Chapter Summaries

The Six Paths Sage suppressed the lava threatening Europe and defeated Gaiyin by sealing him in a satellite orbiting Blue Star. Afterward, Nick Fury watched United States officials blame S.H.I.E.L.D. while they struggled to respond to the supernatural threats.

• Snow fell across the European Continent, cooling the lava pillars and restoring temperatures to normal.
• The Six Paths Sage emerged from a rift and fought Gaiyin, using Ice Release and Susanoo as their battle moved toward a city where Natasha watched and church forces protected civilians.
• The Six Paths Sage used Six Paths: Planetary Devastation to pull Gaiyin and surrounding debris into the sky, sending him beyond Blue Star to become an orbiting celestial body.
• Nick Fury questioned the connection between the Six Paths Sage and Pain, then reflected on the danger of the unknown supernatural forces.
• At a secret United States meeting, senior officials criticized S.H.I.E.L.D. and argued over security and authority while Nick Fury dismissed their reliance on familiar sanctions.

The Sorcerer Supreme held Blue Star’s first supernatural assembly inside the Mirror Dimension, admitting only people with Invitation Letters and allowing attendees to bring two others. Nick Fury and Captain Marvel entered, where Nick saw the many factions attending and the assembly began with Master Wong announcing its proceedings.

• The World Security Council headquarters was sealed off as the Sorcerer Supreme prepared to host the supernatural assembly, and Carol received an Invitation Letter through a Portal.
• A black shadow destroyed the surveillance devices, then golden Portals admitted Invitation Letter holders and expelled an unauthorized bodyguard who tried to enter.
• Jiang Xiang appeared in the Mirror Dimension as the Sorcerer Supreme, while Nick Fury entered with Carol and encountered Tony Stark.
• Master Wong announced the start of the assembly and displayed a list of attending factions, including Kamar-Taj, the Heavenly Court, the Underworld, Langya, the Foundation, the Navy, the Order of the Holy Knights, and the Snake-Worshipping Cult.
• Nick Fury saw that other attendees had been directed to audience seats and wondered whether the assembly’s decisions would be made by voting.

Jiang Xiang’s conference brought supernatural leaders and ordinary representatives together to discuss Blue Star’s role in the Third Final War of the Gods, threats from evil gods, and the placement of supernatural factions. The ordinary representatives learned that they were mostly observers, while the debate over faction territories and secrecy continued.

• Wong announced the conference’s three topics and opened a two-hour period for free discussion while the faction leaders were absent.
• After the participants received reports on the proposals, a bald representative from Union Jack Country requested more information, but Mordo dismissed him and magically silenced him.
• Nick Fury told Carol that the conference was not democratic, while the ordinary representatives realized the supernatural factions would make the decisions.
• The representatives discussed proposals allowing superhumans to establish nations or cults and assigning regions to supernatural factions, with Pain’s Land of Akatsuki cited as a precedent.
• The report proposed keeping supernatural factions hidden from ordinary people in principle and letting nations negotiate whether to reveal them, easing the bald representative’s concerns.

After the superhuman conference, Captain Marvel met Jiang Xiang, the Sorcerer Supreme, who told her Blue Star’s crisis had been resolved. She decided to leave the planet, but Nick Fury asked her to help find Captain America, and they headed toward Greenland.

• After the conference, Captain Marvel told Nick Fury that the eleven leaders were as strong as or stronger than she was, and explained that powerful beings lived throughout the universe.
• A mage brought Captain Marvel to Kamar-Taj, where she met Jiang Xiang, the current Sorcerer Supreme, and learned about the Ancient One’s legacy.
• Jiang Xiang told Captain Marvel that Blue Star’s crisis had been resolved, and she said she planned to return to space.
• Captain Marvel asked Jiang Xiang about Nick Fury’s planned superhero team, but he said Kamar-Taj focused on dimensional invasions rather than Blue Star’s internal affairs.
• Captain Marvel returned to Nick Fury, who asked her to help find the still-living Captain America.
• A Quinjet flew over Greenland with a humanoid figure flying along its path.

Coulson and May learned that Nick Fury had recovered Captain America, who had survived frozen for sixty years. Nick left to attend another secret meeting about the Avengers Initiative, while Coulson stayed to watch over the Captain.

