Chapter Summaries

Andrew refused Conqueror Kang’s offer to join the God Race and fought the Zombie Empire’s forces, using his Virtual World and Mechanical Magic to turn their advanced weapons against them. After the World Shattering Cannon malfunctioned under Andrew’s control, Conqueror Kang struggled to contain it while another hidden device activated.

• Andrew rejected Conqueror Kang’s invitation, and Conqueror Kang ordered his army to attack with equipment that disrupted space and time.
• Andrew redirected the Black Hole Rays into his palm, then created a mechanical device as the Zombie Empire unleashed its weapons against him.
• Andrew’s Virtual World absorbed the barrage and released it back at Conqueror Kang’s army, devastating the soldiers and destroying their equipment.
• Conqueror Kang returned to Zombie City and ordered the World Shattering Cannon to fire at Andrew.
• Andrew disrupted the cannon’s programming and sent its Origin Essence energy out of control, forcing Conqueror Kang to contain it as another device activated in the shadows.

Andrew used a robot whose virtual-world rules let it absorb the zombie virus and grow stronger to attack Zombie City, then trapped Conqueror Kang in the past and countered his assault. Andrew revealed that he had warped the robot’s Zombie Bane setting into reality and declared that Conqueror Kang had already lost.

• A colossal device sent three attacks at Andrew across different moments in the past, but his past selves devoured them, redirecting the attacks toward Conqueror Kang and giving Andrew time to finish his robot.
• Andrew powered up the Anti-Zombie Robot, which absorbed the zombie virus from Conqueror Kang’s soldiers and citizens, killing them and growing stronger.
• Andrew transported Conqueror Kang to Zombie City in the past and used a Time Lock Instrument to prevent him from escaping the timeline.
• Conqueror Kang unleashed waves of cosmic energy, but Andrew blocked them with black holes and held him in a stalemate.
• Andrew explained that the Anti-Zombie Robot was a virtual-world creation with the Zombie Bane setting, brought into reality through his abilities, and told Conqueror Kang he had lost.

Andrew’s Zombie Robot conquered Zombie City with Alice’s help, but Conqueror Kang escaped by detonating his battle robe and universe phantom. Andrew expected Kang to regroup with the Hell Zombie Alliance in the Bio-Universe, where the Zombie Robot could continue evolving.

• Conqueror Kang warned Andrew that an army of ten thousand Sentinel Robots could defeat the Zombie Robot, while Andrew hinted that he had allies working with him.
• Alice secretly infiltrated Zombie City’s network, downloaded its technological data, and took control of the Sentinel Robots, helping the Zombie Robot eliminate the city’s zombies.
• Alice sent the Zombie Robot and a large force of Sentinel Robots through the Time Machine to join Andrew in the past timeline.
• Conqueror Kang detonated his battle robe and universe phantom, and Andrew countered the blast to prevent Kang from escaping, but Kang fled severely injured.
• Andrew told the disappointed Zombie Robot that it could devour zombies in the Bio-Universe and help him fight the Hell Zombie Alliance.

Andrew returned to Zombie City, where he learned that the conquered Zombie Empire held immense advanced technology, while Conqueror Kang fled to Hell and allied with the Zombies against him. Kang revealed the Savior’s stolen weapons and plans to seek aid from other Universes, leaving the Alliance weighing the new threats.

• Andrew ordered Alice and the Sentinel Robots to clear and disinfect Zombie City, then began studying the Empire’s advanced technological knowledge.
• Conqueror Kang escaped into the Bio-Universe and told Spider-Gwen to ignore him as Andrew promised to explain what had happened.
• Kang found Zombie Death and the other Zombies in Hell and proposed an alliance against the Savior, admitting Andrew had defeated him.
• Kang offered the Zombies information, an advanced Zombie Virus, and details about the Zombie Robot, prompting them to realize his revelations strengthened Andrew’s position.
• Kang warned that Andrew had built a Cross-Universe Device and was seeking reinforcements, while Zombie Death urged the Alliance not to panic.

