Recaps

Loren explained Gorr and the Necrosword’s growing power before Gorr arrived at Morgan Manor and attacked Thor. Thor fell wounded and was left at Gorr’s mercy as the Necrosword’s energy corroded him.

• Loren told Thor and Hela how Gorr forged the Necrosword and grew powerful by devouring the gods he killed.
• Hela recalled hearing of Gorr’s slaughter of minor gods during Odin’s conquest of the Nine Realms, and Loren warned that Gorr had since become a threat to Asgard.
• A rift opened above Morgan Manor, and Gorr emerged holding the Necrosword stained with Heimdall’s golden blood.
• Thor charged Gorr to avenge Heimdall, but Gorr caught Stormbreaker between two fingers and extinguished its lightning.
• Gorr struck Thor with the Necrosword, sending him crashing into a wall as its black energy seeped through his shield and began corroding him.

Hela intervened when Gorr was about to kill Thor and fought the God Butcher at the Golden Palace. She wounded Gorr and was struck by his soul-devouring energy, but she countered by binding him with black energy bands.

• Gorr prepared to kill the fallen Thor with the Necrosword.
• Hela emerged from the Golden Palace and knocked Gorr's blade away, shielding Thor.
• Hela attacked Gorr with energy spears, but he turned into smoke and reappeared behind her.
• Hela blocked Gorr's strike and cut his robe, drawing black liquid from his wound.
• Gorr pierced Hela's shield with soul-attacking spikes, and she responded by wrapping him in energy bands.

Gorr overwhelmed Thor and Hela with the Necrosword, leaving them incapacitated in the Golden Palace. As he moved to kill Hela, a golden-haired woman seized the blade with her bare hand.

• Hela's energy bands failed to contain Gorr, and his burst of black energy wounded her and drove her back.
• Thor helped Hela stand, and the siblings joined forces to fight Gorr.
• Gorr outmaneuvered Thor and Hela, breaking Thor's arm and corroding Hela's left shoulder.
• Gorr's black sun shattered their defenses, leaving Thor and Hela gravely weakened.
• Gorr raised the Necrosword to kill Hela, but a golden-haired woman grabbed its blade.

Android 18 confronted Gorr at Morgan Manor and proved that neither his Necrosword nor his attacks could overcome her. She struck him and dented his sword, leaving Gorr shocked.

• Android 18 seized the Necrosword and overpowered Gorr, leaving her fingerprints indented in its blade.
• Android 18 demanded that Gorr surrender and face her master, but he refused and vowed to kill her first.
• Gorr launched a storm of Necrosword spikes at Android 18, but her energy shield deflected or vaporized them.
• Android 18 rushed Gorr and punched the Necrosword, denting the blade and blasting him hundreds of meters away.
• Gorr stared in shock at the damage to his sword.

Android 18 disarmed Gorr, breaking his control by separating him from the Necrosword and leaving him weakened and confused. Thor and Hela recovered enough to stand, and Hela called for the sword to be destroyed.

• Gorr revealed that his power and will were fused with the Necrosword, then attacked Android 18 with a faster, denser sword assault.
• Android 18 evaded Gorr's strikes, reached him, and crushed his wrist until he dropped the Necrosword.
• Separated from the sword, Gorr lost his power and asked in confusion what was happening to him.
• Thor rose with Stormbreaker while Hela formed a spear and watched Gorr kneel, weakened.
• Hela looked at the Necrosword embedded in the floor and said it should be destroyed.

Android 18 freed Gorr from the Necrosword, and Gorr confronted the weapon that had enslaved him. Thor spared Gorr despite Heimdall’s death, leaving Gorr to reflect on the god Thor had become.

• Android 18 told Gorr the Necrosword had controlled him, and Gorr realized his wounds and humanity were returning without its power.
• Gorr confessed that the sword had driven him to kill a member of his own people and had made him believe they were one.
• Gorr confronted the Necrosword, but it attacked him with black tentacles until Android 18 severed them and rendered the sword inert.
• Gorr thanked Android 18, admitted responsibility for Heimdall’s death, and offered Thor a chance to avenge his friend.
• Thor refused to kill Gorr, calling him an unarmed civilian who was not worthy of dying by Thor’s hand.
• Gorr remarked that he wished Thor had been the god the Indigo People once believed in.

After Gorr killed himself, Thor and Android 18 concluded the conflict over the Necrosword, and Android 18 brought the weapon back to Loren. Loren subdued the still-living sword, leaving it under his control.

