Chapter Summaries

Wang Bert recovered Jane from the Sealed Land and contained half of the Aether, then warned Asgard of the Dark Elves’ return. Odin used the Reality Stone and agreed to give Wang Bert half the Eternal Fire, while Malekith prepared an attack and met Ebony Maw, who offered an alliance.

• Wang Bert rescued Jane from the Sealed Land and trapped half of the Aether in the Tesseract after it began disappearing and tried to reach her.
• Thor reunited with Jane, and Wang Bert ordered the site sealed and warned Heimdall that the Dark Elves might infiltrate Asgard.
• Wang Bert showed Odin the Aether; Odin put it in an unfinished Infinity Gauntlet and agreed to trade Wang Bert half of the Eternal Fire for it.
• Odin used his divine power as a sacrifice to alter reality so Hela was guaranteed to get Thor’s hammer, while Wang Bert urged Asgard to prepare for war and raised Loki as a precaution.
• Malekith sacrificed one hundred Dark Elves to summon half of the Aether, then chose Algrim to become a Cursed Warrior and infiltrate Asgard.
• Ebony Maw appeared before Malekith and Algrim, claiming he could help them destroy Earth and Asgard, while Algrim challenged his right to cooperate.

Asgard’s prison riot began when Loki freed Lorelei, the Enchantress, and helped her enthrall the guards and prisoners. Wang Bert and Odin responded as the rebellion spread, while the Dark Elves still threatened to attack during the Celestial Convergence.

• Ebony Maw told Malekith that Frost Giants and Fire Giants would join the attack on Asgard, and said an informant inside Asgard would disable its defense shield.
• Ancient One and Wang Bert prepared Kamar-Taj’s pocket dimension as a battlefield against Hell, while Doom, Strange, and Dracula gathered with them.
• Steve told Wang Bert that the Celestial Convergence would erupt at Greenwich the next day, and the heroes arranged evacuations and defenses there.
• Loki used Ebony Maw’s power to leave her cell and freed Lorelei, who enchanted the guards and released the prisoners to start a riot.
• Heimdall warned Odin and Wang Bert that the rebels were attacking the palace, and Sif led female soldiers to hold them back.
• Wang Bert agreed to deal with Lorelei while Odin went after Loki, but Heimdall reported that Thor had left his post to search for Loki.

Wang Bert helped defend Asgard while Loki triggered a black hole in the Energy Core, collapsing the Defense Shield and allowing the Dark Elves, Chitauri, Fire Giants, and Frost Giants to invade. As the battle escalated, Lorelei enchanted some Dark Elves, and Malekith sent Algrim to retrieve the other half of the Aether from Valhalla Palace.

• Wang Bert sent Odin away, then Ivan and Barton joined Heimdall in defending the Bifrost as the Dark Elves attacked.
• Ivan and Barton fought the Dagger Battleships while Heimdall raised Asgard's Defense Shield.
• Loki revealed that she had planted a black object in the Energy Core, then detonated it and vanished as Odin summoned the Infinity Gauntlet.
• The Energy Core explosion brought down the Defense Shield, and Chitauri ships, Fire Giants, and Frost Giants joined Malekith's assault on Asgard.
• Wang Bert altered Lorelei's face, made her submit, and sent her to enchant the Dark Elves; Loki dispelled her projections, but the affected Dark Elves continued attacking their former allies.
• Malekith ordered Algrim to retrieve the other half of the Aether from Valhalla Palace.

Thor awakened his power as the God of Thunder and fought Surtur while Odin secretly entrusted Asgard’s future to Thor and Loki. As Algrim and Elektra battled outside the palace, Wang Bert confronted Ebony Maw in the Mirror Dimension, where the fight escalated around several Black Hole Grenades.

• Odin brought Thor to Valhalla Palace, pretended to fall unconscious, and watched Thor awaken his lightning before leaving to defend Asgard.
• Odin told Frigga that he trusted Loki’s undercover plan and intended to leave Asgard’s affairs to Thor and Loki after the Celestial Convergence.
• Thor destroyed the Fire Giants accompanying Surtur, summoned Mjolnir through Wang Bert’s portal, and began battling Surtur at the palace gates.
• Elektra attacked Algrim and transformed into a half-Dragon Man to fight him while Wang Bert took Ebony Maw into the Mirror Dimension.
• Wang Bert and Ebony Maw exchanged spatial attacks, telekinesis, and Black Hole Grenades until four grenades detonated together.
• Wang Bert teleported behind Ebony Maw and thrust his spear at him as the black hole pulled everything nearby inward.

