Recaps

Kaecilius watched the Arbiters sacrifice themselves to wipe out the Fear Legion minions at the city wall, then flew above the war fortress to summon a vast storm. Bethus empowered himself with the heart of a minion and faced Kaecilius as the wizard completed an amplification array and called down lightning.

• Figo ordered the Arbiters to form three-person teams, but Bethus ambushed and killed Figo and his squad.
• Kaecilius's crimson longsword failed to strike Bethus, who escaped into the Shadow Space.
• The Arbiters unleashed Crimson Meteor Burst attacks, destroying the minions in the wall's cracks at the cost of their own lives.
• Kaecilius flew above the fortress and summoned dark clouds and lightning, while Bethus discovered the Shadow Space would not open.
• Bethus sacrificed a minion's heart to summon Akkad's power, transforming into a more formidable form.
• Kaecilius carved an amplification array across the sky and commanded the thunder to fall through it.

Kaecilius used his death to draw the lightning onto Fear Lord Bethus, leaving the Fear Lord gravely wounded and captured. The battle in White Mist Sector 1 ended, but fighting continued in other sectors, where Thor faced a giant hand.

• Fear Lord Bethus broke through the amplification formation and pierced Kaecilius with his claws, but Kaecilius died without feeling fear.
• Lightning converged on Kaecilius's corpse and struck Bethus, shattering his Black Glazed Carapace and leaving him unconscious.
• Inquisitor Figo Muller and the Arbiter Detachment emerged from a tunnel and killed the surviving Fear Legion minions.
• Kaecilius bound Bethus with Crimson Chains of Destiny and opened a portal to transfer him to Kamar-Taj.
• Thor charged an enormous Bone Dragon in White Mist Sector 23, but a gigantic palm swatted him underground.

Cass Soren fought a Bone Dragon while Yuri and Gibson struggled to carry the unconscious Thor the God of Thunder, whose Mjolnir lifted itself from his chest. Cass was knocked down by the dragon, then killed by Soul Hunter Chloes, leaving his crimson greatsword to dissolve.

• Cass ordered Yuri and Gibson to take the unconscious Soren to the base safe zone, but the three of them could not lift him while he held Mjolnir.
• Mjolnir rose into the air with Soren's arm, and Yuri and Gibson carried him away as Cass returned to battle.
• Cass challenged a Bone Dragon, cut through its Death Dragon Breath, and was struck into the ground after clashing with its claw.
• The Bone Dragon turned away after receiving an order, and Soul Hunter Chloes sent a gray palm through Cass, killing him.
• Cass's crimson greatsword lost its Mana and dissolved after his death.

Richard personally destroyed the Soul-Hunting Army in White Mist Sector 23, then comforted his revived allies and prepared the Heroic Spirits to fight again. Thor woke believing his companions were dead, while Phil Coulson later explained to Melinda May that the sector’s defenders could resurrect like players in a game.

• Richard froze and shattered White Mist Sector 23, annihilating the Soul-Hunting Army and capturing the wounded Croesus.
• Richard restored the sector, welcomed Leonzos, Uldon, Cass Soren, and the Arbiters, and urged Cass to master his Berserker Bloodline.
• Leonzos and Uldon challenged each other to compete over who would kill more enemies.
• Fitz revived Thor, who believed Cass and the Arbiter detachment had died and grieved that he had failed to protect his companions.
• Phil Coulson told Melinda May that Richard had changed the sector’s rules so their people could resurrect after death, and May began making a request.

After Richard intervened in White Mist Zone 23, the arbiters across the War Fortress rallied and drove the invaders out of multiple zones. In an Asgardian detention cell, Loki confronted Frigga about his Frost Giant origins and accused Odin of hiding his bloody past, including the truth about Hela.

• Phil Coulson refused Melinda May’s request, insisting they had to stay and secure logistics for the White Mist Zone.
• After news of Richard’s intervention spread, the arbiters fought more fiercely, and the unsealed heroic spirits helped clear invaders from the War Fortress.
• In White Mist Zone 13, Old Tree immobilized a stone giant with Wild Growth, Bamboo Elder sealed the fortress perimeter with a bamboo forest, and Stephens Fregel ordered the arbiters to attack the trapped stone elementals.
• Arbiters in zones including White Mist Zone 19, White Mist Zone 28, and White Mist Zone 33 drove out the invaders, while resurrected fighters returned stronger and more devoted to the Lord of Crimson.
• Frigga asked Loki whether he truly wanted to kill Thor, and Loki revealed that he knew Laufey was his biological father and believed Odin had taken him from Jotunheim as part of a plan.
• Loki told Frigga that he had discovered Odin’s erased history with Hela through Gungnir and accused Odin of making Hela bear the blame for his own massacres.

