Chapter Summaries

Captain Marvel Carol arrived at Xandar to confront the Blood God over the danger facing Earth, but Wang Bert easily defeated her and explained the threat from Thanos and the Ronan Coalition. Carol agreed to discuss matters with him, leaving the possibility of joining Earth's fight open.

• Carol destroyed pirate warships, learned that the Ronan Coalition threatened Earth, and flew to Xandar despite Fury's warning about the Blood God.
• At Earth Express, Crystal and the gathered Earthlings fought Carol, but she held her own against Tony, Ivan, and Hulk.
• Wang Bert stopped the fight and absorbed Carol's attacks with his control of the Space Stone before blasting her onto a satellite.
• Wang Bert revealed Carol's identity to the others, then offered to train her to strengthen the Space Stone energy in her body.
• Wang Bert explained Thanos's connection to Earth and urged Carol to fight alongside them against the Ronan Coalition; Carol agreed to discuss it.

Wang Bert prepared Earth’s defenders for Ronan’s approaching allied forces while Tivan and Ronan planned how to deal with him and Carol. Ten days later, the opposing fleets faced one another outside Xandar, with both sides preparing to fight.

• Carol agreed to fight alongside Xandar, and Nova Prime rejected Wang Bert’s proposal to ambush Ronan’s forces because it could give their allies an excuse to attack.
• Wang Bert confirmed Carol would join the defenders, teased Tony and Ivan about losing to her, and promised Hulk dragon meat before urging everyone to prepare.
• Tivan’s allies insisted he use the Power Stone against Wang Bert, but Tivan claimed the Stone was with Blood God and agreed to face him while Ronan set the attack for ten days later.
• Tivan gave Ronan and other commanders special treasures, then paid Fury to put a demonic potion in the food; Fury told Hill, who informed Wang Bert.
• Wang Bert identified the potion as Demon Potion and told Fury to follow Tivan’s instructions, while Hill relayed Fury’s request that Wang Bert not bully Carol.
• More than ten days later, Xandar’s fleet and its allies faced Ronan’s forces outside Xandar as Ronan and Nova Prime rallied their sides for battle.

Wang Bert confronted Tivan over the Space Stone, declared Earth’s right to defend itself, and threatened to seal him for ten thousand years. As the war began, Carol fought Gladiator and Shuri’s Vibranium-plated Phantom Legion battled Sovereign’s fighters, leaving Sovereign’s ships charging toward the Revenge.

• Wang Bert rejected Tivan’s accusations and said Earth’s protectors had the right to decide how to use its Infinity Stones.
• Wang Bert explained that he planned to seal Tivan rather than kill him, so Earth would avoid provoking all the Elders of the Universe.
• Carol followed Gladiator to an abandoned planet, where they began a fierce fight as Tivan confidently backed Gladiator to win.
• Ronan ordered the Noble Pirate Group to attack the Xandar Alliance’s left flank while Sovereign launched remote-controlled fighters against Earth’s forces.
• Shuri deployed the Phantom Legion, whose Vibranium armor let its ships withstand Sovereign’s attacks and fight back.
• Shuri ordered the Revenge’s Black Hole Cannon activated when Sovereign’s fighters charged toward the ship.

Earth's forces used advanced weapons and coordinated tactics to crush the Skrull allied forces on the left flank, while the Ravagers attacked the criminal legion on the right. As the Skrull fleet collapsed, Ronan and his allies pinned their hopes on the Ravagers, whose battle was still underway.

• Shuri used a prototype Black Hole Cannon to disrupt the Sovereigns' remote-controlled ships, allowing the Phantom Legion to destroy them and prompting Ayesha to raise Earth's priority.
• Ronan ordered the Skrull allied forces to attack the left flank and the Ravagers to attack the right, while Steve prepared Earth's forces for battle.
• Natasha rallied the criminal legion with a promise of freedom, and Rocket, Groot, Drax, and Gamora brought Star-Lord aboard the Milano for the coming fight.
• Tony's Drone Armor and Frank's Bio-High-Temperature Clone Corps struck the Skrull forces, and a stealth nuclear-bomb armor destroyed their command flagship.
• Steve's fleet and hidden Chitauri reinforcements overwhelmed the disorganized Skrull forces, while Tony moved to capture a Skrull warship.
• Ronan reacted grimly to the Skrull defeat as the Ravagers and criminal legion fought on the right flank, where the criminal legion began to lose ground.

