Recaps

Mordo, Kaecilius, and Natasha opened a portal to siphon energy from Dormammu’s Dark Dimension, only to discover that Ancient One was already provoking Dormammu there. Ancient One escaped after demonstrating her growing power, while the three disciples watched from their hidden portal.

• Dormammu sensed the disturbance as Mordo, Kaecilius, and Natasha prepared to close their portal, and they realized Ancient One was also in the Dark Dimension stealing energy.
• Kaecilius convinced the others that Dormammu would blame Ancient One for any energy loss, but Dormammu announced that he had caught her.
• Mordo turned the portal’s view toward the fight and saw Dormammu crush and devour Ancient One while Mordo and Kaecilius tried to rush to her aid.
• Ancient One emerged through another portal, enraged Dormammu with taunts, and used the Eye of Agamotto to collapse his giant dark form.
• Ancient One caught Dormammu’s punch, demanded he tolerate her energy gathering, then covered the disciples’ portal with a floating planet and escaped through another portal.
• Dormammu raged after Ancient One fled, then left the Dark Dimension resentfully.

Natasha accidentally sent Mordo into the Dark Dimension with a Golden Armored Warrior’s punch, and Kaecilius and Natasha followed to rescue him. Feng Xu let them face the danger as training, while his jade pendant protected them from death; after Dormammu appeared, Natasha used the Earth Deity to take the group underground.

• Natasha summoned a Golden Armored Warrior, which punched Mordo through the portal into the Dark Dimension.
• Kaecilius jumped in after Mordo, and Natasha followed after sending an immortal crane to alert Feng Xu and Ancient One.
• Feng Xu told Ancient One that the trio could use the Dark Dimension to gain experience and that Natasha’s jade pendant would protect them from mortal danger.
• Kaecilius found Mordo unconscious, and Natasha caught up with them on the drifting celestial body.
• Dormammu’s giant face appeared, so Natasha summoned the Earth Deity to take all three underground.

Natasha, Kaecilius, and Mordo hid in the Dark Dimension and cultivated while waiting for rescue. When Clea arrived and tried to introduce herself, they attacked and bound her, and she finally shouted that she had come to help because Dormammu had killed her father and exiled her mother.

• Tu Xingsun concealed Natasha, Kaecilius, and the unconscious Mordo from a powerful presence until it left, and Kaecilius woke Mordo.
• Natasha apologized for accidentally sending Mordo through the portal, while Kaecilius explained that they lacked Earth’s coordinates to open a portal home.
• The three decided to wait for rescue and cultivate the dense dark energy underground.
• Clea cut through the ground and entered their shelter, but Natasha, Kaecilius, and Mordo attacked before she could finish introducing herself.
• Clea drove back their blood and skeletal attacks briefly, but Tu Xingsun bound her with his Immortal-Binding Rope.
• Clea shouted that she had a grudge against Dormammu, who had killed her father and exiled her mother, and that she had come to help.

Natasha, Mordo, and Kaecilius captured Clea but accepted her claim that she hated Dormammu and might help them. Clea revealed that she could open dimensional barriers and was Dormammu’s niece, leaving the group wary of her true purpose.

• Clea convinced Natasha, Mordo, and Kaecilius to release her after claiming that Dormammu had killed her father and exiled her mother.
• Natasha judged from the Immortal-Binding Rope that Clea was telling the truth, and the three mages agreed to hear her out.
• Clea explained that she had watched Ancient One fight Dormammu and had followed Natasha and the others into the Dark Dimension.
• Clea told the group that eighteen hours had passed on Earth, making Natasha, Mordo, and Kaecilius fear they had been trapped there for too long.
• Clea tore open a dimensional barrier, shocking Mordo and Kaecilius, who demanded to know her identity and motives.
• Clea revealed that her mother was Dormammu’s younger sister, making Dormammu her uncle.

Clea recounted how Dormammu seized the Dark World and drove her into exile, then asked Natasha, Mordo, and Kaecilius for help joining Kamar-Taj. She learned that Kamar-Taj had become the Ethereal Ascension Sect, which taught cultivation instead of magic, and Natasha began explaining its practices.

