Recaps

Algrim freed Loki from his cell and escorted him through the Golden Palace to Malekith’s mothership. Malekith demanded the Aether’s hiding place and promised Loki only that he would leave alive, contradicting their earlier agreement.

• Algrim smashed Loki’s magic barrier, and Loki followed him out of the cell after narrowly escaping the falling stone bed.
• Algrim’s group fought a patrol of Golden Palace Guards, then ordered Loki to lead them through secret passages out of the palace.
• Loki guided the Dark Elves to the Golden Lake, where Algrim summoned fighters to carry them back to the mothership.
• Algrim presented Loki to Malekith, who demanded the Aether’s hiding place and offered to let Loki leave alive.
• Loki objected that Malekith’s demand differed from their prior agreement.

Loki persuaded Malekith to spare him by offering to lead Algrim into the Golden Palace Royal Hall to obtain Gungnir, which Frigga held. Loki and Algrim reached the hall, where Frigga was surprised by Loki emerging through a concealed door.

• Loki told Malekith that Gungnir could reveal where Odin had sealed the Aether and that Frigga held the spear in the Golden Palace Royal Hall.
• Malekith ordered Algrim to retrieve Gungnir, then allowed him to kill Loki after deciding Loki was no longer useful.
• Loki convinced Malekith that sneaking into the Golden Palace would avoid costly losses, and Malekith ordered Algrim to keep Loki under watch.
• Frigga received Gundall's report that the invaders had been driven from the Golden Palace and wondered whether they were Dark Elves.
• Loki opened a concealed door in the Royal Hall and appeared before Frigga with Algrim and his men behind him.

Loki led Algrim and the Dark Elves into the throne hall, where Frigga defeated them and condemned Loki for betraying Asgard. She stripped Loki of his prince status and had him taken into custody, leaving him unconscious after the Golden Palace Guards eagerly struck him.

• Loki revealed to Frigga that he had brought Algrim and the Dark Elves into the palace as his allies.
• Algrim harassed Frigga and demanded Gungnir, prompting her to strike him and his warriors with Odinforce lightning.
• Frigga bound Loki, accused him of betraying Asgard, and ordered the guards to arrest the surviving Dark Elves.
• Frigga stripped Loki of his prince status, and the guards knocked him unconscious while taking him into custody.

Malekith ordered his warship to ram the Golden Palace, forcing Odin to wake from the Odinsleep and confront the invasion. Odin destroyed the ship and killed Malekith, leaving Asgard victorious but with Odin having shortened his lifespan.

• Malekith ordered the Cross-shaped Warship to ram the Golden Palace despite warnings that the attack would damage it.
• The Cross-shaped Warship pierced the Golden Palace Royal Hall, and Odin woke from the Odinsleep to destroy it with Gungnir.
• Odin told Malekith to abandon his pursuit of the Aether and leave Asgard, but Malekith refused and threatened to destroy the realm.
• Odin summoned lightning and hurled Gungnir through Malekith's hand and chest.
• Malekith collapsed and died after declaring that he was not resigned to the Dark Elves' defeat.

Odin defeated the Dark Elves, then discovered that the Eternal Flame had been stolen and its place filled with a fake. He stormed into the prison to demand that Loki return it.

• Odin used lightning to destroy the Dark Elf fighter jets and killed the warriors who charged him in the Golden Palace Royal Hall.
• Odin and Frigga mourned the Dark Elves’ destruction, and Frigga promised to guard the Eternal Flame in Odin's Vault.
• Odin shrank the wrecked Dark Elf warship and stored it in Odin's Vault.
• Odin discovered that Surtur's Crown and the Eternal Flame inside it were fake, and suspected Loki had taken the real flame.
• Frigga spoke with Loki in his cell about his pranks and his title as the God of Mischief.
• Odin stormed into the cell and demanded that Loki hand over the Eternal Flame.

Odin accused Loki of stealing the Eternal Flame and threatened to banish him from Asgard unless he returned it. Left alone to find the real thief, Loki concluded that Richard had taken it after Thor brought him into Odin’s Vault.

