Chapter Summaries

After the Ancient One departed, Jiang Xiang became Sorcerer Supreme and faced growing threats from Dormammu and lesser dimensions. The heads of three Sanctums arrived at Kamar-Taj, with the Hong Kong Sanctum offering its sorcerers to fight the Dark Dimension.

• The Ancient One explained that Thanos’s destiny could be inherited by others, then vanished from Blue Star.
• Odin sensed the Ancient One’s departure and watched Jiang Xiang, who postponed the Joint Conference after feeling Odin’s gaze.
• The Giant Spirit God received a letter from Kamar-Taj and told Zheng Xian that the Ancient One had died and the Joint Conference was postponed.
• Zheng Xian received a report of brief appearances of pitch-black energy around the world.
• Jiang Xiang learned that Dormammu had sent eleven waves of invaders and that the Primordial Blood, Silent, and Daylight Dimensions had also tested Blue Star’s protective array; he decided to make an example of the Primordial Blood Dimension.
• The heads of the London, New York, and Hong Kong Sanctums met Jiang Xiang, and the head of the Hong Kong Sanctum offered all its sorcerers to join the fight.

Jiang Xiang used his accumulated emotional value to buy a Pure Land scene card and open treasure boxes, fusing two Ultramen into the S-rank Ultraman Father Ken. Seven days after the Ancient One's death, Nick Fury focused on a surge of vampire murders and questioned whether vampires were truly responsible.

• Jiang Xiang sent the Hong Kong Sanctum representatives away after they agreed to join the fight, then shattered surveillance cameras outside his villa.
• Jiang Xiang bought the [Scene Card-Pure Land (Expanded and Enhanced Edition)] and opened ten [Diamond Boxes], gaining cards and items including Kakarot, Magneto, and two Ultramen.
• Jiang Xiang fused the Ultraman cards and obtained the S-rank Special Incarnation Card-Ultraman Father Ken.
• Jiang Xiang completed the Ancient One's seventh-day memorial rites, while the Joint Conference remained postponed.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that vampires were suspected in a wave of murders, and Fury asked whether another uncanny being might be responsible.
• Coulson reported that the FBI had caught a vampire in the act, but the suspect and the FBI agents in the car had been killed before they could reach the office.

Nick Fury questioned S.H.I.E.L.D. mole Levi about the vampires’ recent murders and learned of tensions between purebloods and half-bloods, rumors of a Holy Relic, and Edson’s planned rebellion. Levi secretly reported to Hydra, while Fury went with Coulson to Freddy’s Fortune-Telling Shop.

• Nick Fury visited Levi undercover among the vampires and asked why they had been committing frequent murders.
• Levi told Nick Fury that wealthy members of the Ha Bloodline were joining the vampires, rumors claimed they had found a Holy Relic in John Bull Country, and Edson planned to rebel against the purebloods.
• Levi explained that half-blood vampires resented the purebloods’ wealth and access to fresh blood, while Nick Fury suspected Levi might not be fully trustworthy.
• After Nick Fury left, Levi told Edson he had shared everything as instructed, then sent an encrypted message reading, “Hail Hydra!!”
• Nick Fury and Coulson arrived at Freddy’s Fortune-Telling Shop, which Coulson had rarely visited since it had largely stopped accepting cash.

Nick Fury traded a stone tablet from S.H.I.E.L.D.'s 084 Vault to Freddy for information about why vampires had violated their pact with humanity. Elsewhere, Levi questioned whether Hydra could use vampires to rise again, and his adoptive father explained how Hydra's ideals had changed.

• Nick Fury visited Freddy's Fortune-Telling Shop with Coulson and asked why vampires were openly violating their pact with humanity.
• Freddy demanded fifteen portions of luck, then offered any one of the artifacts in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s 084 Vault as payment instead.
• Nick Fury sent Coulson to retrieve a stone tablet and handed it to Freddy in exchange for the answer.
• Freddy said Edson had rallied half-blood vampires against the purebloods, Amon had transformed after receiving guidance from the Primordial Blood Dimension, and the Vampire Beast had emerged among the uncanny entities.
• Levi asked his adoptive father whether vampires could help Hydra rise again, and his father said Hydra's original ideals had changed over time.

Amon used his vampire network to stir unrest in New York while advancing Hydra’s plans under a new patron, the Blood and Primordial Lord. Jiang Xiang watched the plot unfold, released a Vampire Beast, and invited factions to The Ancient One’s funeral, prompting Dracula to wonder whether she was truly dead.

