Chapter Summaries

Tony helped Doctor Pym complete the Quantum Tunnel, and its first activation opened a passage to the Quantum Realm. Luke sensed Ghost nearby and discovered her absorbing the energy from the tunnel.

• Tony used JARVIS to help solve problems with the Quantum Tunnel while Howard and Doctor Pym watched.
• Luke suspected Ghost was secretly watching them, but she evaded his attempts to find her.
• Tony went to collect the finished components with Shadow Ninjas accompanying him, and Doctor Pym installed them.
• Doctor Pym activated the completed Quantum Tunnel, opening a passage to the Quantum Realm.
• Luke tested the energy spilling from the tunnel and found that his laws could not affect it.
• Luke sensed Ghost beside the laboratory and found her absorbing the quantum energy to relieve her condition.

Luke restrained Ava when her pain drove her to attack, then helped the Pym team complete the Quantum Tunnel. Janet took control of Ava to guide them to her location, leaving Hank and the others only fifteen minutes to reach her.

• Luke trapped Ava in dark energy, knocked her unconscious, and explained that she was Ghost, the daughter of Elihas Starr.
• Luke and the others agreed to find a cure for Ava, and Tony asked Luke to obtain equipment needed to stabilize the Quantum Tunnel.
• A government official delivered the equipment to Luke, and Doctor Pym installed it and successfully operated the tunnel for three minutes.
• Luke realized Janet could guide them to herself and looked to Scott, but Janet then spoke through Ava's body and entered the necessary parameters.
• Janet warned Hank and the others that they had fifteen minutes to reach her before collapsing, and Luke urged them to hurry.

Scott traveled into the Quantum Realm and returned with Janet, while the team discovered that time and physical rules operated differently there. Janet reunited with her family, then stared strangely around Luke as if noticing something about him.

• Pym and Hope sent Scott through the Quantum Tunnel to find Janet, and Hope guided him past enormous microorganisms into the Quantum Realm.
• Scott's communications seemed to speed up because time flowed differently there, and the group concluded Janet's fifteen-minute warning referred to Quantum Realm time.
• Luke tested sending dark energy into the Quantum Tunnel, then caught Scott's returning vehicle; Scott had fainted after hitting his head, but Janet was safe.
• Hope and Pym reunited with Janet, while Howard and his wife greeted her, and Tony questioned how the Quantum Realm and Pym particles affected time and physical laws.
• Janet offered Tony Pym particles after noticing his interest in classified footage, then stared around Luke's body with an unfocused gaze.

Janet stabilized Ava’s quantum energy, while Tony left to speak with Pepper about their relationship. Luke then visited the Shadow World with Galactus, who explained the need for a balance rule and began adding it to Luke’s world; afterward, Galactus asked Luke to watch the unusually quiet dimensional demon gods.

• Janet explained her new energy-related abilities and identified Ava’s quantum energy as dangerously unstable.
• Janet stabilized Ava’s energy, and Doctor Pym said the Quantum Tunnel could provide the energy Ava needed to recover.
• Luke and Tony returned to Stark Tower, where Tony decided to speak with Pepper about settling their relationship.
• Galactus told Luke that he had reviewed the universe with Eternity and learned that Luke had finished recording the Infinity Stones’ rules.
• Galactus explained that conflicting rules could cause a world to collapse and agreed to add a framework of his balance rule to the Shadow World in exchange for its energy.
• After returning to the material world, Galactus asked Luke to monitor the dimensional demon gods because they had been unusually quiet.

Luke prepared a meaningful wedding gift for Tony and Pepper while helping Tony perfect the wedding venue and planning a way to shield Pepper from criticism over her family’s lower status. Galacta returned with a mysterious crystal-ball gift and agreed to help Luke’s plan, leaving the preparations underway before the wedding.

• Luke postponed investigating the Dimensional Space so he could attend Tony and Pepper’s wedding, and Galacta left Earth to find them a gift.
• Luke crafted two glowing gems into pendant necklaces, while Megatron prepared a powerful mechanical pet to protect Pepper.
• Luke helped Tony complete and secure the beach wedding venue, and Tony explained that Howard and his wife had gone to support Pepper at her family home.
• Luke proposed a plan to prevent people from disparaging Pepper after the marriage, and Tony agreed as long as it stayed within bounds.
• Galacta returned with a crystal ball for the wedding, then agreed to contact people and help Luke carry out his plan.

