Chapter Summaries

Yuri and Mark fought Khonsu in the Temple of the Moon God, severing Khonsu’s arm before he invoked the Moon Rule. Yuri proposed escaping the rule’s attack, but Steve warned that Khonsu had sealed the temple doors.

• Khonsu mistook Mark’s Moonlight Knight armor for Jake, then confronted Yuri and believed Yuri’s power was borrowed.
• Khonsu attacked Yuri, whose Holy Shield absorbed the blow, while Yuri’s sword failed to behead him.
• Mark trapped Khonsu’s scythe, allowing Yuri to sever Khonsu’s right arm and store it away.
• Khonsu retreated to his statue, restored it, sealed the temple, and invoked the Moon Rule.
• Yuri explained that Khonsu’s rule-based attack could not be stopped once begun and suggested they flee, but Steve said the temple doors would not open.

Yuri used Life Energy to reverse the temple doors’ timeline, allowing Mark and Steve to escape Khonsu’s memory world just before Khonsu completed his transformation. Back in the apartment, Mark and Steve discovered they could see and communicate with each other, and Mark showed Steve his Moonlight Knight suit.

• Yuri used Life Energy to reverse the temple doors’ timeline, and Mark smashed through the weakened doors while Yuri led him and Steve out of the memory world.
• Khonsu’s Moon Rule struck the deserted temple grounds after the trio escaped, and Khonsu vowed to kill them when he got out.
• Mark and Yuri woke in the apartment, where Yuri explained that Mark and Steve now shared control of the body and that Mark’s third dark personality had been destroyed.
• Yuri brought over a full-length mirror, allowing Mark and Steve to see each other in the real world.
• Mark summoned his Moonlight Knight suit and described his powers to Steve, who asked whether he could try controlling the body while the suit was active.

Steve discovered that he could summon his own Moonlight Knight suit, while Yuri explained Khonsu and Amit’s conflict and why Khonsu wanted the scarab. Mark realized the scarab was already with his girlfriend, setting up the search for Amit’s tomb.

• Mark encouraged Steve to summon his own suit, and Steve transformed into the Moonlight Gentleman after calling to the moon.
• Yuri showed Mark a scarab and explained that Khonsu wanted him to find Amit’s tomb and destroy her.
• Yuri described Amit’s origins, her ability to target people who might do evil, and the battle that ended with her sealed away and Khonsu cast out.
• Mark reasoned that Khonsu might be trying to complete the old mission against Amit, and Yuri agreed that this was possible.
• Mark revealed that he had seen the scarab before and that it was in his girlfriend’s possession.

Laila investigated Arthur Harrow, suspecting him of killing her father’s archaeological team, but his peaceful neighborhood and its residents convinced her the intelligence was wrong. Harrow drugged and captured her over his feud with her boyfriend, Mark Spector.

• Laila arrived in Harrow’s neighborhood and was startled by its peaceful, orderly streets.
• Harrow found Laila, welcomed her, and led her on a tour of the neighborhood’s residents and learning center.
• Harrow explained how the neighborhood had changed, and Laila began to trust him and doubt the intelligence about her father’s death.
• Harrow invited Laila to eat lentil soup and vegetables, then revealed his feud with Mark Spector as the residents surrounded them.
• Harrow admitted he had drugged Laila’s soup and had her tied up after she failed to eat the dish containing the antidote.

Harrow showed Laila a vision of Mark killing her father and tried to convince her to help resurrect Amit. After Laila secretly kept the Golden Scarab from him, Harrow used her as a hostage to draw Mark in, and Mark and Yuri prepared to portal to her location.

• Harrow forced Laila to witness a vision in which Mark shot her father during the attack on the archaeological team.
• Harrow preached Amit's plan to judge people before they committed crimes and searched Laila's backpack for the Golden Scarab, but failed to find it.
• Harrow called Mark and threatened Laila, while Laila and Mark pretended that the Golden Scarab was with Mark.
• Mark and Yuri used Google Maps to identify Harrow's location and prepare to rescue Laila.
• Yuri opened a blue portal after Mark summoned his third Moonlight Knight suit.

Yuri and Mark attacked Harrow’s gathering, with Yuri rescuing Laila and using his powers to control the fanatics while Mark disarmed Harrow. After Laila confronted Mark over her father’s death and Yuri demanded the Golden Scarab, Harrow began a ritual that drew the fallen fanatics’ souls into a magic circle.

