Chapter Summaries

Masaki Keigo had Minato Katsumi’s Ultraman Rosso transformation device stolen so he could use it to create Ultramen for Imperium, while Minato Katsumi and Minato Isami resolved to retrieve it. The brothers traced the device to Sotek Group headquarters, where Masaki began his experiment and ordered security to dismiss them.

• Masaki Keigo identified Minato Katsumi as Ultraman Rosso’s host and ordered a subordinate to steal his transformation device.
• After Minato Katsumi was knocked unconscious in a park, he woke in the hospital and told Minato Isami that the device was missing.
• Minato Katsumi initially hoped its loss would let his family live peacefully, but Minato Isami persuaded him to help recover it.
• Minato Isami tracked the device’s energy wavelength to Sotek Group headquarters, and the brothers agreed to confront the company.
• Masaki Keigo prepared to use the device to transform six soldiers, then told security to dismiss the two visitors who demanded it back.

Masaki Keigo used Imperium technology to turn six soldiers into Ultramen, then had them defeat Minato Isami and pressure the Minato brothers to join the Imperium. Just as Masaki returned Minato Katsumi’s transformation device, an alarm announced another monster had appeared on Earth.

• Masaki Keigo activated his machine, and six soldiers endured extreme pain before transforming into Ultramen and receiving their own transformation devices.
• Minato Katsumi and Minato Isami broke into the laboratory, where Minato Isami transformed into Ultraman Blu and attacked Masaki Keigo.
• Six newly transformed Ultramen appeared and overwhelmed Ultraman Blu, beating him back into Minato Isami’s human form.
• Masaki offered the brothers a choice between joining the Imperium or losing their transformation devices, and Minato Isami persuaded Minato Katsumi to accept for now.
• Masaki unexpectedly returned Minato Katsumi’s transformation device, but an alarm sounded to announce a monster’s appearance on Earth.

GUTS responded to a monster attack in Shanghai, where Ultraman Tiga was overwhelmed by three monsters until Masaki Keigo summoned eight more Ultramen to defeat them. Afterward, Masaki used the battle and the hosts’ public identities to promote the Imperium, while GUTS confronted his supporters; the chapter ended with Masaki taunting Munakata as tensions rose.

• Munakata sent GUTS to Shanghai, where three monsters devastated the city and destroyed GUTS Wing 1, leaving Daigo and Shinjoh’s fate uncertain.
• Ultraman Tiga arrived, but the three monsters overwhelmed him while an alien broadcast threatened humanity on behalf of the Dark Universe Emperor.
• Masaki Keigo summoned eight Ultramen, and the nine heroes defeated the monsters before the eight hosts revealed their identities to the public.
• Masaki urged people worldwide to join the Imperium of Man, while Sotec Company security blocked GUTS and threatened Horii with a Lasgun.
• Masaki led the eight hosts to confront GUTS, and Munakata accused him of betraying humanity before Masaki mocked him and promised to crush his opposition.

Daigo questioned whether the Victory Team truly stood for justice as Masaki Keigo rallied the public to the Imperium, while Director Sawai and the team chose to resist the organization. At the Land of Light, Ultraman Zero learned that its leaders feared Ultraman Belial’s coming invasion and might entrust him with escaping alongside the next generation and the Plasma Spark Tower.

• Daigo wavered over the meaning of justice after seeing nine Ultramen defeat their enemies, while Masaki Keigo predicted that Daigo would join him and rallied refugees behind the Imperium and God-Emperor.
• Horii and Shinjoh suspected Masaki Keigo knew about Megumi Iruma’s disappearance, and Munakata vowed to investigate after the Victory Team returned to TPC Headquarters.
• Director Sawai said he might resign after his effort to investigate the Imperium was blocked, but Rena encouraged him to stay and fight; Sawai agreed to rally the doves while the Victory Team secretly investigated.
• Ultraman Zero watched Ultras return to the Land of Light ahead of Ultraman Belial’s thirteenth invasion and heard Ultraman Ace explain that Belial might be impossible to defeat.
• Ultraman Ace told Ultraman Zero that, if the Land of Light fell, he must lead the new generation away with the Plasma Spark Tower and go where there was light.

The Land of Light fell after Ultraman Belial killed Father of Ultra and defeated the Ultra Brothers, while Ultraman Zero escaped with the Plasma Spark Tower and the New Generation Ultramen. On Earth, GUTS exposed the Imperium’s brutality, but Masaki Keigo countered by accusing Director Sawai of treason and called a witness: the long-missing Captain Megumi Iruma.