Loki learned that the Lord of Evil Spirits planned to invade Earth and was forced to cooperate despite knowing Richard had set a trap. Loki broke a golden Sphere to escape his imprisonment, while Richard and his companions arrived in New York and Reynolds began speaking with Kim.

• Frigga left Loki's cell to warn Odin that news of Hela had leaked and threatened Asgard's safety.
• The Lord of Evil Spirits ordered Loki to guide an Evil Spirit Squad into Earth, and Loki warned that Richard had set a trap.
• The Lord of Evil Spirits threatened Loki with their soul contract and said the squad was already on its way.
• Loki broke a golden Sphere covered in Odinforce, causing a seal in a mysterious place to crack and release dark-red liquid.
• Richard, Reynolds, Mills, and Kim arrived at New York Airport, where Reynolds stayed with Kim while Old Bryan went to get the car.
• Reynolds awkwardly spoke with Kim, who said she and Amanda had noticed his shyness at school.

Reynolds and Kim shared a kiss at the airport and planned a date, but Reynolds had to fly to Taipei after his mother feared something was wrong with Lucy. Kim accepted the cancellation, and she and Bryan continued on their way from the airport.

• Kim praised Reynolds, and he tried to prove he liked sports by placing her hand against his chest.
• Bryan arrived and called Kim to the car, but Kim kissed Reynolds on the cheek and told him she had time that weekend.
• Reynolds went home, where Mrs. Reynolds worried that Lucy sounded sad on the phone and pushed him to leave for Taipei immediately.
• Reynolds called Kim to explain that he had to visit Lucy and cancel their planned date.
• Kim offered to reschedule the date after Reynolds returned, then told Bryan her first date had fallen through before it began.

Reynolds tracked his missing sister Lucy and learned through Richard that she was in Hong Kong, where she had forced a surgeon to remove CPH4 from her abdomen. After the doctor explained the substance’s effects, Lucy realized she would not live long.

• Reynolds failed to reach Lucy, hacked surveillance footage, and traced her abduction to a ship bound for South Korea or Hong Kong.
• Richard showed Reynolds that Lucy was armed and forcing her way through a hospital, then directed him to fly to Hong Kong.
• Reynolds returned to the airport after telling his taxi driver to turn around, and the frightened driver sped away without taking his fare.
• In a Hong Kong operating room, Lucy ordered a surgeon at gunpoint to remove the damaged bag of CPH4 from her abdomen.
• The surgeon explained that CPH4 was an extremely potent substance associated with fetal development, and Lucy concluded that she would not live long.

Lucy escaped the hospital with half a bag of CPH4 after undergoing surgery to remove it, while the surgeon and his assistant decided to conceal her identity from the police. She reunited with her brother Reynolds in a motel and told him that South Koreans had implanted the substance in her stomach and that it had dissolved into her body.

• Lucy left the operating room with the remaining CPH4, and the chief surgeon told his assistant to report the shooting while hiding her identity from the police.
• Lucy evaded the approaching police and received a call from her brother Reynolds, who told her to wait at a motel in Hong Kong.
• A young man who passed Reynolds's call to Lucy asked if she was a spy, but Lucy denied it and sent him away.
• Reynolds arrived three hours later, and Lucy embraced him before explaining that South Koreans had implanted CPH4 in her stomach and that it had dissolved into her body.

Reynolds found Lucy after she had ingested CPH4, which was rapidly changing her body and erasing her emotions. Richard arrived and offered to save her by conducting an experiment inside her body, leaving Lucy flushed and Reynolds stunned.

• Lucy told Reynolds that she had ingested a large amount of CPH4 and was gaining abilities while losing her emotions.
• Reynolds called for Richard, who appeared and used Crimson Mana to examine the blue CPH4 spreading through Lucy's body.
• Lucy touched Richard and read his memories, then declared that she would become the world's only true deity as her powers grew.
• Reynolds called their mother, and speaking with her helped Lucy regain some of her human emotions.
• Richard offered to save Lucy if she cooperated with an experiment, saying he would enter her body and experience her transformation firsthand.

Richard healed Lucy, separated a new individual from her true spirit, and left Reynolds a magic clone to help him take revenge. In the Marvel universe, Richard accelerated the new Lucy’s evolution, and she was left suffering alone in a world dissolving around her.

