Arc 7The Mulpus Crisis

Miles helped defeat Arishem and cure the zombie plague, then turned to the Shadow King’s Mulpus plot as a worldwide sleeping sickness spread. He drove Shadow King from his mental world, but the crisis remained unresolved as Miles left Legion and Mr. Sinister together.

  • Miles and Thor defeated Zombie Wanda and the Zombie Eternals, but Arishem appeared and threatened to destroy Earth before the Phoenix Force convinced him to leave.
  • Miles reunited with the survivors, but Madeleine transformed into the Goblin Queen and fled to the Hell Dimension, so Miles set out to confront the Shadow King and find Doctor Doom.
  • The Shadow King spread Morpheus Syndrome and concealed Muir Island, while Miles gathered allies and discovered that David Haller had become Proteus.
  • Miles let Proteus possess him, used Personality Simulation to merge him with Legion, and watched Muir Island emerge from the sea.
  • Miles used Cerebro to disable Ultron’s robots and sever Mulpus’s hold on sleepers worldwide, while the Shadow King armed Ultron with the Mind Stone and sent him against the heroes.
  • Aurora and the heroes fought Ultron’s forces as Miles battled through the Shadow King’s Dream Kingdom, defeating Obadiah Apocalypse and five Mr. Sinisters.
  • Miles confronted Shadow King atop Mulpus, but Shadow King regenerated from his attacks and invaded Miles’s mental world to seize his core.
  • Shadow King fled when he encountered Legion in Miles’s mental world, and Miles left while Mr. Sinister tried to appease Legion.
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Ch. 151Infinite Hulk

Miles and the heroes joined the battle against Zombie Wanda’s forces in Wakanda while Nova Corps fighters fought across Earth. As Dawnlight finished, Miles regained his human appearance and the Staff of Phastos reassembled in his hand.

  • At the Sky Pillar, Hulk destroyed waves of zombies but grew exhausted after Wanda drowned and buried him beneath the horde and attacked him with giant zombies and Asgardian warships.
  • Thor, Miles, and the other heroes arrived and drove Wanda back, while she summoned six Zombie Eternals and sent her army against them.
  • Miles called in Starblaster fighters, and the Nova Corps fleet fell into a civil war as defecting fighters turned toward Earth and Zemo commanded Ultron’s forces against them.
  • The Starblasters supported the heroes in Wakanda as Thor engaged Zombie Ikaris and the others fought the horde.
  • Miles completed Dawnlight, which restored his human appearance and reassembled the Staff of Phastos in his hand.

Ch. 152Dawnlight

Miles used Dawnlight to begin purging the Zombie Virus across the Wakandan battlefield, restoring several heroes while Zombie Wanda suppressed the zombies’ returning humanity and ordered them to attack him. As Miles confronted Wanda, Thor rose with Gungnir and renewed power to face Zombie Gilgamesh.

  • Miles used Dawnlight on Zombie Hawkeye, then expanded its reach with the Energy Prism to purify the battlefield.
  • Zombie Wanda used Chaos Magic to suppress the zombies’ memories and directed them to destroy the prism and kill Miles; Kamala, Spider-Man, and other fighters held them back.
  • Miles entered Infinite Hulk’s mind to call for Dr. Banner, while Dawnlight restored Alexei and Yelena and returned Shang-Chi to normal, completing the Ten Rings.
  • Miles learned the Energy Prism could not last and flew to confront Zombie Wanda, using a portal opened by Master Lintra to strike at her from behind.
  • Thor fought Zombie Ikaris and Zombie Gilgamesh until Dawnlight restored Sif, who urged him to stand; Gungnir then appeared, and Thor took up the spear as his wounds healed and his power returned.
  • Thor clashed with Zombie Gilgamesh, meeting the zombie’s fist with Gungnir.

Ch. 153The Key to Defeating the Witch

Thor fought Gilgamesh and Ikaris while Miles and the other defenders battled the zombie Eternals across Wakanda. As Zombie Wanda began breaking Miles’s Suppression Field, he reached Dr. Banner’s consciousness and revealed that Hulk had become the world’s pillar to save him.