• Coulson and May waited at a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. base as the search for Captain America continued under the revived rescue plan.
• Nick Fury arrived with Captain Marvel and a metal frame containing Captain America, and told Coulson the mission was complete.
• Captain Marvel departed after telling Nick Fury she had done what she needed to do.
• Researchers confirmed that Captain America was alive with stable vital signs, and Nick Fury asked Coulson to stay with him until he could be transferred to New York.
• Nick Fury returned to the United States for a secret meeting, where politicians reconsidered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s role in forming the Avengers Initiative.

In the latter half of 2006, researchers thawed Captain America at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Greenland base, and Steve awoke believing Hydra had captured him. After Artoria and Mage Merlin bombed the base, they found the surviving Steve and took him with them; he later woke in an unfamiliar bed.

• Researchers at Research Base 32 began gradually thawing Steve Rogers while monitoring his vital signs.
• Steve awoke during the thawing and mistook the laboratory for a Hydra facility, so he pretended to remain unconscious.
• After the researchers paused the process, Steve broke free of the ice, but an alarm and an explosion sent him fleeing through the base.
• Artoria and Mage Merlin, who had bombed the base, found Steve alive outside the devastation and decided to take him with them.
• Steve woke on a bed with a headache, remembering his revival and the bombing but not knowing where he was.

Steve Rogers awakened in 2006 after nearly sixty years and learned that the European Continent had been devastated by a giant bat and an earthquake. Merlin and King Arthur brought him toward Britain to help stop Maga Orochi, while Nick Fury discovered footage showing Steve had survived the Greenland base explosion.

• Steve learned from King Arthur and Merlin that it was 2006 and that he had slept for almost sixty years.
• Steve saw the ruined European Continent and, after initially considering retirement, agreed to hear about Merlin and King Arthur's mission to stop Maga Orochi.
• Merlin explained how the giant bat Gain had transformed the continent, while Steve saw the Mechanical Sect distributing supplies to disaster victims.
• Nick Fury learned that Captain America was presumed dead after an attack on the Greenland base, then saw surveillance footage of Steve crawling out alive.

Nick Fury sent Natasha and Barton to search for Steve while Artoria, Merlin, and Steve found the first vessel missing and learned why Maga Orochi had to be sealed. At S.H.I.E.L.D., Pierce reviewed reports about Nick Fury and examined the Heart of Fire, whose activation instructions puzzled him.

• Nick Fury ended Natasha and Barton’s vacations and assigned them to search for Steve.
• Artoria, Merlin, and Steve found human activity and no vessel at the cave where the first seal component had been kept.
• Merlin explained that Maga Orochi was a destructive creature born from humanity’s excesses, and Steve learned that defeating it could cost civilians their lives.
• Rumlow delivered files on European supernatural discoveries to Pierce, who worried that Nick Fury had concealed a powerful Superhuman and might know about Hydra.
• Pierce studied the Heart of Fire and wondered how to interpret its instructions about four connected stars and flickering light.

Hydra’s leaders debated how to survive as supernatural powers undermined Project Insight, while Dr. Zola prepared to leave Hydra and seek a place in Dr. Gero’s Mechanical Sect. After rejecting Pierce’s plan to make Hydra legitimate, Zola considered his next move.

• A young Hydra head argued that Hydra should stop hiding and become a visible force, but the others worried about the organization’s future and lack of successors.
• Pierce presented intelligence about the Fire Stone and argued that collecting supernatural items could give Hydra a chance to recover.
• Dr. Gero inspected Dr. Zola’s robot army, and Zola asked whether his work qualified him to join the Mechanical Sect.
• Dr. Zola dismissed Pierce’s proposal to eliminate S.H.I.E.L.D.-loyal agents and force other countries to recognize Hydra, judging the organization too divided and weak to survive exposure.
• Dr. Zola burned Dr. Gero’s assignment to enter U.S. politics as a Hydra member and reach at least mayor, then fell into thought.

Artoria learned from the alchemists that Maga Orochi would appear in New York, while Tony and Iron Fist Danny each obtained a mysterious sealing stone. Danny left with the Forest Stone after killing people for it, and Matt and Luke realized they could not trust him.

• Artoria met two alchemists from the Palfa Alchemy Tower, who divined that Maga Orochi would ultimately appear in New York.
• Tony struggled to make machinery capable of protecting ordinary people, then received the Mountain Stone from Pepper and sent it to JARVIS for analysis.
• Iron Fist Danny took the Forest Stone after he and Matt and Luke infiltrated a gang, killing people without restraint.
• Matt and Luke argued that Danny was not like them, while Danny walked away pleased with the stone and indifferent to his original investigation into his father's death.

