Chapter Summaries

Kino tried to help Yao, while Cassandra’s captives debated escaping after a massive attack shattered Mount Everest. Cassandra caught them conspiring and unleashed a devastating telekinetic blast, but Johnny and several mutants survived and began to flee.

• Kino noticed Yao’s frail condition and gave her a huge fruit to eat.
• After Mount Everest crashed into the Ant-Man base, Johnny urged the captive mutants to rebel against Cassandra, claiming she was injured and vulnerable.
• A mutant betrayed Johnny by offering Cassandra a recording of the conversation, and Cassandra tortured him to death after he reached for her game console.
• Yao vomited acidic liquid onto Cassandra from above, enraging her and exposing that Cassandra had failed to notice her presence.
• Cassandra’s telekinetic outburst destroyed the base and killed many mutants, but a woman’s protective barrier saved several survivors.
• Johnny melted his chains and urged the surviving mutants to escape while Cassandra recovered.

Kino defeated Cassandra, suppressed her powers, and let Venom extract her DNA to acquire her ability. Cassandra’s body dissolved, revealing her true form as a bodiless parasitic species called a Mumudlai.

• Kino confronted Cassandra and demanded that she submit, while Yao watched from beside him.
• Cassandra pretended to submit, then tried to attack Kino, but he crushed her with psychic power after weakening her abilities.
• Kino searched Cassandra’s memories and found the TVA coordinates, then ordered Venom to take Cassandra’s DNA-control ability.
• Venom extracted Cassandra’s DNA, causing her body to collapse into a pool of blood, while Johnny and the other mutants stayed back.
• Cassandra’s invisible soul appeared, revealing that she was a bodiless Mumudlai who had parasitized Professor X in her universe.

Kino dealt with Cassandra, then visited the Deadpools and intervened in their chaotic contest to choose a captain. He discovered that Dead Head carried a substance that suppressed his healing and kept him alive, and burned him away after confirming there was no other way to stop the threat.

• Cassandra fled from Kino and accidentally escaped through a portal into Hell, while Venom urged Kino to hurry back to her.
• Kino opened a portal to the Deadpool gathering place and found the Deadpools fighting in a free-for-all to choose their captain.
• Kino told the Deadpools to beat Wade until he was smoking and promised to restore their appearances afterward.
• Wolverine Deadpool, Baby Deadpool, and Deadpool Dog joined Kino as he examined Dead Head and identified him as a zombie from the Zombie Universe.
• Kino found substances in Dead Head's brain that suppressed his healing and burned him to nothing, despite Wolverine Deadpool's reluctance.

Kino gave Dead Head a new body at his request, then accelerated time so the Deadpool battle ended quickly with Wade Wilson as the victor. Meanwhile, Mr. Paradox ordered the TVA to destroy timelines near Timeline 404 to hide its disappearance, leaving his subordinates to carry out the order.

• Dead Head asked Kino for a new body, and Kino created a busty female body that Dead Head chose to inhabit.
• Dead Head tried to proposition the Ronin Deadpool, who rejected her and asked Kino how long the battle would last.
• Kino used Local Time Acceleration to make the Deadpools' fight end within a minute, and Wade Wilson emerged as the victor before collapsing.
• Kino disinfected the Deadpools and sent them to Hell.
• Mr. Paradox learned that Timeline 404 had vanished from TVA monitoring and ordered the Time Crusher to destroy nearby timelines and erase evidence.
• A young TVA worker objected to the order, but an agent struck him with a stun baton and the others continued their work.

Kino and Yao took control of the Time Variance Authority and collected its Infinity Gems. Mr. Paradox sent them to Timeline 404, where Yao faced the remains of the village that had vanished.

• Kino defeated the TVA agents and used his powers to restore the damaged room, while Mr. Paradox identified him as the demon king of Timeline 404.
• Kino brought Professor X, Charles, and a Hydra squad through a portal, and they seized the TVA staff and took Mr. Paradox away for brainwashing.
• Kino searched the TVA and collected its Infinity Gems, promising to make Yao an artifact from the green Time Stone.
• Mr. Paradox returned to work under Kino's command and reported that Yao's Timeline 404 had been destroyed.
• Kino brought Yao to the village beneath Kamar-Taj in Timeline 404, where she found the blood and dagger left from the ritual that had made everyone vanish.