• Harrow spotted Yuri and Mark arriving through a portal and warned the fanatics that they were under attack.
• Yuri rescued Laila at super speed, then used his psychic powers to turn some fanatics against the others.
• Mark fought Harrow, knocked away his cane, and joined Laila, who attacked him and accused him of killing her father.
• Yuri froze Laila in place and told Mark to retrieve the Golden Scarab from her backpack before they dealt with Harrow.
• Harrow summoned a dark purple magic circle, drew the souls from the fallen fanatics with his cane, and activated the circle.

Harrow summoned a gigantic three-headed, six-armed creature with a crocodile tail, which revealed itself as a servant of Ammit and attacked Mark. Yuri stepped in to fight it while Mark and Laila dealt with the fanatics, and the chapter ended with Yuri taunting the creature about the damage his punch had done.

• Harrow activated his magic circle and summoned a gigantic creature, which struck him aside and questioned why Ammit had chosen him as her agent.
• The creature targeted Mark, and Yuri freed Laila and told her and Mark to handle the fanatics while he fought the monster.
• Yuri intercepted the creature's attack on Mark and met its enormous fist with a punch of his own.
• The creature attacked Yuri with a stretched neck and then two fists, but Yuri countered its blows and shattered the complex around them.
• The creature fed on the terrified people outside as Mark and Laila fought the fanatics, and Yuri challenged it to ask how many finger bones it had broken.

Yuri defeated and erased the mutated monster, then used the Golden Scarab to locate the area of Amit’s tomb. He left Mark and Laila to prepare for the desert search while he entered Harrow’s shrinking pit to deal with Amit’s former followers.

• Yuri activated the Casket of Ancient Winters and froze the six-armed monster, then sent its body into deep space and destroyed it.
• Laila gave Mark the Golden Scarab, and Yuri took it to find that it contained a trace of Amit’s aura.
• Yuri used portals and the scarab’s directions to locate the desert area where Amit’s tomb lay, then gave Mark the scarab and the task of digging there.
• Laila set the desert location on her tablet and said she would go with Mark, while Mark questioned their plans.
• Yuri took Amit’s staff and jumped into Harrow’s shrinking pit to deal with Amit’s former followers.

Yuri entered Amit’s purple realm and used her staff to pose as her emissary, convincing the monsters not to rush back to Earth before Amit was ready. A giant turtle led him to Amit’s former home beneath the lake, where he entered a sealed cave and found divine weapons, skeletons, and a magically protected box.

• Yuri used Amit’s staff to prove his authority and told the realm’s monsters that Amit had prepared things there for her resurrection.
• A human-faced eagle questioned Yuri about three brothers, and Yuri claimed they were digging outside Amit’s tomb after helping him defeat the last enemy.
• The monsters celebrated finding Amit’s tomb, but Yuri warned that the Gods and modern humanity could destroy them if they returned to Earth too soon.
• A monstrous turtle offered to lead Yuri to something Amit had left at the bottom of the lake, and Yuri followed it into her former home.
• Yuri passed through the cave’s magical entrance, found a chamber filled with divine weapons and over a hundred skeletons, and turned his attention to a box protected by layers of magic circles.

Yuri recovered Amit’s divine cores, then used the staff’s psychic influence to turn the lake’s monsters against one another and confronted the mountain-rock giants. After killing their leader, he learned that their race was immune to psychic control and discovered how they reproduced.

• Yuri broke through the barriers protecting Amit’s chest, collected its divine cores, and waited for the giant tortoise to reach him.
• Yuri convinced the giant tortoise that the giant eagle and mountain-rock giant had stolen Amit’s entrusted belongings, provoking a fight among the monsters.
• Yuri used Amit’s staff to spread psychic influence across the world, starting widespread battles while the mountain-rock giants remained unaffected.
• Yuri destroyed the mountain-rock giant leader with amplified Laser Eyes after learning that the giants could only be killed by melting all their stones into lava.
• Yuri questioned another mountain-rock giant and learned that the race had no minds, that its eyes blocked psychic attacks, and that mountain giants reproduced by holding hands beside lava overnight.

