Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Hermione entered the Children of the Forest’s sacred woods, where Su Ming used bread to persuade Leaf to guide them to the Three-Eyed Raven. They reached a clearing filled with Children of the Forest and a great Weirwood, where the Raven’s presence watched them.

• Leaf refused to take Su Ming and Hermione to the Three-Eyed Raven, citing the ancient Covenant.
• Su Ming offered Leaf bread as a gift and an offering to the gods, convincing her to lead them onward.
• Hermione asked why the Council of the Sky needed a Druid, and Su Ming explained that the Three-Eyed Raven’s nature and prophetic powers would strengthen the Council.
• Leaf led Su Ming and Hermione through the forest to a clearing where Children of the Forest gathered around a massive Weirwood.

Deathstroke and Hermione watched the Children of the Forest perform a sacrificial ritual, then Leaf led them toward the last Greenseer. Leaf described her people's acceptance of their decline, but Deathstroke hoped to find a turning point by speaking with the Three-Eyed Raven.

• Leaf shared bread with the Children of the Forest and organized a ritual before the great Weirwood.
• The Children sang and offered bread and red tree sap, while Deathstroke explained how their song connected listeners to the trees.
• After the ritual, Leaf led Deathstroke and Hermione toward the last Greenseer, and Deathstroke gave her extra bread and fruit juice.
• Leaf explained that the gods limited the Children of the Forest's numbers and that their people and other ancient races were nearing extinction.
• Deathstroke reached the enormous cave and said he would meet the Three-Eyed Raven to discuss whether there was still a turning point.

Deathstroke and Hermione followed Leaf through the underground caverns beneath the black mountain, where the Children of the Forest lived and worked among roots, bones, and skulls. Leaf led them to a narrow bridge over a vast abyss and warned them not to fall.

• Leaf guided Deathstroke and Hermione into the caverns, explaining that the branching passages led toward the center of the earth.
• Hermione used Lumos to light their way, and Leaf played with the floating light as she led them through the tunnels.
• Leaf brought them to an underground hall where Singers and goats worked, then guided them farther down past bones and skulls entwined with Weirwood roots.
• The group reached a chasm crossed by a narrow stone bridge, and Leaf warned them that no one could save them if they fell.

Deathstroke and Hermione met the Three-Eyed Raven beneath the Abyss, where Deathstroke used Strangle to connect with the Greenseer’s network and reach the presence of the Old Gods. He declared himself Deathstroke, the Sorcerer Supreme, and began negotiating with the green entity.

• Leaf led Deathstroke and Hermione across the bridge and explained that the Children of the Forest mostly ate mushrooms and feared humanity’s prophesied end.
• The group reached the Three-Eyed Raven, who said he would not leave the Weirwood roots or escape the fate of the gods.
• Deathstroke rejected the Raven’s resignation, set down herbicide, and used a flamethrower to interrupt his attempt to dismiss them.
• Deathstroke sent Strangle’s tentacles into the Raven to connect their minds and entered a green dreamlike network linking the Greenseer, Weirwood, and Old Gods.
• Deathstroke approached the huge green light and announced that he had come to negotiate terms with the god behind the network.

Deadpool joked with Peter about his supposed sexual encounter with Nick Fury’s wife, then relayed the misunderstanding to Tony. Tony believed Fury had arranged for an agent to seduce Peter and flew off to cheer him up, while Pepper stayed behind at Stark Industries.

• Wade played a shooter game with Peter and teased him about his aim and his recent marriage.
• Peter blamed Nick Fury’s wife for a disturbing wrestling memory, and Wade mistakenly imagined she had seduced Peter.
• Wade texted Tony that Fury had sent an older Black woman agent to seduce Peter using props.
• Tony believed Wade’s story, condemned Fury, and decided to take Peter to Hollywood to meet models and actresses.
• Tony put on the MK15 armor and flew away, while Pepper ordered a strong drink and began composing a text.

Pepper's report about Peter's mistreatment passed through a chain of messages and pranks until it prompted Charles to hire Deadpool to investigate a laboratory beneath Hoover Dam. As Deadpool left for the mission, Peter spotted a strange H-shaped spaceship over New York, and a flash and violent shaking followed.

