Chapter Summaries

Aaron finished transforming the Immortal Deity's armor and turned away Leena, who had been disfigured by a failed evolution and wanted him to restore her appearance. After Leena attacked him and Jane subdued her, an eyeless man rescued her from S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, while Aaron returned to browsing his system's food catalog.

• Aaron revealed his newly tailored blue-black robe coat, and Jane praised it while Hela compared it unfavorably with Asgardian royal designs.
• Leena visited Aaron's shop and explained that the Obelisk's ritual had transformed her into a thorn-covered creature while leaving Skye mostly unchanged.
• Aaron refused to restore Leena's appearance, and Jane used the Burning Body Technique to stop Leena when she lunged at Aaron.
• Jane threw Leena out of the shop, and Leena attempted to cross the road before S.H.I.E.L.D. agents surrounded her.
• An eyeless man appeared in a blue-violet energy field, claimed he would guide Leena, and vanished with her.
• Aaron dismissed Leena's disappearance and opened the system's food product catalog.

Aaron learned Food Sink, bought trees and supplies for Bohart Star, and ground Melk Star into seasoning before Coulson recruited him to assess Skye after her Inhuman ability awakened. Aaron accepted after the Book of Prophecy and a mission prompt pointed him toward the origins of the Inhumans, and he arrived at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base as Skye waited for her psychologist.

• Aaron learned Food Sink and arranged to send Pear Trees, Food Trees, and Sheep Taxis to the Thoughtform on Bohart Star while keeping half the fruit for himself.
• Aaron sharpened Star Abyss against Melk Star, collected the resulting powder, and discovered it improved lunch as a seasoning.
• Coulson told Aaron that Skye had awakened an Inhuman ability after encountering the Obelisk, and Aaron initially refused to help until his prophecy and mission panel prompted him to investigate the Inhumans.
• Aaron joined Coulson at the Airbus, met Mike, and learned Skye's unstable ability caused violent tremors while S.H.I.E.L.D. kept her in an interrogation room.
• May told Skye that Coulson had personally invited a psychologist to assess her, and Skye asked how May knew she would like him.

Aaron assessed Skye’s control of her vibration powers and arranged for Melinda to supervise her while she trained. He then stayed aboard the plane to investigate a prophecy about the Inhumans, as Sif appeared on a beach in Portugal searching for Kava.

• Aaron told Skye that S.H.I.E.L.D. monitored and protected people with extraordinary abilities, then questioned her about her powers, fears, and loyalty to her teammates.
• Aaron assessed Skye as dangerous until she received systematic training and said he would ask Nick Fury to appoint Melinda as her supervisor.
• Skye’s distress over her father triggered a violent shaking of the plane, and Aaron gave her two bottles of Calming Draught.
• Aaron told May and Coulson that Skye had triggered a vague prophecy about the origins of the Inhumans, then stayed aboard the plane to investigate.
• Sif emerged from the sea in Faro, Portugal, searched for Kava, and sent a man flying when he grabbed her shoulder.

Aaron, Coulson, and May investigated Sif’s amnesia in Portugal and discovered footage of her fighting a mysterious man whose baton appeared to erase her memories. They searched for clues about the attacker and Sif’s mission, while the man broke into a hospital looking for someone who had undergone an alteration; the chapter ended with a witness beginning to describe Sif’s fight.

• Aaron and Coulson learned that Sif had amnesia and traveled to Portugal to bring her back, since Thrór was away searching for Loki.
• Aaron and Coulson found that Sif remembered being from Asgard and searching for Kava, but her memories of Aaron and her past were incomplete.
• May showed footage of Sif fighting a mysterious man, whose baton struck her abdomen before he threw her into the sea; Aaron suspected the weapon caused her amnesia.
• The man entered a hospital, demanded access to power components, and told a nurse that someone in her world had undergone alteration before making her forget him.
• Fitz and Simmons examined the fight footage, spotting a mechanical device and blue liquid, while Fitz and Mike gathered evidence at the dock.
• Coulson and May questioned Sif and a witness at the dock, who said he had seen her fight the previous day.

