Chapter Summaries

Yelena and Natasha helped Bridget capture Goluk and learned that the Crown of Kings concealed past chieftains’ memories and could communicate between distant worlds. Bridget summoned the Dragon Archipelago, revealed herself as the Radiant Dragon King and Hortis’s daughter, and called the dragons to avenge his death.

• Yelena bound Goluk, took his Crown of Kings, and pressured him into explaining its ability to steady the wearer’s mind and soul.
• Natasha revealed that the crown also concealed the memories of past Tiger Tribe chieftains and enabled communication between distant worlds.
• Bridget questioned Goluk about the Sunset God, then brought Natasha and Yelena into the sky and summoned the Dragon Archipelago.
• Rampage Island exploded, and more than a hundred islands and the Radiant Dragon Clan emerged from a spatial passage.
• Bridget told the dragon elders that Hortis was her father and had fallen, then vowed to avenge him with the Radiant Dragon Clan.

Bridget and the Radiant Dragons purified Serafina, the Darkborn Dragon Empress, until she regained her clarity and died. As Bridget mourned her mother, an unseen attacker struck her with a bone spike, and a voice from the passage mocked her.

• Bridget led the Radiant Dragons to the borderlands and opened a passage, where Serafina emerged as the Darkborn Dragon Empress.
• Bridget and the Radiant Dragons attacked Serafina with Purifying Power while Natasha and Yelena restrained her and Natasha healed dragons wounded by her bone spikes.
• After a day of purification, Serafina regained her clarity, spoke tenderly to Bridget, and died as Bridget and the Radiant Dragons mourned.
• A hidden bone spike flew from the passage and pierced Bridget's neck, causing her to collapse unconscious.
• An unknown voice from the passage mocked Bridget as the golden giant dragon caught her falling body.

The Sunset God, revealed as Palacios, attacked the Radiant Dragon Legion and tried to capture the dragons and the Darkborn Dragon Empress’s corpse. Bridget struck from within the trap, killing Palacios and freeing the legion, while Natasha and Yelena noticed their experience bar had not moved.

• Palacios appeared before the Radiant Dragon Legion and declared his plan to turn the dragons into Darkborn Puppets.
• Ettore ordered the legion to attack, but Palacios deflected Ettore’s dragon breath and trapped the dragons in a Heaven and Earth Net.
• Ettore and the Radiant Dragons abandoned their defenses to pursue the Darkborn Dragon Empress’s corpse, but Palacios strengthened the net and sealed them inside.
• Bridget revealed her plan, burned through the net, and sent a golden energy spear after Palacios as he fled.
• Bridget’s spear tore Palacios’s smoke form apart and consumed it in golden flames, after which the net collapsed and the Radiant Dragon Legion escaped.
• Natasha and Yelena exchanged a glance when they saw their experience bar had not moved.

Natasha and Yelena helped Bridget find and destroy the supposedly dead Sunset God, but the Dungeon froze just as their experience bars filled. The chapter left the sisters facing an unexplained game-wide pause.

• Bridget prepared to take Serafina's remains home until Natasha warned that the Sunset God was still alive.
• Bridget trusted Natasha and ordered the Radiant Dragon Legion to search for the Sunset God.
• Natasha and Yelena spotted the Sunset God's hidden energy and exposed him with Eternal Crimson Flames.
• Yelena redirected the Sunset God through a Portal, allowing Bridget's Golden Spear to pierce and destroy him.
• Natasha burned the Sunset God's fragments until his bodies and souls vanished, filling the sisters' experience bars.
• The Dungeon froze as system notifications rang in Natasha's and Yelena's ears.

Natasha completed the Divine Realm Dungeon and chose three contract slots, gaining Hortis, Serafina, and Bridget as contracted allies before returning to the Marvel world. Yelena joined Kaecilius against a Zombie horde, discovered how to kill them effectively, and became eager to keep grinding monsters.

• Li Ze told Natasha that she had cleared the Divine Realm Dungeon and offered her a choice between rewards or three contract slots.
• Natasha chose the contract slots, and Hortis, Serafina, and Bridget appeared as her contracted servants.
• Li Ze opened a portal for Natasha to return to the Marvel world, where Richard needed her help.
• Kaecilius brought Yelena to a valley and warned her to stay close as Zombies surged toward them.
• Yelena switched from batons to crimson swords, killed Zombies for experience, and eagerly attacked the horde.

