Arc 23The Battleworld Experiment

Leon traced the Multiversal Collisions to Doctor Doom’s use of God Loki’s power, then learned that Loki had chosen a wider destruction and restart to escape the Beyonders. With Doom left in charge of Battleworld, Leon began organizing a plan to preserve the Multiverse by moving universes into his Divine Kingdom Dimension, choosing Mutant Earth for the first test.

  • Leon discovered that Doctor Doom had destroyed the TVA and stolen God Loki’s power, while Spider-Gwen called for help as Morlun and the Inheritors attacked the Spider-Man Alliance.
  • Leon killed Morlun and the Inheritors, helped restore the TVA, and traveled to the collapsing Main Universe, where he found Doom’s Battleworld.
  • Leon confronted Doom, who admitted he was destroying the Multiverse to rebuild it as a peaceful world, and broke Doom’s Time Loop before God Loki asked him to spare Doom.
  • Loki explained that Kang had divided the Sacred Timeline and that he had given Doom some of his power to restart the timelines, while the Beyonders had driven him to choose a wider destruction and restart.
  • Leon restored Doom’s soul and left him to rule Battleworld, then brought the Deadpool Corps to the TVA and had Dark Strange and the mages bring the Hell lords under his control.
  • Dark Strange proposed that Leon’s Divine Kingdom Dimension devour Earths and draw nearby universes away from the Multiverse Cluster, and Leon agreed to test the plan on another Earth first.
  • On Mutant Earth, William Stryker pressured Mystique to join his experiment to strengthen the remaining Mutants, and Leon declared the corrupted world the first test subject to be devoured.
Chapters 551–575 Vol. 6 Read

Ch. 551Cause of World Collisions

Leon discovered that World Collisions were caused by the upstream branches of the Multiverse’s timelines contracting together, while the Avengers dealt with Mutants Earth’s invasion. He pushed the universes apart and left with the cause identified, but the source-level contraction remained a serious threat.

  • Mutants Earth continued sending fighter jets and superpowered troops to attack S Earth, and the Avengers fought back despite their attempts to explain the collision crisis.
  • Leon found a clue and pushed Mutants Earth away from S Earth, causing the attacks to stop.
  • Captain America and Tony directed the Avengers to comfort the affected survivors as the team struggled with the violence of the Multiverse.
  • Leon examined the timelines of both universes and found that their upstream sources were converging, while the Mutants Universe’s timeline had become tangled after the collision began.
  • Leon traced the convergence to the squeezed-together main timeline trunks and concluded that source-level contraction caused the increasingly frequent World Collisions; Doctor Strange’s world-traveling and the Main Universe’s Memory Spell were only local causes.

Ch. 552TVA Has Fallen?

Leon suspected that the TVA had fallen and took JARVIS and Dark Doctor Strange to investigate. They entered a damaged, bloodstained TVA where JARVIS could still use the Infinity Stones, suggesting its anti-magic devices had been disabled or destroyed.

  • Leon found that the Time Tablet could not connect to the TVA and concluded that the organization had likely encountered serious trouble.
  • JARVIS said he had received recent TVA intelligence, but Leon reasoned that the source behind the Multiversal Collision had manipulated the flow of information to make the TVA seem active.
  • Dark Doctor Strange joined Leon and JARVIS as they traveled beyond time to the TVA.
  • The three found the TVA corridor damaged by battle, with bloodstains and no bodies, while Dark Doctor Strange judged that the damage did not resemble his counterparts' work.
  • JARVIS reported that he could still use the Infinity Stones, and Leon continued deeper into the silent TVA.

Ch. 553The One Who Destroyed the TVA

Leon, Dark Doctor Strange, and JARVIS searched the ruined TVA and restored its control system, discovering that Doctor Doom had severed its connection to the outside world and caused the Multiverse’s timeline to collapse. JARVIS recovered records showing Doom had once served the TVA before exterminating the Council of Kangs.