• Pepper texted Jessica Jones about Peter's mistreatment, and Daredevil overheard Jessica's reaction before leaving with Elektra.
• Elektra texted Punisher, who sent Captain America an anonymous warning about Nick Fury, but Spider Web intercepted it and passed it to Natasha.
• Natasha rewrote the message as a warning about a laboratory beneath Hoover Dam and sent it to Professor X, who decided to hire mercenaries to investigate.
• Charles contacted Deadpool, who agreed to take the mission and bragged about it to Peter through voice chat.
• Peter spotted an H-shaped spaceship over New York, then Deadpool saw a sudden flash and felt violent tremors.

Deathstroke negotiated with the nature god to take the Children of the Forest and the Singers to another universe. Brynden Rivers awakened from the Green Dream and agreed to gather them, joining the Council of the Sky.

• Deathstroke endured the nature god’s attack and offered to take the Children of the Forest and the Singers away from its world.
• The nature god agreed to entrust its people to Deathstroke, who returned from the Green Dream to the weirwood throne.
• Hermione freed Leaf, and the roots withdrew from the Three-Eyed Raven as he awakened as Brynden Rivers.
• Brynden promised to gather the Children of the Forest and the Singers, and Deathstroke welcomed him to the Council of the Sky.

Su Ming asked Brynden about the Seven Gods and their connection to the number seven. Brynden explained that the Seven Gods might not truly exist, leaving Su Ming with the Faith of the Seven’s pervasive use of the number to investigate.

• Su Ming told Brynden he planned to take the Children of the Forest and their animal companions with him, and Brynden said gathering the scattered Children would take at least five days.
• Su Ming asked Brynden about the Seven Gods and explained that he was investigating a rule connected to the number seven across different worlds.
• Brynden said the Seven Gods might not truly exist and described the Faith of the Seven as the dominant religion in most of Westeros.
• Brynden explained that the Seven Gods were seven forms of one deity, each representing a different concept, but had never shown miracles in the memories he read from the trees.
• Brynden described how the Faith of the Seven incorporated the number seven into its beliefs, ceremonies, prayers, and buildings.

Su Ming and Hermione stayed in the North while Brynden prepared to move, hunting White Walkers and spending time with Leaf. When Hermione wanted a livelier vacation, Su Ming chose Dalaran, where Jaina spotted Khadgar meeting a one-eyed man and a brown-haired girl.

• Su Ming agreed to wait in the North while Brynden and the Children of the Forest prepared to move.
• Su Ming and Hermione explored the snowy wilderness, tried winter sports, and hunted White Walkers, but found no clues about their origins.
• Su Ming comforted Leaf with cocoa and biscuits and promised that she and the Greenseer would have food in Minecraft.
• Hermione asked to continue their vacation in a livelier world, and Su Ming chose Dalaran.
• Jaina hid behind an apple tree and watched a one-eyed man and a brown-haired girl give Khadgar something that made him smile.

Su Ming gave Khadgar a solar-powered phone, which drew Kael'thas's suspicion that it used stolen Sunwell energy. After Kael'thas challenged Su Ming and attacked him with a fireball, Su Ming crushed it effortlessly, leaving Khadgar and Jaina stunned.

• Khadgar marveled at the phone Su Ming had given him and asked what powered it.
• Su Ming explained that the phone used solar energy, and Khadgar worried that it might have been made with Sunwell water.
• Jaina eavesdropped as Kael'thas approached and asked to inspect the device.
• Kael'thas accused Su Ming of stealing Sunwell power and demanded an apology and the phone, while Su Ming mocked him.
• Kael'thas cast a Great Fireball at Su Ming, who caught and crushed it with his bare hand.

While Su Ming learned that Thanos had attacked New York with an Infinity Gauntlet filled mostly with Stones from a Parallel World, Deadpool’s panicked teleport sent him into a typhoon in London. The chapter ended with a mysterious armored Masked Man finding Deadpool in the storm.