New York police investigated the murder of Danny Rand and found evidence that a Superhuman had killed him with scarlet mist. At Stark Tower, Wanda attacked Tony to force him to restore Vision, but Tony’s anti-dimensional armor failed to stop her before a golden portal appeared behind her.

• Chief Mark and Deputy Chief George examined the murder scene and retrieved satellite footage obscured by scarlet mist.
• An officer identified the victim as Danny Rand, and the police found that his bones and muscles were unusually resilient and dense.
• Matt and Luke learned that Danny was dead and worried that the stone might have caused his murder.
• Tony studied a new material structure when Wanda broke into Stark Tower and demanded that he rebuild Vision using the Forest Stone.
• Krillin attacked Wanda, but she countered with scarlet dimensional power as Tony deployed his Anti-Dimensional Energy Armor.
• Wanda broke free after Tony detonated the armor, and a golden magical portal appeared behind her.

Sorcerer Supreme Magneto confronted Wanda after she emerged from beneath Stark Tower and unleashed Chaos Magic across the city. He contained the spreading energy and trapped Wanda in a time loop, while the real Magneto watched from the sidelines.

• Krillin carried Tony into the sky as Sorcerer Supreme Magneto emerged through a portal and confronted Wanda.
• Wanda conjured Avengers illusions and began spreading crimson energy through the city, threatening its buildings and people.
• Magneto restrained the illusions and used a golden formation to stop Wanda’s energy from spreading.
• Magneto empowered himself and attacked Wanda with a massive energy cleaver while dimensional energy countered her crimson wave.
• Magneto’s avatars attacked Wanda from all directions and trapped her in a time loop as the real Magneto sat nearby drinking tea.

Chthon descended through Wanda to drive an unknown power out of her, while Magneto and Tony watched from a distance. After tracing two stones Tony had taken from his armor, Magneto discovered they were connected to the destructive monster Maga Orochi and ordered New York evacuated.

• Chthon split off part of his consciousness and used Wanda to confront an unknown power, while Magneto sensed Odin watching the battle.
• Tony joined Magneto near his barrier, and Magneto led Tony and Krillin away from the fight before sealing off the area.
• Magneto asked Tony what had started the conflict, and Tony showed him two stones from his armor.
• Magneto traced the stones' origins and found that they were connected to the immensely destructive monster Maga Orochi.
• Magneto told Tony to mobilize everyone in New York and begin evacuating.

Jiang Xiang intervened when the Time Variance Authority pursued Sylvie on Blue Star, then discussed Odin’s plan to test Thor and Loki. Odin left the question of succession to his sons’ performance, while Jiang Xiang secretly marked the TVA’s location.

• After Wanda and Chthon's avatar vanished, Jiang Xiang left New York and met Odin’s projection at Blue Star’s dimensional array.
• Odin asked Jiang Xiang to let Thor gain experience on Blue Star, and Jiang Xiang questioned why Odin could not watch over him himself.
• Jiang Xiang sensed Sylvie being chased, stopped the TVA agents, and recognized them as the Time Variance Authority.
• Jiang Xiang replaced B33’s Time Reset Device with an illusion, delayed its activation, and marked the TVA’s location as the agents left.
• Odin explained that Thor and Loki’s time on Blue Star would test them, and said he and Frigga would let their sons’ performance decide who became king.

Odin asked Jiang Xiang to help Thor and Loki, and he realized their destinies had changed. In New York, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Howling Commandos entered the dangerous area around Stark Tower, where Coulson found an egg emitting a weak energy fluctuation.

• Odin paid Jiang Xiang and left Thor's arrangements in his hands, hoping he could change Thor and Loki's destinies.
• Nick Fury sent Coulson to lead three Howling Commandos teams into the mist-shrouded area around Stark Tower.
• The agents reached Stark Tower and reported that the suspected Uncanny creatures had been cleared out, leaving destroyed walls and ruins.
• Coulson found a bird's egg whose weak energy fluctuations might be connected to the civilians' madness.
• Nick Fury ordered Coulson to bring the egg back and classify it as level nine, keeping it secret.

As the four Sealing Stones came together, Maga Orochi began awakening beneath New York, causing the ground to crack and tremble. Steve, Artoria, Merlin, Tony, Rhodey, Magneto, and Krillin headed toward the disturbance, while Talos arrived carrying the stone and witnessed Maga Orochi’s horns emerge.

