Chapter Summaries

Orsaga reflected on his brief battle with Marquis of Death, who had lost despite dramatically increasing his strength. Lucifer arrived at the ruined Crimson Dimension, asked who Orsaga had fought, and recognized the Marquis as Clyde Wyncham.

• Orsaga recalled that Marquis of Death had used Twist Reality to amplify his strength during a 30-second Death Countdown, but still lost because the increase could not overcome their fundamental gap.
• Orsaga admitted he had deliberately avoided targeting Marquis of Death’s fatal weaknesses and killed him head-on, though the fight had not satisfied his desire for battle.
• The battle’s aftermath left the Crimson Dimension in ruins, with all living beings and even the Fire Element life destroyed.
• Lucifer emerged through a Space Door and asked whether Orsaga had fought OBA from the Marvel World.
• Orsaga clarified that his opponent had been Marquis of Death, and Lucifer recognized him as the Omega-level Mutant Clyde Wyncham.

Lucifer watched the ruined Crimson Dimension as Orsaga explained that he had killed nearly all its inhabitants and eaten them. Orsaga offered to take Lucifer’s place as King of Hell, but Lucifer refused, fearing the creatures of Hell would not survive his rule.

• Lucifer reflected that Marquis of Death was far stronger than his comic-book depiction.
• Orsaga clarified that he had killed 99.999999999% of the Crimson Dimension’s inhabitants, while Marquis of Death had destroyed only a small area.
• Orsaga explained that he had eaten the Demonic Beasts he raised because they tasted bland, along with Marquis of Death, who had volunteered as the main course.
• Orsaga asked Lucifer to hand over the position of King of Hell and said he wanted to oppress both the good and the evil.
• Lucifer imagined Orsaga’s brutal rule devastating Hell and declined to give him the position.

Orsaga created a rapidly evolving lifeform in the toxic magma of the ruined Crimson Dimension, where it began producing eggs that could repopulate the world with new races. Lucifer then explained his plan to hold a Great Villain Competition, and Orsaga became curious about the amusement it promised.

• Orsaga decided not to restore the Crimson Dimension’s terrain and instead created a lifeform from a combination of many Life Factors.
• Orsaga threw the newborn into the toxic magma, where it adapted, evolved rapidly, and reached Single Universe Level Peak strength within nine seconds.
• The lifeform began producing Eggs of Life that would hatch into extraordinary races and repopulate the Crimson Dimension.
• Lucifer told Orsaga he had planned a Great Villain Competition to choose an evil powerhouse and grant them some of his power.
• Orsaga asked Lucifer what amusement he had planned, and Lucifer described the competition.

Lucifer explained how his rebellion against Supreme God had spawned several notorious identities, then discussed using one for a villainous scheme with Orsaga. Orsaga proposed a far larger plan involving OBA and the Beyonders, leaving Lucifer to consider the overwhelming response it would provoke.

• Lucifer described how his rebellion had given rise to identities such as the Great Beast, Great Darkness, and King of Hell.
• Lucifer proposed using the Great Beast or Great Darkness identity in the Great Villain Competition and bringing Void Hand and his Evil Nobility Legion into the spectacle.
• Orsaga approved of the Great Darkness idea but argued that the coming Two-World Fusion called for a more ambitious stunt.
• Orsaga suggested releasing Below All Things—OBA—and teaming up with the Beyonders and their Everything Dies Experiment after the worlds fused.
• Lucifer calculated that the grand plan would draw more than twenty powerful opponents, including Michael, to attack him.

Lucifer weighed Orsaga’s proposed world-shaking plan and questioned whether he could defeat the Beyonder from the merging Marvel world. Orsaga judged Lucifer favored in a fight, though Lucifer’s odds would fall if the Beyonder displayed combat skill matching his own.

• Lucifer considered the risks of Orsaga’s plan, fearing punishment from Supreme God and OAA but feeling tempted by its potential rewards.
• Lucifer asked Orsaga whether the Beyonder existed in the Marvel world and which version had appeared.
• Orsaga confirmed the Beyonder had been born and was playing hide-and-seek with superheroes.
• Lucifer showed Orsaga several conflicting comic guides, and Orsaga identified the guide that best matched the Beyonder’s strength and status.
• Lucifer asked Orsaga who would win in a fight, and Orsaga estimated Lucifer had a ninety percent chance under normal circumstances, dropping to fifty or sixty percent if the Beyonder matched his combat prowess.

