Chapter Summaries

Ebony Maw and the Black Order launched an attack on Earth to seize the Time and Mind Stones, destroying the planet’s defenses as they approached North America. With Allen unreachable, Earth’s defenders gathered to face the invasion, and Doctor Strange warned them that Thanos was collecting the Infinity Stones to erase half of all life.

• Ebony Maw chose Doctor Strange and the Time Stone as his target, while Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian set out to seize Vision’s Mind Stone.
• Ebony Maw’s ship destroyed Earth’s orbital defenses and lunar base before descending toward North America.
• The US President mobilized Earth’s governments and defenders after learning that Allen could not be contacted.
• Tony Stark prepared to fight alongside Quicksilver, who brought protective bracers Allen had given him.
• Doctor Strange, Mordo, and Quake’s Inhumans joined the defense, and Strange told Tony that Thanos had the Power and Space Stones and was pursuing the others.

Ebony Maw and Black Dwarf led Thanos’s assault on Earth, where Tony Stark, Doctor Strange, and the Inhumans fought back. Meanwhile, Thor and Bruce Banner discovered the Dwarves’ massacre at Nidavellir, found Eitri alive, and began helping him forge Stormbreaker to kill Thanos.

• Ebony Maw introduced himself to Tony Stark and demanded the Time Stone, while Doctor Strange refused to surrender it.
• Black Dwarf attacked, but Lucas and the Inhumans joined the battle; Daisy Johnson’s shockwaves badly injured Black Dwarf, and Doctor Strange, Mordo, Tony, and Quicksilver fought Ebony Maw.
• Thor and Bruce Banner arrived at Nidavellir and found the Dwarves dead, then Eitri emerged and blamed Thor for failing to protect them.
• Thor explained that Odin had died and Hela had taken over Asgard, while Eitri revealed that Thanos had forced him to forge the Infinity Gauntlet before slaughtering the Dwarves.
• Thor asked Eitri to forge a weapon capable of killing Thanos, and Eitri agreed to make Stormbreaker once Thor and Bruce helped restart the forge.

Allen showed Hela his treasury, restored her youth, and introduced her to the Death domain and the Administrator. After Hela vowed to follow him, Allen left her wanting more, having drawn her further into his influence.

• Allen explained how he had acquired the treasury’s artifacts and told Hela about his bargain with Ancient One and his growing power as a dimensional Demon God.
• Allen gave Hela Gungnir and used Soul Materialization to restore her body to a youthful age.
• Allen brought Hela to the Death domain, where she offered to raise an army from the gathered souls and agreed to limit its size.
• Allen introduced the Administrator and revealed its countless Incarnations, astonishing Hela with the scale of his creation.
• Hela declared that she would follow Allen even to death, but Allen stopped her advances and vanished with the Administrator.

Allen learned that Thanos’s forces had abducted Vision and taken the Mind Stone, while Iron Man’s allies repelled Ebony Maw’s attack. The chapter ended with Coulson confirming Vision’s abduction to Stark as the heroes prepared for the coming war.

• Sakura told Allen she disliked Hela because Hela’s desire for him was obvious, and Allen admitted his Charm ability had influenced her.
• Wanda reported that Thanos’s forces had abducted Vision, and she showed Allen footage of Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight capturing him after knocking Coulson into a river.
• Allen promised Wanda he would bring Vision back alive.
• Earth’s Superpowers forced Ebony Maw to flee, and Iron Man stopped the others from pursuing his spaceship.
• Coulson called Stark and confirmed that Vision and the Mind Stone had disappeared with two aliens.

After Vision was abducted by Thanos’s forces, Doctor Strange, Tony Stark, Thor, and their allies prepared to pursue them into space, knowing Allen would not intervene. The chapter ended with the team departing aboard a Stark Industries spacecraft to rescue Vision before Thanos could claim the Mind Stone.

