Chapter Summaries

Harry, Ron, Neville, Jack, and Rose began their covert operation to reach the tower at the center of Dalaran and target Bell. After four days of gathering intelligence, they knew Bell usually returned to the tower around dinner, though he sometimes stayed elsewhere overnight.

• Harry rode a Muggle bus through Dalaran and calmed Ron, who had been anxiously watching their surroundings.
• Jack and Rose joined Harry, Ron, and Neville, and Jack refused to reconsider bringing Rose on the dangerous mission.
• Harry used Human Transformation and the Invisibility Cloak to conceal the five as they left their room and began the operation.
• The group moved through Dalaran at night, avoiding pedestrians and patrolling guards as they approached the central tower.
• Harry and the others had spent four days gathering information in busy taverns and learned that Bell usually returned to the tower around dinner.

Harry and his companions infiltrated the Central Tower to carry out their plan to reach Bell. After using Harry’s Invisibility Cloak to bypass the entrance barrier, they found the tower’s interior surprisingly lightly guarded and prepared to proceed.

• Harry and his companions learned that Shanna and Hermione were in the city and concluded Bell would stay in the tower that night.
• Harry led the group across the brightly lit Central Square in soft-soled shoes and approached the guarded entrance.
• Unable to find a safe way past the guards, Harry led the five of them through the entrance beneath the guards’ noses.
• Harry and the others avoided detection because his Invisibility Cloak concealed their magical signatures from the barrier.
• After resting inside the tower, Harry and his companions discovered that its internal defenses were lax and stood up to continue.

Bell revealed that Harry and his companions had secretly entered the Central Tower and prepared to deal with them while Hermione worried about her former classmates. Harry’s group continued deeper into the tower, exhausted and convinced they had been caught, but they entered another unknown area in search of a chance to survive.

• Bell told Shanna and Hermione that they had guests to receive after breakfast.
• Bell showed his family Harry’s group and two unidentified companions moving invisibly through the Central Tower.
• Hermione recognized Harry and worried about Bell harming her former classmates, while Bell arranged to keep residents and staff away from the intruders’ route.
• Harry, Ron, and Jack passed through a door that opened on its own and climbed a long spiral staircase.
• Jack spotted a wooden door beside the staircase, and Harry urged the group to enter despite suspecting they had already been exposed.

Harry and his companions encountered Wang Shouqiang, one of Dalaran's Four Pillars, who had been sent by Bell to stop one of them as part of a game. After Harry's group refused to split up, they attacked Wang and prepared to press on toward Bell together.

• Harry's group emerged from the spiral staircase into a hall, where Wang Shouqiang was waiting for them.
• Wang introduced himself as the Steadfast Pillar and asked Harry's group to remove the Invisibility Cloak.
• Harry attacked Wang with a Disarming Charm, but Wang blocked it with an armored whip and counterattacked.
• Harry threw off the cloak, and the five companions dispelled their Human Transfiguration to reveal their original forms.
• Wang explained that Bell had asked him to stop one of them, but Harry refused to let the group split up.
• Ron cast a Petrification Curse at Wang as the group planned to subdue him and continue toward Bell.

Harry and his friends faced a series of deadly duels imposed by Bell’s tower game, leaving each companion behind so Harry could continue. After Harry passed the first four guardians, Luna revealed herself as a fifth pillar, and Harry realized the promised Four Pillars were actually five.

• Wang Shouqiang opened the hall’s hidden doors, revealed Magical Statues, and offered Harry’s group a choice between following the game’s rules or dying together.
• Harry questioned Wang Shouqiang about the duel, then Jack volunteered to stay behind while the others continued.
• Harry’s group left Jack behind, and Harry later passed the Fire Pillar, Water Pillar, and Curse Pillar after leaving another companion to face each guardian.
• Harry reached the next hall expecting to meet Bell, but Luna told him Bell was absent and that she was the Spirit Pillar.
• Harry counted the guardians and confronted the contradiction that the supposedly Four Pillars numbered five.

