Chapter Summaries

Strange and the mysterious magician fought in the Mirror Dimension while Tony and the Super Heroes battled the Demon God Believers and magicians outside the hospital. Annie arranged for Damon to absorb holy light to purify his Spirit of Vengeance, and the battle remained unresolved as Spider-Man was trapped by a magician posing as a hot-dog seller.

• Strange fought the mysterious magician in a midair battle inside the Mirror Dimension.
• Tony released the hostages, lowered the Defense Shield, and sent Drone Armors to attack the gathered magicians and Demon God Believers.
• The Grand Elder trapped Damon inside a Holy Mountain, and Annie told Damon to absorb the holy light so it could purify his Spirit of Vengeance into an Avenging Angel.
• Both sides fought throughout the hospital as the Grand Elder's forces advanced and the Super Heroes, demons, and Drone Armors resisted them.
• A magician who sold hot dogs trapped Spider-Man with a Sacred Object, then left after completing his task.

Mindy distracted the Magicians while secretly poisoning them, and they were captured after selling their Magic Items and fighting the Demon God Believers. Human forces then ambushed the heroes, and as the battle intensified, Pepper went into labor.

• Mindy offered to buy the Magicians' Magic Items, prompting several to attack the Demon God Believers and sell their depleted treasures.
• Mindy revealed she had released poison gas, knocking the Magicians out; they then agreed to sell their items once the battle ended.
• Human forces launched a particle-rifle ambush, but Peter evaded the shots and Drone Armor rescued the other heroes before two to three hundred attackers charged the hospital.
• Tony fought Viper while Spider-Man, Harry, the Drone Armor, and Mindy battled the attacking soldiers.
• Pepper watched the fight from the hospital with Madame Gao, then announced that she was going into labor.

Pepper went into labor as Tony and the heroes fought the Demon God Believers, while Hela captured and tortured the spirit who tried to possess Tony. The battle continued on several fronts, and Wasp launched a surprise attack on Baron Strucker’s group beside the Antimatter Bomb in Sokovia.

• Madame Gao ordered the doctors to deliver Pepper’s baby, and Angel shielded the delivery room as Viper urged the Demon God Believers to kill the heroes before the Demon King was born.
• Viper’s giant serpent trapped Tony in poison, but Tony killed it before a Spirit Inhuman possessed him; Little Hela entered Tony’s mental world, seized the spirit, and rescued him.
• Electro and the Drone Armor protected Tony, who summoned the upgraded Veronica and helped the heroes push back the Demon God Believers as Viper escaped.
• Outside the delivery room, Little Hela tortured the captured spirit with light needles until he surrendered, while Lina sent Quicksilver to buy pizza and milk tea.
• Wang Bert checked on the battles, contacted Adam about Hulk’s progress in Hell, and absorbed Gladiator’s body to gain his powers.
• In Sokovia, Wasp ambushed Baron Strucker and the Kree scientist beside the Antimatter Bomb, while Carter deployed a shield to protect herself and the bomb.

Carter used the Freezing Device to contain the Antimatter Bomb while Wanda and the others fought Baron Strucker’s forces, but the Supreme Intelligence’s revival instead brought Ultron to life in a Mechanical Hydra. As Ultron faced Jarvis above Sokovia, Steve and Doom went to confront it while the others continued fighting at the base.

• Carter began freezing the Antimatter Bomb as Wanda turned against Baron Strucker and battled his Inhuman bodyguards, while Ant-Man fought the Kree soldiers and scientist.
• The Supreme Intelligence revived, but its consciousness was replaced by Ultron, who found Earth’s networks physically disconnected and struggled to control the battle.
• Ultron’s transfer into the Mechanical Hydra caused the base to shake; Skye discovered the creature breaking free and warned the others that a real Hydra had arrived.
• The Mechanical Hydra burst into the sky, raising the Hydra soldiers’ morale, while Steve ordered Ivan, Carter, and Skye to finish the fighting and went with Doom to face Ultron.
• Jarvis confronted Ultron above Sokovia, rejected its plan to destroy humanity, and warned it to surrender or be destroyed.

