Chapter Summaries

Erik defeated the Great Serpent in their clash, recovered five Serpent's Fangs, and brought them and a dragon corpse back to the Demon Group. Kino tested the hammers, while Killian proposed converting their power into Yellow Lantern Rings, and the scientists discovered that Stark had served them dragon meat.

• Erik overpowered the Great Serpent, who fled through a portal with two Serpent's Fangs after Skadi blocked Erik's attack and the Great Serpent rescued Original Sin.
• Erik took the remaining five Serpent's Fangs and retrieved the headless dragon corpse from the sea to bring back to the Demon Group.
• Otto explained that the hammers were made from Uru Metal, required users with evil qualities, and could cause a second personality to replace the user's own.
• Kino wielded a Serpent's Fang and gained armor, but Venom's voice silenced the malicious personality that surfaced in his mind.
• Killian proposed extracting the hammers' energy with the Yellow Lantern Furnace to create Yellow Lantern Rings, and Kino agreed to let him study them.
• Stark served dragon meat to the group, and Dr. Zola warned them that Eastern people regarded dragons as sacred totems and divine beasts.

After the family accidentally ate dragon meat, Kino took some for research and Stark turned Howard into a baby. Later, Erik hosted a family dinner where Charles, Kino, and Lorna joined Jenna and Nina, and Kino gave Nina a unicorn.

• Kino explained that Magneto had brought back the dragon, took several hundred pounds of its meat, and asked Stark to investigate farming and cloning it.
• Howard made a lewd remark about the meat's effects and was turned into a baby by Stark's red mist.
• Erik cooked an elaborate Eastern meal while Jenna and Nina watched, and Charles arrived to help set the table.
• Kino and Lorna arrived at Erik's home for dinner, and Kino charmed Jenna by calling her Auntie.
• Kino created a young unicorn and gave it to Nina as her new master.

Kino and Lorna joined Erik, Jenna, Nina, and Charles for dinner, where Life Fruit rejuvenated Jenna and Erik confronted Kino about his feelings for Lorna. Kino began explaining how his feelings had changed, leaving Lorna anxiously waiting to hear the rest.

• Kino and Lorna arrived for dinner, and Charles said he had come to help an old friend.
• Jenna served Life Fruit from Kino, which restored her youth, and Erik noticed its effects after he ate the leftovers.
• Charles asked Lorna about her goal of defeating Erik for the title of Magneto, and Kino apologized for having unintentionally made that goal a burden.
• Erik demanded to know whether Kino truly loved Lorna and said he would raise Magneto's daughter if Kino's feelings were shallow.
• Lorna tried to leave, but Kino calmed her and told Erik how his feelings had changed, while Lorna listened nervously for his answer.

Kino reassured Erik that he loved Lorna and promised to protect her, then surprised her by bringing her to meet her mother, Madara. Lorna reunited with Madara, confessed her love to Kino, and joined them for dinner.

• Kino told Erik how his feelings for Lorna had grown and promised not to make her cry.
• Erik accepted Kino's promise, and Lorna hugged her father before leaving with Kino.
• Kino brought Lorna to a villa, where she reunited with her mother, Madara.
• Lorna kissed Kino and declared her love for him, and he returned the confession.
• Lorna ate and drank with Madara and Kino, sharing a glimpse of the life she had lived on her own.

Lorna and Kino grew closer as Madara encouraged Lorna to pursue her love without regrets. After spending the night together, Kino cared for Lorna and arranged three days off so he could stay with her.

• Madara interrupted Lorna as she tried to undress further, then asked whether she truly loved Kino; Lorna said she would stay by his side even if he stopped wanting her.
• Madara told Lorna not to let fear leave her with regrets and gave her a small metal box to keep safe.
• Kino promised Madara he would protect Lorna for life, then took Lorna to her home through a portal.
• Lorna dressed playfully for Kino, and the next day she woke sore and worried he had left.
• Kino brought Lorna breakfast in bed, told her he had arranged three days off with Tony and asked Erik to cover her work, then held her as she rested.

Loki tried to recruit the Great Serpent into his organization, but the Great Serpent rejected him after accepting a plan that could help restore his power. Days later, Blonsky, Hulk, and Juggernaut traveled through a frozen Russian wasteland on a mission, where Juggernaut explained he had joined to escape his newfound fame.