Golden Ape warriors defended the Crimson Dimension from a flood of skeletal monsters until a skeletal dragon emerged from a rift. Richard arrived with an army of magical beasts and challenged Dormammu.

• Natasha was swept away by crimson energy as she stepped out of a cross-dimensional passage.
• Zousuke Sarutobi, Danzo Sarutobi, and Sasuke Sarutobi led the Golden Apes in smashing back the charred skeletons and tearing apart mammoth skeletons.
• A gigantic skeletal dragon emerged from the rift and shattered nearby skeletons with its roar, leaving the three Sarutobi brothers facing an enemy they could not defeat alone.
• Hundreds of crimson portals opened, and magical beasts from the Crimson Dimension poured out to reinforce the Golden Apes.
• Richard arrived on the back of the Sky Island Giant Whale Liuge and called out Dormammu.

Richard’s Crimson Dimension Legion joined the Golden Ape Tribe against the endless charred skeleton army, but the skeletal dragon’s attack turned the battle against them. After Danzo Sarutobi, Zousuke Sarutobi, and Sasuke Sarutobi killed the dragon, a gigantic black energy hand reached through the rift and attacked the legion.

• Richard taunted Laoduo, who ordered the charred skeleton army to swarm the Golden Ape Tribe.
• Richard commanded the Crimson Dimension Legion to attack, and its forces rescued the trapped Golden Apes.
• The skeletal dragon emerged from the rift, killed a squad of Golden Apes with its flame breath, and drove the Crimson Dimension Legion back.
• Danzo Sarutobi and Zousuke Sarutobi broke the skeletal dragon’s rear claws while Sasuke Sarutobi reached its head and helped bring it down.
• The skeletal dragon’s body crushed skeletons as it fell, and an enormous black energy hand reached through the torn-open rift and pressed toward the Crimson Dimension Legion.

Richard used the six Infinity Stones to trap Dormammu’s Main Body in a collapsed Spatial Rift, leaving the Dark Dimension temporarily without its master. In the Dark Dimension, Natasha arrived in the Silent Corridor, where its mirrors revealed her deepest fears.

• Richard activated all six Infinity Stones and collapsed the Spatial Rift, trapping Dormammu’s Main Body.
• Richard bound Dormammu with Chaotic Energy, taunted him, and sent the Crimson Dimension Legion back to the Crimson Dimension.
• Richard told Dormammu that his imprisonment left the Dark Dimension temporarily without a master.
• Natasha was teleported into a labyrinth of black mirrors and saw a terrifying image reflected in one of them.
• Richard appeared beside Natasha and warned her not to look at the mirrors in the Silent Corridor.

Richard rescued Natasha from the Silent Corridor and asked her to locate prisoners who had rebelled against Dormammu. Natasha traveled to the Molten Iron Wasteland and began investigating the cursed mechanical workshops surrounding its great smelting furnace.

• Richard carried Natasha to a concealed space in the Silent Corridor and explained that its black mirrors concealed dangerous Soul-Eater Banshees.
• Richard asked Natasha to find the Dark Dimension prison holding rebels against Dormammu, and sent maps of the region into her mind.
• Natasha chose to investigate the Molten Iron Wasteland and opened a portal there.
• Natasha concealed herself and flew toward the great smelting furnace, where cursed mechanical workshops forged Shadow Iron.
• Natasha stealthily approached a workshop and noticed it had no entrance for raw ore, suspecting something lay beneath it.

Natasha was discovered by the Forge Priests and fought Soul-Forger Mendez before capturing him and escaping. She suspended Mendez over a river of molten iron to interrogate him, but realized she had not told him what she wanted to know.

• Natasha was discovered by Mendez, who attacked her with his hammer as the other Forge Priests gathered.
• Natasha turned invisible and fled into the air, but Mendez tracked her by her aura and shattered her Crimson Veil with a hammer strike.
• Natasha used an Eldritch Whip to distract Mendez, struck him unconscious, and escaped through a Portal with his body.
• Natasha suspended Mendez over molten iron, woke him with water, and threatened to drop him unless he answered her questions.
• Mendez agreed to tell Natasha everything, and Natasha realized she had not yet said what she wanted to ask.

