Chapter Summaries

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.

Hela revived her Death Legion and set out to conquer the Nine Realms, but Heimdall stole the Bifrost sword and began rescuing Asgardians. On Sakaar, John encouraged Thor’s fights and planned a Super Dimensional Portal while warning Loki of a greater danger.

• Hela took the Tesseract from Odin’s Vault as a gift for John, then used the Eternal Flame to revive her warriors and Fenris.
• Hela led her army toward the Bifrost, discovered its sword was missing, and ordered a search for Asgardians who had refused her summons.
• Heimdall, who had stolen the sword, helped fleeing Asgardians evade Hela’s Undead Soldiers and hoped Thor would return to stop her.
• Loki accused John of using Hela’s war to benefit Wizards, but John warned him that the power behind Loki’s attack on Earth posed a greater danger.
• John crushed the Sakaar Simulated Celestial Sphere and discussed using wormhole gravity to alter time with the Grandmaster.
• John planned to turn Sakaar into a transit hub with a Super Dimensional Portal while Thor continued his Hundred-Man Slaying.

John bought Sakaar from the Grandmaster by promising to turn its Combat Arena into the finest in the universe, then activated the planet’s wormholes to begin renovations. Loki learned the Grandmaster had sold Sakaar and, as the planet began to shake apart, John faced the possibility that his plan would destroy it.

• John persuaded the Grandmaster to sell him Sakaar by offering a stable passage that would bring willing fighters from countless worlds to the Combat Arena.
• The Grandmaster signed John’s parchment and gave Topaz back to him, then returned to watch Thor fight.
• Loki tried to poison the Grandmaster while flattering him, but learned that John had bought Sakaar and reacted with despair.
• Loki realized the shaking came from Sakaar itself as John activated every wormhole and unleashed immense gravitational forces.
• John concluded that he had to open the wormholes successfully or Sakaar would break apart and be dragged into different worlds.

John stabilized Sakaar by containing its spacetime energy, then accelerated time on the planet and experienced Time Flash. Meanwhile, Thor won his hundredth Combat Arena battle and earned his freedom, leaving Sakaar to face the war threatening Asgard.

• John used magic, the Infinity Gems, and the Dark Dimension to hold Sakaar together and absorb excess spacetime energy from its wormholes.
• John made Sakaar a fixed transit point between worlds, then accelerated its time using his ownership of the planet and the Grandmaster's power.
• Thor fought his hundredth battle bare-handed and defeated the Red War God with his thunder power.
• Thor earned freedom after his unprecedented hundred-win streak, but chose to leave Sakaar and return to Asgard to help end the war between the Odinsons.

John’s uncontrolled Time Flash carried him to the Land of Eternity, an Upside-Down City resembling a future Wizard City, where he met Johanna and learned that the city was governed by different versions of himself. Meanwhile, a Council of John Wicks discussed his arrival and the Dimensional Portal, leaving John with questions about the many versions of himself and his fate.

• John used a Dark Dimension Projection Field to stop Time Flash and broke out into a futuristic city beyond Sakaar and Earth.
• John encountered a man resembling his half brother, then saw a fortune-teller’s crystal ball shatter when she saw him.
• Johanna recognized John, warned him to avoid the Council, and led him away from the Magic Tower.
• A Council of John Wicks met in the Magic Tower and called John’s arrival an opportunity connected to the Dimensional Portal.
• Johanna told John that the city existed because of him, identified it as the Land of Eternity, and revealed that she was another John with the power of prophecy.

John learned that the Upside-Down City was a realm created by his Time Flash, ruled by alternate versions of himself who wanted to enter reality. After escaping Dawnlight and the council, John brought Johanna to the Alchemy Department, hoping to find a way to end Time Flash as his prophetic ability stirred.

• Johanna explained that the Upside-Down City held two inverted cities ruled by Dawnlight and Dusk, and that its residents had fled the curse of losing their loved ones.
• Johanna revealed that she was a Seer whose visions began after John arrived, and John concluded that his Time Flash had brought the uncertain city into existence.
• Johanna warned that the John Council wanted John to end Time Flash so their city could become part of reality, and Dawnlight arrived to recruit him.
• John Apparated Johanna away, while Dawnlight surrendered to Time Variance Authority agents and welcomed them to the Upside-Down City.
• John and Johanna reached the Alchemy Department, where John hoped to find a way to end Time Flash and asked Johanna for help.

