Chapter Summaries

Skye told Wang Bert that a mysterious eyeless teleporter had recruited her as a mole, and Wang Bert assigned her to help care for his apprentices while investigating the Inhumans’ plans. Meanwhile, Mephisto plotted to use the Blood Clan to find Dracula, and Wang Bert’s travel party witnessed a Toad Monster being rescued by a No-Eyed Person in Brazil.

• Blade took a pure Vibranium battle blade from Wang Bert, while Skye was caught sneaking into Osborn Tower to meet him.
• Skye revealed that an eyeless man who could teleport had offered information about her parents in exchange for spying on Wang Bert, and Wang Bert assigned her to work under him while remaining employed by Coulson.
• Mephisto persuaded the Hell Lords to help the Blood Clan search for Dracula, hoping Dracula would reclaim his blood from Wang Bert and kill him.
• In Brazil, Skye accompanied Mindy, Lina, and Little Hela on a trip while Wang Bert went off on his own, and the girls discussed avoiding trouble and attracting attention.
• A crowd mistook a Toad Monster for an alien, and after bodyguards fired at him, a No-Eyed Person appeared in blue lightning, rescued him, and vanished.

Wang Bert investigated the Inhumans after Gordon approached Skye, secretly tracking Jiaying and uncovering her plans with Maximus. As Nick Fury left for space, Wang Bert warned Steve that a crisis involving superpowers, aliens, and races could soon trigger a civil war on Earth.

• Wang Bert told Skye to draw Gordon out, then secretly planted his blood on Gordon and followed him to Afterlife, where Jiaying planned to use Skye to gather intelligence and kill Wang Bert.
• Gordon told Skye she was an Inhuman and showed her photographs of the Obelisk and Teleportation Stone; Jiaying also tasked Gordon with finding Black Bolt and Medusa for Maximus.
• Wang Bert learned that the European Blood Clan planned to attack Mercury and Blade, and he told James to monitor them while waiting for the Demon God and Dracula to reveal themselves.
• Wang Bert sent Nick Fury and his team through the Bifrost to join Thor, and Fury resolved to become a Ravager and establish Safe Houses across the universe.
• Wang Bert told Steve to bring Carter and the others to his estate, warning that a crisis involving superpowers, aliens, and races could spark a civil war; he returned to the hotel and found Skye waiting.

Wang Bert revealed that Skye was an Inhuman and gave S.W.O.R.D. evidence of a growing Inhuman population, leaving Steve and the others to decide how to respond. Meanwhile, Mercury’s campaign against the European Blood Clan gained ground, and she openly defied an invitation from Countess Bathory.

• Wang Bert explained that Inhumans were created by aliens, showed the group reports of newly awakened people, and identified the No-Eyed People as a likely Inhuman faction.
• Skye touched the Obelisk without harm, confirming she was an Inhuman, and Tony took it for research while S.W.O.R.D.’s leaders debated policy and public disclosure.
• Mercury’s team reported that Rose Bank’s funds had been frozen, HSBC had offered a loan, and the government would establish a Blood Clan Police Department.
• Blade warned Mercury that few Vampires had registered and no Purebloods had appeared, so Mercury ordered stronger defenses and prepared to fight those who refused to submit.
• Mercury rejected Countess Bathory’s invitation and ordered Blade to cut out the envoy’s tongue and throw him out.

Mercury and Blade faced Countess Bathory’s forces after the European Blood Clan declared war, while Grand Duke Damaskinos and Mephisto pursued separate schemes against Wang Bert. The battle began under Bathory’s blood-red domain, but Mercury’s first attack failed to kill the prepared Vampires.

• Countess Bathory rallied the European Blood Clan to attack Mercury and Blade on the full moon, while Grand Duke Damaskinos recalled his people and continued researching perfect offspring and Chad Norman.
• Mephisto enlisted Harry Osborn to lure Peter Parker to Europe and obtain his blood so Mephisto could transform Harry into the Hell Spider King; Peter invited Gwen to join the trip.
• James told Wang Bert that Demon Amulets had been given to Blood Clan leaders, and Wang Bert instructed the family heads to support the European Blood Clan.
• On the full-moon night, Mercury and Blade met Bathory’s hundreds of armed Vampires beneath Bathory’s blood-red Blood Cloak, while Wang Bert watched remotely.
• Mercury activated four Ultraviolet floodlights, but Bathory’s forces survived because their clothes were Ultraviolet-resistant.