• The Great Serpent learned that he had lost control of five Serpent's Fangs, while Skadi returned with Angler the Soul Eater and Kurs the Rock Crusher as candidates for the Divine Hammer.
• Loki appeared at the Great Serpent's base and offered his help against the Demon King, then demonstrated hundreds of identical figures that killed Angler and Kurs and took their Serpent's Fangs.
• The Great Serpent rejected Loki's invitation to join his organization but read the plan Loki left behind and realized it could strengthen him without the Serpent's Fangs.
• Loki's apparent death proved to be an illusion, and he met Mr. Sinister at a tavern, where Mr. Sinister said Loki could become an official member and they would use the other plan.
• Several days later in Oymyakon, Blonsky, Hulk, and Juggernaut hiked through a blizzard after Hulk damaged their plane's engine, and Blonsky threw Hulk into the snow during their argument.
• Juggernaut told Blonsky he had joined the mission to lie low because he felt uncomfortable with the crowds who now recognized him.

Blonsky, Juggernaut, and Hulk investigated a town cut off from the outside world and discovered people mutated into Gamma Monsters by Hulk’s blood. Hulk destroyed the horde with a devastating landing, leaving Juggernaut newly impressed by his strength.

• Blonsky explained that Hydra had detected abnormal energy in a town suspected to be connected to the Great Serpent, God of Fear, and the team went to investigate.
• Blonsky and Juggernaut found Hulk fighting a horde of Gamma Monsters, which Abomination recognized as humans mutated by Hulk’s blood.
• Abomination stayed behind to fight the Gamma Monsters while Juggernaut went to help Hulk.
• Hulk leaped into the air and smashed down among the monsters, creating a crater that destroyed the town and killed the horde.
• Juggernaut recalled Bobby calling Hulk the strongest member of the Demon Group besides the leader and saw the full force of Hulk’s power.

Hulk and his allies confronted the Great Serpent, who overwhelmed them and trapped Hulk in a vision of rejection and despair. Hulk erupted into a new, much larger form, and green portals opened as enormous figures fell around him.

• Hulk, Abomination, and Juggernaut attacked the Great Serpent, but he blasted Abomination and Juggernaut away and severed Hulk's arm before Hulk regenerated and shattered part of his Divine Armor.
• The Great Serpent poured Fear Energy into Hulk, immobilizing him and making his built-up force devastate the town into a vast crater before he vanished.
• Abomination and Juggernaut found Hulk down and tried to wake him, while Hulk experienced a vision of people—including false versions of Banner, Blonsky, and Kino—condemning him.
• Hulk roared in anguish, tore apart the figures in the vision, and rose with black skin at an unprecedented height of eight meters.
• Green portals appeared above Hulk, and countless enormous figures fell beside him as Juggernaut realized Hulk had gone on a rampage.

The Great Serpent launched a worldwide assault with Gamma Monsters, spreading fear and raising his kingdom as the Demon Group scrambled to respond. Banner rushed to investigate Hulk’s strange distress, while Tom and the others searched for the enemy and prepared Earth’s defenses without Kino.

• Banner sensed that something was wrong with Hulk, said goodbye to Betty and Ross, and flew off in a Green Lantern spaceship.
• The Great Serpent and Skadi unleashed Gamma Monsters through portals across the world, where local mutants and altered beings fought them off.
• The Great Serpent announced repeated attacks, drew strength from global fear, and raised a vast city-state that spread his aura across Earth.
• Tom learned that the Demon Group’s system had been compromised by a back door installed two years earlier, while Charles could not locate the Great Serpent or the missing Hulk, Abomination, and Juggernaut.
• Tom ordered the Demon Group to investigate the breach and defend key locations, and told Tony that Kino had left Earth as the group began searching for the Great Serpent.

Pamela reassured Gwen and the others before they left to help the Demon Group, while she stayed at Kino’s manor with Wanda. Banner found a hidden Kree spatial distortion device, defeated its two guards, and confronted Dr. Lan as someone else’s familiar voice interrupted them.

• Pamela demonstrated her power to reassure Gwen, who then left with Harley and the others to join the Demon Group.
• Wanda stayed behind with Pamela while Banner searched the snowy site where Hulk had disappeared.
• Banner used the Green Lantern Ring to find a hidden structure and discovered it was a Kree spatial distortion device.
• Two Heavenly Hammer Venerables attacked Banner, but he defeated them with mechanical arms and Kino’s Demon King robot.
• Banner spoke with Dr. Lan through the device and taunted him about his Gamma Monster research until another familiar voice interrupted.