  • Thor shattered Gilgamesh’s energy gauntlet with Gungnir, then fought Gilgamesh and Ikaris at once, injuring and knocking Ikaris from the sky.
  • Master Drumm and Sara fought through Sprite’s illusions, while Spider-Man Peter Parker helped Scott fend off Thena and Blade Knight Eric Brooks confronted Druid.
  • Shang-Chi faced Sersi as Miles attacked Zombie Wanda with Cosmic Energy and coordinated Starblaster fire.
  • Miles and Hawkeye Clint struck Wanda with a paired attack, with Clint’s hidden arrow piercing her chest after she caught Miles’s first arrow.
  • Miles trapped Wanda in a Staff of Phastos Suppression Field and reached Dr. Banner, explaining that Hulk had sacrificed himself so Banner could live.

Ch. 154Dead End

Miles used the chaotic energy Hulk lent him to overwhelm Zombie Wanda, while Thor's Gungnir pierced her and helped annihilate her. As the survivors faced the aftermath, Arishem the Judge appeared above Earth and declared the planet would be destroyed to make way for a new world.

  • Dr. Banner accepted Miles's promise to find a way to awaken Hulk and lent him power from the shattered Infinity Stones.
  • Miles channeled the chaotic energy through the Staff of Phastos amplifier and began erasing Zombie Wanda, but her Chaos Magic surged back.
  • Thor's Gungnir pierced Zombie Wanda's heart, and the resulting torrent of energy annihilated her.
  • Thor defeated Zombie Gilgamesh and Ikaris; Ikaris briefly regained his sanity and said that someone was calling to him.
  • Miles detected a remnant of Wanda's consciousness trying to escape to the Dream World, but an overwhelming presence froze his thoughts and actions.
  • Arishem the Judge emerged above Earth and told its inhabitants that the planet would be destroyed and a new world born from its remains.

Ch. 155Madeleine's Actions

Thor and the heroes learned that Arishem intended Earth’s destruction to birth Tiamut, while Madeleine’s other self intervened in the battle against the zombie threat. Zombie Wanda took control of Thanos and tried to claim Vision’s Mind Stone, but Madeleine appeared with the stone in hand.

  • Arishem explained to Thor, Miles, and the others that Earth was meant to nourish Tiamut, and Thor declared war on him.
  • Madeleine’s other self protected Miles from Doctor Strange’s attack, then killed Zombie Druid when he invaded Bucky’s mind.
  • Spider-Man, Bucky, Black Panther, and Hope fought the Zombie Eternals as Zombie Thanos and the Black Order arrived; Zombie Thanos added the Time Stone to his gauntlet.
  • Wanda arrived and confronted Zombie Thanos, who revealed that Zombie Wanda had taken over his body and used the Space Stone to summon Vision.
  • Zombie Wanda began pulling the Mind Stone from Vision, but Madeleine struck with the Phoenix Force and seized the stone before her.

Ch. 156Red Phoenix

Madeleine’s arrival turned the battle against Zombie Wanda, while Main Universe Wanda used the Mind Stone to free Doctor Strange and Thena and confront her alternate self. Zombie Wanda lifted the world blockade, but just before disappearing, she saw a terrifying threat in the Zombie World and lunged toward Main Universe Wanda for one last favor.

  • Madeleine took the Mind Stone, repelled the Black Order with her telepathy and telekinesis, and joined forces with Main Universe Wanda against Zombie Wanda.
  • The Mind Stone merged into Main Universe Wanda, letting her free Zombie Doctor Strange and Zombie Thena from their conditions.
  • Main Universe Wanda reached Zombie Wanda’s mind, and Zombie Wanda lifted the blockade between the Dream World and the Zombie World.
  • The heroes defeated the remaining enemies, Madeleine’s borrowed consciousness departed, and Bucky and Hope discussed the infected Eternals and the Dawnlight cure.
  • As Zombie Wanda’s projection faded, she saw a horrifying scene in the Zombie World and lunged at Main Universe Wanda to ask for one last favor.