Wang Bert and Asgard’s forces defeated Malekith’s allied army, though Ebony Maw and the Cursed Warrior escaped with the retreating Dark Elves. After the battle, Thor thanked Earth’s allies and prepared for the Dark Elves’ next move during the coming Celestial Convergence.

• Ebony Maw used the Ancient God’s power to survive Wang Bert’s attacks, but Wang Bert destroyed him with the Vibranium Spear before the Ancient God restored him aboard the Dagger Battleship.
• Malekith battled Wang Bert as Tony and Korath led Earth’s reinforcements into the fight, while Thor defeated Surtur and Elektra wore down the Cursed Warrior.
• Loki ordered the retreat, and Malekith’s forces escaped after the Ancient God’s power blasted Wang Bert and the surrounding fighters away.
• Wang Bert declined to pursue the fleeing army, and Elektra apologized for failing to kill the Cursed Warrior before hiding in his shadow.
• Thor thanked Wang Bert and Earth’s allies, agreed to let Wang Bert keep Lorelei as his servant, and said Asgard would help defend Earth when the Dark Elves appeared there.

As the Celestial Convergence began, Malekith, Loki, and Ebony Maw prepared a large assault on Earth while Wang Bert organized Earth’s defenses and evacuation plans. Monsters appeared around the world at noon, and the chapter ended with Frost Giants breaking into Mordo’s school in Africa.

• Malekith, Loki, and Ebony Maw agreed to attack Earth and Asgard, with Loki accepting the Frost Giants’ throne and ordering their army gathered.
• Malekith planned to create ten Cursed Warriors, while Ebony Maw vowed to make the Blood God fall without Thanos’s help.
• Wang Bert learned the alliance’s plans through the blood on Loki’s Space Bracelet, warned Tony and Steve, and helped arrange London’s evacuation and battle preparations.
• At noon, monsters appeared across Earth as the Celestial Convergence began, and Tetanus, Medusa, Gorgon, and another Inhuman defeated an icy giant beast in New York.
• Frost Giants burst through the wall of Mordo’s school in Africa as he tried to protect the students.

Mordo returned to Kamar-Taj after embracing dark methods, while Wang Bert’s forces struck the Dark Elves’ fleet and fought Malekith’s army. The battle continued as Thor confronted Loki, but hesitated to strike her and was knocked away by her illusion.

• Mordo destroyed the Frost Giants with Voodoo Corpses, then left Spider-Man, Harry, and Wade to guard the school and returned to Kamar-Taj.
• Mordo told the Ancient One he understood her lesson, requested over a thousand doses of Extremis Virus from Doom, and revealed his Voodoo Corpses.
• Wang Bert’s forces used the Bifrost to cripple the cloaked Dagger Battleship, and Malekith used the Aether to free the Dark Elves from Wang Bert’s blood magic.
• Wang Bert took a team to face Malekith and Ebony Maw, dragged them into the Mirror Dimension, and sent his allies to battle the Cursed Warriors.
• Damon killed a Cursed Warrior with the Penance Stare while the others fought the remaining Cursed Warriors, and Elektra faced Algrim.
• Thor arrived and attacked Loki, but struck the ground instead of her; Loki revealed she had been an illusion and kicked him from behind.

Thor and Earth's forces overwhelmed the invading armies while Loki deployed more giants, and Wang Bert confronted Malekith and Ebony Maw in the Mirror Dimension. Wang Bert banished Malekith to Mephisto's Hell with the Space Stone, then revealed Malekith's Reality Stone to Mephisto.

• Thor defeated Loki's Frost Giant warriors but refused to kill his brother, while Jane prepared the Void Stabilizer.
• Black Bolt destroyed a Chitauri mothership, and Gordon's Inhumans captured one mothership and sabotaged another.
• Loki summoned Frost Giants and Fire Giants, but Earth's leaders unleashed a missile barrage that wiped out most of their forces.
• Malekith transformed himself with the Aether, and Ebony Maw offered most of his soul to an Ancient God to gain power against Wang Bert.
• Wang Bert used the Tesseract to banish Malekith from the Main Universe, sending him to Mephisto's Hell.
• Wang Bert told Mephisto that Malekith possessed the Reality Stone and suggested it could restore Mephisto's intelligence.

