Chapter Summaries

Donald Bessimo was forced to sign a one-dollar transfer agreement, while Richard arrived at New York Presbyterian Hospital’s board meeting with a squad of black-suited men. The terrified board members watched as Richard’s men punished anyone who insulted him.

• Donald signed the transfer agreement while Pearly-White Teeth and a black-suited man kept him under threat.
• After the men left, one returned to reclaim his fountain pen’s cap, and Donald stayed frozen until they were gone.
• At the hospital board meeting, Karen Thomas was thrown into the room battered and stripped down to his briefs.
• Richard entered with muscular men in black suits and greeted the board members, who reacted with shock.
• When a fat board member cursed Richard, two of his men carried the man away and beat him, silencing the room.

Richard took control of New York Presbyterian Hospital and forced the former directors to leave, then entrusted the hospital’s management to Director Elwin. The directors fled, while Morrison tried to win Richard’s favor and Elwin was left to run the hospital.

• Richard announced that the board meeting was a farewell party and revealed the directors’ signed share transfer agreements, ending their positions at the hospital.
• Director Elwin urged the directors to welcome Richard, while Donald Bessimo recognized the men in black surrounding him and panicked.
• The directors tried to leave, and Morrison introduced himself to Richard and offered him a meal at St. John’s Hotel New York.
• Richard ordered Figo and the men in black to take the beaten Director Karen Thomas away before they withdrew from the conference room.
• Richard told Elwin that he was entrusting New York Presbyterian Hospital’s management to him, then left as Elwin protested.

Richard visited Presbyterian Hospital and encountered Stephen Strange, who was angrily trying to exercise his injured hands despite his nursing assistant’s warnings. Strange was embarrassed when Richard saw him in his wheelchair with his hands pinned and legs in plaster.

• Richard met Nurse Lilith in the Emergency Department, where she told him the hospital was overwhelmed by casualties from a multi-vehicle pileup.
• Nurse Lilith and Frank Chen recognized Richard and regretted that he had left Presbyterian Hospital.
• Richard heard an argument in the garden and approached after catching the name Doctor Strange.
• Strange insisted that he needed to move his fingers to preserve his chance of returning to surgery, dismissing Ms. Dana’s warnings and Doctor West’s instructions.
• Richard came around the path and found Strange in a wheelchair, exposing Strange’s injuries and leaving him humiliated.

Richard returned Stephen Strange to his hospital ward, then ordered preparations for a war against the Skrulls, including orbital railguns and a detector to expose them on Earth. He assigned Simmons to train spacecraft pilots and mechanics, sent Kaecilius to Kamar-Taj for another task, and learned that moving the Wanderer's medical pods would require enormous amounts of electricity.

• Stephen Strange asked Ms. Dana to take him back to his ward, while Richard reflected that events had arrived eight years early and vanished to the Wanderer.
• Richard told Tony Stark to install orbital railguns and ordered Dr. Zola to adapt the Zola Algorithm to identify Skrulls so they could be eliminated once exposed.
• Richard rejected Tony Stark, Kaecilius, and Simmons for the attack, insisting the Skrulls were invaders and that Earth had to win the war.
• Richard assigned Simmons and her people to learn spacecraft piloting and maintenance, then sent Kaecilius through a portal to Kamar-Taj for a later task.
• Richard asked Christine Palmer and Betty Ross about transferring the Wanderer's medical pods, and they warned that running them at full power would use a day's electricity for half of New York City.

Richard arranged for Tony to upgrade the Wanderer into a weapon to eliminate the Skrulls, then took him to Golden Ape Valley to strengthen his body. Afterward, Richard visited Liuge in the Crimson Dimension, where she offered him an unusually energy-rich fish.

• Tony said he could build Arc Reactors for the medical pods, and Richard assigned him to help Clea and Dr. Betty move them to the Sky Fortress of the Crimson Nun Guard.
• Tony revealed that the Wanderer’s technology had been copied to Jarvis and White Queen, and Richard ordered Varra to pilot the ship to Stark Industries in stealth mode.
• Richard urged Tony to convert the Wanderer into a weapon for killing Skrulls within half a month, then took him to Golden Ape Valley and placed him in the Conversion Pool to enhance his body.
• Richard traveled to the Abyssal Sea and reunited with Liuge, who happily offered him a giant fish from the ocean.
• Richard sensed that the fish contained extraordinary energy.

Richard reshaped the Abyssal Sea to create a protected breeding ground for its energy-rich fish and gave Liuge a cloud-ocean home. Tony completed his transformation, and Richard then prepared Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers for the imminent operation against the Skrulls.

