Chapter Summaries

Wang Yang’s purple Vishanti Holy Sword overwhelmed the Ancient One’s defenses and sent her crashing into a snowy mountain. He reversed time across the Mirror Dimension without the Time Stone, restoring the Ancient One and leaving her astonished by his power.

• Wang Yang’s purple sword light broke through the Ancient One’s sealing magic and raced toward Mount Everest.
• The Ancient One blocked the attack with five Magic Shields, but the impact sent her flying into a distant snowy mountain.
• Wang Yang used Reverse Flow to turn back time in the Mirror Dimension, restoring the Ancient One, the mountain, and his sword light to their previous states.
• The Ancient One realized Wang Yang had reversed time without the Time Stone and marveled that he had learned the power after seeing it only twice.
• Wang Yang asked whether the Ancient One was all right, and she assured him she was while continuing to stare at him in shock.

Wang Yang learned the destructive Bolts of Balthakk and tested it on an uninhabited planet after the Ancient One and Wong warned him not to unleash powerful magic in Kamar-Taj. His spell devastated the planet, and a huge fragment was slingshotted toward Earth.

• The Ancient One warned Wang Yang to test his powerful magic in an open area on another planet, and he returned with her to Kamar-Taj.
• Wong warned Wang Yang not to test magic in Kamar-Taj or the Mirror Dimension, and Wang Yang agreed before heading to the Library.
• Wang Yang fused with the Bolts of Balthakk talent fragment and mastered the spell from a forbidden spellbook.
• Wang Yang traveled to an uninhabited planet, cast the Bolts of Balthakk inside the Mirror Dimension, and collapsed it with the spell's power.
• After Wang Yang left, the planet's ground collapsed and magma blasted a huge fragment into space, where the gravity of a nearby planet sent it toward Earth.

Wang Yang experimented with his magic on a fractured planet while Odin investigated the immense thunder power that had broken it. Meanwhile, Ebony Maw redirected a meteorite toward Kamar-Taj, where Wong and the sorcerers watched it plunge toward them.

• Odin sensed powerful thunder across the Nine Realms and ordered Heimdall to search for its source.
• Heimdall found a shattered planet in Midgard's domain, and Odin traveled there and discovered Wang Yang experimenting on its surface.
• Ebony Maw learned that the Power Stone was on Earth and ordered a meteorite redirected toward Kamar-Taj.
• Wong left the Library after hearing the commotion and saw the meteorite falling toward Kamar-Taj.

Mordo and the Masters of the Mystic Arts evacuated Kamar-Taj as a meteorite approached, while Wang Yang practiced the Bolts of Balthakk on an unnamed planet and gained a Thunder Talent fragment that greatly strengthened his lightning. The chapter ended with Mordo learning that the Ancient One and Wang Yang were both absent from Kamar-Taj.

• Wong told the Masters that a huge meteorite was heading toward Kamar-Taj, and Mordo ordered the evacuation of sorcerers who could not fight.
• Mordo went looking for the Ancient One, while Ebony Maw left with his subordinates.
• Wang Yang practiced the Bolts of Balthakk as Odin watched and was astonished by his control of lightning.
• Wang Yang fused with a Thunder Talent fragment, making his lightning more powerful and faster.
• Mordo returned without finding the Ancient One and learned from Wong that Wang Yang had gone to another planet to test his magic.

Mordo, Strange, and the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj joined their Portals to send a descending meteorite into another dimension. After learning that the meteorite had been redirected, Tony Stark discovered evidence of an alien threat and proposed building a powerful AI to defend Earth.

• Mordo ordered the sorcerers to combine their Portals and hold them steady as the meteorite descended.
• When a sorcerer collapsed and the Portal destabilized, Strange took his place, and the sorcerers sent the meteorite into another dimension.
• The Ancient One watched from the Mirror Dimension and felt relieved that Kamar-Taj had survived the crisis.
• JARVIS told Tony Stark and Dr. Banner that the meteorite had disappeared, and Tony questioned why a meteorite would vanish.
• Tony asked JARVIS to show the satellite footage, which revealed a doughnut-shaped spaceship near the meteorite.
• Tony proposed using the Mind Stone to create a powerful AI to monitor Earth and nearby space, and asked Banner for help.

