Chapter Summaries

Mercer confronted Ge Xiaolun over his despair and fixation on Rose, then left the Super God World with Liang Bing after arranging continued cooperation with Lianfeng. Back in Mercer's world, Liang Bing revealed she could revive using a backup save.

• Mercer choked Ge Xiaolun and rebuked him for dwelling on Rose while Earth’s soldiers fought, then released him and urged him to become useful to Earth.
• Ge Xiaolun left the Main Control Room, and Rose followed him after Mercer told him to use his hatred as motivation to grow stronger.
• Mercer asked Lianfeng to use the Southern Heavenly Gate system, gave her a Cloud Heaven transporter, and left through a Portal with Liang Bing.
• After Mercer and Liang Bing departed, Angel Yan told Lianfeng she would gather the scattered angels and wage a war of vengeance against the demons.
• Mercer and Liang Bing arrived at his home in the Marvel Universe, where Liang Bing said she could return to life with a backup save.

Mercer learned how to create a Genetic Backup from Liang Bing and received Stark’s invitation to a party at Stark Tower. He arrived with Liang Bing in Lockdown, whose self-parking stunt astonished the guests.

• Liang Bing taught Mercer how a Genetic Backup could restore someone by transforming a suitable host into them after death.
• Mysterio told Mercer that Stark had invited him to a party at Stark Tower and wanted to show him something.
• Mercer invited Liang Bing to dinner at Stark Tower, while Mysterio declined because he had plans with girls.
• Mercer drove Liang Bing to Stark Tower in Lockdown and drew attention with their arrival.
• Mercer told the valet that Lockdown could park himself, and Lockdown drove away and drifted into the parking garage without anyone inside.

Mercer and Liang Bing attended Stark’s banquet, where Stark demonstrated a self-powered building using a reactor named after Mercer. Stark revealed that he worked for Mercer, drawing the guests’ attention to Mercer and leaving them speculating about his identity.

• Mercer recognized Stan Lee and sent Liang Bing memories explaining who Stark was.
• Stark demonstrated that his new reactor disconnected the building from New York City’s power grid while keeping it running.
• Stark named the energy source the Mercer Reactor, surprising Liang Bing and leaving Mercer speechless.
• When a guest asked who Mercer was, Stark said that he worked for him.
• Snow from Kyle Heavy Industries approached Mercer, and the guests gathered around him before he brushed off their questions and they returned to their conversations.

Mercer and Liang Bing attended Stark’s banquet, where S.H.I.E.L.D. agents stopped Hydra infiltrators. Mercer then offered to help Stark and Hill reach Hydra’s hidden locations by summoning fifteen masked figures from the shadows, leaving the Avengers startled.

• Stark told Mercer that his Dark Saber core’s technological advances deserved public recognition and invited him to a private Avengers gathering.
• Mercer and Liang Bing ate at the banquet and noticed disguised Hydra infiltrators among the guests.
• Middle-aged men working for Stark captured the infiltrators, and Mercer overheard them report that Hydra’s agents had been dealt with.
• Stark introduced Mercer to Hill, who explained that S.H.I.E.L.D. had intelligence about Hydra’s planned attack and could not access some suspected locations.
• Mercer offered to help and summoned fifteen masked figures from the shadows, startling the group.

Mercer assigned fifteen Shadow Assassins to help Hill wipe out Hydra, stunning the assembled heroes with their skills and history. Stark then showed Mercer the unfinished Ultron project he had developed with Banner and looked to Mercer for help completing its consciousness core.

• Mercer placed fifteen Shadow Assassins under Hill's orders to help wipe out Hydra and told them to report back after the mission.
• Natasha and Rogers recognized the assassins and described their feared record, while Mercer revealed he had only recently granted them their current abilities.
• The Shadow Assassins accepted Mercer's orders and disappeared into the shadows.
• Stark showed Mercer a transparent phone displaying Ultron, the sentient robot he and Banner had been developing.
• Stark explained that they could power Ultron with Kyber Crystal energy but lacked a suitable consciousness core, and Mercer considered how to help.

Mercer agreed to take over the work on Ultron’s consciousness core and searched the universe for Thanos, finding him slaughtering a planet in devotion to the Goddess of Death. Mercer confronted Thanos and struck at him with a massive black palm.

• Stark explained that he wanted to create a powerful protector for Earth, and Mercer agreed to handle Ultron’s consciousness core by the next day.
• After the party, Mercer spread his Spatial Power across the universe and located Thanos on a planet far from Earth.
• Mercer discovered that Thanos was massacring the planet’s inhabitants to offer their deaths to the Goddess of Death.
• Mercer vanished from Earth while Liang Bing stayed behind with Lockdown to explore the city.
• Mercer appeared before Thanos and launched a gigantic black palm at him.

Mercer confronted Thanos after discovering that Thanos had slaughtered every living creature on the planet. He defeated Thanos’s commanders, then learned the Mind Stone was implanted in Thanos’s brain and discovered how Thanos had obtained it.

