Chapter Summaries

Matt joined Journey of the Saint and Punisher in pursuing a mercenary through West Africa, hoping the trail might lead to the Sun Stair Flower. After identifying the mercenary’s destination as a forest near the mountain called Deity Closest to the Sun God, the group followed him deeper into the wilderness.

• Matt recalled that Madam Gao had promised to revive Erica if he brought her the Sun Stair Flower from West Africa.
• Journey of the Saint and Punisher met Matt while pursuing a mercenary who kidnapped people from war zones, and Matt invited them to search for the flower together.
• Punisher identified their target’s Jeep, and Matt used Vigilante to follow it out of the city.
• The mercenary abandoned his Jeep at a forest, and Vigilante transformed into a motorcycle and a robot as the group tracked him on foot.
• Punisher mapped their location, and the group concluded the mercenary was heading toward a mountain known as Deity Closest to the Sun God.
• Journey of the Saint led the group into the forest to investigate the Sun Stair Flower and the Progenitor Virus.

Punisher, Daredevil, and Three Hearts discovered a hidden Resident Evil dungeon in West Africa and pursued a wounded Vietnamese man into its passage. Meanwhile, Merlin sensed the dungeon opening from Asgard, continued his studies with Frigga, and watched Thor prepare an expedition to Nidavellir.

• Punisher, Daredevil, and Three Hearts triggered a hidden mission when a ritual opened the Resident Evil dungeon and awarded players an Elite Upgrade Panel.
• Players around the world received the announcement and began searching West Africa for the dungeon passage.
• The Vietnamese man ran into the dungeon passage after Punisher shot his shoulder, and Punisher and the others chased him inside.
• Merlin sensed the dungeon opening while studying with Frigga, then told her he was thinking about Dark Matter.
• Thor invited Merlin to join an expedition, but Merlin stayed behind and asked about the Time Bombs being made to capture people.
• Thor, Sif, and the Asgardian soldiers set out through the Bifrost for Nidavellir to reassert Asgard's presence.

Punisher, Matt, and Journey of the Saint entered Raccoon City during a Resident Evil outbreak and learned the city would be destroyed by a nuclear strike at midnight. They accepted missions to rescue Dr. Merlin from the Umbrella Hive, find G-Virus samples, and kill infected, then prepared to head to the Hive.

• Journey of the Saint shot a mugger, and Punisher discovered the kill earned only 0.3 Experience Points while the Mechanical Spider bound itself to him.
• Matt, Punisher, and Journey of the Saint left the alley on transformed motorcycles and decided to investigate the Arklay Mountains and Mansion.
• Matt and Punisher heard reports of violence and infected corpses in Raccoon City, and they concluded the military would destroy the city if the outbreak spread.
• The Mechanical Spiders announced that Eagle's military would deploy a nuclear weapon at midnight and opened missions to rescue Merlin Shaw, obtain G-Virus samples, and kill enemies.
• Punisher and Matt accepted all three missions after Merlin Shaw called for help from the Umbrella Hive's Virus Lab.

Matt and Punisher fought through Raccoon City’s sudden Zombie outbreak while racing toward the Hive, which was set to explode in an hour. After breaking through the police line, they continued into the streets as more Zombies converged on them.

• A Zombie outbreak overwhelmed District 3, where fleeing residents and police officers were attacked and bitten.
• Matt arrived with Punisher, Journey of the Saint, and Vigilante, and Vigilante transformed into an Autobot to confront the Zombies.
• Punisher used an improved Electromagnetic Rifle while Vigilante and Journey of the Saint fired their machine guns, clearing a path through the horde.
• As more Zombies flooded toward them, Daredevil rode Vigilante onward and Punisher followed, with the vehicles firing to clear their route.

Merlin studied a Lizardman whose regeneration gene helped it withstand the T-Virus, but its potential remained limited, so he planned to test the G-Virus. As the USS Squad entered the Hive to retrieve William’s research and rescue Merlin, he noticed several new arrivals and realized they had all come.

