Recaps

Mai Shiranui and 2B tested their new powers in a close-range clash before Loren ordered them to switch to an energy contest. The chapter ended as 2B’s Pale Nova collided with Mai’s Karmic Fire Red Lotus in the testing ground.

• Mai Shiranui attacked 2B with a flaming blade, and 2B met it with a sword formed from the Eternal Flame.
• 2B fired an Annihilation Pulse at point-blank range, but Mai dodged and kicked her back, leaving both fighters damaged and standing.
• Loren ordered the combatants to change tactics and make the fight an energy clash.
• 2B formed a sphere of Eternal Flame and blue energy circuits called the Pale Nova.
• Mai Shiranui created the nine-petaled Karmic Fire Red Lotus Calamity, and it collided with 2B’s Pale Nova.

2B and Mai Shiranui fought to a draw in a test of their newly demonstrated Sub-Skyfather-level power, and Loren ended the match after assessing their performance. Tsunade then pointed out that Mai still needed a maximum sprint test.

• 2B and Mai Shiranui's energy attacks collided, creating a huge crater and driving both fighters back.
• Loren reviewed the combat data and ended the test, noting that both fighters remained capable of continuing.
• 2B and Mai Shiranui praised each other's abilities as Loren, Wanda, and Tsunade entered the arena.
• Loren judged the draw acceptable and told them to keep honing their power, skills, and experience.
• Tsunade announced that Mai had not yet completed the maximum sprint test, leaving Loren stunned.

Loren oversaw the final stage of building Astraea, an Angeloid designed for extreme speed and close-combat power. As her body took shape, he began infusing her consciousness, leaving her wings of light solidifying around her.

• Loren worked at the manor’s heavily guarded laboratory while Ikaros and Nymph watched the construction platform.
• The chapter described Astraea’s specialized design, including Vibranium components, Super-Vibration Particles, spatial-jump mobility, and variable close-combat weapons.
• Ikaros reported that Astraea’s modules, energy circuits, and neural network had passed their final checks.
• Loren ordered the final consciousness infusion and initialization of Astraea’s personality prototype and combat data.
• Energy and data surged into Astraea’s forming body, and her wings of light sharpened and solidified.

Loren completed Astraea, who pledged herself to him and met her fellow Angeloids. In the Himalayas, Kaecilius’s dark ritual connected him to Chthon, who empowered him and claimed him as an anchor and vanguard.

• Astraea awakened, recognized Loren as her master, and pledged her power and existence to him.
• Nymph and Ikaros welcomed Astraea as their sister, and Astraea returned their greeting.
• Kaecilius’s ritual in Shadow Echo Valley spiraled out of control, nearly consuming his soul.
• Chthon halted the attack, infused Kaecilius with dark power, and declared that Kaecilius would become his coordinate, anchor, and vanguard.

Chthon empowered Kaecilius and ordered him to prepare a secret ritual to bring darkness to Earth. Kaecilius set out to establish seven arrays while avoiding Kamar-Taj and Loren.

• Chthon offered Kaecilius power and eternity in exchange for his service, threatening to consume his soul if he refused.
• Kaecilius accepted, and Chthon gave him dark magic and instructions to build the Shadow Resonance Array at seven ancient sites across Earth.
• Chthon warned Kaecilius to keep the plan secret, especially from Loren, and granted him enough power to overwhelm most Kamar-Taj sorcerers.
• Kaecilius vowed to bring darkness to the world and planned to travel secretly to the seven locations.
• Kaecilius vanished into the darkness, leaving obscure runes on the ice wall as a connection to Chthon.

Kaecilius prepared to summon Chthon by secretly building dark formations and creating twelve Dark Deadpools to destroy Earth’s Sanctums. He sent the transformed followers to wait near the three Sanctums, ready to attack on his signal.

• Kaecilius secretly built six Darkness Wedge formations at sites of accumulated dark energy and learned that the three Sanctums had to be destroyed for Chthon to reach Earth.
• Kaecilius performed a dark transformation ritual at an ancient Himalayan ruin, turning twelve followers into obedient, pain-proof Dark Deadpools.
• Kaecilius assigned four Dark Deadpools to each Sanctum and planned to oversee the attack on the Hong Kong Sanctum himself.
• Kaecilius ordered the twelve Dark Deadpools to conceal themselves near their targets and destroy the Sanctums and kill the sorcerers inside when he gave the signal.

Doctor Strange and Wong discovered synchronized energy anomalies that suggested someone was building a large-scale ritual, just as an attack struck all three Sanctums and sealed their portals. In New York, Dark Deadpools nearly wiped out the defenders and destroyed the Sanctum’s crystal sphere, collapsing its protective barrier.