• Richard split a second Lucy from Lucy, restored Lucy’s body, and transferred her CPH4 into the new individual.
• Lucy said she hoped the new Lucy would survive but did not want her to remain in this world, so Richard took her away.
• Richard gave Reynolds a magic clone that could remain for one day, and Reynolds took Lucy home through a Portal before preparing to seek revenge.
• Richard returned to the Marvel universe with the new Lucy in a miniature Mirror Dimension and accelerated time inside it fivefold.
• Richard added a sliver of his true spirit to the new Lucy as her CPH4-driven evolution began, leaving her in agony as the surrounding world vanished.

Lucy survived being burned to ash and discovered she could reconstruct matter and affect space inside the Mirror Dimension, while Richard observed and learned from her abilities. As Lucy’s brain development reached 93% and her CPH4 ran out, Richard recreated a trace of the substance and realized her power felt strangely familiar.

• Lucy’s body burned to ash, then reformed, revealing her ability to reconstruct matter and transform her arm into different objects.
• Lucy’s growing brain development let her perceive the Rhombic Space Fragments and create spatial fluctuations, but Richard reinforced the Mirror Dimension from outside.
• A Space Storm formed inside the dimension and threatened Lucy, so Richard opened a door to release it before closing the door and reinforcing the space again.
• With Lucy’s CPH4 nearly exhausted and her brain developed to 93%, Richard used his new matter reconstruction insight to produce a trace of CPH4.
• Richard recognized that Lucy’s ability felt familiar and reacted in shock.

As Lucy's brain evolved and she became part of the mirror dimension, she captured the trace of Richard's true spirit that had been bound to her soul. She learned that the spirit was a fragment of Richard, then caught it revealing that his time magic came from the main body.

• Lucy completed her brain's evolution, vanished from the mirror dimension's interior, and became part of the dimension itself.
• Richard sensed that Lucy's true spirit remained alive but could no longer reach or locate her.
• Lucy discovered the foreign trace of true spirit in her soul and grabbed it, forcing it to speak through threats and chatter.
• The golden light broke open to reveal a tiny Q-version Richard, who introduced himself and recounted his past as a surgeon and the strongest Sorcerer Supreme.
• Lucy questioned Q-version Richard about her time-accelerating magic, and he accidentally revealed that it belonged to his main body.

Lucy learned that CPH4 was driving her evolution and challenged whether her new powers made her a deity, while Chibi Richard could not give her a clear answer. At Mjolnir Base, Thor accidentally covered Fitz in noodles, and Phil Coulson hurried after Thor when he realized his suggestion to apologize over drinks would be disastrous.

• Lucy questioned Chibi Richard about CPH4 and learned that it promoted physical evolution and brain development, possibly to the point of becoming a deity.
• Lucy listed her powers and argued that she had surpassed the practitioners, but Chibi Richard admitted he did not know whether she counted as a deity.
• Thor sneezed noodles across Fitz, knocking him backward, and Fitz left after ordering Thor to stop.
• Thor asked Phil Coulson how to apologize, and Phil suggested inviting Fitz for a drink without knowing Fitz avoided alcohol and Thor could drink for hours.
• Melinda May explained the problem to Phil, who rushed off to stop Thor, while Skye saved and distributed a video of the incident.

Inside the mirror dimension, Q-version Richard told Lucy that she could be a deity because she could control space and time and even retrieve the dead, but warned that he and Lucy were about to disappear. After Q-version Richard vanished, Lucy grieved, then tore open the dimension’s sky.

• Lucy claimed she could control space and time, recreate bodies, and steal souls to bring the dead back, while Q-version Richard praised her and warned that such power could damage the universe.
• Q-version Richard told Lucy that they would soon die, and Richard abruptly opened his eyes outside the miniature mirror dimension and realized they had appeared.
• Q-version Richard explained that he had known he could exist only briefly, then asked Lucy to smile before his body faded away.
• Lucy tried to keep smiling as Q-version Richard vanished, then wept and thanked him for making her happy.
• Lucy raised both hands and tore open the mirror dimension’s spatial wall.

Chibi Lucy passed her godhood insights to Richard before fading away, but he rejected the parts that risked turning him into a mindless Puppet God. Richard returned to Kamar-Taj, where Ancient One greeted him and he promptly drank all her precious Star Mirage tea.

