Recaps

Mercer captured Zombie Wanda and another powerful being, restored Manhattan, and explored the newly acquired Infinite Realm. He entered its first unlocked world, Equivalent Exchange, and discovered that he retained his abilities there.

• Mercer trapped Zombie Wanda and another captive in tiny cages, then used the Reality Stone to restore Manhattan and its people.
• Mercer returned to New York, bought a house, and reflected on how his power had changed his attitude toward ordinary people.
• Mercer activated the Infinite Realm, which unlocked the Equivalent Exchange world and allowed real-world items to be brought into the game.
• Mercer connected directly to the Infinite Realm and arrived in a blocky world resembling Minecraft.
• Mercer examined the game interface and realized that he still had all his abilities.

Mercer explored the Minecraft-like world, gathered resources, and survived painful attacks from a Creeper and a skeleton while crafting iron equipment. After three in-game days, he noticed that other players had begun joining the vast shared world.

• Mercer discovered that his stored abilities and weapons required a Transmutation Tablet to activate, then began gathering wood, food, and iron.
• A Creeper exploded behind Mercer, badly hurting him, and a skeleton shot him with an arrow; he blocked their attacks with dirt and crafted a shield and iron pickaxe.
• Mercer mined cautiously with branch mining, returning to the surface for food and eventually crafting a full set of iron armor.
• After three in-game days, Mercer saw messages from Joker, I'm Not a Moe Girl, and Brother Di Eternity describing their encounters with monsters.
• Mercer realized that players around the world were joining the shared game world and beginning to explore it.

Mercer obtained diamonds, entered the Nether, and crafted a Transmutation Tablet that contained his equipment and enabled him to set up equipment for generating transmutation value. After leaving the game to eat, he was approached by Agent Romanoff.

• Mercer mined four diamonds, claimed the first-diamond achievement, and announced it under his name.
• Mercer built a Nether portal, became the first player to enter the Nether, and returned with glowstone.
• Mercer crafted a Philosopher's Stone and a Transmutation Tablet, then discovered that his equipment was stored inside it.
• Mercer used the tablet to prepare an Energy Condenser and Energy Collector, logged out, and went to a restaurant for food.
• Agent Romanoff asked to sit with Mercer, who questioned why S.H.I.E.L.D. kept sending her to handle everything.

Natasha Romanoff approached Alex Mercer on S.H.I.E.L.D.’s behalf and offered him a chance to join the organization. Mercer rejected her and trapped her in a vivid illusion of the Red Room before warning her to leave him alone.

• Natasha sat down across from Mercer while S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and snipers surrounded the restaurant, but Mercer ignored her flirtatious attempts to get his attention.
• Mercer identified himself as Alex Mercer and revealed that he knew the positions of the forces surrounding the restaurant.
• Natasha offered to recruit Mercer into S.H.I.E.L.D. and erase the record of his killing Whiplash, but Mercer mocked the organization and refused.
• Mercer used an illusion to make Natasha relive a month of Red Room training, though only ten minutes passed in the restaurant.
• After returning Natasha to reality, Mercer warned her that killing the agents would be easy and told her not to bother him again.

After leaving Natasha and S.H.I.E.L.D. behind, Mercer was caught in an unusual earthquake in New York and traced its source deep beneath the Earth. He discovered a vast cocoon of golden light and was left stunned by what lay underground.

• Mercer left the restaurant after Natasha collapsed, and Rumlow withdrew his S.H.I.E.L.D. team on Nick Fury's orders.
• Mercer walked through New York and agreed to take a photo with two girls who recognized him.
• A series of unusually persistent tremors shook the city, and Mercer moved the girls to safety.
• Mercer used his spatial power to search underground and found that the tremors came from deeper than the Earth's crust.
• Mercer discovered a cocoon of golden light at least ten thousand meters across.

Mercer discovered a Celestial incubating beneath Earth and learned that it would emerge once the planet’s living consciousness reached its peak. He realized its birth could destroy all life on Earth and wondered whether Thanos’s plan to erase half of life might have been an act of salvation.

