Chapter Summaries

Ian proposed strengthening Asgard, training Loki, and using a contest with Hela to reunite Odin’s family and prepare for an approaching crisis. Frigga and Odin considered his plan, and Loki agreed to go to Midgard for magical training, unaware that Frigga expected him to suffer.

• Ian advised Odin and Frigga to strengthen Asgard’s military, train Thor, increase their allies, and let him train Loki.
• Ian proposed luring Hela into a contest against Thor, with the winner taking the throne and the loser bound by a magical contract.
• Odin and Frigga discussed Ian’s plan, and Odin decided to speak with Hela while Frigga planned to ask Loki about training.
• Ian scanned the books in Asgard’s Library and absorbed their knowledge through Morgana.
• Frigga offered Loki magical training on Midgard, and Loki agreed while suspecting he could use the opportunity to approach Ian.

Ian and Morgana analyzed the Odinforce and Odin’s healing bed, then devised a treatment plan to prevent his body from collapsing. Ian also considered recreating the Odinforce but agreed to add it to their already lengthy to-do list.

• Ian and Morgana analyzed the Odinforce and concluded that its destructive energy had fused dangerously with the Faith sustaining Odin.
• Ian proposed creating an energy suited to himself, but Morgana listed their many unfinished projects, so Ian added the idea to their to-do list.
• Odin took Ian to the bedroom where he underwent Odin’s Sleep, and Ian examined its advanced healing technology.
• Morgana identified Cosmic Will Technology in Odin’s bed and discovered a rune that used magic resembling mystic arts.
• Ian and Morgana planned to suppress the Faith Poison and improve the bedroom’s healing process before Ian presented Odin and Frigga with a detailed treatment plan.

Ian treated Odin's Faith Poison, upgraded his sleep chamber, and then visited the Dwarves of Nidavellir before bringing Loki to Earth. He began Loki's training by revealing his Frost Giant origins and showing him a possible future, leaving Loki shaken and uncertain about what events might still come to pass.

• Ian concentrated Odin's Faith Poison in his right arm with a potion, amputated the arm, and upgraded the sleep chamber to help revive Odin's Soulfire.
• Ian told Odin that his final treatment step would transform him into a Pure Energy Lifeform and left him a virtual-reality headset to practice the process.
• Ian visited Nidavellir, met King Eitri, exchanged forging and enchanting techniques with the Dwarves, and built a relationship with them.
• Ian returned to Earth with Loki and assigned him a cramped room, then began his training the next morning by revealing that Loki was an abandoned Frost Giant.
• Loki attacked Ian after learning his origins, but Ian bound him and challenged him to consider whether Odin and Frigga loved him.
• Ian showed Loki events from Earth-616, including Loki's death, and explained that some events could remain unavoidable despite the timeline's divergence.

Ian showed Loki a universe he had created, demonstrating the power and responsibility magic could hold. After seeing powerful variants of himself across the Multiverse, Loki asked Ian to teach him, but Ian said he first had to learn reverence for power.

• Loki blamed himself for his family's tragedies, and Ian told him to see a psychologist before taking him to the Mirror Dimension.
• Ian brought Loki to his magic tower and showed him a newly created universe, where Morgana formed cosmic structures and created life.
• Ian revealed that the experiment would help him develop his willpower and study the Cosmic Will, with plans to create more universes.
• Ian showed Loki powerful variants of himself across the Multiverse, and Loki recognized his own potential.
• Loki asked Ian to teach him, and Ian agreed while warning that Loki was not yet ready and needed to learn reverence for power.

Ian began Loki’s illusion-magic training, making him study in an endless library and explaining how sorcerers earned access to its knowledge. Loki discovered he was only an intermediate illusionist and learned what it would take to reach higher levels before Ian led him to the next stage of training.

• Ian fastened a punitive watch on Loki, chose illusion magic as his focus, and gave him three days to study its introductory books in the Gate of Truth’s library.
• The Ancient One visited Ian, discussed his agreements with Odin and the dwarves, and said she was heading to Lagos after finishing the Antarctic Sanctum.
• Ian ended Loki’s library session after three days and explained that he would need to earn points through dangerous missions to trade for more reading time.
• Loki described the library’s systematic lessons and learned that he was an intermediate illusionist, about halfway through the level.
• Ian explained that Limit Level and Conceptual Level came after master, warned Loki against becoming a god of faith, and took him to the next part of his training.

Ian began Loki’s harsh training, pairing him with Mage Barduk and using painful meditation to temper his body and soul. Loki gained a first glimpse of Battle Aura, but Ian barred him from the Library for six months and warned that failing to meet expectations would end his training.