Zombie Death’s forces split their attack between Wakanda and Bastet Tower, while Doctor Strange’s warning led them to abandon their plan to travel into the past. Mephisto’s group reached Manhattan and clashed with the heroes defending Bastet Tower, where Zombie Doctor Strange redirected a surprise orbital beam back at the Ego Iron Fortress.

• Conqueror Kang proposed traveling into the past to inject the Advanced Zombie Virus, but Doctor Strange relayed Chthon’s warning that the Mechanical Demon King could ambush them in the time tunnel.
• Zombie Death ordered Mephisto, the Demon Kings, the superheroes, and Conqueror Kang to attack Bastet Tower and destroy the Cross-Universe Device while he led the remaining forces toward Wakanda.
• Mephisto’s group emerged near Bastet Tower in Manhattan, where Spider-Gwen, Odin, Hela, Thor, Loki, Doctor Doom, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, and Captain America came out to face them.
• The heroes and Zombie Superheroes began fighting after Captain America and Zombie Captain America exchanged declarations of battle.
• Star-Lord and Rocket fired the Ego Iron Fortress’s beam at the defenders, but Zombie Doctor Strange redirected it through a prepared portal toward the Iron Fortress.

Ancient One drew Zombie Doctor Strange into the Dark Dimension for a duel, while the heroes and their zombie counterparts began fighting across Manhattan. Surtur and Mephisto then transformed into giants and prepared to battle as the larger conflict intensified.

• A beam from the Iron Fortress devastated part of Manhattan, killing several Zombie Superheroes while Bastet Tower protected Spider-Gwen and the others.
• Ancient One appeared with access to the Dark Dimension and challenged Zombie Doctor Strange, who followed her through a rift despite Chthon's warning.
• Iron Man, Thor, Wolverine, Captain America, and the other heroes fought their zombie counterparts, who discovered their opponents were unusually powerful.
• Wade attacked Zombie Wolverine and joined Wolverine, while Iron Man fought Zombie Iron Man after it transformed into a metal-and-flesh monster.
• Spider-Gwen, Hela, Doctor Doom, Dr. Reed, Surtur, Gorr the God Butcher, Zombie Robot, and Alice faced Conqueror Kang, Mephisto, and the Demon Kings.
• Hela placed the Eternal Flame on Surtur's crown, allowing him to grow to mountainous size before Mephisto transformed to face him.

Alice and Mephisto arranged for the Venomous Demon King and Shadow Demon King to turn on Conqueror Kang, letting Zombie Robot absorb him and gain immense power. Mephisto then staged their apparent betrayal of Hell, leaving the two Demon Kings to play along and denounce him.

• Mephisto secretly ordered the Venomous Demon King and Shadow Demon King to immobilize Conqueror Kang and surrender to the other side.
• The two Demon Kings struck Conqueror Kang, and Alice teleported Zombie Robot close enough to absorb him after the Energy Absorption Gem neutralized his cosmic energy.
• Conqueror Kang died, and Zombie Robot transformed, gaining the complete Energy Rule and celebrating his new strength.
• Mephisto stripped the two Demon Kings of their status, but Spider-Gwen restored it with a badge, prompting Mephisto to claim they had joined the Mechanical Demon King.
• Mephisto privately urged the confused Demon Kings to act, and the Venomous Demon King publicly condemned him for betraying Hell and causing the deaths of Demon Kings.

Andrew faced Zombie Death’s invasion of Wakanda and used the Virtual World to absorb the Demon Kings’ assault. The chapter left the invading forces split between a battle inside the Virtual World and the remaining enemies outside, while the Celestials fought their zombified kin in space.

• Shadow Demon King and Mephisto feigned a dispute that weakened the Demon Kings’ morale, allowing the superheroes to gain the advantage.
• Zombie Death brought Zombie Celestials, Zombie Thanos, nearly a hundred Zombie Demon Kings, and an elite Demon army through a Space Gate to attack Wakanda.
• Arishem transferred the Zombie Celestials into outer space, where the Celestials fought them and fifty Zombie Demon Kings.
• Zombie Death sent the remaining Demon Kings and Ghost Rider’s elite Demons to attack Wakanda, but Andrew’s Virtual World absorbed their attacks.
• Andrew’s Virtual World absorbed more than thirty Demon Kings and trapped them with the Celestials and Skyfathers inside, while Zombie Death realized Andrew had brought in Celestials from another universe.

