Peter refused to break out because his classmates were there.
• Peter discovered a signal jammer, then endured five hours of freezing temperatures while the suit's heating system kept him alive.
• Tony remotely sent the Red and Gold Armor to cut through the door, and Peter panicked, believing he had triggered the bomb.
• Tony showed Peter that there was no bomb or Lies outside, then explained that he had tracked Peter and controlled the armor over Wi-Fi.

Peter remained convinced that he had seen Lies, while Adrian discovered the weapons used unstable Magic Crystals. Basil gave Peter a feather and mobilized New York’s birds to search for Lies.

• Tony dismissed Peter’s sighting of Lies as possibly one of the many impostors, but Peter found a card marked “Prey” at the slaughterhouse and became certain Lies had been there.
• Peter returned to the party, lied to Michelle about where he had gone, and went home feeling weighed down by the threat to those around him.
• Adrian told Ferdinand that the weapons used Magic Crystals and could overheat and explode; Ferdinand suspected Damage Control was also being targeted for its crystals.
• At school, Basil gave Peter a white feather, then flew to the Statue of Liberty and directed owls to send birds across New York to hunt for Lies.

Peter followed Basil’s magical feather to a weapons deal and discovered that Lies was preparing a major operation involving the Staten Island Ferry. After Peter was caught, Robert intervened, leaving Peter free to pursue the larger threat.

• Peter visited Ferdinand at Taran Industries, learned that black-market weapons used Magic Crystals that could explode when overloaded, and realized Lies could cause chaos in New York.
• Basil’s feather led Peter to a rooftop where the owl showed him men connected to the earlier attack on Peter making a deal.
• Peter followed the men in a taxi driven by Robert and infiltrated their warehouse through a ventilation duct.
• Peter overheard the men discuss a major ferry deal and learned that Lies would handle it personally at the Staten Island Ferry.
• The manager’s Gravity Gun pulled Peter down, but Robert disabled the weapon with a book and freed him.
• Robert fought the remaining criminals while Peter left to stop the ferry deal.

Peter’s attempt to stop the black-market weapons deal ended with the ferry breaking apart, but MOSS saved it and revealed the Second Alliance to him. John continued hunting Lies while Skrull radicals prepared to build a home on Earth.

• Peter followed the priest on the ferry, where the FBI raid exposed him as a Skrull and the weapons caused the ferry to split apart.
• MOSS rejoined the ferry, and Tony took Peter’s suit away after scolding him for interfering with the operation.
• MOSS reassured Peter that Lies was still behind the weapons operation and told him about the Second Alliance founded by John.
• John enlisted Dreamwalker to help track Lies, who could evade capture using the Master Key.
• Skrull radicals gathered in an abandoned tunnel, accused Nick Fury of failing to find them a home, and vowed to build one themselves.

Lies enabled ambitious Skrulls to unleash Black Market weapons and infiltrate New York's influential figures, plunging the city into chaos. As Spider-Man and Hell's Kitchen's vigilantes fought back, Ivan announced that an enemy had returned and sent the Second Alliance into action.

• Lies encouraged the Skrulls' ambition while pretending they had leverage over him, and the Skrulls began planning to seize control of New York.
• John learned from Basil and a sparrow that armed criminals were attacking the city, while Skrulls kidnapped influential people and impersonated them.
• Peter joined the fight in his original suit, stopping a bank robbery and disabling Black Market weapons with his Electric Shock Web.
• Daredevil and Night Ghost destroyed weapons in Hell's Kitchen, where Matt received Ivan's message that someone had returned.
• Ivan put on his Fighter Five Armor and ordered the Second Alliance to deploy across the districts and stop the returning enemy.

Ivan tested his magic-powered Wind Speed Fighter while John used MOSS to track down Lies in Chinatown. John confronted Lies at a teahouse and disarmed him, but Lies hinted that old friends were waiting to speak with him.

• Ivan inserted John's runic Magic Crystal into the Fighter Five and tested the armor's magic-powered speed over New York.
• John learned from MOSS that Lies had appeared in Chinatown and traveled there by taxi with Robert.
• John found Lies eating dim sum in a deserted teahouse and explained that MOSS had tracked him through the city's connected devices.
• John cast Expelliarmus, disarmed Lies, and took the hidden gun from him.
• Lies denied planting a bomb and said that some old friends wanted a heart-to-heart with John.

Gravik used the Super-Skrull machine to gain the powers of many heroes and tried to replace John, but John fought back with magic. The battle continued after Gravik survived John's attacks and unleashed a massive explosion that left John unharmed.

• Lies revealed that Gravik had gained the Avengers' powers from the Super-Skrull machine and planned to take John's identity.
• Gravik explained that the Skrulls had been persecuted and betrayed, then attacked John with Thermal Explosion.
• John wounded Gravik with Diffindo and used magic to counter his copied abilities, including blood control, lasers, and Hulk's strength.
• Gravik used an illusion of Ariana, but John saw through it and sealed Gravik's mouth with Langlock.
• Gravik blasted John through a wall and then unleashed a twenty-meter-radius explosion, but John's golden scales protected him.

John defeated Gravik in the Mirror Dimension by enduring his stolen superhero powers and revealing that John's blood carried a deadly curse. After retrieving Lies' key, John questioned Lies about fate and the person he had lost, leaving their conversation unresolved.

• John trapped Gravik in the Mirror Dimension and overpowered him with fire, snakes, lightning, and golden scales.
• Gravik transformed using stolen genes from John, but John's cursed blood caused Gravik's body to rot and killed him.
• John found Lies' key on Gravik's corpse and returned to Lies, who claimed he would stop doing bad things if John gave it back.
• John told Lies that he believed fate existed and asked whom Lies had lost.