Ch. 157Reunion

Miles reunited with Madeleine in his mental world and fused their consciousnesses to unleash the Phoenix Force against Arishem. Their phoenix form admitted it could not defeat the Celestial alone and asked Infinite Hulk and Master Lintra to help summon the true Phoenix Force, flying toward the energy pillar left by the shattered Infinity Stones.

  • Thor hurled Gungnir at Arishem, but its law reversed and the spear struck Thor instead, leaving him near death.
  • Arishem said he was waiting for Wanda Maximoff to return and fuse the worlds, while Miles and the surviving heroes realized they could only wait.
  • Madeleine contacted Miles mentally, revealed that she had developed a personality shaped by imitating him, and reunited with him in his mental world.
  • Miles and Madeleine joined their psychic powers, awakened the Phoenix Force, and manifested as a giant golden-red phoenix above Wakanda.
  • The fused pair told Master Lintra and Infinite Hulk they needed help summoning the true Phoenix Force, then flew toward the energy pillar left by the shattered Infinity Stones.

Ch. 158Phoenix and the Celestial

Miles, Madeleine, Infinite Hulk, and the Kamar-Taj sorcerers attempted to summon the Phoenix Force to stop Celestial Arishem from destroying Earth. With the Scarlet Witch’s help, the Phoenix descended, and Arishem withdrew after declaring Earth qualified to survive.

  • Dr. Banner gave Miles and Hulk all of his energy, and Infinite Hulk poured the power of the shattered Infinity Stones into the Phoenix phantom.
  • Miles asked Master Lintra, Master Drumm, and Sara to help construct the Phoenix Summoning ritual as Infinite Hulk stabilized the collapsing energy pillar.
  • Miles pushed the ritual to its limits, and the Scarlet Witch reappeared and used Chaos Magic to help complete it.
  • Arishem struck the energy pillar and Phoenix phantom, but the Phoenix Force emerged as a colossal white Phoenix and faced him.
  • After communicating with the Phoenix, Arishem abandoned Earth and declared that humanity had proven its courage and will.

Ch. 159The End of the Zombie Universe

After the Phoenix Force helped Miles and the heroes defeat Arishem, the survivors celebrated while Miles discovered that Madeleine was bound by a secret tied to Hell. Madeleine transformed into the Goblin Queen and returned through a Gate of Hell, while Miles prepared to return to reality and confront the Shadow King before seeking clues to her whereabouts.

  • The Phoenix Force returned to Earth, and Wanda told Miles that the Dream World crisis had ended and Dr. Pym could use Dawnlight to cure the virus.
  • Miles reunited with the surviving heroes, introduced Madeleine as his girlfriend, and learned that Bruce Banner and Hulk had also survived.
  • Miles caught Madeleine leaving the celebration and asked about her troubles in The Void, but his guess about a demonic restriction triggered her pain.
  • Madeleine calmed in Miles's embrace, then transformed into the Goblin Queen, opened the Gates of Hell, and vanished into the Hell Dimension.
  • Miles spoke with Wanda about leaving the world and told her he planned to confront the Shadow King, then seek Doctor Doom's help finding Madeleine.

Ch. 160Essex Biotech Group

Miles returned from the Zombie Universe after twenty-seven days, reunited with Wanda and Quicksilver, and learned that Arishem was behind the Ancient One’s unusual reaction. Back at Essex Biotech Group, he began upgrading the Goddess of Dawn project and preparing new research, then learned that Bruce Banner had arrived to remind him of his promise to counsel Hulk.

  • Miles regained control of his strengthened psychic power, and Wanda and Quicksilver returned from the Dream World with him.
  • Wanda said she wanted revenge on the Shadow King for the psychic suggestion he had left in her, while she and Quicksilver planned to return to Sokovia.
  • The Ancient One confirmed that Miles had correctly guessed Arishem’s involvement and offered to explain more if he became the next Sorcerer Supreme, but Miles refused.
  • Miles returned to Essex Biotech Group, where Esme Frost had kept the company running during his absence, and ordered his desk moved into the laboratory.
  • Miles reviewed the Goddess of Dawn project’s gene-fusion problems and began supplying new research plans based on Eternals technology, while arranging to pursue Vibranium and an upgraded Arc Reactor.
  • Aurora told Miles that Bruce Banner had come to see him, reminding him that he had promised to counsel Hulk.