Andrew led humanity’s forces out of Wakanda to fight the Zombie Army while the Virtual World held more than thirty Demon Kings. The battle reached a stalemate, with the outcome still uncertain.

• Andrew opened Wakanda’s Defensive Shield and led Wonder Woman, Dark Phoenix, Scarlet Witch, the Spider-Men, and humanity’s resistance force onto the battlefield, followed by Wakanda’s army and ten thousand Sentinel Robots.
• Andrew and Zombie Death resumed their fight, while Death merged with Zombie Death to help him suppress the Data Curse.
• Wonder Woman and Dark Phoenix attacked Galactus, who secretly acted as Andrew’s undercover agent, while Scarlet Witch confronted Zombie Thanos and three Zombie Demon Kings.
• Tiamut arrived with Professor Charles hidden in his mind, and the three Zombie Demon Kings moved to fight the Celestial as Zombie Thanos attacked Scarlet Witch.
• The Ghost Riders and elite Demons clashed with the Zombie Army against the Sentinel Robots, Spider-Men, and human forces, whose battle became a stalemate.

As the battle against the Mechanical Demon King’s forces worsened, Mephisto used the crisis to demand Demon's knowledge as Lord of Hell and a Demon King position in Main Universe Hell in exchange for fighting at full strength. Death suspected Mephisto had engineered the crisis, while Mephisto kept his true identity and motives hidden.

• Zombie Death and Death realized that the Celestials’ arrival had ruined their advantage, but hoped Mephisto would break the stalemate after dealing with the Alternate Universe reinforcements.
• Death and Zombie Death learned that Conqueror Kang had died, and Mephisto explained that the Venomous Demon King and Shadow Demon King had betrayed him.
• Mephisto identified Zombie Iron Man’s Trump Card and Doctor Strange’s duel with The Ancient One as possible breakthroughs, and Death urged him to use his full strength against Surtur.
• Mephisto demanded Demon's Lord of Hell experience and a Demon King position in Main Universe Hell in return for summoning a Hell projection and fighting at full strength.
• Mephisto argued that he had not broken their Contract and could bargain with the Mechanical Demon King if the fight went badly, leaving Death to suspect he had arranged the crisis to extort them.

Death and Chthon assessed their worsening chances against the Mechanical Demon King and worked to secure Demon's cooperation by offering a scheme to trap Mephisto with falsified experience as Lord of Hell. As Chthon and Demon prepared the deception, Mephisto urged Andrew to increase pressure on them, while the imprisoned Galacta demanded food from Thanos.

• Death told Chthon that their forces faced trouble across the battlefields, including the Mechanical Demon King, the Sentinel Robots, and the uncertain fights involving Galactus, Thanos, and the Celestials.
• Chthon asked Demon to give Mephisto his experience as Lord of Hell, but Demon refused to surrender it even if the war ended in their deaths.
• Chthon persuaded Demon to provide Mephisto with experience that was mostly real but contained a cursed false portion, promising that Mephisto could become Demon's puppet and bring Hell territory and reinforcements.
• Demon agreed on the condition that Mephisto sign a Contract to fight the Mechanical Demon King, keep the experience secret, and help Demon become Lord of Hell.
• Demon and Chthon began altering the experience and adding Chthon's Curse, while Mephisto urged his main body to keep pressuring them.
• Andrew said he was about to make his move, while Galacta, sealed inside a huge Crystal, demanded that Thanos find her something to eat.

Galacta broke free of Thanos’s sealing crystal and overwhelmed him with her new Battle Armor, but he tricked her into lowering her guard and attacked her with Chaos Energy. The chapter ended with Thanos holding Galacta down as the strange energy disrupted her powers and thoughts.

• Andrew told Galacta to block communications, spare Thanos, and use her new Battle Armor when she attacked.
• Galacta shattered the Sealing Crystal, cut off Thanos’s contact with Death, and summoned her Battle Armor.
• Galacta defeated Thanos in a clash of strength and blasted him unconscious with her Floating Cannons.
• Thanos pretended to be unconscious, then grabbed Galacta and slammed her into a slope after she put away her Battle Armor.
• Thanos revealed that he had fused with Chaos Energy, which disrupted Galacta’s energy and thoughts.