• Clea told Natasha, Mordo, and Kaecilius how Dormammu took control of the Dark World, killed her father, and hunted her because she could inherit the throne.
• Natasha and Kaecilius sympathized with Clea, while Mordo asked what she wanted from them.
• Clea asked to join Kamar-Taj as the Sorcerer Supreme's disciple so she could learn powerful magic, and the group agreed to help within reason.
• Natasha warned Clea that Ancient One was a bad teacher, and Mordo explained that Kamar-Taj had been renamed the Ethereal Ascension Sect and now taught cultivation.
• Clea connected the sect's cultivation to the powerful attack she had witnessed, and Natasha offered to explain cultivation and unlocking the body's hidden potential.

Clea brought Natasha and the others toward Earth, but Dormammu redirected their portal to the Moon and attacked them. A mysterious golden-light phantom appeared, crushed Dormammu with a single command, and left Clea wondering whether it was a creator god.

• Clea opened a portal that brought her and Natasha's group to the Moon instead of Earth, and she realized Dormammu had interfered with it.
• Dormammu appeared above the Moon, revealed that he had set a trap for Clea, and fired a devastating beam at Natasha and the others.
• Clea cried out as the beam struck, but a golden-light phantom appeared and immobilized her with its overwhelming aura.
• The phantom said, "Scram," and Dormammu's nebula disintegrated as his body collapsed and his flames went out.
• Clea stared at the phantom and asked whether it was a creator god.

Natasha and her companions explained Feng Xu’s power and the protective jade pendant to Clea as Dormammu escaped. Feng Xu’s phantom repaired the moon before the group returned to face punishment, with Natasha hoping Clea’s discovery would earn her leniency.

• Natasha told Clea that Feng Xu was her teacher and the sect master, while Mordo and Kaecilius explained Ancient One’s role in the sect.
• Natasha revealed that Feng Xu’s jade pendant had protected them, and Clea urged her to use its phantom to kill Dormammu.
• Natasha explained that the phantom only acted to protect them, while Kaecilius encouraged Clea to join the sect and grow strong enough to challenge Dormammu.
• Dormammu escaped through a portal, and Feng Xu’s phantom used the Time Law to restore the moon and its orbit before dissipating.
• Mordo opened a portal to take the group back for punishment, but Natasha grabbed Clea and went through first, hoping that finding a potential new disciple would reduce her penalty.

Clea arrived at the Ethereal Ascension Sect with Natasha, Mordo, and Kaecilius, then eagerly asked Feng Xu to accept her as a disciple. Feng Xu offered Clea a test to resolve a coming disaster caused by their actions, while Natasha received punishment for leaving confinement.

• Wong confronted Natasha about returning from outside, and Natasha blamed Mordo and Kaecilius for leading them into the Dark Dimension.
• Ancient One summoned Natasha and Clea to meet Feng Xu, while Wong sent Mordo and Kaecilius to the Enforcement Hall for punishment.
• Clea bowed before Feng Xu and asked to become his disciple, but Ancient One said Clea had arrived too early and that her joining the sect should happen in the future.
• Feng Xu offered Clea admission if she resolved a coming disaster caused by their actions, and Clea looked to Natasha for help.
• Feng Xu punished Natasha by withholding her Spirit Stone allowance for half a year and ordering her to copy the sect rules one thousand times, then ordered Mordo and Kaecilius punished as well.

A mysterious force awakened Malekith and the Dark Elves, while loosening the Aether seal on Earth and obscuring Heimdall’s vision. Odin sent Thor and Loki to Midgard to protect the seal, then went to seek Frigga’s help and planned to visit Ancient One.

• A surge of power awakened Malekith and the Dark Elves inside their hidden warship in the asteroid belt, and Malekith vowed to reclaim the Aether.
• Heimdall told Odin that the Dark Elves had awakened, the Aether seal on Midgard had loosened, and an unknown force and Kamar-Taj were beyond his sight.
• Odin ordered Thor and Loki to go to Midgard and protect the Aether seal, hoping the dangerous mission would help them mature.
• Thor rushed out of the palace to face the enemy, leaving Loki behind as Odin headed to Frigga to seek her magic and prepare to visit Ancient One.

Odin visited Kamar-Taj, now renamed the Ethereal Ascension Sect, and discovered that Ancient One and her followers practiced a strange new power called cultivation. After Odin refused to join, Ancient One restrained his illusion and dragged him inside for a tour.