• Punisher, Matt, and their allies blasted through a roadblock and sped through Raccoon City’s Zombie hordes.
• A reporter’s video of the group spread online before Umbrella and the Eagle government dismissed it as movie footage and removed it.
• Merlin examined the regenerating Lizardman and concluded that the T-Virus had preserved its brain but left its combat potential limited.
• Merlin decided to test the G-Virus and considered using consciousness transfer and clones to address brain damage.
• Spencer told Merlin that the USS Squad had been sent to rescue him and retrieve William’s G-Virus research.
• Merlin recalled that William had killed the USS Squad except for HUNK, then noticed several new points appear inside the Hive.

Merlin released the Lizard Patient and directed him toward HUNK, who carried a G-Virus dose in the Hive. After HUNK escaped the Lizard Patient’s attack and a grenade blast, the mutant pursued him in flames, while Punisher’s group encountered Leon and his companion.

• Auntie Wang and Leon entered the Hive’s escape route, followed by Punisher’s group and HUNK, while Pursuer continued chasing Jill on the surface.
• Merlin opened the Lizard Patient’s containment passage and pointed him toward HUNK, but kicked him away when he tried to attack.
• The Lizard Patient caught HUNK in a ventilation duct, but HUNK stabbed its eye and escaped after setting off a grenade.
• The Lizard Patient regenerated its eye, caught fire, and chased HUNK through the Hive.
• Punisher’s group encountered Leon and his companion, and their first meeting was unfriendly.

Punisher and his companions encountered Leon and Ada before the Tyrant and G-Virus William attacked them. After the group fought back, both monsters transformed into more powerful forms, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Vigilante identified Leon Kennedy and Ada Wong, revealing that Ada was an Umbrella agent.
• The Oppressor and G-Virus William burst into the corridor and trapped the group.
• Matt threw the Oppressor into William, and Journey of the Saint riddled both monsters with bullets from a Vulcan Machine Gun.
• The Oppressor emerged from the rubble after losing its limiter chip and tore off Journey of the Saint’s right arm.
• William evolved into his third form, Fallen Angel, as his body transformed into a mass of claws and eyeballs.

Punisher defeated the Fallen Angel and collected a G-Virus sample before heading with his companions to find Merlin. Meanwhile, HUNK faced the Lizard Patient outside the Hive control room and trapped it with a flashbang and an Electromagnetic Pulse.

• Punisher fought the Fallen Angel in the narrow passage, cutting its exposed eyeballs until it collapsed.
• Journey of the Saint collected a G-Virus sample from the Fallen Angel, earning Frank 8,000 experience points and raising him to level five.
• Punisher left with his companions to find Merlin, while Ada pulled Leon out of the way of a charging monster and led him onward.
• The Lizard Patient blocked HUNK near Merlin's laboratory and demanded the G-Virus, but HUNK's gunfire failed to seriously injure it.
• HUNK retreated to the Hive control room door, planted a sticky Electromagnetic bomb on its switch, and dodged as the Lizard Patient charged.
• The bomb's flashbang and Electromagnetic Pulse went off in front of the Lizard Patient.

HUNK fought through the Hive’s laser passage and rescued Dr. Merlin, then waited with him for Punisher and the others to arrive. Merlin explained that he had entered the facility as an internal test player to scout the platform.

• HUNK evaded the shifting laser arrays while the Lizard Patient pursued him, then used a grenade and the lasers to kill the regenerating monster.
• HUNK closed the passage door and found Dr. Merlin in the laboratory, identifying himself as the commander of the USS Squad and offering to escort him out of Raccoon City.
• Merlin told HUNK they needed to wait for others and showed him the Hive’s surveillance feeds.
• Punisher, Matt, Ada, Leon, and the others arrived at the laboratory, where Punisher asked Merlin how he had ended up there.
• Merlin said he had entered as a technician to scout the platform and described himself as an Internal Test Player who had invited other technicians, including Stark.

Merlin and his allies left the Hive for the surface as the nuclear strike approached, and Merlin offered R-Star invitations to Leon, Ada, and HUNK. At the police station, they rescued Claire and Sherry from Lickers and hurried toward City Hall with one hour remaining.

• Punisher agreed to escort Merlin, who chose to remain in Raccoon City to continue his research, and the group headed for the surface.
• Merlin explained the R-Star Platform to Leon and Ada, offered them invitations, and gave Mechanical Spiders to them and HUNK.
• Leon bound his Mechanical Spider to his wrist and received the R-Star welcome projection, while Ada and HUNK accepted theirs.
• Matt sensed danger near the elevator shaft, and Leon rushed toward Claire's scream at the elevator maintenance workshop.
• Journey of the Saint tore open the elevator doors, and he killed the Lickers attacking Claire and Sherry.
• Punisher urged the rescued group to reach City Hall's rooftop within the remaining hour.