Ch. 161Inverness

In Inverness, Clint Barton and Kitty Pryde uncovered the Shadow King's network, but the enemy detected them and surrounded them. In New York, Miles enlisted Dr. Banner's help with the Goddess of Dawn project, then learned from Nick Fury that the Shadow King had caused major trouble while he was away.

  • Clint Barton, disguised as a tourist, questioned bartender John Darnay about Muir Island, and John secretly contacted someone with a modified communicator.
  • Kitty Pryde subdued John, and Clint used truth serum to question him, but the Shadow King took control of John and revealed that he had discovered them.
  • Clint and Kitty fled as Maddie shot at them and armed residents surrounded them; Clint found that their communications were jammed.
  • Miles completed a psychic therapy session with Dr. Banner, who agreed to advise him on the Goddess of Dawn genetic fusion project despite calling it dangerous.
  • Nick Fury arrived at Miles's laboratory and told him the Shadow King had turned the outside world upside down.

Ch. 162Dreams Under Shadow

Miles learned that the Shadow King's Dream Kingdom was spreading Morpheus Syndrome worldwide and agreed to lead a mission to Inverness, where several teams had vanished. He gave Scott a portion of Jean's Phoenix power, then brought Tony advanced Eternals technology to help develop a stronger reactor, new weapons, and armor systems.

  • Dr. Simmons told Miles and Nick Fury that millions of people had fallen into Morpheus Syndrome, while Fury reported that multiple teams, including Clint, Natasha, and X-Factor members, had disappeared near Inverness.
  • Miles explored the sleepers' dream lives, realized they would choose Mulpus over waking life, and told Fury he would prepare before going to Inverness.
  • At Xavier Community College, Miles told Hank that Remy and the others were trapped in Scotland, then gave Scott a sacred white flame containing Jean's power and explained that she had become part of the Phoenix Force.
  • Miles visited Tony Stark, found his mansion damaged after a battle with A.I.M., and learned Tony had investigated the group after experiencing a dream of the future.
  • Miles gave Tony technical materials on Eternals energy technology and proposed improvements to the Arc Reactor, weapons, nanotechnology, and new projects.

Ch. 163Aurora Knight

As Mulpus’s Sleeping Sickness spread, Hank discovered Scott had stabilized his dangerous energy, while Miles created the first Aurora Knight and prepared to join the fight against the Shadow King. The chapter ended with Miles powering himself up and assembling his team for the coming operation.

  • Hank found Koala and Ryan asleep from Sleeping Sickness, learned that hospitals were overwhelmed, and admitted to Gideon that he and Remy would fight the bad guy.
  • Scott told Hank that Miles had used Jean’s Phoenix power to contain his unstable Impact energy, though Scott’s eyes had not healed.
  • Miles shattered the Spectrum Prism and fused its energy into a bionic body, creating the combat robot Ganfal, whom he named Aurora Knight.
  • Aurora warned Miles that the spreading sickness threatened social order and suggested partnering with Hammer Group to obtain its stockpiled drones for the Leviathan System.
  • Miles prepared to depart, installed the new Psypoint Core in his chest, summoned Psylocke, and ordered Esme to stay in New York while they accounted for Shadow King and Celeste Frost.

Ch. 164The Island That Doesn't Exist

Hank joined Nick Fury’s team to investigate the Shadow King’s Mulpus plan, while Johnny Blaze encountered a mysterious old gentleman at the Xavier Community College. The team learned that Muir Island may be an anomalous place fused into reality from the Astral Plane, and prepared to investigate it.