Bell laughed at the Four Pillars’ reaction while Hermione and Elena watched, and Luna defeated Harry after explaining how her mind-reading and Counter Spells worked. Luna brought the bound Harry to Bell’s living room, where he saw the people gathered there.

• Bell laughed at the Four Pillars’ expressions, then took Little Al from Elena and reassured her that he would keep the baby safe.
• Harry tried to persuade Luna to let him pass, but Luna read his thoughts and revealed that she already knew his mission.
• Luna explained that she could evade single-target Curses and use Counter Spells to disrupt Harry’s magic, then injured and defeated him.
• Luna bound Harry with a Full Body-Bind Curse and levitated him into an elevator.
• Luna brought Harry into Bell’s living room, where the sight of the people there dispelled his brief sense of calm.

Bell reunited with Harry, Neville, Ron, and Jack after they infiltrated his home, learning that they had come to capture him and destroy Dalaran. He struggled to decide what to do with his former classmates, especially since he had reasons to spare Harry and Neville and could not easily harm Ron.

• Harry found Ron, Jack, Neville, and Rose injured and restrained in Bell's living room, while Ron slept under a Sleeping Charm.
• Luna told Bell that the group had come to capture him and destroy Dalaran, forcing the Magical World into hiding again.
• Bell restrained Harry and the others, then asked Neville about his herb-growing job at Chia Farm and Harry about becoming an Auror.
• Harry demanded to know what Bell planned to do with them and said he hoped Bell would spare the others.
• Bell considered his past promise to protect Harry, Neville's ties to Hermione and the Longbottom family, and his relationships with Ron's family, and decided he could not kill any of them.

Bell punished Harry, Neville, Ron, and their companions after they caused trouble at the Central Tower, then took Harry’s Invisibility Cloak to study. The confrontation ended with Bell announcing his wedding to Hermione and sending the intruders away.

• Harry apologized for the disturbance but insisted he would make the same choice again, and Bell decided how to punish the group.
• Bell confiscated Harry’s Invisibility Cloak and told him to contact Black, saying he no longer owed Black anything.
• Bell threatened to tell the Longbottom Old Lady about Neville’s actions and ordered Ron handed over to George and Fred, with their Dalaran shop and potion quota revoked.
• Bell sent the remaining two intruders to the Court of Judgment and warned Harry to tell the Order of the Phoenix not to cause trouble again.
• Bell invited Harry’s companions to his wedding with Hermione on the ninth of next month, then transported the five away and began studying the cloak.

Bell returned from space disappointed that the Menethil Family had found no living planets, then presented his baby brother Al with a powerful family heirloom warhammer. He planned to make Menethil's Power the symbol passed down to future family heads, while Shanna asked to use it herself.

• Bell gave Little Al a 1.5-meter golden warhammer, alarming Elena and the other women.
• Bell explained that Menethil's Power had been forged with the family's blood and would serve as a hereditary token for the family head.
• Elena agreed to put the hammer away until Al grew up, but Bell suggested displaying it in the hall because their father could not use it.
• Shanna asked Bell to let her play with the hammer, and Bell argued that her modified Little Bear Tibbers could already help her fight.

After Penelope reported that the Williams had discovered a Life Planet, Bell organized an expedition and invited Shanna and Penelope to join him. The chapter ended with Bell preparing to leave Earth, loaded with supplies and powerful magical tools for the unknown dangers ahead.

• Penelope called Bell and shared footage of the Life Planet discovered by the Williams.
• Bell's excitement frightened Al when a trace of Magic Power escaped him, so he apologized and comforted his little brother.
• Bell told Elena he planned to explore the planet, and Shanna eagerly agreed to come along.
• Bell ordered Hermione to gather three hundred combat and logistics personnel and prepare supplies, while Penelope asked to join the expedition.
• Bell and his parents packed for the trip, with William and Elena adding several spatial bags filled with powerful magical tools.