Doom, Jarvis, and Steve battled Ultron, who had taken control of Hydra’s regenerating body, while Wang Bert’s Dragon Soul Clone faced Supergiant inside the Mind Stone. As the fight against Hydra continued, Wang Bert announced that Supergiant had grown enough for him to harvest her.

• Doom used psychic bombs made from fallen Hydra members’ souls to blast Hydra’s Mind Power head, then redirected Ultron’s attacks and struck it with spatial magic and weapons.
• Jarvis absorbed Hydra’s lightning, destroyed its lightning and Venom heads, and fought its other attacks with weapons including Ivan’s Lightning Cannon.
• Steve battered Hydra with his shield and strength, then realized its mechanical components were likely hidden inside its body and worked to expose them.
• Doom vanished to search Hydra for Ultron’s mechanical components while Steve and Jarvis held off Hydra’s heads.
• Supergiant grew stronger inside the Mind Stone by summoning more psychic monsters, while Wang Bert’s Dragon Soul Clone fought through them.
• Wang Bert told Supergiant he had been waiting for her to grow and declared that he would harvest her.

Wang Bert defeated and devoured Supergiant, claiming the Mind Stone and strengthening his will. Meanwhile, S.W.O.R.D. defeated Hydra’s forces in Sokovia, and Doom, Steve, Jarvis, and Carter worked to stop Ultron’s Hydra body before Ultron was exposed in its Mechanical Heart.

• Wang Bert used Dragon Fire and the Mind Stone to defeat Supergiant, then devoured her and claimed the Mind Stone.
• Carter and S.W.O.R.D. captured Baron Strucker and the Kree scientist, while Ivan guarded the frozen Antimatter Bomb.
• Skye’s team defeated Hydra’s Inhumans and Enhanced Humans, and Skye began copying Hydra’s files as Doom’s forces evacuated the area.
• Ultron drove Hydra toward Sokovia’s civilians, but Steve and Jarvis tried to hold it back while Doom located the Mechanical Heart.
• Doom severed Hydra’s nine heads to force it to regenerate, and Carter struck the slowed Mechanical Heart out of Hydra’s body.
• Jarvis caught the Mechanical Heart as Ultron tried to flee back into Hydra.

Jarvis, Steve, and Doom contained Ultron’s Mechanical Heart and finished the battle at the Hydra base, while Strange defeated Kaecilius and returned to the fight in New York. Damon emerged from the Holy Mountain transformed into an angelic Ghost Rider and fought for the heroes, but Viper and the remaining Demon God Believers transformed into demons and renewed their assault.

• Jarvis failed to destroy Ultron’s Mechanical Heart, so Doom sealed it in a Space Box for study, and Steve ordered a search for Ultron’s remaining subprograms.
• Doom offered the recovering Hydra as a potential God-Level Puppet, but Steve and Carter rejected the idea of making it S.W.O.R.D.’s guardian.
• Strange defeated Kaecilius with a simplified Shape of Isaac, but Kaecilius escaped using Dormammu’s Black Light and pledged himself to Dormammu.
• Strange returned to the battle near the delivery room and attacked the Demon God Believers while Tony remained occupied with Veronica’s shadow.
• The Holy Light Warriors died after purifying Damon, who transformed into a blue-flamed Ghost Rider and attacked the Demon God Believers instead of joining them.
• Viper urged the surviving Demon God Believers to become demons, and they transformed before charging the heroes.

Viper and the Demon God Believers used souls to open rifts to Hell, while the heroes fought the demons and tried to stop their arrival. Strange destroyed the Shadow Hell rift, but the Shadow Prince appeared near the hospital to seize the Demon King's reincarnation, and Wang Bert assured Electro that the delivery room was safe.

• Viper and the Fake Nose Demon God Believer attacked the human suicide squad and used their souls to summon more souls through three Altars.
• The Golden Robe Demon God Believer summoned a Golden Demon God Guard Commander and three Metal Demons, and Tony battled the Guard Commander using Veronica and Vibranium weapons.
• Damon fought the Metal Demons while Strange destroyed the Shadow Hell rift with a Space Bomb after the Shadow Demon God Believer sacrificed himself.
• Little Hela exposed the Shadow Prince, who had secretly crossed into the hospital to take the Demon King's reincarnation, and his shadow attacks damaged the Drone Armors.
• Tony rushed to help the delivery room, but Electro relayed Wang Bert's assurance that the baby was protected by the reincarnated God; Tony was then struck by the Guard Commander.

