Chapter Summaries

Jude helped Little Spider and Aunt May sign Mephisto’s contracts, making May immortal as long as Mephisto lived. After the contract alteration, Little Spider suddenly collapsed.

• Jude explained that May’s aging body would still die unless Mephisto altered the contract to keep her soul from leaving his jurisdiction.
• Mephisto promised May could remain immortal or choose death later, and Little Spider signed the contract.
• Jude awakened Aunt May, who trusted him and signed the contract too.
• Jude caused May to fall unconscious, and after she briefly died, Mephisto returned and altered her contract, making her immortal.
• Little Spider suddenly grew dazed and collapsed to the floor.

After Peter gave up his intelligence to save Aunt May, Jude realized Mephisto’s bargain had left her unable to die as her body continued to age. He brought Peter to the Sanctum Sanctorum and asked the Ancient One to help them go to Hell and confront Mephisto.

• Peter woke after trading his intelligence for Aunt May’s life, and Jude confirmed he could no longer remember basic physics.
• Aunt May recovered enough to leave the hospital, and the family celebrated her apparent recovery.
• The next morning, Jude dragged Peter to the Sanctum Sanctorum and explained that Aunt May would keep aging even though she could not die.
• Mordo contacted the Ancient One, who arrived from the Hong Kong Sanctum.
• Jude told the Ancient One he wanted to go to Hell.

Jude Herbert and Little Spider traveled through a portal to Mephisto’s hell, while the Hell Lords gathered for the thirty-fifth round-table meeting of the Hellfire Front. Mephisto opened the meeting with Lucifer, Dormammu, Trigon, and other powerful figures present.

• Ancient One explained to Jude Herbert and Little Spider that hell was a faction with many dimensions and Hell Lords, then agreed to send them to Mephisto’s hell.
• Ancient One opened a portal to Mephisto’s hell, and Jude kicked Little Spider through before following him.
• Two demons guarding a castle mistook Lucifer’s arrival for an attack from heaven, and one knocked Pierre down for shouting.
• Dormammu arrived and exchanged taunts with Lucifer before they entered the castle.
• Trigon arrived in his enormous form, learned Cyttorak was absent, and joined the other Hell Lords in the conference room.
• Mephisto began the thirty-fifth round-table meeting of the Hellfire Front, while Lucifer said he would only observe.

Mephisto convened the Hell Council to propose a way to break the boundary into the Prime Universe. He offered Dormammu and the other Hell Lords the chance to invade, and the chapter ended with them hearing his claim that he had found a way.

• Mephisto called the Hell Council to discuss his plan, but several Hell Lords did not attend.
• Trigon ordered Etrigan to give up the seat at the head of the table, and Etrigan mocked him with a rap before moving to the back.
• Trigon smashed the table after Lucifer and the other demons laughed at Etrigan's taunts.
• Mephisto told Dormammu that he could help him reach the Prime Universe and kill the Ancient One.
• Mephisto claimed he had found a way to break the boundary and invited the Hell Lords to join an invasion of the Prime Universe.

Mephisto showed the Hell Lords recordings of Jude Herbert’s inventions and Portal Gun, convincing them that Jude could open paths to entirely new worlds. The Hell Lords agreed they wanted his knowledge, and Trigon demanded Mephisto reveal his plan.

• Mephisto explained that he had studied Jude Herbert after Jude defeated Mongul and showed the Hell Lords Jude’s inventions.
• Beelzebub dismissed Jude’s science as magic until he saw Jude transform a kitten into a living lump of butt-shaped flesh.
• Mephisto showed Jude giving missiles consciousness and sending duplicates through portals to other worlds.
• Dormammu and the other Hell Lords declared that they wanted everything Jude had, and Trigon pressed Mephisto for his plan.
• Mephisto ended by claiming, “I have mastered his wisdom.”