• Chibi Lucy appeared before Richard, praised his looks, and told him to close his eyes so she could pass on her knowledge.
• Chibi Lucy disintegrated into lights that entered Richard and flooded him with insights about primordial consciousness, universal connection, and time.
• Richard removed and destroyed part of the knowledge, realizing that absorbing it all could have made him a thoughtless Puppet God.
• Richard returned to Kamar-Taj and Ancient One teased him for offending thirty-five major factions while his clone held down the fort.
• Richard tasted Ancient One's Star Mirage tea, then gulped down the entire pot despite her protests.

Richard escaped after learning he had drunk a tenth of Ancient One’s treasured Star Mirage tea, while Ancient One confronted Mephisto’s envoy, Asmodeus, over Blackheart. When Mephisto threatened to bring Hell’s Legion to Kamar-Taj, Ancient One trapped his consciousness in Asmodeus and began beating him.

• Ancient One scolded Richard for drinking her rare Star Mirage tea, but he fled through a Spatial Rift to handle the desert White Mist Zone.
• Mordo told Ancient One that a high-tier demon had come to negotiate, and she hurried through a Portal to meet him.
• Asmodeus introduced himself as Mephisto’s envoy and asked Ancient One to ransom Blackheart, but she said Blackheart was not on Earth.
• Mephisto took control of Asmodeus and demanded Blackheart’s release in exchange for Hell staying out of the invasion of Earth.
• Mephisto threatened to lead Hell’s Legion to Kamar-Taj, so Ancient One froze spacetime, trapped his consciousness, and punched him repeatedly.

Ancient One defeated Mephisto’s envoy, and Richard revived the demon Asmodeus after Mephisto’s consciousness returned to Hell. Mephisto vowed to bring his army to Earth, and Richard welcomed the chance to draw out his true body.

• Ancient One battered Mephisto’s demon vessel against Earth’s magical Defense Formation until Mephisto destroyed Asmodeus’s head and returned to Hell.
• Richard arrived and learned that Mephisto had sent Asmodeus to negotiate for Blackheart, whom Richard and Ancient One believed was key to Mephisto’s control of Hell.
• Richard reconstructed Asmodeus’s body and revived him, astonishing Ancient One with his unfamiliar power.
• Ancient One told Richard that Mephisto planned to lead the Hell Legion to Kamar-Taj, raising the number of factions threatening Earth to thirty-six.
• Richard celebrated the prospect of Mephisto’s arrival and credited Ancient One’s beating with provoking him, prompting her to challenge Richard over claiming he had seen nothing.

Richard questioned Asmodeus about the Yule Palace, marked him with dangerous crimson mana, and asked Ancient One to summon the Dimensional Deities to negotiations as part of a plan to kill one and warn the rest. Meanwhile, Natasha’s Crimson Battle Sister Guard joined the fight across the White Mist sectors, while Tony Stark arrived to deal with the hurricane monsters in Sector 36.

• Richard learned that Asmodeus managed the Yule Palace and could return there if Mephisto was away, then planted crimson mana in his demonic heart to secure his obedience.
• Richard asked Ancient One to invite the Dimensional Deities behind the invading minions to truce negotiations, intending to make them witness his attack on one of their number.
• Ancient One warned Richard not to underestimate the thirty-five Dimensional Deities, then agreed to send the invitations.
• Natasha led the Crimson Battle Sister Guard and other reinforcements into battle, prompting the Crimson Believer legions to counterattack across the White Mist sectors.
• In Sector 36, the BlueRinged Flower King surrounded the War Fortress with flowers, and Tony Stark arrived with Simmons and her technicians as Grant Ward withdrew his squad to support other sectors.

Tony led the newly armored Magitech Troop out of the War Fortress to battle the Hurricane Monsters. Their Magic Suppression Field stripped the monsters of their elemental forms, allowing the troop to kill them and collect hundreds of Hurricane Cores before the Dust-Howl Legion ordered its forces to stop.

• Tony had Simmons and the spaceship technicians suit up, then persuaded Yuan Shan and Blue-Ringed Flower King to open a passage through the flowers.
• Tony emerged and used his armor to force two Hurricane Monsters out of their elemental forms, killing them and collecting a Hurricane Core.
• Tony ordered the Magitech Troop to activate its Magic Suppression Field as more Hurricane Monsters approached.
• The field disrupted the monsters' elemental forms, and the troop killed them and collected hundreds of Hurricane Cores.
• A thunderous voice ordered the Dust-Howl Legion to cease its attack, and a massive cluster of wind came howling toward the troop.

