Chapter Summaries

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 The 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 The Ancient One teased him for offending thirty-five major factions while his clone held down the fort.
• Richard tasted The 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 The Ancient One’s treasured Star Mirage tea, while The Ancient One confronted Mephisto’s envoy, Asmodeus, over Blackheart. When Mephisto threatened to bring Hell’s Legion to Kamar-Taj, The Ancient One trapped his consciousness in Asmodeus and began beating him.

• The 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 The 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 The 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 The Ancient One froze spacetime, trapped his consciousness, and punched him repeatedly.

The 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.

• The 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 The Ancient One believed was key to Mephisto’s control of Hell.
• Richard reconstructed Asmodeus’s body and revived him, astonishing The Ancient One with his unfamiliar power.
• The 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 The 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 The 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 The 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.
• The 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.

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.