• Mercer formed a spatial avatar at the edge of Earth’s inner core and found a golden cocoon that reacted to his presence.
• Mercer examined the cocoon and established a mental link with the humanoid being inside, who identified himself as a Celestial.
• Mercer learned that the Celestial was incubating and absorbed the consciousness of living beings until a planet’s life reached its peak.
• The Celestial’s explanation made Mercer realize that its emergence could shatter Earth and kill every living thing on the planet.
• Mercer thought of Thanos’s plan to erase half of all life and wondered whether Thanos had been trying to save Earth.

Mercer forced the newly hatched Celestial to become his subordinate, then discovered that nurturing it required the Soul Stone. He went to the Ancient One to ask where Vormir was, leaving the Celestial waiting in its cocoon.

• Mercer told the Celestial to obey or die, and the Celestial agreed to become his subordinate.
• The Celestial shrank its cocoon to Mercer's size and said it needed five more years before emerging.
• Mercer tried using the Southern Heavenly Gate system to create the life consciousness needed to nurture the Celestial, but the system said he needed the Reality Stone and Soul Stone.
• Mercer left to find the Soul Stone and went to the Sanctum Sanctorum to ask the Ancient One where Vormir was.

Mercer used the Sharingan to take Vormir's coordinates from the Ancient One, then traveled there to claim the Soul Stone. He reached the cliff with Red Skull, who explained the Stone's life-for-life price, but Mercer answered with a display of spatial power that Red Skull recognized as the Space Stone.

• Mercer told the Ancient One he was recruiting powerful beings for his faction and asked her for Vormir's coordinates.
• When the Ancient One refused to risk the Sanctum Sanctorum, Mercer used his Sharingan and the Mind Stone to obtain the coordinates from her thoughts.
• Mercer traveled to Vormir and met Red Skull, who could identify him only by name.
• Red Skull led Mercer toward the summit and explained that obtaining the Soul Stone required trading a life for a life.
• Mercer dismissed Red Skull's warning and released spatial power, prompting Red Skull to recognize the Space Stone.

Mercer obtained the Soul Stone without sacrificing a life and used it with the Reality Stone to create the life consciousness the Celestial needed. As the Celestial prepared to emerge within a day, Mercer worried that a Celestial Seed might also exist on his stronger Earth.

• Mercer overpowered the Soul Stone’s restrictions, claimed it, and left the Red Skull behind.
• Mercer returned to the Celestial and used the Southern Heavenly Gate system to construct life consciousness with the Soul Stone and Reality Stone.
• The Celestial said he would reach his complete form within one day, and Mercer wondered whether his own Earth held a Celestial Seed.
• The Celestial warned that a fully formed Celestial in Mercer’s stronger universe could be extremely dangerous.

Mercer learned how pocket universes could serve as way stations for cheaper travel and devised a method to create one with the Southern Heavenly Gate, Space Stone, and Reality Stone. While waiting seven days for the golden cocoon to absorb energy, he considered how to reuse Zombie Sentry’s power and realized he could accelerate time, but then remembered he had not claimed the land where he placed the relevant items.

• Mercer asked the golden cocoon how to reduce the energy cost of traveling between universes, and it suggested building a pocket universe as a way station.
• The golden cocoon explained pocket universes and transmitted its knowledge to Mercer, who determined that the Southern Heavenly Gate system could use the Space Stone and Reality Stone to create one capable of growth.
• The golden cocoon said it would need seven days to absorb the energy, and Mercer agreed to wait while drinking tea and extracting power from Zombie Sentry.
• Mercer considered how to use Zombie Sentry’s self-restoring energy without exhausting him and proposed accelerating time around him.
• Mercer decided the Equivalent Exchange Module might provide a time-acceleration item, then remembered he had not claimed the land where he had placed those items.

Mercer returned to the Infinite Realm and found that players had preserved his belongings and transformed his mine into a grand hall. He joined their guild through Shiliubuliu, distributed Energy Condensers, and left the newly named Mercer Guild among the server’s richest.