• Odin told Frigga and Loki that the Eternal Flame was missing and accused Loki of stealing it.
• Frigga and Odin rejected Loki’s denials, and Odin threatened to strip him of his status and banish him from Asgard.
• Frigga urged Loki to identify the real thief before leaving him alone in the detention room.
• Loki reasoned that Richard must have entered Odin’s Vault with Thor and stolen the Eternal Flame.
• Loki began to call for help, then abruptly clamped his mouth shut.

Odin banished Loki from Asgard, and Frigga secretly gave him a dagger before Heimdall sent him to a distant living planet. Just after Loki disappeared, an assassin attacked Frigga, and the Golden Palace Guards recognized the attacker with horror.

• Odin stripped Loki of his positions and banished him from Asgard, drawing cheers from the Royal Hall.
• Frigga embraced Loki at the Bifrost, slipped a dagger into his clothing, and urged him not to hate Odin; Loki revealed he knew he was not Odin’s biological son.
• Loki asked Heimdall to send him outside the Nine Realms, and Heimdall transported him to a distant living planet.
• An assassin lunged from beneath Frigga’s chariot, knocked Heimdall aside, and seized Frigga by the neck.
• Frigga recognized the attacker, who called her Odin’s woman, and the arriving guards reacted with horror at his appearance.

Algrim, a Cursed Warrior, attacked Frigga and killed the Golden Palace Guards who tried to save her. Loki swapped places with his mother just as Algrim tried to bite her, and Algrim tore into Loki's neck and threw him from the Bifrost; Frigga caught him with magic and turned her fury on Algrim.

• Algrim captured Frigga, killed the guards who charged him, and revealed that he wanted revenge on Odin for killing Malekith and destroying the Dark Elves.
• Algrim's Cursed Warrior hunger overtook him, and he tried to eat Frigga.
• Loki broke his illusion and used magic to swap places with Frigga as Algrim bit down on his neck.
• Algrim tossed the dying Loki off the Bifrost, and Frigga caught him with a Mana hand.
• Frigga sensed Loki's life fading and threatened to reduce Algrim to ashes.

Frigga fought Algrim on the Bifrost until Odin’s golden thunderbolt destroyed the Cursed Warrior, but she believed Loki had died saving her. Loki then appeared alive on Knowhere, where armed soldiers confronted him as a “Time Prisoner.”

• Frigga summoned powerful gales to restrain Algrim, but he broke free and advanced on her.
• Odin struck Algrim with golden divine lightning, destroying him before he could attack Frigga.
• Frigga found Loki motionless on the Bifrost and told Odin that Loki had saved her from Algrim.
• Odin mourned Loki, and Frigga grieved that he would never hear Odin’s praise.
• On Knowhere, a dozen soldiers surrounded Loki and ordered him to raise his hands as a Time Prisoner.
• Loki faced the soldiers and arrogantly challenged them for threatening a god.

Loki fought off a squad led by Captain Layton, using illusions to escape while the squad tracked his energy signature. As Loki fled through the forest, he wondered where he was and what had happened after his death, until a woman called out to him.

• Loki used invisibility and illusions to evade Captain Layton and his armed squad, whose weapons could disrupt his magic and destroy his dagger.
• Loki surrounded the squad with hundreds of phantoms and tricked them into wasting their attacks before escaping.
• Agent Beto Flaman detected Loki’s energy signature, and Captain Layton led the squad through a portal to pursue him.
• Loki ran through the forest, wondering about Queen, the Lord of Evil Spirits, and his unfamiliar surroundings, when a woman told him to stop.

Sylvie rescued Loki from the Time Variance Authority and brought him to a safe house, where they introduced themselves and shared Aurora Brew. After Loki revealed a powerful frost ability, he asked Sylvie what she wanted from him.

• Sylvie warned Loki that the Time Variance Authority had detected his magic and pulled him through a spatial gate before Captain Layton and Agent Beto could catch him.
• Captain Layton found Loki gone, and Agent Beto discovered that the tracking system had lost his energy signature.
• Sylvie took Loki to a safe house, introduced herself, and confirmed that she already knew who he was.
• Sylvie offered Loki Aurora Brew, which could grant a temporary superpower, and Loki accepted a glass.
• Loki acquired a powerful frost ability from the brew, and Sylvie wondered if he was a chosen one.
• Loki thanked Sylvie for the drink, then asked who she was and why she had approached him.