  • Leon and his companions searched the empty TVA and found no employees or bodies.
  • JARVIS reasoned that the invader had isolated the TVA because he feared its personnel might stop him, while Leon said finding him would be easier than repairing the damaged timelines.
  • Leon restored the TVA’s control equipment, and its displays confirmed that the timeline’s source had contracted and World Collisions were occurring across the Multiverse.
  • JARVIS recovered his subroutine from residual data and identified Doctor Doom as the invader who had erased the TVA’s records and destroyed its technology.
  • JARVIS played footage showing Doom had served the TVA and later exterminated the Council of Kangs at their gathering place.

Ch. 554That Man's Ambition

JARVIS explained how Doctor Doom destroyed the TVA and recruited many of its employees before pursuing a mysterious Loki variant and power at the end of time. Leon concluded that Doom caused the Multiverse collision, though how he did it remained unclear.

  • Doctor Doom massacred the Kang variants, sealed time in their arena, and took their time technologies.
  • JARVIS recounted how Doom later destroyed the TVA’s time technologies, defeated its resisters, and left with employees who chose to follow him.
  • Dark Doctor Strange questioned why so many TVA employees had joined Doom, and Leon explained that Doom had great personal charisma and pursued a goal that might not be unjust.
  • JARVIS revealed that Doom had investigated a mysterious Loki variant before launching his rebellion and that the figure seemed connected to the Multiverse’s timelines.
  • In the recording, Doctor Doom declared that the world was sick and that he would rebuild it by seizing power at the end of time.
  • Leon said Doctor Doom was the culprit behind the Multiverse collision and suggested that it was tied to the power Doom had mentioned.

Ch. 555Plundering Power

Leon explained how God Loki became the keeper of the Multiverse’s timelines and speculated that Doctor Doom had obtained his power to compress time’s main branches. Dark Strange rejected the idea as impossible, but Leon argued that their world often allowed weaker beings to plunder power from vastly stronger ones.

  • Leon recounted how Loki and Sylvie killed He Who Remains, triggering the Multiverse’s collapse and leading Loki to become God Loki, the living Temporal Loom.
  • Leon said Doctor Doom must have obtained God Loki’s power to compress the main trunks of time.
  • JARVIS considered whether Doom used Kang variants’ time technology to defeat God Loki but could not calculate the odds.
  • Dark Strange insisted that Doom could not take power from a being who controlled time across the Multiverse.
  • Leon pointed out that Dark Strange had once swallowed the Eye Demon’s tentacles while still a relatively weak mage, showing that extraordinary power theft was possible.

Ch. 556Sudden Emergency Communication

Leon explained why Doctor Doom might be able to take God Loki’s power, then set out to find Doom while JARVIS and Dark Strange repaired the TVA. An emergency call from Spider-Gwen revealed that Morlun and the rest of The Family had tracked her group down, leaving Leon to respond to the Spider-Man Multiverse crisis.

  • Leon argued that God Loki might surrender his time power to Doctor Doom because he wanted freedom from the End of Time.
  • Dark Strange suggested that Leon could take the power back from Doom, while JARVIS questioned why God Loki would aid someone who planned to destroy the Multiverse.
  • Leon tasked JARVIS and Dark Strange with repairing the TVA and locating its scattered staff, then departed to find Doctor Doom.
  • A TVA emergency alert interrupted Leon, and JARVIS accepted a call from the injured and exhausted Spider-Gwen.
  • Spider-Gwen reported that Morlun had revived from a clone and pursued her group with his siblings from The Family, then her call cut off as they attacked again.

Ch. 557Morlun and His Siblings' Slaughter

Gwen joined the Spider-Man Alliance after losing contact with the TVA, but Morlun attacked its headquarters in Universe-982 and began slaughtering its Spider-Men. As Morlun’s siblings Brix and Bora arrived, Morlun ordered them to help him devour the survivors.

  • After more than a year without word from the TVA, Gwen joined the Spider-Man Alliance and traveled between worlds on its missions.
  • Morlun ambushed Gwen and Spider-Ham, tore off Spider-Ham’s arm, and ate it before Gwen escaped with him to another world.
  • Gwen treated Spider-Ham’s injuries, realized Morlun was targeting the entire Spider-Verse, and returned to warn the Alliance.
  • Morlun attacked the Alliance headquarters in Universe-982, where Spider-Man 2099 and the other Spider-Men fought back.
  • Brix and Bora arrived, tore off a young Spider-Man’s leg, and drank his blood while the Spider-Men shielded the injured Peter Parker.
  • Morlun rose from the assault and ordered Brix and Bora to help him eat the Spider-Men.