Tony and Pepper celebrated their wedding with help from Luke, Galacta, and their friends and family. After the guests left, Galacta gave Pepper a nebula-filled crystal ball, while Luke gave the newlyweds protective necklaces that could keep them connected across dimensions.

• Luke calmed Tony's nerves and shaped the clouds into hearts above the sea before guests arrived.
• Luke welcomed Captain America, Old Captain America, Fury, Natasha, Bucky, and the other guests as Tony and the wedding party prepared.
• A Wakandan spacecraft brought Pepper to the beach, where Old Captain America officiated as Tony and Pepper exchanged vows and kissed.
• After the guests departed, Galacta showed Pepper the nebula she had stored inside a crystal ball and explained that its interior could serve as a safe house.
• Luke gave Tony and Pepper enchanted necklaces that provided protection, communication, and the ability to teleport the wearers to each other.

Luke searched dimensional space for information about the missing Dimensional Demon Gods and learned they had gathered for a Demon God Assembly. After infiltrating the gathering in disguise, he killed an Intermediate Dimensional Demon God and waited as several High-level Dimensional Demon Gods approached him.

• Luke released his energy to attract other Dimensional Demon Gods, then cornered several weak ones and forced them to explain the assembly.
• A surviving Dimensional Demon God told Luke that powerful beings had summoned the others to discuss a plan, while weaker attendees had been killed to increase everyone else's share.
• Luke made the surviving Demon God lead him to the assembly's hidden location, then let him go and changed his appearance before entering.
• Luke found tens of thousands of Intermediate and High-level Dimensional Demon Gods gathered around Supreme Dimension Lords.
• When an Intermediate Dimension Lord challenged him, Luke beheaded it, then waited in a secluded spot as the surrounding Demon Gods devoured the corpse.
• Several High-level Dimensional Demon Gods approached Luke and asked what they should call him.

Luke learned that a Demon God was using Pym Particles to connect timelines and organize a Dimensional Demon God uprising against the Marvel Multiverse. He joined the gathering’s expedition to a Parallel World, planning to find and stop the organizer while keeping his identity hidden.

• Luke learned from a group of High-level Dimensional Demon Gods that they planned to unite forces across timelines and attack the Marvel Multiverse.
• After hearing that their timeline-travel method involved the Quantum Realm, Luke deduced that a Demon God had taken Thanos’s time-travel equipment and replicated its use of Pym Particles.
• The Top-Tier Dimensional Demon Gods chose a Parallel World as their target, and Luke decided to follow them rather than risk exposing himself by leaving.
• Luke used the Shadow World to send Megatron a warning and information, and Megatron hurried toward the Marvel World to find Galactus.
• Luke accepted the High-level Dimensional Demon Gods’ invitation to cooperate, received Pym Particles, and resolved to locate the Demon God behind the uprising.
• Luke recognized a familiar concealment spell on the Pym Particles and feared Patrick Star might expose him, but he traveled with the other Demon Gods as they began crossing timelines.

Luke followed a vast army of Dimensional Demon Gods from different timelines into an invasion of the Marvel World, then led his allies through Earth’s breach. After the Rule Keepers engaged the Top-Tier Demon Gods, Luke’s group seized control of Earth and drove off the other invaders, while Luke prepared to show his allies something valuable.

• Luke entered the Quantum Realm with the Demon Gods, and the Top-Tier Demon Gods built a formation to cross into a parallel timeline.
• Luke crossed into a Quantum Realm crowded with Demon Gods from at least thirty timelines, then joined the army gathering around the Eye Demon.
• The Demon God Army attacked the Marvel World’s breaches, and over a hundred Top-Tier Demon Gods engaged the five Rule Keepers while the other Demon Gods invaded.
• Luke led his Advanced Demon God companions through Earth’s breach and told them to claim the planet without damaging it.
• Luke’s companions used their energy pressure to stop the other Demon Gods’ rampage, and Luke announced that Earth belonged to his group.

Luke drove the Demon Gods from Earth, helped the Rule Keepers defeat the invading armies, and learned that hundreds of timelines were under attack. The Rule Keepers proposed World Fusion as a possible defense against the Demon God Uprising.