The allied forces turned the battle against the Ravagers and Kree with the Hell Vibranium Chariot and Black Bolt’s attacks, while Doom led an assault on the Dark Aster. As Doom overwhelmed Ronan and Carol fought Gladiator, the battle remained underway across the fleets.

• Natasha ordered Ghost Rider to launch the Hell Vibranium Chariot, and Damon smashed through Ravager ships and destroyed Two-Headed Demon's flagship.
• Wang Bert explained that the chariot could not be mass-produced, while Ronan led the Kree fleet into an assault on Xandar.
• Gordon teleported Black Bolt to the Dark Aster, where Black Bolt shattered its shield and badly damaged the ship with his voice.
• Doom led the Super Heroes and Inhumans through the Dark Aster, then defeated Ronan as their allies routed the defenders.
• Tivan called Gladiator and Beta Ray Bill for reinforcements, but Carol knocked Gladiator dizzy and drove him into the ground.

Gladiator used Tivan’s Protagonist Ring to overpower Carol, then fought her alongside Hulk and Beta Ray Bill. Meanwhile, Ronan invoked Shuma-Gorath’s power, healed his wounds, and challenged Doom as Tivan prepared to claim the Stones.

• Carol initially overwhelmed Gladiator, but he put on Tivan’s Protagonist Ring and gained enough power to defeat her.
• Hulk and Beta Ray Bill joined Carol against Gladiator, who held his own against all three; Carol healed with a Blood God Potion before returning to the fight.
• The Guardians of the Galaxy arrived to support the Super Heroes, and Drax attacked Ronan to avenge his family.
• Ronan summoned Shuma-Gorath through an ancient eye statue, recovering from his injuries and gaining a surge of power.
• Tivan prepared a kettle of black water as he planned to take the Space Stone and Power Stone, while Fury trusted Blood God to handle him.
• Ronan defeated Drax and hurled him at Doom, intending to use a hidden trap to paralyze Doom and attack him.

Doom overwhelmed Ronan in the Mirror Dimension while the Xandar Alliance gained the upper hand across the battlefield. Tivan summoned Hell Lord Mephisto with a kettle full of souls, and the chapter ended with Wang Bert appearing to confront him.

• Doom trapped Ronan in the Mirror Dimension and attacked him with Explosion Cockroaches and Magic Satellites as Ronan fought back with the Eye Demon's power.
• Nova Prime led the Nova Corps against the Kree Fleet while Earth's forces crushed the Skrull Coalition and the Ravagers; Ivan joined Tony's assault on a Skrull flagship, and many Ravagers surrendered.
• Human Torch and the Inhumans attacked the Dark Aster, but Tivan escaped into space and summoned a Broken Horned Demon from Hell using a kettle filled with souls.
• The demon revealed himself as Mephisto, destroyed a Xandar warship, and devoured its crew's souls.
• Wang Bert appeared before Mephisto, who vowed revenge, and Wang Bert challenged him.

Wang Bert defeated Mephisto and forced him to surrender nine Spirits of Vengeance and the method for creating Ghost Riders, then captured Tivan. As the battle ended, Gladiator accepted the others’ challenge and flew toward Wang Bert.

• Wang Bert overwhelmed Mephisto with his crimson spears and spatial attacks, leaving Mephisto badly injured and forcing him to flee.
• Wang Bert stopped Mephisto, took his kettle, and demanded all his Spirits of Vengeance and the Ghost Rider creation method in exchange for letting his projection return to Hell.
• Mephisto surrendered nine Spirits of Vengeance, which Wang Bert sent into the Spear of God to be purified and made its servants.
• Tivan tried to escape into Hell, but Wang Bert captured him after Tivan abandoned his threat to perish with Wang Bert.
• Nova Prime’s forces surrounded the retreating Ronan Coalition while Hulk, Carol, and Beta Ray Bill taunted Gladiator into challenging Wang Bert.
• Gladiator flew toward Wang Bert, who turned and looked at him coldly.

Wang Bert secured a decisive victory over Ronan’s coalition, took control of the Dark Aster, and sealed Tivan in Hell after accepting his treasures and money. As rival empires reacted to the Blood God’s growing power, Tivan warned Wang Bert that gathering the Six Infinity Stones would revive Nemesis.