Mercury defeated Countess Bathory and crushed the European Blood Clan, while the escaped leaders allied with Harry Osborn to seek Dracula’s help against the Blood God. Wang Bert learned of their plan and ordered James to keep the family heads undercover and report if Dracula awakened.

• Mercury used Drone Armors, helicopters, and Rotating Flying Knives to overwhelm the European Blood Clan while she fought Countess Bathory.
• Mercury burned Countess Bathory’s blood arrows, killed her, and claimed her Blood Cloak as the European Blood Clan’s remaining Vampires fled or surrendered.
• Mercury kept half the defeated Vampires as prisoners so the Blood God’s forces could seize the European Blood Clan’s wealth, while the escaped leaders were teleported away by demons.
• Harry Osborn persuaded the escaped leaders to seek their Progenitor Dracula, and he planned to find him with the Hell Lord’s help.
• James reported the plot to Wang Bert, who ordered the escaped family heads kept undercover and asked to be notified if Dracula awakened.
• James told Wang Bert that Grand Duke Damaskinos had been secretly capturing Vampires.

Wang Bert confronted Grand Duke Damaskinos at his castle, exposed his secret laboratory and plans for a Perfect Blood Clan, and discovered that the duke had created a Vampire-devouring Reaper. The chapter ended with Damaskinos threatening to make the Reaper explode and spread its viruses even if he was killed.

• Wang Bert ordered Mercury to hunt Blood Clan fugitives to draw out the demon gods' forces, spread the new order through Europe, and prepare the Ten Guardians in Romania.
• Wang Bert arrived at Grand Duke Damaskinos's castle, overwhelmed its Vampires, and captured Nissa while insisting that he intended to kill only her father.
• Cold Ice revealed that he had infiltrated Damaskinos's forces for Wang Bert, and Wang Bert's Guardians killed the duke's attacking experts before Wang Bert seized him.
• Wang Bert forced Damaskinos to lead the group to his underground laboratory, where the director revealed research into a Perfect Blood Clan immune to traditional weaknesses.
• Damaskinos showed footage of the Reaper, a failed experiment that could devour and infect Vampires, and claimed that its viruses could threaten Wang Bert if it exploded.
• Damaskinos revealed that an electronic chip let him control the Reaper, and warned that killing him would not stop him from triggering its explosion.

Wang Bert defeated Grand Duke Damaskinos by trapping him with the restored Reaper, then took control of the European Blood Clan and moved the Grand Duke’s research to Osborn Corporation. As Harry welcomed Peter and Gwen to London, Peter sensed something was wrong just before drinking his cola.

• Wang Bert revealed that the Reaper was Nissa’s brother, destroyed Damaskinos’s clone, and trapped the Grand Duke with the restored Reaper in the Mirror Dimension.
• Nissa offered herself to save her father, but Damaskinos and the Reaper killed each other; Wang Bert burned their remains and recognized Nissa as the new Grand Duke.
• Wang Bert arranged for the laboratory staff and their research to move to Osborn Corporation to work with Dr. Connors.
• After Damaskinos’s death, vampires in Europe rushed to register while the Blood God’s forces and the Hell Lords battled over the fleeing vampires searching for Dracula.
• Harry picked up Peter and Gwen in London, and later Peter paused before drinking cola after feeling a sudden sense of discomfort.

Harry poisoned Peter and stole his blood, then fused with the Hell Spider King to gain power and pursue revenge against Blood God. Peter later watched footage of Harry slaughtering mercenaries, and Wang Bert told him that Harry’s transformation was irreversible.

• Harry drugged Peter and tried to draw his blood, but Gwen arrived and mistook their position for an affair before calling Watchmen Company’s bodyguards for help.
• Gwen explained that she had recognized something was wrong and planned to become Peter’s part-time manager; Harry escaped the bodyguards, and Peter was taken to a hospital owned by Mr. Wang.
• Mephisto and the Hell Lords helped Harry fuse with the Hell Spider King, and Harry gained demonic power while vowing to avenge his father and kill Blood God.
• Mephisto gave Harry a Fallen Angel feather to conceal his demonic energy, then beat him when his new power made him overconfident.
• Peter watched footage of Harry slaughtering mercenaries, and Wang Bert told him that fusing with a demon creature was irreversible.