Kino stayed in the Dark Dimension with Dormammu, pretending to sympathize with him while absorbing energy and avoiding his plans to conquer Earth. He left Dormammu wary and humiliated after describing The Ancient One’s punishment and arguing with Venom about his poor handwriting.

• The Great Serpent sensed the deaths of the Heavenly Hammer Venerables but continued using the Serpent's Fang to obtain power continuously.
• Kino absorbed Dark Energy in Dormammu's palace and chatted with Venom while Dormammu tried to recruit him to rule Earth together.
• Kino claimed The Ancient One had forced him to protect humanity, then shattered a table and faced Dormammu's armed monsters.
• Dormammu made the monsters perform a bloody fight, and Kino mocked their performance before urging Dormammu to attack The Ancient One with him.
• Dormammu stopped Kino from going to Earth, and Kino admitted that The Ancient One had given him an E on an assignment and criticized his handwriting.
• Venom agreed that Kino needed to practice writing, leaving Kino unsure whether his handwriting was truly that bad.

Abomination and Juggernaut were trapped in an independent space with Black Hulk and thousands of Gamma Monsters, while Banner and Tony worked to rescue them. After learning they could hold out for only two hours, Banner sent a weapon through the Mother Box and Tony fired the Apollo Armor at the spatial barrier to try to open a passage.

• Black Hulk battered Abomination, who fought back against him and the surrounding Gamma Monsters.
• Juggernaut reported that every attempt to escape led them back to the same place, and Abomination told him to hold out for rescue.
• Abomination contacted Banner and explained that Black Hulk and several thousand Gamma Monsters were attacking them, giving them at most two hours.
• Banner and Tony estimated that opening a passage would take five hours, so Tony suggested striking the spatial barrier with powerful energy.
• Banner requested a weapon from the Demon Group, and Pietro delivered Killian's weapon and a Mother Box.
• Tony overloaded the Apollo Armor and fired a concentrated blue beam at the spatial barrier, producing sparks and arcs of electricity.

Tony and Banner used the Apollo Armor and a Sound Burst Channel to deliver rings that empowered Abomination and Juggernaut as Yellow Lanterns. Abomination subdued Black Hulk and helped restore Hulk, while Juggernaut defeated the remaining Gamma Monsters.

• Banner opened an unstable Sound Burst Channel and threw a box through it while Tony shut down the overheated Apollo Armor.
• The box released Yellow Lantern Rings that chose Abomination and Juggernaut, granting them greater strength by absorbing fear.
• Juggernaut charged through the Gamma Monsters and smashed them apart with his new power.
• Abomination fought Black Hulk, overpowered him, and used his ring to absorb his fear until Hulk returned to normal.
• Hulk thanked Abomination for saving him, and Abomination told him to find Banner while Juggernaut finished off the Gamma Monsters.

As the Great Serpent’s fear drove people around the world toward despair and crime, the Demon King Cult’s pope frightened them into stopping and making amends. The Great Serpent prepared to attack Asgard, but Erik intervened to defend Lorna and fought the god of fear.

• Xiaoyu protected the Demon Group from the Great Serpent’s aura while Damian trained to grow stronger.
• In San Francisco, a father nearly killed himself and his daughter until the Demon King Cult’s pope broadcast warnings about the torments awaiting people who died or committed crimes.
• People around the world abandoned suicide and robbery, and many criminals returned stolen goods and turned themselves in.
• The Great Serpent noted that fear had diminished but declared himself powerful enough to destroy Odin and Asgard, then prepared to attack Lorna.
• Erik arrived and blocked the Great Serpent’s energy beam with walls of metal, then used metal fragments to kill monsters and attack him.
• The Great Serpent dismissed Erik as too weak and struck at him with black lightning, but stone spikes intercepted the bolt.

Erik, Hela, Harley, Gwen, and the Demon Group attacked the Great Serpent as its fear-fueled power threatened humanity. Charles used the Soul Stone to suppress human emotions and weaken the serpent, leaving the battle raging as the Demon Artifact Troops joined the assault.

• Erik and Hela confronted the Great Serpent after it broke free of the stone sphere, while Erik sent Lorna to safety.
• Harley, Gwen, and distant allies struck the Great Serpent with flames, lightning, a metal meteorite, and super electromagnetic cannons, but its wounds healed.
• Tom recognized the crisis as a test of the Demon Group and asked Charles whether he could suppress humanity's emotions without damaging their souls.
• Stark gave Charles Loki's scepter containing the Soul Stone, and Charles used it to make people across the world emotionless, weakening the Great Serpent.
• Hela and Harley attacked the weakened serpent, and the Demon Artifact Troops joined the bombardment, causing its body to shrink as it repeatedly regenerated.