John entered the Alchemy Department in Upside-Down City and used its energy source to transfer a vast prophecy through Johanna, strengthening her prophetic abilities. After escaping the approaching Dusk and a time-stopping phenomenon called the cat, they reached Eternal Night City, where John began searching for the Potions Department and a way to counter Time Flash.

• John found the Mobius Strip device in the Alchemy Department and drew out its gem, the city's energy source.
• John asked Johanna to keep everything she saw secret, then used her to transfer a vast prophecy into the energy device.
• Dusk noticed the energy source's disturbance and flew toward the Alchemy Department, so John led Johanna out through a staff passage.
• The cat's white light spread from the Magic Tower and stopped residents in place, prompting John to carry Johanna from the daylight city into the night city.
• John and Johanna landed in Eternal Night City and went to a Japanese restaurant, where John refused the chef's fish.
• John suspected Johanna might be hiding the extent of her abilities and resolved to look for the Potions Department and a way to deal with Time Flash.

John explored Eternal Night City with Johanna and met Johnny Silver Hand and Catfoot while searching for the doorless Potions Department building. Meanwhile, Dusk discovered that someone had tampered with the city’s core, and the chapter ended with him leaving after a tense encounter with Silver Mask.

• John wondered why Eternal Day and Eternal Night were separated, then saw that Night City’s residents embraced cybernetic bodies and a futuristic lifestyle.
• Johnny Silver Hand warned John about John Constantine and led John and Johanna to Catfoot, who knew the location of the doorless building.
• Johnny Silver Hand asked John for a resurrection potion, and John warned him that bringing back the dead could turn someone into a monster.
• Catfoot agreed to guide John and Johanna toward the Potions Department, while preparing the magical gear he had stolen from Olympus.
• Dusk emerged from the Alchemy Department and told Silver Mask that an unknown power had entered the city’s core.
• Dusk nearly struck Silver Mask with his greatsword, questioned him about his mysterious existence, and then left.

Dawnlight was taken to the Time Variance Authority for judgment, while John opened the hidden Potions Department beneath Upside-Down City and directed Johnny Silver Hand to its underground contents. At the Magic Tower, Silver Mask began the Council of Johns’ migration without Dusk, who had chosen to act as a guardian.

• Dawnlight entered the TVA courtroom calmly, dismissed the crooked-nosed officer’s threats, and asked him whether he dreamed.
• Catfoot used his miniature computer to breach the barrier to the Mysterious Doorless Building, where John recognized the hidden Potions Department.
• John opened the wall and told Johnny Silver Hand that what he sought was stored underground, then explained that he alone had successfully awakened the dead.
• Johnny Silver Hand and Catfoot left to find the underground contents, while John prepared to deactivate Time Flash and depart Upside-Down City.
• Silver Mask noticed Dusk’s absence and said Dusk’s choice showed why he was the Lionheart Emperor; the council members then began their migration.

The John Council entered the Time Variance Authority to challenge another council, while John reached the source of Time Flash and faced Dusk, the Lionheart Emperor. After their duel, Dusk left to lead the Upside-Down City’s people as John took the gem and Time Flash’s distortion peaked.

• Dawnlight told Silver Mask that the John Council had failed to find their target, then led the council into the Time Variance Authority to challenge another council.
• John reached the Ouroboros and took the gem that could end Time Flash, but Dusk arrived and challenged him to prove whether his love of battle and sword came from John.
• Dusk gave John the Sword of Gryffindor and introduced himself as John Wick, founder of the Lion Dynasty; John answered with his own titles as Wizard King.
• Dusk and John fought, and Dusk pierced John while John’s golden blood shattered the Holy Sword.
• Dusk left to lead the Upside-Down City’s people, and John picked up the gem as Time Flash’s distortion reached its peak.

John returned from the Upside-Down City to Sakaar, where Thor had won a hundred battles, and helped him prepare to return to Asgard. As Thor arrived to rescue Heimdall’s people and confront Hela, the siblings finally faced each other in the Golden Palace.

• John triggered a Big Bang that erased the Upside-Down City, then reappeared on Sakaar as Thor celebrated his hundredth victory.
• Thor asked John for a way back to Asgard, and John opened a wormhole and advised him to find a pilot.
• Thor chose Valkyrie to pilot a privately sponsored spaceship, while John planned to visit the Collector after learning about him from Grandmaster.
• Hela searched for Heimdall and led her soldiers toward his hiding place as Heimdall warned Thor that his people were in danger.
• Thor agreed to help Heimdall, sent Valkyrie to move the people to the Bifrost, and went to confront Hela.
• Hela returned to the Golden Palace and found Thor seated on the throne with Gungnir.