• The Ultra Warriors fought Belial’s vast alliance, but Belial killed Father of Ultra and shattered his stone body.
• Ultraseven and the other Ultra Brothers urged Ultraman Zero to take the Plasma Spark Tower and escape with the New Generation Ultramen.
• Ultraman Mother gave Zero the dimensional cube containing the tower, and he led the others through a rift as the Land of Light fell to darkness.
• Ultraman Belial sent Ultraman Dark-Killer and other enemies to pursue the fleeing Ultras and reclaim the Plasma Spark Tower.
• Yazumi and GUTS uncovered evidence of the Imperium’s horrific practices, and Director Sawai used it to prompt worldwide hearings.
• At the hearing, Masaki Keigo accused Sawai of being an anti-human traitor and introduced a witness, who was revealed to be Captain Megumi Iruma.

Megumi Iruma’s testimony led to Sawai’s arrest, and she rejected GUTS’s attempts to understand her choice. Daigo learned that the Imperium knew his identity as Tiga, while Archmagos Sigma prepared to demonstrate a new Titan-summoning technology.

• Megumi Iruma presented evidence accusing Sawai of anti-humanity, and the representatives stripped him of political authority and detained him.
• Munakata and the GUTS members vowed to investigate Megumi Iruma’s testimony, while Sawai told her in detention that she had helped the hawks remove him.
• Megumi Iruma dismissed GUTS and told Daigo that humanity might have to accept cruel choices; Camearra then identified him as Tiga and invoked their ancient debt.
• Daigo learned that Camearra, Hudra, and Darramb served Megumi Iruma, and he worried that the Imperium’s strength and knowledge surpassed his own.
• Aboard a hidden Celestial-class Warship, Archmagos Sigma prepared to have Titan captains summon their mechs using portable devices.

Sage Sigma tested technology that summoned Titans from Imperial emblems, while Jonah experienced piloting one as an extension of his own body. At the same time, GUTS learned it would be disbanded, and Yazumi proposed seeking help from the Land of Light to oppose the Empire.

• Sage Sigma combined Emotional Spectrum research with Giants of Light technology to create emblems that stored war machines as light and could summon them.
• Jonah summoned a seventy-meter Titan from his double-headed eagle emblem and tested its weapons, shields, flight, and other capabilities.
• TPC announced GUTS's disbandment and said the Imperial Defense Force would take over fighting monsters.
• Munakata acknowledged that GUTS could not overturn the decision after the devastation caused by the Magic City invasion.
• Yazumi argued that the Empire had ordered GUTS's dissolution and proposed asking the Land of Light to intervene against the Empire and Masaki Keigo's plan to mass-produce Ultramen.

Daigo transformed into Ultraman Tiga and traveled toward Neptune to seek Ultraman Titas’s help against the Imperium. Titas revealed that the Land of Light had been destroyed and the wider universe was engulfed in war, leaving Earth to face its own trial.

• Daigo volunteered to reach Neptune and ask Ultraman Titas and the Land of Light for help, while Rena and the others stayed behind to investigate Imperium.
• Daigo transformed into Tiga and flew through the void, but Camearra, Hudra, and Darramb ambushed him over a grudge dating back thirty million years.
• Tiga escaped the trio by pretending to prepare a self-destruction, then continued toward Neptune as Camearra revealed her plan to seize command of the Ultraman Legion.
• Tiga found Titas fighting monsters near Neptune and helped him defeat them before asking for assistance against the Imperium.
• Titas told Tiga that the Land of Light had been destroyed, its allies were fighting a devastating war, and Earth’s Ultramen would have to protect humanity themselves.
• Titas shared Planet U40’s knowledge with Tiga and said cruelty did not necessarily mean evil if the Imperium’s Ultramen protected humanity’s interests.

Daigo learned from Titas that a tide of darkness threatened the universe and that humanity had to choose its own path, leaving him to question whether the Imperium was necessary for survival. As GUTS mourned its dissolution, Ufthak received orders to seize an interstellar fortress for the God-Emperor.

• Titas told Daigo that Ultraman Belial's victory had unleashed a tide of darkness and that humanity must decide whether to resist or ally with the Imperium.
• Titas departed for the front lines, and Daigo returned to Earth to seek answers from Captain Megumi Iruma about her choices and the coming threat.
• GUTS members watched their headquarters and equipment being taken away, while Munakata, Horii, and Yazumi held out hope that Daigo would return with help from the Land of Light.
• Ufthak watched Orks fight in his arena after returning to their Micro-universe from the Eye of Terror.
• A military officer informed Ufthak that he had been ordered to seize an interstellar fortress as quickly as possible.

Ufthak and the Orks invaded Dark Abyss Fortress, shattering its barrier and overrunning the Mothfolk kingdoms. The Young Lord of the North and the defenders fought back, but the Orks advanced toward the fortress wall, where Ufthak crushed a Mothfolk Saint.