• Malekith learned that the seal's entrance connected to Midgard had loosened and ordered Algrim to leave for Midgard to obtain the Aether before Asgard could act.
• Odin arrived at the Ethereal Ascension Sect and was astonished by its immense energy and Ancient One's bizarre appearances in a cat, the mountain gate, and other objects.
• Ancient One told Odin that the Darkhold and Book of Vishanti had been thrown into an interdimensional node, and that a powerful being had taught the sect cultivation.
• Ancient One assured Odin that someone from the sect had been sent to handle his two sons' troubles and invited him to join to address his lifespan and physical problems.
• Odin refused the invitation, but Ancient One restrained his illusion and dragged him into the sect for a tour.

S.H.I.E.L.D. took over the anomalous RUNICO Shipping Company warehouse, where agents discovered warped gravity and an abyss-like doorway that pulled in nearby objects. As they investigated, something crashed into buildings outside and attacked the police cordon.

• The London police commissioner handed the sealed warehouse over to Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D., where Yelena briefed them on the spatial and gravitational anomalies.
• Yelena showed Coulson and the agents that a cargo rack could float, then demonstrated that objects fell endlessly through a stairwell gap and sometimes disappeared.
• Yelena identified a boarded-up door as a possible source of the anomaly and warned the agents to open it only slightly.
• The agents pried open the boards, triggering a powerful suction that pulled dust, debris, and Sylvie's glasses into the dark gap before they shut it again.
• A crash outside brought down buildings, and agents called for backup and opened fire on the unknown threat.

Dark Elves attacked London while S.H.I.E.L.D. sent Alexei to fight their aircraft. After Malekith transformed Algrim into a Cursed Warrior, Algrim struck Alexei down.

• Coulson warned S.H.I.E.L.D. of an alien invasion as Malekith's warship and escort aircraft attacked London.
• Nick Fury ordered the Avengers and Quinjets into action and instructed agents to contact the people inside the three buildings.
• Alexei leaped between escort aircraft and destroyed three of them, alarming Malekith with his strength.
• Malekith implanted an Aether fragment in Algrim, transforming him into a Cursed Warrior.
• Alexei bragged to Yelena about his strength, but Algrim dropped from the sky and smashed him into the ground.

Yelena and Alexei fought Algrim until Thor arrived with Loki and Asgardian soldiers to face the Dark Elves. Thor was quickly thrown into Loki, then insisted he felt no pain and had grown stronger.

• Yelena attacked Algrim to free Alexei, but Algrim grabbed her until Alexei broke free and kicked him back.
• Algrim battered Alexei, then threw a Black Hole Grenade that pulled Alexei and Yelena toward a singularity.
• Thor arrived and rescued Alexei and Yelena, though he accidentally sent them crashing into rubble.
• Loki arrived with Thor's guards and Asgardian soldiers as the Dark Elves turned their attack on them.
• Algrim knocked Thor's hammer aside and hurled Thor into Loki, after which Thor claimed his body had grown stronger.

Thor tried to protect Loki, then fought Algrim and was rescued by Alexei before Algrim knocked him down. Meanwhile, Natasha and Clea arrived at the London Sanctum and were told to complete their master's test quickly because the situation outside was critical.

• Thor realized he had mistaken Loki's attention-seeking pranks for hostility and promised to protect him, but Algrim sent Loki flying.
• Thor struck Algrim with a lightning-charged blow, but Algrim regenerated and grabbed Thor by the throat.
• Algrim knocked the injured royal guards unconscious, and Alexei rescued Thor with his shield.
• Thor and Alexei tried to attack Algrim together, but Thor's lightning also shocked Alexei, and Algrim slapped Thor into the ground.
• Natasha and Clea arrived at the London Sanctum, where a mage urged them to complete their master's test before the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents outside tore the Sanctum apart.

Natasha and Clea left the Sanctum after learning that S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Yelena and Alexei, were fighting the Dark Elves. Natasha arrived on the battlefield just as Algrim was about to kill Alexei, and confronted him after finding her father badly beaten.

• Natasha learned that Yelena and Alexei were among the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents involved in the Dark Elf invasion and rushed out of the Sanctum with Clea.
• Malekith gave three Cursed Stones to his guards, who transformed and overwhelmed the Asgardian soldiers as he headed for the warehouse containing the Aether.
• Yelena told Alexei that Natasha was coming, and Alexei distracted Thor by boasting about Natasha's summoning ability.
• Algrim knocked Thor away, then beat Alexei severely and prepared to deliver a final blow.
• Natasha arrived on the Golden Armored Warrior, knocked Algrim aside, and confronted him while Clea warned him that he had hurt Natasha's father.

