Chapter Summaries

Wanda and A2 were caught between Mephisto and Zarathos as they fought over the Darkhold, until Ikaros arrived and turned the battle in their favor. After neutralizing an attack aimed at Wanda, Ikaros confronted the two lords and faced Zarathos’s Hellfire core.

• Zarathos charged into the battle and attacked Mephisto, Wanda, and A2 indiscriminately while demanding the Darkhold.
• Mephisto and Zarathos fought, giving Wanda and A2 a chance to withstand the crossfire, though both were nearing their limits.
• A pillar of sacred white light destroyed an attack that was about to hit Wanda, revealing Ikaros.
• Ikaros identified herself as an Artificial Angel sent by Loren to support Wanda and A2 and ensure their safe return.
• Mephisto challenged Ikaros, and Zarathos hurled a massive Hellfire core at her.
• Ikaros raised her hand and invoked “Absolute Defense Circle!”

Ikaros protected Wanda and A2 from Mephisto and Zarathos, forcing both enemies to retreat rather than face her ultimate weapon. She healed the two women and teleported them to Morgan Manor.

• Ikaros shielded Wanda and A2 from Zarathos's Hellfire Core, then prepared her missiles and Ultimate Weapon Apollo to deter Mephisto and Zarathos.
• Mephisto decided the fight was not worth the risk, threatened Wanda over the Darkhold, and escaped through a spatial rift.
• Zarathos also withdrew, warning that he would claim the Darkhold someday.
• Ikaros healed Wanda and A2's injuries and exhaustion with her energy.
• Ikaros used spatial teleportation to take Wanda and A2 to Morgan Manor.

Ikaros, Wanda, and A2 returned safely to Loren’s base after confronting Mephisto and Zarathos. Loren offered them each a reward for their teamwork, and the sisters began hinting that Ikaros should ask for something related to him.

• Ikaros, Wanda, and A2 arrived at the secret base, where Loren welcomed them and expressed concern about the danger they had faced.
• Wanda and A2 credited Ikaros with helping drive Mephisto and Zarathos away, while Ikaros insisted their success had been a team effort.
• Tsunade reminded the women that they were family, and Loren offered each of the three a reward.
• Wanda and A2 showed excitement at Loren’s offer, while Ikaros said that being by his side was reward enough.
• Mai Shiranui advised Ikaros to ask for something related to Loren, and Hancock stepped in to stop the teasing.

Loren received Electronic Warfare-Type Angeloid Manufacturing Technology as a reward for thwarting Mephisto and Zarathos, and he decided to build Nymph. After rewarding Wanda, he reassured her that she could study the Darkhold without letting Chthon control her.

• The system rewarded Loren with Angeloid manufacturing technology and 30 points for seizing the Darkhold and foiling Mephisto and Zarathos.
• Loren learned how to build an Electronic Warfare Universal Angel and decided to create Nymph.
• Loren teleported Wanda to another room and gave her a special reward for her part in the mission.
• Wanda asked Loren whether she should learn the Darkhold's magic, fearing Chthon might possess her.
• Loren told Wanda that strong resolve would protect her from Chthon and promised to fight him if he threatened her.

Loren began creating Nymph while Wanda practiced the Darkhold’s magic without sensing another consciousness. In the Hell Dimension, Zarathos approached Mephisto to propose working together to reclaim the Darkhold.

• Loren instructed Alice to use the available materials to print Nymph’s Nano Vibranium body.
• Wanda told Loren she had learned basic Darkhold magic and demonstrated control over dark energy.
• Wanda opened a tiny magic portal, and she and Loren indulged in a different sort of pleasure.
• Zarathos summoned Mephisto and argued that neither of them could allow Loren to keep the Darkhold.
• Zarathos proposed setting aside their old feud and cooperating to reclaim the Darkhold.

Zarathos persuaded Mephisto to lend him the Contract of San Venganza so he could absorb its fallen angel souls and help seize the Darkhold, though both secretly planned to betray the other. Back at the manor, Loren failed to analyze the Darkhold and handed it to Wanda, who recharged his Magic Ring.

• Zarathos asked Mephisto for the Contract of San Venganza and offered to restrain Loren and the two women while Mephisto took the Darkhold.
• Mephisto agreed to lend Zarathos the contract, secretly intending to use him as bait and claim the Darkhold after Zarathos and Loren weakened each other.
• Zarathos took the contract and left to absorb the fallen angel souls.
• Loren failed to analyze the Darkhold with his laboratory equipment and gave it to Wanda, who felt its familiar whispers.
• Loren asked Wanda to recharge his Magic Ring, and she quickly filled it with magical power.

Zarathos attacked Kamar-Taj and tried to seize the Time Stone, but Wanda arrived and fought him with the Darkhold. As Wanda restrained him, she decided she had to fully merge with the book’s power to destroy him.

