Chapter Summaries

Lu Qi introduced Marvel’s technology and the Nine Realms Trading Station to TPC officials, then proposed cooperation between the two worlds through technology exchange. Sawai approved the proposal, and the meeting moved on to arranging exchanges, with both sides agreeing to send people to study in the other world.

• Lu Qi replaced the room’s small video screens with a holographic conference space and introduced the technological differences between the two Earths.
• Lu Qi showed Tony Stark’s armor, the Ultron Legion, and Marvel China’s fleet fighting the Black Dragon, leaving the TPC officials astonished by Marvel’s civilian and military capabilities.
• Tetsuji Yoshioka asked whether Lu Qi could secure agreement from the governments in his world, and Lu Qi assured him that he had the authority to make any agreement binding.
• Lu Qi proposed exchanging technology and showed the officials the Nine Realms Trading Station, where different civilizations traded goods and knowledge.
• After Lu Qi described what the Trading Station offered, Sawai reported that support for joining had become overwhelming, and Lu Qi proposed that both sides send people to study in the other world.

Lu Qi and Galacta watched the Victory Team battle a monster that had transformed from a missing spacecraft and could assimilate machines and people. Tiga defeated it after a fierce fight, while the Kyrieloids decided to open the Hell Gate and invade Earth.

• After an alarm revealed a monster approaching a Space Development Bureau energy base, Lu Qi and Galacta joined Megumi Iruma and the Victory Team to observe the response.
• Horii and Yazumi identified the monster’s spacecraft alloy armor and found gaps in its defenses, allowing Shinjoh to destroy its first body with a missile.
• The monster emerged as a glowing life-form, assimilated GUTS Wing 1, and pursued the unconscious Shinjoh until Tiga rescued him.
• The monster absorbed the energy storage tank and fused with its damaged body, but Tiga changed to Red Power Form, beat it down, removed the tank, and destroyed it.
• After watching Tiga’s growing strength, the Kyrieloid leader ordered followers to open the Hell Gate and summon the Kyrieloid army to invade Earth.

Lu Qi and Galacta prepared a stable portal and a new Trading Station for the partnership between the Tiga World and the Marvel World. When a crowd gathered to await an angel, Lu Qi recognized the apparent miracle as a Kyrieloid plot and explained that the beings sought humanity’s faith.

• Lu Qi worked on modifying The Ancient One’s spell into a stable passage between worlds while Galacta finished designing the Trading Station’s expansion.
• Lu Qi and Galacta spotted a large crowd below their hotel, including people who appeared bewitched, and went to investigate.
• Lu Qi met Daigo, Megumi Iruma, and Rena beside the Victory Team’s Sherlock Car and asked what they knew about the gathering.
• After seeing a picture of the supposed angel, Lu Qi identified the incident as a Kyrieloid plot and explained that the other-dimensional beings wanted human followers.

Lu Qi and the Victory Team discovered that the Kyrieloidians were using a fake angel to collect humanity’s faith and open a gate to Earth. Lu Qi enlisted Daigo as Ultraman Tiga and promised to stop the invaders, while the Kyrieloidians began their next move.

• Lu Qi explained that the Kyrieloidians intended to use humanity’s faith to open a gate, and he chose to draw them out rather than merely dispel the angel.
• Megumi Iruma and Rena questioned whether Lu Qi could stop the Kyrieloidians, so he showed them a photograph of himself with a miniature Tiga to convince them he knew the hero.
• Lu Qi asked Daigo to join him in fighting the Kyrieloidians, and Daigo agreed; Megumi Iruma and Rena then trusted Lu Qi’s promise to handle the threat.
• The Kyrieloidian witch announced that they had gathered enough Faith Power to open the Hell Gate, and her followers hacked nearby electronic devices to begin their plan.
• Megumi Iruma ordered Rena and Daigo to help evacuate the crowd, while Lu Qi sent out his shadow ninjas to assist and took Galacta aside to prepare.

Lu Qi confronted the Kyrieloidians after they branded him and Ultraman Tiga as demons, then pulled the crowd and their enemies into the Mirror Dimension to fight without harming the real world. The battle began with Lu Qi tearing through the Kyrieloidians while Tiga faced several opponents of his own.