Thor challenged Hela for the throne of Asgard, but Hela’s divine power and Asgard’s favor left him in danger. A restless Twilight Sword alerted John to Ragnarok, prompting him to wonder whether the cataclysm could be prevented if one of its central figures disappeared.

• Thor spoke with Hela about Odin’s treatment of her and proposed settling their dispute over the throne without involving Asgard in a war.
• Hela agreed to duel Thor for the throne, and the two began fighting with Gungnir and the Night Sky Sword.
• Thor wounded Hela, but her injuries healed because Asgard had chosen her; Hela disarmed him and destroyed one of his eyes.
• Thor unleashed his full power, and a massive bolt of lightning struck Asgard’s Golden Palace.
• On the Silver Hand 2017, Paluru discovered that the Twilight Sword powering the ship was struggling to break free and reported it to John.
• John recognized the sign of Ragnarok and wondered whether it would still occur if one of its central figures failed to appear.

Thor, Loki, and their allies tried to evacuate Asgard while fighting Hela, then set Ragnarok in motion by restoring Surtur with the Eternal Flame. Surtur rose to destroy Asgard as Hela watched in disbelief.

• Thor rallied to protect the Asgardians, but Hela blocked their escape and demanded that they submit to her; Heimdall and the people stood with Thor.
• Loki arrived with freed slaves and a spaceship, and Thor told him they had to bring about Ragnarok rather than keep trying to prevent it.
• Thor and Valkyrie fought Hela to hold her back while Loki went to Odin's Vault for Surtur's crown.
• Loki placed Surtur's crown in the Eternal Flame, reviving the Fire Giant.
• Surtur grew taller than the Golden Palace, summoned his Twilight Sword, and stunned Hela as he prepared to destroy Asgard.

Thor, Hela, and the Asgardians fought Surtur as he brought Ragnarok to Asgard, while the missing Twilight Sword left him without his intended weapon. As Hela fell into space, John appeared and declared that fate should bow to him.

• Surtur discovered that his Twilight Sword was missing and attacked Asgard, while Thor and Valkyrie tried to escape him.
• Hela wounded Surtur and fought beside Thor, but Surtur destroyed the Bifrost and devastated Asgard with a blast of fire.
• Thor escaped aboard the spaceship with Valkyrie as Hela rallied Fenris and her undead legion to make a final stand for Asgard.
• Hela declared that she and her warriors would charge against their fate, and Heimdall told Thor that she loved the Asgard in her own heart.
• Surtur defeated Hela and sent her falling toward the universe, but John stopped her fall and said fate should bow to him.

John challenged fate by unleashing the Casket of Ancient Winters against Surtur, defeating him with the White Wolf’s apocalyptic power. He then transformed into a golden dragon with the Twilight Sword and prepared to fight the White Wolf, while Asgard lent its strength to his defiance.

• John confronted Surtur with the Twilight Sword and opened the Casket of Ancient Winters, covering Asgard in snow and unleashing the White Frost prophecy.
• John’s prophecy brought eerie rain, black birds, and reanimated corpses to Asgard as ice and fire consumed the land.
• The White Wolf fought Surtur, extinguished his flames, and brought him crashing down across Asgard.
• John drove the Twilight Sword into the ground, drew in Surtur’s scattered flames, and transformed into a golden dragon wielding the enlarged sword.
• John challenged the White Wolf, and Hela sensed Asgard’s power supporting the outsider as he called for battle.

John defeated White Wolf and helped Asgard recover, while Hela chose to rebuild the realm as its queen. Asgard began nurturing a new life from John’s blood and scales, and the chapter ended with a sleeping figure in the Wizarding Kingdom twitching a finger.

• John fought White Wolf across Asgard, using the Twilight Sword after Surtur became part of it.
• John drove White Wolf into a star and used All Magic Ends to destroy it, ending the storm and returning to Asgard.
• John declined Hela’s invitation to help rebuild Asgard, and Hela declared she would establish a new Asgard of her own.
• John revealed that the Lionheart Emperor’s wound still hurt him and noticed that life was forming from his scales and blood.
• Fenris guarded the new life, and Hela named it Jörmungandr.
• A sleeping figure in the Magic Tower sensed the clash with Fate, and its finger twitched.