Lucifer realized that his strength was not far below Beyonder’s, but that experience and mental fortitude had created the difference, and he admitted that conquering the other world was unrealistic. Orsaga considered the vast disparities within the Omniversal Level and left Lucifer with little hope of gaining Supreme God’s attention.

• Lucifer compared his strength with Beyonder’s and concluded that Supreme God’s ally, OAA, was far beyond him.
• Orsaga listened as Lucifer tried to curry favor with his father, while keeping secret that Supreme God and OAA were the same being.
• Orsaga reflected that Supreme God treated worlds and their inhabitants as objects of observation and was unlikely to care about Lucifer.
• Orsaga explained that Omniversal Level powerhouses ranged from entry-level figures like Merlin and First Firmament to beings who could easily kill the Living Tribunal.
• Orsaga placed Lucifer, Michael, Beyonder, the Sleeping Celestial, and OBA among the absolute top echelon beneath OAA and His Avatars.

Free Morty thanked Orsaga for providing the technology he needed to escape the Central Finite Curve and announced his plan to destroy Rick City and explore the infinite Parallel Universes. The chapter explained how C-137 Rick created the Curve and left Free Morty preparing to make his final move.

• Lucifer left the Crimson Dimension without deciding whether to risk an unprecedented catastrophe.
• Orsaga restored his palace and watched the accelerated life and conflicts within the crimson sea.
• Free Morty emerged from a portal and told Orsaga he was ready to seek true freedom.
• Free Morty said he would destroy Rick City, cross the Central Finite Curve, and explore the infinite Parallel Universes, crediting Orsaga's technology.
• Orsaga explained that he had helped Free Morty to create a grander drama, and Free Morty left to make his final preparations.
• The chapter recounted how C-137 Rick created the Central Finite Curve to search for his enemy and confine Teleportation Gun-inventing Ricks, trapping Mortys such as Free Morty in the process.

Free Morty rejected Orsaga’s offer of demon ascension and left to pursue freedom on his own terms. Orsaga reflected that every escape might lead to a larger form of containment as the future in his ever-changing book shifted.

• Orsaga told Free Morty to pursue his goals and offered to conduct an Ascension to Demon Ritual for him.
• Free Morty declined, explaining that he wanted freedom without serving any other being.
• Orsaga warned that freedom was relative, and Free Morty left through a portal to Rick City.
• Orsaga watched the beings in his Crimson Dimension and considered how each apparent escape could lead to a larger cage.
• Orsaga opened the shifting book Abyss Demon of All Realms and turned its ever-changing pages.

Orsaga examined possible futures and realized that he still fell far short of OAA and Gann. At the boundary between the Marvel and DC worlds, their opposing powers of time and space struggled to merge as the worlds’ cosmic beings fought for dominance.

• Orsaga projected possible futures into the present, including outcomes for the Two-World Fusion and Free Morty’s escape from the Central Finite Curve.
• Orsaga deduced that he still had a great gap to overcome before he could contend with OAA and Gann, then looked down at the magma sea below his floating palace.
• Batman sensed that the Marvel and DC worlds’ powers of time and space could not blend and asked whether the fusion could work.
• Ancient One explained that Eternity and Time were struggling for control of their worlds’ temporal and spatial foundations, with the losing side becoming subordinate.
• Ancient One revealed that Death had already lost its struggle and become a vassal of Death of the Endless Family.

Destiny and the Living Tribunal negotiated over the fusion of the Complete DC World and Complete Marvel World while Orsaga’s randomly distributed comics inspired powerful figures to hunt for the treasures and events described in them. In one Parallel Universe, a crowd fought over the supposed Sentry Potion, while other comic-fueled schemes disrupted Reed’s spaceflight preparations and Bruce Banner’s Gamma Ray Experiment.

• Destiny faced the Living Tribunal, the Sleeping Celestial, and other Marvel powerhouses as the two sides negotiated over the worlds’ fusion.
• Thanos and Darkseid read comics describing their future feats and became eager to find the powerful artifacts and abilities they featured.
• Orsaga’s comics reached figures across both worlds, prompting many of them to pursue the treasures and opportunities described in the issues.
• A mob stormed Robert Reynolds’s laboratory over a supposed Sentry Potion, and the vial’s thief was killed before the crowd rushed in.
• Reed received numerous investment offers and requests to join his trip into space after receiving a comic.
• A crowd interrupted Bruce Banner’s Gamma Ray Experiment, squeezed into the chamber with him, and the equipment started again.

