Chapter Summaries

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.

Richard entered Mephisto's Treasury and claimed the Supreme Life Robe and Cosmic Life Essence before approaching the Hell Dimension Heart. When the heart's reaction triggered his death warning, he stopped and sensed a desire from the Crimson Dimension Heart to devour and evolve.

• Richard opened Mephisto's Treasury with the gray sphere and entered to claim its treasures.
• Richard soul-branded the Supreme Life Robe, put it on, and absorbed the Cosmic Life Essence from a protective box.
• Richard approached the Hell Dimension Heart but found an invisible barrier blocking him ten meters away.
• The Crimson Dimension Heart sent Richard a desire to devour and evolve, and the Hell Dimension Heart began beating faster.
• Richard raised his hand to stop the Hell Dimension Heart, then breathed a sigh of relief when his death warning subsided.

Richard pressured the Black Heart to choose a new contractor while Mephisto remained trapped in Earth's virtual space. Mephisto lost his connection to Hell and his power, but killed God King Odin before the chapter ended.

• Richard learned he could not contract with the Black Heart because he already had a contract with the Crimson Dimension Heart, so he offered the Black Heart a choice between being devoured or finding a new contractor.
• The Black Heart sent Mephisto a warning, and Mephisto demanded that Tiamut release him from Earth's virtual space.
• Tiamut explained that he was Earth's Guardian Deity and that Earth was the womb in which he was growing, giving him the right to fight back against Mephisto's invasion.
• Mephisto lost his connection to the Hell Dimension and shrank from a Lord of Dimension to a High-tier Demon lord.
• God King Odin attacked the weakened Mephisto, but Mephisto healed his wound and tore off Odin's head.

Richard spared the Hell Dimension Heart and left to find Hela a new partner for it, then rushed to the Crimson Battle Sister Headquarters after sensing her there. He arrived as Hela implied she was Richard’s rightful wife, leaving the women in the office poised to react.

• Mephisto killed God King Odin and challenged the other game-boss gods to fight.
• Richard threatened the Hell Dimension Heart, accepted its plea to choose a new partner, and left to find someone for it.
• Richard found Eljudnir empty except for Hela’s Undead Servants and sensed Hela at the Crimson Battle Sister Headquarters.
• Richard feared Hela might attack Clea and Natasha, then teleported to the Sky Fortress.
• Hela criticized the office as too shabby, while Clea eagerly hoped for a fight and the other women recognized Hela’s implied claim on Richard.
• A holographic projection appeared before anyone could respond to Hela.

Hela confronted the women in Richard's office, then kissed Vivian after Vivian secretly imagined overpowering her. Richard returned in the middle of the kiss and took Hela through a Spatial Rift to discuss something, while Hela promised to continue with Vivian later.

• White Queen's projection denied being Richard's woman, but called him her human pet and vanished in embarrassment.
• Natasha challenged Hela, while Vivian tried to calm her and secretly fantasized about overpowering Hela.
• Hela confronted Vivian, kissed her, and held her until Richard teleported into the office.
• Richard asked Hela to come with him through a Spatial Rift, and Hela released Vivian before leaving.
• Hela blew Vivian a kiss and promised to continue when she returned, leaving the women relieved.

Richard brought Hela to Mephisto’s Treasury in the Hell Dimension and revealed that he had obtained the Dimension Heart, promising that the deaths of the Nine Realms would return to Helheim. Hela kissed him in gratitude, but the Dimension Heart’s rapid beating interrupted their moment.

• Red Queen teased Little Clea about liking Richard and privately lamented how hard it was to find him a reliable ally.
• Richard took Hela to Mephisto’s Treasury in the Hell Dimension, where the treasures astonished her.
• Hela reminded Richard that the deaths of the Nine Realms had to return to Helheim, and Richard promised to keep his word.
• Richard showed Hela the Dimension Heart and called Hell and the Goddess of Death a perfect match.
• Hela kissed Richard passionately, but the Dimension Heart began beating violently and interrupted them.