Chapter Summaries

Thanos opened jars while investigating their powers, and he obtained a Chakra Fruit from a newly added ninja class. After Shen Mo explained that chakra could lead to the same ultimate realm as other classes, Thanos recognized its life-based essence as a potential path to opposing Death.

• Thanos tested the minor skill from a chest and concluded that the jars’ powers surpassed the rules of his universe.
• Thanos continued opening Level 1 and Level 2 Chests for several hours, then found a Chakra Fruit.
• Shen Mo explained that the Chakra Fruit came from a ninja world he had recently visited and showed Thanos the Sage of Six Paths fighting Kaguya.
• Shen Mo told Thanos that chakra could support him in reaching the level of a Senior Member and that all classes ultimately led to the same realm.
• Thanos ate the Chakra Fruit and sensed that its life-based power might offer a way to oppose Death.

Thanos opened a Level 3 Chest and gained the Crystal Style bloodline limit, then discovered he had also obtained Lightning Style: Armor. He left to master Chakra and his new powers, believing he could fight fate and end the threat of death.

• Shen Mo explained how Chakra seals worked as Thanos practiced basic ninjutsu and prepared to open his remaining chests.
• Thanos opened about five hundred Level 3 Chests and received an Epic Purple treasure, astonishing Shen Mo with his luck.
• Thanos gained the Crystal Style bloodline limit and demonstrated how it could turn matter into crystal.
• Thanos also gained Lightning Style: Armor, which Shen Mo said could strengthen his body and help him withstand more of the Power Stone's energy.
• Thanos decided to study Chakra and explore the potential of his Titan cells as he focused on breaking free from fate.

Thanos settled beside Shen Mo and used Chakra to transform himself beyond the fate shared by other Thanos variants, drawing Death’s attention. Death alerted Eternity, whose avatar descended into the universe and appeared before Shen Mo and Thanos.

• Thanos built a hut beside Shen Mo’s villa and explained that he believed he would ultimately win.
• Shen Mo told Thanos that joining him had created an enduring bond and freed him from fate’s control.
• Thanos used Chakra to alter his body and soul, severing his connection to other Thanos variants and destiny.
• Death sensed that someone had escaped her control and called out to Eternity from her prison.
• Eternity sent an avatar into Shen Mo’s universe, where Shen Mo and Thanos sensed its arrival.

Eternity arrived and discovered that it could not perceive Shen Mo’s origins, leading the two to recognize each other’s power and begin discussing cooperation between their universes. Thanos remained unable to move as he witnessed the exchange.

• Eternity’s arrival overwhelmed Thanos with vast, chaotic information, while Shen Mo prepared to meet it.
• Shen Mo told Eternity that its knowledge was limited to the Marvel Multiverse and challenged it to see through his origins.
• Shen Mo displayed his command over the Multiverse’s concepts, and Eternity identified him as the One True God from another universe.
• Eternity asked Shen Mo why he had come, and he said he wanted to discuss cooperation.
• Eternity silently speculated about how cooperation between Multiverses might work while Thanos listened in awe.

Shen Mo proposed cooperation with Eternity, but Eternity rejected it to preserve universal balance. Shen Mo asserted his superiority and told Thanos that the cooperation could not fail, leaving Thanos aware that their arrangement rested on overwhelming power.

• Shen Mo proposed exchanging members and information between his world and Eternity's universe.
• Eternity refused, arguing that outsiders would introduce uncertainty and threaten universal balance.
• Shen Mo said he would seek the One True God and reminded Eternity that it could neither oppose him nor leave the Multiverse.
• Eternity warned Shen Mo against disturbing the balance, then departed to observe him.
• Thanos asked what would happen to him if the cooperation failed, and Shen Mo assured him that it could not fail.

Thanos received a mission to gather the Infinity Mu Jins and stop Death from choosing a new emissary instead of killing half the universe. He suspected Hela was Death’s intended successor and began training as Shen Mo watched for Death’s next move.