• Strange showed Wong synchronized energy anomalies across several regions, and Wong suspected someone was preparing a large-scale ritual array.
• All three Sanctums came under attack, and a disruptive force collapsed the portals connecting them.
• Strange ordered the sorcerers to split into groups and reinforce the Sanctums by other routes, while communications returned only static, explosions, and screams.
• Four Dark Deadpools overwhelmed the New York Sanctum’s defenders, and Master Daniel Drumm detonated his artifact before collapsing.
• The Dark Deadpools reassembled after being blasted apart and continued attacking the remaining sorcerers.
• A Dark Deadpool stabbed the New York Sanctum’s crystal sphere, shattering it and collapsing the protective barrier.

Three Kamar-Taj Sanctums came under coordinated attack, and the London Sanctum fell as Clive and Emily were killed and its core was destroyed. After Doctor Strange called for help, Loren sent his forces to defend the remaining Sanctums, leaving Hong Kong as Kaecilius awaited the arriving reinforcements.

• Dark Deadpools killed Clive and Emily, overwhelmed the London Sanctum, and destroyed the Book of Cagliostro and its core.
• Master Yu organized the Hong Kong Sanctum's defense and sent distress signals, while Kaecilius waited outside for news and a possible wild card.
• Doctor Strange told Loren that all three Sanctums were under attack and asked for his help.
• Loren dispatched Wanda, Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Hancock, and Mai Shiranui to Hong Kong, while he and other teams headed for New York and London and Nymph stayed behind.

Wanda and her allies reached the Hong Kong Sanctum too late to stop Kaecilius from destroying its core, and their battle with him triggered the final step of his ritual. As a vast rift opened above Earth, Chthon announced his descent.

• Wanda, Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Hancock, and Mai Shiranui arrived at the burning Hong Kong Sanctum and defeated its two Dark Deadpools.
• Kaecilius emerged with Chthon-marked dark magic and attacked the group, but Tsunade, Hancock, Mei Terumi, and Mai Shiranui fought back.
• Tsunade’s punch missed Kaecilius and smashed the already damaged bronze cauldron, destroying the Hong Kong Sanctum’s core.
• Kaecilius declared that all three sanctums had fallen, activating the seven Darkness Wedge formations around the world.
• A gigantic rift opened above the Hong Kong Sanctum, and Chthon announced that he would descend as Kaecilius knelt in worship.

Chthon began descending through the rift above Hong Kong, overwhelming Wanda and the others with his presence. The five women defeated his Imps, but Chthon’s immense form emerged and Wanda’s attack failed to reach him.

• Wanda, Mai Shiranui, Tsunade, Mei Terumi, and Hancock faced the expanding rift as Chthon’s power shook Earth’s magical network.
• Hundreds of Imps formed from dark droplets and attacked the five women, who destroyed them with their abilities.
• Chthon’s shifting limbs and enormous silhouette emerged from the rift, and his gaze wounded Mai Shiranui and weakened the others.
• Chthon called Wanda a child of chaos and mocked the group as she attacked him with a crimson blade of Chaos Magic.
• Chthon stopped Wanda’s attack with an invisible barrier and challenged the women to endure his power.

Chthon overwhelmed Wanda and her four allies, leaving them ready to fight to the death. Loren and his other harem members arrived through a spatial ripple, lifting the despair as the chapter ended.

• Chthon struck at the five women with a giant dark hand, and Wanda scattered them just before it created a massive crater.
• Mai Shiranui burned through part of Chthon’s barrier, but it trapped her, and his second hand knocked Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Hancock, and Mai away.
• Wanda resisted Chthon’s demand that she return to darkness, but her Chaos Magic could not harm him.
• Tsunade, Mei Terumi, Hancock, and Mai returned to Wanda’s side despite their injuries, and the five prepared to fight Chthon together.
• Loren’s other harem members arrived through a stable spatial ripple, followed by Loren, whose presence dispelled the women’s despair.

Loren arrived as Chthon attacked the women, and Android 18's powerful blast damaged Chthon but failed to stop him. As Chthon took a humanoid form and prepared to fight in earnest, Loren's allies rallied to face him while Loren watched.

• Loren appeared before the wounded women and confronted Chthon, who recognized him as the one who had destroyed his consciousness avatar.
• Loren stopped Chthon's dark chains, then sent Android 18 to attack with a powerful Kamehameha that damaged Chthon's massive form.
• Chthon ensnared Android 18 with a chain, and Hinata, Mei Terumi, Hancock, Mai Shiranui, and Wanda worked together to break it and free her.
• Chthon condensed into a humanoid form, summoned a sword of dark runes, and declared that the fight would end.
• 2B led Ikaros and A2 into the first line of defense as Nymph, Tifa, Marie Rose, and Commander prepared to fight; Loren remained still as Chthon moved.

Chthon overwhelmed Wanda and her warriors, leaving Wanda ready to surrender before Loren appeared to protect her. Loren shattered Chthon’s sword with his bare hand and transformed into a Super Saiyan.