• Richard moved thousands of energy-rich fish into a new, shallowly frozen sea and told Liuge to guard them until they multiplied.
• Richard formed a vast cloud ocean for Liuge, who happily claimed it as her home.
• Tony emerged from the transformation altar with greatly enhanced strength and Crimson Mana, and Richard sent him to install the Orbital Railgun on the Wanderer.
• Richard arrived at Kamar-Taj, where Kaecilius had assembled dozens of elite sorcerers, and activated the Bifrost Spirit Mirror to speak with Li Ze.

Richard sent Kaecilius and a group of Kamar-Taj Sorcerers through the Bifrost Spirit Mirror to Li Ze’s Mechanoid Profound Realm, while ordering the Sanctums to stay alert and gathering Red Order believers for an opportunity to train. The chapter ended with Li Ze welcoming Kaecilius and his party to the Host Planet.

• Richard opened the Bifrost Spirit Mirror and sent Kaecilius and the Kamar-Taj Sorcerers to Li Ze, telling them to follow Li Ze’s arrangements.
• Richard telepathically ordered Mordo to put the London, Hong Kong, and New York Sanctums on round-the-clock alert.
• Richard summoned Baron Strucker and ordered him to gather about fifty senior Red Order believers, including himself, for an opportunity to gain experience.
• Adele asked to join the group, but Richard pointed out that few Red Order members besides her Starlight Bar crowd qualified as senior believers.
• Kaecilius and the Sorcerers arrived at the Host Planet, where Li Ze introduced himself as the master of the Mechanoid Profound Realm and welcomed them.

Li Ze introduced the Kamar-Taj Sorcerers to the Dungeons, and Kaecilius chose a Zombie-filled World War Z mission to raise his level. Richard sent Baron Strucker’s Crimson Believers and a unit from the Sky Fortress to the Mechanoid Profound Realm, where Kaecilius began his mission to defend humanity’s last island.

• Li Ze explained the different Dungeon types to Kaecilius and the Kamar-Taj Sorcerers, then had Fat Ball guide them.
• Fat Ball gave the Sorcerers lv20 equipment and flew them by Starship to the Dungeons.
• Richard sent Baron Strucker and forty-nine Crimson Believers through a Spatial Passage to the Mechanoid Profound Realm.
• Richard sent a hundred-person Sky Fortress unit led by Natasha and Clint Barton to the Mechanoid Profound Realm, while Christine Palmer, Betty Ross, Maria Hill, and Vivian stayed behind.
• Kaecilius chose the lv40-lv55 World War Z Dungeon, where he had to kill the Zombies attacking humanity’s last surviving base on a remote island.

Kaecilius slaughtered zombies in the World War Zombie dungeon, reached Lv50, and then reentered the dungeon. Meanwhile, Natasha and Yelena explored a lizardman settlement on Rampage Island.

• Kaecilius used large-scale magic to fight the zombie horde until he reached Lv50 and restored his stamina and energy.
• After fighting for over an hour, Kaecilius detonated himself, killing the zombies in sight and causing rocks to seal the island's western gap.
• Kaecilius returned to Fat Ball, learned he could enter the dungeon up to five times, and immediately went back in.
• Natasha chased down Yelena and kicked her for getting handsy, while Yelena fled and apologized.
• Natasha and Yelena turned invisible and entered a lizardman settlement, where they watched warriors dancing around a bonfire.

Natasha followed a mysterious voice into a Lizardman dungeon, killed its guard, and found a prisoner offering powerful rewards for release. Yelena arrived after stealing another glowing amber stone, and the two stones resonated as the prisoner recognized them.

• A mysterious voice directed Natasha to a dungeon, and she left Yelena behind to investigate while Yelena sneaked toward the Lizardman ritual.
• Natasha entered the dungeon, killed a guard, and took the Dungeon Key from his body.
• The prisoner urged Natasha to open his cell, promising her a choice of powerful treasures, but she hesitated.
• Yelena rushed into the dungeon after the Lizardmen discovered her theft of a white-glowing amber stone from their altar.
• Yelena placed the white stone beside the green-glowing stone she had stolen from the Bear Tribe, and the stones emitted intertwined pillars of light as the prisoner recognized them.

Natasha and Yelena freed Bridget Leminster, the High Priestess of the Temple Guardian Legion, from a Lizardmen dungeon. Bridget blasted her way out and tried to flee with the sisters, but the Lizardmen chieftain Imogen and three elders caught her with dark ropes.