Bell and his companions examined a beautiful planet in a binary-star system and discovered that its air contained much more Magic Power than Earth’s. Hermione asked when Bell’s Earth Transformation Project would begin.

• Bell stopped the Williams near Life Planet Number 1 and showed his companions a sphere of air he had taken from the distant planet.
• Bell explained that living creatures resisted outside Magic Power, making it difficult to remove organs from their bodies with Space Spells.
• Shanna recognized the Magic Power in the sphere, and Bell explained that it was unusually abundant compared with Earth’s air.
• Bell suggested the planet’s two stars and three moons might explain its greater Magic Power concentration.
• Hermione asked Bell when he would begin the Earth Transformation Project.

Bell explained why he had postponed the Earth Transformation Project until Dalaran was secure and peace agreements were in place. After the Williams arrived at Life Planet Number 1, he received an atmospheric briefing and stepped outside the ship’s Protective Barrier.

• Bell said the Earth Transformation Project would raise Earth’s Magic Power concentration to increase the number of wizards and reduce tensions between wizards and Muggles.
• Bell explained that he had postponed the project because Dalaran needed protection from attacks and negotiations with governments had not yet produced a peace treaty.
• The Williams entered Life Planet Number 1’s atmosphere, and Captain Stuart asked Bell for instructions.
• Bell ordered Stuart to follow exploration protocol and test the latest Explorers’ new functions before reporting the results.
• Penelope summarized the atmospheric analysis, reporting that the planet had higher oxygen levels than Earth and that humans should be able to survive there.
• Bell used his authority to pass through the Williams’s Protective Barrier and appear outside the ship.

Bell and his family explored the resource-rich Life Planet Number 1, where Shanna developed a potion that temporarily enhanced Magic Power. After receiving the Explorers’ planetary survey, Bell renamed the planet Menethil Star and declared it the Menethil Family’s new base and private territory.

• Researchers confirmed that Life Planet Number 1’s atmosphere was safe for humans and could slightly strengthen their bodies.
• Shanna showed Bell her Magic Power Enhancement Potion, and Bell tested it and praised its effects.
• Hermione gave Bell the Explorers’ completed planetary intelligence, which displayed the planet and its surveyed regions.
• Bell announced that Life Planet Number 1 would be renamed Menethil Star and become the Menethil Family’s main base.
• Hermione warned that they had not fully explored the planet, but Bell ordered Shanna to arrange the family’s move and declare the planet and its system private territory.

Bell surveyed Menethil Star with his family to choose a site for a city and teleportation facility, but rejected locations that would damage the environment or require too many resources. Their search ended when they spotted a powerful humanoid creature hunting in the forest.

• Bell began planning the relocation of the Menethil Family's headquarters and decided that a large teleportation facility between Menethil Star and Earth was the first priority.
• Bell, Hermione, Shanna, Yomi, and the others surveyed potential city sites on Menethil Star.
• Hermione proposed building on a mountain, but Bell rejected the site because removing the peak would harm the local climate and ecosystem.
• Shanna suggested a floating city over a lake, but Bell explained that it would take too many resources and would be damp inside.
• Bell spotted a humanoid creature hunting in the forest, and the group watched it kill a cheetah-like predator with a single strike.

Bell sent Fina to test a humanoid creature's strength, but the armored, gaming-addicted pet chased it through the forest and was gradually worn down by its superior endurance. Bell stopped Shanna from intervening, leaving Fina in danger as Shanna resolved to put it through rigorous training.

• Bell had Fina put on custom battle armor and charge the humanoid creature head-on.
• The humanoid creature evaded Fina, fled into the forest, and drew Fina into pursuit.
• Bell and Hermione followed while the creature circled near the hunting site instead of leading them to its tribe.
• The humanoid creature used its forest experience and endurance to exhaust Fina and turn the chase into a hunt.
• Shanna prepared to attack, but Bell stopped her and chose to let the armored Fina continue.
• Shanna decided she would give Fina a strict training plan when they returned.