Ch. 558Morlun Attempts to Kill Leon

Morlun and his siblings overwhelmed the Spider-Men at the Spider Alliance headquarters, but Gwen managed to contact Leon and called for his help. Leon crossed into their world, arriving just as Morlun attacked Gwen and freezing everything around him.

  • Morlun, Bora, and Brix slaughtered the Spider-Men and grew stronger by devouring them.
  • Gwen contacted the TVA with her Time Tablet and saw Leon, regaining hope before returning to the battle.
  • Gwen rescued a wounded Peter Parker, but Bora cut her web and Brix revealed that the Inheritors were gathering the Bride, the Scion, and the Other.
  • Morlun recognized Leon's name and vowed to kill Gwen before making Leon watch him die.
  • Morlun pounced on Gwen as the Spider-Men rushed to intervene, but Leon arrived and froze the world around him.

Ch. 559Leon Steps In

Leon revived every Spider-Man Morlun’s group had drained, then killed Morlun and his siblings and erased the Inheritors’ cloning facility. Gwen recognized Leon as the Spider-Men stared in shock at the ashes, while Leon worried that the Beyonders might also cross into the MCU.

  • Leon revived the shriveled Spider-Men across Spider-Man Alliance Tower and found that Holland Spider and Garfield Spider were not there.
  • Leon examined Morlun’s memories and learned that Morlun had crossed into the Spider-Man Multiverse during a World Collision, while the Comic Universe faced its own Collision Crisis.
  • Leon killed Morlun and his siblings, and his power followed causality to erase the Inheritors’ cloning facility in World 01.
  • The Spider-Men’s attacks resumed after Leon’s high-speed actions, and they watched Morlun and the others crumble into ashes.
  • Gwen saw Leon and sprang up, relieved that he had arrived.

Ch. 560The State of the Comic Multiverse

Leon entered Marvel’s Comic Multiverse and saw that collisions threatened every universe. He arrived on Earth-13 as Solus was devouring Captain Universe Spider-Man, and kicked Solus away.

  • Leon sent the noisy Spider-Men flying out of Alliance Tower, then told Gwen to take them to the TVA and stabilize the Multiverse while he went after Morlun’s family.
  • Gwen stayed behind and went to find the other Spider-Men after Leon left for the Comic Multiverse.
  • Leon saw that universes across the Comic Multiverse were colliding and learned that Earth-616’s heroes had descended into slaughter during the Collision Crisis.
  • On Earth-13, Solus and the Inheritors attacked the Spider-Men despite Captain Universe Spider-Man’s presence.
  • Solus began devouring Captain Universe Spider-Man’s life force, but Leon appeared and kicked him away.

Ch. 561One-Punch Man Appears Again

Leon arrived to confront the Inheritors and killed Solus, Jennix, and Daemos, destroying their chance to revive. Earth-616 Spider-Man returned through a portal with a group of Spider-Men, unaware that Leon had already defeated the Inheritors.

  • Leon rescued Captain Universe Spider-Man and said he had come to find the Inheritors and an old friend.
  • Leon used a full-force punch to destroy Solus and his Life Core without damaging the surroundings.
  • Leon erased Jennix and Daemos, then decided to visit the Inheritors’ universe to eliminate the remaining members of The Family.
  • Earth-616 Spider-Man returned with a group of Spider-Men and excitedly greeted Leon.
  • Earth-616 Spider-Man announced that he had brought powerful help through the portal, not knowing the Inheritors had already been defeated.

Ch. 562Spider-Man Everywhere

Leon helped the Spider-Men finish defeating the Inheritors, then returned to the Cinematic Universe and found the TVA overwhelmed by Spider-Men. He warned himself to prepare for the Beyonders’ threat and left Dark Strange questioning whether Spider-Man should work at the TVA.

