Chapter Summaries

Wang Yang left Strange alone on Mount Everest to force him to focus and open a Portal, and Strange succeeded just before the cold could kill him. After rapidly learning basic spells, Strange struggled with the Rings of Raggadorr, while Wang Yang demonstrated the spell and showed that Strange lacked control over its power.

• Wang Yang took Strange to Mount Everest and left him stranded there, urging him to focus on Cosmic Energy.
• Strange opened a Portal back to Kamar-Taj just before he succumbed to the deadly conditions, astonishing Mordo.
• Strange progressed quickly through basic magic, and Mordo told him he was ready to study advanced spells.
• Strange repeatedly failed to form a shield with the Rings of Raggadorr and grew frustrated.
• Wang Yang demonstrated the spell and explained that Strange lacked control over its power; then the Rings in Wang Yang's hand changed, leaving Mordo dumbfounded.

Wang Yang demonstrated that he could combine the powers of three gods into a single shield, shocking Mordo and Strange during their lesson. Later, he found a spellbook about the Winds of Watoomb in the Library and fused with Watoomb's Talent Fragment, preparing to try the spell.

• Wang Yang combined three layers of the Rings of Raggadorr, drawing on three gods' powers at once and forming a stronger shield.
• Mordo used Wang Yang's feat to encourage Strange to control divine power, but Strange's attempt to use two gods' powers backfired and sent him flying.
• Wang Yang continued studying spells in the Kamar-Taj Library while Wong served as its Librarian.
• Wang Yang found a spell describing the Winds of Watoomb and fused with Watoomb's Talent Fragment, gaining knowledge of how to cast it.
• Wang Yang decided to try the Winds of Watoomb.

Wang Yang tested the Winds of Watoomb in Kamar-Taj’s Library, but the spell grew into a massive tornado and destroyed much of the building before the Ancient One stopped it. After she warned him not to cast spells casually in Kamar-Taj and began repairing the Library, Wang Yang brought the injured Wong to his room, where Wong learned what had happened.

• Wang Yang cast the Winds of Watoomb in the Library, and the small whirlwind rapidly expanded into a destructive tornado.
• The Ancient One appeared and dispelled the tornado as Kamar-Taj sorcerers watched in alarm.
• The Ancient One found the Library in ruins, and Wang Yang admitted that his test of the Winds of Watoomb had gone out of control.
• The Ancient One warned Wang Yang not to cast spells casually in Kamar-Taj, then began restoring the Library with the Eye of Agamotto.
• Wang Yang took the injured Wong to his room, where Wong woke up and learned that Wang Yang’s spell had destroyed the Library.

After absorbing Watoomb’s talent, Wang Yang realized his system could detect the gods connected to spellbooks and magic. While Mordo taught Strange the Crimson Bands, Wang Yang fused Cyttorak’s talent and demonstrated a vastly enhanced version of the spell.

• Wong warned Wang Yang not to experiment with magic carelessly, and Wang Yang wondered whether spellbooks let his system detect the gods behind their spells.
• Wang Yang joined Mordo in teaching Strange, who had learned the Rings of Raggadorr and was preparing to study the Crimson Bands.
• Mordo explained that the Crimson Bands drew on Cyttorak’s power and warned Strange not to alter the spell while learning it.
• Wang Yang’s system detected Cyttorak’s magical talent, and he chose to fuse it while Mordo continued teaching Strange.
• Strange failed to cast the Crimson Bands, so Mordo asked Wang Yang to demonstrate them.
• Wang Yang formed Crimson Bands that surrounded the group and radiated a dense, complex aura, leaving Mordo and Strange transfixed.

Wang Yang’s vastly empowered Crimson Bands astonished Strange and Mordo, while Strange managed to learn the spell himself. Mordo then taught Strange about the Mirror Dimension and challenged Wang Yang to demonstrate its limits.

• Wang Yang’s Crimson Bands grew into enormous, dragon-like coils, and Mordo explained away their power to Strange as the difference between a beginner and an advanced sorcerer.
• Wang Yang finally dispelled the spell, and Strange summoned a Crimson Band and used it to strike a distant target.
• Mordo congratulated Strange on learning the Crimson Bands and warned him to use the offensive spell only when necessary.
• Mordo opened a Mirror Dimension and brought Strange and Wang Yang inside, explaining how it worked and warning Strange that only a Portal could get him out.
• Mordo asked Wang Yang to demonstrate that he could not control someone else’s Mirror Dimension.