Andrew intervened when Thanos nearly defeated Galacta, helping her seal and incapacitate him before ordering her to kill him. Meanwhile, Galactus battled Wonder Woman and Dark Phoenix while secretly coordinating with them as Andrew’s undercover agent, and Death learned that Demon had accepted Mephisto’s terms.

• Thanos tried to kill Galacta, but Andrew took control of her body, defeated Thanos, and sealed his energy with the Sealing Crystal Fragment.
• Andrew returned control to Galacta, told her to kill Thanos and rejoin the main battle, and Galacta began eating while keeping watch over him.
• Death pressured Galactus to fight Wonder Woman and Dark Phoenix, promising to take Galacta somewhere safe if they won.
• Galactus, Wonder Woman, and Dark Phoenix clashed with immense force until Galactus revealed to the two women that he was Andrew’s undercover agent.
• Nick Fury resolved to find a Skyfather-level powerhouse for S.H.I.E.L.D., while Death received word that Demon had agreed to Mephisto’s terms.

Mephisto accepted Demon's experience and signed a Contract, while Andrew planned to exploit the deal and finish the battle before Mephisto’s power increased. Spider-Gwen then revealed Andrew’s plan for using Thor’s Hammer to summon the living heroes into their zombie counterparts, but Iron Man’s fight took an unexpected turn.

• Mephisto and Demon signed a Contract, and Demon handed over his experience while the two pretended to become brothers.
• Mephisto discovered that most of the experience was genuine and told Andrew he needed five minutes to absorb it before projecting Hell onto Earth.
• Spider-Gwen used Thor’s Hammer to create copies for the superheroes, and Thor summoned his living counterpart into Zombie Thor’s body to fight for control.
• The superheroes used the hammers to summon their counterparts into the zombie heroes, while Professor Charles helped Iron Man confront Zombie Iron Man.
• Iron Man laughed that he could lift Thor’s Hammer, then heard his counterpart warn him to take a device from Zombie Iron Man’s waist.

Iron Man and Zombie Robot crippled the Zombie Superheroes and located the hidden weapon meant to strike Mephisto, while Galactus, Wonder Woman, and Dark Phoenix prepared a coordinated attack on Zombie Death. The chapter ended with Galactus betraying Zombie Death and Andrew joining him to destroy Zombie Death’s body and soul.

• Professor Charles relayed Zombie Iron Man’s weaknesses to Iron Man, but Zombie Robot ambushed and killed him.
• Zombie Robot used Thor’s Hammer to help defeat the Zombie Superheroes while Iron Man found the device controlling their massive attack apparatus.
• Iron Man discovered that the apparatus was nearly charged and planned to use it against Mephisto.
• Galactus, Wonder Woman, and Dark Phoenix gathered their ultimate attacks while Andrew kept Zombie Death occupied.
• Wonder Woman and Dark Phoenix’s attacks combined with Galactus’s strike, and Galactus shattered Zombie Death as Andrew’s red threads attacked his body and soul.

Andrew exposed Galactus as his undercover ally, defeated the resurrected Zombie Death, and captured them to turn them into a puppet. He then sent Galactus, Wonder Woman, and Dark Phoenix to aid the Celestials before helping defeat three more zombie Demon Kings.

• Galacta killed Zombie Thanos, and Scarlet Witch, Tiamut, and Galacta attacked the remaining zombie Demon Kings.
• Andrew and Galactus destroyed both Deaths, but one Death resurrected the other and tried to ambush Galactus.
• Andrew used his curse to weaken Zombie Death, bound them with red threads, and sent them away to become his puppet.
• Andrew dispatched Galactus, Wonder Woman, and Dark Phoenix to reinforce the Celestials fighting the fifty Demon Kings of Hell.
• Andrew restrained three zombie Demon Kings, then ordered Zombie Robot to absorb their zombie virus and kill them.

