Chapter Summaries

The Ancient One defeated Loki and intercepted Loren and his wives as they tried to leave Mjolnir. She recognized Loren by name, leaving him alarmed that the Sorcerer Supreme knew who he was.

• The Ancient One exposed Loki’s invisibility, blasted him away, and sent him falling through a magical portal after he insulted her.
• Loren arrived above Mjolnir with his subordinates, recognized the Ancient One, and tried to retreat with them.
• The Ancient One teleported Loren and his group beside Mjolnir, where his wives drew Adamantium weapons before Loren stopped them.
• Loren apologized and tried to leave peacefully, but the Ancient One addressed him by name and identified him as the Morgan Family head and the world’s youngest richest man.
• Loren’s smile vanished when he realized the Ancient One knew who he was.

The Ancient One tried to use her Soul-Seizing Palm to investigate Loren, but neither he nor his wives were affected. Her attempt left her uncertain whether Loren was hiding his strength or protected by an equally powerful being.

• The Ancient One immobilized Loren and struck him with her Soul-Seizing Palm, but his soul stayed in his body.
• Loren guessed that his system had protected him and pretended that the strike had injured him.
• The Ancient One explained that she could not see Loren's future through the Time Stone's black mist and considered why her palm had failed.
• Loren's wives attacked the Ancient One after seeing him struck, but her Soul-Seizing Palms also failed to separate their souls from their bodies.

Loren’s five wives attacked the Ancient One after believing she had harmed him, forcing her to pull them into the Mirror Dimension. Loren prepared to fight back and awakened his robots as the confrontation escalated.

• The Ancient One examined Loren’s wives and found that they had no souls despite appearing alive and self-aware.
• 2B attacked the Ancient One, and A2, the Commander, Tifa, and Marie Rose joined her to protect Loren.
• The wives used their Symbiote abilities to attack, while Loren realized they had misunderstood his deliberate fall.
• The Ancient One unleashed magic that sent the five women flying and pulled everyone into the Mirror Dimension.
• Loren put on his Nano Vibranium Battle Suit and ordered Alice to awaken the thirty thousand Faceless Ones Robots.

Loren and The Ancient One ended their confrontation after she admitted she was curious about him and wary of his hidden power. Loren used her uncertainty to boast that his creations and a planet-destroying invention transcended the world's rules, leaving The Ancient One alarmed.

• The Ancient One praised the five women for protecting Loren, said she did not intend to fight him, and explained that her magic could not investigate him or his companions.
• Loren put away his Nano Vibranium Battle Suit and concluded that System Bro had concealed his information from The Ancient One.
• Loren decided to act mysterious because The Ancient One seemed wary of him, then claimed that 2B and the other women were soulless lifeforms beyond the rules of the world.
• The Ancient One was shocked by Loren's claim and joked that his next invention might destroy the planet.
• Loren said she had correctly guessed that he had made a planet-destroying invention, adding that he would target another planet or dimension instead, and The Ancient One panicked.

After their confrontation ended, Loren and The Ancient One negotiated a possible alliance, and Loren asked to learn magic. The Ancient One told him his aptitude was so poor that he was practically incompatible with magic.

• The Ancient One dismissed the Mirror Dimension and asked Loren to have his people lower their weapons, and Loren agreed they were not enemies.
• The Ancient One offered to reward Loren for helping Kamar-Taj when a crisis came, and Loren asked to study the Eye of Agamotto.
• The Ancient One refused to let Loren study the artifact, so he asked her to teach him magic instead.
• The Ancient One examined Loren and told him he had almost no aptitude for magic, leaving him protesting in disbelief.

Loren learned that neither he nor his companions could practice magic, so he asked the Ancient One to teach any suitable person he found in the future. Before leaving, she gave him a ring that could cast a few limited spells without a sorcerer’s magical power, and Loki emerged from a portal into the company of Loren’s women.

• The Ancient One told Loren that he and his companions lacked the physique to learn magic, and Loren asked her to personally teach anyone suitable he might find later.
• The Ancient One agreed to Loren’s request and gave him a ring that could conceal its wearer, move objects, release elemental energy, and form a barrier using its limited magical energy.
• Loren recognized the ring’s ability to conceal its wearer and compared it to the One Ring before the Ancient One departed through a portal.
• Loki fell out of another magical portal, complained about being trapped in a passage for an hour, and found himself surrounded by Loren’s cold-eyed women.

Loren and his wives encountered Loki and Mjolnir, but none of them could lift the hammer. When Loren tried, Mjolnir called down lightning on him.

• Loki arrived on Earth and declared himself King of Asgard, but 2B slammed him into the ground.
• Loki continued insulting the group, so Marie Rose knocked him unconscious with a Waist-Hold Suplex.
• Loren stopped Marie Rose from attacking further and ordered the group to tie Loki up, explaining that Loki and his family could be useful.
• Loren explained Mjolnir's power and its requirement that only the worthy could lift it.
• Commander Sister, 2B, and the other women each tried and failed to lift Mjolnir.
• Loren tried to lift Mjolnir, and a bolt of thunder struck down toward him.

