Chapter Summaries

Hela slaughtered Asgard’s soldiers and overwhelmed the gods who tried to stop her. Frigga and Wes evacuated the civilians through a world passage, but Hela continued attacking as the last civilian escaped.

• Hela killed over a hundred Asgardian soldiers and terrified the survivors with her power.
• Heimdall attacked Hela, and Sif tried to strike her while she was occupied, but Hela repelled Heimdall and dodged Sif’s blow.
• Tyr and the other gods rallied to defend Asgard while Frigga directed the soldiers and civilians to retreat through a world passage opened by Wes.
• Hela used the Law of Death and killed several gods, overpowering the rest of the defenders.
• Frigga urged the retreating crowd onward until the last civilian left Asgard.

Heimdall and the Asgardians fought Hela until Odin’s lightning and the Destroyer Armor bought them time to escape to Wes's World. Hela destroyed the armor and vowed revenge, while the displaced Asgardians began settling on a refuge island.

• Heimdall held off Hela despite his severe injuries until Odin’s lightning struck her and gave him a chance to recover.
• Frigga ordered the retreat, then used Odin’s remaining lightning to transform the Destroyer Armor into Odin’s likeness and arm it with the Scepter.
• The Destroyer held Hela back while the Asgardian gods carried their wounded companions to Wes's World.
• Hela unleashed her power, tore apart the Destroyer Armor, and swore to conquer the stars and punish those who had betrayed her.
• The Asgardians arrived at a refuge island in Wes's World, where they tended the wounded and began building shelters and finding supplies.

Wes arranged an island on Earth as a refuge for the displaced Asgardians, while Thor escaped Sakaar and returned to them. Thor promised to reclaim Asgard and revealed that he had brought Loki with him.

• Wes offered the Asgardians shelter on an island he had Kingpin purchase, and Frigga accepted the offer.
• Kingpin's men built simple homes on the island as the Asgardians discussed their hope that Thor would lead them against Hela.
• Thor escaped Sakaar, and Heimdall contacted him and sent him the island's coordinates.
• Thor arrived on the island and reassured the injured Asgardians that he would take them home and restore their homeland.
• Thor checked on Frigga, then revealed the invisible Loki and held him fast.

Thor reunited with Frigga and Loki, then gathered the Asgardians to plan how to defeat Hela and reclaim Asgard. He formed an elite squad for a direct attack, with Loki, Valkyrie, and Banner volunteering alongside Heimdall, Sif, and the Three Warriors of the Asgardian Palace.

• Frigga stopped Loki's struggle by asking if he did not want to see his mother, and Loki greeted her guiltily.
• Thor introduced Valkyrie and Banner to the Asgardians, and Frigga and Valkyrie explained Hela's power and immortal Death Legion.
• Thor proposed sending an elite squad to kill Hela, and Heimdall, Sif, and the Three Warriors of the Asgardian Palace volunteered.
• Loki volunteered to get revenge on Hela, while Valkyrie joined to avenge her fallen sisters and Banner joined to stand by his friends.
• Thor thanked his companions and resolved to protect them as they prepared to fight for Asgard.

Thor, Wes, Loki, and the Asgardian warriors entered Asgard through a secret Space Channel to confront Hela, but Fenrir and her army of the dead ambushed them. As Thor, Wes, and Loki raced toward the palace, Hulk struck Fenrir and cleared their path.

• Thor rallied the Asgardian warriors, and Wes used his magic to help them travel through a secret Space Channel to Asgard.
• Fenrir detected the group, and Thor led the warriors into battle against Fenrir and Hela's army of the dead.
• Wes summoned Seraphim to cover the Asgardians as they fought the seemingly regenerating dead.
• Thor broke away from the battlefield with Wes and Loki and rushed toward the palace to confront Hela.
• Fenrir blocked the three, but Hulk hit its jaw and gave Thor, Wes, and Loki a chance to continue toward the palace.

Thor refused to join Hela's plan to conquer the universe, and she attacked him and his allies. Wes intervened with the Law of Light, but Hela countered his attack with the Scepter's power of death.

• Hela announced her plan to conquer the universe and invited Thor to join her, but he refused.
• Hela transformed into her battle form and charged Thor and the others.
• Thor fought Hela using the thunder power he had learned to control after his time on Sakaar, but she struck him down and tried to stab his eye.
• Wes blocked Hela's attack with a shield of light and sent chains toward her.
• Hela unleashed the Scepter's power of death against Wes's chains, dimming their light.

Wes, Loki, and Thor coordinated attacks against Hela, but she swiftly countered them and remained largely unharmed. Hela then appeared before Wes, who escaped her strike with Teleportation Magic and reappeared behind Thor.

• Wes summoned two fire dragons, but Hela erased them with a sweep of her sword.
• Wes spread ice across the ground, giving Loki cover to sneak up and attack Hela, but she kicked him away.
• Wes trapped Hela with white tentacles from a Magic Circle, allowing Thor to strike her with a lightning-charged punch and send her through several walls.
• Hela rose from the rubble with only a little blood at her mouth and declared the battle interesting.
• Hela flashed toward Wes, who used Teleportation Magic to escape and appear behind Thor.