  • Four-Hundred Auntie arrived in Leopardon, but Leon told him the Inheritors had nearly all been defeated.
  • The Spider-Men followed Four-Hundred Auntie to Earth-01, where he destroyed the Inheritors’ castle with the Vigor Sword and finished off its remaining occupants.
  • Leon concluded that the Beyonders had caused the comic Multiverse’s timelines to contract and resolved to consider how to face the threat.
  • Leon returned to TVA headquarters, where thousands of Spider-Men were helping reorganize the offices and loudly crowded around him.
  • Leon told the Spider-Men that the Inheritors were defeated, cleared them from the command room, and heard Dark Strange ask him to reconsider recruiting Spider-Man into the TVA.

Ch. 563The Disappearing Main Universe Earth

Leon left the TVA to investigate the Main Universe and found that its Earth had vanished, causing the universe to begin collapsing. He concluded that Doctor Doom was hiding in the Voidlands and headed there after spreading Legend's M-Bodies across the threatened universes.

  • JARVIS suggested recruiting the Deadpool Corps to keep the Spider-Men occupied, and Leon decided to recruit them while searching for Doctor Doom.
  • Leon left the TVA and scattered hundreds of billions of Legend's M-Bodies as he traveled toward the Main Universe.
  • Leon found Main Universe Earth gone and the Moon shattered, while the universe's laws and structure began to collapse.
  • Leon saw that surrounding universes were overlapping and colliding, though Earth's disappearance had slowed the collisions.
  • Leon searched the higher dimensions and found no Eternity, Death, Infinity, or other cosmic beings.
  • Leon traveled to the Voidlands, where he believed Doctor Doom was hiding and building a new force.

Ch. 564Goodbye, Doom

Leon flew toward Battleworld’s central region and discovered that Doctor Doom had gathered survivors from many universes there, while secretly ruling over a fragile realm. He watched Doctor Strange report to Doom and begin asking about another search for Loki.

  • Leon used Super Hearing to discover Hulk, Banner, and Skaar living in a village in the Voidlands.
  • Leon overheard Wong, America Chavez, and Yelena plotting to uncover the truth and overthrow Doom’s rule.
  • Leon spotted familiar survivors across Battleworld, including Star-Lord, White Vision, the Wakandan Black Panther Corps, and an imprisoned Winter Soldier.
  • Leon reached Doom’s palace and saw Susan beside Doom while Doctor Strange reported on Battleworld’s condition.
  • Doctor Strange finished his report and asked Doom about searching for Loki again.

Ch. 565An Invitation to Leon

Doctor Doom revealed his plan to destroy the Multiverse and invited Leon to join him, claiming that the world needed to be remade to achieve peace. Leon rejected Doom’s rationale, and Doom ended by insisting that only he could bring true peace.

  • Doctor Doom ordered Strange to keep searching Battleworld for the remaining Lokis and their power.
  • Leon arrived in Doom’s hall, where Doom briefly reached for his time device before calming himself with God Loki’s power.
  • Doom invited Leon to join his plan, and Leon confronted him with the details of his rebellion and the Multiverse’s destruction.
  • Doom admitted that he was destroying the Multiverse because he believed it deserved to be destroyed.
  • Doom condemned superheroes and declared that only he could bring true peace to the world.

Ch. 566Doctor Doom's Time Power

Leon rejected Doctor Doom’s plan to merge the Multiverse into Battleworld and attacked him, but Doom used God Loki’s Time Power to reverse the Multiverse and undo the attack. Leon remained unaffected by the reversal and prepared to strike again.

  • Doctor Doom described Battleworld as a peaceful refuge and urged Leon to accept his vision for the Multiverse.
  • Leon refused, transformed into his battle suit, and trapped Doom inside a universe created in his palm.
  • Doom used God Loki’s Time Power to reverse the Multiverse, restoring himself and erasing Leon’s attack from the timeline.
  • Leon realized his body had resisted the reversal, praised Doom’s power, and warned that he would punch him next.

Ch. 567The Dragon Slayer Becomes the Dragon

Leon broke through Doctor Doom’s Time Power and killed him with a single punch, but Doom’s prepared Time Loop restored him and the Multiverse to the moment before his death. Doom claimed Leon could not defeat him and invited him to negotiate.