Sylvie and Loki escaped a planet under attack using a Time Variance Authority controller, arriving at Sylvie’s secret base in universe 7945. Loki remained unsure which universe he came from, while Sylvie’s knowledge suggested the TVA had been targeting him.

• Loki suspected Sylvie had arranged their encounter, but she denied any conspiracy and said she had simply saved him.
• The planet shook as Sylvie revealed an enemy mothership would destroy it with a Star Killer Cannon in about an hour and 23 minutes.
• Loki emptied Sylvie’s last bottle of Aurora Brew and demanded that she explain how to use the Time Controller.
• Sylvie explained how to select a multiverse, time, and destination, and Loki said he had appeared in universe 2377 after dying.
• Sylvie set the controller for universe 7945 and a distant living planet, then escaped with Loki, grabbing her wine glass as they vanished.
• They arrived at Sylvie’s secret base, where she greeted her AI, Alice, and the lights turned on.

Loki left Sylvie’s home for Asgard, where he secretly visited his own corpse and discovered a strange red flash within his current body. After Frigga sensed his presence but failed to find him, Loki resolved to investigate what was inside him.

• Sylvie let Loki use her home, but he took her Time Controller and traveled to Universe No. 444, Asgard.
• Sylvie activated a backup Time Controller and tracked Loki to Asgard.
• Odin spoke with Frigga about Loki and Thor, then left the Golden Palace to find Thor without revealing anything about Loki.
• Loki appeared beside the Golden Lake, turned invisible, and sneaked into the Evil God Palace to see his corpse.
• Frigga sensed magic in the bedroom and searched it, but Loki hid inside a wall and escaped detection.
• Loki saw another red flash across his palm, concluded something was inside his current body, and passed through the wall to investigate.

Loki used the Reality Stone’s power to escape to a barren planet, then surrendered to the Time Variance Authority so he could investigate it. Meanwhile, Sylvie prepared to act, and Odin offered Hela control of Asgard, though she doubted his sincerity.

• Loki discovered that the Reality Stone had merged with his soul and used it to transform the barren planet into a forest.
• Loki surrendered to the Time Variance Authority agents, who handcuffed him and took him to their headquarters.
• Sylvie learned that Loki had reached the Time Variance Authority and ordered Alice to replace the base’s data before preparing to act.
• Richard and Hela joined Odin on a sea cliff in Norway, where Hela challenged him about his past and his approaching death.
• Odin offered to hand Asgard over to Hela immediately, but she reminded him that he had broken a promise more than two thousand years earlier.

Odin gave Richard the Eternal Flame and the Casket of Ancient Winters as Hela’s dowry, while Hela chose to take over Asgard before pursuing Hell’s Death Rule. Richard went to the New York Sanctum as Mephisto emerged through the Gateway of Hell and threatened the sorcerers.

• Odin revealed that he had discovered Richard’s substitutes for the Eternal Flame and the Casket of Ancient Winters, then gave the originals to Earth as Hela’s dowry.
• Odin told Hela that she could take over Asgard but would eventually have to leave it in Thor’s charge, and Hela rejected the idea until Thor matured.
• Richard learned that Mephisto had opened the Gateway of Hell and invited Hela to go with him, but she chose to take over Asgard first.
• Hell Demons poured into the New York Sanctum and stood silently as the Gateway of Hell twisted open and Mephisto forced his way through.
• Mephisto tore the New York Sanctum apart, shattered the sorcerers’ Defense Formation, and raised his claw to strike the helpless defenders.

Tiamut rescued Master Camille and the others from Mephisto’s attack, restored New York Sanctum, and revealed that he had been invited by Sorcerer Supreme Richard to guard Earth. In Earth’s Virtual Earth Space, Mephisto’s Hell Legion fought an army of mythological deities and their followers.

• Tiamut slowed Mephisto’s claw, transported Master Camille and the others back to New York, and erased bystanders’ memories of the demons.
• Tiamut told Master Camille to leave Mephisto and the Hell Legion to him and warned the sorcerers to watch for other Dimensional Deities.
• Master Camille returned the temple sorcerers to their posts and ordered them to guard the magical Defense Formation.
• God King Odin struck Mephisto with Gungnir, which wounded him before he shattered the spear’s broken tail.
• Mephisto empowered the Hell Demons, and the exploding imps wiped out the 300 Spartan Warriors.
• Sun God Ra and Feathered Serpent Kukulkan led attacks from the south and north, while the minotaurs shrugged off arrows and charged the Hunting Legion.