Natasha interrogated Soul-Forging Mendes to learn where the prisoners were held, but he did not know. He revealed that Grand Master Blacksmith Bapros might know, along with Bapros’s weaknesses, leaving Natasha headed for the Great Forge.

• Natasha threatened and tortured Soul-Forging Mendes until he named Bapros as someone who might know where the prisoners were imprisoned.
• Mendes told Natasha that Bapros was a powerful smith protected by exceptional armor and weapons, and warned her against confronting him without a way to break through them.
• Mendes revealed that Bapros was a dwarf and a heavy drinker who had once ruined a weapon while drunk, earning a punishment that left his skin burned.
• Mendes told Natasha that Bapros stayed inside the Great Forge and that following the molten iron rivers led there.
• Natasha released Mendes alive and warned him not to reveal information about her.

Natasha and Richard confronted master blacksmith Bapros in the Great Forge and learned he was willing to help overthrow Dormammu. Bapros revealed a hidden cache of weapons and armor and offered it all to them.

• Natasha left Mendez after making him swear to keep quiet, then flew down the Molten Iron River toward the Great Forge.
• Bapros attacked Natasha for entering uninvited, but Richard appeared, shattered his hammer, and pulled him back when he tried to flee.
• Richard asked Bapros where the prisoners who had failed to rebel against Dormammu were held and said he wanted to overthrow Dormammu.
• Bapros excitedly agreed to help after learning Richard opposed Dormammu, then activated a mechanism that revealed a hidden stockpile of weapons and armor.
• Bapros offered Richard and Natasha any weapons and armor they wanted, and they decided to take everything.

Richard and Natasha tricked the Great Forge master into supplying weapons and arranging their transport to the Wailing Abyss, where they arrived disguised as prisoners. When a pain servant tried to steal their armor, Richard grabbed him by the neck.

• Richard flattered the Great Forge master, who appointed himself head of the resistance’s logistics department and promised to supply its weapons.
• Natasha stored the donated weapons, and the Great Forge master provided two cyan armor sets and arranged for Richard and Natasha to join a transport convoy bound for the Wailing Abyss.
• The Great Forge master and Priest Reim discussed a future Pillar of Fear staff, and Reim offered a rare Heart of the Dread Nightmare as its core.
• Priest Reim sent the convoy through a spatial worm to the Wailing Abyss, where a pain servant ordered Richard and Natasha to surrender their armor.
• Natasha mocked the pain servant’s lie about returning the armor, and Richard seized him by the neck.

Richard defeated the Council of Pain’s priests in the Wailing Abyss and forged their remains into a nine-toothed key. He used the key to open a tunnel and escaped with Natasha, arriving somewhere unknown.

• Richard killed Priest Lime and used eight magic clones to capture the other members of the Council of Pain.
• Richard turned the eight captured priests into soul-lost ones and performed a ritual that combined all nine priests’ afterimages into a nine-toothed key.
• Richard analyzed the key and told Natasha to take cover behind a boulder and raise the Crimson Veil.
• Richard blew away the purple mist to reveal a magic array, then inserted the key into it and opened a pitch-black tunnel.
• Richard carried Natasha through the tunnel, and they landed on solid ground as a cautious woman asked who they were.

Richard and Natasha encountered the silver-haired Clea in a pocket dimension, where she mistook them for Dormammu’s hunters and attacked. After learning Richard was from Kamar-Taj, Clea trusted him and asked him to reveal her family’s identities, offering Dark Dimension secrets in return.

• Richard severed Clea’s mental tendrils after she attacked him and Natasha, causing her severe pain.
• Clea apologized and explained that she had mistaken Richard and Natasha for Dormammu’s agents.
• Clea revealed that she knew where Dormammu had imprisoned the dark natives Richard and Natasha sought.
• Richard recognized Clea and introduced himself as Kamar-Taj’s Acting Sorcerer Supreme, earning her trust.
• Richard claimed to know Clea’s parents and uncle, and Clea became emotional at learning she had a family.
• Clea clung to Richard and begged him to identify her relatives, while Natasha jealously twisted his waist.