  • Doctor Doom attacked Leon with layers of Time Power, twisting Leon’s timeline and trapping him in temporal distortions.
  • Leon’s advancing fist shattered the temporal effects, leaving Doctor Doom shocked that physical force could break the rules of time.
  • Doctor Doom challenged Leon to kill him if he wanted to save the Multiverse, and Leon struck him, reducing him and his green Cloak to subatomic particles.
  • Doctor Doom’s Time Loop restored him and returned the Multiverse to the moment before his death.
  • Leon recognized that Doom’s Time Loop covered the entire Multiverse, and Doom invited him to discuss terms.

Ch. 568Shattering Time

Leon confronted Doctor Doom over their conflicting goals and shattered Doom’s Time Loop and Time Power, but knocked him unconscious instead of killing him. God Loki appeared with the timelines forming the World Tree and asked Leon to spare Doom, leaving Leon demanding an explanation.

  • Leon rejected Doom’s offer to join Battleworld and challenged him, then joked about Doom’s unmasked face before attacking.
  • Doom realized Leon’s punch had broken the Multiverse-wide Time Loop and that he could no longer rely on the Time Power to escape.
  • Leon shattered Doom’s Time Power as it tried to protect him, then knocked Doom unconscious rather than killing him.
  • God Loki appeared behind Leon and asked him not to kill Doom, while still holding the timelines that formed the World Tree.
  • Leon asked God Loki whether he supported Doom or had a better solution.

Ch. 569The Divided Sacred Timeline

God Loki explained that Kang, He Who Remains, split the Sacred Timeline into branches, and that Doom intended to merge those branches back together. Leon learned Loki had given Doom some of his power and challenged him on why he had not given Doom everything needed to complete the plan.

  • God Loki told Leon that Kang won the Multiversal War and created the Sacred Timeline to prevent other Kangs from rising.
  • Loki revealed that Kang had divided the Sacred Timeline, cutting off universes such as those of the mutants, Ghost Rider, Blade, and Doom.
  • Leon realized Doom wanted to merge the branches back into the main world, and Loki admitted he had given Doom part of his power for that purpose.
  • Leon discovered that Loki was speaking through a Temporal Afterimage while his true body met Sylvie on a cliff in Battleworld.
  • Leon asked why Loki had not given Doom all his power if he only wanted the timelines restarted.

Ch. 570Future Visions

Loki explained that he had empowered Doom to help bear the timelines and revealed why he chose to let the Multiverse collapse and restart before the Beyonders could destroy it. He gave Leon a vague vision of a happier future, then Leon negotiated with Doom and left him in control of Battleworld.

  • Loki told Leon that Doom served as a vessel for the timelines and explained his original plan to restart only a limited part of the Multiverse.
  • Loki revealed that the threat of the Beyonders had led him to choose a wider destruction and restart, and Leon accepted his reasoning.
  • Loki told Leon he had glimpsed a possible future in which Leon remained surrounded by joy after the Multiverse's destruction, then warned that heroes' actions had also caused collisions.
  • Leon restored Doom's sealed soul and told him to manage Battleworld while allowing Leon to save the world by his own means.
  • Leon left Doom's palace, and Doom put on his mask and resumed his role as God Emperor Doom.

Ch. 571Deadpool! Deadpool!

Leon brought the Deadpool Corps from Battleworld to the TVA, where they chased and overwhelmed the Spider-Men. As the Peters fled through a portal, the original Deadpool arrived and demanded praise from JARVIS and several Peters, leaving them to sneak around him.

  • Leon found the Deadpool Corps barbecuing in the ruins of a village on Battleworld and brought them back to the TVA.
  • The Deadpool Corps chased the Peter Parkers through the TVA, while Dark Strange, JARVIS, Gwen, and other Spider-Men watched the chaos on surveillance footage.
  • Headpool tripped a middle-aged Peter, and the Deadpools seized him and another Peter as the others escaped toward a portal.
  • The original Deadpool stepped out of the portal, complained that the TVA had excluded him, and demanded that JARVIS and several Peters call him the best.
  • The Peters exchanged signals and tried to sneak around Deadpool along the walls.