Kino rescued the villagers of Kamar-Taj from the Dark Dimension and defeated Dormammu, earning their worship as the Lord of the Red Mist. Karu escaped the village planning revenge against Yao, but Hulk and Abomination stopped him.

• Yao wished for everyone banished to another dimension to return alive, and Kino went to the Dark Dimension to fulfill her wish.
• Karu fled as demons attacked the village, but Kino arrived and confronted Dormammu, who tried to destroy them.
• Kino defeated Dormammu with the Omega Chaos Ray and carried the village out of the Dark Dimension.
• The villagers of Kamar-Taj worshipped Kino as the Lord of the Red Mist, while Karu vowed to return for revenge against Yao.
• Hulk and Abomination blocked Karu as he left the village and demanded that he sign something.

Yao used the Book of Vishanti to open a portal to the Himalayas, where she searched for Master Kino and found him with Venom. As Yao waited outside their shaking door, Kino wondered whether he should restart the Timeline to avoid the embarrassment.

• The villagers hailed Yao as a saintess, while Karu apologized and pledged to follow her and protect the villagers.
• The villagers rebuilt Kamar-Taj Village and erected a strange statue of Kino, while Yao studied the Book of Vishanti and practiced opening a portal.
• Yao formed a portal to the Himalayas, entered a warm villa, and searched through rooms for Kino.
• Yao heard Kino and Venom behind a shaking door and waited outside, puzzled by their sounds and the sensation of rain.
• Kino looked at the green Timeline in his hand and considered restarting it because the situation was embarrassing.

Kino stayed in the Himalayas to cultivate and train toward the multiverse level, while Venom revealed she was carrying twins and that Kino was not human. He then helped Yao improve her magic armor by giving her a way to borrow power from a Dimension Demon God.

• Kino chose to remain in the past with Venom, who told him she was pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl.
• Venom explained that her research into Kino's genetic factors showed he was not human, leaving him unable to identify what he was.
• Kino settled in the Himalayas, where he cultivated and taught Yao as she developed her magical skills.
• Yao asked how to keep her modified Hogwarts Armor from failing after three attacks from Karu, and Kino advised her to borrow power.
• Kino gave Yao a black crystal containing Dark Dimension origin as a summoning medium, then remarked that the demon gods would need to survive long enough to collect their debt.

Yao summoned Dormammu and accepted his one-sided contract to become Sorcerer Supreme, while Kino secretly inspected the mark. After stretching time to the year 1384, Kino remained in the Himalayas with Venom, still searching for the essence of his power as their unborn children lingered in her womb.

• Dormammu returned to his territory with the remaining Chaos Magic and a copy of the Darkhold, then sensed Yao summoning him in the Himalayas.
• Yao promised to establish Kamar-Taj and make Earth Dormammu's, and Dormammu gave her a mark with a thousand-year deadline.
• Kino examined the mark after Dormammu left and found that Dormammu could break the contract at any time.
• Over more than a year, Yao mastered Kino's spellbooks, while Kino used the Speed Force to stretch time until the year 1384.
• Kino and Venom joked and reminisced about their long life together in the Himalayas, while Venom complained that their two children had remained unborn for over a thousand years.
• Kino admitted that he still had not glimpsed the multiverse or understood the essence of his own power.

Kino and Venom faced the birth of their children while accepting that they would not abandon everything in hell. Their two children emerged as balls of light with powerful abilities, and the chapter ended with Venom soothing one of her newborn sons after mistaking his playful copies for troublemakers.

• Venom threatened to cut the unborn children out, but Kino persuaded her to spare them and told her about his ordinary past.
• Kino refused to return to the original timeline, and he and Venom held each other as they considered their future together.
• Two balls of light emerged from Venom, and Kino and Venom chased them through the sky.
• Kino caught one ball of light, which revealed a little girl who fell asleep in his arms.
• Kino returned to find five Venoms spanking their newborn sons, after Venom mistook their spatial copies for the boys provoking her.
• Venom realized her son had only been playing, stopped scolding him, and gently rocked him to sleep.

Kino discovered that his deepest wish had transformed his abilities into a multiverse-level power that could replace reality with a possible future he desired. As he prepared to return home with Venom and their children, his daughter tried to eat her brother, leaving Kino to manage the newborns’ chaotic antics.