• Ian made Loki fight Mage Barduk without magic, and Barduk defeated him in three rounds despite Loki’s growing focus and use of daggers.
• Ian explained that he had accelerated Barduk’s training in the Time Acceleration Chamber and appointed him as Loki’s daily sparring partner.
• Ian taught Loki a flame-and-metal meditation technique that caused intense pain, then showed him how hammering and breathing could speed his recovery.
• Loki endured two hours of meditation and recovery training, learned to condense Battle Aura, and found that it helped him use and weaponize his strength.
• Ian set Loki a daily schedule of meditation, sparring, and psychological treatment, and told him he could not enter the Library for six months unless he met Ian’s expectations.

Ian considered Loki’s role in the merging timelines, then completed a Vibranium trade with Wakanda and advanced his Dragon Heart and Speed Force projects. Morgana’s upgrade revealed Vibranium’s potential to transform the Empire’s materials and enable the Ea Project, while Ian prepared to mine more of it.

• Ian speculated that Loki’s role as God of Stories might be connected to the coming fusion of Marvel and DC timelines.
• Ian traded Photon Crystals with King T’Chaka for Vibranium and signed Wakanda’s contract.
• Ian used the Time Stone and Soul Stone to advance his Soul Divinity and build a Dragon Heart that could store mana.
• Ian completed the Speed Force installation, converting Morgana’s Speed Attribute into a Thought Speed Attribute.
• Morgana analyzed the Vibranium and found that it could improve most materials, help Floating Cities resist Void Energy, and make the Ea Project possible.
• Ian ordered Golems to mine Vibranium deposits in nearby star systems and agreed that they should avoid large-scale interference in the Multiverse.

Ian reviewed Netheril’s location, Albion’s capture, his growing power, and developments across his organizations, then synchronized with his clone as Tony Stark’s disappearance became the main concern. The chapter left Ian offering Fury help while S.H.I.E.L.D. investigated Stark’s whereabouts.

• Ian and Morgana found Netheril but postponed reclaiming it, then discovered Albion had been captured by The Ancient One after fighting the Avengers on Earth-125.
• Ian learned he had energy equivalent to twenty-seven universes and used the Akashic Records to discover the thresholds for Tier 11 and the existence of Perfect Tier 11.
• Morgana told Ian that Dark Kamar-Taj had been established, Kaecilius had recruited more than 150 mages, Mordo would return soon, and Loki had reached the peak of Tier 5.
• Ian synchronized with his clone, who had become deputy minister of the World Security Council, and asked Fury about Tony Stark’s disappearance.
• Fury told Ian that S.H.I.E.L.D. knew little so far and did not need assistance, and Ian ended the call.

Ian learned that Mephisto had used Kaecilius’s family to reach Earth and steal the Tesseract, while freeing Hydra from Ian’s control. Unable to find Mephisto or Hydra afterward, Ian planned to investigate their connection and keep the Hell lord occupied.

• Ian reviewed Thor’s progress, then considered building alliances with Wakanda, Talokan, the Noah Dimension, and Ta Lo.
• Morgana reported that Brock Rumlow and a group of Hydra agents had stolen the Tesseract after breaching Ian’s systems.
• Ian tracked Rumlow to an unknown base, where Mephisto revealed himself and said Kaecilius’s family had helped him reach Earth.
• Ian fought Mephisto, dispersed his flames, and recovered the Tesseract after burning off one of Mephisto’s hands, but Mephisto and Rumlow escaped.
• Morgana reported that Hydra’s agents and bases had disappeared and left a message about Hydra growing two heads for every one cut off.
• At Kamar-Taj, Ian decided to investigate the connection between Kaecilius and Mephisto and find a way to keep Mephisto occupied.

Ian discovered that Mephisto had secretly claimed Adria and her child’s souls, then learned Wanda and her brother had gone missing. He built a Time Protection Force to defend the timeline and prepared to test it by retrieving Albion.

• Ian learned that Adria’s ritual had bound her and her child’s souls to Mephisto, who had nearly entered the Material World before she stopped him.
• Morgana confirmed that the timeline differed from their expectations, including the absence of the Defenders Alliance and several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, and Ian discovered that Wanda and her brother were missing.
• Ian corrupted the souls of highly sinful people across the planet and universe, leaving a message for Mephisto to distract the lords of Hell.
• Ian activated a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. facility and established the Time Protection Force, appointing the powerful Kryptonian Ra as its leader.
• Ian opened a portal to another timeline to test the force’s capabilities and bring Albion back.