Loren failed to lift Mjolnir, which tried to strike him with lightning, and his wives joked about using electricity to make him stronger. After Loren and his party left, Coulson, Natasha, and Hawkeye Barton investigated the hammer, and Natasha and Barton discovered that it was impossibly heavy.

• Mjolnir summoned lightning at Loren, but the Magic Ring's barrier blocked the strike.
• Loren cursed Mjolnir and threatened to urinate on it, but Commander Sister and Marie Rose stopped him from risking electrocution.
• 2B proposed that lightning might strengthen Loren, and the women encouraged him to try again before Loren hurried home and canceled 2B's rewards for the week.
• Coulson, Natasha, and Hawkeye Barton arrived and Natasha identified footprints from eight people, including Loren's group, near Mjolnir.
• Natasha scanned Mjolnir, found no radiation, and tried to lift it, but discovered it was very heavy; Barton grabbed it and froze in place.

Coulson’s team failed to lift Mjolnir and sealed it off for further study, while Loren imprisoned Loki at Morgan Manor and used his magic ring to torment him. Loki was left humiliated and confused about Loren’s knowledge and power.

• Barton, Natasha, and Coulson tried and failed to lift Mjolnir, so Coulson ordered the agents to secure the site for study.
• Loren’s group returned to Morgan Manor with Loki, who threatened Loren from his cell and claimed Odin would punish him.
• Loren mocked Loki by revealing he knew Loki was not Odin’s biological son, then lifted him with Remote Object Control and threw him against the cell wall.
• Loki tried to use magic to see through Loren, but saw only mist, and Loren sensed the attempt.
• Loren used Remote Object Control to squeeze Loki’s rectum, causing Loki to lose control and leaving him embarrassed as Loren claimed to be the ancient Greek god of shit, Shit God Alan.

Loren tested the Magic Ring’s Remote Object Control on Loki and threatened to torture him into surrendering valuables. Loki gave in when 2B and Marie Rose prepared to attack and produced a blue box, though its contents were not revealed.

• Loren discovered that Remote Object Control could affect sensitive internal organs, but the Magic Ring lacked enough power to cause serious damage through a body.
• Loki dispelled Loren’s trick with magic, and 2B warned him before intimidating him into stopping.
• Loren told Loki he planned to kidnap and extort him, then demanded that he hand over his valuables.
• Loki claimed he had brought only a dagger and asked to return to Asgard for more, but Loren ordered 2B and Marie Rose to play with him.
• Loki surrendered and produced a blue box.

Loren took Loki’s Casket of Ancient Winters and confirmed that it could only be used by someone with Frost Giant blood. He released Loki, but A2 knocked him unconscious when he turned to threaten Loren, and Loren remarked that Thor was even more foolish despite being Odin’s biological son.

• Loki handed the Casket of Ancient Winters to Loren and claimed that only Frost Giant blood could activate it.
• Loren and 2B threatened to cut off Loki’s hand to test whether it could operate the casket, but Loki insisted that would not work.
• Loren decided Loki was telling the truth and ordered 2B to release him.
• Loki left the base, threatened Loren, and was knocked unconscious by A2 as he turned to go.
• A2 asked whether Loki was Odin’s son, and Loren explained that Loki was not Odin’s biological son and called the biological one even more brain-dead.

Loren kept Loki captive after taking the Casket of Ancient Winters, explaining that Laufey might attack to reclaim it. Tifa sensed the artifact calling to her and merged with it, leaving Loren and the others to guard the cocoon as the fusion continued.

• Loren refused to kill Loki and ordered him locked up again, saying he would prove useful later.
• Loren explained that Laufey would likely attack once he learned the Casket of Ancient Winters was in their hands, and that Loki might help him do so.
• Tifa said the Casket of Ancient Winters seemed to be calling to her and reached for it.
• The Casket glowed, unleashed a wave of cold, and drew Tifa into itself as she transformed into nanoscopic particles.
• The Casket changed into a towering cocoon, and Loren protected it and stayed beside it while Tifa's fusion continued.

Tony Stark and Bruce Banner failed to uncover Mjolnir’s secrets, and Tony discovered that Loren had already put modular armor into use. Thor arrived at the S.H.I.E.L.D. site and introduced himself as the prince of Asgard, but Tony mocked his claim.

• Bruce Banner and Tony Stark examined Mjolnir and found its weight and durability baffling.
• Tony described his plan to modularize his armor and deploy its modules from satellites.
• Natasha showed Tony footage of Loren transforming through modular assembly, revealing that Loren had already developed the method.
• Natasha and Hawkeye Barton teased Tony about drawing inspiration from Loren, and Tony angrily rejected the implication that he had plagiarized.
• Captain America Rogers entered with Thor, who identified Mjolnir as his weapon and introduced himself as the prince of Asgard.
• Tony sarcastically greeted Thor as Odin, his father, and Thor reacted with confusion.

Thor failed to summon or lift Mjolnir after Odin stripped him of his divine power, and the others dismissed his claim to be the prince of Asgard. The chapter left everyone stunned when Rogers lifted Mjolnir and lightning surged through him, while Thor insisted the hammer belonged to him.