Wes enhanced Thor as he fought Hela, then aimed a Light arrow at her and waited for a chance to strike. Hela knocked Thor down and charged Wes, but Loki’s illusions appeared around him to confuse her.

• Wes strengthened Thor with a series of enhancements, and Thor charged Hela.
• Thor and Hela fought evenly at first, but Hela gradually gained the advantage and wounded him.
• Wes formed a Light arrow and aimed at Hela without firing, forcing her to account for the threat.
• Hela used Thor’s punch to seize his fist and drove her knee into his chest, sending him crashing to the ground.
• Hela charged at Wes, and Loki’s illusions created countless duplicates of Wes to distract her.

Wes, Loki, and Thor fought Hela as her Law of Death engulfed the battlefield. Thor’s charge gave Wes a chance to strike, and Wes’s Arrow of Light healed Thor and strengthened his lightning, allowing Thor to pin Hela and pummel her.

• Hela unleashed a vast wave of death mist that destroyed Wes’s clones and trapped Wes, Loki, and Thor in darkness.
• Loki formed a magical barrier to protect himself and Wes while Hela concealed herself in the mist.
• Thor charged through the corrosive mist and grabbed Hela, holding her in place as Wes released an Arrow of Light.
• Hela dodged the arrow, but it changed course and struck Thor, healing his wounds and infusing his lightning with the Law of Light.
• Thor seized Hela, slammed her into the palace floor, and repeatedly struck her with punches empowered by light and lightning.

Thor's assault enraged Hela, who retaliated and left him in danger. Wes urged Loki to trigger Ragnarok, and Loki summoned Surtur, leaving Hela to charge at the giant as he arrived to destroy Asgard.

• Thor battered Hela until she seized his wrists, hurled him through the air, and smashed him into the ground, destroying much of the palace.
• Loki tried to help Thor, but Wes stopped him and explained that destroying Asgard would cut off Hela's power.
• Wes gave Loki Surtur's crown and the Eternal Flame, and Loki began the summoning ritual.
• Loki cast the crown into the Eternal Flame, summoning Surtur, who emerged as a colossal figure and declared that he had come to Asgard.
• Hela abandoned her attack on Thor and charged toward Surtur in shock and fury.

Surtur overpowered Hela as Thor and Wes struggled to stop Asgard’s destruction. Wes’s shield interrupted Hela’s attempt to strike Surtur’s eye, and Surtur drove his flaming greatsword into Asgard’s earth.

• Surtur struck Hela into the ground and pressed her down with his flaming greatsword.
• Hela appealed to Thor to save their homeland, and Thor resolved that destroying Asgard was the only way to defeat her.
• Hela unleashed dark magic, blasted Surtur back, and lunged for his eye.
• Wes summoned a shield of light that gave Surtur time to knock Hela into a distant mountain.
• Surtur roared that he had come for Asgard and drove his greatsword into the land.

Asgard erupted into destruction, and Thor, Loki, and Wes watched their homeland disappear into a brilliant white light. Thor and Loki mourned its loss while Wes quietly absorbed the energy and laws released as the world died.

• Volcanoes erupted across Asgard, and magma, smoke, and earthquakes reduced its cities and palaces to ruins.
• Surtur laughed as Asgard fell, while Heimdall, Valkyrie, and the others arrived to witness the destruction.
• Thor tried to comfort his comrades by promising that they could rebuild Asgard, and Wes opened a Space Channel so they could return to Earth.
• Wes, Thor, and Loki remained behind; Wes studied the laws released by Asgard's destruction while Thor and Loki mourned their lost homeland and remembered Odin.
• Asgard vanished in a dazzling white light, and the three watched from a spacecraft as it disappeared without a trace.
• Wes concealed how much he had gained, giving Thor and Loki time to grieve.

Thor, Loki, and Wes traveled to Nidavellir seeking the dwarf king Eitri, only to find the forge world devastated and its people dead. Thor rescued the wounded Eitri, and Wes treated him as Eitri mourned his ruined home.

• Thor decided to find a new home for the Asgardians and a weapon suited to him, then set the spaceship's coordinates for Nidavellir to seek Eitri's help.
• Thor, Loki, and Wes arrived at Nidavellir and found the forge world eerily silent, with blood in the air.
• The group discovered dwarf corpses, enemy bodies, and abandoned tools and unfinished weapons scattered across the ruins.
• Thor emerged from the ruins supporting a badly wounded Eitri and asked Wes to save him.
• Wes healed Eitri's wounds and gave him medicine, and Eitri recovered enough to see the devastation and sob over his lost home.

After Thanos destroyed the dwarves’ home while seeking the Infinity Gauntlet, Wes helped Thor and Loki restore the forge and gather materials for new weapons. Eitri forged Thor’s Stormbreaker, upgraded Loki’s twin swords, and made Wes a scepter that greatly enhanced his power.