• Amon revealed himself as a Pureblood Vampire and received a tablet from the Blood and Primordial Lord ordering him to throw New York into chaos.
• Amon’s agents fueled protests over Pain’s attack, and a suicide operative killed himself before Coulson could arrest him.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to investigate which organization had sent the suicide operative, while a little bat prepared to target the Police and the Military next.
• Jiang Xiang watched the little bat from the Mirror Dimension, released his Vampire Beast in a New York bunker, and invited factions to The Ancient One’s funeral.
• Dracula awoke in his castle after sensing The Ancient One’s presence vanish and questioned whether she was dead or setting a trap.

Coulson’s team captured Death Warriors inciting protests near New York, while Amon’s ritual drew energy from the Primordial Blood Dimension under Jiang Xiang’s plan. At the S.H.I.E.L.D. prison, a captive exploded and left a black-and-red rift, triggering an alarm.

• Coulson and Victor led S.H.I.E.L.D. agents in capturing Death Warriors who were pushing protesters to attack military laboratories, but the prisoners repeatedly tried to kill themselves.
• Amon performed a ritual with the Nine Blood Pillars, opening a rift and summoning a red coffin as Dracula supplied blood energy to Amon’s avatar.
• Amon told Jiang Xiang that the plan had drawn out energy from the Primordial Blood Dimension, and Jiang Xiang vanished.
• Amon’s avatar transformed into a bloodthirsty monster.
• At the S.H.I.E.L.D. prison, a Death Warrior praised the Lord of Blood and Primordial, exploded, and left a black-and-red rift as the alarm sounded.

A Bloodthirsty Monster emerged inside a prison, killed nearby agents, and survived S.H.I.E.L.D.’s missile bombardment as the Primordial Blood Dimension restored it. Meanwhile, Nick Fury confronted Hanas about vampire attacks and warned him that Edson might be an infiltrator.

• The Bloodthirsty Monster appeared in the prison and drained several agents of their blood while Coulson’s gunfire barely harmed it.
• Coulson ordered an evacuation and a saturation strike, and missiles flattened the prison without definitively killing the monster.
• The Bloodthirsty Monster began recovering with energy from the Primordial Blood Dimension, while Serpent S.H.I.E.L.D. agents volunteered to investigate the ruins.
• Nick Fury and Coulson visited Hanas at his villa to discuss the recent vampire attacks in New York.
• Hanas denied responsibility and accused S.H.I.E.L.D. of arresting his vampires, but Nick Fury warned him that Edson might be an infiltrator.

Jiang Xiang bought the Undead Tower and ordered the Three Sanctums to bait dimensional forces while tracking the Primordial Blood Dimension. Meanwhile, stolen flesh from the Bloodthirsty Monster reached the research base holding the Ninja Mask, and Nick Fury learned that everyone at Research Facility 65 had been killed.

• Jiang Xiang bought the Undead Tower, discovered its link to a small world, and found records of necromantic magic.
• Jiang Xiang told Mordo and Wong to weaken the Dimensional Guardian Array slightly and record which dimensions tried to tempt sanctum sorcerers.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers retrieved a piece of the Bloodthirsty Monster and took it to the research base where Nick Fury had stored the Ninja Mask.
• The flesh sensed dark power, turned into mist, and drifted toward another laboratory as David sounded the alarm before dying.
• Coulson told Nick Fury that everyone at Research Facility 65 had been killed, and Nick Fury questioned how the attack had gone unreported.

After Research Facility 65 was raided and the Ninja Mask vanished, Coulson learned from Old Man that the mask could corrupt its wearer and summon a Shadow Army. The masked Bloodthirsty Monster prayed to Jiang Xiang, who weakened its containment formation and traced the surge of energy to its source.

• Nick Fury discovered that every supernatural item, including the Ninja Mask, had disappeared from Research Facility 65 and sent Coulson to consult Mage Cheng.
• Old Man identified the mask as one of the Ghost Generals' masks and explained its powers, corrupting effects, and the danger of gathering all nine masks.
• Coulson revealed that someone had worn the mask the previous night, but S.H.I.E.L.D. did not know who; Old Man agreed to make a potion if they brought the wearer to him.
• Old Man rebuked Coulson for expecting Jiang Xiang to handle S.H.I.E.L.D.'s problems while facing greater threats.
• In a New York sewer, the Bloodthirsty Monster wore the mask and prayed to the Blood and Primordial Lord, while Jiang Xiang weakened its formation and traced the increased dimensional energy.

Jiang Xiang led Kamar-Taj’s elite sorcerers into the Primordial Blood Dimension and secretly seized control of part of its authority while Hevrilla believed they had come to suppress him. After the sorcerers withdrew, Jiang Xiang openly began draining the dimension’s energy, enraging its ruler.