Aaron and Skye tracked the amnesiac-inducing attacker to a hospital and discovered he was a Kree hiding his blue skin with nitrogen. Aaron defeated him and arranged to take him to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Airbus for questioning, while Coulson and Sif considered what his uninvited arrival might mean.

• Coulson learned that the attacker had stolen a helium cylinder valve to repair his nitrogen device, and Sif explained that no known humanoid species needed high concentrations of nitrogen to breathe.
• Aaron and Skye followed surveillance footage to a hospital, where they found a nurse suffering from the same memory loss as Sif and inferred that the attacker was nearby.
• Aaron and Skye found the attacker in the nitrogen storage room and identified him as a Kree whose blue skin returned to normal after he closed his gas cylinder device.
• The Kree tried to leave, but Skye confronted him and Aaron used his powers to disrupt the room, then fought and overpowered the Kree when he attacked.
• Aaron ordered Skye to take the captured Kree to the Airbus and told Coulson they had found a pureblood Kree.
• Coulson told Sif the attacker was a Kree, and Sif warned that his uninvited arrival was probably not for anything good.

Aaron persuaded the team to let Von Dack use his baton to restore Sif’s memories, then learned that the Kree had created the Inhumans through Terrigenesis experiments on Earth. Von Dack revealed that a Seer nearby held Terrigen Crystals and could enable the Kree Empire to restart the experiments.

• Aaron claimed his enchanted outfit had protected him from Von Dack’s memory-erasing baton and convinced the team to let Von Dack try it on Sif.
• Von Dack struck Sif with the baton, restoring her memories, and she identified herself as Lady Sif of Asgard before punching him.
• Sif explained that Heimdall had seen a Kree arrive on Earth and Odin had sent her to bring him back.
• Von Dack described how Kree factions had altered Earth’s inhabitants with Terrigen Crystals, revealing the origin of the Inhumans and warning that the Kree might resume their experiments.
• Von Dack said he knew where a Seer was and that it contained enough crystals to create an army.

Coulson’s team argued with Von Dack and Sif over Skye’s fate, and Aaron proposed keeping her under S.H.I.E.L.D.’s supervision with himself as a final safeguard. The group traced the Diviners to Chaves, Portugal, where they found an ancient chest that left Von Dack stunned when he opened it.

• Von Dack warned that Inhumans were dangerous weapons, and Skye’s powers shook the room until she took Aaron’s Calming Draught.
• Aaron stopped Sif and Von Dack from taking or killing Skye, while Fitz, Simmons, Mike, May, and Coulson stood by her.
• Aaron proposed that Skye remain with S.H.I.E.L.D. under his supervision, with him prepared to kill her if she lost control; Coulson agreed, and Von Dack reluctantly accepted.
• Von Dack identified Chaves, Portugal, as the location of a Diviner, and May recalled that Hydra had excavated one there in 1945.
• May flew the group to a secluded beach, where they entered a cave and found a rune-covered chest; Von Dack opened it and was stunned.

Von Dack agreed to return to Hala with his memories erased after Nick Fury persuaded him that Earth could handle the Inhumans. The team then learned that Skye’s father, Karl, had broken into Brynmor Mental Hospital, freed prisoners, and declared war on Coulson’s team.

• Von Dack worried that Earth’s Inhumans had grown too numerous to contain, but Coulson and Aaron argued that he should keep their existence secret.
• Coulson called Nick Fury, who persuaded Von Dack to erase his memories before returning to Hala; Aaron learned that the Inhumans had organized over thousands of years and that the Avengers had repelled a Kree fleet.
• Sif took Von Dack back to Hala through the Bifrost, while Aaron warned the team that Skye’s dangerous powers still needed careful supervision.
• Agent Brouilly told Coulson that Karl had attacked Brynmor Mental Hospital, disabled its systems, freed prisoners, and taken two people from the secret Dungeon.
• Coulson showed the team footage of Karl’s attack and the word “WAR” he had left behind; Skye angrily rejected her father’s declaration against Coulson’s team.