  • Hank left the Xavier Community College with Chris Bradley, but stayed behind when Gideon brought homeless children there seeking shelter, and Chris agreed to protect them.
  • Johnny Blaze disappeared from the group and met a well-dressed old gentleman who called him Johnny Inferno and remarked on his lack of destructive rampages.
  • Hank arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Florida base, where he met Fury, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Miles, Dr. Banner, Psylocke, and the combat android Ganfal.
  • Miles explained that he had been delayed while relocating the imprisoned Selene, and Fury briefed the team on the spreading sleep crisis and their mission to investigate Inverness and the Shadow King.
  • Fury revealed that satellite and geographic data showed no Muir Island, but Miles said it existed in his and Hank’s worlds; Sophie said it did not exist in hers.
  • Miles theorized that the Shadow King had created Muir Island by drawing fragments of the Astral Plane into reality as part of the Mulpus plan.

Ch. 165Investigation

Miles and the team investigated Inverness for the missing agents, while Shadow King manipulated Bucky with a vision of a possible future in which Miles’s forces attacked humanity. The investigation led Miles to uncover the Moira MacTaggert Psychiatric Hospital hidden beneath an illusion.

  • Miles used Telepathy to search Inverness but found no suspicious people or signs of the missing agents, and he warned Lorna Dane that Shadow King might target her.
  • Steve and Psylocke questioned people at Hutana Bar but found no one who remembered Clint, Remy, or the others who had disappeared.
  • Shadow King confronted Bucky and showed him a vision of a possible future where the Sky Legion and Knight androids attacked a human settlement in the name of the Black Spirit King.
  • Ganfal tracked Bucky’s path to a hospital, where Miles broke the illusion concealing the sign for Moira MacTaggert Psychiatric Hospital.
  • Miles contacted Fury and requested Tony and Banner’s help with the newly discovered lead.

Ch. 166Ashes

Miles and his allies searched the psychiatric hospital for the Shadow King's lair while Farouk activated Mulpus at the Muir Island base. In the underground warehouse, they found Bucky possessed by a psychic entity that revealed itself as Proteus, who declared Miles his target.

  • Miles identified the psychiatric hospital as connected to David Haller and psychically ordered its occupants to evacuate before the team descended underground.
  • Farouk activated Mulpus with Ultron's help, using the Mind Stone to open a portal to another world and promising Dr. Pym he could reunite with Janet.
  • The group found patches of ash and watched the missing agent Cassius Barlow collapse into dust after recognizing Miles.
  • Miles and the others reached the underground warehouse, where Bucky revealed that the Shadow King had led him there and that an entity was possessing him.
  • Miles blasted the entity out of Bucky, but it fled into an unconscious man, who used reality distortion to disintegrate Psylocke's blade and deform Steve's shield.
  • The man identified himself as Proteus, named Miles Zero as his target, and began twisting the warehouse around him.

Ch. 167Proteus

As Mulpus spread worldwide and Ultron launched a global attack, Miles and his allies fought Proteus beneath Moira Hospital. Miles uncovered Proteus’s origin and David Haller’s final message, then formed an idea for how to stop him as Proteus escaped.

  • Nick Fury and Hank McCoy realized the Shadow King had activated Mulpus to trap Miles’s team, and Banner transformed into the Hulk and headed for Inverness.
  • Hank detected Mulpus spreading across Europe as Ultron and his robots launched a worldwide invasion against sleeping, disorganized populations.
  • Proteus overpowered Steve, Ganfal, Bucky, and the others, but Miles realized Proteus drained biological energy and tried to evacuate the people in the warehouse.
  • Miles used his Phoenix Avatar to destroy Proteus’s host body and injure his true form, but Proteus possessed Gambit, forcing Miles to hold back and letting Proteus escape.
  • Tony identified a thought frequency in Proteus’s energy, and Miles decoded David Haller’s last consciousness, learning that the Shadow King created Proteus from David’s head using the Mind Stone.
  • Miles told the team the truth about Proteus’s origin and, based on his connection to David, said he had an idea for defeating him.

Ch. 168Personality Fusion

Hank Pym left for the Quantum Realm to answer Janet's signal while Miles and the heroes defeated Proteus by drawing him into Miles and merging him with a simulated Legion personality. After the battle was restored and Miles recovered, an illusory Muir Island appeared offshore as the heroes prepared to pursue Shadow King.