• Luke forced the Demon Gods away from Earth, killed his makeshift teammates, and moved Earth into his Shadow World.
• Luke joined a Rule Keeper in battle, helped defeat the Top-Tier Demon Gods, and supported the other Rule Keepers in wiping out the remaining invaders.
• Luke learned that a Rule Keeper had killed the Patrick Star-like Demon God, but at least three hundred timelines were under attack and around a hundred faced destruction.
• The Rule Keepers proposed World Fusion to combine the strength of countless worlds against the Demon God Armies.

Luke searched for a way to stop World Fusion from destroying the lives in the affected worlds, but the Rule Keepers had no alternative. After Galactus asked him to save Galacta by making her sever her ties to their world, Luke turned to the Old Master’s warning about recovering his true power and planned to ask Ancient One about his arrival in Marvel.

• The Rule Keepers explained that World Fusion would destroy everything in the chosen worlds, and Luke’s ideas for evacuating living beings or using their rules against Dimensional Demon Gods failed.
• Luke concluded that repeated World Fusions might be the only way to stop the Demon God Army, then returned to his timeline, troubled by the fate of Tony, Galacta, and the others.
• Galactus told Luke that World Fusion seemed unavoidable and asked him to form a contract with Galacta so his energy could sustain her after she severed her ties with their world.
• Luke agreed to save Galacta if necessary and told Galactus that a Watcher had said recovering his true power could resolve the crisis.
• Luke showed Galactus the photograph of the Old Master, and Galactus suspected the Watcher was an extraordinary being whose warning might offer them hope.
• Luke said he would ask Ancient One what he had been like when he first arrived in Marvel, in case he had overlooked something about his true power.

Luke asked the Ancient One to recreate the scene of his arrival in the Marvel World and learned that his Dark Dimension had crashed into Dormammu’s realm, scattering its fragments while its core ended up with him. He realized the Dark Outer Sea was the true power he needed to reclaim and left to consult Galactus.

• Luke told the Ancient One about the Demon God Uprising and asked her to show him the circumstances of his arrival.
• The Ancient One recreated the scene in the Mirror Dimension, showing Dormammu attacking the Earth Defense Formation when a huge dark realm suddenly rushed toward the Marvel World.
• Dormammu exhausted his realm’s energy trying to withstand the collision, and the incoming dark realm shattered into fragments.
• The Ancient One transported the shattered realm’s core into the Marvel World, where it vanished and Luke appeared in its place.
• Luke recognized that the Dark Outer Sea was likely the true power the Old Master had meant and said he would consult Galactus before reclaiming it.

Luke took Galacta with him to search for the hidden passage to the Dark Outer Sea before Galactus’s three-day deadline for World Fusion. He found the passage, but its lethal dimensional shifts thwarted his attempt to enter, until a photo of him and Old Master floated toward it.

• Luke asked Galactus to delay World Fusion for three days while he searched for the Dark Outer Sea, then took Galacta with him.
• Galacta confronted Luke about his evasive explanation, and she comforted him as they traveled through dimensional space.
• On the third day, Luke followed Galacta’s suggestion and released dark energy, which revealed a concealed passage nearby.
• Luke tested the passage and found that its shifting dimensions could distort his body and make parts of it conscious.
• A photo of Luke and Old Master floated into the passage as Luke watched, wondering if Old Master was showing him how to cross.

Luke transformed into an energy body and crossed the dimensional passage, replenishing his dwindling reserves with dark energy from beyond it. He reclaimed the dark sea and tens of millions of dark realms, becoming vastly more powerful, then prepared to return and confront the dimensional demon gods.

• Luke turned himself into an energy body and entered the passage, resisting its torrent of information as his energy steadily ran low.
• Luke discovered that dark energy from beyond the passage could replenish him and used it to keep moving forward.
• Luke emerged into a lawless space and found the dark sea had grown far larger than he had expected.
• Luke reached out to the dark sea, which engulfed him as its tens of millions of dark realms merged into his soul.
• Luke became the master of the dark sea, whose power surpassed a multiverse, and accidentally pierced the dimensional wall with a blast of energy.
• Luke compressed the excess dark energy into crystals and declared that he was ready to face the dimensional demon gods.

Luke returned to the Shadow World after reclaiming his power and learned that Galacta had gone to help defend the Marvel World, where the Demon God Army had already begun its assault. As the Rule Keepers and Earth's allies fought to hold back the invasion, Luke's return remained uncertain.