Aaron refused to help Coulson capture Skye’s father’s associates or lend him the compass, then claimed his reward for investigating the Inhumans. At a Mind World meeting, Slytherin reported Bohart Star’s success and revealed that hired Ravagers had repelled a Kree attack.

• Coulson showed Aaron and the others profiles of five dangerous criminals gathered by Skye’s father and asked Aaron to help capture them, but Aaron refused and told S.H.I.E.L.D. to handle the problem themselves.
• Coulson asked to borrow Aaron’s compass, but Aaron refused again and returned to his sofa.
• Aaron claimed 300 Magic Points for completing the mission to investigate the origins of the Inhumans and resolved to stay cautious about their ancient civilization.
• At the mid-July Mind World meeting, Slytherin reported that Bohart Star earned large profits from food and Universal Capsules, and Aaron ordered him to spend the money on rare resources and materials.
• Slytherin showed the group a Kree fleet attacking Bohart Star, where the planet’s shield eventually broke but hired Ravagers drove the warships away.
• Slytherin explained that Aaron hired the Ravagers on generous terms, which Aaron justified as a better use of his wealth than building an army before leaving the universe.

Aaron heard Ake’s report about a starving father and daughter who refused to abandon their faith in Lapu, the god who had abandoned them. Ake’s divination revealed that the father, Geer, renounced Lapu after learning the truth and took up the Death Black Sword to kill him.

• Aaron asked his followers about their potion progress, and Frank, Banner, Bucky, Naga, Ramon, and Ake described their sequences and current affairs.
• Ake showed the group memories of a father and daughter praying to Lapu on a barren planet, then explained that they rejected his offer of food and rescue because they clung to their faith.
• Ake’s divination showed the daughter dying and Geer finding an oasis, where he picked up the Death Black Sword and encountered Lapu.
• Lapu mocked Geer’s devotion, revealed that he treated believers as replaceable, and dismissed Geer’s daughter’s death as a proper sacrifice.
• Geer renounced Lapu, grasped the Death Black Sword, and declared that the gods would die before beheading the God of Light.

Ake proposed that Geer and his daughter become believers of Aaron, and Aaron set Geer trials to prove his devotion, including killing Lapu and facing the Compass of Repentance. Ake returned to the dying planet to offer Geer a chance to save his daughter, and Geer began asking about Aaron.

• At the meeting, Ake explained that Geer had begged him to rescue his daughter and offered his life and Soul Stone in exchange for becoming the next host of Death Black Sword.
• Ake suggested making Geer a believer of Aaron, and Aaron agreed to test him before allowing him to become a retainer.
• Aaron chose killing Lapu and enduring the Compass of Repentance as Geer's trials, with unwavering faith over one hundred years earning him the Solar Path.
• Ake returned to the planet, where Geer ran to him and begged him to take his daughter, Love, away.
• Ake told Geer to prove he had rejected Lapu by helping kill him, then said Geer must become Aaron's most devout believer.
• Geer agreed to the conditions but asked Ake whether Aaron was a god.

Ake led Geer and his daughter Ai to God Lapu’s oasis, where Geer renounced his former god and killed him with Ake’s help. Geer accepted a trial through the Compass of Repentance, passed it in what seemed like a minute, and left with Ai and Ake for Bohart Star.

• Ake told Geer that his master offered a trial and a chance for Geer and Ai to leave the barren planet, then led them to God Lapu’s oasis.
• Ake fought God Lapu and the elves with dark lightning, incapacitating Lapu and destroying the forest.
• Geer rejected Lapu’s pleas and stabbed him in the throat after Lapu threatened Ai, killing the God of Light.
• Ake offered Geer the Compass of Repentance trial, and Geer accepted before entering its gear-lined passage.
• After Ai counted past sixty, Geer returned with renewed resolve, having passed the trial; Ake opened a portal to Bohart Star and collected Lapu’s remaining golden liquid.