Natasha and Clea overwhelmed the Dark Elves, and Natasha’s Golden Armored Warriors killed Algrim before turning on the remaining enemy forces. As Thor searched for Loki, Loki revealed that a dangerous power was overtaking him and urged Thor to summon the Rainbow Bridge, but someone had already broken free.

• Natasha summoned five Golden Armored Warriors, who seized Algrim while Clea held off three Cursed Warriors with telekinetically hurled rubble.
• Thor returned to the battlefield, where Coulson introduced S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Avengers and gave him a business card.
• Natasha reunited with Yelena, and Clea interrupted their embrace by threatening to withhold the two thousand copies she had made.
• Natasha ordered her Golden Armored Warriors to tear Algrim apart and attack the other Dark Elves and Cursed Warriors.
• Loki appeared behind Thor with dark energy overtaking him and urged Thor to call down the Rainbow Bridge, then warned that someone had already escaped.

Loki’s stolen Aether returned to Malekith, who used it to attack the Asgardians and Thor. Natasha and the Golden Armored Warriors intervened, and four warriors struck Malekith down as the uncontrolled Aether dissipated.

• Loki warned Thor that the Dark Elf leader was taking back the Aether, but Thor’s lightning only scattered it into crystals that flew to Malekith.
• Malekith absorbed the Aether, transformed, and vowed to destroy the Asgardians before bringing eternal darkness to the realms.
• Natasha confronted Thor and Loki about the Infinity Stone, and Loki revealed that Malekith had taken it.
• Thor charged Malekith but was badly wounded by the Aether until Natasha and five Golden Armored Warriors scattered the particles.
• Four Golden Armored Warriors vanished from Natasha’s side and attacked Malekith, crushing him and the ground as the uncontrolled Aether dissipated.

Natasha used Clea’s dark energy to empower her thunder summons against Malekith, whose Aether-protected body had resisted the Golden Armored Warriors. She left Malekith barely alive after unleashing the Thirty-Six Thunder Punishment.

• Loki warned Natasha and Clea that Malekith’s Aether particles could only be harmed by powerful energy attacks and that he was growing stronger.
• Clea offered Natasha dark energy, and Natasha dismissed the Golden Armored Warriors when Malekith’s particles blasted them away.
• Natasha summoned Tu Xingsun’s Immortal-Binding Rope, which bound Malekith and slammed him to the ground.
• Natasha called down the Thunder Department generals, whose lightning struck Malekith, but he healed and boasted that Bor had needed ten times as much power to defeat his kind.
• Natasha summoned thirty-six thunder generals to unleash the Heavenly Thunder Formation, leaving Malekith charred, torn apart, and barely breathing.

Natasha and Clea defeated Malekith and recovered the Reality Stone before the Asgardians returned home. Natasha invited Yelena to seek cultivation at the Ethereal Ascension Sect, then left with Clea as Coulson received a report of a rampaging green monster.

• Loki mocked Thor for losing his hammer, while Thor threatened him and Loki suggested a war against the Frost Giants.
• Clea used telekinesis to extract the Reality Stone from Malekith, who died as his body crumbled to ash.
• Clea restored the dark red crystals into a semi-solid gem and gave it to Natasha, who was eager to bring it back to Feng Xu.
• Thor and Loki thanked Natasha and Clea, then returned to Asgard with their soldiers; Natasha invited Yelena to visit the Ethereal Ascension Sect and explained its selection and cultivation process to Coulson.
• Natasha and Clea left through a portal, leaving the alien spacecraft to Coulson, who then received a report of a green monster rampaging through the streets.

Natasha and Clea returned from their trial with the Reality Stone, and Feng Xu accepted Clea as his disciple, awakening her Falt flame ability and giving her a Spatial Bracelet. After sending them to cultivate, Feng Xu examined the Reality Stone and considered exploring this world to learn more about its laws.

• Natasha and Clea reported that they had defeated the aliens, saved Earth, and brought back the Reality Stone, and Feng Xu told Natasha to cultivate diligently instead of punishing her severely.
• Feng Xu accepted Clea as his disciple, and Clea performed the initiation ceremony and served him tea.
• Feng Xu awakened Clea's Falt flame ability and gave her a Spatial Bracelet containing Spirit Stones and a basic cultivation manual.
• Natasha asked for a Spatial Bracelet, and Feng Xu told her she could claim one from Artifact Refining Peak after reaching the Qi Refining Stage.
• After Natasha and Clea left to cultivate, Feng Xu examined the Reality Stone and decided he needed to explore the world and study its laws.

