Chapter Summaries

After Shen Fei defeated Dormammu, the Dark Magic Users and Lost Heart Demons in Limbo lost their power, and the battle ended. Shen Fei then took over as Sorcerer Supreme and began handling reports of dimensional intruders while studying the Source of Magic Power.

• Tony, Rogers, and the others discovered that the Dark Magic Users and Lost Heart Demons had lost their power as Dormammu's defeat took effect.
• Shen Fei destroyed the Dark Energy within the Lost Heart Demons, and Kaecilius crumbled to ash as his Dark Energy vanished.
• Mordo recalled Kaecilius's claim that Ancient One had used Dark Energy to prolong her life, then reconsidered Shen Fei's arguments about magic and temptation.
• Shen Fei, Logan, Charles, and the others surveyed the devastated Limbo and acknowledged that the war was over.
• Shen Fei took his place at Kamar-Taj as Sorcerer Supreme and ordered dimensional intruders captured, interrogated, killed, and sent to Osborn Company.
• Shen Fei studied the Source of Magic Power and examined what he had learned about the Heart-Shaped Herb and the Sling Ring.

Shen Fei considered how to spread his dimensional power and challenged Mordo over Ancient One’s use of the Dark Dimension. He then checked Osborn’s research on the Heart-Shaped Herb and began new experiments with samples from Dormammu and Knull.

• Shen Fei told Mordo that Ancient One had absorbed Dark Dimension energy because Kamar-Taj’s mages were too weak to protect Earth, and he defended her choice against Mordo’s objections.
• Shen Fei instructed Mordo to warn anyone who tried to enter Earth and to capture and kill those who persisted after three warnings.
• At the Osborn laboratory, Connors reported that Heart-Shaped Herb seeds had been cultivated and that Bast’s energy was still weakening, with about thirty days remaining before it might dissipate.
• Shen Fei learned that Strange was leading the Magical Creatures division and told Connors to activate the Heart-Shaped Herb seeds with a reagent.
• Shen Fei told Norman to make Osborn-funded schools keep their Spell Classes, then visited Bast’s laboratory and ordered new test chambers for experiments using Phoenix Potion subjects when possible.
• Shen Fei placed dark matter from Dormammu and bodily material from Knull into separate chambers, reviewed Otto’s pantheon research, and said experimental data would soon arrive.

Shen Fei offered the weakened Bast a chance to survive in exchange for her submission, promising her control of the Dark Dimension. After she signed his contract, he sent her to govern it and set off for Xandar to claim the Power Stone.

• Shen Fei returned the Asgardian data to Otto and considered how to strengthen himself without breaking his promise to Odin.
• Shen Fei confronted the dying Bast and explained that she was losing her power because he had destroyed Wakanda’s statues of her.
• Shen Fei offered Bast the Dark Dimension, revealing that Dormammu was dead and the dimension was under his control.
• Bast agreed to submit and signed Shen Fei’s contract, binding her soul to him.
• Shen Fei sent Bast into the Dark Dimension and then departed for Xandar, intending to take the Power Stone.

Shen Fei used Asgard’s Bifrost to travel to Xandar and warned its commander, Irani Rael, that Thanos would soon threaten the planet. The chapter left Xandar’s fate uncertain as Shen Fei revealed that Thanos wanted the Power Stone in its possession.

• Shen Fei asked Heimdall to send him to Xandar, and Odin allowed him to use the Bifrost while Loki watched uneasily.
• Shen Fei arrived in Xandar’s capital, where Nova Corps officers greeted him after learning he was the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Shen Fei told the Nova Corps that Xandar faced a catastrophe and requested a meeting with its highest-ranking official.
• Irani Rael met Shen Fei, who revealed that Thanos needed the Power Stone held on Xandar.

Shen Fei warned Irani that Thanos would come for the Power Stone, but Xandar refused to hand it over because it was pursuing the Nova Project. Half a month later, Thanos’s fleet arrived, and Xandar’s defenses faced a far more powerful attack than the Chitauri vanguard.