Merlin and his group reached City Hall, where Jill and Carlos were fighting the Oppressor and The Pursuer. Stark arrived in his Iron Man suit and attacked The Pursuer with an Iron Dragon Beam Cannon while the others moved to fight the Oppressor, leaving Merlin to protect Sherry.

• Ada drove Merlin, Leon, Sherry, and the others away from the police station as Punisher and Matt rode in their transformed robots.
• Merlin's group arrived at City Hall and found Jill and Carlos struggling against the Oppressor and The Pursuer.
• Stark appeared in his Iron Man suit and announced that he would handle The Pursuer.
• Stark used the Iron Dragon Beam Cannon to melt The Pursuer's body and intercept its attacks.
• Punisher, Ada, Leon, Claire, and the others went to fight the Oppressor while HUNK stayed with Merlin.
• Claire entrusted Sherry to Merlin, who comforted the frightened girl.

Stark and the others defeated The Pursuer and the Oppressor, but the Virus Serum was lost, leaving Raccoon City’s nuclear strike unavoidable. Merlin handed Sherry and her G-Virus sample to Stark before watching the city be destroyed, while he considered using the sample for future research.

• Leon borrowed Carlos’s money to print a Rocket Launcher, then fired two rockets at the Oppressor and blew its upper body apart.
• Stark’s crimson beam pierced The Pursuer’s core, destroying it and scattering flesh across the rooftop.
• Stark warned Merlin that the nuclear strike would arrive in a little over ten minutes because the Serum samples had been used or destroyed.
• Merlin gave Sherry, who carried a G-Virus sample in her necklace, to Stark, while Punisher and the others returned to the dungeon passage.
• Leon spent more of Carlos’s money on Healing Potions, and Jill and the others recovered from their injuries.
• Merlin watched a blazing white sun engulf Raccoon City from a helicopter and considered Kamen Rider Amazons as a direction for his research.

After returning to Asgard, Merlin searched the palace library for books on magic and technology as the T-Virus threat continued to grow in Neon. He found a chained book written by Odin and began studying the Odin Runes.

• Merlin returned to Asgard after parting ways with Stark following the Raccoon City crisis.
• After Frigga's lesson, Merlin went to the Asgard Palace Library to research magic and technology.
• Merlin flew through the vast library, passing historical records before reaching the sections on magic and research.
• Merlin found a Rune-script book authored by Odin, and Frigga's silver key released its chains.
• Merlin opened the book and read Odin's account of discovering the Runes, along with descriptions of the Hagal, Nied, Isa, Uruz, Thurisaz, and Kenaz Runes.

Merlin experimented with combining Runes to channel Asgardian and Cyttorak energy, while the player platform updated its leveling system and opened an investigation mission in Japan's Death Forest. In Tokyo, Conan accidentally knocked a vial of T-Virus from Kaito Kid's hand, and it shattered among the crowd.

• Merlin studied Rune combinations and engraved a stone to combine Uruz lightning with Cyttorak energy.
• Merlin added the Thurisaz Rune to control the lightning, but the stone exploded and burned his hand.
• Merlin treated his injury and concluded that Rune arrays needed reinforcement to withstand higher-dimensional energy.
• The platform updated the player panel with experience-based leveling and unlocked the Japan Death Forest Investigation mission.
• Kaito Kid held a vial of T-Virus atop Tokyo Tower as Conan's soccer ball struck it from his hand.
• The vial shattered among the crowd, and Kaito Kid turned to Conan and called him clingy.

Kidd’s escape from the research institute coincided with a blue vial breaking beneath the tower, triggering a zombie outbreak in Neon. After watching the chaos unfold, Merlin returned to Resident Evil’s Totoka Island, where Alex Wesker’s immortality research continued and Merlin had been brought after his rescue.