Clea chose the Six-Ding Nine-Turn Elixir Refining Scripture, a top-tier cultivation technique for refining pills, and Natasha and Hamir eagerly tried to claim her for Alchemy Peak. Natasha took the pills Hamir offered and whisked Clea off to arrange her residence there.

• A jade slip containing the Six-Ding Nine-Turn Elixir Refining Scripture jumped into Clea's hand, and she read about its divine flames and pill formulas.
• Natasha celebrated Clea's potential as an elixir refiner, but Clea tried to return the jade slip because she wanted a technique for dealing damage herself.
• Natasha reminded Clea that she could not exchange a technique after choosing it, then registered the jade slip with Hamir.
• Hamir recognized the Scripture as a top-tier elixir refining technique and offered Clea a place at Alchemy Peak, along with several pills.
• Natasha pocketed Hamir's pills and persuaded Clea to let her keep them, then summoned a Golden Armored Warrior and set off with Clea for Alchemy Peak.

A month after the Reality Stone was added to the sect’s Spirit-Gathering Formation, Natasha and Clea dealt with Dormammu shutting their portals and investigated Thor’s hammer after it landed in Kamar-Taj. Natasha infused the hammer with spiritual power and lifted it, leaving its connection to her unexplained.

• Clea advanced quickly in cultivation but told Natasha she was still far from refining the Body Tempering Pills Natasha wanted.
• Natasha opened repeated portals into the Dark Dimension, and Dormammu shut each one from his side.
• Thor’s hammer fell into Kamar-Taj, and Natasha and Clea went to see what had arrived.
• Kaecilius and Mordo both tried and failed to lift the hammer with their strength.
• Natasha wrapped the hammer in spiritual power, awakened its magical patterns, and lifted it with ease.

Natasha lifted Thor's Hammer using spiritual power and gained Thor's Power, while Thor in New Mexico felt as if he had lost something precious. The chapter left Thor pinned by punks until a woman called the police and they fled.

• Natasha lifted Thor's Hammer with spiritual power, gaining Thor's Armor and the ability to command lightning.
• Natasha let go of the hammer after realizing Thor's Power was overwhelming and did not belong to her, and she explained the hammer's power to Clea.
• Clea reached for Thor's Hammer as Mordo and Kaecilius learned that its original owner was Thor, the prince of Asgard.
• In Puente Antiguo, Thor felt an inexplicable sense of loss and anger as punks cornered him and demanded money.
• Thor punched the punk leader, but the punks pinned him against a dumpster until a woman called the police and they ran away.

Jane Foster, Erik Selvig, and Daisy Lewis sheltered Thor after rescuing him, and Thor explained that he had arrived through Asgard’s Rainbow Bridge. After Jane told him his hammer had flown east, Thor set out to retrieve it, but Agent Coulson arrived and recognized him.

• Jane, Erik, and Daisy discussed Thor’s unusual arrival and watched him emerge from the bathroom.
• Thor told them that he was Thor Odinson of Asgard and said the magnetic storm passage was the Rainbow Bridge.
• Jane and Thor grew close before Jane showed him a photograph of the hammer that had flown away.
• Jane told Thor the hammer had gone east, and Thor announced that they should retrieve it.
• Agent Coulson arrived and recognized Thor as Thor Odinson of Asgard.

Thor reunited with Coulson and explained how Odin banished him after the failed Frost Giant mission. He learned that his trial required him to train at Kamar-Taj and earn Mjolnir’s recognition, and left with Coulson to go there.

• Thor greeted Coulson, then recounted how he and Loki had planned to attack the Frost Giants and how Odin punished and banished them.
• Thor remembered Odin had sent Mjolnir to Kamar-Taj and said he needed to train there to regain his power.
• Coulson invited Thor to return to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters before traveling to Kamar-Taj with two others who were going there.
• When S.H.I.E.L.D. agents began taking Jane’s research materials, Daisy alerted Thor and Coulson, and Coulson ordered the agents to return them.
• Thor promised Jane he would come back to see her, then left with Coulson for S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.