Jude explained that he planned to make Aunt May a Ghost Rider, believing the Spirit of Vengeance would give her lasting health and powers. After Little Spider suspected Jude had engineered the crisis, Jude revealed in private that he had deliberately overlooked gene fusion and wanted to teach Peter a lesson while taking a trip through hell.

• Jude told Little Spider he had forgotten that gene fusion could have cured Aunt May, then claimed he had found an even better solution.
• Jude explained the Spirit of Vengeance and proposed turning Aunt May into a Ghost Rider.
• Little Spider suspected Jude had schemed to create the situation, and Jude punched him before insisting his suspicions were foolish.
• Jude privately admitted he had deliberately ignored gene fusion and had known Mephisto was watching him before the crisis began.
• Jude decided to let Little Spider suffer for his earlier defiance and pursue the Ghost Rider plan for Aunt May.

Jude and Little Spider entered Mephisto’s Hell Dimension, where Jude discovered Mephisto had made his armor unusable. They reached the city of Orgardo and split up, with Jude pursuing a forceful approach and Little Spider trying to negotiate with a demon.

• Jude failed to summon Cowboy 2, and Ancient One explained that Mephisto could alter the rules within his dimension.
• Jude refused Ancient One’s offer to bring them home and continued toward the nearby city with Little Spider.
• Jude and Little Spider reached Orgardo, a modern-looking city populated by humans, aliens, and demons.
• Little Spider suggested asking Mephisto for help, but Jude warned him against making deals with demons.
• Jude and Little Spider agreed to split up, and Little Spider approached a demon wearing a police uniform.

Jude studied the rules of Mephisto’s Hell Dimension at extraordinary speed and met Doom’s mother, who worked at the library. After telling her that Victor Von Doom had survived the Setaar attack and was now a United Government member, Jude accepted her invitation to stay at her home.

• Little Spider tried to ask a demon police officer for directions but fled when the officer ordered his hellhound to eat him for having no Soul Shards.
• Jude entered the library, learned its rules, and rapidly absorbed foundational knowledge about the Hell Dimension.
• Jude read more than fifty advanced books in an hour, then blasphemed against Mephisto and was warned by an old woman that he could be imprisoned for it.
• The old woman asked Jude about Earth and her son, Victor Von Doom, and Jude told her Doom had survived the Setaar attack and become a United Government member.
• Jude revealed his name and accepted Doom’s mother’s offer to stay at her home after her workday ended.

Jude learned that Hell’s dead spirits were forced to work and create value under a brutal system, while its demons exploited them and let Blood Beasts consume those deemed unproductive. After seeing an elderly spirit shot for being unable to work, Jude became furious at Hell’s cruelty.

• Jude finished absorbing the useful knowledge in the library and went with Doom’s mother, Teresa, to her home.
• Teresa told Jude she had once been a witch, but Hell’s administrators had stripped her powers after she made a mistake.
• Over dinner, Teresa explained that most dead spirits worked to survive and that Blood Beasts devoured those whose contributions fell below the required standard.
• Teresa described how demons controlled Hell’s corrupt government departments and exploited the dead spirits.
• Jude and Teresa watched a report about an elderly spirit shot by a demon police officer, and Teresa explained he had been killed because he was too old to work.
• Jude grew angry when he learned that Hell had treated the old man as worthless for being unable to create value.

Jude planned to exploit the undead’s growing resentment to find Mephisto and promised Theresa he would take her back to Earth. After rebuilding gadgets from discarded household items, he traveled toward Faust Street and used his Dial Eyes to hypnotize a taxi driver who refused to take him without payment.

• Jude told Theresa that Hell’s oppressed undead were ready to rebel and that their unrest could help him find Mephisto.
• Jude declined Theresa’s offer of library work and asked to borrow discarded electronic equipment, then promised to take her back to Earth to see Doom.
• Jude dismantled household appliances in Theresa’s storeroom and built Dial Eyes, a modified pistol, and a Demon Watch.
• Jude walked to a busier district, hailed a taxi, and asked the driver to take him to Faust Street.
• When the driver tried to throw him out for lacking the fare, Jude used the Dial Eyes to command him.