Wang Bert backed Peter and Gwen’s pursuit of Harry while Steve introduced S.W.O.R.D.’s Inhuman policies in a public interview. As the Inhumans’ existence became public, a newly awakened Inhuman named Juan fought off the No-Eyed Person, giving Tony Stark a chance to track him.

• Wang Bert assigned Peter to pursue Harry with Electro’s help and left to focus on other matters.
• Steve told Wang Bert that S.W.O.R.D. had secured a policy recognizing Inhumans’ rights, and Wang Bert arranged for Trish to return and promote it.
• Steve explained S.W.O.R.D.’s Inhuman policies on Trish Talk, including training for newly awakened Inhumans and protections for those who followed the law.
• The interview sparked widespread discussion, and S.W.O.R.D. gained public goodwill for Steve’s candid answers.
• In Mexico, Juan demonstrated his newly awakened shockwave ability and blasted the No-Eyed Person away when he tried to abduct him.
• Tony Stark arrived, recorded data from the encounter, and told Juan to help maintain order while his team came to collect him.

Coulson arranged to bring Juan to S.W.O.R.D., while Tony sought Hank Pym’s help to analyze the teleportation traces. In Manhattan Park, Jiaying’s group confronted Black Bolt and Medusa, and a fight left several heroes badly injured as Black Bolt’s power became clear.

• Coulson confirmed Juan could immigrate to New York or join S.W.O.R.D., while Tony asked Carter to contact Hank Pym about analyzing quantum fluctuations.
• At Afterlife, Jiaying ordered Gordon to stop new Inhumans from accessing outside information, then sent him to retrieve Black Bolt from Manhattan.
• Tony responded to a police call about Black Bolt and Medusa, but Gordon and Jiaying arrived and took Medusa hostage.
• Jiaying demanded that Black Bolt kill Tony, and Black Bolt’s sonic attack knocked Thing unconscious before he drove back Human Torch and Wind Demon.
• Black Bolt shattered Tony’s missiles and blasted Black Widow aside, while Jiaying watched; then the black Sin Buster armor arrived.

Black Bolt revealed that his brother Maximus had joined with the Kree Empire to seize Attilan, leaving him a king in exile, while Wang Bert gathered the heroes to discuss the threat. The chapter ended with Tony arriving at Pym Group as Hank Pym agreed to analyze an Inhuman’s teleportation ability.

• Damon, Tony, Natasha, and Earth Demon fought Black Bolt and Jiaying’s Inhumans until Gordon teleported away everyone except Black Bolt.
• Wang Bert arrived, sent the injured heroes for treatment, and gave Black Bolt a phone so he could communicate by typing.
• Black Bolt told Wang Bert and Tony that Maximus had allied with the Kree Empire, taken Attilan, and caused Inhumans to awaken on Earth.
• Wang Bert invited Black Bolt to his estate to discuss the situation and asked him to pay for the park’s damage once he reclaimed his kingdom.
• Carter asked Hank Pym to analyze quantum fluctuations related to an Inhuman’s teleportation, and Pym agreed to take the job.
• Tony flew to Pym Group and knocked on the window.

Tony delivered data on the Inhumans’ teleportation and possible alien allies, while Black Bolt explained the Inhuman Kingdom’s divisions and agreed to prove Earth’s strength in a spar with Wang Bert. The chapter left the fight unresolved after Wang Bert vanished under attacks from Black Bolt, Tony, and Earth Demon, leaving Tony stunned.

• Tony gave Pym the recorded teleportation data, and Carter ordered him to analyze it and build an interferometer and trackers.
• Black Bolt told Steve and Wang Bert that the Kree were targeting Earth and described the Inhuman Kingdom’s unequal society and Maximus’s plan to conquer Earth.
• Black Bolt agreed to fight Wang Bert and chose Tony, Earth Demon, and Susan as his helpers.
• At Afterlife, Jiaying told Maximus that the Blood God had overwhelmed Gordon, but Maximus ordered her to prepare an assault and gather more Terrigen Crystals.
• During the spar, the heroes trapped Wang Bert and attacked him with a Sonic Wave, a laser, and solidified ground, but he vanished before the attacks struck.