Nick Fury learned that Hydra had escaped Ian’s control and was told to focus on finding Tony Stark. On Earth-125, Ian fought The Ancient One and ended the battle by severing her connection to the Dark Dimension.

• Maria Hill told Nick Fury that all traces of the incident had been erased.
• Ian sent Fury files revealing Hydra’s deep infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. and explained that an unknown force had disrupted his operation to control Hydra.
• Ian instructed Fury to find Tony Stark, saying his return would usher in a new era.
• On Earth-125, Ian confronted The Ancient One, who challenged him over the danger his associate had brought to the planet.
• The Ancient One unleashed powerful Dark Dimension and Time Stone attacks, but Ian countered them and survived her assault.
• Ian vanished the sphere of power in The Ancient One’s hands and removed her Dark Dimension Mark, weakening her.

Ian rescued Albion, combined his Time Stone with another gem to strengthen it, and recruited the Dragon King as his subordinate. He then defeated the heroes who confronted them, captured Wanda for study, plundered the universe’s resources, and returned home.

• Ian merged two gems, strengthening their time energy and connection to the Law of Time, then freed Albion and healed him.
• Albion recognized Ian’s Tier 10 strength and agreed to serve him, asking Ian to free him from his bloodline’s control and spare other dragons when possible.
• Rhodey, Wanda, Vision, Hulk, Sam, Black Panther, and Thor confronted Ian and Albion, but Ian killed most of them and captured Vision and Wanda.
• Ian extracted Vision’s Mind Stone, analyzed Wanda’s Chaos Magic, and knocked her unconscious to keep as an experimental subject.
• Ian plundered resources and artifacts from Wakanda, Talokan, Asgard, and other forces, took the universe’s Infinity Stones, and left the Darkhold untouched.
• Ian returned home.

After learning that his multiversal journey had triggered a merge between Earth and Earth-125, Ian gathered allies to test what happened if a universe was destroyed before Fusion. The test ended with Earth-125’s survivors erased and its energy absorbed by Earth, so Ian proposed reincarnating on another Earth to gather more intelligence.

• Ian learned from Ra that Earth had begun merging with Earth-125 after his multiversal travels.
• Ian asked The Ancient One, Frigga, and Odin to help investigate what would happen if a universe were destroyed before merging, and he gave The Ancient One a Space Stone.
• Ian and the others attacked Earth-125 from the Blank Domain with Ra, the Destroyer, The Ancient One, and Ian unleashing powerful attacks that destroyed much of the universe.
• An unknown force killed Earth-125’s surviving beings and turned them into golden energy that merged with Earth, leading The Ancient One to suspect that destroyed universes became fuel for another.
• Ian proposed sending part of his soul to be reincarnated on another Earth so he could create a Fusion and gather more information.

Ian tested reincarnation across timelines and confirmed it did not trigger Fusion, then outlined the Speedster Plan. Odin agreed to expand Valhalla into other timelines in exchange for a spell and promised help as the threat from Mephisto and Hydra forced them to accelerate their preparations.

• Ian used Morgana’s new ability to find weak timelines and tested his reincarnation spell on Earth-777 and other universes, confirming that it worked without causing Fusion.
• Ian proposed the Speedster Plan, and Odin offered to expand Valhalla’s influence across timelines by sending his people to take control of other Valhallas.
• Ian agreed to teach Odin’s wife the spell in exchange for five captured mid-tier Demon Gods, and The Ancient One volunteered to help track them.
• Ian asked about Thor’s training, and Odin said Thor was ready and offered help against Mephisto after Ian explained the Hydra situation.
• The Ancient One left to track the Demon Gods, Ra returned to the Bureau, and Ian began the Speedster Plan.

Ian reincarnated on a world once conquered by Thanos, strengthened his soul and body, and built a new Gate of Truth. After taking the Power Stone, he created Nara by merging a powerful soul with a quantum computer, preparing to continue the Speedster Plan.

• Ian transformed from a newborn into an adult, erased the nurses' and a guard's memories, and left the hospital.
• Ian took control of Sir Louiek's estate and used magic arrays to absorb Demons, reaching a purified Tier 6 soul and creating a new Gate of Truth.
• Ian searched for a nearby advanced civilization, took control of a Nova Empire laboratory, and built a miniature quantum computer.
• Ian traveled to Morag, obtained the Power Stone, and used its energy to create a Tier 10 soul.
• Ian fused the soul and quantum computer with his own, named the resulting assistant Nara, and began testing it.