• Chthon defeated Wanda’s warriors with his counterattack, leaving Wanda exhausted and despairing.
• As Chthon raised his sword to kill Wanda, Loren stepped in front of her and promised rewards for the women.
• Chthon’s sword stopped just short of Loren, and Loren seized and shattered it with his hand.
• Loren’s aura surged, his hair turned gold, and he activated his Super Saiyan form.

Loren confronted Chthon and overwhelmed the ancient god with his power, forcing back Chthon’s dark energy. As the women watched in awe, Loren declared that Chthon’s era was over.

• Android 18, Tsunade, Ikaros, and Hancock agreed to give Loren their own training that night and vowed not to hold back.
• Chthon sensed that Loren’s power did not belong to the world and demanded to know who he was, but Loren dismissed him.
• Loren cracked Chthon’s body with a gesture, then blasted it apart with a punch before Chthon could reform.
• Loren fired a planet-destroying Kamehameha at Chthon, who met it with a torrent of dark power.
• Loren’s golden energy pushed Chthon’s darkness back as Hong Kong Island shook, and Loren declared Chthon’s era over.

Loren defeated Chthon, but Chthon’s power began reclaiming Dark Magic across the universe and formed an energy-devouring black hole. Loren’s attacks only fed it, and a figure began emerging from its collapsed darkness.

• Loren’s golden energy erased Chthon, whose furious echo vowed to return before the spatial rift sealed.
• Wanda embraced Loren as Tsunade, Android 18, and the others celebrated surviving the battle.
• Loren sensed a higher-dimensional warning and saw the sealed rift expand around a black point that swallowed the sky’s light.
• Kaecilius, Wanda, and dark-power users across the universe had their Chthon-derived magic forcibly drawn toward the black hole.
• Loren’s Kamehameha and a direct punch failed to damage the black hole, which absorbed his energy and grew larger.
• The black hole stopped devouring, contracted violently, and began revealing a figure from within its darkness.

Chthon regained his complete form and overwhelmed Loren in battle, leaving him restrained and badly injured. Chthon explained that Loren had defeated only his projection and that his true power was tied to the universe’s darkness and other forces.

• Chthon assumed his complete form after reclaiming the dark magic scattered throughout the universe.
• Loren unleashed a Super Kamehameha, but Chthon stopped it with one hand and crushed it.
• Chthon struck Loren with a single punch, then attacked again and narrowly missed stomping him into the ground.
• Loren fired dozens of Kamehameha blasts, but Chthon blocked them and trapped Loren in a force field.
• Chthon bound and lifted Loren, then explained that his true existence was sustained by darkness, pain, greed, and the desire for power.

Loren was trapped by Chthon as the exhausted women who fought beside him could only watch. Their powers and devotion merged into Loren, freeing him and transforming him into Super Saiyan Second Form.

• Chthon tightened his dark force field around Loren and threatened to torment him by destroying everything he cherished.
• Wanda, Tsunade, Hancock, Mai Shiranui, Android 18, and the others struggled to reach Loren despite their injuries and depleted strength.
• Loren called the women to him, and their bodies transformed into motes of colored light that surged toward him.
• The lights passed through Chthon's force field and merged with Loren, shattering his prison and forcing Chthon back.
• Loren's aura and appearance changed as he reached Super Saiyan Second Form.

Loren overwhelmed Chthon with his Super Saiyan power and formed a universe-spanning Spirit Bomb infused with his wives’ energy and will. He destroyed Chthon and left only the Dark Magic Origin floating in the sky.

• Loren struck Chthon with a punch, knee, and elbow, forcing him back and making him feel threatened for the first time.
• Chthon unleashed swarms of dark tendrils while Loren gathered energy from across the universe to form a Spirit Bomb.
• Loren’s wives added their wills and emotions to the attack as Chthon raised a massive dark barrier and tried to stop him.
• Loren sent the Spirit Bomb forward, and it shattered Chthon’s barrier before catching and destroying him.
• After the light faded, Chthon was gone, and only the Dark Magic Origin remained.

Loren absorbed the pure Dark Magic Origin and became its wielder, then restored Wanda’s stolen power and helped his wives return to physical form. With Chthon’s threat ended and Kaecilius dead, Loren and his wives left the ruins to go home.

• Loren absorbed the ownerless Dark Magic Origin and became the God of Dark Magic.
• Loren returned Wanda’s stolen Chaos Magic, and she recovered and embraced him.
• The Dark Magic Origin’s feedback restored Tsunade and the other women, making them stronger than before.
• The women gathered around Loren as sunlight returned and Kaecilius’s corpse lay among the ruins.
• Loren and his wives agreed to go home after Chthon’s threat ended.