• Dormammu sent dark power toward Blue Star to test the new Sorcerer Supreme, Jiang Xiang.
• Jiang Xiang and Kamar-Taj’s elite sorcerers entered the Primordial Blood Dimension through a stabilized passage.
• Jiang Xiang ordered the sorcerers to set up formations while he used the Time Stone to conceal his actions and took nearly fifteen percent of the dimension’s authority.
• Hevrilla appeared and revealed that the Bloodthirsty Monster had been bait to lure Jiang Xiang into his dimension.
• Jiang Xiang opened portals for the sorcerers to retreat, then used his shadow dimension to absorb the Primordial Blood Dimension’s energy as Hevrilla protested.

Jiang Xiang fought Hevrilla in the Primordial Blood Dimension while Vampire Beast secretly drained its energy and Sponge General and Giant Spirit God attacked. After stealing nearly thirty percent of Hevrilla’s authority, Jiang Xiang used his Shadow Dimension to split the Primordial Blood Dimension in two.

• Jiang Xiang sent Vampire Beast to a weak point in the Primordial Blood Dimension, where it secretly absorbed the dimension’s energy.
• Jiang Xiang fought Hevrilla, revealed that he was a dimensional lord, and stole nearly thirty percent of Hevrilla’s authority.
• Jiang Xiang released Sponge General and Giant Spirit God, who attacked the Primordial Blood Dimension and drew Hevrilla’s attention.
• Jiang Xiang sensed Vampire Beast had absorbed ten percent of the dimension’s energy and decided to act before Hevrilla noticed.
• Jiang Xiang injected his Shadow Dimension into the Primordial Blood Dimension and severed it in two.

Jiang Xiang and his allies fought Hevrilla, divided the Primordial Blood Dimension, and escaped with control of a third of it. After Jiang Xiang repeatedly returned to attack, Hevrilla withdrew, while Odin considered the fate of his power as his energy grew.

• Jiang Xiang, the Giant Spirit God, and Admiral Sponge fought Hevrilla while Jiang Xiang destroyed the Primordial Blood Dimension and drew on its energy.
• The Giant Spirit God and Admiral Sponge held Hevrilla back as Jiang Xiang used the shadow dimension to divide the Primordial Blood Dimension and take control of roughly a third.
• Jiang Xiang declared that he would succeed Sorcerer Supreme The Ancient One and protect Blue Star, prompting many weaker dimensional gods and demons to leave the area.
• Jiang Xiang used hidden time portals to return to the Primordial Blood Dimension for repeated attacks until Hevrilla fled with his remaining dimension.
• All-Father Odin watched Jiang Xiang's victory, then reflected on his approaching death and how his power should be used afterward.

Jiang Xiang detected a time-traveling Logan arriving in 2006 in another universe, where Logan discovered he had landed in House’s body and could not contact Charles or Kitty. He found Erik living as an ordinary man in Sokovia and began looking for Charles, while Erik remained unsure where the mutants were.

• Jiang Xiang traced a surge of spacetime energy and recognized the arriving soul as Logan’s, then sent his Magneto avatar to investigate.
• Logan woke in House’s body in 2006, found that his hands did not heal, and realized his time travel had gone wrong.
• Logan encountered Erik, recognized him, and asked whether he had superpowers; Erik’s reaction revealed that he had recently awakened his abilities.
• Logan told Erik that he was from the future and hoped to prevent a disaster, and Erik began to believe his account.
• Logan reasoned that Charles might exist too, but Erik said he had never heard of mutants and Logan wondered if Charles had gone into hiding with the Academy.

Erik and Logan arrived in New York, where Coulson tried to bring Erik in for questioning about his powers. Their meeting was interrupted when the Bloodthirsty Monster and Shadow Ninjas attacked civilians, and Logan joined the evacuation as Coulson’s agents fought back.

• Erik agreed to accompany Logan to New York to look for Charles, and they drove from the airport toward their hotel.
• Coulson stopped Erik at a checkpoint and asked him to cooperate with S.H.I.E.L.D.; Logan tensed but restrained himself when agents drew their weapons.
• The Bloodthirsty Monster emerged from a sewer with the Ninja Mask and summoned Shadow Ninjas, who abducted civilians for it to drain.
• Coulson called for backup and ordered his agents to attack, but their RPG rounds had no effect on the monster.
• Logan helped evacuate civilians and defeated several Shadow Ninjas, telling the others that the shadows dispersed after taking a few hard hits.

Erik, Coulson, and Logan struggled against the Bloodthirsty Monster as it evolved and its attacks resisted their weapons. Rhodey arrived in War Machine armor, but his missiles also failed to harm it, and the chapter ended as skyscrapers rose around a mysterious figure in the sky.