Wang Yang demonstrated that he could control Mordo’s Mirror Dimension, startling Mordo and Strange and impressing the Ancient One, who observed them before leaving. After integrating a Mirror Dimension Talent Fragment, Wang Yang finished demonstrating its uses, and Strange began practicing control of the space.

• Wang Yang altered the ground and buildings inside Mordo’s Mirror Dimension, shocking Strange and making Mordo’s confidence falter.
• The Ancient One observed Wang Yang’s unusual control of space, opened a view into the Mirror Dimension, and left without interrupting the lesson.
• Wang Yang integrated a Magic Mirror Dimension Talent Fragment and deepened his understanding of the Mirror Dimension.
• Mordo explained the dimension’s uses to Strange and invited him to try controlling it.
• Strange took control of part of Mordo’s Mirror Dimension and began practicing with his mental energy and spatial power.

Wang Yang demonstrated his extraordinary control of the Mirror Dimension and encouraged Strange, who gradually learned to manipulate it. After a month at Kamar-Taj, Strange was told he could advance from Apprentice to sorcerer by passing a trial by combat.

• Strange failed to change anything in the Mirror Dimension, and Mordo reassured him that magic required gradual practice.
• Wang Yang reshaped the Mirror Dimension on a vast scale, then demonstrated precise control that astonished Strange and Mordo.
• Encouraged by Wang Yang, Strange learned to control the Mirror Dimension and began practicing how to create one.
• Several days later, Strange had mastered the Mirror Dimension to an ordinary sorcerer's level and continued improving.
• Mordo asked how long Strange had been at Kamar-Taj, then announced that he could advance from Apprentice to sorcerer if he passed a trial by combat.

Mordo brought Strange to Kamar-Taj’s trials to test whether he could become a true sorcerer, explaining that sorcerers also needed to fight. As Strange began his trial, Wang Yang fused talent fragments from the event and the watching sorcerers praised Strange’s rapid progress.

• Mordo told Strange that Kamar-Taj trained guardians and that he would need to prove his combat ability to become a true sorcerer.
• Mordo led Strange and Wang Yang into the Mirror Dimension, where sorcerers and Masters of the Mystic Arts gathered for the trials.
• Wang Yang received notifications for magic and battle talent fragments and fused them while Mordo spoke with the Masters.
• Mordo entered an arena with Strange and asked him to demonstrate his hand-to-hand combat skills.
• Strange charged at Mordo with magic-enhanced speed, impressing the watching sorcerers with how much he had learned in a month.

Strange sparred with Mordo, showing remarkable combat skills and advanced magic before revealing that he had learned the Vishanti Holy Sword. Wang Yang received a prompt to integrate magical fragments of the spell.

• Strange and Mordo fought hand to hand, with Mordo testing Strange before warning him that his inexperience could have been fatal in a real battle.
• Mordo and Strange began testing their magic, and Strange used the Crimson Bands to attack Mordo's Magic Shield.
• The sorcerers watching were astonished by Strange's ability to use advanced magic after only a short time in training.
• Strange cast the Vishanti Holy Sword, shocking the gathered sorcerers and Masters of the Mystic Arts.
• Wang Yang received a prompt asking whether to integrate magical fragments of the Vishanti Holy Sword.

Strange earned the rank of Apprentice Mage after losing a spar to Mordo, who then challenged Wang Yang to hand-to-hand combat. Wang Yang overwhelmed Mordo and gained a combat talent fragment, leaving Mordo to surrender and ask whether Wang Yang had practiced fighting since the womb.

• Strange accepted his defeat, and Mordo promoted him to Apprentice Mage.
• Mordo invited Wang Yang to spar and chose hand-to-hand combat.
• Wang Yang struck Mordo with enough force to drive him back, shocking the watching mages.
• Wang Yang kept attacking while Mordo struggled to defend himself, and a hand-to-hand combat Talent Fragment appeared.
• Wang Yang fused the fragment, grew stronger, and further suppressed Mordo.
• Mordo surrendered and asked Wang Yang if he had started practicing combat in the womb.