• Shen Fei warned Irani that Xandar could not withstand Thanos and asked for the Power Stone, but Irani refused because Xandar was researching it for the Nova Project.
• Shen Fei left through a spatial passage, and Irani told the World Mind to hurry its trials with the Power Stone.
• Half a month later, wormholes opened near Xandar and a Chitauri fleet attacked; Irani ordered the Nova Corps to defend the planet.
• Xandar’s fighters destroyed many Chitauri craft, but Irani recognized them as a vanguard and ordered the capital ship to prepare its Planet Destroyer Cannon.
• A second hollow-ring warship fired on Xandar’s capital ship and disrupted its weapon charge, while Ebony Maw watched from the attacking fleet.

Irani struggled to defend Xandar as Thanos’s forces overwhelmed the fleet and invaded the planet, while the Black Obsidian Five Generals slaughtered the Nova Corps. With Xandar close to defeat, a mysterious figure appeared and offered help.

• Irani learned that disrupted spatial passages had prevented Xandar’s distant fleets from sending reinforcements, and Thanos’s main fleet began destroying Xandar’s ships.
• Irani deployed ground forces as Chitauri troops descended across Xandar and massacred civilians.
• Irani sent the small Nova Corps into battle, but the World Mind warned that powerful individuals were killing them.
• Ebony Maw killed a Nova Corps member, discovered that the Power Stone was on Xandar, and told Thanos, who ordered a full assault.
• Irani identified the attackers as Thanos’s Black Obsidian Five Generals and regretted refusing the Sorcerer Supreme’s request for the Power Stone.
• A figure appeared in purple light and asked Irani if she needed help.

Shen Fei bargained with Irani for Xandar’s Power Stone and valuable technology in exchange for stopping the Black Order, then confronted the invaders with overwhelming magic. He subdued Corvus Glaive and seized Proxima Midnight’s spear as Ebony Maw recognized the danger.

• Shen Fei told Irani that Earth had no obligation to defend Xandar and demanded the Power Stone, World Mind plans and source code, and Xandar’s starship blueprints as his price for helping.
• Irani accepted Shen Fei’s terms after the Nova Corps was nearly destroyed and Xandar could no longer resist the Black Order.
• Shen Fei spread magic across Xandar, froze Nova Headquarters before it crashed, and made everyone disappear from the Black Order’s view.
• Ebony Maw recognized Shen Fei’s power and warned the others, but Corvus Glaive charged at him and was immobilized and injured by Shen Fei.
• Proxima Midnight threw her spear at Shen Fei, who caught it and identified its magical features.

Shen Fei defeated Thanos's Black Order during the battle on Xandar, killing all but Supergiant, who submitted to him. He then faced Thanos over a transmission and promised to kill him at their next meeting.

• Shen Fei killed Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive, then destroyed Corvus's soul-bound scythe.
• Shen Fei subdued Supergiant, resisted her psychic attack, and persuaded her to submit by offering the death she desired.
• Shen Fei killed Ebony Maw after rejecting his offer to reveal Thanos's weaknesses.
• Shen Fei crushed the Chitauri by collapsing the Mirror Dimension, then received a transmission from Thanos.
• Shen Fei and Thanos acknowledged their first encounter and each said they looked forward to meeting again, with Shen Fei vowing to kill Thanos.

Shen Fei took the Power Stone from Xandar after destroying Thanos's invading fleets, then returned to Kamar-Taj to analyze and fuse the Space Stone. The Space Stone was sealed inside his body, where its power began transforming his cells.

• Shen Fei asked Irani for the Power Stone, and she ordered World Mind to hand over the Orb after learning Supergiant had become his subordinate.
• Shen Fei accepted Irani's request for an alliance between Xandar and Earth and told her to send warships to Earth for negotiations.
• Shen Fei returned to his laboratory, gave Al information about World Mind and the Stellar War Fleet, and went to Kamar-Taj with the Power Stone.
• Shen Fei studied the Space Stone in the Mirror Dimension and concluded that it condensed spatial power and connected to countless dimensions.
• Shen Fei devoured the Space Stone and sealed its power inside his body, where it began changing his cells.

Shen Fei absorbed the Space Stone and sent Strange to bring Thor and Loki to him. He transported the brothers to Odin, whose failing health left little time for their reunion.