• Mercer struck Thanos across the battlefield and challenged him over the planet’s slaughter.
• Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight, Ebony Maw, and Cull Obsidian attacked Mercer together, but his aura blasted them away.
• Mercer used an illusion spell on Thanos, whose implanted Mind Stone blocked the attack.
• Mercer sensed the Mind Stone inside Thanos and used Cloud Heaven to read how Thanos had destroyed No. 195 Life Planet and forced Eitri to forge a prosthesis for the Stone.

Mercer destroyed Thanos’s corpse-covered planet with a barrage from Cloud Heaven, then confronted him using the Space and Reality Stones. He left Thanos facing two powerful energy constructs called Phantoms, whose spatial attack nearly killed him.

• Mercer used Cloud Heaven’s Fierce Tide weapons to blast the planet apart, but Thanos survived and escaped to a nearby asteroid.
• Mercer appeared beside Thanos and revealed that he had used spatial power to avoid the explosion’s blasts.
• Mercer transformed their surroundings into a meadow, and Thanos recognized the Reality Stone and revealed that he had helped Malekith abduct Odin.
• Mercer created two energy figures, one made of azure energy and the other silver-white, and named them Phantoms.
• Mercer sent the spatial Phantom at Thanos, and its punch shattered the space around him.
• Thanos used the Mind Stone’s power to escape the shattered void and watched the Phantom in horror.

Mercer used the Spatial Avatar to defeat Thanos, trap him, and extract the Mind Stone. He healed Thanos with the Blacklight Virus and kept him alive, leaving the Titan shocked by his restored body.

• Thanos attacked the Spatial Avatar with an energy blast, which it redirected through space and used to grievously wound him.
• Mercer recalled the Thunder-Light Avatar and ordered the Spatial Avatar to capture Thanos alive.
• Mercer approached Thanos, explained that he wanted the Mind Stone, and tightened the spatial cage until Thanos could no longer resist.
• Mercer used spatial power to extract the Mind Stone from Thanos's brain and then released his restraints.
• Mercer enveloped Thanos in the Blacklight Virus, which restored the half of his body that had been destroyed.

Mercer used the blacklight virus to make Thanos his subordinate, and Thanos devoured Sanctuary II’s soldiers to gain immense strength. Mercer transformed the warship into a guardian island named Mount Buzhou and put Thanos in charge of it.

• Mercer explained that the blacklight virus could devour other beings to evolve, and Thanos realized Mercer had used it to control him.
• Mercer claimed Sanctuary II and ordered Thanos to deal with its crew, while Thanos entered the ship through a spatial gateway.
• Thanos devoured every soldier aboard Sanctuary II and emerged much larger and stronger, accepting that he had been utterly defeated by Mercer.
• Mercer brought Thanos to Cloud Heaven, where Thanos discovered its beautiful island surface above its advanced weapons.
• Mercer used Spatial Power to turn Sanctuary II into a smaller island, reshaped it with the Reality Stone, named it Mount Buzhou, and appointed Thanos its governor.

Mercer discovered a way to travel through the Multiverse and left Thanos on Mount Buzhou to reshape it. Back on Earth, he gave Stark the Mind Stone to study, then returned home and told Liang Bing, Mysterio, and Lockdown that he planned to visit another universe to find more bodies to possess.

• Mercer gave Thanos a trace of reality power and assigned him to develop Mount Buzhou, then learned that Gamora and Nebula had died.
• Mercer found Doran's Art in the Book of the Vishanti, which could open gateways to other universes, and left Thanos behind.
• Mercer gave Stark the Mind Stone to analyze and warned him that its intelligence could influence the creation of Ultron.
• Mercer returned home and found Liang Bing, Mysterio, and Lockdown watching television together.
• Mercer told them he planned to travel to another universe and look for bodies he could possess.

Mercer planned to travel to other universes to find people to possess and sent Liang Bing and Mysterio to build an information network. He brought them to Mount Buzhou, where they met the imprisoned Thanos, and then began studying Doran's Art to learn how to travel across the multiverse.

• Mercer explained the multiverse to Liang Bing and said he would seek suitable targets in other universes, while she would build an information network with Mysterio's help.
• Mercer brought Liang Bing, Mysterio, and Lockdown to Mount Buzhou and gave them Reality Stone energy so they could build there.
• Mercer explained that the Space Stone concealed Mount Buzhou and Cloud Heaven from people outside.
• Thanos arrived, and Mysterio recognized his name but learned that this Thanos was a criminal Mercer had imprisoned after killings on a planetary scale.
• Mercer went to Cloud Heaven to study Doran's Art, while Mysterio and Liang Bing left Thanos to attend to their own work.

Mercer created a Universe Search program in the Southern Heavenly Gate to find the Marvel Cinematic Universe without exhausting himself by probing universes with magic. As the program began searching, distant stars started going out and civilizations across the affected regions died with them.

• Mercer exhausted himself probing the multiverse and realized the search would take too long if he searched each universe manually.
• Liang Bing brought Mercer food and explained how to use the Southern Heavenly Gate to create a program that searched for a universe by its identifying features.
• Liang Bing warned Mercer not to draw energy from stars in the Milky Way, and Mercer connected the program to a star system a hundred thousand light-years away.
• Mercer started the Universe Search program, which sent invisible ripples through successive layers of the universe.
• Distant stars began going dark at a rate of nearly one per hour, and the civilizations in those regions died as their stars dimmed.