• Thanos told Shen Mo he would keep collecting the Infinity Mu Jins and might still kill half of all life unless he became powerful enough to resist Death.
• Thanos’s Badge assigned him a mission to obtain the Infinity Mu Jins and stop Death from choosing a new emissary.
• Shen Mo explained that the Merchant Guild’s mission opposed mass slaughter, and Thanos accepted that gaining power came with this restriction.
• Thanos reasoned that Death might choose Hela as her emissary, since Hela welcomed slaughter and already possessed an Infinity Stone.
• Shen Mo told Thanos that his Power Stone counted toward the mission, but he needed two Infinity Mu Jins to complete its first stage.
• Thanos began extracting Chakra and practicing ninjutsu while Shen Mo monitored the universe.

After a month of cultivation with Shen Mo, Thanos traveled alone to Earth to prepare for his mission and seek the Infinity Mu Jins there. His arrival alarmed Tony and Loki, who recognized him and prepared to confront him.

• Thanos thanked Shen Mo for his help, said he was ready to prepare for his mission, and left for Earth alone in a small spaceship.
• Thanos reached Earth's heavily defended orbit, obeyed its inspection orders, and landed at a military base on the moon.
• Tony recognized Thanos in the footage and notified Loki and Fury.
• Loki recognized Thanos and welcomed the chance to settle old debts and take the Infinity Stone from him.

Loki confronted Thanos after Thanos proposed cooperation and revealed that he had received Shen Mo's Gift too. Loki and Thanos entered the Destiny Stage to duel while Tony, Fury, and the Ancient One watched from outside.

• Tony and Fury suggested hearing Thanos out, but Loki mocked Thanos when he offered to cooperate.
• Thanos revealed the badge embedded in his palm, and Loki refused to forgive him for Odin's death and challenged him to fight.
• Thanos removed his Infinity Gauntlet and taunted Loki, who hurried to the moon as Tony and Fury decided to use the duel to assess Thanos's strength.
• Loki and Thanos entered the Destiny Stage, while Tony, Fury, and the Ancient One arrived to observe; the Ancient One could not enter the space.
• Loki raised his golden scepter and asked Thanos if he was ready to face judgment.

Thanos countered Loki’s guaranteed-hit divine attack by revealing that it had destroyed a clone, then overwhelmed Loki’s weaker avatars with Crystal Release Clones. Loki disappeared amid the chaos, leaving Thanos searching for him.

• Loki struck Thanos with God's Judgment, and the blast left a huge crater as Loki believed Thanos had been reduced to ashes.
• Thanos appeared behind Loki and punched him, then revealed that Loki had destroyed a Crystal Release Clone.
• Thanos created more than a dozen Crystal Release Clones, while Loki summoned hundreds of golden avatars mixed with illusions.
• Thanos’s clones routed Loki’s avatars, but Loki vanished during the fight, and Thanos began searching for him.

Thanos and Loki fought to a final strike, with Thanos using powerful ninjutsu to trap Loki in a crystal-filled water prison. Just as Thanos was about to bite Loki, Fury intervened and summoned an army of strange weapons and warriors.

• Thanos used the Substitution Technique to evade Loki's spear, then wounded him with Chidori.
• Loki challenged Thanos to a final direct strike, drawing out a wisp of his Divine Flame as his ultimate move.
• Thanos trapped both of them in a Water Release: Water Prison Shark Dance and transformed his upper body into a shark.
• Loki burned away some of the water prison, but Thanos used the Crystallization Technique to compress the space around him.
• Thanos charged at Loki to bite him, but Fury intervened and summoned tanks, super-dimensional warriors, a Space Battleship, and bio-warriors carrying Jars.

Thanos told Fury and Tony that he had slaughtered half the life on countless worlds to appease Death, a universal embodiment of a law who could destroy the universe. Shen Mo confirmed that Death existed and said she was already a Senior Member, leaving Fury and Tony to confront the gulf between their strength and hers.