• A Kyrieloidian claimed an angel would judge humanity and named Ultraman Tiga and Lu Qi as demons who had to be destroyed.
• Lu Qi appeared before the crowd as the Hell Gate opened, and he used Dark Energy to drag the surrounding area into the Mirror Dimension.
• Lu Qi reshaped the Mirror Dimension into an arena and trapped the crowd in cages, while GUTS Team members spared by him boarded their aircraft and noticed Daigo was missing.
• The Kyrieloidians transformed and attacked, and Ultraman Tiga joined Lu Qi in the arena.
• Lu Qi transformed into his Dimensional Demon God Form and brutally defeated several Kyrieloidians while leaving some opponents for Tiga to fight.

Lu Qi summoned the Dark Giant Legion to fight the Kyrieloid Army after Tiga withdrew, and the Dark Legion overwhelmed its larger enemy. As the Kyrieloids’ army faced defeat, Lu Qi waited for their God to appear.

• Munakata ordered GUTS Wing 1 and GUTS Wing 2 to support Tiga while Lu Qi continued fighting the Kyrieloidians.
• Two Second-Generation Kyrieloids opened the Hell Gate, allowing an army of nearly a hundred thousand Kyrieloidians to enter.
• After Tiga defeated his opponents with the Victory Team’s help, he ran out of energy and flew away, leaving Lu Qi alone.
• Lu Qi summoned tens of thousands of Dark Giants and ordered them to fight the Kyrieloid Army.
• The Dark Legion’s coordinated assault devastated the Kyrieloid Army, while Lu Qi sent two Giant Shadow Devourer Soldiers to feed on the battlefield’s shadows.
• Lu Qi watched the Kyrieloids lose and looked toward the Hell Gate, waiting for their God to appear.

Lu Qi watched the Dark Giant Legion and the Shadow Devourer Soldiers overwhelm the Kyrieloidians, then confronted the God of the Kyrieloids at the Hell Gate. After identifying the Great Darkness as Gatanothor and showing the god one of its claws, Lu Qi challenged him while the god prepared to flee.

• The Shadow Devourer Soldiers grew to nearly five hundred meters, emerged from the shadows, and devoured Kyrieloidians as the Dark Giant Legion broke their army into scattered groups.
• Lu Qi watched the battle become a feeding ground and considered whether the Kyrieloidians could help the Shadow Devourer Soldiers grow to three thousand meters.
• Lu Qi sensed the God of the Kyrieloids watching from the Hell Gate and demanded that he come out.
• The God of the Kyrieloids warned Lu Qi that he had stolen the Great Darkness's power and urged him to return the Hell Gate and surrender Earth.
• Lu Qi recognized the Great Darkness as Gatanothor, summoned its model, and said he had already defeated it.
• Lu Qi showed the God of the Kyrieloids one of Gatanothor's claws and challenged him to spar, while the god moved to close the Hell Gate and escape.

Lu Qi captured Ji God and learned that he could transform worshippers into Kyrieloidians, then made him a subordinate who would provide Kyrieloidians for the Shadow Devourer Soldiers. After Ji God accepted a contract and access to the Shadow World's Dark Energy, Lu Qi named him Little Ji.

• Lu Qi used Ji God's teleportation array to stop the passage from closing, pulled him through, and had a Shadow Devourer Soldier guard him.
• Lu Qi questioned Ji God and learned that he could transform worshippers into Kyrieloidians using energy, while the transformed Kyrieloidians could not transform others.
• Lu Qi ordered Ji God to command his Kyrieloid Army to stop resisting so the Shadow Devourer Soldier could devour them.
• Ji God signed a contract with Lu Qi and gained access to the Shadow World's vast supply of Dark Energy in exchange for creating more Kyrieloidians.
• Ji God pledged himself to Lu Qi, who gave him the name Little Ji.

Galacta used the black rose’s Dark Energy to eliminate the remaining Kyrieloids hiding in the city, while Tetsuji Yoshioka prepared Earth’s forces for the Beast army inside the Mirror Dimension. The central district was evacuated and armed, and the Artdessei arrived overhead as a last resort.

• The Mirror Dimension swallowed Hell Gate and the people around it, leaving a black-robed observer astonished by their disappearance.
• Galacta scanned for the remaining Kyrieloids and used the black rose’s Dark Energy to destroy them all in just over ten seconds.
• Yazumi reported the disappearances to Tetsuji Yoshioka, who recognized the cracks as Lu Qi’s ability and learned about Hell Gate and the Kyrieloid army.
• Tetsuji Yoshioka mobilized the Earth Defense Force and asked Sawai to deploy the unfinished Artdessei in case Lu Qi could not defeat the Beast army.
• Residents evacuated the central district as military forces assembled, and the Artdessei emerged from the clouds above the city.