• Erik used floating iron rods to disperse Shadow Ninjas while Coulson and the others retreated from the Bloodthirsty Monster.
• The Bloodthirsty Monster absorbed blood, began evolving, and received black vapor that made it worship the King of Shadows.
• Rhodey attacked the monster with missiles, but it emerged unharmed and completed its evolution.
• The monster's roar filled Coulson, Logan, and Erik with fear, and its stronger Shadow Ninjas advanced on them.
• Erik pierced the monster with iron wires, but it healed quickly and left him weak.
• Steel reinforcing bars dispersed the Shadow Ninjas as skyscrapers rose around a figure in the sky.

Elderly Magneto, Jiang Xiang’s fused incarnation of Magneto and Gandalf, arrived and defeated the Bloodthirsty Monster. He sealed the creature and met Coulson and Logan, revealing that he had entered the world through proper channels.

• Magneto descended and recognized the Bloodthirsty Monster’s dimensional power while Logan identified him as the Magneto from his world.
• The Bloodthirsty Monster sent Shadow Ninjas after Magneto, but Magneto blocked them with a Magnetic Shield and taunted the creature.
• The Bloodthirsty Monster charged Magneto, who evaded it, bound it with rings, and crushed it into a ball of reinforced concrete.
• Magneto sealed the ball with a cursed seal and prepared to walk away before Coulson stopped him.
• Magneto introduced himself to Coulson and Logan, recognized Logan’s traces of spacetime power, and said he had entered the world through proper channels.

Logan told Coulson and Magneto that Sentinels had destroyed his world, while Magneto suggested Logan’s time travel and the catastrophe might have been side effects of a conflict among powerful beings. At S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury found a company connected to Bolivar and began investigating it as well as the Vought Group’s plan to create a superhero team.

• Logan explained that Sentinels had exterminated nearly all mutants in his world and said he had meant to travel into the past to prevent the disaster.
• Magneto questioned Logan’s account of time travel, speculated that powerful beings might have caused both his journey and his world’s destruction, then left after revealing he had sealed a monster and that its mask might require a specific method to handle.
• Nick Fury searched S.H.I.E.L.D.’s records and found the Pearl Group, a military supplier whose largest shareholder was named Bolivar and who promoted making robots for labor and combat.
• Nick Fury assigned Natasha to investigate the company and reviewed the Vought Group’s proposal to establish a superhero team through entertainment and celebrity branding.

Barton infiltrated a Vought Group residential complex and discovered a laboratory where researchers injected youths with Compound V. After Barton sent his findings to S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury assigned Agent 26 to approach Tony Stark.

• Nick Fury contacted Hawkeye and sent him files about the Vought Group, prompting Barton to investigate the company.
• Barton observed researchers injecting youths with Compound V at a laboratory inside the Vought Group complex near the Jama Bay Wildlife Refuge.
• Barton entered a fissure near the complex, triggered an alarm, and used a Grappling Arrow to draw the guards’ attention while escaping.
• Barton transmitted his findings about the laboratory to S.H.I.E.L.D., and Nick Fury judged that Vought’s experiments were probably still unsuccessful.
• Nick Fury summoned Agent 26, gave her a file, and told her she was ready for an assignment to get close to Tony Stark.

Jiali passed Tony Stark’s hiring test and became his assistant while Logan recounted his parallel world’s history. After learning the Sorcerer Supreme had died, Tony considered building robots to protect humanity, but Krillin recognized the idea from Dr. Gero and Ivan Vanko.

• Tony hired Jiali as his assistant after she passed the final round of testing.
• Logan told Tony and the others about his world, and Tony questioned why no one had stopped the rogue Mechanical Sentinels.
• Krillin suggested that the Sorcerer Supreme might know about time-and-space powers, so Coulson took Logan to seek her out.
• Krillin told Tony that the Joint Conference had been postponed because the previous Sorcerer Supreme had died.
• Tony considered building Mechanical Soldiers to protect people and having JARVIS manage them.
• Krillin said the plan sounded like one proposed by Dr. Gero of the Mechanical Sect and his disciple, Ivan Vanko.

Jiang Xiang discovered that a shadow approaching Blue Star was likely sent by an Uncanny being or Evil God, and prepared the Land of Light to make its entrance. As the object drew nearer, Reed calculated that it could cause an extinction-level disaster, and Nick Fury received the alarming reports.

• Jiang Xiang used a Scene Card on the M78 Nebula to complete the Land of Light’s initial framework and decided to keep the younger Ultras’ backgrounds unfinished.
• After tracing the approaching shadow with the Time Stone, Jiang Xiang suspected an Uncanny being or Evil God was behind it and prepared Father of Ultra and the Ultra Guard to appear.
• Students at New York University spotted the shadow moving toward Blue Star, shared their observations online, and alerted authorities.
• Reed told researchers at the NS Aerospace Observation Center that the meteorite had a rising 27.31% chance of striking Blue Star and could cause an extinction-level disaster.
• Coulson brought reports of the meteorite’s threat to Nick Fury, who reacted with alarm.