Yuri returned from Amit’s realm to find nearly a month had passed, helped Mark create a little black room in his soul space for Steve, and then discovered Amit’s seal had been corrupted. As Amit’s tomb exploded, Yuri warned Mark to evacuate the workers before she could devour their souls.

• Yuri escaped the English soldiers and teleported to Mark after learning that Khonsu might have emerged.
• Mark asked Yuri to create a little black room where Steve could retreat during intimate moments, and Yuri built one in their shared soul space.
• Mark led Yuri to Amit’s tomb, where Yuri found that Amit had been weakening and corrupting the seal from within.
• Yuri warned Mark that Amit could devour ordinary people’s souls and opened a portal so Mark and Laila could evacuate the workers.
• Amit’s tomb exploded as Mark and Laila led the workers through the portal.

Egyptian Gods’ agents gathered to discuss Amit’s escape and agreed to empower their agents for a battle, while dismissing Khonsu’s crisis. At Amit’s tomb, Yuri and Mark met the freed goddess just as agents from around the world arrived to confront her.

• The Egyptian Gods’ representatives learned Amit’s seal had broken and decided to rush to the scene, using their agents to fight for them.
• The Gods dismissed the woman in red’s warning that Khonsu was losing himself to his divine office and focused on Amit instead.
• Alexander the Great’s mummy burst apart, releasing Amit from the Ushabti figurine inside it.
• Yuri introduced himself to Amit as her follower and explained that Mark, Khonsu’s agent, wanted her help resisting Khonsu.
• Amit began probing Yuri and Mark with soul-touching energy, but stone gates appeared and agents of various Gods arrived.

Yuri revealed that he had destroyed Ammit’s minions and reduced her to a smaller form, while the Egyptian gods tried to contain her. He then declared himself Merlin and passed judgment on Ammit, leaving her divine power sealed as his judgment began.

• Ammit summoned her servants, but Yuri revealed that he had slaughtered them in her companion world and destroyed her home.
• Ammit attacked Yuri, who used a Pym dart to shrink her and provoke her into trying to drain the souls nearby.
• The Egyptian gods joined hands and chanted to form a barrier that cut through Ammit’s law, while she struggled to break free.
• Yuri asked Mark about Khonshu’s teachings, then reminded him of his promise to join Yuri’s side.
• Yuri revealed himself as Merlin, drew power from countless universes and dimensions, and declared judgment on Ammit, stripping her divine office and sealing her Divine Power.

Yuri judged Amit and the Egyptian Gods for interfering with reality, but the Gods escaped to a hidden realm beyond his tracking. After hearing Amit explain how she gained her divine offices and fought the pantheon, Yuri began extracting the power of her divine office without killing her.

• Yuri declared that Amit and the Egyptian Gods must be executed, prompting the Gods to flee through their agents toward the Void.
• Yuri traced the escaping Gods’ passage into a mysterious place and questioned the weakened Amit about her powers.
• Amit recounted gaining the offices of divining fate and nurturing, growing stronger by devouring souls, and being sealed in a Ushabti figurine by human mages and the Egyptian Gods.
• Yuri used his Merlin form to make his transmission tubes locate divine natures and extract the power of divine offices directly.
• Yuri restrained Amit with his Bio-field as his modified transmission tube began extracting power from her divine nature.

After absorbing Ammit’s Devour ability, Yuri revealed his true nature to Mark and explained that he had been hunting enemies hidden among humanity. He learned how the Egyptian gods’ Language of Nature worked and planned to teach it to his people, while Kate located a hidden military fortress associated with Xu Wenwu.

• Yuri erased Ammit after extracting a fragment of his Devour divine office.
• Yuri told Mark that he was a Mutant who had impersonated Yuri Ambrosius and had blended into human society to eliminate hidden enemies.
• Yuri urged Mark to become more active, then sent him to Laila while preparing to question the abandoned Egyptian-god agents.
• Yuri used his mental power to learn that the Egyptian gods used the Language of Nature and discovered how it helped them wield Rules and create Ushabti figurines.
• Kate found a concealed military fortress in the mountains and identified it as connected to Xu Wenwu.

Kate infiltrated Xu Wenwu’s fortress to locate the Ten Rings and found that he was away. After deciding not to wait for his return, she hid when she heard someone approaching.