• Wang Bert shattered Gladiator’s confidence with Soul Shock, and Carol, Hulk, and Beta Ray Bill beat him while keeping him alive.
• Doom killed Ronan and took the Universal Weapon, while Electro’s team seized the Dark Aster and the Earth and Xandar forces routed their enemies.
• Wang Bert sealed Tivan in Hell for a reduced sentence of one thousand years in exchange for his ordinary treasures and money, and Tivan warned him that the Six Infinity Stones could revive Nemesis.
• Wang Bert returned to the battlefield as Xandar and Earth celebrated their complete victory, with the Dark Aster claimed as humanity’s spoils.
• High Priestess Ayesha canceled plans to attack Earth and sought the Blood God’s genes, while Empress Lilandra ordered Gladiator rescued and restricted Shi'ar activity on Earth to reconnaissance.

Wang Bert arranged Earth’s alliance with Xandar, plans for interstellar training, and the study of powerful technologies and prisoners. He agreed to train Carol in using Space Energy, leaving her with the task of beginning her cultivation from the basics.

• The Kree Supreme Intelligence ordered officials to seek Ronan’s corpse from Xandar, invite the Blood God to establish express delivery, and contact the Inhumans, while Veranke ordered Skrull infiltration of Earth but warned against acting rashly.
• Wang Bert told Tony and Steve that Xandar would send a delegation and let Earth choose Resource Stars, and he pledged ten billion to Tony’s reemployment foundation.
• Wang Bert assigned Gladiator to Dr. Richards for cloning research and arranged Military Academy places for Earth’s heroes and representatives of the Six Powers.
• Tony questioned Wang Bert’s plan to develop Pym Particles through Darren Cross, and Wang Bert urged him to persuade Dr. Pym to sell his research.
• Wang Bert agreed to let Beta Ray Bill leave after three months of study but refused to return the Gravity Hammer, which Hulk had claimed.
• Wang Bert purified Carol’s energy, doubling its power, then agreed to train her to draw on compatible spaces and told her to begin by learning to sense spatial fluctuations.

Wang Bert tallied the gains from his recent operation and welcomed nine Avenging Angels as his new servants. He sent them into the Dragon World to hunt evil dragons while he returned to focus on the Main Universe.

• Wang Bert offered to teach Carol spatial sensing and advised Hulk to travel with Betty so he could grow stronger without endangering Earth.
• Dr. Banner revealed that Betty had accepted his private marriage proposal, and Wang Bert gave them Teleportation Rings for their upcoming trip with Hulk.
• Wang Bert reviewed Earth's and his own gains, including a Resource Star, Tivan's fortune and collection, the Celestial Head, and nine Spirits of Vengeance.
• The Spear of God presented Wang Bert with nine female Avenging Angels, led by Annie, and restored their bodies using a purified Magic Crystal.
• Wang Bert took the Avenging Angels to the Dragon World and ordered them to hunt evil dragons, with three eventually assigned to guard him personally.

Wang Bert secured a Sovereign Genetic Artificial Human and assigned Lizard Doctor to study her, while Earth established relations with Xandar and received a resource-rich planet. The chapter ended with Hulk going berserk against space pirates after witnessing their destruction of a city.

• Wang Bert learned from Tivan that the golden cocoon held a female Genetic Artificial Human created by the Sovereigns, and he refused to return her.
• Wang Bert thawed Lizard Doctor and used the Blood God Puppet Technique on him, then ordered him to study the cocoon and cultivate the Artificial Human under strict supervision.
• Wang Bert arranged for Wakanda to supply Vibranium in exchange for nine Avenging Angels, while Erik asked him for a true dragon.
• Earth established diplomatic relations with Xandar and received White Crystal Star, where Tony explained the planet's resources and dangers to Wang Bert, Natasha, and the others.
• Hulk saw the devastation pirates had inflicted on a city and attacked their forces, while Star-Lord, Betty, Gamora, Rocket, and Drax followed and debated joining the fight.

After helping Hulk realize his power could protect worlds from space pirates, Banner proposed expanding the Bifrost network to defend planets across the galaxy. Meanwhile, the Grandmaster planned to recruit Hulk for his arena, and Wang Bert visited Sovereign to seek its genetic technology for Lizard Doctor.

