Chapter Summaries

Su Yu told the Ancient One and Nick Fury that a World-Devouring Entity was approaching Earth and could warp its inhabitants into monsters, while his clone had to hold off the world's creator gods. He estimated the disaster would begin within three months, leaving the Ancient One and Nick Fury to return and prepare.

• Su Yu explained that the World-Devouring Entity was more like a natural phenomenon than a creature deliberately targeting their world.
• Su Yu warned that the Entity could warp living beings into monsters, but said visitors to the Blind Box Shop were protected by his gaze.
• Su Yu revealed that the world's creator gods could also be warped and that his clone had to hold them off, leaving him unable to help with anything else.
• The Ancient One explained to Nick Fury that the creator gods could destroy the universe with a thought.
• Su Yu sensed that the disaster would begin within three months, and the Ancient One and Nick Fury left to prepare.

Nick Fury warned the Avengers that a random distortion would soon affect beings across the universe, including the five creator gods, while a powerful ally would hold them off. With less than a month to prepare, the team debated how to protect Earth and its people.

• Nick Fury told the Avengers that the distortion would begin in less than a month and had no criteria or warning signs.
• Nick Fury explained that even the five creator gods could be distorted, but their ally would hold them off while the Avengers dealt with the threat on Earth.
• Thor left to bring his father, mother, and Loki to the Blind Box Shop so they could avoid being distorted.
• Steve urged the Avengers to save as many people as possible, while Tony pointed out they could not identify who would be distorted and feared wasting time.
• Banner calmed Steve and Tony after they argued, and Steve apologized.

Nick Fury and the others failed to find a plan for the coming universe-wide distortion, while Thor warned Odin and Frigga that buying blind boxes from Su Yu could protect them. Odin believed the warning but worried about Asgard’s people, leaving the family with no answer for them.

• Nick Fury argued that the group might have to preserve superhumans and abandon civilians, while Steve insisted there had to be another way.
• Nick Fury decided not to tell civilians or other superhumans yet and ended the meeting without a resolution.
• Thor returned to Asgard and told Odin and Frigga about the coming distortion and Su Yu’s protection for blind-box buyers.
• Odin and Frigga admitted they had sensed something ominous, and Thor urged them to go buy blind boxes.
• Odin asked whether Asgard’s people could be protected too, while Thor told him to buy a box first and figure out the rest later.

Odin, Frigga, Thor, and Loki went to the Blind Box Shop seeking help, but learned that Su Yu had left to stop distorted creator gods. Little Blind revealed that reciting Su Yu’s true name could resist distortion, then demonstrated its pronunciation and left the group stunned.

• Frigga persuaded Odin that seeking the powerful shopkeeper’s help was acceptable, and Odin released Loki and warned him to behave.
• Thor led Odin, Frigga, and Loki to the Blind Box Shop, where Little Blind told them Su Yu was away.
• Little Blind said Su Yu had gone to stop distorted creator gods, alarming Odin, Thor, and Loki with news that the distortion had begun.
• Thor explained the danger to Loki, and the group worried that Asgard might have to be abandoned.
• Little Blind said they could resist distortion by silently reciting Su Yu’s true name, then pronounced it and caused a boom in their minds.

After witnessing Su Yu’s true form, Odin and the others spread his true name among the Asgardians, while Nick Fury used Cerebro to contact organization leaders and warn them of the coming catastrophe. The leader of Rising Tide recalled his people as Nick Fury urged him to keep the warning secret.

• Odin and the others learned that the being they had seen was Su Yu’s true form and returned to Asgard to pass on his true name.
• Thor went to Avengers Headquarters but found the Avengers away on missions.
• Nick Fury activated Cerebro, expanded his mental reach across Earth, and contacted leaders of various organizations with mental projections.
• Nick Fury warned Heinrich, the leader of Rising Tide, that billions of twisted monsters might threaten the world and asked him to keep the news confidential.
• Heinrich ordered his people to recall everyone who was out in the field.

Nick Fury learned that reciting Su Yu’s true name could protect people from distortion, but he and Thor soon received reports of five monsters appearing downtown. Seeing the creatures, Nick realized that animals could also become distortion monsters, revealing a danger he had overlooked.

• Nick Fury warned transcendent organization leaders about the coming distortion and told them to keep the information from their subordinates.
• Thor told Nick Fury that silently reciting Su Yu’s true name could resist distortion, and Nick experienced a vision of Su Yu’s immense power.
• Hill reported that several monsters had appeared downtown, so Nick Fury and Thor headed to the scene.
• Nick Fury and Thor examined footage of five different monsters, including a giant rat, and suspected they were distortion monsters.
• Nick Fury realized that animals could undergo distortion too, making pets a potential source of future monsters.

Five monsters attacked the city center, killing hundreds before Captain and his fellow officers tried to stop them. After Hans died and Miranda fled with his body, Nick Fury and Thor sealed the monsters and took them to the mountain base for study.