Wang Bert defeated Tony and Black Bolt, then persuaded Black Bolt to consider joining the Earth Federation while promising to protect Attilan. As S.W.O.R.D. prepared for a lunar campaign, the five permanent members negotiated with Wakanda for transport, and Erik demanded permanent membership in exchange for spacecraft.

• Wang Bert revealed that his first opponent had been a Blood God's clone, then quickly defeated Tony and Black Bolt with his real body.
• Wang Bert told Black Bolt that Earth would soon enter the interstellar age and urged the Inhuman Kingdom to join the Earth Federation, promising to protect Attilan and help rescue Medusa and find Black Bolt's ministers.
• Steve briefed the five permanent members, who agreed that Wang Bert would lead the Super Heroes to the moon while S.W.O.R.D. handled the Inhumans on Earth.
• The five representatives asked Erik to lend Wakandan spacecraft for the lunar battle, and Erik agreed on the condition that Wakanda become a permanent member.
• Erik described the lunar battle as a possible rehearsal for an Earth Federation war, while the representatives left to discuss his condition.

Wang Bert responded to growing anti-Inhuman sentiment by mobilizing a public relations campaign, while Spider-Man and Electro confronted Harry Osborn and the Blood Clan during a battle in the Middle East. The fight continued as the mercenary Wade returned and joked about collecting another death payment.

• Wang Bert told Steve that Earth would soon have to rely on him for protection and learned that the Celestial Convergence might begin soon.
• Skye told Wang Bert that online posts were attacking Inhumans, and he explained how fear could grow into hatred and conflict.
• Wang Bert ordered Kailin to redirect the online discussion with gossip, suppress negative coverage, and expose the Behind-the-Scenes Manipulator; he funded her PR company and called the work a war.
• Spider-Man and Electro fought Harry, who insisted on taking revenge on Wang Bert and Nick Fury, and Electro revealed that Nick Fury’s people had killed Norman Osborn because he was the Green Goblin.
• Harry attacked with demonic spiders while the Blood Clan prepared something, and Wade arrived, was struck by Harry’s venom, and pretended to die for another compensation payment.

Harry continued searching for Dracula while Wang Bert’s intervention left six Attilan Inhumans terrified and eager to serve a year in prison. At Afterlife, Raina confirmed that her prophecy had helped the Inhumans evade tracking and vowed to use her foresight to protect their people.

• Dopinder drove Wade away, and Electro and Spider-Man resumed their fight with Harry until the European Blood Clan escaped using a Teleportation Magic Talisman.
• Harry set off with the Blood Clan toward the Egyptian Desert to search for Dracula, still consumed by hatred and determined to kill the Blood God and Nick Fury.
• Oran and five other Attilan Inhumans confronted Wang Bert demanding Black Bolt, but Elektra returned them so frightened that they repaired his door and insisted on going to prison.
• Coulson took Oran’s group into custody, while Tony tracked the Inhumans to a Canadian transfer point before Gordon teleported them away again.
• At Afterlife, Jiaying praised Raina’s accurate prophecy, and Raina pledged to use her ability to help the Inhumans survive.

Jiaying planned to use Skye to assassinate Wang Bert, while Wang Bert devised a scheme to locate the Inhuman settlement through her. Meanwhile, Dracula awoke in an Egyptian tomb and learned that the Blood God was his enemy, then pretended to leave rather than face him.

• Jiaying learned that Tony Stark's Quantum Interferometer would soon be ready, discussed a poison-based assassination plan with Maximus, and decided to meet Skye in Australia.
• Skye told Wang Bert that Jiaying was her mother and had asked her to seduce him; Wang Bert urged her to keep Jiaying hopeful so he could use Skye to trace the Inhuman settlement.
• Wang Bert left after receiving word that Dracula had been found, while Skye agreed to serve as a fallback plan if Tony Stark's device failed.
• Dracula's followers awakened him with their blood and asked him to kill the Blood God, but Dracula grew alarmed after seeing Wang Bert's strength and claimed he was going behind the tomb to urinate.

Wang Bert confronted Dracula after the Blood Clan led him to the Blood God, but Dracula surrendered and explained his grim past serving Ancient One. Mephisto’s attempt to attack through Harry and a demonic spider failed, and Blackheart joined Wang Bert to turn Mephisto’s bloodline curse against him as Ancient One openly admitted she had colluded with them.