• Conan confronted Kidd, but Ran and Mori Kogoro arrived, and Kidd told them to investigate the research institute for clues about the missing persons case.
• A vial shattered beneath the tower, spilling blue liquid into the crowd and a sewer as several people began to grow agitated and hungry.
• A woman named Yuzhen attacked and ate her friend, prompting others in the crowd to turn on those nearby and bite them.
• Captain Nakamori refused to flee the outbreak, but Officer Omura tackled and bit him as another officer escaped.
• Merlin watched the incident in Neon, then returned to Resident Evil’s Totoka Island, where Alex Wesker continued researching immortality and Merlin had been brought after being rescued.

Merlin inspected his engineered G-Virus subject, “Zombies,” whose next form, “Plague,” was designed to spread infection. Meanwhile, the T-Virus outbreak overwhelmed Tokyo overnight, leaving fewer than ten percent of its residents alive by morning.

• Merlin examined the armored Humanoid Lizard and explained how his Evolution Equation shaped its “Zombies” and “Plague” forms.
• Keita Mikuma tried to flee Tokyo with his wife and son, but his wife became ill during the drive.
• Infected people attacked and killed travelers on the roads outside Tokyo as the outbreak spread through the night.
• The Virus erupted across Tokyo’s nightlife districts, turning infected people into Zombies and triggering widespread panic.
• By nine in the morning, most Tokyo residents had become Zombies, and only a little over a million people remained alive.

Tokyo fell to a zombie outbreak, and the R-Star platform announced a new Resident Evil instance and its first ranking tournament. When the mission identified Kaito Kid and Shinichi Kudo as central figures in the outbreak, Ran realized Conan was Kudo and turned away from him in disgust.

• Ran tried to reach her zombified father, Kogoro, but Kidd restrained her and said he was already gone.
• Mechanical Spiders worldwide announced the Resident Evil: Tokyo Falls instance, its enemies and rewards, and R-Star's first ranking tournament.
• Players debated the outbreak on the forums, and groups set out for Neon to take part in the mission.
• Conan and Kidd saw the instance description naming them and realized they had caused the disaster.
• Ran recognized Conan as Kudo, and he tried to deny the platform's claim before she fell silent and regarded him with disgust.

The Neon military sent troops into Tokyo to rescue survivors and evacuate the Emperor, but mutant monsters overwhelmed the rescue force. Colonel Asano’s convoy was trapped and faced an Executioner as the rescue army was annihilated.

• Tokyo’s military tested personnel for infection, then divided its forces between escorting the Emperor and rescuing survivors.
• Colonel Asano’s squads rescued survivors, but Lickers, Executioners, and Pursuers attacked them and cut off their radio transmissions.
• Colonel Asano ordered the remaining troops to flee Tokyo, but an Evil God destroyed the convoy’s lead vehicle with a missile.
• Lickers and Zombies surrounded the surviving armored vehicles, trapping the soldiers inside.
• An Executioner approached and began smashing the armored vehicles while the Lickers moved aside.

As Zombies overran Fujimi Academy, Saeko Busujima received a mission pointing to a Skill Treasure Chest on the Rooftop and decided to go for it. Her classmates tried to stop her from leaving, and the chapter ended as she drew her sword and silenced the room.

• Takashi Komuro argued that the students had to escape, while Rei Miyamoto blamed him for killing Hisashi.
• Saeko Busujima received a notification locating a Skill Treasure Chest on the Rooftop.
• Saeko told the others she was going upstairs, explaining that her teammates might rescue them if they paid enough.
• Rei and the other students blocked Saeko and pleaded or threatened her to stay and protect them.
• Saeko's expression turned cold, and she drew her sword, abruptly silencing the kendo room.

Saeko Busujima killed Li, left the classroom to clear Zombies from the academy, and fought a Licker on the rooftop. After defeating the rooftop Zombies, she opened a Cyan Treasure Chest and obtained Wind Slash, triggering the hidden profession Demon Swordsman (Wind).

• Saeko Busujima killed Li after the classmates tried to pressure her, and Teacher Shizuka offered to pay for her help.
• Saeko Busujima cleared Zombies from the hallway and climbed to the school rooftop, where she found a Cyan Treasure Chest.
• A Licker attacked Saeko Busujima, knocked her sword away, and was killed when she recovered the weapon and stabbed it through the head.
• Saeko Busujima defeated the remaining rooftop Zombies and opened the Cyan Treasure Chest.
• Saeko Busujima obtained the Wind Slash Skill Book and triggered the hidden profession Demon Swordsman (Wind).