• Luke returned to the Shadow World, learned that the three-day deadline had passed, and began casting a Cross-World Portal to reach the Marvel World.
• Eternity and the other Rule Keepers prepared to fuse their world with others, but they attacked the Demon God Army when dark energy appeared to strike its rear.
• Galacta arrived carrying Luke's Black Rose and told the deities that Luke had entered the passage beyond dimensional space and might still be reclaiming his power.
• The Demon God Army launched its attack, forcing the Rule Keepers to fight while demon gods spread through the Marvel World and plundered its power.
• Galactus, Earth’s heroes, China's mythological figures, Odin and the eight realms' forces, Daigo, and Luke's Shadow Ninjas joined the defense against the invading demon gods.

Luke rescued Galacta and wiped out the Demon God Army attacking Earth, then helped the Rule Keepers establish a cross-world energy supply network to push back the uprising. After returning to Earth to reunite with Galacta, he gave her a strengthened Black Rose and considered new ideas for the Trading Station.

• Galacta used the Black Rose to restore the world's rules and hold back the Demon God Army, but the demons destroyed it and left her badly wounded.
• Luke arrived as Galacta prepared to make a final stand, annihilated the Demon God Army around Earth, and summoned a million-strong Starship Fleet to fight the remaining invaders.
• Luke joined Galactus and the other Rule Keepers in killing the Top-Tier Demon Gods, then shared dark energy and the Cross-World Formation to support worlds under attack.
• Luke reversed the damage to Earth and returned to his apartment, where Galacta was recovering from her injuries.
• Luke gave Galacta a fortified Black Rose, then left to help other worlds and pursue new ideas for the Trading Station.

Shuma-Gorath learned that his second campaign against Luke’s timeline had failed and planned to exploit Luke’s desire to save others. Luke discussed the growing Demon God threat with the Rule Keepers, revealed that he was strengthening himself, and was left wondering about the Old Master’s identity.

• A Many-Angled One reported that the Demon God Army had lost across most timelines, and Shuma-Gorath tore the messenger apart in anger.
• After hearing that Luke’s immense energy and alliances had defeated the invasion, Shuma-Gorath decided to let Luke play savior and try to exhaust his power.
• Luke met Galactus and the other four gods, then explained that he would support threatened timelines while developing the Shadow World to increase his strength.
• Eternity told Luke that the Old Master was as special as he was, and the Rule Keepers left to recover energy Luke had supplied to other worlds.
• Luke resolved to question the Old Master, then relaxed with Galacta after she returned from upstairs.

Luke and the Rule Keepers prepared to spring their trap after the Demon God Faction launched a major assault, while Luke returned to a transformed Earth and spoke with Tony before making his final preparations. The chapter left the decades-long conflict poised to reach its decisive battle.

• The Demon God Faction expanded across millions of timelines, and Luke strengthened the Shadow World while assigning Hela command of his legions and placing the Ancient One at the Trading Station.
• Luke and the Rule Keepers feigned exhaustion, allowed the demon gods to seize nearly half the rule resources, and prompted the Eye Demon to announce an all-out assault across their reachable timelines.
• Luke emerged after decades to find Earth transformed into a spacefaring Human Federation, then reunited with Tony, who offered his help for the coming battle.
• Luke told Tony that he and Galacta planned to have a child after the Cosmic Tapeworm matured and could be separated from Galacta.
• Luke said goodbye to Tony and returned to the Shadow World to make final preparations for the coming confrontation.

Luke defeated the Demon God Alliance by trapping and killing its Top-Tier Demon Gods, then destroyed the Eye Demon and absorbed his world. After learning from the Old Master that he could return to his original world, Luke brought Galacta there to meet his parents.

• The Rule Keepers lured the Top-Tier Demon Gods into Marvel Worlds, imprisoned them in fragments, and sent them to Luke's Shadow World to be killed in an assembly line.
• Luke sent Hela and the allied forces to crush the remaining intermediate and Advanced Demon Gods while he used a Many-Angled One to track down the Eye Demon.
• Luke invaded the Eye Demon's world, overpowered him with stronger rule power, devoured his world, and destroyed him.
• The Old Master told Luke that they had both come from the same world and could return there, though their powers would be much weaker.
• Luke returned to Earth with Galacta and prepared to introduce her to his parents.