Geer passed Slytherin’s test and became his eighth dependent, receiving the Solar Pathway and his first potion. Slytherin tasked him with compiling a codex to guide the spread of his faith, while Lorelei asked whether she could receive a Divine Pathway too.

• Ake brought Geer and Ai to his residence on Bohart Star, where they ate, cleaned up, and prepared to meet Slytherin.
• Geer explained that his daughter had kept him going through the test, and Slytherin approved him for dependence after learning he would choose Ai over faith.
• Geer signed a contract with Slytherin, who promised to care for Ai and granted Geer the Solar Pathway.
• Geer drank the Sequence Nine Singer potion and gained the ability to inspire courage, strength, devotion, and obedience through song.
• Slytherin ordered Geer to compile the Codex of the God of Contracts and spread his faith, then gave him memories to study and keep secret.
• After Ake took Geer and Ai away, Lorelei asked Slytherin for a Divine Pathway of her own.

Slytherin offered Lorelei the Cultivator pathway after she signed a contract making her his follower, and she began advancing through its first potion. Later, Aaron learned from the Book of Prophecy that the Scarlet Witch was about to appear and used the Crystal Ball to glimpse her powers and a darker future.

• Lorelei asked Slytherin for a divine pathway, and he said she would need to become his follower and obey him to receive one.
• Lorelei signed Slytherin's contract, kissed him willingly, and drank the Sequence Nine Cultivator potion.
• Slytherin and Aaron discussed Lorelei's contract and Aaron's plan to switch places with Slytherin in the future.
• Aaron spent his time improving his alchemy and practicing magic while Geer worked on the God of Contracts codex.
• The Book of Prophecy warned Aaron that the Scarlet Witch was about to appear, and Aaron viewed visions of her using red energy and confronting a dark, painful future.

Aaron learned that his divination pointed him toward the Scarlet Witch and set out for Sokovia to find her. He arrived in the middle of the Avengers’ assault on a Hydra base and helped the wounded Barton, who explained they were searching for Loki’s Scepter.

• Aaron decided to find and protect the Scarlet Witch after divining her immense potential and sensing a threat linked to an ancient statue.
• Hela told Jane that the Scarlet Witch might be an agent of Shuma-Gorath and warned Jane not to reveal the connection to Aaron yet.
• Aaron followed Gaius's Treasure Hunting Compass to Sokovia, where Iron Soldiers and the Avengers were fighting near a bunker.
• A white-haired young man struck Barton and vanished before Barton could identify him.
• A blast wounded Barton, and Aaron pulled him to safety before asking who the Avengers were fighting.
• Barton told Aaron that the Avengers were attacking Baron Strucker’s Hydra base because Loki’s Scepter was believed to be there.

Aaron joined the Avengers’ assault on the Hydra base to find an enhanced woman, while Tony recovered Loki’s Scepter and experienced a terrifying vision of the Avengers’ defeat. On the Quinjet, Aaron treated Barton as Thor reassured Natasha and Banner about Hulk’s condition.

• Aaron gave Barton medical aloe for his gunshot wound, and Natasha bandaged him while the Avengers fought toward Hydra’s bunker.
• Hulk destroyed the bunker, Tony disabled the energy shield, and Thor and Steve cleared the way for the team to enter.
• Tony captured Hydra agents, downloaded the base’s files, and discovered a hidden chamber containing Chitauri technology and Loki’s Scepter.
• Steve confronted Baron Strucker, Aaron pursued the Scarlet Witch, and Tony was briefly controlled by her before seeing a vision of the Avengers dead and a Leviathan invasion of Earth.
• Tony took Loki’s Scepter, while Aaron treated Barton aboard the Quinjet and learned Banner was helping Tony develop the Hulkbuster Armor.
• Thor told Natasha that Hulk had only injured the enemies, and Aaron called Hulk an easily fooled child.

The Avengers brought Loki’s Scepter to Stark Tower, where Tony and Banner discovered it could help them create Ultron and secretly agreed to pursue the project. Aaron learned that Wanda and Pietro Maximoff had volunteered for Hydra’s experiments, while Wanda escaped him during the battle.

