Recaps

Loren and his retainers contained New York’s zombie outbreak, sealed the temporal rift, and purified the remaining virus. As they prepared to return to the Time Variance Authority, Wanda reported that 732 more temporal rifts were activating.

• Sif and Android 18 suppressed Zombie Thor, while Hinata, Gwen, and Natasha helped restrain Zombie Spider-Man as the retainers fought back the zombie hordes.
• Wanda, Crystal, and Daisy combined their powers to close the temporal rift and block the remaining zombies and viral mist from entering the Main Universe.
• Mei Terumi and Viper purified the city’s air, soil, and water, and the Avengers bound the three infected superheroes in isolated prison cages.
• Tony thanked Loren for saving New York and asked about Thor, Hulk, and Peter; Loren said he had developed an antidote and warned that the damaged spacetime could split open again.
• Wanda reported that 732 secondary temporal rifts had begun activating, and Loren led his retainers through a portal back to the Time Variance Authority to prepare for the next repair mission.

Loren used Dark Magic to cleanse the Zombie Law Virus from New York and restore the infected civilians and heroes to normal. Thor, Doctor Banner, and Venom Peter Parker recovered, though Peter did not know what had happened.

• The Avengers confirmed that the rift was sealed but the Zombie Law Virus still infected New York and could not be removed by conventional means.
• Loren arrived above the city and ordered everyone to retreat before casting a spell.
• Loren spread Dark Magic across New York, stripping the virus from the air, environment, and infected people.
• The infected civilians regained their health and sanity, and hundreds of thousands of zombies returned to normal.
• Thor, Doctor Banner, and Venom Peter Parker recovered from their infections, and Peter asked what had happened.

After Loren ended the zombie crisis, he and his companions spent seven quiet days recovering at the estate. A precisely controlled rift then appeared near Gwen Stacy’s home, and Loren rushed to find her already fighting an unknown attacker.

• Loren purified the Zombie Virus Law, cured the infected heroes, and ended the crisis in New York.
• S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, and local authorities began rebuilding the city while Loren and his companions returned to their hidden estate to rest.
• For seven days, Loren monitored temporal-spatial data as his companions recovered and trained, while residual rifts from Immortus’s damage remained a threat.
• The Global Temporal-Space Detector registered an artificial rift that opened and closed near Gwen Stacy’s residence in Brooklyn.
• Loren concluded that Gwen was the target and rushed to Brooklyn, where he saw her fighting a tall stranger in a dark combat suit and losing ground.

Gwen fought an interdimensional hunter who overwhelmed her until Silk and Spider-Woman arrived from parallel universes. The three Spider-people coordinated their attacks and trapped the hunter, leaving him battered and unable to escape.

• The hunter blocked Gwen's attacks, restrained her, and declared that capturing her would complete half his mission.
• Loren watched the fight and assessed the man as a professionally trained interdimensional hunter.
• A spacetime rift opened, and Silk and Spider-Woman arrived, identifying the hunter as an Inheritor and joining the fight.
• Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman formed a coordinated encirclement, using webbing and complementary attacks to control and strike the hunter.
• The three Spider-people dismantled the hunter's advantages, leaving his suit cracked and his body bruised as he retreated under their pressure.

Loren intervened just as the hunter overwhelmed Silk and stopped the battle with Space Power. He annihilated the hunter despite his threats that he served Morlun and the Inheritors.

• The hunter unleashed Limit Break · Global Amplification, overpowering Gwen, Spider-Woman, and Silk.
• The hunter broke through the women's defenses and nearly seized Silk before Loren froze the battlefield.
• Loren restrained the hunter with Space Power and effortlessly stopped his strongest punch.
• The hunter threatened Loren with retaliation from Morlun and the Inheritors, but Loren dismissed the threat.
• Loren compressed space around the hunter and annihilated him, leaving no trace behind.

Loren rescued Silk, Spider-Woman, and Gwen from an Inheritors hunter, then brought them to his protected manor to learn about the threat spreading through the Spider-Verse. Spider-Woman began explaining the Inheritors as Loren prepared to assess their reach and defend against them.

• Loren erased the Inheritors hunter before he could fight back.
• Silk and Spider-Woman explained that the Inheritors, led by Morlun, hunted and sacrificed people with Spider Lineage mutations across universes.
• Loren opened a portal and brought the three Spider-Women to his manor, where he sealed the grounds from outside disturbances.
• Silk and Spider-Woman thanked Loren, who revealed that he headed the Time Variance Authority and intended to stop the Inheritors.
• Loren asked the visitors to explain the Inheritors' origins, motives, and secrets, and Spider-Woman began recounting the crisis.