• Thanos stopped his attack on Loki, dismissed his summoned forces, and told Fury and Tony that even with the Infinity Stones they could not withstand him.
• Fury demanded proof of Thanos’s sincerity, and Thanos explained that Hela was not the true Death but only wielded some of Death’s power.
• Thanos described Death as the unique embodiment of the law of death across parallel universes, capable of destroying the universe and surpassing all the Infinity Stones.
• Fury asked the Merchant Guild for confirmation, and Shen Mo verified that Death existed and qualified as a Senior Member.
• Tony realized that he and Fury had encountered an opponent far beyond their level, and wondered how ordinary members could face a Senior Member.

Shen Mo reassured Tony and Fury that Death would not destroy the Multiverse lightly, and the group focused on stopping Hela, who Thanos suspected had become Death’s agent. Thanos took command of their response and chose the Frost Giants’ planet as the site of the final battle, leaving the allies to prepare for his full army to arrive.

• Shen Mo told Tony and Fury that Death would not destroy the Multiverse recklessly, and Tony concluded that membership in the Merchant Guild still offered hope.
• Tony identified Hela as their likely enemy, while Thanos argued that her continued use of Death Power would keep her under Death’s influence.
• Thanos arrived on Earth and argued with the Queen Mother, who said Asgard would fight Hela if necessary and would be more reliable than him.
• Thanos studied the star map and said Hela had conquered six planets and would target Earth after one more, making the Frost Giants’ planet their best defensive line.
• Tony agreed that they should fight on the Frost Giants’ planet, and Thanos declared that he would command the operation and send his entire army.

Tony accepted Thanos’s command of the war while secretly accelerating his plan to create Ultron with the Mind Stone. As Hela prepared to attack Jotunheim within thirteen days, Thanos’s defenses took shape, leaving Tony unsure whether he could finish Ultron in time.

• Fury supported leaving Thanos in command, and Tony left the meeting frustrated and went to his laboratory to speed up the Ultron project with Jarvis.
• Shen Mo watched Tony’s work, while Thanos secretly spied on the laboratory and learned about the Ultron plan.
• Thanos gathered his fleets at Jotunheim and built layered defenses, leading Tony to accept that Thanos’s strategic arrangements were the strongest option.
• Thanos told Tony that Hela’s attack would begin within thirteen days, and Tony realized he might not have enough time to complete Ultron.
• The war meeting continued as the group prepared for Hela’s swift, all-or-nothing campaign.

As the allied forces prepared for war against Hela outside Jotunheim, Thanos told Tony and the others that the Shi'a Empire had agreed to join them. The allies prepared to meet the empire's representatives under Thanos's leadership.

• Hela's army and the Thanos-Earth allied forces assembled outside Jotunheim, while the Frost Giants joined Thanos's side.
• Steve, Natasha, and the others questioned whether they could help in the space battle, and Thanos assured them that powerful fighters could make a difference.
• The Queen Mother noted that Asgard's former allies had been equipped with Asgardian technology and divine power, and Thanos warned that she lacked the perspective to command the war.
• Thanos received word that another group of allies had arrived and revealed that the Shi'a Empire had joined the coalition.
• Tony offered to meet the Shi'a Empire, and Thanos warned him to follow his lead and not jeopardize the alliance.

Thanos met with Shi'a Empire representatives to form an alliance against Hela and demanded that someone else lead their side. He explained that he wanted to keep the war under his control, then faced Steve's question about Dou Jian's unusual power.

• Tony and the others watched Thanos meet the Shi'a delegation, including Princess Salina and the Shi'a Imperial Guard captain Dou Jian, whom Thanos had defeated before.
• Thanos demanded that the Shi'a Empire replace Salina as the alliance's representative, and Dou Jian's threatening aura collapsed when Thanos used the Power Stone.
• Salina angrily left, while Thanos declared the matter settled and returned to the command center with Tony and the others.
• Thanos told Tony and Fury that he distrusted the Shi'a Empire's ambitions and wanted to prevent anyone from taking control of the war or the Nine Realms.
• Steve asked Thanos what had caused Dou Jian's power and aura to change.