• The Adjutant told Su Ming that the Black Order had invaded Earth-40K and devastated New York, so he ordered their people evacuated to the Forge World.
• Su Ming reasoned that Thanos could not fully use Stones from a Parallel World and watched footage of the Avengers fighting him, while Hermione dealt with Guy.
• Deadpool tried to revive the badly injured Little Bug, then fled from Proxima Midnight and teleported away without properly setting his belt.
• Deadpool arrived in a typhoon in London and struggled to keep from being blown down the street.
• A Masked Man in metal armor found Deadpool and stood over him with a black umbrella.

Hermione defeated Kael'thas and killed his Phoenix, while Deathstroke took Jaina away from the scene. Jaina grew impressed by Deathstroke and asked him to teach her magic.

• Hermione used firearms and magic to defeat Kael'thas, then killed his summoned Phoenix with Avada Kedavra.
• Deathstroke lamented the loss of the Phoenix and invited Jaina to join him and Hermione at a tavern.
• Deathstroke introduced himself to Jaina as Khadgar's teacher and the Sorcerer Supreme, while Khadgar followed behind them.
• Deathstroke reassured Jaina that she had great magical potential, and she asked him for guidance in magic.
• Hermione rolled her eyes as Jaina sought instruction from Deathstroke.

Jaina demonstrated her transformation magic to Deathstroke, who offered to teach her skills that Antonidas could not. After meeting Antonidas in Dalaran, Su Ming proposed taking Jaina across the continent to train her, though he privately intended to level her up in dungeons.

• Jaina turned a squirrel into a sheep, but the transformation quickly ended, and Khadgar and Hermione pointed out flaws in her spell.
• Hermione transformed an apple into a squirrel, astonishing Jaina, who then asked Deathstroke to teach her magic.
• Deathstroke told Jaina that he would discuss transferring her from Antonidas before teaching her his secret techniques.
• Su Ming and his companions met Antonidas at the Magic Inn, where the old mage raised the question of how Su Ming would train Jaina.
• Su Ming proposed taking Jaina across the continent so she could experience real power, while privately planning to level her up in dungeons.

Su Ming persuaded Antonidas to let Jaina leave Dalaran and study at Karazhan under Nielas Aran and its other teachers. Khadgar teleported Su Ming and Jaina to Karazhan, while Antonidas wondered at Su Ming’s warning about saving his life.

• Su Ming argued that Jaina needed battlefield training as well as foundational magic, and Antonidas considered the proposal.
• Su Ming explained that Nielas Aran could teach Jaina at Karazhan, and Antonidas accepted the plan.
• Su Ming promised to help Jaina make a Legendary Staff from the remains of the Blue Dragon King, but Antonidas warned him against provoking Malygos.
• Antonidas agreed that Jaina would study at Karazhan and said he would inform her father and King Terenas.
• Su Ming took Jaina with him, and Khadgar used Mass Teleportation to send them to Karazhan.
• Antonidas pondered Su Ming’s promise to save his life as Kel'Thuzad arrived to show him his research.

Jaina arrived at Karazhan and agreed to study under Deathstroke, who began preparing her for a life of magic and technology. Meanwhile, the All-Powerful Recorder dug a skull out of the moon and tried to revive a god to gain more information.

• Hermione reassured Jaina at Karazhan, and Deathstroke welcomed her as his apprentice and gave her a Chainsword.
• Jaina learned secrets from Deathstroke over lunch, then Hermione helped her dress up with cosmetics and new clothes.
• Deathstroke gave Khadgar a Spider Totem to summon an engineering team and discussed renovating Karazhan.
• Deathstroke took Jaina, Hermione, and Khadgar to Zul'Gurub, where he instructed Khadgar to demonstrate farming crocodiles to Jaina.
• When Jaina struggled to understand Khadgar's unusual combat technique, Deathstroke gave her a Plasma Pistol and told her to practice with technology.
• The All-Powerful Recorder drilled into the moon, retrieved a skull, and commanded it to revive as a new Narrator.

The Recorder resurrected Metron on the Moon and questioned him about how mortals had prevented the multiverse’s destruction. Metron could not explain the altered story, but argued that the multiverse remained worthy of survival as they awaited the Origin Judges.