Wang Yang challenged Mordo to a magical exchange and overwhelmed him with astonishingly powerful spells. Mordo was left facing Wang Yang’s enormous Winds of Watoomb, which swallowed his own storm and threatened to destroy the arena.

• Wang Yang persuaded Mordo to exchange magic after winning their Combat Techniques sparring match.
• Wang Yang’s Crimson Bands nearly crushed Mordo’s Rings of Raggadorr, astonishing the watching sorcerers.
• Mordo defended himself and thought Wang Yang’s Crimson Bands had grown even stronger since their last encounter.
• Wang Yang cast the Winds of Watoomb, and Mordo attempted to counter it with the same spell.
• Wang Yang’s immense storm swallowed Mordo’s Winds of Watoomb, leaving Mordo terrified and the watching sorcerers stunned.

Wang Yang demonstrated the Vishanti Chains to Strange, but his overwhelming power turned the support spell into a destructive force. Strange was left to see how far he still had to go, while Mordo tried to explain that ordinary sorcerers could not cast the spell like Wang Yang.

• Wang Yang weakened the Winds of Watoomb, but its remaining force still drove Mordo to protect himself with the Seraphim Shield.
• Strange became an apprentice sorcerer and, discouraged by the gap between his magic and Wang Yang's, resolved to work harder.
• Mordo taught Strange about the Vishanti Chains and asked Wang Yang to demonstrate the spell without using his full strength.
• Wang Yang summoned enormous golden chains in the Mirror Dimension, and one struck the ground, leaving a crater and forcing Mordo to defend himself.
• Strange questioned how a spell with little offensive power could create such destruction, while Mordo silently blamed Wang Yang for misleading him.

Wang Yang studied a chained spellbook and learned Hoggoth’s Hoary Hosts, then tested the spell in the Mirror Dimension. His experiment triggered a massive explosion that shook the dimension and cracked the library around Wong.

• Mordo told Wang Yang he no longer needed to help teach Strange, and Wang Yang returned to his quarters to meditate.
• Wang Yang went to the library, where Wong warned him to be careful after his previous magical accident.
• Wang Yang read a chained spellbook about Hoggoth and absorbed the knowledge of Hoggoth’s Hoary Hosts.
• Wang Yang entered the Mirror Dimension and tested the spell, turning into crystalline fragments that exploded in a powerful shock wave.
• The explosion shook the Mirror Dimension and caused hundreds of cracks to appear in the library, knocking Wong onto his backside.

Wang Yang’s magic shattered the Mirror Dimension and alarmed the sorcerers at Kamar-Taj. Meanwhile, Ebony Maw told Malekith that the Aether was on Earth, prompting the Dark Elf leader to head there despite rejecting Thanos’s alliance.

• Wong watched spatial cracks from Wang Yang’s test of magic disappear and worried that Wang Yang might destroy Kamar-Taj.
• Strange felt the tremors, and Mordo identified the library as their source before telling Strange to continue studying magic.
• Malekith and the Dark Elves awakened, and Malekith vowed to destroy Odin’s realm and kill his family.
• Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian approached Malekith and offered to help him defeat Odin by revealing that the Aether was in Kamar-Taj.
• Malekith attacked Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian after agreeing to an alliance, but they escaped aboard their ship.
• Malekith gathered the Dark Elves and set out for Earth to reclaim the Aether.

Malekith led the Dark Elves into Kamar-Taj to search for the Aether, killing the London Sanctum’s defenders and Master Bazerl Chemmos. Mordo and Strange confronted the invaders, but Malekith sent Mordo flying, leaving him to be caught by his student.

• Ebony Maw told Cull Obsidian that Earth had no Aether and that the Dark Elves’ alliance was only a pretext for attacking Kamar-Taj.
• Malekith led the Dark Elves into the London Sanctum, where they killed the guards and Bazerl Chemmos.
• Mordo dismissed distant rumbling while teaching Strange, but they heard screams and realized Kamar-Taj was under attack.
• Malekith demanded that Mordo and Strange reveal where the Aether was, and Mordo charged him with Strange following.
• Mordo blocked the Dark Elves’ laser fire, killed one with a magical sword, and was knocked back by Malekith’s punch; Strange caught him.