Wang Bert manipulated Malekith and Mephisto into fighting, defeated Ebony Maw, and rescued Malekith only to destroy him and claim the Aether. With the battle on Earth turning in his allies’ favor, Loki chose to remain undercover and revealed that she had changed sides because Odin had finally treated her as a daughter.

• Malekith attacked Mephisto to sacrifice him and return to Earth, and the two fought amid Mephisto’s demons.
• Ebony Maw summoned an Ancient God’s power, but Wang Bert used the Vibranium Spear to kill him and sealed his soul with a Soul Scroll.
• Mephisto defeated Malekith, but Wang Bert teleported Malekith away, leaving Mephisto to flee from Blackheart.
• Wang Bert reduced Malekith to ashes, sealed the remaining Aether, and told his allies that he had won.
• Wang Bert and his allies agreed to let the invaders keep fighting while he went to Kamar-Taj to prepare for possible trouble from the Hell Lords.
• Loki chose to stay undercover, asked for Malekith’s half of the Reality Stone, and explained that Odin’s acceptance had led her to change sides.

Loki led the Dark Elves and Chitauri in a retreat after their alliance was defeated, while Doom’s explosive cockroaches helped Kamar-Taj turn the tide against the Hell Demons. Ancient One and Wang Bert then confronted the Hell Lords, and Ancient One opened the battle with twelve powerful clones.

• Wang Bert secretly bound the Aether to his wishes and planted blood in it so he could summon it and receive messages.
• Loki took the Aether and escaped with the Dark Elves, while Tony and Steve’s forces destroyed the abandoned Chitauri army.
• Mordo trapped more than a thousand demons in his Mirror Dimension, and Doom unleashed fire-resistant Explosion Cockroaches that multiplied by feeding on demon corpses.
• Wang Bert redirected a Demon Dragon Lord’s breath and struck the demons with stored lightning while the mages attacked.
• Ancient One challenged the Hell Lords, created twelve clones with Shape of Isaac, and led them in a strike with Vishanti’s Holy Sword.

Wang Bert fought the Hell Lords alongside Ancient One, defeating the Succubus Lord and then killing the Demon Dragon Lord with magic, illusions, and the Ten Rings. He left the Flame Demon Lord pulled into his darkened battlefield for another confrontation.

• Ancient One battled the Hell Lords while the Succubus Lord approached Wang Bert and tried to seduce and ambush him.
• Wang Bert revealed that his apparent self was an illusion, wounded the Succubus Lord, and killed her with blood magic and blue-red flames.
• The Hell Lords were shocked by the Succubus Lord's defeat, and Ancient One praised Wang Bert's growing strength.
• Wang Bert trapped the Demon Dragon Lord in absolute darkness and used space confusion, portals, and illusions to disorient and wound it.
• Wang Bert disguised himself as the Flame Demon Lord and tricked the Demon Dragon Lord into taking a devastating blast of its ally's fire.
• Wang Bert severed the Demon Dragon Lord's tail, cut it in two, sealed away half its body, and killed it before pulling the Flame Demon Lord back into the darkness.

Ancient One and Wang Bert fought off the Hell Lords’ invasion as Lucifer summoned the Spear of God to kill Ancient One. Wang Bert defeated Lucifer, who revealed that God had disappeared after last appearing on Earth, and the surviving Hell Lords faced Wang Bert’s next attack.

• The Hell Lords transferred their power to Lucifer, who opened a rift and summoned Dormammu; Dormammu struck Ancient One with his dimensional authority before departing.
• Dormammu told Kaecilius that Ancient One stayed immortal by stealing power from the Dark Dimension, leaving Kaecilius uncertain about his Master.
• Lucifer summoned the Spear of God, whose guaranteed-hit attacks Ancient One redirected toward Dracula and more than a hundred of his counterparts from the River of Time.
• The Spear of God shattered Gabriel’s mark when Lucifer tried to control it, and Lucifer then ordered the weakened Hell Lords to attack Ancient One and Wang Bert.
• Wang Bert trapped most of the Hell Lords and fatally wounded Lucifer with his true body; Lucifer revealed that God had been missing for more than ten years and had last appeared on Earth.
• Lucifer threatened that Heaven would invade Earth to find God, and Wang Bert turned toward the Hell Lords after Lucifer died.