• Nick Fury rushed to the city center, where five monsters had killed hundreds and begun destroying buildings.
• Captain froze the monsters, but they broke free; he and the other officers fought them while the woman’s charm failed.
• A tentacle monster killed Hans, and Captain froze all five monsters while Miranda escaped with Hans’s body.
• Nick Fury and Thor arrived, and Thor sealed the monsters inside the ice with lightning.
• Nick Fury took the sealed monsters and Thor to the base in the mountains and woods to study them.

Nick Fury and Thor destroyed the captured flesh giant after its headless body released a mentally contaminating roar. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s order to surrender pets sparked widespread protests, and armed soldiers confronted a group of marchers.

• Nick Fury asked Thor to extract and kill the flesh giant without breaking the seal around the other monsters, and Thor used lightning to destroy it.
• Nick Fury felt the giant's mental contamination and ordered Thor to destroy the remaining sealed ice sphere rather than study it.
• Nick Fury informed major organizations about the monsters and Su Yu's true name, while S.H.I.E.L.D. ordered everyone to surrender their pets.
• After only a few hundred people complied in three days, Hill told Nick Fury that citizens had organized a march, and he ordered compulsory measures.
• Several hundred protesters marched to defend their pets, but armed soldiers in trucks blocked and surrounded them.
• The march leader tried to calm the soldiers by insisting that the group were law-abiding citizens.

After S.H.I.E.L.D. suppressed the protests and ordered people to surrender their pets, Nick Fury sent agents and police to collect animals by force. One team encountered a dog that had transformed into a monster and was about to attack them.

• An officer arrested the march leader and ordered soldiers to detain the protesters at all three locations.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. gave people one final day to surrender their pets, and Nick Fury ordered agents to collect the animals from homes by force.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and police broke into a villa, shot and restrained its armed owner, and caged his dogs and bird.
• A homeowner refused to open his door, but a monster burst through it and sent him flying outside.
• The agents and police aimed their guns as a red-scaled, doglike monster emerged, roared, and lunged at them.

Thor and Pietro stopped a mutated pet attack, and the authorities collected pets and spread the True Name Recitation Method as mutations spread across Earth and the universe. Thanos joined the Avengers, created an inner universe, and began preparing a habitable planet for humanity.

• Thor killed the mutated pet with a lightning bolt, and he and Pietro left after confirming there were no more monsters nearby.
• After further mutations occurred, the authorities acknowledged the crisis, announced the True Name Recitation Method, collected pets worldwide, and began building fortifications.
• Thanos arrived at Earth and learned from Nick Fury that reciting the true name could ward off mutation.
• Nick Fury asked whether ordinary people could shelter in Thanos's future Inner Universe, and Thanos agreed to let them use it if it could support human life.
• Thanos spent heavily at the Blind Box Shop until his Universe Seed burst open, creating a universe about the size of the Solar System and raising his power to the late fifth tier.
• Thanos formed a star and shaped a barren planet into a lush world for humanity.

After Earth’s crops mutated and the Kree attacked, Nick Fury evacuated humanity into Thanos’s Inner Universe and joined Thanos in fighting the corrupted planet Ego. Even after they destroyed Ego, new monsters overwhelmed Earth, forcing the survivors to flee into space in search of the person who could end the crisis.

• A mutated cauliflower attacked a civilian, so Nick Fury ordered humanity’s mass evacuation into Thanos’s Inner Universe.
• The Kree fleet attacked Earth, and Thanos and the superhumans destroyed it before learning the Kree had been fleeing.
• Thanos, Nick Fury, Natasha, Hawkeye, and the others fought Ego; Hawkeye pierced the planet, Nick Fury restrained it, and Natasha destroyed its core.
• After shapeshifting monsters covered much of Earth, Nick Fury evacuated everyone below Tier Four and led the survivors into space.
• The group encountered monsters throughout the universe and, with Thanos and the Avengers, fought and killed Thor’s older sister, the Goddess of Death.

Su Yu returned, resolved the cosmic catastrophe, restored Earth, and helped it become a center of the universe. After decades of gathering Wish Power, he broke through the final barrier in the White Sea and became a true god.

• Su Yu emerged from seclusion, announced that he had solved the universe’s problems, and told everyone that the five creator gods had been beaten but spared.
• Su Yu transported the Earthlings to Earth, restored the ravaged planet, and received their deep bows.
• A legend about Su Yu’s Blind Box Shop spread throughout the universe, and Earth became a pilgrimage destination that prospered from visitors.
• After gathering Wish Power for years, Su Yu left a ball of light in his shop and entered a spatial passage to the White Sea, where he erased the World-Devouring Entities.
• Su Yu spent decades pushing against the final barrier, swallowed the World Heart Pistil to replenish his reserves, and broke through to become a true god.