• Kino watched his daughter slap her sleeping brother, and Venom declared her the elder sibling after she won their impromptu contest.
• Kino realized that his daughter displayed cloning and spatial movement abilities, then used Mimir's Well to understand that his own powers had begun with his strong wishes.
• Kino's desire to protect his loved ones awakened Reality and Illusion, allowing him to replace events with a possible future, while the Hell Bracelet advanced to multiversal power.
• Kino and Venom decided to return home, but Kino discovered that his daughter had swallowed her brother and had to pull him out.
• Kino fed the children and stopped his daughter from treating her brother as food, while Venom cleaned the boy and teased him for sleeping through the ordeal.

Kino and Venom left Yao a farewell celebration and gifts after she became Sorcerer Supreme, promising they would meet again in five hundred years. Kino later returned to his household with Yū and two children, reuniting affectionately with everyone, including Hela.

• Kino named his son Qiji and his daughter Duyao, deciding not to give them his surname.
• Three years later, Yao returned as the Sorcerer Supreme and found a message that led her to a magical farewell celebration with images of Kino and Venom.
• Kino and Venom gave Yao a princess crown, a celebration, the Eye of Agamotto, a Space Bracelet, and an enormous book of magic homework before promising to meet her again in five hundred years.
• At Kino Manor, Galacta asked Wanda about her experience with Kino, while Hela wondered why he had not visited her.
• Kino arrived with Yū and the children, reunited with Pamela and the household, and kissed Galacta and Hela.

Kino reunited with his companions, accepted Yao’s offer to place Kamar-Taj under his control, and gave the unborn Celestial Tiamut his consciousness. He staged Tiamut’s emergence without destroying Earth, then summoned forces worldwide to prepare for the coming conflict.

• Kino reunited with Pamela, Jean, Yū, Harley, Dark Phoenix, Hela, and the others, and Venom warned Gwen to keep Duyao away from Qiji.
• Five hundred years later, Kino and Venom visited Yao, who handed Kamar-Taj over to Kino and officially brought it into the Demon Group.
• Kino replaced Tiamut’s mindlessness with his own consciousness and brought the Celestial out of Earth.
• Ikaris flew toward Earth to confront Ajak, but witnessed Tiamut emerge as Earth appeared to break apart and then re-form.
• Kino summoned people worldwide, while Frank prepared the Demon Artifact Troops, each equipped with a Red Lantern Ring.

Kino forced the Eternals to submit after taking control of Celestial Tiam, then faced a host of Celestials led by Arishem. The Explorer and Galactus disrupted the Celestials’ judgment, and Galactus carried off The Eradicator as a meal.

• Sersi was summoned to Celestial Tiam and told her students to call the League of Heroes before flying into space.
• Ikaris attacked Kino, who repeatedly destroyed and revived him with Omega Ray and trapped him in endless agony.
• Ajak and the other Eternals submitted to Kino after she warned them that serving the Celestials would leave them expendable.
• Arishem, Yinsen, Jemiah, and thirty-three other Celestials arrived and declared that Kino and Earth would be judged.
• The Explorer appeared and punched The Analyst out of the Solar System, then pursued him into space.
• Galactus seized The Eradicator and carried him away, while Arishem prepared to intervene.

Kino sent the Eternals to face the remaining Celestials, but Ikaris lost his powers and nearly died before Earth's warships entered the battle. Earth's forces attacked the Celestials with advanced weapons and magic, while Will prepared to intensify the Demon Artifact Troops' rage.

• Kino blasted Arishem away, then ordered the Eternals to prove their worth against the thirty-three remaining Celestials.
• Ajak united the Eternals' energy in Ikaris, and their voices restored him from despair before he pierced a Celestial's head.
• The Calculator Nezhal shut off Ikaris's powers, but Ikaris was knocked clear of danger and landed on a warship crewed by humans.
• Tony and Pepper used the Anti-Celestial Armor and a Blue Lantern Ring to fight the Celestials as thousands of Earth's warships joined the battle.
• Frank ordered the Demon Artifact Troops to combine their ships into a cannon, whose red energy blast engulfed several Celestials.
• Frank ordered Will to raise the troops' rage, and Will agreed after Frank promised him five days off.

Will provoked the Red Lantern Corps into powering the battleship's cannon, helping humanity defeat the Celestials, while Mr. Sinister restored the Eternals' powers. As the battle spread, Pierce's Orange Lantern constructs devoured two Celestials and turned them into his servants, and he set his sights on the rest.