• Zarathos invaded the Floating Sanctum and demanded that Doctor Strange hand over the Time Stone.
• Doctor Strange fought Zarathos, but Zarathos overpowered him and reached for the Eye of Agamotto.
• Wanda arrived with the Darkhold and attacked Zarathos, forcing him to turn away from Doctor Strange.
• Wanda used the Darkhold to weaken Zarathos’s fallen-angel souls and bind him with a magic chain while Doctor Strange activated Kamar-Taj’s defenses.
• Wanda resolved to fully merge with the Darkhold’s power so she could destroy Zarathos.

Wanda fused completely with the Darkhold, overcame Chthon’s attempt to control her, and destroyed Zarathos. Loren arrived at the Floating Sanctum with Nymph as Doctor Strange checked on Wanda.

• Wanda began fusing with the Darkhold despite Doctor Strange’s warning, while Zarathos tried to stop her.
• Wanda trapped Zarathos in a Dark Domain and overwhelmed him with the Darkhold’s power.
• Wanda destroyed Zarathos and purified the fallen angel souls he had consumed.
• After the Darkhold merged into her soul, Wanda resisted Chthon’s consciousness through her faith in Loren and told Doctor Strange she was fine.
• Loren emerged from a spatial rift above the Floating Sanctum with Nymph, the newly created electronic warfare Universal Angel.

Loren reunited with Wanda after she defeated Zarathos, recognizing that the Darkhold had transformed her but might also carry Chthon’s curse. He introduced Wanda to Nymph, whose unusual ability to invade any lifeform revealed a mysterious energy inside Wanda.

• Loren explained that he had sent Wanda to stop Zarathos from taking the Time Stone and to help her grow through danger.
• Loren assessed Wanda’s strength and suspected the Darkhold’s curse was preventing her from fully merging with it.
• Wanda accused Loren of letting her face Zarathos alone, and Loren said he had watched from the shadows and would have intervened if needed.
• Loren introduced Nymph as Wanda’s new sister, and Wanda apologized after Nymph corrected her about her age and appearance.
• Nymph demonstrated that she could scan Wanda and detected a completely different kind of energy hidden inside her body.

Nymph discovered the curse tied to Chthon inside Wanda and used her electronic infiltration to investigate it. She found a black thread leading from the curse into an unknown place and tried to sever it.

• Wanda was shocked when Nymph detected the evil energy bound to her by the Darkhold.
• Nymph infiltrated Wanda’s code and found a cluster of black code attached to her scarlet code.
• Nymph traced the black code to a thin thread stretching through space, sensing an evil presence at its far end.
• Nymph summoned a Code Blade and struck the thread in an attempt to cut it.

Chthon’s consciousness took control of Wanda after Nymph’s attempt to sever the black threads triggered his descent. As Chthon attacked Nymph, Loren entered Wanda’s Consciousness Sea to confront him.

• Nymph’s Code Blade failed to cut the black threads, and Chthon’s consciousness surged through them into Wanda.
• Chthon took control of Wanda and blasted Nymph with Dark Magic, forcing her to dodge as the attack cratered the Floating Sanctum’s floor.
• Chthon continued firing precise attacks while Nymph searched for a way to remove him without harming Wanda and ran low on energy.
• Doctor Strange reinforced the Floating Sanctum’s defenses and urged Loren to act against Chthon.
• Loren unleashed his Telepathy, broke through Chthon’s outer defenses, and entered Wanda’s Consciousness Sea.

Loren entered Wanda's Consciousness Sea and found Chthon's consciousness avatar eroding her mind through the Darkhold. As Wanda urged Loren to sacrifice her to protect the universe, he reassured her and unleashed golden consciousness energy to drive back the black mist.

• Loren found Wanda's consciousness surrounded by black mist and confronted Chthon's avatar.
• Chthon warned Loren that attacking him could destroy Wanda because his consciousness was bound to hers.
• Wanda told Loren to act even if it meant her death, but Loren refused to let her sacrifice herself.
• Loren's consciousness became solid and radiated golden energy, which began purifying the black mist.

Loren and Wanda joined forces in Wanda’s Consciousness Sea to destroy Chthon’s consciousness avatar and free her from his curse. After they returned to the real world, Loren warned Nymph against acting recklessly and promised her a “punishment” that Wanda recognized as a reward.

• Loren trapped Chthon’s consciousness avatar behind a golden barrier and told Wanda to combine her Chaos Magic with his consciousness energy.
• Loren and Wanda struck Chthon’s consciousness core together, causing his avatar to collapse and vanish while vowing that his true self would return.
• Loren reassured Wanda that Chthon’s curse had been temporarily broken, and they returned to the real world.
• Nymph apologized for putting Wanda in danger, but Wanda defended her and said they had helped remove the curse.
• Loren cautioned Nymph not to act recklessly again and told her to come to his room with Wanda that night for a lesson.
• Wanda teased Loren that his promised punishment for Nymph was really a reward.