Thor and Erik destroyed the Great Serpent, ending the fear gripping Earth, while Charles collapsed after controlling humanity. Kino returned to the ruined New York and learned he could not use the Time Stone safely, then prepared to remain in this world and uncover the plot against him.

• Thor struck the Great Serpent with Mjolnir, and Erik amplified the lightning that destroyed him and ended the fear spreading across Earth.
• Charles collapsed after suppressing humanity's emotions, and Otto and Killian began treating him.
• The Great Serpent agreed to hear a green-skinned man's plan to create a God of Destruction, while Loki and Mr. Sinister opened a cell containing Captain Marvel.
• Kino left the Dark Dimension, learned from a note that the Great Serpent's arrival resulted from a chaotic Timeline, and refrained from using the Infinity Gauntlet against everyone involved.
• Kino told Tony that the Time Stone could not be used safely and that he had accelerated his enemies' plan so he could eliminate them before the interstellar era.
• Kino and Tony agreed to keep the star gate project moving so it would not become a fatal weakness.

Kino and his family spent Christmas at Gwen’s parents’ house, where he magically expanded and fortified their home before helping prepare dinner. George challenged Kino about his many partners, but Kino’s explanation eased George’s resentment, while Maria embarrassed Gwen with talk of children.

• Kino redrew lots after Dark Phoenix tried to interfere, and the family chose to celebrate Christmas at Gwen’s house.
• Kino gave George and Maria runes that expanded their home’s interior up to a hundredfold and protected it from powerful attacks.
• Kino and George prepared the Christmas meal, and George questioned Kino about his relationships with multiple women.
• Kino explained that Gwen would need companions over their long lives, then admitted he also wanted a harem, and George’s resentment toward him faded.
• Maria whispered to Gwen about contraception and children, while Pamela stopped Harley from causing trouble.

While the household shared food and conversation, Logan awoke in the past in a life where he was married to White Queen and set out to find Charles and Erik and stop the Sentinels. White Queen realized someone had taken over Logan’s body, called for help, and hypnotized him as he began to explain who he was.

• Dark Phoenix and Galacta split Life Fruits while the household ate, studied, and socialized.
• Harley startled Gwen with grotesque gifts, and Venom asked Maria about Boa Hancock and her husband, Dio Brando.
• Logan woke in a peaceful city, found photographs showing his marriage to White Queen, and decided to seek out Charles and Erik.
• White Queen noticed that Logan’s behavior was strange, suspected an intruder had taken over his body, and called a housekeeping company for help.
• Logan told White Queen he needed to stop the Sentinels, but she hypnotized him before he could explain his identity.

Wolverine from a parallel universe arrived in a world where mutants had not been wiped out and tried to find Mystique to prevent his future. Charles and Erik brought him to Kino, who considered whether the Sentinel technology from Wolverine’s world could help against future enemies.

• The White Queen mistook Wolverine, who was occupying Logan’s body, for an intruder and attacked him before Charles entered his mind and learned he came from another universe.
• Charles and Erik explained that Wolverine had arrived in the wrong world, and Charles told the White Queen that Logan remained asleep inside his own body.
• Charles, Erik, the White Queen, and Wolverine went to Kino Manor, where Yū led them to Kino.
• Kino heard Wolverine’s story and learned from Charles that the Sentinels might be useful against future enemies.
• The White Queen told Wolverine that Kino had conquered the entire solar system, and she handed him a phone so he could see for himself.

Kino agreed to help Wolverine’s devastated world and brought a group from his universe there. Professor X saw that mutants and humans could coexist peacefully in another world, leaving him reassured that his chosen path was not wrong.

• Wolverine begged Kino to save his world, and Kino agreed before sending him back.
• Kino gathered the Demon Group and planned to use a Sentinel sample to develop a controlling virus and launch the Ultron Project under a Demon Contract.
• Wolverine returned to the wasteland and told the others that Kino and his allies would come to help, though they initially thought he was delusional.
• Kino’s group appeared, and Magneto’s attack was stopped before it could hit Kino.
• Kino introduced himself to Professor X as the Demon King and new king of the mutants, and Professor X recognized that Kino’s world had proved coexistence possible.