After defeating the Kyrieloidian army, Lu Qi took control of Little Ji and the Kyrieloidians’ hidden realm, then began using Dark Energy to create Second-Generation Kyrieloidians as food for the Shadow Devourer Soldiers. He left Little Ji to raise the creatures and returned with Galacta to continue developing his cross-world portal magic.

• Lu Qi inspected Little Ji’s hidden realm, took it for his Kyrieloidian farm, and brought the masked Little Ji back to his universe.
• Lu Qi freed the humans trapped in the Mirror Dimension, reunited with Daigo and Megumi Iruma’s group, and returned to Earth with Galacta.
• Lu Qi told Tetsuji Yoshioka that the Kyrieloidians would not threaten Earth again, then took Galacta back to their hotel.
• Lu Qi had Little Ji use Dark Energy to transform his human followers into Second-Generation Kyrieloidians, and a Shadow Devourer Soldier swallowed them.
• Lu Qi assigned Little Ji to raise the two Shadow Devourer Soldiers and find suitable subjects, then left with Galacta to work on his cross-world portal magic.

Lu Qi completed a more stable, durable version of the Interworld Teleportation Magic and used it to reach the Trading Station from his hotel. After contacting Tony, he planned to establish a Trading Station in the Tiga World within the next few days, using the R'lyeh Ruins as its site.

• Lu Qi redesigned the Interworld Teleportation Magic using the framework he had learned from Hell Gate and completed a working double-door portal.
• Lu Qi passed through the portal to the Trading Station, checked that it was operating normally, and connected his phone to the Marvel World network.
• Lu Qi called Tony, who arranged to visit and asked Saturday to tell Megatron to bring the AllSpark.
• Galacta recognized that Lu Qi had finished his magic, and Lu Qi said he would soon have to return to work.
• Lu Qi told Galacta to notify the Tiga World's higher-ups that he would establish a Trading Station there within the next few days, likely in the R'lyeh Ruins.

Tony visited Lu Qi and Galacta in another world, where Lu Qi explained his plan to build a cross-world Trading Station and asked Tony for advice. Tony supported the idea and agreed to explore the world with Lu Qi before the station opened.

• Tony arrived at Lu Qi's portal and watched Lu Qi add a handle so he could open it.
• Lu Qi brought Tony through the portal, and Tony realized the hotel was in a different world with no internet.
• Lu Qi explained that he had modified The Ancient One's portal spell to establish a cross-world Trading Station for peaceful trade.
• Tony advised Lu Qi to set rules for participating worlds and use his strength to enforce them and prevent wars.
• Tony offered to help by exploring the world and buying technology when the Trading Station opened.

Lu Qi and Tony discussed Tiga World's peaceful society before Tony revealed that Wakanda had joined the Trading Station and was being nominated as a major council nation. He explained that Wakanda's emergence was connected to the missing AllSpark.

• Lu Qi described Tiga World's unified government and low crime rate, then offered to show Tony and Pepper around.
• Tony and Lu Qi discussed Tony's future wedding to Pepper and invited each other to attend.
• Tony told Lu Qi that a major event had shifted the global balance of power, though Galactus had not intervened because it was an internal Earth matter.
• Tony revealed that Wakanda was being nominated to become a major council nation and had joined the Trading Station.
• Tony said Wakanda's connection with them involved the missing AllSpark.

Zola investigated rumors that Wakanda possessed Vibranium and discovered that many Wakandans abroad appeared to be agents. He brought Erik Killmonger to New York to question him, leaving Erik freed from his restraints but face-to-face with his mysterious employer.

• Tony told Lu Qi that Zola had used the AllSpark to investigate Vibranium and trace its history to Wakanda.
• Zola noticed that Wakanda's supposed poverty did not match its royal family's wealth and found numerous Wakandans stationed abroad.
• Zola identified Erik Killmonger as an unusual Wakandan working as a mercenary and arranged for him to be brought to New York.
• Erik realized his new employer was interested in Wakanda, but mercenaries subdued him and took him to a quiet room.
• Zola introduced himself to Erik, cut his bonds, and confirmed that he had hired him.

Zola interrogated Erik about Wakanda and used what he knew about Erik’s past to offer him a path home. The chapter ended with Zola proposing to help Erik claim Wakanda’s throne in exchange for Vibranium.