Little Hela and Lina defeated the Shadow Prince using Thor’s Hammer, but a far more formidable enemy emerged from the third spatial rift. The chapter ended with the figure stepping through as everyone braced for its arrival.

• The Shadow Prince trapped Little Hela, Lina, and Quicksilver in shadow, so Little Hela summoned Thor’s Hammer and used it to batter the attacker.
• Little Hela and Lina unleashed a storm of lightning swords that destroyed the Shadow Prince’s shadow monsters, but the Shadow Prince reappeared and tried to take the hammer.
• Thor’s Hammer pinned the Shadow Prince, and Little Hela killed it with lightning after rejecting its offer to serve as her assassin.
• Little Hela gave the Shadow Cloak to Mindy and the Shadow Daggers to Quicksilver, then sent Thor’s Hammer back to Thor in the Dwarf Kingdom.
• War drums sounded from the third spatial rift, and a huge figure tore the opening wider and began to emerge.

Hulk and the other heroes stopped Viper’s attack, but she revealed herself as Serpent God Set and was banished outside Earth’s Defense Net by Wang Bert. Wang Bert then brought the heroes to face four Demon Gods, assigning Hulk, Strange, and Damon to fight Skeleton God while he confronted Set and the other two gods.

• Hulk emerged from the summoning rift, destroyed the altar, and battered the guard commander while Tony and the other heroes confronted Viper.
• Viper sacrificed Hydra’s Enhanced Humans and transformed into Serpent God Set, whose power spread an evil influence across New York.
• Wang Bert used Spatial Exile to remove Set from the city, and Tony learned that his child had been born before joining the heroes in finishing off the remaining enemies.
• Set appeared outside Earth’s Defense Net and joined the Blood Demon God, Lizard Dragon God, and Skeleton God in attacking it.
• Wang Bert emerged from the Defense Net with Hulk, Strange, and Damon, sent the three heroes to hold off Skeleton God, and prepared to fight Set and the other two gods.

Wang Bert and his allies fought the Blood Demon God, the Lizard Dragon God, and Seth for the Dragon World's authority and other power. As the battles continued, Kaecilius stole the Darkhold and prepared to summon Dormammu, while Ancient One and the Blood God projection watched and prepared to stop him.

• Wang Bert rejected the Blood Demon God, the Lizard Dragon God, and Seth's demands, then sent Elektra to hold off Seth and the Dragon Soul Clone to fight the Lizard Dragon God while he faced the Blood Demon God.
• Elektra used God's Cloak, her regenerative body, and her Heat Rays to injure Seth, escape his space-devouring trap, and resume their fight.
• The Dragon Soul Clone overpowered the Lizard Dragon God with poison, spatial attacks, and the Star Sucking Art, then pursued him as he fled.
• Kaecilius knocked out Kamar-Taj's librarian, stole the sealed Darkhold, and took the page containing Dormammu's summoning ritual before gathering his followers.
• Ancient One and the Blood God projection revealed that they had watched Kaecilius and prepared to eliminate Dormammu after the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Wang Bert fought the Blood Demon God, using his Blood River and the Beast to overpower him. After blocking the Blood Demon God's attempts to escape or destroy them both, Wang Bert devoured him and added him to the Blood River.

• Wang Bert rejected the Blood Demon God's offer to become his subordinate and attacked him with a Blood River and crimson spears.
• Wang Bert trapped half the Blood Demon God's blood in nine small spaces and began devouring it.
• The Blood Demon God sacrificed people in his small world and turned their vengeful souls into Black Qi to corrode Wang Bert's spaces.
• Wang Bert summoned the Beast, which consumed the Black Qi and helped him fight the weakened Blood Demon God.
• Wang Bert merged the spaces, cut off the Blood Demon God's connection to his small world, and overwhelmed him with the Beast.
• Wang Bert used the Light of the Mind to disrupt the Blood Demon God and devoured him into the Blood River.