Andrew named the Zombie Robot Adam and took him, Galacta, and Wanda into the Virtual World to fight the Zombie Demon Kings, while Professor Charles and Tiamut defended Wakanda. Chthon and the other villains planned Mephisto’s retreat and Hell’s defenses, but Chthon grew suspicious of Andrew’s choice to attack the Virtual World first.

• Andrew named the Zombie Robot Adam and assigned Professor Charles and Tiamut to defend Wakanda against the Zombie Army and demon elites.
• Andrew took Galacta, Scarlet Witch, and Adam into the Virtual World to confront the Zombie Demon Kings.
• Chthon concluded that Galactus had been an undercover agent from the start and proposed that Mephisto retreat with the Demon Kings, seal Hell, and threaten mutual destruction.
• Zombie Death arranged to give Mephisto control of the Death Threads implanted in the Zombie Demon Kings, and Mephisto agreed to lead their retreat.
• Wade protected Wolverine from the surviving Superheroes, while Chthon questioned why Andrew had chosen to attack the trapped Zombie Demon Kings in the Virtual World before the space battlefield.

Andrew used the Virtual World to exploit the Zombie Demon Kings’ hunger, intending to defeat them quickly and then aid the Celestials on the space battlefield. The Demon Kings lost their minds after running out of food and began devouring flesh Andrew created, while Adam killed the one who recognized the trap.

• Chthon warned Zombie Death and Mephisto that the Mechanical Demon King might quickly defeat the Demon Kings in the Virtual World, so they contacted the fifty Zombie Demon Kings to arrange a retreat.
• Andrew entered the Virtual World with Adam, Galacta, and the Scarlet Witch, where the Celestials and Skyfathers fought more than thirty Zombie Demon Kings.
• Andrew explained that hunger made Zombies lose their minds, and the Celestials attacked the Demon Kings whenever they tried to eat their stored food.
• The Zombie Demon Kings ran out of food and quickly became mindless, attacking the Celestials in a desperate search for something to eat.
• Andrew transformed the grass into realistic flesh and blood, and the starving Demon Kings rushed to devour it.
• Adam killed a Zombie Demon King who retained enough sense to warn the others that the flesh and blood was a trap.

Andrew used the Virtual World’s hunger rule to eliminate the Zombie Demon Kings there, then led Celestials into space to intercept the remaining Zombie Demon Kings before they could destroy the moon and escape. Meanwhile, Mephisto’s power surged as the Heroes fought him at Bastet Tower, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Adam harvested the Zombie Demon Kings in the Virtual World with help from Galacta, while Andrew explained to Arishem that prolonged exposure to the world caused fatal hunger for Zombies.
• Andrew sent Adam, Elsa, and Ocean Goddess to finish the remaining Demon Kings and took Wanda and Galacta with him into space.
• The Zombie Demon Kings moved toward the moon, planning to shatter it and use the resulting threat to make the Celestials open an escape route, but Andrew arrived with Celestials and surrounded them.
• Demon and Chthon discussed forcing Mephisto to project Hell onto Earth, while the Heroes freed most of the Superhero Zombies at Bastet Tower and joined the fight against Mephisto.
• Mephisto hurled a volcano at Thor and dropped a Gate of Hell onto Surtur, trapping both as Surtur struggled to break free.

Mephisto tried to escape after Iron Man wounded him, then summoned Hell over Earth and threatened to crash it into the planet unless the fighting stopped. Andrew agreed to a hundred-year pact barring Demon Kings from entering Earth, and Mephisto returned to Hell with his allies.

• Iron Man struck Mephisto with the Cosmic Energy Cannon, but Mephisto swallowed him with a transformed face and blasted him away.
• Mephisto told Death that Iron Man had wounded him, learned about the space battlefield, and summoned a projection of Hell over Earth.
• Mephisto threatened to crash Hell into Earth, prompting the superheroes to stop fighting while the Demon Kings regrouped around him.
• Andrew offered to let Mephisto leave alone, but Mephisto insisted he would not abandon the other Demon Kings and demanded a hundred-year pact.
• Andrew and Mephisto agreed that no Demon King could enter Earth for a hundred years, while Andrew alone was barred from entering Hell; Mephisto then returned to Hell with his allies.