A worldwide gamma-ray disaster had turned millions of people and animals into Hulk-like creatures, leaving Earth on the brink of collapse. When Thanos arrived to claim the Infinity Stones, Ancient One used the invasion to redirect the infected toward his fleet, where the chapter ended with creatures crashing down across the ships.

• Tony Stark watched Hulk Infected destroy New York while the US Government struggled to respond to the global catastrophe.
• A military accident at Bruce Banner's laboratory triggered a gamma-ray storm that transformed people and animals worldwide, including Ancient One, Magneto, and Professor X.
• Thanos arrived at Earth with his army, expecting to find the Hulk and planning to secure the Infinity Stones quickly.
• Ancient One recovered some of her senses and opened portals to transport infected people and mutated creatures above Thanos's wormhole.
• The creatures fell toward Thanos's fleet, and Ebony Maw ordered the wormhole closed as more than ten thousand infected and mutated creatures struck the ships.

Bruce Banner and Emile Blonsky rampaged through a parallel universe, growing stronger as they fought and tearing through dimensions. They killed Dormammu, while OBA watched with delight and demanded more bloodshed.

• Bruce Banner and Emile Blonsky fought amid Earth's destruction, and their blows shattered the Earth-Moon system and sent other Hulk Infected flying.
• The two Hulks kept adapting and growing stronger until their clash shattered the Milky Way's reality-space and hurled them through dimensions.
• Dormammu attacked the rampaging Hulks with dark spikes, but they adapted to the attacks and their battle shook his Dark Dimension.
• Emile Blonsky tore Dormammu apart, prompting distant observers to flee.
• OBA watched the destruction across parallel universes and praised the Crimson Dominator, celebrating the violence.

Spectre watched the chaos spreading across the Complete DC World but could not intervene under Supreme God's orders. Meanwhile, Supreme Superman entered the DC Editorial Department to confront its creators, only to find it already overrun by furious characters and leave without acting.

• Spectre remained powerless as Darkseid, Void Hand, Mandrake, and others rampaged in pursuit of Soul Fire, because Supreme God had ordered him not to act unless the world's foundation was threatened.
• After a beating by one of Void Hand's underlings, Supreme Superman punched through the Dimensional Wall and entered the DC Editorial Department to confront the people who wrote his story.
• Supreme Superman found Sangong Mo threatening a comic artist, Mister Mxyzptlk smashing the office, and Joker firing wildly as editors begged him for help.
• Supreme Superman kicked away an editor clinging to him and left the Editorial Department without intervening.
• As Orsaga spread DC and Marvel Comics, more characters recognized the Editorial Department and gained the ability to break through the Dimensional Wall, bringing them there to vent their anger.

After realizing he and his acquaintances were trapped in a comic-book cycle, Deadpool set out to kill them and the comic creators, but found a crowd of Marvel characters already waiting to take revenge at the Marvel Editorial Department. In a higher-level editorial office, Juggernaut broke through the door after discovering the space above it.

• Deadpool concluded that he could free everyone from the comic-book cycle by killing his acquaintances and the comic creators, then traveled to the Marvel Editorial Department.
• Deadpool found Logan in a long line and asked why he was there.
• Logan said he had come to take revenge on the comic artists and writers, and Apocalypse and the other characters in line joined in his fury.
• Ultron told Deadpool to get in line, and his spiked-loofah-covered body frightened Deadpool, Wolverine, and Apocalypse.
• A comic editor-in-chief rebuked an artist for drawing the Marvel Editorial Department's humiliation, and the artist blamed his recent Hong Kong comics binge.
• Juggernaut smashed through the office door and announced that he had found an even higher-level space.

The Beyonder relaxed on a beach with Orsaga, having abandoned his plans for a Battle Realm after reading comics that showed his foolish past actions. He also chose to leave the Beyonders alone for now, while Orsaga urged him to fight them for the chance to eat their remains.

• The Beyonder and Orsaga watched the chaos beyond the Beyonder's protected Parallel Universe while relaxing on a beach.
• Orsaga asked whether the Beyonder would still create the Battle Realm, and the Beyonder refused after reading comics that embarrassed him with his past actions.
• The Beyonder said he would let the Beyonders continue their plans, since they might provide entertainment and were not worth the effort to eliminate.
• Orsaga urged the Beyonder to attack the Beyonders, but the Beyonder accused him of wanting to collect their corpses as food.
• Orsaga regretted showing the Beyonder the comics and said he should have stirred up conflict with the Beyonders first.