Tony Stark and the Magitech Troop used a Magic Suppression Field and their shield to bring down the Dust-Howl Legion, then trapped Emmanuel in a scarlet cocoon. Lord Dusthowl Manuel rescued his brother from the lightning but could not free him, and he attacked the cocoon with a Cyan Wind Blade.

• Tony Stark mocked Lord Dusthowl Manuel, who ordered the Dust-Howl Legion to capture him.
• Tony and the Magitech Troop activated a hemispherical shield as the devices spread across White Fog Sector 36 suppressed the Hurricane Monsters' forms.
• The Dust-Howl Legion crashed to the ground, and the shield's scarlet lightning struck Lord Dusthowl and the hundred-meter Hurricane Monster Emmanuel.
• Simmons used Crimson Chain of Fate to bind Emmanuel inside a scarlet cocoon as Manuel sent a Tornado toward the shield and carried his brother away.
• Manuel was shocked by scarlet lightning when he reached for the cocoon, then summoned a Cyan Wind Blade and struck it.

Manuel and Hes discovered that the chains binding Imanol also held his flesh and soul, so they left him imprisoned and attacked Tony Stark’s group. Tony detonated a Magic Suppression Field that neutralized Hes and trapped him beneath tens of thousands of beads.

• Manuel struck the crimson cocoon with the Hurricane Scepter, but Hes stopped him and warned that the chains were bound to Imanol’s body and soul.
• Hes advised Manuel to seize the area and interrogate Earth’s sorcerers about breaking the seal, and Manuel agreed before Hes vanished.
• Manuel attacked the shield protecting Tony Stark and the Magitech Warriors, then summoned a massive hurricane that swept up the Dust-Howl Legion and formed a canopy of sand.
• Tony activated the Magic Suppression Field, which destroyed Hes’s wind defenses, weakened his Hurricane Core, and left him immobilized beneath tens of thousands of magic-suppression beads.

Tony and the Magitech Troop defeated Lord Dusthowl Manuel after the Lord of Hurricanes’ power failed to reach it. With Manuel dead and its Hurricane Core captured, Tony gave the surviving Dusthowl Legion monsters ten seconds to surrender or die.

• Manuel’s Yellow Sand Canopy shattered the Crimson Protective Shield and devastated White Fog Sector 36, while Yuan Shan and Blue-Ringed Flower King protected the war fortress from the shockwave.
• Tony emerged with dozens of magitech armor suits and ordered them to attack Manuel, binding it with crimson chains as its minions refused to help.
• Manuel summoned the Lord of Hurricanes, but a crimson mana force collided with the incoming cyan hurricane and cut off the divine power.
• Tony ordered the Magitech Troop to intensify its bombardment, killing Manuel and capturing its Hurricane Core.
• Tony demanded that the surviving hurricane monsters surrender within ten seconds as the armor suits aimed their weapons at them.

Earth’s forces defeated the dimensional invaders, and Richard imprisoned the captured minions in the Crimson Dimension as the desert’s white fog cleared. In Tara Territory, Jacqueline continued training Colonel Rhodes while a massive cross-shaped warship appeared above Asgard’s Golden Palace lake.

• Tony accepted the hurricane monsters’ surrender and sent them to the War Fortress as the battle in White Fog Sector 36 ended.
• Richard moved the captured dimensional minions into a prison space in the Crimson Dimension, and the Island Palace appeared above them to suppress them.
• The white fog receded, and Lieutenant General Gordon ordered a ten-man squad to investigate the desert.
• Jacqueline punished Rhodes for losing control of his mana during training, then showed him how crimson mana could heal his injuries.
• A massive, narrow cross warship appeared above the Golden Palace lake in Asgard.

Dark Elves attacked the Golden Palace, and Queen Frigga led Asgard’s defense until their warship broke the protective shield. Algrim then reached Loki’s cell to free him, but Loki remained trapped behind its magic barrier.

• Heimdall detected an unidentified warship above the Golden Lake, and Frigga ordered him to activate the Defense Formation.
• Frigga rallied the Golden Palace guards as black fighters attacked the shield and clashed with Asgardian flying skiffs.
• The cross-shaped warship shattered the protective shield despite Frigga reinforcing it with Gungnir, and the effort left her injured.
• Algrim and his Dark Elf squad broke into the prison, where Algrim killed the two guards and kicked down the prison door.
• Loki told Algrim that he needed a key to open the cell’s magic barrier, but Algrim interrupted him and told him to step back.