Chapter Summaries

Wang Yang faced Dormammu’s divine power clone with the Ancient One watching over him, and fused with Dormammu’s dark talent when his Seraphim Shield began to fail. The shield recovered and absorbed Dormammu’s power, strengthening Wang Yang as Dormammu realized he was facing an even more monstrous opponent than the Ancient One.

• The Ancient One prepared to help Wang Yang escape, but he reassured her that the Power Stone would let him fight Dormammu.
• The Ancient One urged Wang Yang to test himself against Dormammu’s divine power clone while she stood ready to intervene.
• Dormammu mocked Wang Yang and attacked him with a powerful black beam, which the Seraphim Shield initially struggled to withstand.
• Wang Yang accepted the system’s offer to fuse with Dormammu’s dark talent, causing dark wings to appear on the Seraphim Shield and restoring it.
• The Seraphim Shield absorbed Dormammu’s beam, strengthening Wang Yang’s body and leaving Dormammu shocked by his resistance.

Wang Yang fused Dormammu’s God-Eroding Storm with the Winds of Watoomb and used the enhanced spell to devastate Dormammu’s divine power clone. The Ancient One realized Dormammu had not grown weaker; Wang Yang had become far more powerful than she had expected.

• Dormammu overwhelmed Wang Yang’s Seraphim Shield, but the shield’s collapse turned Dormammu’s own dark energy back against him.
• Dormammu summoned a God-Eroding Storm, and Wang Yang fused its power with the Winds of Watoomb after the system offered him the magical talent.
• Wang Yang’s first whirlwind seemed to be swallowed by Dormammu’s storm, but he commanded it to disperse and destroyed the God-Eroding Storm.
• Wang Yang sent the enhanced Winds of Watoomb at Dormammu, shredding his divine power clone and leaving it badly battered.
• The Ancient One’s golden attack failed to harm Dormammu, and she concluded that Wang Yang’s strength—not Dormammu’s weakness—explained the battle’s outcome.

Dormammu offered Wang Yang immortality in exchange for serving him, but Wang Yang refused and fought back against Dormammu’s darkness. After Wang Yang’s green butterflies exploded and dispersed the darkness, he reappeared as the Ancient One searched for him, while Dormammu was nowhere to be seen.

• Dormammu was shocked by Wang Yang’s power and offered him everlasting life if he became his servant, but Wang Yang refused.
• Dormammu grew furious and engulfed the area in darkness, suppressing Wang Yang’s senses and attacking him with dark spikes.
• Dormammu’s spikes pierced Wang Yang’s collapsing Seraphim Shields, and Wang Yang’s body transformed into green butterflies.
• The green butterflies exploded in a chain reaction, dispersing the darkness and leaving the surrounding space devastated.
• The Ancient One searched for Wang Yang after the explosions, then found him standing calmly nearby as Dormammu had disappeared.

After Wang Yang drove Dormammu from the Dark World, Dormammu tried to devour Earth but fled when an old man in Norway noticed him. Back in Kamar-Taj, Wang Yang sensed a mysterious middle-aged man whose power overwhelmed his perception.

• Wang Yang asked the Ancient One where Dormammu had gone, and she explained that he had fled after the devastating blast and that Kaecilius had dissipated.
• The Ancient One opened a Portal, and she and Wang Yang returned to Kamar-Taj while Dormammu recovered in the Dark Dimension and vowed to take revenge on Earth.
• Dormammu launched the Dark Dimension toward Earth, but an old man in Norway looked up, causing Dormammu to withdraw in terror and flee.
• As Wang Yang waited for the Ancient One in Kamar-Taj, a seemingly ordinary middle-aged man appeared behind him and triggered his battle instincts.

Eternity visited the Ancient One, praised Wang Yang’s potential, and left after discussing her plans. Meanwhile, Odin pursued a dark aura, leaving Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian to consider whether Hela could kill him and the Sorcerer Supreme.

• Wang Yang met Eternity at Kamar-Taj and worried that the powerful visitor might discover his secret.
• The Ancient One returned, greeted Eternity respectfully, and explained that her planned journey with him would have to wait.
• Eternity praised Wang Yang’s talent, said even Strange was less impressive, and then vanished.
• The Ancient One explained why Wang Yang could no longer clearly remember Eternity’s appearance and urged him to train for Kamar-Taj’s future.
• Odin left to investigate a dark aura, and Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian emerged near the cliff and wondered whether Hela could kill Odin and the Sorcerer Supreme.

Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian used a replica Infinity Stone to weaken Hela’s seal, allowing her to break free and return to Asgard. Wang Yang and the Ancient One discovered the escape, and the Ancient One headed to Asgard as Wang Yang returned to warn Kamar-Taj.

• Ebony Maw used the replica Infinity Stone against Wang Yang’s seal, weakening it even though the Gem’s power could not break it outright.
• Hela’s attacks from inside the seal caused it to crack, and Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian left as black energy escaped.
• Wang Yang sensed danger, traveled to Norway, and found that Hela had escaped and the formation had collapsed.
• The Ancient One arrived and told Wang Yang to alert Kamar-Taj and the Sanctum Sanctorum while she went to Asgard.
• The Ancient One opened a Portal to Asgard and saw its palace surrounded by deathly energy, with countless Asgardian soldiers dead.

Odin returned to Asgard as Loki approached the throne and revealed that Hela’s seal had broken and she was coming back. Odin sent Thor and Loki to Midgard to seek the Sorcerer Supreme, then fought Hela as she arrived, but his strength failed until the Ancient One appeared and bound Hela with golden magic chains.

• Loki approached Asgard’s throne, but Odin returned and told him not to worry about his ambition.
• Odin summoned Thor from across space and warned him that Hela was returning, then ordered Heimdall to send Thor and Loki to Midgard to seek the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Odin told Heimdall to evacuate Asgard’s people, donned the Destroyer Armor, and gathered the soldiers to face Hela.
• Hela emerged from the dark green mist and refused Odin’s offer to give her Asgard peacefully.
• Odin and the Asgardian soldiers fought Hela, but she overwhelmed them as Odin’s life force dwindled.
• The Ancient One arrived and restrained Hela with golden magic chains.

Hela seized Asgard and raised an army of undead after the Ancient One rescued Odin and escaped. On Earth, Thor and Loki reached Kamar-Taj seeking help, where Wang Yang warned that Hela’s power would grow as long as she remained in Asgard.

• The Ancient One rescued Odin from Hela, then escaped through a Portal as Hela vowed to destroy Kamar-Taj.
• Hela entered Odin’s Vault, awakened an army of undead, and declared that she would conquer and raze Kamar-Taj.
• Thor and Loki crashed through the roof of the New York Sanctum and demanded to see the Sorcerer Supreme, but Mordo insisted they follow Kamar-Taj’s rules.
• Wang Yang arrived, warned Mordo that Hela was coming, and took Thor and Loki to his room.
• Wang Yang told Thor that the Ancient One had already gone to Asgard and warned that no one could defeat Hela there while she grew stronger.

Wang Yang brought Thor and Loki to Norway, where Hela arrived with her Undead Legion and demanded their submission. Wang Yang crushed many of the undead with Crimson Bands, but they reassembled and surrounded the three, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Thor insisted on returning to Asgard, but Wang Yang told him Hela had likely already brought her Death Army to Earth.
• Wang Yang opened a Portal to Norway, where Hela and tens of thousands of undead arrived through the Bifrost.
• Hela offered Loki a chance to submit, but Thor refused and threw Mjolnir at her; Hela caught and shattered the hammer.
• Hela ordered her Undead Legion to tear the three apart, and Wang Yang used Crimson Bands to crush a large part of the army.
• The shattered undead reassembled and charged again, surrounding Wang Yang, Thor, and Loki as Hela ordered them to attack.

Wang Yang and the Masters of the Mystic Arts used portals to destroy much of Hela’s undead legion, but Hela summoned Fenris to fight them. After fusing with Fenris’s talent, Wang Yang charged the giant wolf and struck its head.

• Wang Yang, Thor, and Loki fought Hela’s undead soldiers until the Masters of the Mystic Arts opened portals and sent many of them into the sun.
• Hela’s death magic disrupted the portals, causing them to collapse and injure the sorcerers while the spatial backlash devastated the remaining undead soldiers.
• Hela blamed Wang Yang for her losses and summoned Fenris, leaving Loki, Thor, Wong, Mordo, and the other sorcerers alarmed.
• Wang Yang fused with Fenris’s giant wolf talent, enlarged his body, and charged at the wolf despite the others’ warnings.
• Fenris snapped at Wang Yang, who leaped forward and smashed a fist into its head.