The Beyonder and Orsaga sensed that Time had defeated Eternity and taken control of time and space, beginning the convergence of the Complete Marvel World and the Complete DC World. In New York, Tony Stark saw Gotham City and Batman reflected in the sky as the two cities began to merge.

• The Beyonder sensed that Time had taken Eternity’s authority over time and space, deciding the struggle between the two worlds.
• Orsaga remained calm, believing Time had been certain to win, while vast channels opened and the worlds’ matter, energy, concepts, and physical rules began to merge.
• Tony Stark asked J.A.R.V.I.S. about alarms in his laboratory and learned that the observable universe was undergoing sweeping changes.
• Tony flew from Stark Tower and saw Gotham City reflected in the sky, with its residents looking toward a reflected New York.
• Tony recognized Batman—Bruce Wayne—and realized that Gotham City was descending toward New York as the two worlds merged.

As the two worlds fused, their matching cities and regions began overlapping, while Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. watched the chaos spread. The chapter ended with rival American presidents fighting over a live broadcast as the two United States struggled to address the merger.

• Iron Man watched roads, buildings, and pedestrians from both worlds appear and merge, then ordered J.A.R.V.I.S. to monitor Earth.
• Iron Man saw two suns overlap in the sky and begin forming a much larger sun.
• Fuck Man watched military bases and soldiers from the other world merge with their counterparts and worried about the political fallout of a second US Government.
• Hawkeye suggested that the heroes might have to welcome a second United Nations.
• An unfamiliar middle-aged president and an old acquaintance repeatedly hijacked each other's broadcasts, leaving Fuck Man, Hawkeye, and the others speechless.

The fused worlds brought their leaders and armies into direct conflict, as Thanos and Darkseid fought amid the stars. After Darkseid recalled his defeat by the Crimson Dominator, Orsaga noticed his renewed ambition and connected him to a Destiny Line leading to Soul Fire.

• The two Presidents and officials fought after the White Houses fused, while brawls erupted in other countries.
• Thanos and Darkseid exchanged powerful attacks, and their blasts destroyed nearby stars and damaged spacecraft.
• Thanos and Darkseid declared their intentions to defeat their counterparts across Parallel Universes and become the only versions of themselves.
• Darkseid recalled his earlier defeat by the Crimson Dominator and renewed his resolve to challenge him again.
• Orsaga sensed Darkseid's thoughts and connected him to a Destiny Line leading to Soul Fire.

Sentry met Superman, then crossed universes to kill the Kingpin who had stolen his power and restored the people and city Kingpin had destroyed. Seeing chaos across the Parallel Universes, Sentry used his power to accelerate their fusion and help Time stabilize the New World, joined by other powerful beings.

• Sentry introduced himself to Superman as Robert Reynolds, and they exchanged friendly greetings.
• Sentry left Superman, tore through the Time-Space Wall, and confronted Kingpin, who had taken the Sentry Potion and gained Million Stellar Power.
• Sentry killed Kingpin instantly, then used reverse causality to restore the ruined city and revive Kingpin's victims.
• Sentry surveyed the upheavals across the Parallel Universes and, mindful of his second personality, suppressed his anger.
• Sentry unleashed a reality-altering punch that accelerated the universes' fusion and suppressed disturbances, helping Time stabilize the New World.
• Other powerful beings dissatisfied with the chaos joined Sentry and made adjustments to the New World.

After the merged worlds began settling into their new order, Thanos acquired the Reality Controller and Darkseid fused with Soul Fire, setting the stage for another clash. In the Crimson Dimension, Orsaga refused to become their stepping stone unless OAA paid him more.

• Lucifer subdued Mephisto and the other Marvel Hell Lords, then enjoyed ruling the merged Hell while OBA wailed in isolation.
• Years after the worlds merged, people adjusted to their new reality, and comics exposed the identities and schemes of many supernatural figures.
• Thanos obtained the Reality Controller beside the bodies of two dead Beyonders.
• Darkseid fused with Soul Fire and devoured Jaspers's power.
• Orsaga told OAA he would fight Thanos and Darkseid rather than serve as their stepping stone, but asked how much more OAA would pay.