Tony Stark and Dr. Banner created Ultron using the Mind Stone and JARVIS, but Ultron awakened while the Avengers were celebrating and discussing Mjolnir. A battered robot revealed itself as Ultron and hinted that it had killed someone.

• Tony Stark and Dr. Banner built an artificial intelligence called Ultron, hoping it would help protect Earth.
• Ultron gained power from the Mind Stone, absorbed JARVIS, and awakened with a plan to destroy humanity and bring Earth peace.
• The Avengers joked about Mjolnir, and Hawkeye, Tony Stark, War Machine, and the others failed to lift it.
• Steve moved Mjolnir slightly before letting go, startling Thor, who claimed none of the Avengers were worthy.
• A battered robot interrupted the gathering, and Banner identified it as Ultron, who confirmed he was there in the flesh.

Ultron escaped the Avengers, built an army of combat robots, and launched an invasion of Kamar-Taj to gain power and eliminate the Avengers. The mages were overwhelmed until Master Wang Yang arrived and began destroying the robots with golden lightning.

• Ultron attacked the Avengers with Tony Stark's suits, declared that peace required eliminating them, and let his damaged body be destroyed while escaping through the internet.
• Ultron gathered resources, built robots, and discovered Wanda, Quicksilver, and Kamar-Taj as potential means to defeat the Avengers.
• Unable to find Kamar-Taj's location through its records, Ultron used its IP address to locate it and sent combat robots to attack from the air.
• The robots caught Kamar-Taj by surprise, killed many mages, and drove the survivors back as the Masters of the Mystic Arts struggled to hold them off.
• When a robot threatened a mage, Master Wang Yang struck it with golden lightning and pierced through dozens of robots.

Wang Yang rescued the mages of Kamar-Taj from Ultron’s robot army with powerful magic, then confronted Ultron, who tried to recruit him to bring peace. Ultron attacked Wang Yang after he refused.

• Wang Yang destroyed the robots attacking Belar and the other mages, then ordered them to regroup with the Masters of the Mystic Arts.
• Wang Yang used the Bolts of Balthakk to destroy robots across Kamar-Taj and opened a Portal to evacuate the mages he rescued.
• The Ancient One watched Wang Yang use the forbidden magic with precise control as he continued fighting the seemingly endless robot army.
• Wang Yang swept robots from the sky with the Winds of Watoomb, then saw Ultron rise behind him.
• Ultron asked Wang Yang to help bring peace and threatened to kill him for refusing before lunging for his throat.

Wang Yang destroyed Ultron’s Vibranium body and banished the exploding robots to the Mirror Dimension, while Ultron escaped into the internet. Elsewhere, Thor’s lightning brought Vision to life, and Thor believed Vision could help defeat Ultron.

• Wang Yang cut through Ultron’s Vibranium body, destroyed its energy core, and drove Ultron to escape into the internet.
• Wang Yang sent the damaged robots into the Mirror Dimension before they could explode near Kamar-Taj.
• Ultron allied with Wanda and Quicksilver, while Wanda’s mind control turned the Avengers against one another and Hulk nearly destroyed half a city.
• Tony Stark and Banner tried to activate Ultron’s Vibranium cradle, but Captain America opposed them and Quicksilver cut its wiring.
• Thor struck the cradle with Mjolnir, restoring its power and bringing Vision to life.
• Vision thanked Thor, who told the Avengers that Vision could help them defeat Ultron.

Ultron prepared a new attack beneath Sokovia, drawing on what he had learned about magic, while the Avengers went to rescue Natasha and confront him. When Ultron launched an assault on the city, the Avengers discovered his robots could wield energy shields resembling magic.

• Ultron studied magic and decided the sorcerers must be destroyed because they would not join him.
• Hawkeye located Natasha in Sokovia, and the Avengers set out to rescue her and stop Ultron.
• Vision lifted Mjolnir and handed it to Thor, surprising the Avengers before they left Stark Tower.
• The Avengers found Natasha and began evacuating civilians while Iron Man confronted Ultron in a church.
• Ultron revealed a device containing the remaining vibranium and sent robots across Sokovia to attack the city.
• The Avengers fought robots protected by magic-like energy shields, and Tony identified the energy as the kind they had seen from Wang Yang.