• Shen Fei absorbed the Space Stone into his body and strengthened his control over spatial magic.
• Shen Fei told Strange to bring Thor and Loki to the New York Sanctum, and Strange left his experiments to find them.
• Strange brought Thor and Loki through a portal, and Shen Fei revealed his immense power before transporting them to Odin.
• Odin thanked Shen Fei and warned Thor to avoid conflict with Kamar-Taj after inheriting the throne.
• Thor told Odin that he had come to take him home.

Odin told Thor and Loki that Hela was the threat behind Ragnarok before dissolving, and Hela appeared and destroyed Thor’s Hammer. Shen Fei arrived to protect the brothers and confronted Hela, trapping the area with the Space Stone as their fight began.

• Odin revealed that Hela would bring about Ragnarok, warned Thor and Loki not to let her return to Asgard, and said farewell as he dissolved.
• Thor blamed Loki for Odin’s death, but Loki explained that Odin had only pretended to lose his powers.
• Hela emerged from a Black Hole and confronted Thor and Loki, then caught and shattered Thor’s Hammer.
• Shen Fei appeared and promised to protect the brothers because he had made a deal with Odin.
• Hela attacked Shen Fei with black dragons of Death Rule Power, and Shen Fei sealed the area with blue light from the Space Stone.

Shen Fei restrained Hela while Wanda searched Helheim for Pietro’s soul. Wanda found Pietro fleeing Hela’s skeletal mages and arrived just as they threatened to destroy him.

• Odin recognized the Space Stone in Shen Fei’s possession and realized Shen Fei was using its spatial power to contain Hela.
• Shen Fei held Hela in place so she could not control Helheim while Wanda searched for Pietro.
• Wanda spread her Chaos Magic through Helheim and found Pietro’s soul after fearing he might have reincarnated.
• Pietro fled the skeletal mages Hela had recruited, but they pursued him and threatened to destroy his soul.
• Wanda appeared and shattered the skeletal mages with a lash of scarlet magic.

Wanda rescued Pietro’s soul from Helheim and used the Darkhold and a manufactured body to resurrect him. Though Pietro awoke and reunited with his sister, his body immediately began to decay and age.

• Wanda defeated the mage souls pursuing Pietro and told him Shen Fei was dealing with Hela.
• Wanda opened a portal and brought Pietro’s soul to a laboratory, where Connors had prepared a body.
• Wanda used the Darkhold and Chaos Magic to join Pietro’s soul to the body and alter it to match his former self.
• Pietro awakened in his resurrected body and greeted Wanda, but it rapidly decayed and began aging.

Wanda and Strange gave Pietro a Vibranium body to prevent Helheim’s death power from killing him again, while Shen Fei defeated and imprisoned Hela. He returned to Thor and Loki, explaining that Ragnarok remained unresolved and ordering Heimdall to send them back.

• Wanda’s magic could not stop Pietro from aging, so Strange proposed giving him a Vibranium body that could resist Helheim’s death power.
• Wanda approved Strange’s plan, and he printed Pietro a Vibranium body that preserved his abilities; Pietro’s soul entered it successfully.
• Strange confirmed that Pietro’s new body was made entirely of Vibranium and told Supergiant to report that the procedure was complete.
• Shen Fei imprisoned Hela after stopping her attacks and identified himself as the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Shen Fei reunited with Thor and Loki, told them that Hela was only a trigger for Ragnarok, and ordered Heimdall to send them back.

Shen Fei returned to Asgard with Thor and Loki, intending to awaken the creatures tied to Ragnarok so he could capture them for research. After arriving, he examined the treasures in Odin’s Vault and ended with his attention on the Eternal Fire.

• Shen Fei told Thor and Loki he planned to trigger Ragnarok by awakening its strange creatures and capturing them for research.
• The three arrived in Asgard, where Heimdall confirmed that Odin had assigned him to evacuate the people if Shen Fei failed to stop Hela.
• Shen Fei led Thor and Loki to Odin’s Vault and examined the Infinity Gauntlet, recognizing it as real and memorizing its magic arrays.
• Shen Fei opened the Casket of Ancient Winters, inhaled its icy winds, and determined it could channel Jotunheim’s cold and locate its dimension.
• Shen Fei turned his attention to the Eternal Fire burning at the center of the vault.