Wang Bert and the sorcerers defeated the forces of the Celestial Convergence, while Ancient One declared Kamar-Taj’s hostility toward Heaven and entrusted Earth’s protection to Wang Bert. On Sanctuary, Thanos learned of Ancient One’s injuries and sent Loki to gather forces as he prepared to pursue the Infinity Stones.

• Wang Bert trapped and defeated the Hell Lords, using the weakened Lords as training opponents for Doom, Mordo, and Strange.
• Ancient One told Wang Bert that she could no longer use the Time Stone normally, named him Earth’s protector, and said she would advise him from behind the scenes.
• After the Celestial Convergence ended, Ancient One let the Spear of God expend its power, sealed it inside the Tesseract, and threatened war against Heaven over its alliance with Lucifer.
• Doom promised to send his Cockroach Army to Hell, Mordo received permission to visit his school in Africa, and the sorcerers celebrated Earth’s victory.
• Loki offered Thanos half of the Reality Stone and reported the battle; Thanos sent her to recruit soldiers and said Ancient One’s injuries brought him closer to claiming the Infinity Stones.

Wang Bert managed the spoils and political fallout from the battle while Odin tried to reconnect with Little Hela. After rejecting Heaven’s demand to surrender, Wang Bert began preparing to purge the Angel Church as Heaven’s arrival threatened Earth.

• Odin sold stinky tofu to meet Little Hela, who recognized him as an online friend and warmed to him while they discussed their game.
• Wang Bert assigned Ivan to study Dark Elf and Chitauri technology and confirmed that Dr. Richards’s former classmate Doom was returning to confront him.
• Wang Bert assessed his gains, including the Eternal Fire, Surtur’s Crown, and the Spear of God, then heard Gabriel’s demand that he surrender or see Vampires purified.
• Wang Bert gave Slade money and secretly placed a drop of blood in his body before Slade left to report Gabriel’s message.
• Wang Bert ordered Lilith to put allies in senior Angel Church positions and purge devout angel followers, while preparing to warn major countries that angels intended to destroy Earth.

Wang Bert prepared Earth for the angels’ arrival, then traveled to Xandar and secretly took the Power Stone from Star-Lord. He began using its energy as a sacrifice to the Reality Stone to claim the Spear of God, which was left awaiting his soul to finalize its ownership.

• Wang Bert told Lilith to prepare Earth against the angels and commissioned a film portraying Gabriel and Lucifer as conspirators, while President Ellis announced Earth’s rapid push into the interstellar age.
• Wang Bert sent Lorelei to study acting on Xandar and gave her money for shopping before leaving to deal with a new arrival.
• Wang Bert secretly replaced the Orb Star-Lord brought to the Broker with a fake, taking the Power Stone for himself.
• Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, and Groot were arrested by the Nova Corps, and Wang Bert chose not to intervene so they could continue toward Knowhere.
• Wang Bert borrowed Odin’s Infinity Gauntlet, then used the Power Stone’s energy as a sacrifice to the Aether to change the Spear of God’s ownership.
• The Reality Stone erased the Spear of God’s former ownership and told Wang Bert to use his soul to claim it.

Bert Wang reached God-Devil Level and helped the Nova Corps repel Ronan’s attack on Kyln, while secretly steering the pursuit of the Power Stone toward Knowhere. After Ronan learned Star-Lord was carrying it there, Bert Wang spread the information across Knowhere, setting off a scramble for the Stone.

• Bert Wang sacrificed the Power Stone’s energy to absorb the Eternal Fire and Space Stone, reaching God-Devil Level while the Power Stone was drained.
• Rocket, Star-Lord, Gamora, and Groot escaped Kyln, recruited Drax, and headed for Knowhere as the Guardians of the Galaxy formed.
• Ronan attacked Kyln, but Bert Wang opened portals that let the Nova Corps reinforce the prison and drive Ronan’s forces into retreat.
• Nebula found information identifying Star-Lord as the carrier of the Orb and learned the Collector would pay four billion for it, so Ronan set course for Knowhere.
• Bert Wang lowered the black-market price for the Orb and ordered Natasha to begin their plan, while Ravagers spread word that the Power Stone was coming to Knowhere.
• Knowhere’s inhabitants learned Star-Lord had the Power Stone and began planning to seize it.