Malekith and his Dark Elves attacked Kamar-Taj, overpowering Mordo and Strange as they tried to stop him from reaching the Aether. Wang Yang rescued the badly injured Mordo and confronted Malekith, who attacked him after Wang Yang mocked the Dark Elves’ defeat by Odin.

• Malekith and his subordinates fought Mordo, Strange, and the other sorcerers at Kamar-Taj, overwhelming them with their dark energy.
• Mordo stood against Malekith despite suffering severe injuries, refusing to let him pass.
• Strange called for Master Wang Yang as Malekith prepared to finish Mordo.
• Wang Yang arrived through a Portal, caught Mordo as he was knocked backward, and helped him rest.
• Wang Yang faced Malekith and mocked the Dark Elves for being driven to the brink of extinction by Odin, enraging Malekith.

Wang Yang pulled the fight with Malekith and the Dark Elves into the Mirror Dimension, then fused with Malekith’s physical talent and fought him on equal terms. Malekith gathered dark power into a final punch aimed at Wang Yang.

• Malekith attacked Wang Yang, who swept away his divine power and moved the battle into the Mirror Dimension, where several Dark Elves were killed by spatial shards.
• Wang Yang used Winds of Watoomb to disperse Malekith’s corrosive dark aura after Strange warned him of the danger.
• Wang Yang fused with Malekith’s Physical Talent Fragment and strengthened his body.
• Wang Yang exchanged blows with Malekith, astonishing Strange and the Dark Elves as he held his own and sometimes gained the upper hand.
• Malekith roared and launched a punch infused with dark power straight toward Wang Yang.

Wang Yang overwhelmed Malekith with his physical strength and the Vishanti Holy Sword, leaving Strange stunned by the gap between their magic. Wang Yang then unleashed the Rings of Raggadorr as the Mirror Dimension began shifting around them.

• Malekith charged Wang Yang, but Wang Yang dodged his punch and struck him back, realizing his physique rivaled a Dark Elf's.
• Wang Yang formed the Vishanti Holy Sword and pursued Malekith, whose divine power evaporated as he used it to block the sword.
• Strange compared his own ordinary-looking Vishanti Holy Sword with Wang Yang's and watched in envy as Wang Yang drove Malekith back.
• Malekith erupted with dark power and forced Wang Yang back, but Wang Yang mocked him and attacked again with the Rings of Raggadorr and the Vishanti Holy Sword.
• The Mirror Dimension shifted around everyone, leaving Strange rooted in place as he recognized Wang Yang's true strength.

Wang Yang faced a Dark Elf empowered by a Black Stone and blocked his attacks with the Seraphim Shield before confronting Malekith. After Malekith struck him with a devastating crystal, Wang Yang appeared to die, but strange magic erupted inside the Mirror Dimension, leaving his fate unclear.

• A Dark Elf crushed a Black Stone, transformed into a hulking monster, and attacked Wang Yang, while Strange warned him and had his Rings of Raggadorr shattered.
• Wang Yang blocked the monster’s blows with the Seraphim Shield, astonishing Strange, then advanced toward Malekith with the Vishanti Holy Sword.
• Malekith threw a High-Tech Crystal at Wang Yang, and its explosion seemingly scattered him into specks of blue light.
• The specks became butterflies that spread toward Malekith and the Dark Elves as the ground vanished beneath Strange and the Mirror Dimension erupted in flames.
• Strange emerged from the Mirror Dimension and told Mordo that Wang Yang seemed to have died while casting some kind of magic.

Wang Yang emerged alive after destroying the Dark Elves who invaded Kamar-Taj, leaving Mordo, Strange, Wong, and the other mages stunned. His effortless victory over Malekith made them question whether his strength had surpassed that of a Master of the Mystic Arts.

• Mordo and Strange entered the ruined Mirror Dimension and found Malekith reduced to a skeleton, assuming Wang Yang had died in the explosion.
• Wong arrived with other mages, and Mordo struggled to tell them that Wang Yang had supposedly sacrificed himself to protect Kamar-Taj.
• Wang Yang appeared unharmed just as a Master of the Mystic Arts proposed holding his funeral, bringing the gathered mages relief and shock.
• Mordo asked Wang Yang what had happened, and Wang Yang casually said he had killed the Dark Elves.
• Wang Yang downplayed Malekith's strength, leaving Mordo and the other mages wondering whether Wang Yang had surpassed a Master of the Mystic Arts.