• Gorr asked Thor to return his ashes to Indigo Star and bury him somewhere without temples or gods, then killed himself with his mother's knife.
• Thor mourned Gorr and told Heimdall that his vengeance had been fulfilled, while Android 18 told Thor to return to Asgard and thank Loren.
• Android 18 carried the Necrosword to Loren and reported that Gorr had died by suicide after regaining his sanity.
• Loren heard that Thor and Hela survived and that Heimdall was Asgard's only loss, then took hold of the Necrosword.
• The Necrosword tried to invade Loren's hand, but his silver-white energy repelled it, and his command made it fall silent.

Loren entered the Necrosword’s core and confronted Knull, the ancient evil god whose consciousness had influenced its wielders. Knull recognized Loren’s extraordinary power but remained intrigued by how it defied the rules of the universe.

• Android 18 watched as the Necrosword submitted to Loren, who sensed Knull’s ancient consciousness inside it.
• Loren entered the sword’s inner darkness and confronted Knull, accusing him of using Gorr and other wielders to spread slaughter and satisfy his hunger.
• Knull appeared as a projection and challenged Loren’s claim to be the sword’s master, while Loren called Knull a parasite.
• Loren’s silver-white power pushed back the darkness and forced Knull’s projection to shrink.
• Knull questioned Loren about his unfamiliar power and marveled that it worked despite the universe’s rules.

Loren erased Knull’s consciousness from the Necrosword, leaving it a powerful weapon without a will of its own. He decided it needed a new master and said he had a suitable candidate in mind, but turned first to rewarding Android 18 with Tifa’s help.

• Loren trapped Knull’s consciousness in silver-white light and destroyed it, including the fragments Knull tried to scatter through the sword.
• Loren awoke in his study and found the Necrosword transformed into a warm, pure weapon capable of storing and releasing cosmic energy.
• Loren sent Android 18 to bathe and told her to wait for him in the bedroom.
• Loren told Tifa that the Necrosword needed a new master with the will and ability to wield its full power.
• Loren said he had a suitable candidate in mind, then invited Tifa to help him reward Android 18.

Loren used the Life Cradle to create Eve, an organic woman with implanted memories of being his wife and a member of his household. Eve awakened, welcomed Loren, and took hold of the Necrosword, which reshaped itself for her.

• Loren configured the Life Cradle to create Eve with a body, consciousness, and memories of life with his household.
• Loren activated the Life Cradle, and Eve emerged with stable vital signs.
• Eve recognized Loren as her master and recalled the memories implanted in her.
• Loren welcomed Eve, and she told him she had missed him before he kissed her forehead.
• Eve stepped out of the chamber and tested her new body's strength and movement.
• Loren handed Eve the Necrosword, and the blade changed to adapt to her as she gripped its hilt.

Eve fused with the Necrosword and accepted it as her weapon, then shared a kiss and a quiet night with Loren. The next morning, Loren and Eve joined the household as everyone gathered in the kitchen for breakfast.

• Eve fused with the Necrosword, and Loren told her the weapon was hers and that he trusted her.
• Eve kissed Loren in the laboratory, and they spent the night together.
• Tifa prepared breakfast while Android 18, Alice, Nymph, and Hela gathered in the kitchen.
• Loren came downstairs with Eve, who wore the Necrosword at her waist.

Knull awakened after the Necrosword was taken and ordered Tyrant and the Symbiotes of Klyntar to find Loren Morgan and conquer Earth. As people in Manhattan watched an enormous Symbiote-covered object descend from space, New York’s air-raid sirens sounded.

• Knull woke when the consciousness bound to the Necrosword was erased and learned that Loren Morgan had taken the weapon.
• Knull sent a command to Klyntar, ordering its Symbiotes to find and kill Loren Morgan and turn Earth’s inhabitants into hosts.
• Tyrant received Knull’s command and pledged to carry it out.
• An enormous black, living mass entered Earth’s atmosphere and headed toward Manhattan.
• New York’s air-raid sirens blared as the object descended toward the city.

The Avengers confronted a symbiote living ship that spread across Manhattan and took control of thousands of people. Hela explained how the symbiotes could be separated from their hosts, and the Avengers began rescuing them with carefully chosen attacks.

• Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Thor, and Hela assembled at Avengers Headquarters as a black object approached Manhattan, and Hela identified it as a living ship made of symbiotes created by Knull.
• The symbiote ship struck Manhattan and spread across the city, turning thousands of people into controlled hosts.
• Hela told the Avengers that powerful energy could separate symbiotes from their hosts but warned that excessive force would kill the people.
• Steve Rogers freed a host with his shield and urged the Avengers to use physical attacks to sever the symbiotes' connections.
• Tony Stark used low-frequency sound waves, Natasha Romanoff used electrical shocks, Thor struck hosts with lightning, and Hela killed symbiotes with her deathly power.