• Kate used her records of Xu Wenwu’s attack on the Iron Saber Gang to find the Ten Rings Gang’s mountain base and slip past its traps and guards.
• Kate entered a building overlooking the training ground and heard a burly white instructor say Xu Wenwu was absent.
• Kate recalled Yuri’s orders to locate the base and attempt to take the Ten Rings, but decided to leave rather than wait for Xu Wenwu.
• Kate heard quick, nervous footsteps approaching, hid in a corner, and prepared to see who was coming.

Kate found Xu Xialing alone in the military fortress and took her away after learning how lonely she felt and how much she wanted to see Xu Shangqi. As they traveled toward New York, Kate promised to help reunite her with her brother and let her stay if he rejected her.

• Kate secretly watched Xu Xialing practice with a rope dart while cursing Xu Shangqi, then saw her break down as she pieced together his torn photograph.
• Kate decided that taking Xu Wenwu's daughter could substitute for retrieving the Ten Rings, and she offered Xu Xialing her hand and a way out.
• Xu Xialing told Kate that Xu Wenwu had grown distant and that she believed Xu Shangqi was still alive because of their jade pendants.
• Kate and Xu Xialing escaped the fortress, changed clothes, destroyed the SUV, and traveled by bus and plane toward New York.
• Xu Xialing worried that Xu Shangqi might not recognize her, and Kate promised to help her and let her stay if he did not want her.

Kate took Xu Xialing to see Xu Shangqi, but the girl heard him warmly talking with his new family and chose to leave with Kate, who promised to become her sister. In Egypt, Yuri and Mark confronted Khonsu at the Temple of the Moon God, where Khonsu drained Mark’s divine power before Yuri used the Symbiote to restore his strength and revealed himself as Merlin.

• Kate spotted Xu Shangqi riding toward his apartment with Katie and let Xu Xialing listen to their conversation from the taxi.
• Xu Xialing realized Xu Shangqi had a new family, left without meeting him, and accepted Kate’s promise never to leave her.
• Yuri told Mark that Khonsu was close to completing his merger with his divine office, and they traveled through a portal to the Temple of the Moon God.
• Khonsu confronted Yuri and Mark, then used a magic array to take back Mark’s moon god power.
• Yuri sent the Symbiote into Mark to restore his strength, then opened his third Divine Eye and declared himself Merlin as Khonsu’s array exploded.

Yuri and Mark defeated Khonsu, and Yuri claimed the Moon God's divine essence. Mark became the new Moon God under a binding agreement with Yuri, while Yuri ended the battle badly weakened.

• Yuri used Merlin's power to overpower Khonsu's aura and tested the Egyptian Gods' weakness by attacking Khonsu's heart.
• Mark dodged Khonsu's scythe and joined Yuri in wounding him, forcing Khonsu to retreat and heal.
• Khonsu's moonlight drained Yuri's and Mark's Life Energy, but Yuri resisted the enchantment, froze Khonsu, and pierced his heart.
• Yuri extracted Khonsu's divine essence and made Mark promise not to oppose him or interfere with the multiverse without his consent.
• Mark absorbed the divine essence, became the Moon God, and took up the Moon God Staff as crescent scimitars.
• Yuri nearly collapsed from his Life Energy loss and asked Mark to drive him home.

While recovering from his battle with Khonsu, Yuri used five Slot Addition Points to assign new abilities to AFK training and went with Kate, Vanax, and Xu Xialing to a farm to replenish his life force. Meanwhile, Xu Wenwu tracked Xu Xialing to Yuri’s villa and dispatched forces to follow them and search the property.

• Vanax and Xu Xialing buried Yuri’s legs in sand while Kate joked that Vanax would regret teasing him once he recovered.
• Yuri asked Kate to find an unoccupied farm where he could extract life force from its livestock, and she arranged one outside New York City.
• Yuri entered his soul space, converted five Slot Addition Points into AFK Slots, and added Devour Rule, Rule of Deathly Stillness, Super Agility, Spider-Sense, and Electrostatic Adhesion to his training list.
• Yuri, Kate, and Vanax took Xu Xialing to the farm, while Xu Wenwu learned she had disappeared and traced her journey through surveillance footage and underworld intelligence.
• After learning the group had left Yuri’s villa for the farm, Xu Wenwu sent a team to follow them and led the rest of his forces to search the villa.