A search energy swept across Earths in countless universes, prompting a zombie version of the Avengers to sense new food and a powerful young man to investigate the scan. Mercer received the young man's business card and invitation, opening a possible connection between the two transmigrators.

• Search energy scanned Earth in many universes, including a ruined New York where zombie Avengers discussed their hunger.
• Zombie Thor sensed the scan, and a scarlet-energy figure appeared and announced that they had found food.
• In another universe, a young man at a general store sensed the scan and created a business card carrying a message for whoever had sent it.
• Mercer watched Liang Bing, Lockdown, and Mysterio build on Cloud Heaven when the business card appeared before him.
• The card's message invited Mercer to visit Some General Store and revealed that its owner was another transmigrator.

Mercer absorbed the Reality Stone and received an Item Card from the Hero Card System. He summoned Zoro’s Shusui and tested its strength, destroying his spatial barrier with a single strike.

• Mercer examined Han Yu’s business card, then continued searching for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and regretted not getting a way to contact Galacta.
• Mercer decided to grow stronger and transformed the Reality Stone into its Aether form before absorbing it.
• Mercer erased Malekith’s remaining energy from the Reality Stone and successfully absorbed the stone.
• The Hero Card System rewarded Mercer with an Item Card for Black Blade: Shusui.
• Mercer summoned Shusui and used One Sword Style, slicing through his spatial barrier and flattening the surrounding grass.

Mercer absorbed the Mind Stone and awakened the Six-Tomoe Rinnegan, then trained with its powers while waiting for the Universe-Finding Program to locate a destination. After the program found a universe, he left Thanos in charge of training the Dark Elves as the War God Army and prepared to travel to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

• Mercer absorbed the Mind Stone into his brain, and his Sharingan evolved into the Six-Tomoe Rinnegan.
• Mercer tested Almighty Push by destroying a mountain peak, alarming the others before he reassured them that he was not under attack.
• Mercer trained in a separate realm for several days until the Universe-Finding Program located a universe and enabled spacetime travel.
• Mercer gave Thanos the surviving Dark Elves, including the disarmed Malekith, and ordered him to train them as the War God Army.
• Mercer left his base and set out for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Mercer arrived at the Morocco Racetrack during the events of Iron Man 2 and found Whiplash attacking Tony Stark. He approached Stark and offered to kill Whiplash for a price.

• Mercer accelerated his journey through the multiverse and arrived at the Morocco Racetrack.
• Mercer recognized the exploding cars and the man with electric whips as Whiplash, also known as Ivan Vanko.
• Whiplash advanced on Tony Stark, who realized the attacker had built a working Arc Reactor and worried that Happy had not brought his armor.
• Mercer walked up beside Stark despite his warning to stay back and asked how much Stark would offer for Whiplash's life.

Mercer drew his sword and killed Whiplash after Stark tried to protect him. Stark realized Mercer could handle the fight, while the chapter ended with Mercer reflecting on his superhuman strength.

• Stark stepped between Mercer and Whiplash, warning Mercer to flee.
• Mercer offered Whiplash a chance to kneel and sing before he struck, but Whiplash attacked with his electrified whip.
• Mercer drew the Black Blade, Shusui, and severed Whiplash’s forearm before warning him that the next cut would kill him.
• Mercer used a draw slash to cut Whiplash down, then flicked a coin at his body, causing it to burst apart.
• Stark watched in shock as Mercer remained unmoved by the carnage and reflected that his strength exceeded ordinary human limits.

Mercer defeated Whiplash, met the Ancient One in the New York Sanctum Sanctorum, and learned that zombie superheroes led by Wanda were pursuing him across universes. He deployed his organization’s Eye of Surveillance to monitor Earth as he prepared for their arrival.

• Mercer took the Arc Reactor from Whiplash, gave it to Stark, and left him a way to contact him before departing.
• Mercer arrived at the New York Sanctum Sanctorum, where the Ancient One welcomed him and said something had followed him.
• The Ancient One showed Mercer images of zombie superheroes and revealed that Wanda was jumping between universes to pursue him.
• Mercer used the Southern Heavenly Gate’s shared database to summon an Eye of Surveillance and sent it through a spatial ripple to monitor Earth.

Mercer learned that the Zombie Heroes would reach Manhattan in 48 hours and chose to infect the borough with the blacklight virus before they arrived. He spread the virus through the rain as the first people began to mutate.

• Mercer used the Eyes of Surveillance to monitor Earth and learned from the Ancient One that the Zombie Heroes could arrive within seven days.
• Mercer's quest system warned that the Zombie Heroes would reach Manhattan in 48 hours and offered him a choice between infecting Manhattan with the blacklight virus or letting the Zombie Heroes infect it.
• Mercer chose to spread the blacklight virus, while warning the Ancient One that she would face another threat and promising only not to use magic to cause trouble.
• Mercer traveled to Manhattan and released the blacklight virus source into the clouds above the borough.
• Rain carrying the virus fell on pedestrians, whose limbs began to tremble as the mutation started.