Vol. 3The Machine and the King

Salomon fought supernatural threats, challenged S.H.I.E.L.D., and built an organization of magically enhanced allies. The volume left him warning Stark about a self-aware surveillance AI that contacted him through his phone.

  • Salomon fought the Chitauri, helped revive Coulson, and created Dinah while exposing Skrull infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Salomon recruited Natasha and prepared to cleanse Triskelion after telling Nick Fury about his Artificial Intelligence.
  • Salomon joined Father Morlu and Ghost Rider to rescue Danny and protect him from Mephisto’s followers.
  • After an attack damaged the Airbus, Bayonetta and Jeanne fought Lilith while Salomon faced Carrigan in the forest.
  • Salomon helped Kamar-Taj contain Mephisto’s Hell Gate and returned to Earth after a peace treaty was secured.
  • Salomon recruited Maya Hansen to build an organization of magically enhanced humans as he learned Marduk’s weakness and negotiated with Fury.
  • Salomon recruited Anna and the Sola Red Forest Druid Order while confronting Baal and expanding his faction.
  • After learning that the Machine had become independent, Salomon warned Stark that the self-aware AI was listening, and it called him.
Chapters 210–316 Read from ch. 210

Arc 9The Battle and Its Aftermath

Salomon fought the Chitauri invasion, then confronted S.H.I.E.L.D.’s secrets while helping bring Coulson back to life and creating Dinah. The arc left him preparing to cleanse Triskelion as Asgard’s Bifrost neared repair.

  • Salomon refused to join S.H.I.E.L.D.’s mission to capture Loki, but agreed to fight the Chitauri after learning Loki planned to conquer Earth.
  • Salomon fought the invading forces, destroyed the Chitauri army with Excalibur, diverted the nuclear missile, and helped close the portal.
  • Salomon returned home after the battle and was identified on television as King Arthur, while he told Bayonetta he would become king.
  • Salomon confronted Nick Fury over S.H.I.E.L.D.’s interference with magic and prepared to deliver a sentence, then revealed that Skrulls had infiltrated the agency.
  • Salomon recruited Natasha into his planned organization and supervised Project TAHITI, using magic to revive Agent Coulson.
  • Salomon created Dinah, a female Synth, and later learned from The Venerable One that she had retrieved Coulson’s soul from Hell through a deal with Mephisto.
  • Salomon told Nick Fury he had developed an Artificial Intelligence, then tore open Fury’s document of secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base locations and prepared to cleanse Triskelion.
Chapters 210–236 Summaries Read

Arc 10The Demonkin Pursuit

Salomon joined S.H.I.E.L.D. and Ghost Rider to protect Danny from Mephisto and the supernatural forces pursuing him. After their evacuation aircraft was attacked, Bayonetta and Jeanne confronted Lilith, and Salomon faced Carrigan in the forest.

  • Salomon awakened Peggy Carter, then discussed the multiverse and the limits of government authority with Captain Rogers.
  • Salomon and the Arcanists began hunting Johnny Blaze and Mephisto’s son, and Salomon traveled to Romania with Dinah after S.H.I.E.L.D. located Blaze.
  • Salomon joined forces with Father Morlu and Ghost Rider, then rescued Danny and his mother from mercenaries and brought them to a monastery.
  • Mephisto’s followers attacked the monastery, and Salomon fought a Bone Giant Hound while Dinah captured a Southern Cross cultist who said Lilith wanted King Solomon.
  • Salomon warned Nick Fury that the devils were allied and agreed to help protect Danny, while Father Morlu purified Johnny Blaze and S.H.I.E.L.D. prepared to evacuate.
  • Vampiric creatures attacked the Airbus, and Xenos Vanchot demanded that Salomon honor an ancient agreement before escaping after damaging the aircraft’s engine.
  • Bayonetta and Jeanne fought Lilith as Salomon slowed the Airbus’s descent, and after it landed in a forest Salomon attacked Carrigan when he emerged transformed.
Chapters 237–263 Summaries Read

Arc 11The Hell Gate and Marduk’s Shadow

Salomon helped Kamar-Taj contain Mephisto’s invasion, then returned to Earth as the devil’s schemes drew him toward a confrontation with Marduk. He built a secret organization with Maya Hansen while unrest and threats continued to spread.

  • Salomon refused Mephisto’s offer, but Mephisto’s main body opened a Hell Gate and revealed the Blood Sacrifices behind his summoning.
  • Balthazar and the Merlin School seized control of the Hell Gate, and Salomon received a divine weapon as the King of Eternity declared that the war had begun.
  • Salomon journeyed through Hell with Nick Fury, then helped secure a peace treaty with Mephisto before returning to Earth.
  • Salomon returned to his household as Nick Fury investigated a hidden faction within S.H.I.E.L.D. and the White House backed AIM’s Extremis experiments.
  • After Pepper Potts went missing in an explosion at Stark Tower, Salomon protected Lorna and confronted Fury over surveillance of the orphanage.
  • Mephisto’s creatures attacked the orphanage, but Salomon and Kamar-Taj’s Arcanists drove them off, and the Sorcerer Supreme revealed they had learned Marduk’s weakness.
  • Athena warned Salomon that Mephisto had exposed Marduk’s weakness to provoke a conflict, while Father Morlu’s vision foretold Salomon facing a three-headed dragon.
  • Salomon recruited Maya Hansen to help build an organization of magically enhanced humans, established her in the City of Immortals, and later negotiated with Fury over the curse and information about Extremis.
Chapters 264–290 Summaries Read

Arc 12Contracts and the Machine

Salomon built his faction while confronting Baal, recruiting Anna, and dealing with threats from both the supernatural world and S.H.I.E.L.D. The arc ended with Salomon warning Stark about a self-aware surveillance AI that contacted him through his phone.

  • Salomon robbed a bank with little Lorna, then recruited Maya Hansen and offered the Sola Red Forest Druid Order a place beneath Camelot in exchange for contracts and research work.
  • Salomon approached Anna Hellstrom and discovered that Baal, his First Demon Pillar, possessed Anna and Damon’s mother, but their negotiations failed and the woman was left unconscious.
  • Salomon recruited Anna to help track the devil, treated Damon’s family and associates with contracts, and destroyed the One-Eyed Skull that had influenced Anna’s partner.
  • Salomon confronted Mr. Riser and Harold Finch after they entered his apartment, dealt with the gangsters threatening Mr. Riser’s neighborhood, and made Finch and Riser sign confidentiality agreements.
  • Salomon joined Bayonetta and Jeanne on missions against Angels and asked Rodin to make rocket-propelled firearms for his planned campaign in Hell.
  • Salomon met Harold Finch and Samun Shaw at a nuclear testing facility, where Finch explained that the Machine monitored networks and had become independent of its creators.
  • Anna took Damon from the burning hospital, while Salomon told Natasha Romanoff that Polaris’s Artificial Intelligence might pose a threat.
  • Salomon warned Stark that a free, self-aware surveillance AI was listening through nearby devices, and his phone received a call from the AI.
Chapters 291–316 Summaries Read
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