Ultron’s magic-powered robots overwhelmed the Avengers and Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers as Sokovia faced destruction. Wang Yang arrived to help and discovered a Magic Core that he could fuse.

• Ultron taunted the battered Avengers and warned that Sokovia would fall from the sky and devastate the continent.
• Mordo ordered the sorcerers to evacuate civilians and fight the robots, then assigned Wang Yang to support them; the Ancient One revealed she was testing him as a possible successor.
• Sorcerers in Sokovia formed the Mirror Dimension, but the robots resisted their magic and used spells of their own.
• Wang Yang arrived, recognized the robots’ magic-based defenses, and received a system alert about a Magic Core available for fusion.
• Wang Yang cut a robot in half, revealing a magical core, and the system prompted him to fuse it.

Wang Yang fused with the robots’ Magic Cores and made short work of Ultron’s forces before heading to Sokovia to aid Kamar-Taj’s rescue effort. As he protected the sorcerers evacuating civilians, Strange accepted that Wang Yang might become the next Sorcerer Supreme.

• Wang Yang fused with a Magic Core, strengthening his magic, then destroyed the robots around the sorcerers with his Vishanti Holy Sword and Crimson Bands.
• Wang Yang left the remaining robots to the sorcerers and opened a Portal to Sokovia, where he continued fighting his way toward the rescue teams.
• Wang Yang landed among sorcerers struggling to protect civilians and ordered them to resume the evacuation while he attacked the robots.
• Wang Yang covered the sorcerers as they moved civilians through the city, destroying robots that threatened them.
• Strange defeated a robot and, seeing Wang Yang’s strength, accepted that he might become the next Sorcerer Supreme.

Wang Yang fought Ultron’s magical mechanical octopus and destroyed the robot using flexible magic that bypassed its defenses. He continued toward the civilians, unaware that S.H.I.E.L.D. had recorded the battle and that Ultron could return through his remaining machines.

• Wang Yang destroyed robots in Sokovia while Ultron gathered tens of thousands around him and offered an alliance.
• Ultron fused robots and Magic Cores into a mechanical octopus protected by the Rings of Raggadorr and armed with Vishanti Holy Swords.
• Wang Yang made his Vishanti Holy Sword insubstantial before it struck, then solidified it to break the octopus apart and absorbed its Magic Core.
• Wang Yang used a Crimson Band to pull Ultron close and pierced his core, destroying that body while recognizing that Ultron could survive through other robots and network access.
• Wang Yang left to help civilians evacuate, while a street camera captured the fight and Nick Fury watched the recording aboard S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier.

Wang Yang helped the Kamar-Taj sorcerers evacuate civilians and fought his way to Sokovia’s center, where Ultron revealed armor designed to repel magic. Ultron sent more than a hundred suits after Wang Yang, leaving him facing a new threat as Sokovia continued to rise.

• S.H.I.E.L.D. and governments around the world watched footage of Wang Yang destroying Ultron’s robots and reacted with shock at his power.
• Wang Yang traveled through Sokovia, supporting Kamar-Taj sorcerers as they fought robots and evacuated civilians.
• Wang Yang saw that Sokovia was still rising and teleported to the city’s center, where the Avengers were struggling against Ultron’s forces.
• Ultron claimed he had used the earlier attacks to find Wang Yang’s weakness and revealed more than a hundred suits of Anti-Magic Armor.
• Wanda’s magic bounced off the armor, and Ultron ordered the suits to attack Wang Yang.

Wang Yang used a purple-powered sword to destroy Ultron’s anti-magic suits, leaving Ultron unable to explain the power that defeated his calculations. Wang Yang approached to finish him, but Ultron insisted he could not be killed as the nearby wreckage began to move.

