Chapter Summaries

Mordo took over Wang Yang’s training and discovered that Wang Yang had already learned an astonishing range of spells, including advanced magic. He began teaching Wang Yang Crimson Bands, and a talent fragment for the spell appeared.

• Mordo became Wang Yang’s teacher after Wong and the others agreed to the arrangement.
• Kamar-Taj worried that Wang Yang’s talent might undermine Mordo’s confidence, but Mordo insisted he enjoyed teaching talented students.
• Mordo asked Wang Yang what spells he knew, then grew astonished as Wang Yang listed his many spells, including the Vishanti Holy Sword.
• Mordo decided to teach Wang Yang the advanced spell Crimson Bands and demonstrated it by conjuring a red chain.
• A system notification detected a Talent Fragment for Magic Crimson Bands and began fusion.

Wang Yang mastered the Crimson Bands in minutes, astonishing Mordo. Their lesson was interrupted when Hamir reported that the Chitauri were invading New York through a Portal, and Wang Yang realized Thanos might soon arrive.

• Mordo taught Wang Yang the Crimson Bands and tried to reassure him that the advanced spell would take time to learn.
• Wang Yang summoned the Crimson Bands after only a few minutes, leaving Mordo stunned by his talent.
• A commotion interrupted their lesson, and Mordo brought Wang Yang with him to find out what had happened.
• Wong told Mordo and Wang Yang that Hamir had returned with news of a major battle in New York and a Chitauri invasion.
• Hamir showed the sorcerers a projection of a huge Portal above New York as Chitauri poured through it, and Wang Yang recognized the events from the first Avengers movie and worried that Thanos would soon arrive.

The Avengers fought to contain the Chitauri invasion as more troops and warships poured through the portal over New York. Captain America assigned the team their roles, but the aliens overwhelmed their defenses, leaving civilians exposed across the city.

• Iron Man fought through the Chitauri and coordinated with Black Widow while leading an enemy squad toward her team.
• Loki damaged Hawkeye's aircraft, forcing Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow to land as a massive Chitauri warship emerged from the portal.
• Banner arrived, transformed into the Hulk, and stopped the warship with one punch before Iron Man destroyed it with a missile.
• Captain America ordered Hawkeye to scout, Iron Man to defend the perimeter, Thor to attack the portal, Black Widow and Captain America to hold the ground, and Hulk to smash the invaders.
• The Avengers struggled to cover New York as more Chitauri entered through the portal, and the Masters of the Mystic Arts watched with grave expressions.

Mordo mobilized Kamar-Taj to join the fight against the Chitauri, sending sorcerers into the Mirror Dimension to contain the invasion. The sorcerers struggled against the enemy’s numbers while the Avengers and military forces fought the Chitauri still attacking New York.

• Mordo ordered Kamar-Taj to prepare for battle and told Wang Yang to join the sorcerers on the battlefield.
• Kamar-Taj assembled more than ten thousand sorcerers, opened a Portal, and sent them through the New York Sanctum into the fight.
• The sorcerers pulled Chitauri ships and soldiers into the Mirror Dimension, easing pressure on the Avengers while battling the overwhelming enemy forces there.
• Wong ordered the front-line sorcerers to rotate with reserves and told Hamir to use the large-scale fusion magic under study.
• In New York, the military helped evacuate civilians while Thor and Hulk fought the Chitauri, and the invasion continued to overwhelm the Avengers.

The Avengers fought to hold back the Chitauri as their forces kept pouring through the Portal. Kamar-Taj and a group of inexperienced sorcerers were stranded in New York, and as Kamar-Taj stayed behind to cover their retreat, a flaming longsword descended.

• Hulk destroyed an enormous Chitauri warship with a torn-off fin and Thor's lightning, then continued fighting despite his exhaustion.
• Black Widow fought and defeated Chitauri squads, while Captain America rescued civilians and Tony Stark and Hawkeye destroyed enemy aircraft.
• The Avengers realized the Chitauri would keep arriving until the Portal was closed, but they could not reach it amid the fighting.
• Kamar-Taj accidentally teleported his support group into New York instead of the New York Sanctum, and he urged the frightened sorcerers to push toward it.
• When Chitauri attacked, Kamar-Taj blocked their laser blasts and ordered the sorcerers to flee while he held them off.
• A figure descended with a flaming longsword radiating destruction, identified as the Vishanti Holy Sword.