• Hulk defeated most of the space pirates, then decided to use his anger to protect Earth and the universe after seeing the destruction they had caused.
• Banner suggested that Earth could extend the Bifrost across the galaxy and offer protection to planets that joined the Earth Alliance, and he planned to discuss the idea with Bert and the others.
• The Grandmaster tried to recruit Hulk as an arena Champion, but Hulk refused and told him to speak with Blood God; the Grandmaster decided to plan a wager against Blood God and considered recruiting powerful fighters.
• Wang Bert arrived on Sovereign, agreed to establish an Earth Express business there, and refused High Priestess Ayesha's request for his genes.
• Wang Bert asked Ayesha to sell Sovereign's foundational genetic technology so Lizard Doctor could study the Artificial God cocoon.

Wang Bert rejected High Priestess Ayesha’s genetic technology offer, toured Sovereign with Michelle, and watched the Guardians fight a Space Monster. When Grandmaster appeared and threatened him with a bet involving Tivan, the Infinity Stones, and Hulk, Wang Bert attacked Sakaar’s arena, prompting the other Elders of the Universe to intervene.

• High Priestess Ayesha refused to sell Sovereign’s genetic technology, then asked Michelle to show Wang Bert around the city.
• Wang Bert gave Michelle a romance novel and questioned her lack of a sense of self as they visited Sovereign’s museum.
• The Guardians of the Galaxy, Hulk, and their companions fought the Space Monster at Sovereign’s battery factory while High Priestess Ayesha considered Hulk’s genes.
• Grandmaster appeared before Wang Bert and proposed a bet involving Tivan, the Infinity Stones, and Hulk.
• Wang Bert sent flaming Dragon Gods into Grandmaster’s arena and used Circle of Death to devastate it, ignoring Grandmaster’s surrender.
• The other Elders of the Universe arrived and erased Wang Bert’s spatial attack as he prepared to fight them.

Wang Bert agreed to the Elders of the Universe’s wager to protect Sovereign for three months, with the fate of Tivan and an Infinity Stone at stake. After overpowering Sovereign’s forces, he compelled High Priestess Ayesha to cooperate and took Adam, while Valkyrie encountered Odin on Earth.

• The Avenging Angels transformed, and the Astronomer persuaded Wang Bert and the Elders of the Universe to wager on whether Wang Bert could protect Sovereign for three months; Wang Bert secured three unconditional services from them if he won.
• Wang Bert brought Valkyrie from the Grandmaster’s arena to Earth, where Odin apologized to her and offered her stinky tofu; Valkyrie assumed she was dreaming and knocked herself unconscious.
• On Sovereign, High Priestess Ayesha demanded that Wang Bert cancel the wager, but he crushed the fleet’s spaceships and warned that he could destroy the planet.
• High Priestess Ayesha agreed that Sovereign would help Wang Bert win, but refused to give him Adam; Wang Bert opened a portal, ordered the guards to stand down, and took Adam into his space.
• Wang Bert summoned Lizard Doctor and Eve through another portal.

Wang Bert prepared Sovereign and his own forces for battle against the Elders of the Universe, then rushed to Hell when he sensed trouble. There he defeated Mephisto and Blackheart, sealed both their souls, and claimed Mephisto’s heart, though Mephisto hinted that a fragment of his soul had escaped.

• Wang Bert ordered High Priestess Ayesha to gather Sovereign’s resources and summoned his personal forces, while Annie took command of the troops in his absence.
• Wang Bert entered Mephisto’s Hell, attacked Mephisto, and had Blackheart fight him while repeatedly confining Mephisto with space magic.
• Blackheart tore out Mephisto’s heart, but Wang Bert took it and sealed Mephisto’s soul after discovering that part of it had escaped.
• Blackheart absorbed Mephisto’s power and reached for Hell’s lordly scepter, but Wang Bert used the armor’s hidden Time Magic mark to stop him.
• Wang Bert pierced Blackheart, drained his blood, and sealed his soul beside Mephisto’s, where the two enemies began fighting again.

Wang Bert turned the Hell Lords’ attempt to trap him into a chance to create an Adam clone recognized as Mephisto’s new Demon King, while his allies prepared to defend Sovereign. As the Kree Supreme Intelligence demanded Adam and Eve in exchange for help, Ayesha realized Sovereign was caught between powerful forces seeking the gods.