After Loren helped Kamar-Taj survive Zarathos’s attack, he warned Doctor Strange that Mephisto might be behind it and left with Wanda and Nymph. Loren then received close-combat Angeloid manufacturing technology and reached 100 system points, allowing him to draw a new technological world.

• Doctor Strange thanked Loren for saving Kamar-Taj, and Loren said he had promised The Ancient One to protect it and called himself Wanda’s senior brother-in-law.
• Loren warned Doctor Strange to watch Mephisto, and Doctor Strange promised to use the Eye of Agamotto to monitor him.
• Loren opened a Space Gate and left Kamar-Taj with Wanda and Nymph; Doctor Strange then relaxed and invited Wong to share food and wine.
• The system rewarded Loren with close-combat Angeloid manufacturing technology and 30 points for defeating Chthon’s consciousness avatar and breaking the Darkhold curse.
• Loren considered creating Astraea and realized his 100 system points let him draw for another technological world.

Loren returned to Morgan Manor with Wanda after they defeated Chthon’s consciousness avatar and removed her curse. The household welcomed Nymph, and Commander Sister proposed a celebration.

• Commander Sister and the others greeted Loren and worried over Wanda’s weakness after sensing dark energy.
• Loren told everyone that he and Wanda had defeated Chthon’s consciousness avatar and that Wanda’s curse had been removed.
• Tsunade examined Wanda and said she needed a few days of rest, while Hinata brought her warm honey water.
• Wanda thanked everyone and credited Nymph with helping uncover the lingering curse through her electronic infiltration ability.
• Loren introduced Nymph as a newly created Angeloid, and Ikaros, Mai Shiranui, and Hinata welcomed her.
• Commander Sister proposed holding a celebration for Wanda’s recovery and Nymph’s arrival.

After the battle, Loren’s companions organized a celebration and insisted that he rest instead of helping. In Hell, Mephisto watched Wanda erase Zarathos and chose to retreat and hide rather than risk provoking Loren and his allies again.

• Tsunade, Ikaros, A2, 2B, Hinata, and Mai Shiranui volunteered to prepare the celebration.
• Commander Sister and Mei Terumi stopped Loren from helping and urged him to relax.
• Mephisto watched footage of Wanda defeating Zarathos and realized she had erased him with Chaos Magic.
• Mephisto feared Loren and Wanda’s power, abandoned his ambitions, and prepared to withdraw into the deepest part of the Hell Dimension.

Loren ordered a mechanical legion to bombard Mephisto’s territory in the Hell Dimension, retaliating against Mephisto’s plots against him. He planned to confront Mephisto himself after three days and nights of bombardment.

• Wanda stood with Loren after effortlessly erasing Zarathos and his contract.
• Loren ordered the mechanical legion to activate its highest-authority Purge protocol against Mephisto’s core territory in the Hell Dimension.
• Loren commanded the robots to launch an indiscriminate, maximum-yield saturation bombardment for three days and three nights.
• Loren told Wanda he would settle accounts with Mephisto himself after the bombardment.

Loren opened a Space Gate and unleashed a devastating technological bombardment on Mephisto’s Hell Dimension. After the attack abruptly stopped, Loren arrived before Mephisto with his harem army, leaving the Hell Lord to face them amid the ruins.

• Loren opened a Space Gate to Hell and bombarded its terrain, fortresses, and demons with advanced weapons.
• Mephisto watched the destruction from his palace and tried to gather Hell’s power for a counterattack.
• The bombardment suddenly stopped before Mephisto could strike back.
• Loren stepped through a spatial ripple and scrutinized Mephisto.
• Loren’s harem army appeared behind him, adding to the pressure on Mephisto.

Loren forced Mephisto to choose between annihilation and submission, and Mephisto surrendered his Hell Authority Mark to Wanda. Loren then told him that rebuilding Hell would require a price: Hellfire.

• Loren confronted Mephisto with the choice of total annihilation or becoming his vassal.
• Mephisto remembered Zarathos's destruction and the power of Loren's followers, then knelt and chose to submit.
• Mephisto stripped the Hell Authority Mark from his soul and offered it to Loren.
• Wanda accepted the mark and confirmed it was Mephisto's soul mark.
• Loren said Hell needed to be rebuilt at a price, then named Hellfire.

Loren demanded that Mephisto hand over Hellfire, the soul-bound source of his power, after taking his Authority Mark. Mephisto accepted that he had no choice but to obey, with 2B threatening to kill him if he delayed.

• Mephisto recoiled at Loren's demand for Hellfire and explained that it was bound to his soul and vital to his power.
• Loren warned Mephisto that resisting would lead to his complete destruction.
• 2B threatened to kill Mephisto if he did not hurry.
• Mephisto lost his will to resist and realized his submission had left him at Loren's mercy.