• Natasha and Yelena opened the cell after learning that the prisoner was an amber stone, and discovered Bridget, a giant lizard who asked them to escape with her.
• Bridget killed the Lizardmen warriors who entered the cell, then blasted through the dungeon ceiling with her Radiant Wrath.
• The beam alerted the Tiger Tribe and Bear Tribe, and the Bear Tribe chieftain rallied his warriors to attack the Lizardmen.
• Natasha and Yelena climbed onto Bridget's back, and Bridget broke out of the dungeon before Imogen and the elders surrounded her.
• Imogen demanded that Bridget surrender the Pillar of the World, then he and the three elders bound her limbs with pitch-black ropes as she tried to fly away.

Natasha and Yelena freed Bridget from the Lizardmen, who accused her of serving the Sunset God, and followed her to the Guardian Legion’s secret garrison. When Bridget could not reach Hortis, she began to suspect the Sunset God had attacked him.

• Natasha and Yelena cut Bridget’s God-Binding Ropes and helped her escape the Lizardmen chieftain and elders.
• Bridget flew with the sisters to a golden island, which she identified as the Guardian Legion’s secret garrison.
• Bridget admitted that she had promised the sisters a reward she could not provide, since the Lizardmen’s supreme scepter remained with Chieftain Imogen.
• Bridget prayed to Hortis for punishment, but when he did not answer, she panicked and wondered whether Imogen had told the truth about him.
• Natasha suggested Hortis might be too badly injured to respond, and Bridget suspected the Sunset God had trapped him in a conspiracy.

Natasha, Yelena, and Bridget learned that the broken Pillar of the World could no longer help them reach Hortis, so they set out to collect three Amber Stones and form an Amber Crystal. They stole the Tiger Tribe’s Amber Stone, triggering a pillar of light at the altar.

• Bridget explained that Commander Perseus had been the only one able to repair the broken Pillar of the World, but he had been killed.
• Bridget revealed that combining all three Amber Stones would create an Amber Crystal that could teleport them to Hortis’s Temple of Brilliance.
• Bridget offered to draw away the Tiger Tribe’s warriors, while Natasha decided she and Yelena would retrieve the tribe’s Amber Stone.
• Natasha and Yelena entered the Tiger Tribe encampment under concealment after Bridget sensed that Chieftain Goluk was absent.
• Natasha and Yelena knocked out the altar guards, and Yelena took the orange Amber Stone, causing the altar to tremble and emit a pillar of light.

Yelena and Natasha stole the amber stone and escaped through a portal while the Tiger Tribe and Bear Tribe attacked the Lizardmen. Goruk abandoned the battle after learning of the theft, allowing Imogen to empower his warriors and turn the fight against Brunhal’s Bear Tribe.

• Yelena took the amber stone, and Natasha opened a portal so they could escape before the Tiger Tribe arrived.
• Brunhal and Goruk cornered Imogen during the joint attack on the Lizardmen, but Imogen unleashed the Golden Scepter’s blood-colored lightning and repelled Goruk’s ambush.
• Imogen used the scepter’s power to transform himself and prepare to fight, but Goruk learned the amber stone had been stolen and ordered the Tiger Tribe to retreat.
• Brunhal ordered the Bear Tribe to withdraw, but Imogen attacked and empowered the Lizardmen warriors, who reversed the battle and began massacring the Bears.
• Brunhal faced the transformed Lizardmen and declared that Imogen had forced his hand.

Bolenhal charged Imogen with the blood-stained clan-protecting saber while Natasha, Yelena, and Bridget used the Amber Stones to reach the Divine Realm. In the Temple of Brilliance, they discovered Hortis’s corpse and heard his remnant soul appear, but Yelena demanded he name his killer.

• Bolenhal stained the clan-protecting saber with his blood and transformed into a cyan shadow as he charged Imogen.
• Natasha and Yelena joined Bridget at the secret encampment, where Bridget combined the three Amber Stones into an Amber Crystal and used it to transport them to the Divine Realm.
• Bridget recognized Hortis’s lifeless armored body on the throne and grieved, while Natasha and Yelena urged her to recover and seek revenge.
• Natasha and Yelena inspected Hortis’s corpse and found a black wound in his back, suggesting he had been ambushed with a spike-type weapon, possibly through an inside job.
• Hortis’s remnant soul appeared and told Bridget he had foreseen his death, while Bridget vowed to avenge him.
• Yelena impatiently demanded that Hortis name his enemy.