Richard told Clea that her father was Prince Orini, her mother was Umar, and her uncle was Dormammu, who had defeated and imprisoned Umar. Clea suspected her mother was held in the Rotten Garden, so Richard teleported her and Natasha there, where an aged voice called for someone named Plum to stop.

• Richard revealed that Clea's father was Prince Orini, her mother was Umar, and her uncle was Dormammu.
• Richard explained that Dormammu had seized control of the Dark Dimension and imprisoned Umar after defeating her in a power struggle.
• Clea reasoned that Umar might be imprisoned in the Rotten Garden and urged Richard to take her there.
• Clea used Mind Projection to show Richard the Rotten Garden's location, and Richard teleported there with Clea and Natasha.
• Huge boulders struck the Rotten Garden's vegetation as an aged voice called, "Stop, Plum!"

Richard and Natasha arrived in the Rotten Garden with Clea, where Plum and Urgot mistook them for intruders until Clea stopped the fight. They met Hecate, the Shadow Witch and leader of the survivors, who welcomed Richard and Natasha into the dilapidated palace.

• Plum and Urgot argued over driving corrupt plants away and complained about Hecate before a crimson energy ball appeared.
• Plum attacked Richard and the women with boulders while Urgot fired corrosive rays, but Richard countered their attacks.
• Clea identified herself to Plum and Urgot, ending the misunderstanding, and the pair escorted the group to the survivors' palace.
• Hecate returned from the Shadow Labyrinth, greeted Clea, and welcomed Richard and Natasha to the Rotten Garden.
• Clea introduced Richard as Kamar-Taj's next Sorcerer Supreme and Hecate invited him and Natasha into the reception hall.

Richard and Natasha offered Hecate’s faction a huge cache of weapons crafted by Grand Master Bapros, stirring them to plan an immediate revolt against Dormammu. Richard’s mocking reaction helped Hecate and her followers regain their composure, and Richard then accompanied Hecate and Clea into a hidden underground passage.

• Natasha produced a pile of enchanted weapons, and Lord Yin recognized them as works of Grand Master Bapros.
• Hecate discovered that Natasha had more than fifty thousand pieces of equipment and became excited about forming an army to reclaim the Dark Dimension.
• Hecate and the Rotten Garden leaders began calling for an attack on Dormammu, while Clea grew tense and struggled to object.
• Richard’s mocking chuckle stopped the gathering, and Hecate slapped herself before thanking him for breaking their battle frenzy.
• Natasha followed Lord Yin to store the weapons, while Richard went with Hecate and Clea through a hidden passageway underground.

Richard, Little Clea, and Hecate found Umar imprisoned in an energy cage, where Little Clea learned Umar was her mother. After Richard revealed that he had imprisoned Dormammu’s main body, Umar broke free, and Richard shielded the group from the blast.

• Hecate brought Richard and Little Clea to Umar’s energy cage, and Umar challenged Hecate for breaking their agreement.
• Little Clea recognized Umar as her mother, and Umar angrily condemned Orini for abandoning their daughter.
• Richard introduced himself as the acting Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj and Lord of the Crimson Dimension, then told Umar that Dormammu’s main body was imprisoned by him.
• Umar rejoiced at the news, told Little Clea to step back, and gathered white flames to attack the energy cage.
• Umar shattered the cage, unleashing flames and violent energy toward the group, and Richard cast Crimson Veil to protect them.

Umar broke free from Dormammu’s energy prison, and her escape triggered an explosion that devastated the Rotten Garden. She left Clea with Richard and flew toward the Eternal Night Throne as Dormammu realized Richard knew about Umar and prepared to unleash his true power.

• A massive underground explosion destroyed much of the Rotten Garden and caused the dilapidated palace to collapse, so Lord Yin and the Dark Dimension Natives fled and began rescuing people.
• Richard, Hecate, Umar, and Clea flew out of the crater, and Hecate worried about the damage to the settlement.
• Umar asked Richard to look after Clea while she rushed to the Eternal Night Throne, and Richard agreed while warning that his Main Body would try to stall Dormammu.
• Umar transformed into a blazing white, feathered energy form and flew toward the sky.
• Dormammu learned from his warning array that Umar had escaped, then threatened Richard and announced that he would unleash his true power.