• Deputy Commissioner George received photographs of a vast mysterious pattern on North City Street as the cracking ground and awakening energy alarmed police.
• Steve saw modern New York, while Artoria’s Alchemy Device led her and Merlin to realize Maga Orochi was awakening.
• Tony, Rhodey, Magneto, and Krillin searched for the epicenter, and Magneto explained that Maga Orochi represented the planet and that harming it could have severe consequences.
• Rhodey decided to inform the military, though evacuating the city was not possible before a disaster occurred.
• Talos arrived at the estate carrying the stone after it passed through several Hydra agents, while Nick Fury’s Skrull operatives continued investigating S.H.I.E.L.D.
• The ground shook, Maga Orochi’s horns emerged, and nearby people began praying toward them.

Tony Stark and Magneto confronted Maga Orochi, whose influence drew civilians close and drained energy from everything around it. With Magneto unable to intervene freely and Tony facing the risk of being drained, Tony struggled to decide whether to act as a hero.

• Tony realized Maga Orochi was drawing civilians toward it, and Magneto used his powers to move people away from the grounds.
• Magneto said Maga Orochi could not be killed and needed to be sealed, but explained that he could not interfere because of his duty as Sorcerer Supreme.
• Reporters approached Maga Orochi and worshipped it, while Tony tried to rescue people and disrupt the monster.
• JARVIS warned Tony that his reactor was rapidly losing power, and Tony realized Maga Orochi was draining energy from him and the surroundings.
• Maga Orochi emerged as reporters and nearby plants withered, and Magneto explained that the monster would eventually nourish the earth after absorbing energy.
• Tony weighed leaving Maga Orochi alone against attacking it and risking his life, then wondered whether he should become a hero.

Tony and the others tried to contain Maga Orochi as its contamination brainwashed people and spread through the park. Magneto explained that four Sealing Stones and a fortunate person were needed to seal it, and Tony prepared to carry one into the beast with only minutes to spare.

• Tony summoned nearly a hundred suits and mechs to fight Maga Orochi and evacuate survivors.
• Maga Orochi attacked civilians and spread its influence, while elemental spirits emerged from the ground and enthralled people began walking toward the park's outskirts.
• Sorcerer Supreme Magneto told Tony that Maga Orochi's contamination would spread before gradually fading, and Merlin brought two Sealing Stones from two Skrull corpses.
• Magneto explained that sealing Maga Orochi required four Sealing Stones and someone blessed with great fortune, then warned Tony that his body could endure only three minutes.
• Tony accepted the task of carrying a Sealing Stone into Maga Orochi and followed JARVIS's plan as Magneto identified his best opportunity.

Tony Stark sealed Maga Orochi at the cost of his life, then discovered his soul remained in the World of the Living. He asked Otsutsuki Twenty-Nine and Otsutsuki Thirty to let him stay, and they began a painful trial that might allow him to live.

• Tony piloted his anti-dimensional energy suit into Maga Orochi with the Sealing Stone and sealed the monster and its followers.
• Tony's armor fell from the sky, and he died after the reactor's energy was drained; Krillin and Rhodey arrived too late to save him.
• Tony discovered that his body was dead but his soul had survived in the World of the Living.
• Otsutsuki Thirty asked whether Tony regretted sacrificing himself, and Tony said some actions could not be weighed by their costs beforehand.
• Tony asked Otsutsuki Twenty-Nine and Otsutsuki Thirty if he could remain in the World of the Living, and Twenty-Nine warned him of the suffering involved.
• Otsutsuki Thirty pierced Tony with a blade, and Otsutsuki Twenty-Nine told him to survive its trial if he wanted a chance to live.

Tony Stark woke in a cave after being captured by the Ten Rings, with shrapnel near his heart held back by a makeshift electromagnet. Believing his memories of another world might have been a dream, he agreed to build weapons while secretly planning an escape with Yinsen.

• Tony woke in a crude cave and learned from Yinsen that an electromagnet in his chest was keeping shrapnel from reaching his heart.
• Tony struggled to understand why it was 2008 and learned that the Ten Rings had captured him to force him to build missiles.
• Tony questioned whether his memories of superhumans and other worlds had been a dream.
• The Ten Rings threatened Tony and Yinsen, and Tony agreed to make weapons in exchange for materials.
• After the captors left, Tony asked Yinsen to help him build gadgets for an escape, and Yinsen joined him at the forge.