Ch. 572Dark Doctor Strange Slaughters His Way Through Hell

After the Deadpools left the TVA, Leon prepared for the Multiverse’s eventual destruction and ordered JARVIS and Dark Strange to help absorb Hell into his dimension. Dark Strange conquered the Hells of several demon lords, then asked Leon to consume his world.

  • The Peters fled from Deadpool, and Leon sent the Deadpool Corps and the original Deadpool back to Battleworld.
  • Leon restored the TVA with help from the Little Spiders and Kamar-Taj mages, then ordered JARVIS and Dark Strange to merge the Hells into his dimension.
  • After learning his universe would eventually be destroyed, Dark Strange asked to spend time in Hell and help Mephisto conquer other Hells.
  • Leon enslaved Satannish after Dark Strange reported conquering his Hell, and Dark Strange went on to slaughter his way through Lucifer’s and Zatanos’s Hells.
  • Within half a month, Dark Strange and the Kamar-Taj mages brought all the Hell lords under Leon’s control.
  • Dark Strange returned to the TVA and asked Leon to consume his world.

Ch. 573Let the Divine Kingdom Dimension Swallow the Universe?

Dark Strange asked Leon to let the Divine Kingdom Dimension swallow Earth, arguing that its universe-like rules could preserve Earth and possibly draw other universes into the dimension, saving the Multiverse. He began defending the idea against objections from the Spider-Men and sorcerers.

  • Dark Strange urged Leon to have the Divine Kingdom Dimension swallow Earth, and Leon warned that dimensional energy could mutate or kill its inhabitants.
  • Dark Strange explained that the Divine Kingdom Dimension’s rules and environment were becoming like those of an ordinary universe, and Leon confirmed that its creatures had changed.
  • Dark Strange proposed that Earth’s movement might draw its universe toward the Divine Kingdom Dimension, which could then swallow more universes and preserve the Multiverse.
  • Spider-Men and sorcerers challenged Dark Strange’s proposal and raised questions about dimensions and the Multiverse’s destruction.
  • JARVIS projected Deadpool into the command room, silencing the debate, and Dark Strange argued that universes could merge into dimensions.

Ch. 574An Outstanding Emissary of Justice: Dark Strange

Dark Strange presented a plan to save the Multiverse by moving Earths and their surrounding universes into the Divine Kingdom Dimension, then transforming it into an independent universe that could escape the Beyonders. The Spiders and mages applauded his proposal, and he asked Leon whether it was feasible.

  • Dark Strange explained that the Divine Kingdom Dimension could devour Earths and use passages to draw nearby universes away from the Multiverse Cluster.
  • Spider-Gwen questioned why they needed to devour Earth before moving a universe, and Dark Strange answered that it required less power and less time.
  • Dark Strange said the Divine Kingdom Dimension could become a true universe and escape the Split Domain and the Beyonders before the Multiverse was destroyed.
  • Dark Strange demonstrated the plan by showing the Divine Kingdom Dimension devouring the Universe Bubbles until it became a vast universe.
  • The Spiders and mages applauded Dark Strange's proposal, and Leon praised his choice of emissary before Dark Strange asked whether the plan was feasible.

Ch. 575Experimental Earth

Leon approved Dark Strange’s plan to devour a universe but chose Mutant Earth as the first test site instead of Dark Strange’s Earth. As William Stryker prepared to experiment on Mystique, Leon announced that Mutant Earth would be the first subject to be devoured.

  • Leon warned Dark Strange that devouring a universe could draw resistance from its inhabitants, cosmic entities, and Galactus, then said those obstacles could be handled.
  • Leon decided they would test the plan on another Earth before attempting it on Dark Strange’s Divine Kingdom Dimension.
  • On Mutant Earth, William Stryker argued that the remaining Mutants needed stronger fighters to survive future World Collisions and demanded Mystique join his experiment.
  • Mystique agreed to enter Stryker’s experiment but threatened to kill him if it failed to prevent the next World Collision.
  • As Stryker ended the meeting, Leon’s voice declared that corrupted Mutant Earth was suited to be the first experimental subject to be devoured.
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