Spider-Woman explained that the Inheritors hunted Spider Totem bearers to evade a prophecy and gather power for a ritual that would erase Spider-Man from the Multiverse. Silk began revealing who held the three essential totems, including why the battlefield hunter had switched targets to capture her.

• Spider-Woman told Loren that the Inheritors escaped their confinement after the Multiverse collapsed and used Master Weaver to hunt Spider Totem bearers across worlds.
• Silk explained that a prophecy foretold a Spider-Man would destroy the Inheritors, prompting them to kill every spider and absorb their totem power.
• Spider-Woman revealed that the Inheritors sought The Other, the Bride, and the Scion to perform a three-cut ritual and eliminate Spider Totems across the Multiverse.
• Spider-Woman described how the ritual would strip existing Spider-Men of their power, prevent new Spider Totems from appearing, and erase their future.
• Loren asked who held the three totems, and Silk began revealing their identities and why a battlefield hunter had tried to capture her.

Silk revealed that she was the Spider-Bride and the key sacrifice in the Inheritors’ ritual, prompting Loren to pledge protection for every spider totem bearer. Silk and Spider-Woman rested safely at Loren’s manor while he and Gwen shared a quiet evening together.

• Silk explained that Kaine Parker, Benjamin Richard Parker, and she were the three essential totems for the Inheritors’ ritual.
• Loren realized the Inheritors would target Gwen and vowed to protect spider totem bearers across every universe and destroy the Inheritors.
• Silk and Spider-Woman offered to share their intelligence and help Loren oppose the Inheritors.
• Loren reassured Silk and Spider-Woman that the manor was safe and told them to rest while he made plans.
• Silk and Spider-Woman spent a peaceful afternoon exploring the manor, then settled in for the night.
• Loren and Gwen relaxed together in his bedroom after the day’s battle.

Silk and Spider-Woman felt Gwen's emotions through their shared Spider Totem bond as they rested in the manor. In the Dark Temple, Morlun learned that his advance team had been killed on Earth-616 and vowed retribution against the unknown fighter who had interfered with the Inheritors.

• Silk and Spider-Woman sensed Gwen's tender excitement through their shared Spider Origin and gradually relaxed into its warmth.
• Morlun sat on the Dark Temple's throne as a report confirmed the advance team's destruction and loss of contact.
• The clan announcement identified Earth-616, Cindy Moon, and an unknown fighter who had killed an Inheritor.
• Morlun reacted with fury to the unknown fighter's interference and declared that no one who harmed the clan would escape punishment.

Morlun led the Inheritors in a full-scale invasion of New York, demanding Silk’s Totem origin and threatening to destroy the city. Loren arrived to face the fifteen Inheritors alone, joining Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman as battle loomed.

• Morlun ordered the Inheritors to seal off the universe, capture the Spider Bride, and kill anyone who stood in their way.
• The Master Weaver opened a massive cross-dimensional rift above New York, plunging the city into chaos and triggering an Avengers-wide alert.
• Fifteen Inheritors emerged above New York, and Morlun demanded that Spider-Man surrender his Totem origin or the city would be slaughtered.
• Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman confronted the Inheritors, with Gwen reassuring them that Loren was there.
• Loren detected the invasion, vowed to destroy the Inheritors, and appeared above New York to face their army alone.

Loren confronted Morlun and the Inheritors, then used his control of spatial power to destroy their invading force. The chapter left Morlun alone on his throne as the survivors watched in shock.

• Morlun asked Loren whether he had killed his kin and obstructed the family's undertaking, and Loren challenged the Inheritors' right to live after their invasion and slaughter.
• Salom attacked Loren, but Loren froze him with Space Power and crushed him into Oblivion.
• Terra tried to bind Loren with crimson chains, but he reversed her sealing power and destroyed her.
• Dairo and the remaining Inheritors attacked together, but Loren froze them in a spatial domain and annihilated them.
• Morlun remained alone amid the crimson mist as the people, superheroes, and three Spider-Girls stared at Loren in disbelief.

Loren defeated Morlun and erased the Inheritors, ending their threat to the Multiverse and freeing the Spider-Verse from its prophesied extinction. After the heroes thanked him, Loren returned to the manor with Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman.

• Morlun unleashed his full Devouring Power and charged at Loren, but Loren destroyed his attack and obliterated Morlun's body, soul, and essence.
• Loren destroyed the Inheritors' Ancestral Court, freed the Master Weaver, and restored the Multiversal Web.
• Thor, Tony Stark, and Captain America praised Loren as the heroes realized the Inheritors' threat had ended.
• Spider-Woman thanked Loren, who assured her, Silk, and Gwen that the Inheritors would never threaten them again.
• Loren led Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman through a spacetime portal back to the manor.