• Coulson told Tony Stark that Vision had been abducted, and Doctor Strange said the Avengers needed to recover the Mind Stone before Thanos collected five stones.
• Doctor Strange explained that Allen had cut off contact and would not appear in the war, while Thor’s sister Hela had defeated Thor and destroyed Mjolnir.
• Thor arrived wielding Stormbreaker, learned Thanos’s forces had already taken Vision, and warned the others how dangerous Thanos was.
• Thor revealed that Allen had helped save Asgard and taken Hela away, prompting Doctor Strange to speculate that Allen was testing Earth or preparing to leave.
• Tony Stark accepted that the team might have to rely on themselves, and the group boarded a Stark Industries spacecraft to pursue Ebony Maw and rescue Vision.

Thanos gathered the Mind Stone on Titan while preparing to confront the Earth defenders, and Allen intervened only to save Vision before handing the Stone to him. The Avengers, mages, and Inhumans arrived to face Thanos, with Thor launching the first attack.

• Thanos explained to Ebony Maw that Allen had used him to test Earth's defenses and waited for the heroes to arrive on Titan.
• Thanos told Vision about Titan's collapse and his plan to kill half of all life, then prepared to tear the Mind Stone from Vision.
• Allen stopped Thanos, removed the Mind Stone safely from Vision, gave it to Thanos, and took Vision away.
• Tony Stark's spacecraft crash-landed on Titan, bringing the Avengers, Doctor Strange and the mages, and Quake's Inhumans to confront Thanos.
• Thanos told Tony that Vision had sacrificed himself, and Thor charged at Thanos with Stormbreaker.

The Avengers Alliance, Inhumans, and sorcerers fought Thanos on Titan, but his five Infinity Stones overwhelmed their attacks. When Tony Stark threatened to detonate a devastating bomb, Thanos explained the stones’ power and demanded Doctor Strange’s Time Stone; Strange ultimately surrendered it to protect Earth and humanity.

• Thor launched the battle against Thanos, while Doctor Strange, the Inhumans, Spider-Man, Quicksilver, and Iron Man joined the fight to seize the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Thanos used the Space, Reality, Power, and Mind Stones to foil the heroes’ attacks, and the other stones neutralized Doctor Strange’s attempt to trap him in a time loop.
• Iron Man revealed a Super Energy Oscillation Bomb and warned that detonating it could destroy Titan and endanger the surrounding galaxy.
• Thanos explained that each Infinity Stone embodied a fundamental rule of the universe and that he could counter the bomb, while Ebony Maw declared his willingness to die for Thanos’s cause.
• Thanos asked Doctor Strange to hand over the Time Stone, and Strange surrendered the Eye of Agamotto after recalling Ancient One’s advice to protect Earth’s survival.

Thanos used the six Infinity Stones to erase half of all life, plunging Earth into social and economic upheaval while Allen challenged him to a full-force battle. Allen then sent Vision into the gap between the universe and the Azerath Universe as the confrontation began.

• Doctor Strange surrendered the Time Stone to Thanos, while Tony Stark and Thor attacked and Daisy evacuated the Inhumans and other allies to Earth.
• Thanos used the Reality Stone to neutralize Stormbreaker and the Time Stone to reverse Tony’s bomb, then snapped his fingers and erased half of all life.
• The snap killed Doctor Strange, Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, and Spider-Man, and caused worldwide chaos on Earth; Allen’s AI and robotic technology helped sustain productivity as nations began cooperating.
• Thanos sent Thor and Tony back to Earth, then celebrated his vision of a balanced universe when Allen arrived with Vision.
• Allen disputed Thanos’s claim that the snap would improve the universe, challenged him to fight, and hurled Vision into the gap between universes.

Allen and Thanos fought across the destruction of Titan, and Allen revealed that his deeper connection to the Infinity Stones let him override Thanos's control and demonstrate their power. Thanos began adapting to Allen's explanations, but Allen declared him prey and launched an overwhelming hunt that left Thanos unable to see or counter his attacks.