Richard recovered the fused fragments from the Independent Prison Space and took Asmodeus to a secret passage into the Hell Dimension. Asmodeus revealed that his mother was Selene, the moon goddess, and that Mephisto had coveted her after she pursued her lover into hell.

• Richard locked the floating palace at its present time node and collected the gray light containing Mephisto's clone and Blackheart's Death Rule fragments.
• Richard told Asmodeus that Mephisto had invaded Earth and brought him to the Hell Dimension's hidden passage.
• Asmodeus explained that his father had exhausted his Life Origin creating the passage so he could return to hell after falling in love with Selene.
• Asmodeus revealed that Selene had followed his father into hell, where Mephisto threatened the succubus race and took an interest in her.
• Richard recognized Selene as the ancient Greek moon goddess and concluded that Mephisto was an all-swallowing pervert.

Richard and Asmodeus prepared to enter Hell in disguise, but Richard discovered a hidden soul implanted by Mephisto inside Asmodeus. The soul revealed that Mephisto was draining Asmodeus and began to expose the reason behind the plot, leaving its explanation unfinished.

• Asmodeus explained that the Hell Dimension would reject outsiders, so Richard made Camouflage Cloaks from aura extracted from Blackheart for himself and Asmodeus.
• Richard questioned whether Mephisto could sense Asmodeus's return, triggering a struggle in which Asmodeus tried to attack himself under an unseen influence.
• Richard cut a strange presence out of Asmodeus's soul and found that the grey soul fragment called itself Asmodeoth.
• Asmodeus realized Mephisto had split and altered his soul, while Asmodeoth admitted it had been secretly draining Asmodeus's soul essence so it could take his place.
• Asmodeoth revealed that Asmodeus's mother, Selene, was a moon goddess from Mount Olympus and that Asmodeus carried the blood of its deities.

Richard learned that Mephisto had sent Asmodeus away to conceal his plan to gather high-tier succubus essence and souls, apparently as part of a scheme to seize control of Hell’s authorities. After burning the other Asmodeoth to ashes, Richard made Asmodeus lead him into Hell, while Mephisto sneezed during his battle against the legendary gods.

• Richard learned that Mephisto planned to gather high-tier succubus essence and souls and that discovery could provoke the gods of Mount Olympus.
• Richard guessed that Mephisto’s long-running plan involved taking the Eight Primal Demons’ Hell authorities and controlling the rules of the Hell Dimension.
• The grey mass of light Asmodeoth asked to surrender, but Richard demanded a token of allegiance and burned him to ashes after he made a crude offer involving Asmodeus.
• Richard ordered Asmodeus to lead the way into Hell, and they slipped through a fissure in the spatial barrier.
• Mephisto sneezed in Earth’s Shadow World as more than a hundred legendary deities attacked him, briefly quieting the battlefield and giving the Hell army a respite.

Mephisto failed to escape Hell after Tiamut sealed the spatial rift, then retaliated against the game deities by killing Thor and shattering Gungnir. Meanwhile, Asmodeus brought Richard to Hell Paradise, a lush refuge sustained by the life force of Living Planets.

• Mephisto summoned Hell's forces through a spatial rift, unleashing Sulfur Giants and Fire Winged Demons on the battlefield.
• Tiamut used the Space Stone to seal the rift and trap Mephisto on Earth, revealing himself as Earth's guardian deity.
• Mephisto killed God of Thunder Thor and broke God King Odin's Gungnir before turning toward Ares.
• Asmodeus escorted Richard to Hell Paradise, where Richard discovered that its flowers and greenery were real.
• Asmodeus explained that Mephisto had created Hell Paradise by draining a Living Planet and consumed another planet's life force each year to sustain it.

Richard agreed to help Asmodeus save the Incubus Race by finding their Soul Origins in Mephisto’s hidden treasure vault beneath the Abyss Throne. After entering the Teleportation Array, Richard and Asmodeus arrived in a hall where an unknown voice challenged them.