• Grandmaster revealed that the Elders of the Universe had lured Wang Bert into Hell, where the Lords sealed the realm and planned to destroy Sovereign within seven days.
• Wang Bert merged his blood and part of his soul with Adam inside a golden cocoon, and Hell’s power restored the cocoon and began making Adam its new Demon King.
• At Kamar-Taj, Wang Bert told Ancient One he had expected Hell to accept Adam and intended to use the Demon King clone to gain influence there, while agreeing to limit Hell’s power on Earth.
• On Sovereign, Korath began cultivating high-temperature clones, while Ivan and Shuri inspected the control center and planned their legions using Sovereign’s technology.
• The Supreme Intelligence told Ayesha that news of Adam and Eve had spread across the universe and demanded that Sovereign hand them over in return for resolving the crisis; Ayesha recognized that Sovereign could not protect them alone.

With the Blood God trapped in Hell, the Kree Empire and space pirates prepared to attack Sovereign while allies debated whether to help. As the Kree main legion arrived, High Priestess Ayesha urged the defenders to summon the absent Blood God, believing only he could save them.

• The Supreme Intelligence tried to persuade High Priestess Ayesha to hand Adam and Eve to the Kree Empire, but Lina’s Holy Flame compelled Ayesha to reject the offer and reaffirm Sovereign’s support for the Blood God.
• The Supreme Intelligence ordered the Kree Empire’s main legion to conquer Sovereign and seize Adam and Eve, while sealing jump points to keep the Skrull and Shi'ar Empires away.
• The Grandmaster urged Stakar and the Ravagers Alliance to attack Sovereign, but Stakar refused to join a massacre; Charlie agreed not to act as a Ravager while considering other space pirates.
• Fury learned that the Ravagers Alliance would stay out of the conflict, while Hill exposed his hidden embezzlement; Thor then left Asgard with Electro to help the Blood God, after Odin allowed him to go.
• Several days later, the Kree main legion approached Sovereign with space pirates behind it, and High Priestess Ayesha told Frank and the defenders that they needed to call the Blood God back.

Frank, Ivan, and their allies defended Sovereign from the Kree Empire’s invasion while Wang Bert remained trapped in Hell, confident that his plans would prevail. The battle began with the Clone Corps and hidden Invisibility Armors destroying the Kree’s forces, leaving the Supreme Intelligence’s fleet reeling.

• Annie, Frank, and Carol assured High Priestess Ayesha that Wang Bert had planned for the Kree attack, while the Supreme Intelligence demanded their surrender and Frank refused.
• Wang Bert bet Grandmaster that Sovereign would survive the day, wagering the Power Stone and Tivan’s treasures against Grandmaster’s terms.
• The Supreme Intelligence sent space pirates ahead as a vanguard, but Ivan deployed clones whose teleporting attacks blew apart the pirates’ ships.
• The Kree advanced with ten main ships and fighters, but Ivan and the Sovereign fought back with drone fighters and another Clone Corps assault.
• The Kree commander detected ten Invisibility Armors and tried to counter them, but they reappeared beneath the main ships and exploded, destroying all ten ships and nearby fighters.

Frank’s forces turned the Kree invasion around by using Lorelei’s enchanted charm to make the enemy slaughter itself, then unleashed their reserves. With Carol and Thor fighting the Kree champions and the Supreme Intelligence trying to recover its forces, Frank sent Hulk and his allies to destroy the Antimatter Cannon.

• Ivan’s teleporting nuclear bombs devastated the Kree Fleet, but the Supreme Intelligence deployed Ionization Defense and ordered its forces to attack Sovereign.
• Frank held back Thor and Carol until Lorelei used her Charm Necklace and Asgardian rune towers to enthrall the men across the battlefield, throwing the Kree Fleet into chaos.
• Ivan sent Sovereign’s hidden clones and drone ships into battle, while the Supreme Intelligence transferred its Mind Power to the Dark Sky and restored some commanders to their senses.
• Thor fought Ares while Carol battled Two-Headed Man and Man-Thing, keeping them from reaching the Dark Sky and its Antimatter Cannon.
• Shuri confirmed that Tetanus and the others could teleport through the Dark Sky’s quantum interference, and Frank ordered Dr. Banner to move out and deal with the cannon.