• Ufthak rallied the Orks in their vast transport Sub-universe as they prepared to conquer Universe 04.
• The barrier over Dark Abyss Fortress shattered, and Orks poured into Northern King City, killing Mothfolk and destroying the city.
• The Young Lord of the North led a hundred thousand Northern King Army cavalrymen against the invaders, but Scarface and his Orks killed him and his troops.
• Orks spread across Dark Abyss Fortress and overwhelmed its defenders, while the Mothfolk fought desperately along the colossal wall.
• A Mothfolk Saint attacked Ufthak and cut through his armor, but Ufthak crushed him in one hand and roared at the advancing enemies.

Uruk, Ufthak, and the Orks devastated the mothfolk forces and overran Dark Abyss Fortress, while Scarface’s army destroyed the Sanctuary. Makay began experimenting with ancient artifacts and concluded that the Orks could use them too.

• Uruk led the Boyz in throwing stikkbombz and charging through the mothfolk as Ufthak’s star-destroying cannon erased their Saints and Sword Immortals.
• Ufthak smashed the city-wall defense tower, and the Orks slaughtered the fleeing mothfolk before pressing deeper into Dark Abyss Fortress.
• Scarface’s Boyz destroyed the Santa Empire and the Sanctuary, breaking its rune shield with a cannon and killing the old Saint who maintained it.
• Scarface took an ancient stele and artifacts for the Big Meks to study, and Makay experimented on captured mayflies with jade and neural cables.
• Makay recognized a pattern in the symbols appearing during his experiment and prepared to test his discovery on a Gretchin.

Maka Yi activated an ancient Obelisk and used its fragments to build Scarface powerful new armor, prompting the Orks to hunt for more scrap. In Universe 04, Anvil warned Calgar that strengthening Warp currents could revive myths and disrupt the Imperium’s conquest.

• Maka Yi powered the Obelisk with a Gretchin as a test subject, but the generator exploded and left him unconscious.
• Scarface woke Maka and threatened him, so Maka promised to use the Obelisk to create powerful armor.
• Maka and his crew embedded ancient scraps into Scarface’s armor, and Scarface tested it with a strike that cut a fissure more than a dozen kilometers long.
• Scarface ordered the Orks to gather all the scrap, and Boyz with saved scraps sought Maka’s help upgrading their gear.
• In Universe 04, Anvil warned Calgar that stronger Warp currents could empower sorcery and magic and cause a revival of myths.

Calgar approved Regula’s plan to build the Age of Dharma’s End, a vast device that would suppress Warp energy across Universe 04 and make it a fortress against Chaos. Regula returned to his Ark Mechanicus to begin testing the device on captured Amonro, including a renowned young prodigy who threatened him with the power of its master.

• Calgar reviewed reports on the Aeldari and the dangers of the Ethereal wind, then ordered that it be stopped by strengthening the Veil between reality and the Warp.
• Regula presented a ring-shaped suppression device that would limit supernatural powers while allowing Imperial Psykers to use specialized equipment.
• Calgar approved the Age of Dharma’s End plan, intending to turn Universe 04 into a fortress beyond the Warp’s interference.
• Regula returned to his Ark Mechanicus and told the sages to prepare test reports for the project.
• Regula ordered the sages to test the device on captured Amonro and determine whether it could prevent them from using Psykers.

A Manluo and the Jade Pool Saintess were captured and dissected by Imperium Tech-Priests, while Regula prepared to test the Amonro homeworld before destroying it. At Kunlun, the Nine Provinces’ First Prodigy completed his cultivation and declared himself supreme.

• A Manluo recalled how his supreme-grade Heavenly Secrets Dao Soul made him the Heavenly Secrets Sect’s Young Sect Master and how love for the Jade Pool Saintess led him into captivity.
• The Tech-Priests suppressed the Jade Pool Saintess’s cultivation, dissected her, and then dissected A Manluo, whose body was placed in a tank beside hers.
• Regula analyzed the captured Amonro, mapped their genes, and planned an Age of Dharma Decline test before exterminating them.
• At Kunlun, the First Prodigy cultivated the Great Freedom Visualization Method as gathered experts praised his power and discussed resisting the enemies from beyond the domain.
• The First Prodigy completed his cultivation, took nine steps, and declared, “Above and below heaven, I alone am supreme.”

Regula tested the End-of-Dharma Device on the Nine Provinces World, first deceiving the Amonro into believing their Number One Prodigy had become their savior, then stripping away their cultivation. He ordered Exterminatus to test the device against a Warp storm, and the genetic Virus Bombs began killing the Amonro across the world.