The Avengers struggled against the growing Symbiote army until Tyrant overpowered and captured them. Eve descended and freed them with the Necrosword, then faced Tyrant.

• Tony's armor, Steve, Natasha, Thor, and Hela weakened as the Symbiotes overwhelmed the battlefield.
• Tyrant emerged, identified himself as the Symbiote leader, and attacked the Avengers with black tendrils.
• Tyrant restrained the Avengers and declared that he would turn them into Symbiote hosts.
• Eve descended from the sky and severed the tendrils holding Tony, vaporizing nearby Symbiotes.
• Eve drew the Necrosword and faced Tyrant, who asked who she was.

Eve used the Necrosword to wound Tyrant and demand that he withdraw the Symbiotes from Earth, but he gathered every Symbiote in Manhattan into a gigantic monster and claimed the sword could no longer hurt him. The chapter ended with the Symbiote Monster attacking Eve with all four arms.

• Tyrant recognized the Necrosword and released Steve, Natasha, Thor, and Hela as Eve approached him.
• Eve slashed Tyrant with the Necrosword, causing the Symbiotes in his body to flee and disintegrate.
• Eve ordered Tyrant to release his human hosts and leave Earth, but Tyrant threatened that Knull would come for her and reclaim the sword.
• The Necrosword began devouring Tyrant's power, and every Symbiote in Manhattan returned to his body.
• Tyrant transformed into the gigantic Symbiote Monster, declared that the Necrosword could no longer harm him, and swung all four arms at Eve.

Eve found Tyrant’s true body at the center of the fused Symbiotes and used the Necrosword to destroy the core. The monster collapsed, leaving Tyrant weakened and exposed.

• Eve dodged the Symbiote monster’s attacks and slashed its weakest connection point at the heel.
• The monster trapped Eve inside an energy sphere, but she found Tyrant’s glowing core at its chest.
• Eve burst through the cage with wings of black light and pinned the monster’s four arms with spears.
• Eve pierced Tyrant’s core with the Necrosword, causing the fused Symbiote monster to disintegrate.
• Tyrant emerged from the collapsing mass, reduced in size and badly weakened.

Eve defeated Tyrant and ended the Symbiote invasion of Manhattan, then returned to Loren after he received a system reward for her victory. The chapter left Loren with 150 saved system points.

• Eve used the Necrosword to absorb Tyrant's power and cut him down, and the Symbiotes across Manhattan vanished.
• The freed people of Manhattan recovered as Eve met the Avengers, identified herself as one of Loren's wives, and flew away.
• Tony and Natasha joked about Loren, while Hela reflected on Eve's control of Knull's weapon.
• Loren saw that the system rated Eve's victory S and awarded him 50 points, bringing his total to 150.
• Eve entered Loren's study after he had put the points aside for later.

After Eve completed her mission, Loren promised to find a way to make her strong enough to face Knull, then gave her the reward she requested. Meanwhile, Natasha’s team reviewed the Symbiote invasion and unveiled new defenses for Earth, ending as Strange arrived at the S.H.I.E.L.D. conference.

• Eve reported that she had completed the mission and said she and the Necrosword had become one.
• Loren warned Eve that Knull would eventually come to Earth and promised to find a way to strengthen her.
• Eve asked for her mission reward, and Loren embraced her as the sunset fell outside.
• Natasha reviewed the Symbiote invasion’s casualties with Tony, Steve, Bruce, Thor, and Carol.
• Tony presented the Mark LIII Anti-Symbiote Armor and the Eye of the Firmament, a magical and technological defense network for Earth.
• Strange entered the conference room and said he had named the Eye of the Firmament.

Tony described the operational Eye of the Firmament and said Mark LIII needed two more days, while Knull awakened and headed for Earth to reclaim the Necrosword and punish Loren Morgan. The Eye detected Knull distorting space, but its defenses failed against him, and Tony flew to intercept him in Mark LIII Anti-Symbiote Armor.

• Tony explained that the Eye of the Firmament could detect extraterrestrial life and defend Earth, then left to work on Mark LIII.
• Knull awakened, learned that Loren Morgan had erased his consciousness from the Necrosword, and opened a rift to Earth.
• The Eye of the Firmament detected Knull near Earth, activated its defenses, and locked down low-Earth orbit.
• Knull absorbed the energy cannon fire and destroyed the Eye's nodes with dark crimson beams.
• Tony donned Mark LIII Anti-Symbiote Armor and flew toward the edge of the atmosphere to confront Knull.

Knull destroyed the final node and went to Earth, where Thor and Stephen Strange tried to stop him. After Knull effortlessly defeated their attacks, Thor realized the gulf between them as Knull prepared to strike back.