  • Hank Pym activated his Quantum Shuttle and vanished toward the Quantum Realm after Shadow King confronted him about his secret scheme with Ultron.
  • Proteus attacked Hulk at Moira Hospital, but Miles intervened and deliberately let Proteus possess him.
  • Miles used Personality Simulation to create a Legion personality, which merged with Proteus and gained control of Reality Distortion.
  • Legion restored the devastated battlefield, then yielded control to Miles, who explained that Proteus had become part of Legion and ordered Remy LeBeau taken somewhere safe.
  • Iron Man detected a change in the Inverness energy field, and an illusory Muir Island emerged from the sea.

Ch. 169Ultron Robots

Ultron Robots attacked Xavier Community College, where Scott Summers gained a new way to perceive the world through Rachel and unleashed devastating optic blasts against them. Meanwhile, Miles discovered that the Shadow King had trapped the sleeping minds of billions in an Astral Plane labyrinth, and Hank offered a possible solution.

  • Ultron Robots attacked the warehouse, knocked out Chris Bradley, and captured Mortimer while Scott tried to protect Rachel and the sleeping teenagers.
  • Rachel shared her senses with Scott, allowing him to perceive the battlefield and destroy the Ultron Robot threatening him with powerful red Shockwaves.
  • Nick Fury saw Muir Island appear off Scotland, but missiles passed through it because it remained outside physical reality.
  • Miles entered the Astral Plane and found that the Shadow King had woven the sleeping consciousnesses of billions into a Psychic Labyrinth guarding Muir Island.
  • Miles concluded that waking the sleepers could dismantle the labyrinth, but his powers could not reach or manipulate them on a global scale.
  • Hank told Miles that the team had brought something from their original world that might solve the problem.

Ch. 170Cerebro

Miles used Cerebro to amplify his powers to a global scale, then seized control of Ultron’s robots around the world and ended their assault. Ultron’s hidden main body lost contact with its forces and feared Miles would find it next.

  • Hank gave Miles Cerebro, and Miles used the Mind Control Room plans to convert the Psychic Shielding Device at Moira Hospital into a temporary amplifier.
  • Miles put on Cerebro despite its painful mental strain, while Psylocke recognized that his power had reached Omega-level.
  • Miles scanned the world and identified Ultron Robots among the threats, then connected to and shut down every robot he could reach.
  • At Xavier Community College, Miles took control of the attacking robots and greeted Scott before cutting their power worldwide.
  • Ultron lost contact with his robots from a hidden cave on a volcanic island and feared Miles’s global psychic reach.

Ch. 171Ascension

Miles Zero used Cerebro to shut down the Ultron Robots and began freeing people from Mulpus’s influence, while the Shadow King gave Ultron the Mind Stone and sent him to stop the heroes. The Shadow King moved Mulpus toward another dimension to merge with his multiversal counterparts, leaving Miles to pursue him as Ultron summoned a vast robot army against the Avengers.

  • Nick Fury received reports that Ultron’s robots around the world had stopped functioning, while Miles used Cerebro to sever Mulpus’s connection to those it had affected.
  • The Shadow King took the Mind Stone from Mulpus’s energy matrix and placed it in a crimson Vibranium body prepared for Ultron, then sent him to confront the heroes.
  • People awoke from their slumber around the world as Miles continued clearing the Astral Maze, but he sensed Ultron arriving with the Mind Stone.
  • Miles realized the Shadow King planned to merge with his counterparts across parallel universes and chose to pursue him in the Astral Plane, asking the others to hold Ultron back.
  • Ultron completed his fusion with the Vibranium body, used the Mind Stone to reactivate robots across a vast region, and summoned his hidden Iron Legion reserves.
  • Ultron formed crimson armor and a knight’s lance, then ordered his assembled robots to kill the heroes.

Ch. 172Ultron Legion

Miles resisted the Shadow King’s nightmare by confronting memories from his past and was sent to face Obadiah Apocalypse at the Xavier Institute. Meanwhile, Ultron’s global robot army attacked the heroes in Scotland, where Aurora took control of Ganfal’s body to stop Ultron from corrupting him.