• Thor charged at Tony Stark for mocking him, but Rogers restrained him and Tony apologized sarcastically.
• Thor tried repeatedly to summon Mjolnir, then attempted to lift it, but the hammer did not move.
• Tony and others mocked Thor, while Nick Fury questioned him and Thor explained that Odin had taken his powers and enchanted Mjolnir.
• Rogers walked over to Mjolnir and lifted it with ease, triggering lightning and a powerful aura.
• Thor and the others reacted in shock as Thor protested that Mjolnir was his hammer.

Thor lost Mjolnir and his divine powers, but Nick Fury offered him a place with S.H.I.E.L.D. while he recovered. As Thor reunited with Jane Foster and her companions, A2 arrived with news that her boss knew how to restore his divine power.

• Rogers lifted Mjolnir and summoned lightning, leaving Thor heartbroken while Hawkeye Barton realized the gods were real.
• Nick Fury invited Thor to join S.H.I.E.L.D., and Thor accepted while hoping to regain his powers and return to Asgard.
• Jane Foster, Daisy Lewis, and Eric were brought to Thor, and he explained that he had lost his powers and could not lift Mjolnir.
• A2 tore through the tent and announced that her boss knew how to restore Thor's divine power.

After confirming that Rogers had lifted Mjolnir, Loren sent A2 to summon Thor so he could negotiate for Uru Metal and offer help restoring Mjolnir’s recognition. Thor refused arrogantly, and A2 knocked him down to take him by force.

• Loren sent A2 to investigate the lightning and discovered that Thor was with Rogers, so he planned to use Thor’s concern for Loki to negotiate with him.
• A2 warned Rogers to use Mjolnir carefully and told Thor that Loren wanted to speak with him and could explain how to regain the hammer’s recognition.
• Thor questioned Loren’s authority and refused to go, despite Nick Fury’s attempt to calm the situation.
• A2 slammed Thor into the ground and declared that her boss’s orders came before everything.

A2 subdued Thor, revealed Loki had also been captured, and mocked Nick Fury before leaving with Thor. She left Fury a bouncing black ball that loudly sang a taunting song and could not be switched off.

• Thor threatened A2 and struggled against her, but she forced his face into the dirt while he demanded to know what had happened to Loki.
• A2 told Thor that Loki was her boss’s third dumbass, and Thor protested that he should be ranked second behind himself.
• A2 repeatedly slammed Thor’s head into the ground until he passed out, then carried him toward Morgan Manor.
• Before leaving, A2 warned Nick Fury not to overstep and tossed him a black ball as a gift.
• Natasha scanned the ball and handed it to Nick Fury, who could not turn it off and smashed it against the ground, making it bounce around while singing.

Loren captured Thor and brought him to Loki’s cell, where he revealed that Thor would be treated as an honored guest while Loki remained a hostage. Loren planned to use Loki’s suffering to pressure Thor into paying a ransom, and Thor woke as the commander drenched him with water.

• Nick Fury ordered his men to destroy anything Loren sent him after finding Loren’s black sphere smashed.
• Loren brought the unconscious Thor to Loki’s cell, and Loki rejoiced that his brother had been captured too.
• Loki offered to torture Thor, but Loren refused and explained that he would use Loki as a hostage to demand a ransom from Thor.
• Loki tried to persuade Loren to release him by claiming he was king of Asgard, but Loren rejected his promises.
• Loren signaled the commander, who used her Liquefaction ability to pour water on Thor and wake him.

Thor found Loki imprisoned alongside him, but Loren revealed that he had captured them to force Thor to grow and retrieve Uru Metal from Asgard. Thor had one day to bring back a ton of it or Loren would send him to the Hell Dimension with Loki.

• Thor greeted Loki in his cell, and Loki complained about being trapped while his brother was free.
• 2B slammed Thor into the ground, while Loki cheered her on and Loren stopped her from killing him.
• Thor confronted Loren about why he had captured them, and Loren claimed he was helping Thor become worthy of regaining his divine power.
• Loren demanded that Thor obtain one ton of Uru Metal from Asgard within a day, saying Thor could use his status to command Heimdall.
• Loren threatened to send Thor to the Hell Dimension with Loki if Thor failed, leaving both brothers alarmed.

Loren demanded half a ton of Uru metal from Thor in exchange for Loki’s life, and Thor agreed before returning to Asgard. With his plan proceeding as expected, Loren went back to his laboratory and checked on Tifa’s cocoon and Android 18.

• Loren demanded a ton of Uru metal from Thor, then lowered his demand to half a ton and threatened to kill Loki if Thor refused.
• Loki revealed that Odin’s vault held exactly half a ton of Uru metal, and Thor reluctantly agreed to bring it.
• 2B slapped Thor when he smiled to himself, and Thor called Heimdall to activate the Bifrost and return him to Asgard.
• Loren expected Thor’s return to draw out the target he wanted, then went to his secret laboratory.
• Loren found that Tifa’s cocoon had not moved after a day and night, while Android 18 remained in nutrient solution as she fused with the Perpetual Energy Furnace.