Chapter Summaries

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.