Little Spider hid from the Blood Beast in Orhardo City and regretted leaving Mr. Herbert, while Jude went to Faust Street, hypnotized a demon police officer, and brought him back to Theresa’s home. Jude began turning the officer into his first specimen with help from Geralt.

• Little Spider escaped demon police and Hellhounds, then hid from the Blood Beast until it passed.
• Jude walked through Faust Street, where a Purple-skinned Horned Demon police officer confronted him for being undead.
• Jude lured the officer into an alley and hypnotized him after the officer tried to arrest him.
• Jude took the officer back to Theresa’s home, injected him with a potion, and summoned Geralt from his demon watch.
• Geralt climbed onto the officer’s head and began cutting open his scalp.

Jude analyzed a demon, built an energy converter, and absorbed its powers, including Hellfire. After telling Teresa he would take her back to Earth to reunite with Doom, he began capturing more demons, leaving seventeen police officers missing by dawn.

• Jude used Geralt to analyze the Purple-skinned Demon and built a device that transferred its energy into him.
• Jude absorbed the demon's power and accidentally burned a hole through the storage-room floor with Hellfire.
• Teresa discovered the damage, and Jude explained that he had absorbed a demon and promised to reunite her with Doom on Earth.
• Jude captured demon police officers and lured demons from the wealthy district to absorb their energy.
• The police department discovered seventeen officers were missing, while Jude decided ordinary demons no longer gave him enough power.

Jude planned to alter Orhardo City's power center and capture all its demons at once, while Theresa feared the fallout from his massacre. Little Spider tried to arrange a meeting with Mephisto but was forced to keep waiting at the Civic Services Hall.

• Jude told Theresa he had killed fifty-three demons, including seventeen police officers, and stopped her from fleeing.
• Jude said he would use his equipment and the city's power center to absorb all the demons in Orhardo, which Theresa estimated held around seventy thousand.
• Jude left for the power center, telling Theresa to restock his liquor.
• Little Spider went to the Civic Services Hall to request a meeting with Mephisto after washing himself with water from a passing truck.
• Little Spider waited until noon, but the receptionist left for lunch before hearing his request; he endured the guards' warning and stayed in line.

Little Spider tried to arrange a meeting with Mephisto but was caught in a police sweep after Jude killed dozens of demons. As the demon police prepared to eat him, a burst of electricity struck the station, leaving only their skins behind.

• Little Spider waited hours to apply for a meeting with Mephisto and learned he would have to wait around a hundred thousand years.
• Demon police raided the service hall while searching the city for Jude's killer, and one officer recognized Little Spider as suspicious.
• Little Spider resisted arrest, but the police burned his hostage and captured him.
• At the station, a demon policeman admitted Little Spider was arrested because he had refused to pay a bribe and the demons prepared to eat him.
• Electronic equipment erupted with red and blue electricity, and Little Spider saw only the demon policemen's skins left behind.

Jude seized Orhardo City's power center and used its network to drain the life force of seventy thousand demons, gaining enough energy to weaken Mephisto and recover some of his armored strength. Little Spider escaped the police station and saw Jude hovering above a city full of undead.

• Jude hypnotized the power center's guards and fat demon, gathered the staff, and killed the demons and undead inside.
• Jude modified the city's energy control room and explained to Geralt that the energy would fill the armor hidden within his body.
• Geralt activated the conversion device, and the city's wiring drained the life force of demons throughout Orhardo City into Jude.
• Jude absorbed the energy of seventy thousand demons, planned to strip power from Mephisto, and flew out through the control room's ceiling.
• Little Spider escaped the police station in a uniform and saw Jude radiating light above the undead-filled streets.