Wang Bert defeated Seth’s avatar with a spatial ambush and captured the Serpent Crown, while Hulk, Strange, and Damon continued fighting the Skeleton God’s army. Seth’s last fragment of consciousness possessed Hulk to provoke his rage, but Hulk remained unimpressed.

• Wang Bert defeated the Blood Demon God, promised to free the humans in its small world, and watched the Vengeful Souls depart for reincarnation.
• Elektra escaped Seth’s attempt to swallow her by resurrecting at a strand of hair, and the Dragon Soul Clone returned after killing the Lizard Dragon God.
• Wang Bert overwhelmed Seth’s avatar, then tricked Him into drawing on His projection’s power and impaled Him with the Spear of God.
• Seth’s avatar perished in holy light, and Wang Bert caught the fleeing Serpent Crown and ordered the Mind Stone to make it submit.
• Hulk, Strange, and Damon fought the Skeleton God’s endless skeleton army as Seth’s final consciousness entered Hulk and tried to unleash his rage.
• Hulk grew larger and caused nearby skeletons to explode, then picked his nose and asked if that was all.

Hulk resisted Seth’s attempt to turn him into a monster, gathered Earth’s anger to become the God of Anger, and defeated Skeleton God before Wang Bert captured him. After Wang Bert revealed Kaecilius’s betrayal and assigned Strange to defend the Three Sanctuaries, Tony welcomed his newborn children and joined the arrest of a presidential candidate accused of colluding with Hydra.

• Hulk rejected Seth’s influence, summoned the anger of people across Earth, and became the God of Anger.
• Hulk battled Skeleton God with Strange and Damon’s help, while Wang Bert collapsed the space and captured Skeleton God in the Blood River.
• Hulk gave up godhood and returned to his ordinary form, and Wang Bert told Strange that Kaecilius had allied with Dormammu and ordered him to defend the Three Sanctuaries.
• Tony introduced his newborn children, Morgan Stark and Murphy Stark, and Wang Bert gave them protective dragon-shaped bracelets.
• Wang Bert assigned Electro to arrest a presidential candidate for colluding with Hydra, and Tony led S.W.O.R.D. agents to confront the candidate at a press conference.

Tony exposed and arrested a Hydra presidential candidate, while Wang Bert reclaimed Erik’s soul fragment, destroyed Ultron, and settled the remaining post-battle business. After tallying his spoils, Wang Bert invited Wanda to live at his manor and teased her about becoming his disciple.

• Tony revealed footage of the candidate shouting “Hail Hydra,” then beat him unconscious while S.W.O.R.D. arrested him and subdued his Hydra Bodyguards.
• Wang Bert reclaimed the portion of his soul inside Erik, restored Erik’s soul, and told him to rule Wakanda for twenty years.
• Wang Bert destroyed Ultron, gave Doom control of Hydra, and told Skye to keep the captive Inhumans locked up until he could address them.
• S.W.O.R.D. publicly exposed Hydra’s plot, and Wang Bert and Tony helped punish politicians who had targeted Tony’s children.
• Wang Bert tallied his gains, including the Mind Stone, Serpent Crown, small world, world authority, and several divine beings and weapons.
• Wanda visited Wang Bert at his manor, and after he joked about taking her as a disciple, red light surged around her as she became furious and embarrassed.

Wang Bert took Wanda to the Dragon World, where he reshaped its center as a fortress and stationed his Angel Legion. After returning to the manor, Wanda received advice about her feelings for Wang Bert, while Madame Gao told him that Shou-Lao wanted to pledge allegiance and return to the Dragon World; Wang Bert agreed and then planned a trip to Attilan.

• Wang Bert told Wanda she would attend Manhattan High School while Pietro would train at S.W.O.R.D. Agent Academy, then took her through a portal to the Dragon World.
• Wang Bert destroyed the Dragon God's and Lizard Dragon God's mountains, formed a vast mountain range at the world's center, and brought the Angel Legion there to guard it.
• Wang Bert toured the Dragon World with Wanda, then returned her to the manor, where Wanda worried she was not worthy of him and Madame Gao encouraged her to visit Pepper for advice.
• Madame Gao told Wang Bert that Shou-Lao wanted to pledge allegiance and return to the Dragon World, and Wang Bert accepted the request.
• Wang Bert asked Jarvis to arrange a trip to Attilan with twelve supermodels, and Jarvis said Black Bolt would receive him.