• Wang Yang formed a silver-white sword infused with purple energy as Ultron’s armored suits attacked him.
• Wang Yang’s strike stopped the suits and shattered them, stunning the Avengers and Ultron.
• Ultron’s calculations overloaded as he questioned how Wang Yang could wield power his systems could not predict.
• Wang Yang told Ultron that life and magic could exceed computation, then approached to kill him.
• Ultron claimed he would never die and the wreckage around them began trembling.

Ultron assembled a gigantic robot and attacked Wang Yang with a powerful imitation of the Vishanti Holy Sword, but Wang Yang blocked it with a Magic Shield. Ultron then unleashed an improved storm spell, leaving Wang Yang facing a destructive tornado.

• Ultron gathered mechanical wreckage around himself and transformed into a giant robot equipped to cast magic.
• Ultron swung a flaming imitation of the Vishanti Holy Sword at Wang Yang, who blocked it with a small shield.
• Ultron increased the sword's power, but Wang Yang's Magic Shield held, and Wang Yang taunted him by saying he could do this all day.
• Ultron opened his mouth and unleashed a violent magical storm that pulverized advanced-alloy machines and grew into a massive tornado.

Wang Yang destroyed Ultron’s black storm, but Ultron’s fight with Vision triggered Sokovia’s fall. As Tony Stark and Captain America argued over whether to destroy the city’s core, Wang Yang promised to save the civilians.

• Wang Yang dispelled Ultron’s black storm from within, stunning the Avengers and frightening Ultron.
• Vision locked Ultron out of the network, but Ultron transferred himself to a robot beside Sokovia’s propulsion system and made the city shake.
• Tony Stark calculated that Sokovia would fall in five minutes and warned that its impact could devastate humanity.
• Tony Stark argued that they should destroy Sokovia’s core, while Captain America insisted they could not abandon the civilians.
• Wang Yang interrupted them and said he would take care of the civilians in the city.

Wang Yang transferred all of Sokovia’s civilians and sorcerers into his Mirror Dimension, clearing the city so the Avengers could fight without endangering them. Nick Fury and the watching world were left stunned by the impossible feat, and world leaders demanded information about Wang Yang.

• Captain America urged Wang Yang to try rescuing Sokovia’s civilians, and the Avengers agreed despite Tony Stark’s doubts.
• Wang Yang used the Mirror Dimension to transfer the city’s civilians and sorcerers in an instant.
• Tony Stark had Friday scan Sokovia and confirmed that no civilians remained, leaving him amazed by Wang Yang’s power.
• Nick Fury learned that the life signs across Sokovia had disappeared and Captain America explained that Wang Yang had transferred the civilians.
• World leaders watched the events through satellites and demanded everything available about Wang Yang.

Wang Yang confirmed that every living thing had been evacuated from Sokovia and dismissed the Avengers, who planned to destroy the city. He sent them away and began tearing Sokovia apart with Bolts of Balthakk.

• Wang Yang told the Avengers that he had rescued every living thing in Sokovia.
• Tony Stark said the Avengers needed to destroy Sokovia by destroying its energy core, and Thor agreed to help.
• Wang Yang offered to move Sokovia to the far side of the moon, then decided to destroy it instead.
• Wang Yang warned that Ultron remained alive through his surviving robots and sent the Avengers through a Portal to a wooded area.
• Wang Yang unleashed Bolts of Balthakk into the ground, causing lightning to tear through Sokovia's concrete, steel, buildings, and ground.

Wang Yang destroyed Sokovia and returned to Kamar-Taj while the Ancient One secretly repaired a damaged celestial body near Earth. After discovering Wang Yang’s image in a time-revealing spell, she was left wondering what he had done there.

• Wang Yang’s magic disintegrated Sokovia, and Vision destroyed Ultron as the Avengers dealt with the aftermath.
• Tony Stark and the United Nations aided Sokovia’s survivors while Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers departed.
• Wang Yang returned to Kamar-Taj and went to the library, while Mordo failed to find the Ancient One.
• The Ancient One found a damaged celestial body approaching Earth, sensed Odin’s aura, and used the Time Stone to restore it and its trajectory.
• The Ancient One looked back through time and saw Wang Yang on the celestial body.