• Mercer logged into the Infinite Realm and discovered his belongings intact in a lavishly decorated hall built around his former mine.
• Players recognized Mercer in world chat, flooded him with praise and friend requests, and rushed to meet him.
• Shiliubuliu explained that guild members had chosen to protect Mercer’s equipment, so Mercer agreed to work with him as his sole contact.
• Mercer gathered conversion value from Energy Condensers and gave Shiliubuliu many more to distribute among the guild.
• Mercer gave diamond armor to the guild leader and Shiliubuliu, and the delighted guild leader renamed the organization the Mercer Guild.

Mercer used his Equivalent Exchange Heavy Industry to harvest stellar energy from Zombie Sentry, then joined Shiliubuliu as rival guilds attacked their territory. The siege was led by Ordinary Requiem after its leader, DIO, failed to negotiate for equipment.

• Mercer completed his Equivalent Exchange Heavy Industry inside his claimed territory and discovered that a Time Torrent Pocket Watch rapidly restored Zombie Sentry's energy.
• Mercer programmed the Southern Heavenly Gate to repeatedly drain Zombie Sentry, harvesting more than ninety million stars' worth of energy in three days.
• Mercer told Zombie Wanda that he would drain her energy too, though he had not decided how to use it.
• Mercer heard explosions and teleported to the city wall, where Shiliubuliu explained that several powerful guilds were attacking their territory.
• Mercer learned that Ordinary Requiem, led by DIO, had launched the siege after failing to reach a deal for equipment.

Mercer joined the defense of the Obsidian Tesseract and led an invisible assault that killed DIO and several of his allies. The attackers surrendered, while Mercer and his squad left the tower with their loot.

• Shiliubuliu told Mercer that over a thousand players were attacking the Obsidian Tesseract and that the defenders were badly outnumbered.
• Mercer gathered a squad and headed for the attackers' tower to take out their leader, DIO.
• Mercer and his squad used invisibility and enchanted diamond swords to kill DIO and other players in the tower.
• The attackers saw the kill notifications, recognized that Mercer had killed DIO, and began surrendering in world chat.
• Mercer and his squad descended from the tower with their pockets full of loot.

Mercer left Shiliubuliu in charge of the guild, then helped the newly emerged Celestial leave Earth’s core and named him Diablo. Mercer and Diablo arrived on the surface, where Mercer revealed that he was having a cosmic singularity made with 3D printing.

• Mercer gave Shiliubuliu the enemy’s drops and diamonds to negotiate an alliance, then entrusted him with five stacks of diamonds and logged out.
• Mercer returned to Earth’s core and watched a Celestial emerge from a golden cocoon.
• Mercer opened a Portal, took the Celestial with him, and named him Diablo after learning the Celestial had no name.
• Mercer changed Diablo’s appearance to that of a suited human and brought him to the surface.
• Mercer showed Diablo a holographic image of a cosmic singularity being created with 3D printing, leaving Diablo bewildered.

Mercer and Diablo watched Thor face the Destroyer in Truman Town, recognizing the events from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When Thor was about to be killed, Diablo stopped the Destroyer's fist, and Mercer complained that Diablo was standing too close.

• Mercer learned that he and Diablo were in Truman Town, New Mexico, and recognized Thor and the town from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Mercer identified the approaching Destroyer and told Diablo that Loki had sent it to kill Thor.
• Mercer and Diablo bought cola and hot dogs and watched the Destroyer defeat the Warriors Three while Thor's companions urged them to flee.
• Thor confronted the Destroyer and offered his life, but the Destroyer struck at him.
• Diablo appeared in front of Thor and caught the Destroyer's fist as Mercer stood nearby with his drink.

Mercer’s attempt to create a growing cosmic singularity stalled when the Southern Heavenly Gate system ran out of energy, so he sacrificed his Infinity Stones, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and the Soul Stone to continue the process. The singularity was completed, but the new Hero Card he received was locked and needed more energy to activate.