• Asmodeus begged Richard to save the Incubus Race and explained that Mephisto held a sliver of every Hell Incubus’s Soul Origin.
• Asmodeus revealed that Mephisto’s treasures were hidden beneath the Abyss Throne, where the Incubi’s Soul Origins could be reclaimed.
• Asmodeus led Richard toward the Teleportation Array, but Richard openly approached it and crushed the patrolling Male Incubus guards.
• Richard used Asmodeus’s Teleportation Array Key to activate the portal, and the two traveled to the Abyss Throne.
• An unknown speaker challenged Richard and Asmodeus after they arrived in a spacious hall.

Richard and Asmodeus discovered Serafina Crown of Flame, a fire element princess stranded in Mephisto’s bedroom, and agreed to take her home in exchange for a reward. Richard stored her belongings and brought her inside his sphere, leaving the group poised to leave Hell with the princess.

• Richard and Asmodeus found a mysterious woman in Mephisto’s private bedroom and questioned her about her identity.
• Richard recognized the woman as a fire element princess after her eyes burst into flames, and Asmodeus recalled Mephisto’s interest in a newly born fire element dimension.
• The princess explained that Mephisto had deceived her, and she asked Richard and Asmodeus to sneak her home to the Fire Element Kingdom.
• Richard agreed to escort the princess home and discuss a reward with her father.
• Richard gathered the princess’s belongings into his sphere and brought her inside, where she revealed her name was Serafina Crown of Flame.

Richard followed Asmodeus through a hidden doorway into a vast underground palace beneath Mephisto’s domain, then continued alone toward the hidden place. He discovered that Mephisto had bound the Dimension Heart to all of Hell, making it impossible to reach without destroying the entire dimension, and left to find another way.

• Asmodeus opened a hidden doorway using a blood-magic array, and Richard teased him about his acting before ordering him to lead the way.
• Asmodeus told Richard that one passage led to the hidden place and another to a secret prison where demons had reportedly vanished.
• Asmodeus reached his limit under the passage’s pressure, so Richard infused him with mana and continued alone.
• Richard removed his trembling Dharmic Instruments and stored them in a Spatial Rift as he advanced through the increasingly oppressive passage.
• Richard detected traps at one spatial entrance, found a concealed alternate doorway, and entered it.
• Richard emerged furious after discovering that Mephisto had linked the Dimension Heart to all of Hell, then opened a Spatial Rift and stepped inside to seek another way.

Richard followed Asmodeus into a deep passage beneath the underground palace and discovered a sealed hall filled with energy-absorbing runes and eight black gates. He found the legendary Asmodeus imprisoned behind one of them, leading the other Asmodeus to suspect that Mephisto had secretly imprisoned all eight missing Archdemon Lords.

• Richard arrived through a spatial rift and ordered Asmodeus to take him to the imprisonment passage.
• Richard and Asmodeus plunged down the passage, with Asmodeus turning into blood mist to survive the landing.
• They discovered an enclosed hall with eight black gates and runes that Asmodeus identified as powerful Hell Energy Absorption Magic Runes.
• Richard sent Crimson Mana through a gate and saw a huge demonic shadow inside.
• A prisoner roared that Mephisto had deceived him, and Asmodeus recognized the voice as his legendary namesake, the Core of Wrath.
• Asmodeus wondered whether Mephisto had imprisoned all eight missing Archdemon Lords behind the gates.

Richard discovered that Mephisto had imprisoned the Eight Hell Demon Lords to consolidate his power, then harvested their Death Rule essence to strengthen his own fragment. The chapter ended with Richard draining the Eight Archdemons completely and their bodies crumbling to ash.

• Richard explained to Asmodeus that Mephisto had treated the Eight Hell Demon Lords as rivals for authority, then sent Asmodeus back to Hell Paradise.
• Richard found a hidden Death Rule light sphere beneath the hall’s stone platform, purified it, and merged it with his own fragment.
• Richard realized the combined fragment was still too weak to open the door concealing the Heart of the Hell Dimension.
• Richard studied the hall’s runes, created a new absorption array, and activated it to drain the Eight Archdemons.
• Richard froze Asmodeus as he began to self-destruct, while the array extracted the demons’ flesh, souls, and Death Rule essence until their bodies became ash.