Jude disguised himself as an angel named Seven and urged Orhardo City's undead to rise up against the demons who exploited them. Little Spider led the first chant, and the undead rallied behind the slogan “Dead lives matter.”

• Jude appeared above Orhardo City in an illusion of holy light, while Little Spider and Teresa recognized him.
• Jude claimed God had sent him to save the undead and pointed to the demons he had destroyed as proof.
• Jude described the undead's exploitation and called on them to overthrow the demons.
• Little Spider leaped onto a rooftop and led the undead in chanting, “Break the chains, overthrow everything!”
• Jude declared the movement's slogan to be “Dead lives matter!”

Jude incited Orhardo City’s undead to riot and destroy the city, then revealed his plan to Little Spider to spread the unrest throughout Hell through the media. Little Spider agreed to help turn the Undead Lives Matter movement into a realm-wide uprising against Mephisto.

• Jude urged the undead to reclaim their rights, and the crowd rampaged through Orhardo City, looting shops and destroying public facilities.
• The undead blew up Orhardo City Hall, and the rioters attacked anyone who called for calm.
• Jude lifted Little Spider into the air, and Little Spider recounted the dangers he had faced while disguised as a police officer.
• Jude told Little Spider that he had absorbed the power of over seventy thousand demons and explained that the uprising needed to spread beyond one city to weaken Mephisto.
• Little Spider agreed to use his knowledge of the media to spread the Undead Lives Matter movement throughout Hell.

Jude’s speech about the massacre in Orhardo City spread across Hell and sparked mass undead protests. As Hell’s council debated how to respond, Mogul chose to suppress the unrest rather than inform Mephisto, setting a disastrous crackdown in motion.

• News of Jude’s actions and his speech spread throughout Hell, prompting undead to protest in major cities under the slogan “Undead lives matter.”
• At an emergency council meeting, Leonaldo urged Mogul to report the unrest and the mysterious intruder Jude to Mephisto.
• Mogul refused, arguing that the council should quell the riot before disturbing Mephisto during the Hell Faction Conference.
• Mogul ordered William to take a military force to Orhardo City and told the major cities to deploy police against the protesting undead.
• Mogul announced Soul Shard rewards for anyone who killed undead causing trouble, unaware his orders would bring catastrophic consequences upon Hell.

Demon William brought Mephisto’s elite army to Orhardo City and challenged Jude in a livestream meant to terrify Hell’s undead. Jude countered William’s Hellfire and defeated him, leaving the demon army and the watching cities to face the result.

• Demon William arrived outside Orhardo City with one hundred thousand elite demons and ordered a livestream of his plan to crush Jude and slaughter one hundred thousand undead.
• The demon army’s arrival split Orhardo’s undead between those who fled, collaborators who welcomed the demons, and nearly eight hundred thousand who stood ready to resist.
• Demon William grew hundreds of meters tall and frightened the undead, while Old Teresa warned Jude that William was one of Mephisto’s confidants and one of Hell’s Seven Great Demon Kings.
• Jude confronted William, dismissed his display of authority, and said Mephisto had sent a nobody to face him.
• William and Jude unleashed Hellfire at each other, and when the light faded, William had shrunk to his normal size and lay on the ground like a dead dog.

Jude killed William and inspired the undead to revolt, sending Hell's cities into chaos as they marched toward the capital. Mogul and Leonaldo prepared to defend the capital, but the undead arrived before they knew whether they could hold it.

• Jude killed William in a single exchange, shocking demons across Hell.
• Jude urged the undead to rise up, and their fear gave way to a mass charge that routed the demons outside Orhardo City.
• The undead overwhelmed the police and officials, destroyed major cities, and began gathering to march on Hell's Capital.
• Jude told Peter that the undead were blind and easily manipulated, then warned him not to become like them.
• Mogul and Leonaldo gathered the remaining forces to defend the capital as the undead approached.
• A figure burst into the Council Hall and shouted that the undead had arrived.