• The Recorder reforged Metron from a skull and explained that the multiverse had endured a disaster that should have destroyed it.
• The Recorder showed Metron its book, and the flood of information overwhelmed him as he learned what had happened after his death.
• The Recorder asked why the stories had escaped their destined conclusions, but Metron said he had no answers about the changed events involving Perpetua, The Batman Who Laughs, and the Dark Multiverse.
• Metron pointed out that the Recorder had broken its own rules by showing him the book and speaking with him.
• Metron said the multiverse was still fulfilling its duty and that he believed in humanity, while the Recorder warned that the Origin Judges would decide whether it could survive.

Deathstroke and Hermione taught Jaina that gaining power required purpose and wider horizons, then chose a first lesson to broaden her understanding. The chapter ended with Deathstroke sending Khadgar to open a portal to Nethergarde Keep.

• Jaina marveled at the Plasma Pistol, and Deathstroke told her that humans could achieve far more than she imagined.
• Deathstroke asked Jaina why she wanted power, and she admitted she wanted adventure rather than a politically arranged marriage.
• Hermione gave Jaina half a Chocolate Frog, which lifted her spirits and showed her something unfamiliar.
• Hermione teased Deathstroke about giving Jaina exhausting physical training, but he said her lessons would be different.
• Jaina recalled seeing Orcs in an internment camp and feeling sorry for them, so Deathstroke chose the camp as the subject of her first lesson and ordered Khadgar to open a portal to Nethergarde Keep.

Su Ming took Khadgar, Jaina, Hermione, and Deathstroke to the Dark Portal to identify the destination coordinates beyond it and show Jaina the different kinds of Orcs. As the Adjutant analyzed the portal, Jaina confronted the Fel Orcs and began learning to shoot, while Deathstroke waited for the scan to finish.

• Su Ming declined Khadgar’s suggestion to visit Turalyon and brought the group to the Dark Portal to check its coordinates without reopening it.
• Deathstroke touched the portal so the Adjutant could analyze it, while Khadgar fought the surrounding Fel Orcs.
• Su Ming explained the differences among Fel Orcs, Demon Blood Orcs, and Mag'har Orcs, and argued that Orc leaders bore responsibility for the prisoners’ plight by refusing to ransom them.
• Su Ming handed Jaina a beam rifle, and she shot an Orc, severing its arm.
• Su Ming asked Hermione to teach Jaina how to aim and control her breathing.

As Velen ordered the Draenei to evacuate their last stronghold, Yrel secretly set out to assassinate Ner'zhul. Meanwhile, Su Ming prepared to take his group through a Boom Tube to Draenor.

• Hermione taught Jaina to use a gun and reflected on how their views of Orcs differed.
• The Adjutant locked the coordinates to Draenor, and Su Ming called his companions over to prepare for the Boom Tube.
• Akama urged Velen to abandon the besieged Temple of Karabor, and Velen ordered the Draenei to evacuate to Tempest Keep.
• Velen explained that the Draenei would leave Draenor and eventually reclaim Argus, while Yrel mourned the loss of her home.
• Yrel secretly retrieved her weapons, stole a Void Ray, and rode alone toward the Orc army to kill Ner'zhul.

Su Ming demonstrated his power to Jaina by destroying Hellfire Citadel and Kil'jaeden's Throne, then took his students toward Shadowmoon Valley. Meanwhile, Gin and Diana encountered a sudden global blizzard in the middle of summer, and Diana left to join the Justice League.

• Su Ming explained Draenor's Orc and demon threat to Jaina as the group traveled through Tanaan Jungle.
• Su Ming obliterated Hellfire Citadel and Kil'jaeden's Throne, then sent Strangle to eliminate the remaining demons, Orcs, and corrupted creatures.
• Jaina admired Su Ming's power, and he prepared to take his students south to Shadowmoon Valley.
• In London, Diana told Gin about the mysterious force that had killed Norse warriors and left a message about a thousand hands and eyes.
• Snow and a fierce blizzard suddenly engulfed London, and Diana left after the Justice League summoned her to a meeting.