• Diablo blocked the Destroyer’s heat beam, crushed its head, and hurled it into the sky, where it exploded.
• Mercer discovered that the cosmic singularity was only 20% complete and that the system had exhausted the energy taken from Zombie Sentry.
• Mercer fed the Mind Stone, Space Stone, Reality Stone, Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and Soul Stone into the system’s four pillars, raising the singularity’s progress to 21%.
• Mercer found that the system had consumed his offerings and left him with only the Blacklight Virus and Sharingan, then announced the singularity’s successful creation.
• The Hero Card system awarded Mercer a card, but he found it was locked and required energy to activate.

Mercer considered using magic to drain power from beings in other worlds, then traveled with Diablo to test whether he could lift Mjolnir. He and Diablo reached the hammer, but neither could lift it.

• Mercer decided to investigate summoning and power-borrowing magic after recalling how much energy the Great Old One's tentacle had given him.
• Mercer thanked Thor for his help, then teleported with Diablo to the camp where Mjolnir lay.
• After Mercer and Diablo vanished, three Bifrost beams struck the ground near Thor, prompting him to suspect Loki was attacking again.
• Mercer used the Sharingan to freeze the camp's guards, and Coulson ordered the agents to stand down.
• Mercer tried to lift Mjolnir and failed, then watched Diablo try and fail as well.

Mercer overcame Odin’s seal, lifted Mjolnir, and flew away in Thor’s armor while Coulson and his agents watched. Meanwhile, Thor’s friends were losing their battle against two Destroyers, and Thor left his shelter to face them.

• Mercer used his magic to break Odin’s seal and lifted Mjolnir.
• Lightning struck Mercer and transformed into Thor’s armor, and Mercer reflected on Thor’s underuse of his lightning powers.
• Coulson let Mercer leave, and Mercer flew away with Mjolnir as Diablo followed him.
• Two Destroyers overwhelmed the Warriors Three, leaving them badly injured and one of them missing an arm.
• Thor left the building despite Jane’s plea and walked toward the Destroyers to spare his friends from further fighting.

Mercer wielded Thor’s Power and Mjolnir to fight Loki’s Destroyers, while Galacta arrived to destroy one and reunite with him. Galacta explained that Liang Bing had brought her to the multiverse, and Mercer learned she considered herself a young girl by divine standards.

• Loki sent two Destroyers to attack Thor, but Mercer intercepted their heat beams while holding Mjolnir.
• Mercer used lightning and Thor’s hammer to disable one Destroyer, then faced another that grabbed him.
• A purple beam destroyed the attacking Destroyer, and Galacta appeared before Mercer.
• Galacta said Liang Bing had helped her reach the multiverse and teased Mercer about Jane.
• Mercer asked Galacta’s age, and she said she was just over two thousand years old and an ordinary pretty girl by divine standards.

Mercer and Galacta stopped Loki's Destroyer, and Thor regained the ability to lift Mjolnir before returning to Asgard. Galacta reunited with Mercer and revealed that the Celestials had revolted in an attempt to control the Multiverse.

• Mercer challenged Loki, who recalled the remaining Destroyer to Asgard rather than risk losing it.
• Mercer returned Mjolnir to Thor, who lifted it and regained his armor and divine power.
• Thor thanked Mercer and left with his companions to confront Loki in Asgard.
• Mercer introduced Galacta to Diablo, who described himself as Mercer's subordinate.
• Galacta showed Mercer Liang Bing's message explaining that he could have used their world as a transfer point to reach his universe more easily.
• Galacta told Mercer and Diablo that the Celestials had revolted to gain control of the Multiverse.

Galacta told Mercer that Earth in her universe held an emerging Celestial Seed and that Sun Wukong's group of Celestials had been there since before it existed. After Mercer considered returning home and reclaiming his Infinity Stones, Galacta suggested a way to make his pocket universe real without sacrificing most of his strength.