Life at the manor settled into lively peace as several residents gambled, while Ikaros tended her first successful watermelon. After Nymph secretly picked the unripe fruit, Ikaros traced it to the kitchen and arrived as Nymph prepared to cut it open.

• Tsunade lost repeatedly to Mei Terumi at the gambling table, while Mai Shiranui and Hancock joined in and also lost their chips.
• Ikaros carefully tended a watermelon in the greenhouse and planned to give it to Loren once it ripened.
• Ikaros returned from fetching her notebook and found the watermelon missing, with a fresh cut stem and footprints leading toward the main building.
• Nymph sat in the kitchen with the stolen watermelon and raised a knife to cut it just as the door opened silently.

Nymph accidentally took the unripe watermelon Ikaros had grown as a gift for Loren, so she used her abilities to grow a replacement. Ikaros gave it to Loren, who praised its taste before pulling her into his arms.

• Ikaros confronted Nymph for taking the watermelon she had grown for Loren, and Nymph realized how much it meant to her.
• Nymph apologized and accelerated the growth of a new watermelon in the greenhouse, bringing it to ninety-five percent ripeness.
• Ikaros presented the replacement watermelon to Loren and explained that she had grown it especially for him.
• Loren tasted the watermelon, praised it, and told Ikaros she could grow more.
• Loren pulled Ikaros into his arms and said he wanted to eat pomelos, and Ikaros blushed and agreed.

Tsunade lost eighteen straight rounds of gambling, but Loren gave her his card and reassured her instead of scolding her. With Loren’s guidance, she made a comeback, and the chapter ended with the household relaxing together before Tsunade made a suggestive request of Loren.

• Tsunade lost eighteen rounds to Mei Terumi and asked the others to lend her money, but they refused.
• Loren learned how much Tsunade had lost and gave her his card, telling her that losing was fine as long as she was happy.
• With Loren helping her count cards and calculate probabilities, Tsunade turned the game around and won back her losses.
• That evening, the household spent time together on the terrace while Ikaros insisted that the watermelon she was holding was well-behaved.
• Tsunade told Loren she was hungry, clarified that she meant something suggestive, and Loren silently unfastened his belt.

After a school explosion killed 317 children, public anger prompted the president to enact the Superhero Registration Act, dividing the heroes over whether to comply. Peter Parker refused to register and left the meeting, while Steve Rogers warned that the attack might have been intended to provoke registration.

• An explosion destroyed a Manhattan elementary school, killing 317 children, and investigators found energy residue associated with superpowers.
• Demonstrators across the United States demanded controls on superpowered individuals, and the president signed the Superhero Registration Act requiring registration and tracking bracelets.
• Tony Stark supported registration at a meeting in Stark Tower, while Natasha Romanoff opposed it and Steve Rogers rejected the act.
• Steve warned Tony that the person behind the explosion might have wanted the heroes to accept registration.
• Peter Parker said he would not register because exposing his identity could endanger his family and friends, then used the Symbiote to swing out of the window.

As the Superhuman Registration Act fueled clashes between heroes and Hydra-backed enforcers, Mai Shiranui and her companions encountered officers attacking an unregistered young woman on Fifth Avenue. When the enforcers targeted Mai and the others, the women stood together and a battle began.

• Steve gathered Falcon, Ant-Man, and Hawkeye in an underground base and declared that they would resist registration.
• Hydra exploited the Act by giving government-recognized badges to malicious enforcers, hoping to turn the public against superpowered people and drive Loren away from Earth.
• Mai Shiranui, Tifa, Marie Rose, Mei Terumi, Hancock, Hinata, and Tsunade went shopping on Fifth Avenue.
• Tsunade spotted two enforcers chasing a young woman, and one of them shot her with an energy beam and dragged her up by the hair.
• Mai caught the enforcer's punch to protect the young woman, and he called for the others to seize Mai and claim the bounty.
• The women gathered behind Mai, and the battle erupted as more than a dozen enforcers fired energy beams at them.

Mai Shiranui and the others rescued Lia from the enforcers, but an attacker’s energy bomb killed and wounded many bystanders. Reporters then appeared to frame the group as illegal superpowered individuals, and Tsunade ordered everyone to go home.

• Mai Shiranui, Tifa, Marie Rose, Mei Terumi, Hancock, Hinata, and Tsunade defeated more than thirty enforcers and helped the rescued girl, Lia.
• A man in black combat gear fired an energy bomb at the group, and its blast devastated the street.
• Mai Shiranui found Lia alive, while the others saw that many innocent bystanders had died or been wounded in the explosion.
• Hancock, Tifa, and Mai Shiranui vowed to punish those responsible as the group mourned the victims.
• Reporters arrived and accused the women of being illegal superpowered individuals, prompting Tifa and Tsunade to recognize a trap.
• Tsunade ordered everyone to go home, and the group stopped arguing and prepared to leave.