• Eitri told Thor that Thanos had come for the Infinity Gauntlet and destroyed the dwarves’ home, and Thor promised to avenge them.
• Eitri said the forge had gone out, so Wes used his Law of Flame while Thor and Loki helped restart it.
• Wes supplied rare materials from Odin’s treasury, and Eitri agreed to forge a weapon for each of them.
• Eitri forged sharper twin swords for Loki, Stormbreaker for Thor, and a scepter for Wes using the World Tree’s trunk, Vibranium, and Uru metal.
• Wes tested the scepter and found that it conducted his divine power smoothly and increased his strength by at least thirty percent.

Thor, Wes, and Loki helped Eitri bury the dwarves massacred by Thanos, then returned to Earth after Eitri chose to remain on Nidavellir. There, Stephen Strange arrived to discuss Thanos.

• Thor urged the group to seek revenge, but Eitri stayed behind to bury his people, so Thor, Wes, and Loki helped him.
• Wes summoned Seraphim, Cull Obsidian, and their people, who joined the burial effort; afterward, Eitri mourned as the last dwarf.
• Thor vowed to kill Thanos, while Wes reasoned that Thanos would eventually come after the Infinity Stones.
• Wes offered Eitri a place at his side, but Eitri declined and promised to guard Nidavellir and its forge.
• Thor, Wes, and Loki returned to Earth, where Stephen Strange said he had come to talk about Thanos.

Wes sensed that Stephen Strange’s visit and the argument over how to fight Thanos concealed a trap. After escaping the palace and breaking the magical barrier, Wes discovered that Strange had led more than a hundred Kamar-Taj Wizards against them, claiming Wes would give the Infinity Stones to Thanos in the future.

• Thor welcomed Stephen Strange into the Asgardian palace, where he, Wes, Frigga, Loki, and Banner discussed how to oppose Thanos.
• Banner, Thor, and Frigga proposed plans, but Stephen rejected them, saying his calculations showed they would fail.
• Loki challenged Stephen’s authority, and Wes sensed an unusual magical fluctuation during their argument.
• Wes tried to open a Space Channel, found space sealed, and burst through the roof, only to be thrown back by an invisible barrier.
• Wes struck the barrier with his Scepter, breaking the Invisibility Spell and revealing more than a hundred Wizards from Kamar-Taj.
• Wes confronted Stephen, who said his future calculations showed Wes handing the Infinity Stones to Thanos.

Stephen Strange tried to imprison Wes in the Arctic because the only future in which they won did not include him. Wes escaped the initial attacks, but Strange intercepted him and drew him into the Mirror Dimension, where Wes prepared a massive sword of light to fight back.

• Stephen Strange sent Wes to a frozen Arctic landscape and buried him beneath a mass of ice spikes.
• Wes melted the ice with a lotus of flame, concealed himself in the resulting mist, and attacked Strange with his scepter.
• Strange’s cloak blocked Wes’s blow, and Strange’s crimson chains bound a duplicate while Wes transformed his scepter into a sword.
• Wes blinded Strange with lightning and flew away, but Strange appeared ahead of him through a ring of light.
• Wes charged Strange with arrows of light, and Strange opened the Mirror Dimension to trap them in an isolated realm.
• Wes gathered the surrounding light into a massive rune-covered sword and prepared to battle Strange.

Wes attacked Strange after Strange tried to confine him to the Mirror Dimension, and the two clashed with powerful magic. Wes unleashed an army of transformed magma beasts against Strange, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Wes struck at Strange with a greatsword, but Strange shattered it into butterflies with magic.
• A Hellfire tiger attacked Strange, and the Eye of Agamotto erased it from the timeline while healing Strange's wounds.
• Strange urged Wes to remain in the Mirror Dimension, but Wes refused and grew angry.
• Wes drove his Scepter into the ground and transformed rising magma into a vast army of beasts.
• Wes sent the beasts charging and flying toward Strange.

Wes used the Reality Stone to reshape Strange’s Mirror Dimension into a series of deadly environments. Strange fought off scarabs and sea monsters, but the battle continued in the deep ocean.

• Strange twisted the Mirror Dimension into a vortex that trapped the beasts within it.
• Wes revealed the Reality Stone and transformed the Mirror Dimension into a desert.
• Strange defended himself from a swarm of scarabs and corrosive Blood Rain, then burned them away with a fire tornado.
• The Mirror Dimension changed into a vast ocean, where a tentacle dragged Strange into the depths.
• Strange faced enormous sea monsters in the dark deep sea.

Strange fought sea monsters created by Wes’s use of the Reality Stone, while Wes became intoxicated by its power and summoned hundreds of Octopus Monsters. Cornered, Strange used the Time Stone to protect himself behind a barrier that the monsters could not penetrate.

• Strange defeated several sea monsters, but their remains merged into a powerful Octopus Monster that attacked him.
• Strange used his Cloak of Levitation and magical duplicates with Crimson Chains to hold back the Octopus Monster while searching for Wes.
• Wes merged his mind with the Reality Stone and gained the ability to reshape reality, then summoned hundreds of Octopus Monsters.
• Strange opened the Eye of Agamotto and formed a blue time barrier that slowed time around him and stopped the monsters from reaching him.