• Knull sensed Loren Morgan at Morgan Manor and headed toward Earth, but Thor and Stephen Strange confronted him in orbit.
• Thor hurled Stormbreaker at Knull, who caught it, absorbed its energy, and threw it into the Atlantic Ocean.
• Stephen Strange surrounded Knull with golden restraints, but Knull shattered them and blasted Strange away.
• Thor recalled Stormbreaker and poured his lightning into it before launching it at Knull, who endured the attack without injury.
• Thor released Stormbreaker and despaired at the difference in their power as Knull said it was his turn.

Strange gathered the Avengers to confront Knull, who descended to Earth and demonstrated that their attacks could not harm him. Knull remained standing after defeating Hulk and Hela, while the assembled team faced the overwhelming threat.

• Strange rescued Thor from Knull’s attack and brought him back above the ocean, where they agreed they needed more help.
• Strange opened portals for Tony, Steve, Natasha, Bruce, and Carol, while Hela arrived on her own to join the others.
• Knull landed before the Avengers and challenged them as Tony’s scan failed to find a usable Symbiote frequency.
• Hulk charged Knull, but Knull absorbed the blow, pinned Hulk into a crater, and left him unable to move.
• Hela stabbed at Knull, but he explained that his skin devoured approaching energy and shattered her spear, hurling her away.

Knull effortlessly subdued the Avengers and unleashed a shockwave that left them battered across the ruins. He then found Loren Morgan at Morgan Manor, but an invisible spatial wall stopped him from entering.

• Carol attacked Knull, but he bound her with dark red tendrils and suppressed her energy.
• Natasha missed her strike, Tony’s pulses proved ineffective, and Thor continued to face Knull as the Avengers struggled against him.
• Knull released a shockwave that scattered and injured the Avengers, leaving them unable to fight back.
• Knull declared the Avengers unworthy of dying by his hand and turned toward Morgan Manor.
• Knull appeared above the manor, sensed Loren Morgan in the study, and struck an invisible wall of space when he tried to enter.

Knull arrived at Morgan Manor but found it sealed inside a dimensional pocket, so Wanda transported him to Chaos Space to keep him from harming anyone else. There, Eve resisted his attempt to reclaim the Necrosword, and Knull realized Loren had modified it.

• Knull failed to breach the dimensional barrier around Morgan Manor and sensed powerful presences inside, though Loren's energy signature was concealed.
• Loren told Wanda, Eve, and Android 18 to take Knull somewhere he could not hurt anyone, warning Eve that Knull would try to reclaim the Necrosword.
• Wanda opened a portal to Chaos Space and drew Knull inside, followed by Eve and Android 18.
• Wanda confronted Knull in Chaos Space, and Eve joined her with the Necrosword.
• Knull summoned dark red tentacles to seize the Necrosword, but Eve's sword repelled them, prompting him to realize it had been modified.

Knull attacked Eve, Wanda, and Android 18 in Chaos Space, but the Necrosword rejected him and empowered Eve against him. As Eve’s strength grew, Knull’s energy was drained by the sword and suppressed by Wanda’s Chaos Magic.

• Knull launched a shifting energy sphere at Eve, and Wanda intercepted it with a beam of Chaos Magic.
• Knull appeared behind Wanda to attack, but Android 18 blocked his strike and knocked him back.
• Android 18 forced Knull to break her grip with a burst of energy, and Eve wounded his neck with the Necrosword.
• Knull tried to summon and command the Necrosword, but the sword rejected his energy and remained with Eve.
• Eve charged Knull with the Necrosword, and he blocked her rising attacks with shields made of Symbiote energy.
• The clash between Eve and Knull intensified as the Necrosword strengthened Eve while Wanda’s Chaos Magic suppressed Knull’s energy recovery.

Eve, Wanda, and Android 18 battled Knull in the Chaos Space, using their combined powers to damage and restrain him. Knull transformed into a colossal monster and overwhelmed the three before gathering four enormous energy spheres for another attack.

• Eve, Wanda, and Android 18 coordinated their attacks, breaking Knull’s defenses and wounding his arm.
• Knull revealed his true form, expanding into a colossal monster with four additional arms and Symbiote faces covering his body.
• Knull injured Eve with bone-spike needles, deformed Android 18’s abdomen, and snapped Wanda’s Chaos Magic chains.
• The three women attacked Knull from different directions, while Eve’s Necrosword absorbed some of his energy and slowed his healing.
• Knull attacked all three at once, knocking Eve, Android 18, and Wanda off balance.
• Knull gathered enormous dark crimson energy spheres in all four hands, absorbing Chaos Magic as Wanda felt her magic grow unstable.