• Galacta recognized Diablo as a Celestial and briefly subdued him with her oppressive aura before Mercer asked her to stop.
• Galacta told Mercer that Liang Bing's surveillance network had found a Celestial Seed on Earth and another group of Celestials, including Sun Wukong.
• Mercer decided to return to Earth and investigate the Celestial Seed, while privately considering Diablo as a backup body.
• Mercer said he planned to reclaim his Infinity Stones, but Galacta proposed using the Space Stone and Reality Stone to expand and populate his pocket universe.

Mercer finished setting up the Southern Heavenly Gate’s virtual universe and prepared to travel with Galacta and Diablo to the Super God World. The chapter ended as a grand gate opened for their jump.

• Mercer and Galacta left with Diablo and rented a villa, where Galacta kept Diablo from attacking Mercer.
• Galacta told Diablo she was connected to the creator gods of the Kale Nebula, leaving him too intimidated to act.
• Mercer restored his power and used the Reality Stone, Space Stone, and Southern Heavenly Gate system to configure the expanding pocket universe.
• Mercer chose the Super God World as their next destination, and the Southern Heavenly Gate opened before him, Galacta, and Diablo.

Lianfeng’s Southern Heavenly Gate-equipped forces secured Great Xia’s borders as the Xiong Bing Lian Second Army took shape, while Sun Wukong learned about the soldiers’ sacrifices and Ge Xiaolun’s state. The chapter ended with Mercer arriving unexpectedly at the border, where Lianfeng identified him as an ally.

• Lianfeng directed Southern Heavenly Gate soldiers as they destroyed most of an advancing tank force and forced the survivors to retreat.
• Lianfeng explained to Sun Wukong that the Second Army had equipped over three hundred soldiers and helped defend the border and rescue besieged cities.
• Lianfeng ordered proper burials and compensation for personnel lost while clearing Taotie remnants, and Sun Wukong recalled how soldiers had volunteered for the Second Army despite its long service terms and genetic modifications.
• Lianfeng told Sun Wukong that Ge Xiaolun was still pondering his existence after Mercer reprimanded him.
• An alarm reported that an unidentified person had reached the border and could not be intercepted, but Lianfeng recognized Mercer and ordered the alert stood down.

Mercer brought Galacta and Diablo to China’s border to assess the Black Armor soldiers’ progress, then ordered Diablo to fight them without causing serious harm. The soldiers trapped Diablo in a spatial blockade and began attacking, but their blows only cracked his armor slightly as the clash continued.

• Workers in the Central Command Room recognized Mercer as the creator of the Southern Heavenly Gate system, while a newcomer mistook Diablo and Galacta for his students.
• Lianfeng concluded that Mercer had appeared at the border to see how far Great Xia’s defenses had developed, and Sun Wukong agreed to watch the encounter.
• Mercer praised the Black Armor soldiers and ordered Diablo to fight them without killing or crippling anyone.
• Diablo transformed into a towering armored giant as the Black Armor soldiers demanded his identity and purpose.
• Four Black Armor soldiers formed a spatial blockade, and two attacked Diablo with sword energy that cracked his armor but did not seriously hurt him.

The Bright Light Army transformed its armor and weapons before launching a life-risking attack against Diablo. Diablo met their Bright Light Formation-Breaking Blade with a sphere of energy, and the resulting clash shook the surrounding area.

• After Lianfeng ordered them to use their full power, the four Black Armor warriors transformed into the Bright Light Army and wielded Mo Dao.
• Mercer identified the warriors as first-generation Shenhe warriors whose Double-Pupil genes had awakened through the Southern Heavenly Gate.
• The Bright Light warriors coordinated their attacks and cracked Diablo’s armor, until Mercer gave Diablo permission to use his full strength.
• As Diablo’s power surged, Liu Jia ordered Ming, Hao, and Yang to join him in using the life-threatening Bright Light Formation-Breaking Blade.
• The four warriors formed gigantic blades of light and struck at Diablo, who countered with a sphere of energy; their collision sent a shock wave to nearby squads.