Chapter Summaries

Hela took control of Asgard after the Bifrost carried Thor to Earth, where the wounded god sought Loren Morgan’s help. Loren agreed to step in, honoring a promise he had made to Odin.

• Heimdall activated the Bifrost and rescued Thor from Hela’s spear, sending him to Earth.
• Hela sat among the ruins of Odin’s throne and vowed to build a greater one before pursuing Thor on Earth.
• Thor arrived in the New Mexico desert badly wounded, clutching a fragment of Mjolnir and wondering whether Loki had survived.
• Thor set out to walk to New York and ask Loren Morgan for help, but Loren appeared in the desert.
• Loren explained that Hela drew strength from Asgard and would grow more powerful there, then promised to step in as he had vowed to Odin.

Thor told Loren that Hela had returned, destroyed Mjolnir, and defeated him and Loki. Loren revealed Odin’s letter and his agreement to protect Asgard from Ragnarok, then ordered 2B and Wanda to capture Hela alive.

• Thor described Hela’s return and admitted he could not defeat her.
• Loren showed Thor Odin’s letter, which asked him to help Thor stop Hela.
• Loren explained that Odin had entrusted him with Asgard’s treasures so he could help Asgard survive Ragnarok, and that Odin had expected Hela’s return.
• Loren told Thor he intended to capture Hela alive.
• Loren summoned 2B and Wanda and ordered them to go to Asgard and bring Hela back alive.

2B and Wanda traveled to Asgard to capture Hela alive, then confronted her in the ruined Golden Palace. The chapter ended as 2B leapt over Hela’s spear cage and struck toward her crown.

• Thor questioned whether 2B and Wanda could capture Hela, and Loren sent them through a portal to Asgard.
• 2B and Wanda arrived in the ruined Golden Palace, where Hela waited among the fallen warriors and destroyed murals.
• Wanda told Hela they intended to capture her alive, and Hela threatened them with black spears.
• 2B attacked Hela’s crown, and Hela launched spears to predict her path and cage her.
• 2B used one spear as a foothold, vaulted over the cage, and dove toward Hela’s crown.

2B and Wanda fought Hela in the Golden Palace, with 2B damaging Hela’s horned crown before Hela broke free and launched a three-pronged spear attack. 2B narrowly evaded the strike, but Hela remained powerful and the battle continued.

• 2B wounded Hela with a dagger and escaped her grip, exposing the mechanical framework beneath her damaged artificial skin.
• Wanda restrained Hela with Chaos Magic while 2B struck her horned crown with Eternity’s Flame, leaving a crack in it.
• Hela shattered Wanda’s chains with an explosion of black energy, throwing Wanda against a pillar and injuring her.
• Hela formed a spear and thrust at 2B from three directions at once, and 2B arched backward to evade the strike, though the spear tips scorched her.

2B and Wanda defeated Hela in the Golden Palace by overwhelming her defenses and disrupting her connection to Asgard. Hela accepted her capture and agreed to meet Loren Morgan.

• 2B attacked Hela with increasingly fast strikes, wounding her while Hela claimed her will kept her alive in Asgard.
• Wanda used Chaos Magic to obstruct the energy flowing from Asgard and weaken Hela’s regeneration.
• 2B used Hela’s momentary loss of power to slash her chest and force her onto one knee.
• 2B told Hela that Loren Morgan wanted to see her, and Hela recognized him as the Earthling who killed Thanos.
• 2B restrained Hela with energy-suppressing handcuffs, and Hela agreed to go meet Loren.

Loren offered Hela a chance to attack him in an unrestricted separate dimension, promising to free her if she could hurt him and make her serve him if she failed. Hela accepted as Loren began opening the dimension.

• Loren met Hela in Morgan Manor's laboratory and said he wanted her to join them for her strength, experience, and leadership.
• Loren unlocked Hela's handcuffs, and she challenged him while her power and battle suit recovered.
• Loren acknowledged Hela's anger over her imprisonment and betrayal, then proposed a trial in a separate dimension.
• Loren promised to let Hela return to Asgard if she could touch his skin, but said she would have to serve him if she could not.
• Hela agreed, and Loren began creating a ring of light to open the separate dimension.

Loren brought Hela into a pocket dimension and let her unleash the power she had accumulated over thousands of years. After her attacks and a devastating strike prepared for Odin failed to harm him, Hela stood stunned, unable to believe it.

• Loren entered his pocket dimension, and Hela followed him inside.
• Hela transformed and unleashed rapid attacks with her black blades, but Loren's energy field stopped every strike.
• Hela formed and hurled her thousand-year strike at Loren, but he absorbed its full force without harm.
• Hela's blades dissolved as she stared at Loren and whispered that his survival was impossible.

Hela submitted to Loren after he proved she could not overcome his power, and he promised she would never be imprisoned again. Back at Morgan Manor, the others welcomed her, while Commander Sister and Wanda teased her about the household’s suggestively named Joint Grand Battle.

• Hela admitted defeat, pledged to fight for Loren, and asked him not to send her back into darkness.
• Loren promised Hela she would not be imprisoned again, and they returned to the underground laboratory with the pocket dimension.
• Loren declared Hela one of them and told the others to treat her like a sister.
• Commander Sister asked whether Hela would join the rotating service roster and the Joint Grand Battle, confusing Hela and embarrassing her when she understood the implication.
• Hela rejected the idea and argued with Loren over being called old, while Commander Sister jokingly suggested a one-on-one match.
• Loren stopped the teasing and asked Commander Sister to take Hela to her room to rest.

Loren sensed that powerful beings were being erased from existence, and Thor arrived at Morgan Manor badly injured with news of gods disappearing across the universe. Thor revealed that Heimdall saw a gaunt figure harvesting gods’ power, and Hela concluded that the figure had detected Heimdall.

• Loren sensed that powerful beings, including Sovereign's Peak, had vanished completely from existence.
• Thor fell through Stormbreaker's Space Gate onto Morgan Manor's lawn, badly wounded and carrying a corrupted Stormbreaker.
• Tifa treated Thor's broken arm, but he refused further care and told Loren that gods across the universe had sent distress calls before disappearing.
• Thor said Heimdall had seen a gaunt figure drain the power from countless dead gods into a black sword.
• Thor revealed that the figure had looked back through Heimdall's gaze, and Hela concluded that Heimdall had been exposed.

Thor told Loren how Gorr had killed Heimdall and defeated him before disappearing, then asked for help stopping the God Butcher. Loren identified Gorr from an ancient record about the Indigo and began recounting the story of a man who searched the galaxy for the gods.

• Thor recounted how Gorr emerged from a black fissure over Asgard and killed Heimdall at the Bifrost.
• Thor described how Gorr caught Stormbreaker, resisted his attacks, and then vanished through another fissure.
• Thor asked Loren to help avenge Heimdall and protect the remaining gods from Gorr.
• Loren found an ancient record describing the Indigo, whose Supreme God vanished and left their people to suffer famine.
• Loren explained that one Indigo man abandoned prayer and searched the Milky Way for the gods to demand why they had abandoned his people.

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.