Bridget learned that the residual soul of Hortis was her father and that her mother, Serafina, had helped cause his death. Hortis gave Bridget the Radiant Beast God’s divine position, and she began ascending to deityhood as her sealed memories resurfaced.

• Hortis recognized Natasha and Yelena as visitors from another world, then revealed his true form and called Bridget his child.
• Hortis explained that Serafina had been corrupted by Fallen Divine Power, allied with the Sunset God, and backstabbed him with the Corrupted Bone Blade coated in Corrupted Divine Fluid.
• Bridget struggled to understand that her biological mother had helped kill her father, while Yelena eagerly followed the family revelations and Natasha told her to be quiet.
• Hortis urged Bridget to prioritize her safety and inherit the divine position of the Radiant Beast God.
• Hortis’s golden armor and divine gemstone entered Bridget, whose power shook the Temple of Brilliance as a seal in her mind cracked.
• Bridget’s helmet disappeared, and she tearfully murmured that everything had been her fault.

Hortis revealed why Bridget’s egg had been stolen and asked her to free Serafina from her suffering before his remnant soul vanished. Bridget vowed to avenge her parents, while Natasha and Yelena carried out Bridget’s mission to kill the traitors and killed Lizardman leader Imogen.

• Hortis’s remnant soul told Bridget that Fallen Deity Descendants had stolen her egg after sensing her Divine Dragon bloodline, and that Hortis had sealed her memories to spare her pain.
• As Hortis faded away, he asked Bridget to liberate Serafina from the pain of the fall; Bridget vowed to save her mother and take revenge on their betrayers and the Sunset God.
• Li Ze offered Hortis a choice between gaining a new body or reuniting with Serafina and Bridget after the Dungeon plot, and Hortis chose reunion with his family.
• Bridget stayed at the Temple of Brilliance to adapt to her divine power, while Natasha and Yelena teleported to Rampage Island to purge its three tribes.
• Natasha and Yelena confronted the wounded Imogen at the ruined Lizardmen settlement, defeated his resistance, and killed him.

After defeating Lizardmen Chief Imogen, Natasha and Yelena traveled to the Bear Tribe and attacked its weakened chief. They killed Bolenhal with combined spatial manipulation and wind blades, leaving the Bear Tribe without its leader.

• Natasha refused to kill the surviving Lizardmen and chose the Bear Tribe as their next target.
• Bolenhal and the Bear Tribe leaders argued over how to respond to the Tiger Tribe, but Bolenhal sent them away to consider the matter.
• Natasha and Yelena ambushed Bolenhal in the conference hall, using the mirror dimension and wind blades to wound him.
• Bolenhal activated Beast Blood Rampage and charged at Natasha and Yelena, but Natasha trapped him in spatial vortices while Yelena attacked with wind blades.
• The four spatial vortices tore Bolenhal to pieces.

Natasha and Yelena disguised themselves as the dead Bear Tribe patriarch and rallied the remaining warriors to attack the Tiger Tribe. After discovering the Amber Stone had been stolen, Goluk chose to watch the coming conflict between the Bear Tribe and the Lizardmen, while wondering if Hortis’s return could give him an opportunity.

• Natasha restored the space around them, and Yelena transformed into Bolenhal while Natasha concealed herself.
• Yelena rallied the Bear Tribe leaders and sent its remaining warriors marching toward the Tiger Tribe territory.
• Goluk killed one altar guard for not knowing who stole the Amber Stone and dismissed another for showing fear.
• Goluk told Elder Ern Claw not to search for the missing stone and ordered him to monitor the Lizardmen territory for news of the conflict.
• Goluk considered the deaths of Temple Guardian Legion members, Bridget’s appearance, and the stolen Amber Stone, then wondered if Hortis’s return would create an opportunity for him.

Bolenhal led the Bear Tribe in an assault on the Tiger Tribe settlement, but his old injuries forced him to flee as Goluk pursued him. At the rocky beach, Goluk was trapped, and the apparent Bolenhal revealed herself to be Yelena, leaving Goluk to wonder what had happened to Imogen and the real Bolenhal.

• A Tiger Tribe warrior was caught and killed by a scarlet energy chain outside the settlement.
• Bolenhal led the Bear Tribe through the settlement’s defenses and clashed with Goluk, but his old injuries flared up and he fled.
• Goluk chased Bolenhal to the rocky beach, where a crimson formation rose to trap him.
• Bolenhal revealed that the apparent chieftain was Yelena in disguise.
• Goluk realized Yelena had somehow dealt with Imogen and the real Bolenhal and began searching for a way out.