• The Number One Prodigy manifested extraordinary phenomena, gained the Innate Supreme Yin-Yang Dao Soul, and briefly reached the fifteenth realm.
• The End-of-Dharma Device activated near the Nine Provinces World, suddenly suppressing spiritual energy and causing the Amonro’s cultivation, formations, artifacts, and medicines to lose their power.
• Regula revealed that he had used the device to first enhance the Number One Prodigy and then suppress the Amonro, leaving Kunlun devastated by collapsing islands and freezing weather.
• After gathering test data, Regula ordered Exterminatus and launched genetic Virus Bombs at the Nine Provinces World.
• A Virus Bomb detonated above Kunlun, and its genetic virus dissolved the Number One Prodigy as the deaths began spreading across the world.

Regula exterminated the Amonro across the Nine Provinces World with tailored viruses and firestorms, then monitored the Warp storm created by their destruction. In Universe 02, Lucifer was confronted by a crowd of Constantines entering his bar.

• Regula’s virus bombs killed the Amonro throughout the Nine Provinces World and spread across its nine planets.
• Regula ordered the Imperial warships to ignite the toxic atmosphere, burning the world and its inhabitants to ash.
• Regula concealed his experimental motive in the extermination report and watched for a Warp storm caused by the Amonro’s extinction.
• A Warp Daemon formed from the Amonro’s hatred and fear, but it escaped before Regula could capture it.
• In Universe 02, a Constantine introduced Lucifer to his large squad of Constantines.

Constantine introduced his squad of parallel-universe counterparts at Lucifer’s bar before they left on an Imperial mission. The story then shifted to the Imperium’s brutal assault on Monitor Fortress, where Titus watched reports of mounting losses as Glenn’s squad was wiped out.

• Constantine brought a crowd of his counterparts to Lucifer’s bar, where Loli Constantine attacked Lucifer and the squad caused trouble for Maze.
• Constantine told Lucifer that his squad had captured Death and Superman from Universe-0414 and would soon return to its mission.
• The Constantine Squad left the bar to help suppress resistance against the Imperium.
• Titus monitored the assault on Monitor Fortress from the damaged Celestial-class Warship Expedition as Imperial forces searched for a way to finish the battle.
• Glenn led the 142nd Assault Squad into a strange structure, where hidden monsters used distorted time to kill the Primaris Warriors.
• A monster pierced Glenn’s helmet and brain, and Titus received a report that Assault Squad 142 had been wiped out.

Sanguinius led the Imperium’s assault on the Monitor Corps’ fortress amid a catastrophic war that had torn reality and the Warp together. Klayto and the Primaris Warriors fought through the fortress’s defenses, and Sanguinius joined the bloodiest fighting as the battle reached its climax.

• Sanguinius surveyed the devastated battlefield and ordered the Monitor fortress captured in the God-Emperor’s name.
• Klayto, Hilak, and a Techmarine prepared for a Time Shockwave, then advanced after their temporal shields protected them from it.
• Klayto and the arriving Primaris Warriors fought through Monitor soldiers and giant Psyker beasts, using swords, Bolters, and Warp-powered attacks.
• Sanguinius descended into the fiercest part of the battle with his honored guard and called on the warriors to kill in the God-Emperor’s name.

Sanguinius led the Imperium to victory over the Monitors, destroying their fortress and taking control of their city at great cost. Inside the fortress, he and Titus discovered how the Monitors and The Presence manipulated parallel universes, and Sanguinius ordered the devices seized so the Imperium could learn how to confront The Presence.

• Sanguinius unleashed his fury on the battlefield, slaughtering the Monitors and breaking through their defenses.
• Titus attacked from another direction as the Primaris Warriors overran the Monitors' last strongholds and seized their city.
• The Imperium won the battle, though many citizens died and damage to space-time threatened the universe.
• Sanguinius, Titus, and other leaders found devices showing how the Monitors manipulated parallel universes and controlled their inhabitants through the New Gods and The Endless.
• Sanguinius ordered his guards to take the devices, vowing that the Imperium would one day drag The Presence from its domain and kill it.

After the Imperium destroyed the Monitor fortress, Sanguinius agreed to support Titus and Klayto’s plan to raid Monitor strongholds across parallel universes. The story then shifted to Universe 03512, where Bruce Wayne infiltrated a Gotham ruled by the powerful Bruce family and continued Barbatos’s mission to free Daemons.

• The Primaris Warriors killed the Monitors, seized their fortress and resources, and secured the spacetime node for the Imperium.
• Sanguinius recovered in his quarters, reviewed the aftermath of battle, and watched Imperial forces repair rifts and hunt Daemons near the battlefield.
• Titus and Klayto told Sanguinius the Imperium controlled 1,365 parallel universes and proposed splitting up the Primaris Warriors to strike Monitor strongholds.
• Sanguinius approved their plan to infiltrate enemy territory, disrupt the Monitors’ harvests, and support local resistance while he defended the Imperium’s foothold.
• Bruce Wayne entered Universe 03512, where the Bruce family controlled Gotham, and continued carrying out Barbatos’s orders to break the seals imprisoning Daemons.