• Allen and Thanos's opening clash shattered Titan, and Allen survived Thanos's planet-destroying energy sphere while absorbing much of its power.
• Allen used his connection to the Space Stone and Power Stone to attack Thanos, who rewound time to escape and watched the compressed blast destroy a moon.
• Allen explained that his direct bond and greater understanding of the Infinity Stones gave him priority over Thanos, prompting Thanos to consider using his own body as their vessel.
• Thanos combined the Space Stone, Time Stone, and Power Stone to counter Allen's sword strike and launch him into space, showing that he was learning to use the stones more effectively.
• Allen returned, named Thanos his prey, and struck him too quickly to be seen before battering him with tens of millions of blows.

Allen, revealed as a dimensional Demon God whose soul was stronger than his body, tormented Thanos in a battle designed to force him to grow stronger. As Artoria explained Allen’s plan to Vision, guardians gathered to watch the fight, which continued with Thanos trapped at a disadvantage.

• Thanos recovered from Allen’s lightning-fast assault, rejected his advice, and tried using the Soul and Mind Stones to reach Allen’s consciousness.
• Allen revealed his powerful soul and transformed his Zanpakuto with Bankai, then cut off Thanos’s leg and continued attacking while avoiding his neck and Infinity Gauntlet arm.
• Thanos healed himself and laid traps of space and time, but Allen evaded them and repeatedly severed his limbs, leaving Vision stunned by the one-sided battle.
• Artoria told Vision that Allen was following Ancient One’s request to protect the timeline, that the dead would eventually return, and that Vision would be sent away from Earth and forbidden to reveal the truth.
• Artoria explained that Allen was encouraging Thanos to grow stronger so he could eventually pose a real threat, while Sakura, Wanda, and other guardians arrived to observe and record the fight.

Allen fought Thanos until Thanos mastered all six Infinity Stones and demonstrated the power to erase and recreate star systems. Allen then unleashed a universe-piercing strike; Thanos overloaded the Infinity Gauntlet trying to stop it, and the chapter ended with Thanos reduced to dust and Allen missing part of his body.

• Thanos grew increasingly skilled at combining the six Infinity Stones as Allen shifted between ranged and close attacks.
• Thanos used all six Stones to erase countless star systems and then restore them, showing that he could control the universe’s creation and destruction.
• Allen returned to his body, gathered energy from the Azerath Universe, and prepared a powerful sword-arrow while Artoria evacuated the onlookers.
• Thanos formed a miniature model of the universe around himself to shield against Allen’s strike, but the spinning sword began consuming and destroying the galaxies in its path.
• Thanos grabbed Allen and maximized the Infinity Stones’ power, causing the Gauntlet to collapse and his own body to explode into dust.
• The strike erased part of Allen’s body through the combined power of the Stones, leaving it unable to regenerate for the time being.

Allen resurrected Thanos after defeating him, repaired the universe, and began recovering from the erasure that had cost him part of his body. As he planned the final battle against Vishanti and Pluto Hisoka, Earth's capital groups sought negotiations with Hydra, and Red Skull received their delegation.

• Allen restored the universe, resurrected Thanos, and sent him to live peacefully on his retired planet with a blank Infinity Gauntlet.
• Allen explained to Sakura and Artoria that Thanos's use of all six Infinity Stones had nearly erased him, then made a temporary prosthetic from Wood Release cells.
• Allen planned to connect the three points leading to Vishanti and Pluto Hisoka after recovering, while giving Wanda more time to decide whether to leave with them.
• Allen agreed to let Artoria act freely if they reached a world ruled by Demon Gods, and said Hela might be left behind if she failed to meet his expectations.
• With Earth still reeling from Thanos's snap, capital leaders sent a delegation to Hydra's headquarters to negotiate with Red Skull.
• The elderly Jewish delegation leader greeted Red Skull, who recognized him as a former concentration camp prisoner and expressed his continued hatred of Jewish people.