• Will hid from Madam Hela's training and taunted the Red Lantern Corps into charging the battleship's weapon, which brought down the first Celestial.
• Deadpool contacted Mr. Sinister about Ikaris's locked genes, and Mr. Sinister restored the Eternals' cosmic energy so Ikaris could return to the battlefield.
• Tony and Pepper combined their Lantern power with Tony's Solar Furnace to destroy three Celestials.
• Captain America, Bucky, Barton, Abomination, and Crossbones led their forces against the Celestials while Pierce sent endlessly resurrecting Orange Lantern constructs to attack them.
• Pierce's constructs consumed two Celestials and transformed them into Orange Lantern Celestials, prompting Pierce to target the remaining Celestials.

Earth's forces battled the Celestials while Natasha reported on the war and Tom launched an investigation into corruption. Back at Kino Manor, Venom and the others waited anxiously while Kino remained at the battlefield, and Galacta and Dark Phoenix kept eating as their hunger grew.

• Hulk, Magneto, Odin, Thor, Loki, and Earth's other forces fought the Celestials, while human fleets suffered casualties.
• Natasha reported live from the battlefield and explained the Celestials' crimes to viewers across Earth.
• Tom ordered a thorough investigation into the Demon Group and officials accused of hiding misconduct and stealing funds.
• At Kino Manor, Venom complained that Kino had left her behind, while Pamela and others discussed their pregnancies and his excuse for keeping them away from battle.
• Galacta and Dark Phoenix ate eagerly as their hunger increased, while Wanda questioned Yao about being Master's new disciple.

Kino fought Arishem after refusing to let the Celestials hatch an embryo on Earth, but the Infinity Gems had no effect on the ancient being. After Arishem overwhelmed him, Kino fused the powers of Superman, Darkseid, and Tiamut into a golden Celestial form, and their battle continued into deep space.

• Kino rejected Arishem’s offer to revise his judgment and tried to destroy him with the Infinity Gauntlet, but Arishem revealed that he had his own set of Infinity Gems.
• Arishem swallowed Kino in a black hole and attacked it with a sun, but Kino used his reality-altering ability to switch their positions and trap Arishem in the explosion.
• Kino attacked Arishem with a Vishanti Chaos Saw, but Arishem endured it and unleashed an assault that shattered most of the planet.
• Kino considered returning to Earth for Venom, then decided to use a three-in-one fusion of Superman, Darkseid, and Tiamut instead.
• Kino transformed into a golden Celestial, blasted Arishem’s head apart with Omega Heat Vision, and continued fighting him as they moved deeper into the universe.

Kino and Arishem’s battle escalated into a cosmic catastrophe, threatening planets and civilizations across the universe. After Arishem returned from apparent defeat and wielded a quasar as a sword, he and Kino clashed again, unleashing a shockwave that began destroying galaxies.

• Ego killed one of his children, then defended his planet from falling fireballs before a giant hand sent it careening through space.
• High Priestess Ayesha sent Knowhere’s warships to destroy two approaching planets, but Kino and Arishem’s passage tore the fleet apart and revealed them as Celestials.
• Queen Adora ordered Xandar’s civilians evacuated before the giants’ predicted arrival, while the Kree Empire and Shi'ar Empire anticipated the Nova Empire’s downfall.
• Kino punched through Arishem and used Replace to make him disappear, but Arishem reappeared behind him and created a quasar-powered sword.
• Arishem and Kino struck each other’s cosmic weapons, producing a shockwave that annihilated a vast region of space and devoured galaxies.

Kino fought Arishem as the energy storm devastated worlds across the galaxy, while Galactus shielded the solar system. When Arishem kept returning through his variants, Venom revealed she had stayed hidden inside Kino and offered him a God-Slaying Weapon.

• The energy storm destroyed Xandar, Sakaar, The Void, and planets belonging to the Kree and Shi'ar Empires, while Galactus protected the solar system with a purple energy shield.
• Pamela guessed that Venom was hiding nearby, and Venom revealed herself before vanishing in lightning.
• Kino and Arishem clashed with their swords, and Kino used Replacement to cut Arishem in half, but a new Arishem appeared.
• Kino prepared to call Lucifer for help, but Venom spoke to him from inside his body and offered him a God-Slaying Weapon he could now use.