Wang Yang overwhelmed Fenris with his physical strength, but Fenris swallowed him during a sneak attack. Fenris then swelled and exploded, leaving its fate—and Wang Yang’s survival—unclear as Hela faced the others.

• Wang Yang knocked Fenris down with a punch and beat it until it cowered and begged for mercy.
• Hela ordered Fenris to attack, and Fenris suddenly caught Wang Yang in its jaws and swallowed him.
• Wang Yang’s body vanished in a scattering of butterflies as Hela demanded that Thor, Loki, and the sorcerers surrender.
• Hela sensed something wrong inside Fenris, which rapidly swelled as the sorcerers raised Magic Shields.
• Fenris exploded in a massive shock wave that hurled Thor and Loki away, and its body disappeared.
• Thor suspected Wang Yang had caused the explosion, while Loki struggled to believe Fenris had been destroyed.

Wang Yang revealed that he had survived by destroying Fenris from within, then foiled Hela’s attempt to trap the group in a cage of death. As Hela attacked him directly, Wang Yang and the Kamar-Taj sorcerers opened the Mirror Dimension to subdue her.

• Wang Yang reappeared after using Hoggoth's Hoary Hosts to destroy Fenris from within, shocking Hela, Thor, and Loki.
• Hela admired Wang Yang’s power and offered him one last chance to pledge allegiance to her.
• Wang Yang compared Hela’s arrogance to Loki’s and noticed her dark green death aura forming a cage around the group.
• Wang Yang disrupted Hela’s death cage and ordered Wong, Mordo, and the other sorcerers to spread out and open the Mirror Dimension.
• The sorcerers replaced the surrounding space with the Mirror Dimension as Hela’s death aura surged toward Wang Yang.

Wang Yang fought Hela in the Mirror Dimension while Thanos watched the battle from Titan and recognized him as a threat to his plans. Thanos sent Ebony Maw to Earth to observe the fight and ordered him to kill Wang Yang and Hela if the chance arose.

• Wang Yang fused a Death Talent Fragment into the Vishanti Holy Sword, gaining immunity to the aura of death, then began battling Hela.
• Wang Yang and Hela traded blows that tore cracks through the Mirror Dimension as Thor, Loki, and the Kamar-Taj sorcerers watched.
• Thanos watched a projection of Hela's battle with Wang Yang and learned that Wang Yang could fight her on equal terms.
• Ebony Maw admitted he was no match for Wang Yang, and the battle's power destroyed Cull Obsidian's projection device.
• Thanos ordered Ebony Maw to go to Earth, observe the battle, and kill Wang Yang and Hela if an opportunity arose.

Wang Yang fought Hela, resisted her death magic, and wounded her with the Vishanti Holy Sword. As Hela lay vulnerable, Wang Yang raised his sword to strike again.

• Hela unleashed a wave of death power, but Wang Yang absorbed it without harm, leaving her astonished by his strength.
• Hela sealed Wang Yang with a soul lock and summoned Death Swords, but Wang Yang broke free and blocked them with the Seraphim Shield.
• Wang Yang charged through Hela’s death aura and cut her armor, lightly wounding her and sending her flying.
• Wang Yang approached the fallen Hela and prepared to stab her with the Vishanti Holy Sword.

Wang Yang used the Power Stone to strengthen his Vishanti Holy Sword and battle Hela as she drew on the Underworld's power. His sword began dispelling the realm's deathly energy, leaving Hela shocked as the Underworld's foundation started to collapse.

• Hela recovered from Wang Yang's attack and drew on Asgard's power to heal and grow stronger.
• Wang Yang summoned the Power Stone and fused with its energy, prompting Hela to abandon her plan to wear him down and charge at him.
• Wang Yang's empowered sword drove Hela back, but she unfolded the Underworld and sent its undead creatures after him.
• Wang Yang shielded himself from the undead and absorbed energy, while his sword began suppressing Hela and the Underworld's power.
• Wang Yang unleashed purple light that dispelled the Underworld's black-green energy, and Hela realized her realm was losing its power.

Wang Yang destroyed much of Hela’s Underworld with the Vishanti Holy Sword empowered by the Power Stone, but Hela recovered and continued fighting. As she moved in to kill him, Wang Yang multiplied himself with Images of Ikonn, bound her with Magic Chains, and unleashed a blast that petrified them both.