Red Skull forced the delegation of capital interests to surrender their assets and political, financial, and media influence, while Lena prepared to carry out the agreement. He then returned to Sakura’s interstellar empire, where he continued consolidating power as Prime Minister.

• Red Skull told the Jewish delegation that Hydra served a powerful figure and demanded they surrender on his terms.
• The delegation asked to keep some wealth, but Red Skull demanded their assets, limited savings, and three generations’ withdrawal from finance, politics, and media in exchange for a ceasefire.
• After heated calls and arguments, the Jewish leader and some delegates agreed to surrender, and Red Skull gave Lena the names and assets to handle within three days.
• Red Skull passed through a portal to Sakura’s empire, where soldiers and patrols were suppressing unrest after Thanos’s snap.
• An alien reported that the fleet was patrolling important planets, and Red Skull encouraged Lena while continuing to place his own people in key positions.

Red Skull agreed to recruit aliens so Hydra could seize control of the cosmic empire before its suppressed conflicts erupted. At the Avengers headquarters, the survivors grieved Thanos’s snap, while Tony Stark suspected Allen was preparing to confront Sithorn and repeatedly tried to contact him.

• Red Skull accepted Crossbones’s proposal to cautiously recruit aliens because Hydra could not master the empire’s fleets quickly enough with its existing loyalists.
• The Avengers survivors discussed Earth’s losses and the likely formation of an Earth Federation, while Thor said he would not return to Asgard and wanted to settle on Earth.
• Tony Stark asked Quicksilver about Wanda and concluded that Allen might be targeting Sithorn after testing whether dimensional Demon Gods could be killed by defeating Dormammu.
• Coulson described Sithorn and the danger of his Darkhold, and the group agreed that they needed answers from Allen.
• Tony Stark repeatedly tried to activate a magical communication device, but it only produced gray fog as the others began to leave.

Tony Stark learned from Allen that the vanished victims could be restored through a future mission to a parallel universe, and he regained the resolve to help make it happen. Allen also revealed that he planned to leave Earth after confronting powerful dimensional enemies, while Tony reunited with Pepper Potts.

• After dozens of hours of failed attempts, Tony Stark reached Allen and demanded to know why he had not stopped Thanos.
• Allen explained that Tony and the Avengers would later defeat Thanos, obtain Infinity Stones from a parallel universe, and use them to bring back the vanished.
• Allen told Tony that he would leave within months and urged him not to carry the fate of humanity alone.
• Allen revealed that Scott Lang would return from the Quantum Realm with the insight and Pym Particles needed for Tony's time-space research.
• Tony promised to keep their conversation secret, and Allen said Wanda would decide whether to leave with him.
• After ending the call, Tony embraced Pepper Potts, while Little Selene secretly directed magical energy into the unborn child in Pepper's belly.

Allen prepared to leave Earth after recovering, while Wanda remained uncertain about joining him. He then began a ritual to connect Sithorn’s and Vishanti’s dimensions, drawing the Old Gods into battle as he stole the sources of Black and White Magic, with Wanda enduring the ritual as its medium.

• Tony Stark helped establish a framework for human unification while Allen rested in Miami with Wanda.
• Allen invited Wanda to leave with him, but she hesitated, and he believed she would stay behind.
• After recovering, Allen returned to Sky City, where Sakura, Artoria, and Hela prepared to attack Pluto Hisoka and the trinity Vishanti.
• Allen took Wanda and the others to a planet where they used the Dark Egg, the Darkhold, the Book of the Vishanti, the Dark Dimension, and the Infinity Stones to begin the ritual.
• The ritual connected Sithorn’s and Vishanti’s dimensions, provoking the Old Gods to fight while Allen stole their authority over Black and White Magic.
• Wanda endured immense pain as the ritual’s medium, hoping Sithorn’s defeat would free her from his control.