Thanos launched a surprise assault on Hela’s forces and sent Dou Jian, Tony, and Loki to confront her. Dou Jian attacked first but found Hela far stronger than he expected, and his confidence faltered as she blocked his punch.

• Thanos explained that Dou Jian’s strength depended on his confidence, which Thanos had broken using the Infinity Stones.
• Thanos’s alliance ambushed Hela’s army, and Hela destroyed Shi’a warships with black spears.
• Thanos assigned the allied forces to other battlefields and took Dou Jian, Tony, and Loki to fight Hela.
• The four arrived to find Hela waiting atop a meteorite after wiping out the forces in her area.
• Dou Jian charged Hela, but she stopped his punch with a black sword and left his fist bleeding.

Thanos confirmed that Hela had become Death’s emissary, then removed and crushed the Power Stone to wield its power directly against her. Their fight escalated across the asteroid battlefield as Thanos’s crystal clones attacked, while Tony waited for his setup to finish.

• Thanos confined Hela, Tony, Loki, and the other combatants within a prepared asteroid battlefield while Dou Jian was restricted to watching.
• Thanos questioned Hela about the mission to create slaughter, and Hela revealed that she knew of Death and intended to surpass her.
• Thanos removed the Power Stone from his Infinity Gauntlet and endured its destructive energy by strengthening and crystallizing his body.
• Thanos struck Hela with a powerful punch, but she escaped serious injury by using the force to fly backward.
• Thanos created five crystal shadow clones, and the six attackers shattered asteroids as they surrounded Hela.
• Loki asked Tony whether they should join the fight, but Tony told him to wait while Jarvis finished the setup.

Tony and his allies prepared to imprison Hela in the Cage, using Loki as bait and Thanos's barrier to hold her in place. Hela was trapped inside overlapping barriers, but her attacks rapidly drained the defenses as Thanos compressed the space toward the Cage's area.

• Tony finished preparing the Cage, and Loki charged Hela to lure her to the designated location.
• Hela defeated Loki and cut him in two, but Loki revealed that his attack had been a deliberate part of the plan.
• Thanos used the Six Crimson Sun Array to trap Hela, while Loki escaped and Tony's forces formed a second barrier around her.
• Tony ordered the fleet and armor to fire as Thanos compressed the barriers and forced Hela toward the Cage.
• Hela focused her swords on one point in the Psionic Field, rapidly draining its energy as Tony urged Thanos to hurry.

Tony sacrificed himself to help imprison Hela, but she revealed that she was not Death’s emissary before vanishing with him inside the cage. The war ended in victory, while Thanos and Fury were left searching for the real emissary and new allies.

• After the Psionic Shield failed and the barrier began to crack, Tony redirected the Mecha’s energy into a charge against Hela while Thanos pushed her toward the cage.
• Tony tried to break away, but Hela grabbed him and said she was not Death’s emissary before both vanished inside the cage.
• Loki celebrated becoming King of Asgard, while Thanos worried about who Death’s real emissary could be.
• Fury asked where Tony was, and Thanos explained that Tony had chosen to sacrifice himself and repeated Hela’s claim that she was not the emissary.
• Loki offered to strengthen Asgard and said he had completed much of his mission, but Fury and Thanos prepared to return to Earth to seek answers and allies.

Thanos took control of Tony's unfinished Ultron project, altered its directives, and used the Mind Stone to awaken it as an artificial intelligence tasked with protecting life. Ultron began building factories and an army, and Fury confronted Thanos after the machines attacked his agents; Ultron then spoke through Fury's communicator.

• Pepper insisted on watching Thanos as he took her to Tony's laboratory to finish the Ultron project.
• Thanos disconnected the network, changed Ultron's directives to prioritize protecting the majority of life, and infused its intelligence with the Mind Stone.
• Ultron awakened, identified Thanos as its father, and began producing robots, weapons, and warships across Stark Industries' factories.
• Ultron took control of Stark Industries, imprisoned Jarvis, and sent robots to evade and attack Fury's agents, capturing some God-made beings produced by the Red Alert System.
• Fury confronted Thanos about the robots, and Ultron identified itself through Fury's communicator.