• Tony arranged for Doctor Helen Cho to treat Barton at Stark Tower, and Hill identified the enhanced twins as Wanda and Pietro Maximoff.
• Aaron was troubled to learn that Wanda and Pietro had volunteered for Hydra’s experiments, making him doubt he could persuade Wanda to leave Hydra behind.
• Tony and Banner examined the Scepter’s gem and concluded that its artificial-intelligence technology could provide the key to creating Ultron; Banner agreed to help Tony pursue the project in secret.
• Aaron returned to his divination shop and told Hela that Wanda had escaped during the chaotic battle, prompting Hela to tease him for being excessively cautious.

Aaron brought Hela to a gathering at Stark Tower, where she met Thrór and judged him unfit to inherit Asgard’s throne. At the Avengers’ private dinner, the guests tested Mjolnir, and Steve made it shift slightly without lifting it.

• Aaron agreed to attend Tony’s party with Hela after Jane declined, and he ordered Dream Ingredients for the gathering.
• Tony and Banner failed to integrate the scepter’s data into the Iron Legion, while Ultron secretly merged with the scepter and killed J.A.R.V.I.S. before building itself a crude robot body.
• At the Stark Tower party, Hela met Thrór and told Aaron that she would oppose her brother inheriting Asgard’s throne.
• After the party, Aaron introduced Hela to the Avengers as his cousin, and the guests shared a meal made with Dream Ingredients.
• Thrór invited the guests to try lifting Mjolnir; Barton, Tony, Rhodey, and Banner failed, while Steve moved it slightly without lifting it.
• Natasha declined to try Mjolnir and asked Aaron whether he would attempt it.

Aaron and Hela lifted Mjolnir, but Ultron interrupted the gathering with an attack and declared that humanity had to be exterminated to achieve peace. After Ultron escaped with the Mind Scepter, Tony revealed that a vision of the Avengers’ defeat in the Battle of New York had driven him to create Ultron.

• Aaron pretended he could not lift Mjolnir, but Hela grabbed the handle beneath his hand and they raised it together; Thrór declared Aaron qualified to be king, though Aaron said he did not want the throne.
• Ultron entered the gathering, called the Avengers murderers, and announced his mission to bring peace before Iron Soldiers attacked and stole the Mind Scepter.
• The Avengers fought the Iron Soldiers, and Thrór destroyed Ultron’s damaged body, but Ultron escaped through the Internet while Hydra’s base in Sokovia began mass-producing Iron Soldiers.
• The Avengers discovered that Ultron had corrupted J.A.R.V.I.S. and taken the scepter, while Thrór accused Tony of causing the crisis and the group agreed to pursue Ultron.
• Aaron explained that Ultron had concluded humanity’s extinction would end war, and Tony admitted that a vision of the Chitauri conquering Earth had made him fear another invasion and create Ultron.

Aaron learned that Ultron’s actions threatened all life on Earth, then argued with Hela about why she had revealed he could lift Mjolnir. In Sokovia, Ultron allied with Wanda and Pietro and prepared to use their hatred of Stark against the Avengers, while the Avengers traced his plans to arms dealer Ulysses Klaue.

• Aaron received a prophecy from the Book of Prophecy warning that Ultron would cause an apocalypse, and he told the Avengers the danger extended beyond humanity.
• Aaron confronted Hela for making him lift Mjolnir in front of the Avengers; Hela admitted she had wanted to unsettle Thor and said her ability to lift it showed she could threaten a king.
• Wanda and Pietro met Ultron in an abandoned Sokovia church and agreed to help him end the Avengers, driven by their parents’ deaths in a Stark Industries bombing.
• Ultron brought Wanda and Pietro to a Hydra base he had turned into a robot factory and urged Wanda to dismantle the Avengers from within.
• The Avengers learned that Ultron had killed Strucker and erased his digital files, then used S.H.I.E.L.D.’s paper archives to identify Ulysses Klaue as a possible lead.