Kaecilius received power from Dormammu and opened a counterfeit Darkhold that exposed secrets while misleading him about the Montes Formula. As Kaecilius set out to find Dracula, Mordo entered the church alone and challenged him.

• Kaecilius and his followers summoned Dormammu, who gave Kaecilius one year to destroy the Three Sanctuaries and told him the Darkhold held a spell capable of destroying Vampires.
• Dormammu broke the magic sealing the Darkhold, and Kaecilius opened a counterfeit book refined by Ancient One and the Blood God’s projection.
• The fake Darkhold revealed gossip about Ancient One, exposed a follower’s ambitions, and claimed the Montes Formula required Dracula’s blood.
• Kaecilius ordered his followers to find Dracula, but Mordo burst into the church and confronted him.
• Kaecilius used dark power to seal off teleportation, while Mordo mocked his new appearance and invited him to speak his last words.

Mordo attacked Kaecilius and his followers, killing several and driving the survivors to seek help from Dormammu after Hell and Heaven refused them. Dormammu supplied dark power and Spider Demon God, while Kaecilius began investigating Dracula; days later, Wang Bert’s meeting at S.W.O.R.D. was interrupted by the sight of a haggard Tony Stark appearing by hologram.

• Mordo used Voodoo Corpses and Energy Guns to attack Kaecilius’s group, killed the Thick Eyebrowed Mage, and planted an Adsorption Bomb on a fleeing mage.
• The bomb killed three mages and seriously injured three others, but Kaecilius led the survivors away to build an Altar and contact Hell and Heaven for reinforcements.
• The Demon King of Hell and Angel refused to send help, so Kaecilius consulted the Darkhold and followed its instructions to contact Spider Demon God.
• Dormammu gave Kaecilius’s group dark power and sent Spider Demon God to assist them, and Kaecilius began gathering information about Dracula.
• Wang Bert met with Steve, Coulson, Skye, General Ross, and others at S.W.O.R.D.; Tony Stark appeared by hologram looking haggard and unkempt.

Wang Bert planned a campaign against the Kree Empire, appointing Skye to establish an Inhuman Kingdom and Frank Castle to command Earth's forces. After the meeting, Tony confronted Wang Bert about the sleepless nights caused by his enhanced children and demanded help.

• Tony explained that Murphy and Morgan kept waking and exhausting him, then discovered that Wang Bert had strengthened them with the Dragon God Bracelet.
• Wang Bert proposed retaliating against the Kree Empire by sending Skye and the Inhumans to seize territory during its civil war and establish an Inhuman Kingdom.
• Wang Bert assigned General Ross as ground commander and Frank Castle as Commander-in-Chief, while giving Skye King's Glory, a divine sword that only she and her descendants could wield.
• The group agreed to prepare the army to depart within two months, and Jarvis volunteered to organize the meeting records.
• Tony privately questioned whether the Inhuman Kingdom could become uncontrollable, then demanded that Wang Bert help him cope with Murphy and Morgan.

Wang Bert reassured Tony about his children and joked about Ivan before Kaecilius seized Dracula and took control of Dreykov’s underground organization. Kaecilius prepared to turn Dreykov’s forces into an army for an assault on the Three Sanctuaries, while Wang Bert learned of the hidden power Kaecilius had acquired.

• Wang Bert offered Tony Dragon Jade to help the maids care for Morgan and Murphy, and Tony explained that Ivan had deliberately lost a bet to become his driver.
• Dracula gambled at his Las Vegas casino until Kaecilius and his followers arrived and tried to capture him.
• Kaecilius overcame Dracula’s escape attempts, controlled him with dark magic, and brought him through a portal to Dreykov’s office.
• Kaecilius controlled Dreykov and ordered him to recall his agents so they could be transformed into Spider Witches and Spider Warlocks.
• Kaecilius ordered Dreykov to equip his forces with advanced weapons, especially Energy Bombs, as he prepared for a future fight with Mordo.
• At Kamar-Taj, Wang Bert learned that Kaecilius had taken over Dreykov’s organization.