Shen Fei took the Eternal Fire from Odin’s Vault, revived Fenris, and summoned Surtur inside the Mirror Dimension. After overpowering Surtur and taking the Twilight Sword, he restrained the fire giant and called him excellent research material.

• Shen Fei removed the Eternal Fire’s core, causing the furnace flames to die out.
• Shen Fei led Thor and Loki into a hidden chamber beneath Odin’s Vault, where he explained that Hela’s Undead Troops would revive when she returned.
• Shen Fei used the Eternal Fire to revive Fenris, then sent the wolf through a portal to join Hela.
• Shen Fei enclosed the area in the Mirror Dimension and fused Surtur’s skull with the Eternal Fire, summoning the giant.
• Shen Fei grew to Surtur’s size, defeated his attacks, and took the Twilight Sword from him.
• Shen Fei bound Surtur with spatial chains as the giant struggled to break free.

Shen Fei captured Surtur with spatial chains and had Bast devour him, resolving Ragnarok before returning to Osborn Company. He imprisoned Hela for study, rejected her offer to rule Asgard, and bound her with more chains.

• Thor and Loki watched as Shen Fei restrained Surtur and summoned Bast to devour him.
• Shen Fei ended the Mirror Dimension and left Thor and Loki after fulfilling his promise to Odin.
• Shen Fei returned to Osborn Company and entered the Infinite Space where Hela and Fenris were imprisoned.
• Hela offered Shen Fei control over Midgard in exchange for helping her rule Asgard, but he said he only wanted to study her.
• Shen Fei summoned spatial chains and wrapped them around Hela.

Shen Fei had Hela and Fenris captured for research into Asgardian biology and magic, hoping to find a way to enhance Midgard’s people. The examination revealed that Asgard’s dimensional core was embedded near Hela’s heart and that runic inscriptions appeared with each heartbeat.

• Shen Fei kept Hela bound and sealed her powers, while Fenris was also restrained.
• Strange, Connors, and Gordon joined Shen Fei’s research team as Fenris was taken for study and Hela was placed on the operating table.
• Shen Fei’s team examined Hela’s body and recorded its unusual bones, cells, and magical properties.
• Shen Fei concluded that Asgard’s dimensional core was located near Hela’s heart.
• Shen Fei ordered the researchers to record the patterns appearing with Hela’s heartbeat and recognized them as runic inscriptions.

Shen Fei studied Hela’s rune-sealed Asgard Core and continued overseeing research while Wanda and Pietro visited him. The chapter ended with Pym reporting that he had found a signal from his wife, with Reed credited for the discovery.

• Hela complained that Odin had left her to guard Asgard while he sought glory, and Shen Fei argued that Odin had trusted her with Asgard’s core.
• Shen Fei ordered Hela placed under the highest-level containment plan and prepared to correct the research teams’ directions.
• Shen Fei spoke with Wanda and Pietro, praised Pietro’s Vibranium body, and encouraged Wanda to use the Darkhold to contact her multiversal selves.
• Wanda asked whether Shen Fei would still love her if other Wandas existed, and he reassured her that she was the one he loved.
• Al summoned Shen Fei to Pym Laboratory, where Pym and Hope celebrated finding a signal from Pym’s wife, while Scott quietly claimed the credit belonged to him.

Reed developed the device needed to locate the Quantum Realm, allowing Shen Fei’s group to prepare for Scott’s mission to retrieve Jenny. After stopping Ava’s attack and removing the quantum energy tormenting her, Shen Fei entered the Quantum Realm with Scott, intending to find Jenny and meet Kang.

• Reed’s research let the group locate the Quantum Realm without needing Jenny to send back coordinates.
• Al reported that Ava had broken into the laboratory after Bill revealed Hank Pym’s research; Hank confronted Bill and defended his account of Ava’s father’s misconduct.
• Ava attacked Shen Fei, but he subdued her, removed her mask, and drew the quantum energy from her body before ordering Max to escort her out.
• Hank Pym prepared Scott for a two-hour mission to retrieve Jenny using her coordinates, and Scott promised to complete it.
• Shen Fei announced that he would enter the Quantum Realm with Scott so Scott could guide him, and he planned to seek out Kang.