• Erik denied knowing why Wakanda had deployed agents around the world, and warned Zola to stop investigating.
• Zola revealed that he knew Wakanda possessed Vibranium, and Erik’s reaction confirmed it.
• Zola showed records proving Erik had left Wakanda as a child and had never seen his homeland, then taunted him as a homeless stray dog.
• Erik attacked Zola, who pinned him down and showed him footage of T'Challa’s privileged life.
• Zola offered to help Erik return to Wakanda and claim the throne in exchange for Vibranium.

Zola persuaded Erik to work with Hydra by offering to help him challenge for Wakanda's throne, using a peace summit as their opportunity to reach King T'Chaka. After showing Erik evidence of his Hydra ties, Zola revealed footage of a mysterious figure who had helped bring Hydra down and warned that Erik would face him if he became king.

• Erik agreed to work with Zola after learning that his necklace could give him the right to challenge Wakanda's king and claim the throne.
• Zola proposed using an upcoming peace summit in China to get Erik in front of T'Chaka, and promised to arrange a fake identity for him.
• Zola revealed that he was Hydra and showed Erik footage of his drones fighting Falcon as proof.
• Erik mocked Zola for losing to Falcon, and Zola explained that signal interference and drone lag had hampered him.
• Zola showed footage of a mysterious figure blocking the Helicarriers' gunfire and carrying several of them away, then said Erik would learn about him after becoming Wakanda's king.

Erik Killmonger used a royal necklace to publicly invoke his right to challenge T'Chaka for Wakanda’s throne. T'Chaka accepted and took Erik to Wakanda, while Zola promised to spread the news and join him there.

• Captain America assigned Erik to guard the venue entrance, while Zola warned him not to challenge T'Chaka until he was alone.
• After the meeting, Zola arranged for a reporter to approach T'Chaka, giving Erik an opportunity to confront him.
• Erik showed T'Chaka the necklace and declared his challenge as a royal heir, prompting the reporter to press T'Chaka for an answer.
• T'Chaka stopped the guards from seizing Erik, acknowledged his right to challenge, and said the contest would take place in Wakanda.
• Erik agreed to go to Wakanda, and Zola said he would publicize the challenge and meet him there.

T'Chaka confronted Erik about his challenge for Wakanda's throne, admitted that he had killed Erik's father, N'Jobu, and accepted that Erik might kill him. He told T'Challa to reclaim the throne after his defeat and revealed that Zuri knew the truth about N'Jobu's death.

• T'Chaka refused to cancel Erik's challenge and questioned whether Erik was fit to rule Wakanda.
• Erik accused T'Chaka of stabbing N'Jobu to death, and T'Chaka admitted that he had killed his brother.
• T'Chaka brought Erik back to Wakanda, while Zola tracked their spacecraft from New York.
• T'Chaka told T'Challa to challenge Erik after T'Chaka's defeat and gave him a royal necklace.
• T'Chaka confessed to T'Challa that N'Jobu was not killed by Ulysses and asked T'Challa not to seek revenge.
• T'Chaka said Zuri could explain the past if T'Chaka died before telling Erik and T'Challa himself.

T'Challa and Shuri secretly arranged to protect T'Chaka during the King's Challenge, but Erik defeated him and brutally killed a second challenger. With the other warriors intimidated, T'Challa stepped forward to challenge Erik himself.

• T'Challa told Shuri their father had made up his mind about the challenge, and Shuri agreed to prepare a device that could save his life.
• At the challenge, Zuri removed T'Chaka's Black Panther power, and Erik began fighting him after being named the first challenger.
• When Erik knocked T'Chaka down, Shuri used her bracelet to knock him unconscious, and Zuri declared Erik the winner; Erik realized T'Challa and Shuri had interfered but kept quiet.
• Erik killed the Mining Tribe's muscular challenger with his short spears, frightening the crowd and discouraging anyone else from stepping forward.
• Despite Shuri's offer to use her bracelet if needed, T'Challa announced that he wished to challenge N'Jadaka.

Erik defeated T'Challa in the challenge to become king of Wakanda, but T'Challa's final words about Erik's father left him questioning what had really happened. Erik was named the new Black Panther and decided to complete his coronation before seeking the truth.

• T'Challa accepted Erik's challenge, and Erik taunted him while controlling the fight.
• Erik intensified his attacks, and T'Challa eventually gained a brief opening before Erik pinned him and forced him into a deadly struggle.
• When Shuri raised her arm to intervene, Erik released the spear and used a chokehold to shield himself with T'Challa.
• T'Challa told Erik that T'Chaka had killed Erik's father because he wanted to harm Wakandans, then passed out.
• Zuri declared Erik the winner and new Black Panther, and Erik chose to proceed with the coronation while wondering about T'Challa's claim.