• The Blood Clan discovered Dracula had escaped the mausoleum, then Harry and the others chased him until they found him with Wang Bert.
• Wang Bert asked Dracula about the Blood God Altar, and Dracula revealed that he had served Ancient One for a century, endured thousands of deaths, and fled the Blood Clan after his daughter misunderstood him.
• Harry tried to recruit Dracula to attack Wang Bert, but Dracula refused and surrendered; Mephisto then activated the demonic spider attached to Harry, draining Harry and sending the spider after Dracula.
• Wang Bert trapped the spider in eighteen Space Mazes, crushed it, and rejected Mephisto’s attempt to persuade Dracula to use a bloodline curse.
• Blackheart appeared and joined Wang Bert, combining origin blood and runes with Mephisto’s blood; when Mephisto called on Ancient One to intervene, she said she had colluded with them too.

Wang Bert defeated Mephisto’s scheme, saved Harry, and learned that Dracula’s acknowledgment could trigger his transformation into a true Blood Clan god. As the transformation began, Ancient One chose not to interfere, while Erik contacted him about his original body.

• The Hell Lords empowered Blackheart’s blood curse, and Blackheart used Wang Bert’s wording to curse Mephisto with Blackheart’s intelligence; the curse took effect, and the Lords attacked Mephisto’s Hell.
• Dracula and the Blood Clan surrendered, and Wang Bert turned most of the clan into blood essence that restored Harry, while leaving infiltrators unharmed.
• Dracula explained that he could not die while Vampires existed and people remembered his name, then acknowledged Bert Wang as the God of the Blood Clan.
• Wang Bert transformed into a Blood River as the Tesseract’s power and his purified God Blood fueled his emergence as a true Blood Clan god.
• Mercury mobilized allies to protect Wang Bert, while Ancient One explained to Doom, Mordo, and Strange that becoming a god could bind someone to concepts and laws; Ancient One refused to stop Wang Bert.
• Erik contacted Ancient One to ask about his original body.

Erik chose to resist becoming a Blood Clan god and arranged for his avatar to wake on the tenth day, while Mercury secured the Egyptian Desert and kept Dracula under guard. Seven days later, Tony’s group used Water Demon to impersonate Wang Bert and staged his apparent death to lure Jiaying’s Inhumans into action.

• Erik told Ancient One he would reject godhood and wake his main body on the tenth day, and Ancient One concealed the anomaly above the Egyptian Desert.
• Mercury recalled most of the Drone Armor, restricted access to the desert, and ordered Dracula and Lilith to remain until the Blood God awoke.
• Lilith revealed that Dracula had repeatedly deserted Ancient One’s service and left her to face Kamar-Taj, while Dracula argued with her and asked whether she could make him the Blood God’s father-in-law.
• Mercury’s forces destroyed drones and infiltrators sent into the Egyptian Desert as governments avoided confronting the Blood Clan.
• Tony, Natasha, Coulson, and Skye decided to use Water Demon disguised as Wang Bert to stage his death and draw out Jiaying’s Inhumans.
• Water Demon’s staged poisoning convinced Skye and Gordon to flee, and Mindy called Mercury while Tony and Natasha watched the successful deception.

Wang Bert broke off his ascension to godhood after hearing about the bikini competition, then used his remaining divinity to create a projection and gained immense new powers. After awakening, he reunited with Lilith and Dracula and resumed planning the contest, while S.W.O.R.D. prepared to rescue Medusa.

• Tony located the Inhumans’ position, and Steve led S.W.O.R.D. and its allies out to rescue Medusa while Black Bolt stayed behind.
• Lilith explained that the bikini competition was meant to awaken Wang Bert, and Dracula confirmed that strong enough stimulation could interrupt his immersion in the rules.
• Wang Bert awakened at the prospect of thousands of bikini-clad beauties, rejected the divine throne, and ended his ascension to godhood.
• Wang Bert refined his remaining divinity and power from the Space Stone into a projection, while gaining greater strength, mastery of blood and space rules, and immunity to Dracula’s control of his blood.
• Wang Bert thanked Lilith and accepted her explanation for approaching him, then kept her as his assistant and decided Felicia could replace her as president.
• Wang Bert told Dracula to study at college before taking on a leadership role and asked Lilith for the competition schedule and contestant roster.