Allen manipulated Chthon and the Vishanti into a dimensional war, seized authority over both Dark and White Magic, and created a neutral third source of magic. After the Vishanti withdrew, Allen prepared to face Chthon alone.

• Chthon proposed a truce after noticing the dimensions were merging, and he and Oshiet realized someone had engineered the conflict.
• Chthon identified Allen as the one who linked the dimensions and stole authority, and Allen entered the overlapping region with Wanda entrusted to Artoria.
• Allen revealed the compressed Dark Dimension, unleashed it to seize nearly a quarter of the tangled magical sources, and formed a gray core that became the multiverse's third source of magic.
• Agamotto condemned Allen for disrupting the magical order, but Allen said he would not change his actions and asked whether the Vishanti would oppose him.
• Allen confirmed that Chthon was his target, and Oshiet withdrew with Agamotto and Hogarth, leaving Allen and Chthon to fight.

Allen challenged Chthon after creating a new source of Neutral Magic, and learned that Dark Magic’s core was sacrifice. As Chthon tried to seize the new source and the Dark Dimension, Allen connected them to the Azerath Universe and revealed his Infinity Stones, turning the battle in his favor.

• Allen confronted Chthon and challenged him to demonstrate the power of Dark Magic.
• Chthon filled the Dark Dimension with his magic domain and created dark creatures whose deaths eroded Allen’s unstable domain.
• Allen realized that Dark Magic worked through sacrifice, with greater sacrifices granting greater power.
• Chthon sacrificed more of his accumulated resources and tried to overwhelm Allen and take the Neutral Magic source and Dark Dimension.
• Allen linked the Dark Dimension to the Azerath Universe, bringing in its six energies and Hela’s Undead Army to fight the dark creatures.
• Allen revealed the six Infinity Stones embedded in his body, and Chthon recognized the threat to his physical form.

Allen unleashed the six Infinity Stones against Sithorn, and their battle destabilized magic and reality across the multiverse. As the Vishanti debated whether to intervene, Allen kept the fight going, leaving Sithorn to absorb the greater losses while awaiting possible interference from Set.

• Allen struck Sithorn's barrier with the power of the Infinity Stones, tearing apart the Dark Magic domain and devastating the surrounding dimension.
• Sithorn survived by sacrificing treasured items and reforming from a mass of black-red liquid, then resumed fighting Allen.
• Allen and Sithorn's ongoing clash destabilized magic across the multiverse, while Hela returned with her Undead Army to the Azerath Universe.
• Oshiet refused to stop the battle, reasoning that neither Allen nor Sithorn could easily kill the other, while Agamotto left to calm the forces using White Magic.
• Hogarth volunteered to repair Vishanti's damaged territory, and Oshiet warned him that Set might be waiting to ambush either combatant.
• Allen continued the battle without restraint, and Sithorn suffered the heavier losses as he repeatedly sacrificed his collected treasures.

Wanda woke free of Chthon’s influence while Allen fought Sithorn and completed the core rules of his Neutral Magic source. After Set joined Sithorn against him, Allen revealed he had grasped the essence of Dark and White Magic and brought his new magical domain to life.

• Wanda recovered her consciousness, discovered Chthon’s mark and her Chaos Magic had vanished, and asked Artoria about Allen’s battle.
• Artoria told Wanda that Allen had seized portions of Dark and White Magic to create a Neutral Magic source, while Allen slaughtered Dark Magic users and weakened Sithorn’s influence.
• Sithorn questioned whether Allen would continue fighting, and Allen resumed their battle by hurling a spear made from the souls of slain Dark Magic users.
• Sithorn summoned Set, offering him half the Dark Magic source in exchange for help, but Allen struck Set and shattered most of his body.
• Set regenerated and agreed to join forces with Sithorn against Allen, who added the final rule to his Neutral Magic source and explained his understanding of White Magic’s essence.