Faust Fang, an ambitious Forest Troll, hunted a Swift Cat to complete his Coming-of-Age Ceremony but was attacked by Fina, a silver-white dragon. After Fina badly overpowered him, Fang decided to lure her away, recover his prey, and return to the tribe.

• Faust Fang ambushed and killed a Swift Cat, hoping to earn the Loa God's blessing and become a tribal warrior.
• Fina pounced on Faust Fang instead of eating the Swift Cat, and he tried to lure her into a sneak attack.
• Faust Fang's Bone Dagger shattered against Fina's neck, and she retaliated with Dragon Flame and a powerful tail strike.
• Faust Fang recovered from his injuries with his Forest Troll healing and recognized that Fina surpassed him in strength, speed, and defense.
• Faust Fang decided to draw Fina away, retrieve the Swift Cat's corpse, and return to the tribe before hunting her again as a stronger warrior.

Fang used Syndra Grass extract to escape Fina, then found several strange little creatures beside the Swift Cat’s corpse. Believing the encounter was a trial from the Loa God, he watched them warily, suspecting their harmless appearance concealed a deadly threat.

• Fang fought Fina while retreating from the Swift Cat’s corpse, then splashed her with Syndra Grass extract and escaped as the pungent mist overwhelmed her.
• Fang reflected on the rare potion a seer had given him after his father died and vowed to make Fina pay for what happened.
• Near the Swift Cat’s corpse, Fang spotted several strange little creatures standing beside his prey.
• Fang concluded that the Loa God had sent him a trial and imagined earning a blessing that could make him a seer.
• Fang observed the creatures cautiously and suspected that their small, frail appearance hid a deadly ability such as poison.

Fang discovered that the strangers were intelligent and prepared to report them to his tribe’s seer, while Bell used magic to communicate and introduced himself as a seer. Fang agreed to lead Bell and his family to the Emerald Peak Tribe.

• Fang watched Bell’s group and decided to capture one of them alive for the seer to question.
• Bell tried greeting Fang, and Shanna offered to catch him, but Bell stopped her and tossed the Swift Cat corpse toward Fang as a peaceful gesture.
• Bell used a Curse to convey his meaning directly into Fang’s mind, startling him and making him able to understand Bell.
• Bell introduced himself as Bell Menethil, explained that he and his family came from another planet, and confirmed he could use magic.
• Fang introduced himself as Faust Fang of the Emerald Peak Tribe, recognized Bell as a seer, and agreed to guide the group to his tribe.

Bell and his companions followed Fang to the Emerald Peak Tribe, where they learned how strong the trolls were and were confronted by the tribe’s Loa God. The Loa God’s hostility led the Troll Warriors to surround the newcomers.

• Bell shrank Fina back into her kitten-sized form and soothed her discomfort with healing magic.
• Fang introduced Bell and his companions to Tom, who welcomed them and congratulated Fang on passing his coming-of-age trial.
• Bell followed Fang through the forest toward the Emerald Peak Tribe and judged the trolls to be exceptionally powerful.
• As Bell’s group reached the village, a four-winged eagle-like Loa God appeared and regarded them with hostility.
• The Loa God’s reaction prompted a large group of Troll Warriors to surround Bell and his companions.

Bell’s group reached the Emerald Peak Tribe, where the Great Seer Mude Emerald Peak confronted them and tried to protect his people. Bell refused to leave Menethil Star and claimed he only wanted to learn about the Forest Trolls and their planet.

• The Troll Warriors surrounded Bell’s group with weapons, then made way for the elderly Great Seer, Mude Emerald Peak.
• Mude recognized Bell as an overwhelming threat and recalled sensing his arrival before the tribe’s Loa God warned them.
• Mude stopped the Loa God from attacking and hurried to the village entrance to prevent a fight and protect the tribe’s children.
• Mude told the strangers that the Emerald Peak Tribe did not welcome them and demanded that they leave.
• Bell refused to go, insisted that Menethil Star was his territory, and claimed he had come to learn about the Forest Trolls and the planet.