After Loren defeated Morlun and the Inheritors, he returned to the manor with Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman as the threat to the Spider Totems ended. Spider-Woman and Silk thanked him and revealed their growing affection, while Loren said he had acted for Gwen and that they could now live freely.

• The rift closed, the danger over New York City faded, and Loren returned to the manor courtyard with Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman.
• Spider-Woman and Silk reflected on how Loren had ended the Inheritors' hunt and freed them from their fated roles.
• Spider-Woman and Silk stepped forward to thank Loren for saving them and the Spider lineage.
• Loren told them he had acted for Gwen and assured them that no one would hunt them again.
• Spider-Woman and Silk were moved by Loren's gentleness and began to openly acknowledge their feelings for him.

Spider-Woman, Silk, and Gwen told Loren they would soon return to their universes and asked to spend their remaining time with him. He welcomed them into a peaceful night together, leaving them with a cherished memory as their parting approached.

• Spider-Woman told Loren that the passage between universes had stabilized and that they would soon need to return home.
• Silk said they wanted to stay with Loren before parting and repay him for saving them.
• Gwen encouraged Silk and Spider-Woman to join her in spending a peaceful evening with Loren, and he agreed.
• Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman drew close to Loren and found comfort in their shared Spider-Senses and his tenderness.
• The three women treasured the night as a lasting memory while their return to their separate universes drew near.

After a tender farewell, Silk and Spider-Woman returned to their universes, while Loren stayed at the manor with Gwen. The Inheritors’ hidden rebirth technique stirred in secret, and the next day Spider-Woman returned gravely wounded, fleeing an overwhelming danger.

• Spider-Woman and Silk thanked Loren for saving them and returned through the stabilized passages to their universes.
• Loren took Gwen’s hand and went back into the manor, believing the multiversal crisis had ended.
• Beneath the ruins of the Inheritors’ Ancestral Court, a hidden nest began stirring around the Primordial Cloning Rebirth Technique.
• The next day, Spider-Woman tore through the manor’s spacetime barrier and collapsed in the courtyard, injured and terrified by a fatal threat.

Loren and Gwen learned from the badly wounded Spider-Woman that the Inheritors had survived through a hidden clone-rebirth art that made them stronger after each death. Morlun had revived, abducted Silk, and planned to begin the Ultimate Sacrificial Ritual immediately, leaving the spider race in imminent danger.

• Loren and Gwen rushed to the courtyard when Spider-Woman returned gravely injured and warned that Morlun and the Inheritors were not destroyed.
• Spider-Woman revealed that the Inheritors could revive from hidden clone embryos beneath the Ancestral Court, retaining their memories and growing stronger with each rebirth.
• Gwen asked what had happened to Silk, and Spider-Woman explained that Morlun had launched a surprise attack after reviving.
• Morlun overwhelmed the Spider-Man allies, captured Silk, and announced that he would begin the Ultimate Sacrificial Ritual ahead of schedule to destroy all spider origin power.

Loren learned the locations of Morlun and the Inheritors’ cloning stronghold, then crossed into Earth-000’s pocket universe to stop Silk’s sacrifice. He arrived just as Morlun’s ritual was about to begin, freezing the entire space and standing between Morlun and Silk.

• Loren ordered Spider-Woman to give him Morlun’s coordinates and the locations of the Inheritors’ stronghold and cloning nest.
• Spider-Woman told Loren that Morlun was in Earth-000 and that the cloning nest lay beneath the ruins of the ancestral court.
• Loren left Spider-Woman and the others at the manor, then traveled to Morlun’s pocket universe.
• Morlun restrained Silk at an altar and boasted that his evolved cloning forces would let him erase all spider totems.
• Loren appeared before the altar and froze Morlun, Silk, and the cloned Inheritors in place.

Loren permanently destroyed Morlun and the Inheritors’ rebirth network, ending their threat across the Multiverse and freeing the Spider Totem bearers from fate. He rescued Silk and returned with her to the manor, where Gwen and Spider-Woman welcomed them safely home.

• Loren stripped away Morlun’s evolved powers, annihilated his clones, and destroyed every means of his rebirth.
• Loren freed Silk from the altar’s restraints, healed her, and calmed her after Morlun’s defeat.
• Loren traveled to the Inheritors’ hidden stronghold in the seventh Void Interlayer and erased its embryos, records, and collective power.
• The Inheritors were wiped out permanently, and the Spider Totem bearers across the Multiverse were freed from fate’s shackles.
• Loren brought Silk back to the manor, where Gwen and Spider-Woman greeted them with relief.

Loren brought Silk back safely after destroying Morlun and the Inheritors, ending the threat to the spider lineage and the Multiversal Web. He asked Silk and Spider-Woman to remain at the manor for a month to recover while the multiverse stabilized, and they settled into peaceful days with Gwen.