Ian gathered all six Infinity Stones, used them and the Dwarves to build a Multiverse-spanning Speed Force, then began recruiting people to serve as Speedsters. He ended by presenting more than twenty million abducted people with a fabricated story about a war against the Dark Speed God and asking them to choose whether to join his temple.

• Ian retrieved the Soul Stone, Reality Stone, Mind Stone, Space Stone, and Time Stone, killing an Asgardian force and learning from The Ancient One about Agamotto’s Fall.
• Ian took vibranium from Wakanda and Talokan, seized the Dwarves, and used the Stones and their skills to construct a new Speed Force.
• Ian and Nara found that clones made from Barry’s DNA could not gain super speed, so Ian ordered them to locate people with any Speed Force affinity.
• Ian ordered Nara to establish the Red Guardian Temple, create an affinity potion from Barry’s DNA, and brainwash recruits into believing they were defending the Multiverse from Azeroth.
• Ian brought more than twenty million people to Planet Redsun, showed them a fabricated history of the Speed Force war, and asked whether they would stay to become Speedsters or return home.

Ian recruited and trained millions of people as Speedsters, but the Dark Priest attacked and abducted seven million survivors before the Initiation Ceremony. After twenty years of training and modifying the collapsing Speed Force, Ian sent eighteen million Speedsters into other timelines to force Fusion and gather data for reaching Tier 11.

• The Dark Priest and his Dark Speedsters attacked, abducted seven million people, and left Ian badly wounded.
• Ian completed the Initiation Ceremony, giving the remaining recruits super speed and the Guardian God's divine blood.
• Ian discovered that the Speed Force was collapsing under the strain, so he used energy from the Infinity Stones and modified it to absorb dimensional energy.
• Ian trained the recruits for twenty years inside a Time Bubble and expanded their ranks to eighteen million through a rescue mission.
• The eighteen million Speedsters entered other timelines to force Fusion, while Ian of Earth-304 planned to recruit more people and discreetly send the experiment's data to his original body.

Ian reviewed Morgana’s experiments and new system for ranking universes, then investigated an anomaly that had brought Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Matt Murdock into the timeline. The chapter left Ian considering whether their arrival was a reward meant to strengthen the universe’s chances of survival.

• Loki watched Ian’s actions unravel the Multiverse and decided he wanted new stories and possibilities beyond it.
• Ian and Morgana reviewed encrypted data from their experiments on the minds and power of Tier 11 entities.
• Morgana explained her universe classification system, including Tier 4 worlds with Tier 11 entities and her discovery of Earth-666.
• Ra showed Ian an anomaly caused by a Fusion and the destruction of a universe, prompting Ian to investigate.
• Ian found Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Matt Murdock in a timeline where they had not existed before, and Morgana suggested their arrival might strengthen the universe.

Ian sought to prepare heroes for an approaching universal Fusion and revealed the danger to Wakanda in a formal meeting witnessed by Bastet. He offered to share advanced technology in exchange for Vibranium and access to Wakanda’s future inventions.

• Ian and Morgana discussed upgrading street-level heroes and recruiting them as a reconnaissance team, so Ian left a clone to influence their lives.
• Ian traveled to Wakanda, where King T'Chaka gathered the queen and advisors for an official meeting.
• Ian summoned Bastet and secured her oath of secrecy before showing the Wakandans a vision of the coming Fusion.
• Bastet confirmed that Fusion was real, and T'Chaka asked what Wakanda could do to survive it.
• Ian offered Wakanda technology to prepare for the disaster in exchange for Vibranium and the right to share all future technologies Wakanda developed.

Ian gave Wakanda advanced technology in exchange for an alliance against the coming disaster, while Bastet empowered T'Chaka with ancestral wisdom. After Namor refused to help, Ian destroyed Talokan and collected its Vibranium and biological data before heading to the Nova Empire.

• Ian gave Wakandan scientists lessons that helped them understand his advanced technology, and King T'Chaka accepted his offer to prepare Wakanda for the coming war.
• Bastet gave T'Chaka an emblem granting access to the ancestors' wisdom and recommended making the Heart-Shaped Herb available to all Wakandans.
• Ian and Wakanda signed a contract, and Ian handed over the promised technology, including Techno-Wizard technology.
• Ian warned Namor about the coming disaster, but Namor refused to involve Talokan in the surface world's affairs.
• Ian knocked Namor unconscious, killed the Talokans, collected their Vibranium, and recorded their Life Codes and other data.
• Ian erased Namor's body and soul, then left for the Nova Empire.