  • Miles killed Dr. Zander in the laboratory illusion, rejected the nightmare’s replay of the incident involving Charles, and shot the old woman in the shoulder.
  • The Shadow King drove Miles to the Xavier Institute, where Obadiah Apocalypse attacked him with overwhelming telekinetic force and Miles prepared to fight back.
  • Ultron’s robots overwhelmed the battlefield in Scotland as Hulk fought Steel Ravager, Iron Man battled several modified armors, and Steve fought the robot swarm on the ground.
  • Ultron fired the Mind Stone at the Mind Control Room, but Iron Man blocked the beam while Psylocke and Ganfal attacked Ultron.
  • Ultron invaded Ganfal’s mind, but Ganfal handed control to Aurora, who purged Ultron’s data and transformed his body into a female android.
  • Aurora confronted Ultron in Ganfal’s body while Iron Man continued fighting Bloodthirsty Rogue, Pale Phantom, and Tiger Shark.

Ch. 173Battle Royale

Aurora and the Avengers fought Ultron’s forces while the Frost Five Sisters stopped his attempt to launch the world’s nuclear weapons. In the Astral Plane, Miles defeated Obadiah and then summoned Legion to face five Mr. Sinisters.

  • Aurora secretly infiltrated Tiger Shark, allowing Iron Man to destroy it, while Ultron noticed her intrusion and regained control of the Bloodthirsty Rogue.
  • Hank launched Steve into the air to take down the Extermination Vanguard, and Iron Man’s Electromagnetic Storm disabled the remaining Ultron Robots.
  • Ultron seized control of nuclear arsenals around the world, but Sophie, Esme, Maddie, Phoebe, and Celeste united their psychic powers and severed his control.
  • Miles defeated Obadiah Apocalypse in the Dream Kingdom and continued to the ruins of the Vorgan Building, where he encountered two Mr. Sinisters.
  • Miles used Personality Simulation to become Legion, who summoned three more Mr. Sinisters and challenged all five to fight him.

Ch. 174Legion's Curse

Legion defeated the five Mr. Sinisters, but his power left Nathaniel Essex’s personality inside Miles’s mind, forcing Miles to fear using Legion again. Meanwhile, Shadow King devoured his multiversal counterparts and prepared to fight Miles as a godlike being in Mulpus.

  • The five Mr. Sinisters tried to flee and then combined their psychic powers, but Legion erased their attacks and compressed them into singularities before annihilating them.
  • Miles regained control of his body and discovered that Nathaniel Essex’s personality had been born in his mental world; he resolved to avoid using Legion’s power unless absolutely necessary.
  • Shadow King merged with Mulpus and transformed its hundreds of millions of imprisoned human consciousnesses into incarnations that devoured his multiversal counterparts.
  • Miles reached Mulpus’s summit and confronted Shadow King, who offered to leave the world after becoming the God of Dreams and argued that the dreamers were better off remaining in their fantasies.
  • Miles rejected Shadow King’s promise, and their exchange provoked Shadow King into unleashing the psychic wrath of a god across Mulpus.

Ch. 175Astral War

Miles fought Shadow King in the Astral Plane, using the Spark of the Heart to command a vast mechanical army and resist Shadow King’s attacks. When Shadow King invaded Miles’s mental world, he encountered Legion and fled, while Miles returned to the battle still unfolding outside.

  • Miles confronted Shadow King in Mulpus and used Phoenix Brand, the Staff of Phastos, and Hawkeye’s personality to attack him, but Shadow King repeatedly regenerated.
  • Shadow King unleashed the wills of billions of assimilated people, and Miles answered with Drone Cannons, Leviathan Warships, and Guardian Knights controlled through the Spark of the Heart.
  • Shadow King exploited Miles’s exposed consciousness, breached the knights’ defenses, and entered Miles’s mental world to seize his core.
  • Shadow King encountered Miles alongside Legion and Mr. Sinister in the mental world and fled as soon as he recognized Legion.
  • Miles explained that Shadow King’s psychic essence might become another personality within David, then left the mental world while Mr. Sinister tried to appease Legion.
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