• Loren returned to the manor with Silk unharmed, and he reassured Silk that Morlun, the cloning nests, and the Inheritors were gone.
• Loren explained that Silk and Spider-Woman should stay at the manor for a month while their injuries healed and the Multiversal Web stabilized.
• Silk and Spider-Woman agreed to remain at the manor, and Gwen welcomed their stay.
• Silk and Spider-Woman recovered as they spent quiet days walking, learning from Loren, and sharing time with Gwen.

Loren, Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman shared a peaceful night of intimacy in their sanctuary. The chapter then followed their first thirty days of quiet life beyond the conflicts of the myriad heavens, ending with Gwen tending the courtyard at dawn.

• Gwen, Silk, and Spider-Woman expressed their love for Loren and spent a tender night together in the manor.
• The four of them began thirty days of relaxed daily life in the manor, isolated from wars, pursuit, and fate.
• Silk and Spider-Woman slept peacefully without the vigilance and fear that had shaped their lives.
• Gwen woke first, opened the windows, and went into the courtyard to water and trim the plants.

Loren welcomed Silk and Spider-Woman into his family, assuring them they could make the manor their home. He opened a passage to bring his other family members to meet them.

• Loren told Silk and Spider-Woman that he wanted them to become permanent members of his family.
• Silk tearfully asked whether she could really stay, and Loren reassured her that she belonged.
• Gwen welcomed the two women and said the other sisters would like them.
• Spider-Woman accepted Loren's offer, and Loren opened a warm spatial-temporal passage.
• Dozens of Loren's family members entered the courtyard.

Loren introduced Silk and Spider-Woman to his family at the estate and welcomed them as permanent members. The women warmly accepted the two newcomers, who felt they had finally found a safe and loving home.

• Loren gathered his family and introduced Silk and Spider-Woman, saying they would live peacefully at the estate as family.
• 2B, A2, Tifa, the Commander, Marie Rose, Android 18, Tsunade, Hinata, Mei Terumi, Mai Shiranui, Hancock, and the others welcomed the newcomers with kindness.
• Silk grew less shy as the women comforted her and made her feel cherished.
• Spider-Woman thanked everyone and asked them to take care of her and Silk in the years ahead.
• The family replied that they were all family, and the gathering settled into a warm, lively atmosphere.

Silk and Spider-Woman settled into life at Loren’s manor, where the twenty-four sisters welcomed them into their peaceful family routine. As the family enjoyed a leisurely morning together, a new crisis began to draw near.

• Gwen watched as Silk and Spider-Woman became part of the family and shared bonds with the other spider-totem holders.
• Tifa and Hinata prepared breakfast while the sisters enjoyed the manor’s lively morning, and Silk joined in with growing confidence.
• Spider-Woman relaxed among her new family, helping with chores and sharing stories from her travels.
• The twenty-four sisters gathered for breakfast, where Silk and Spider-Woman joined the easy conversation and Loren watched over them fondly.
• After breakfast, the sisters strolled around the manor together as a new crisis drew near.

Loren and the women enjoyed a peaceful life in the manor until a violent spacetime and psychic disturbance erupted in central New York City. Loren used his Telepathy to find a grievously wounded woman beneath a rift between dimensions, and the chapter left her identity and fate unresolved.

• Loren and the women spent tranquil days together in the manor, with Silk and Spider-Woman settling into their peaceful home.
• A powerful, chaotic energy fluctuation from central New York City disturbed the manor and put the women on alert.
• Wanda sensed that the disturbance combined shattered spacetime with immense psychic force, and everyone looked to Loren for judgment.
• Loren used his Telepathy to view central New York City and saw a ruined battlefield beneath a massive spacetime rift.
• Loren saw a badly injured woman in black combat gear struggling to remain standing beneath the rift, with a faint orange-gold glow around her.

Loren recognized the dying woman surrounded by six Ultimate Sentinel Robots as Jean Grey, a Mutant wielding the Phoenix Force and Telekinesis. After Jean destroyed one Sentinel at the cost of her remaining strength, five more attacked, and the manor’s observers watched as she faced an apparently unavoidable death.

• Loren identified the wounded woman as Jean Grey and recognized the six robots as Ultimate Sentinels designed to hunt Mutants.
• The Sentinels transformed into forms adapted to Jean’s abilities and closed in from every direction.
• Jean used her Telekinesis to shatter the Ice Sentinel, but the effort left her gravely weakened and drained her power.
• The five remaining Sentinels launched coordinated attacks against Jean, while Wanda and 2B watched through Loren’s shared vision.
• As the Sentinels’ killing blows approached, the space above New York’s ruined battlefield trembled.