Wang Yang rescued Kamar-Taj and the mages after Kamar-Taj’s Portal went off course, then escorted them toward the New York Sanctum. Near Stark Tower, Wang Yang saved Captain America from a Chitauri swarm with a devastating use of the Crimson Bands.

• Wang Yang arrived at Kamar-Taj’s location and cut down the Chitauri threatening Kamar-Taj and the mages.
• Kamar-Taj explained that his Portal had gone off course, and Wang Yang offered to escort everyone to the New York Sanctum.
• Wang Yang used Magic Shields and chains to clear Chitauri as the group made its way toward Stark Tower.
• Wang Yang and Kamar-Taj found Captain America surrounded by Chitauri, and Kamar-Taj urged them to help him.
• Wang Yang used the Crimson Bands to crush hundreds of Chitauri, astonishing the mages and Kamar-Taj.

Wang Yang protected Captain America and the sorcerers from an enraged Hulk, then used magic to send Hulk falling through a portal. After Captain America learned civilians were trapped in Fengda District, Wang Yang stopped him before he could leave.

• Hulk mistook Wang Yang and the sorcerers for enemies and charged at them despite Captain America's warning.
• Wang Yang blocked Hulk's punch with the Rings of Raggadorr, impressing the sorcerers and Kamar-Taj.
• When Hulk charged again, Wang Yang opened a circle in the ground and sent him falling through it to cool off.
• Captain America thanked Wang Yang, heard from Stark and Hawkeye that civilians needed help in Fengda District, and prepared to leave.
• Wang Yang stopped Captain America and called him Steve.

Wang Yang returned Hulk to Captain America, then faced a Chitauri warship threatening the group. As another ship charged its main cannon at them, Wang Yang used the Rings of Raggadorr to create an enormous, heavily reinforced shield, astonishing the Kamar-Taj sorcerers.

• Wang Yang returned Hulk through a ring of light, and Hulk landed frightened by his experience of free fall.
• Thor fled a Chitauri warship as it fired at him, and Captain America sent Hulk to attack it.
• Wang Yang noticed another Chitauri warship targeting the group and preparing to fire its main cannon.
• Wang Yang cast the Rings of Raggadorr as a massive, thick shield, leaving Kamar-Taj and the other sorcerers amazed.

Wang Yang blocked an alien warship’s cannon blast and destroyed the ship with the Crimson Bands while the Avengers struggled against the remaining Chitauri forces. With Thor exhausted and more warships appearing, Captain America looked to Wang Yang for help.

• Wang Yang shielded the group from an alien warship’s main cannon with the Rings of Raggadorr.
• Wang Yang crushed the descending Chitauri with the Crimson Bands and sliced an alien warship in half, bringing it crashing down.
• Kamar-Taj watched Wang Yang’s power in amazement as Hulk continued pounding another warship without damaging it.
• Stark drew a warship away from Thor with missiles but was struck by its autocannons and crashed into a building.
• Thor told the Avengers he needed time to recover, and Captain America looked to Wang Yang to deal with the remaining warships.

Wang Yang destroyed two alien warships, declined an invitation to join the Avengers, and warned them that a Chitauri mothership remained. He escorted Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers to the New York Sanctum, then joined Wong on the front lines as alien warships prepared to attack.

• Tony Stark and Thor witnessed Wang Yang destroy two alien warships with golden energy, then descended to meet him beside Captain America.
• Wang Yang declined Captain America’s invitation to join the Avengers and warned them to capture Loki, close the passage, and prepare for the Chitauri mothership.
• Wang Yang escorted Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers through the New York Sanctum and into the Mirror Dimension, where Wong greeted them, wounded and exhausted.
• Wong asked Wang Yang to join the battle, and Wang Yang agreed before they opened a Portal to the front lines.
• Wang Yang arrived amid the fighting as seven or eight alien warships aimed gathered beams of blue light at the sorcerers.