• Hela summoned the bones and awakened souls of her fallen enemies to overwhelm Wang Yang, but he empowered the Vishanti Holy Sword with the Power Stone and shattered her defenses.
• Wang Yang’s attack tore apart much of Niflheim, sending tremors across Earth and leaving Hela badly damaged, though she used the Underworld’s deathly power to recover.
• Hela restored her armor and threatened to kill Wang Yang, believing that the Power Stone’s power would soon overwhelm him.
• Wang Yang used Images of Ikonn to create countless copies of himself and told Hela that her greatest mistake was coming to Earth.
• Wang Yang bound Hela with Magic Chains and unleashed the Power Stone’s energy, turning both Hela and the chains to stone before a blinding explosion erupted.

Wang Yang defeated Hela but questioned whether she had truly died, while Thanos ordered his forces to pursue Gamora and attack Knowhere. Loki revealed an Asgardian legend that a companion-born child could not die while Asgard remained intact, suggesting Hela might still be alive.

• Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian abandoned their plan to attack Earth after seeing Wang Yang's power, then obeyed Thanos's order to bring Gamora back alive.
• Thanos ordered Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Supergiant to prepare an army to attack Knowhere so he could obtain power from the Infinity Stones.
• Wang Yang collapsed after defeating Hela, and Thor and Loki agreed to clear away the deathly bones while the sorcerers returned to their posts.
• Wang Yang wondered whether Hela had survived, but Thor insisted she was dead while Loki remained uncertain.
• Loki told Wang Yang that Asgardian legend said a companion-born child would not die as long as Asgard remained intact, leading Wang Yang to suspect Hela was alive.

Wang Yang and the Ancient One returned to Asgard, where Thor and Loki said goodbye to Odin as he died. Back at Kamar-Taj, the Ancient One gave Wang Yang the Book of the Vishanti, and he began studying it as the system detected a Vishanti Magic Talent Fragment.

• Wang Yang decided to leave Asgard intact, and the Ancient One arrived with Odin after rescuing him from Hela.
• The Ancient One confirmed that Hela would be reborn unless Asgard was destroyed, while Odin’s life was nearing its end.
• Odin told Thor and Loki that Asgard was never a place, then dissolved into golden light and died.
• Thor and Loki destroyed the remaining bones before returning to Asgard, while Wang Yang and the Ancient One returned to Kamar-Taj.
• The Ancient One gave Wang Yang the Book of the Vishanti, and he opened it to study its white magic.
• The system detected a Vishanti Magic Talent Fragment and asked Wang Yang whether to fuse it.

After absorbing the Vishanti's power, Wang Yang reached Skyfather-level strength and accidentally disrupted Kamar-Taj by blocking its access to cosmic energy. He restored the energy, then foresaw Thanos beginning to collect the Infinity Stones and resolved to gather them first.

• Wang Yang absorbed the Vishanti's Talent Fragment and became a sorcerer with power comparable to the Ancient One.
• Wang Yang's breakthrough enveloped Kamar-Taj in his power, cutting its sorcerers off from cosmic and dimensional energy.
• Mordo found Wang Yang, who explained that his magic had caused the disturbance and then restored the cosmic energy throughout Kamar-Taj.
• Wang Yang used divination magic from the Book of the Vishanti to glimpse thousands of timelines and learn that Thanos had begun seeking the Infinity Stones.
• Wang Yang reviewed the stones' locations and decided to collect them before Thanos could.

Wang Yang took the Space Stone from Loki and brought Loki and Vision to Kamar-Taj for protection from Thanos. On Vormir, Thanos sacrificed Gamora to obtain the Soul Stone and continued his mission to destroy the universe.

• Wang Yang took the Space Stone from Loki and offered him a choice between Kamar-Taj's protection and remaining in Asgard; Loki chose Kamar-Taj.
• Wang Yang told Vision that Thanos would come for the Infinity Stones, and Vision agreed to go to Kamar-Taj while seeking a way to remove the Stone from his forehead.
• On Vormir, Red Skull explained that the Soul Stone required the sacrifice of someone Thanos loved.
• Thanos threw Gamora from the cliff, sacrificing her soul and gaining the Soul Stone.
• Thanos left Vormir with the Soul Stone and continued his path toward destroying the universe.