Star-Lord and the Guardians arrived at Knowhere with the Power Stone, only to be attacked by a crowd driven into a frenzy by Black Widow Natasha’s Orb scheme. Natasha used the chaos to raid Tivan’s properties, and Tivan escaped while leaving Cosmo behind; Natasha then ordered her forces to eliminate the criminals and claim the loot.

• Star-Lord and his companions landed at Knowhere, where a crowd attacked them and destroyed the Milano while demanding the Power Stone.
• Star-Lord threw a fake Orb toward Yondu, triggering a fight over it, then revealed he had the real Orb and was forced to battle the Ravagers.
• Natasha arranged for more than ten Orbs and spread rumors that sent Knowhere’s criminals into a frenzy and redirected them toward Tivan’s warehouses and shops.
• Tivan’s combat robots failed to contain the mobs, so he ordered his collections moved to his spaceship and fled, leaving Cosmo behind.
• Tivan’s maids revealed they had worked with Natasha in exchange for their freedom, and Natasha ordered her subordinates to kill the criminals and seize everything.

Wang Bert seized control of Knowhere, claiming its inhabitants as his property and taking the real Power Stone while Gamora protected Nebula. Ronan and Tivan discovered they had been manipulated, then agreed to use Ronan’s threat against Xandar to rally forces against Wang Bert.

• Ronan pursued the Collector while Nebula led a fleet to Knowhere, where she found fighting over the Orb.
• Wang Bert appeared, crushed Nebula’s fleet, stopped the escape attempts, and forced Knowhere’s inhabitants to surrender; Gamora traded the real Power Stone for Nebula’s life.
• Nebula pledged loyalty to Wang Bert in exchange for his promise to kill Thanos, and Star-Lord revealed that his Orb was the real one.
• Wang Bert kept Gamora and Rocket as guests, took Nebula with him, and Drax arrived looking for Ronan.
• Ronan boarded Tivan’s ship and found no Power Stone; Tivan identified Wang Bert as the likely manipulator and told Ronan to announce an attack on Xandar to attract allies.
• Ronan agreed to Tivan’s plan despite doubting it.

Wang Bert freed Cosmo and Howard, arranged for Doom to study the Celestial Head and help Nebula regain a biological body, and learned that Tivan and Ronan were assembling forces against Xandar. The chapter ends with Wang Bert dismissing the alliance as no threat and assuring Hill that he is fully confident.

• Wang Bert sent Cosmo and Howard back to S.W.O.R.D. and explained to Natasha that he wanted to repair the Celestial Head and buy a planet for Earth to colonize.
• Doom arrived to study the Celestial Head and offered to examine Nebula's body, while Wang Bert suggested she could eventually transfer into a clone.
• Nebula agreed to let Doom study her, and Doom departed with her after Wang Bert teased him about his devotion to his runaway fiancée.
• Tivan told Ronan that the Ravagers Alliance, disguised fleets from the Three Great Empires, and other powers had gathered to attack Xandar for revenge against the Blood God and to pursue the Space Stone.
• Cyclops offered to manage the alliance's logistics, and Ronan agreed to fund him.
• Hill warned Wang Bert that Ronan's coalition could destroy Xandar and threaten Earth, but Wang Bert assured her he could defeat it and had no need to intervene personally.

Wang Bert explained that his high profile was meant to draw cosmic threats away from Earth, then arranged for Earth to aid Xandar against Ronan in exchange for diplomatic ties and a Resource Star. As Earth prepared to deploy, he kept his knowledge of the Mind Scepter secret, while a mysterious figure arrived to confront pirates attacking a city.

• Wang Bert reassured Hill that he had deliberately drawn attention to himself to protect Earth, and agreed to help Fury deal with an opponent in the Ravagers Alliance.
• Wang Bert promised Nova Prime support against Ronan, struck Luke Centurion for insulting Earth, and showed the Nova Corps footage of Earth's strength.
• Wang Bert negotiated diplomatic relations and a Resource Star in return for Earth's military assistance, then told his team to prepare to leave for Xandar in three days.
• Steve asked Wang Bert about the Mind Scepter, and Wang Bert agreed to keep searching while concealing that he knew where it was.
• Space pirates attacked a city on a distant planet, and a dazzling figure sped toward them as the defenders cheered and the pirates panicked.