Chapter Summaries

After absorbing the Dark Phoenix flames, Lynn discovered that his enhanced body had pushed Earth’s spacetime beyond its safe limit. As he prepared to repair a growing fissure, a deathly psychic presence reached through it and targeted him.

• Lynn tested his fused strength by snapping a chunk from a titanium alloy workbench and evaporating water against his overheated skin.
• The Till Death Do Us Part Simulator warned that converging energies had exceeded the universe’s carrying capacity and that Earth’s spacetime barrier was cracking.
• Lynn recognized that Wanda, Susan, Gwen Stacy, and the Dark Phoenix flames had overloaded Earth’s fragile spacetime through their connections to him.
• Lynn prepared to use the Space Stitching Technique to repair a fissure above New York, but a deathly psychic tendril emerged from the abyss beyond it.
• The psychic tendril pierced the Baxter Building’s defenses and locked onto Lynn in the third basement level.

Lynn faced a deathly fissure that connected him to Hela, imprisoned beneath Asgard, and refused to back down as she targeted him. Hela’s assault formed a black crown in the Baxter Building basement, where Lynn prepared to strike back with chaos magic.

• Lynn sensed a deadly presence through a fissure and followed its mental power to Helheim beneath Asgard.
• Hela detected Lynn’s energy and soul, grew enraged at the women whose brands marked him, and rose against Odin’s restraints.
• Hela’s movement triggered Odin’s runes and lightning, but she forced her power through the fissure and declared that Lynn was hers.
• Black ice crystals formed a crown before Lynn as Hela announced that she had found him.
• Lynn reached toward the crown with chaos magic and challenged Hela to withstand his fire.

Lynn crushed the crown linked to Hela and survived her psychic intrusion, but the Asgardian goddess continued to watch and threaten him from afar. The chapter ended with Hela's crown appearing in frost on his mirror.

• Lynn resisted the deathly cold surrounding the crown and crushed it with his bare hand, closing the Spatial Rift.
• The System identified the crown's source as Asgard's Helheim and warned that Hela had placed Lynn under psychic observation.
• Lynn cleaned himself in the Baxter Building's bathroom and felt the immense powers within him respond to his thoughts.
• Hela invaded Lynn's mind, mocked the women around him, and threatened to kill them and chain him beneath her throne.
• Lynn rejected Hela's threats, and her black crown appeared in frost on his bathroom mirror.

Lynn destroyed Hela’s psychic mark with his combined powers, severing her connection to Earth and enraging her into an even stronger desire to possess him. As Hela vowed to reach Midgard when her chains broke, an emergency alert sounded at the Baxter Building.

• Hela sent a psychic mark toward Lynn through the bathroom mirror, but Lynn fused the Dark Phoenix mark, Chaos Magic, and his strength to smash the mirror and sever the connection.
• Lynn healed the cuts on his knuckles, dressed, and decided he would deal with Hela after handling the women on Earth.
• Hela suffered backlash in Helheim, tasted Lynn’s lingering energy, and became more determined to conquer him once Odin’s restraints failed.
• A high-level alert from Natasha’s Intelligence Terminal sounded at the Baxter Building, prompting Gwen, Susan, Wanda, and Lynn to turn toward the underground supercomputing center.

After confronting Hela’s psychic tendril, Lynn ordered Susan and Wanda to seal the Baxter Building and Manhattan against outside detection while Gwen guarded him. Natasha then revealed that Nick Fury had leaked the location of Mjolnir in New Mexico, and Lynn saw the hammer as an opportunity to reach Asgard and pursue Hela.

• Lynn ordered Susan to isolate the Baxter Building and Wanda to reinforce Manhattan’s magical barrier, while Gwen took up a guard position beside him.
• Wanda sensed death energy on Lynn and grew jealous, but she obeyed his command and annihilated the energy traces around the building.
• Natasha arrived with a bleeding wound and told Lynn that Nick Fury had used a security key to spread a secret file across S.H.I.E.L.D.’s dark web.
• Natasha showed Lynn a reconnaissance photo of Mjolnir embedded in a crater in New Mexico, whose location Fury had made public.
• Lynn stopped Gwen from pursuing Fury and considered the hammer a stepping stone toward Asgard and a future hunt for Hela.

Lynn recognized the hammer in Nick Fury’s message as Mjolnir and decided to go to New Mexico despite realizing Fury was trying to lure him out of his defenses. Wanda, Susan, Gwen Stacy, and Natasha all demanded to accompany him, leaving Lynn to decide who would go and who would stay behind.

• Nick Fury sent Lynn an image of Mjolnir, and Lynn recognized it as an overt trap meant to draw him out of New York.
• Lynn decided he needed Mjolnir to study its power and seek resources that could help him face Hela.
• Wanda tried to block Lynn from leaving, while Susan, Gwen Stacy, and Natasha each argued that she should accompany and protect him.
• The four women’s rivalry threatened to tear apart the living room as Lynn weighed whom to take and whom to leave guarding the Baxter Building.

Lynn divided the women between guarding the Baxter Building and accompanying him to New Mexico, where he arrived near Thor’s hammer. The System announced a new Till Death Do Us Part simulation as Lynn prepared for the hunt.

• Lynn ordered Wanda, Susan, and Natasha to protect the building and assigned Gwen Stacy to accompany him as his shadow.
• Susan opened a portal to New Mexico, and Lynn and Gwen traveled through it.
• After Lynn left, Wanda and Susan resumed their hostility while Natasha went to the elevator.
• Lynn arrived in the desert near the hammer, and the System warned that a new simulation would begin.

Lynn began a simulation set during Hela’s rebellion against Odin, entering the battlefield as a low-ranking Asgardian soldier. He deliberately walked through Hela’s deadly sword barrage until she noticed him and demanded to know why he dared look her in the eye.

• Lynn locked onto Hela as his simulation target and told Gwen Stacy to guard his body while he entered the simulation.
• Lynn arrived on a battlefield strewn with dead Valkyries and soldiers as Hela slaughtered Odin’s forces.
• Hela summoned a rain of Night Sky Swords to kill the survivors, and Lynn walked toward her without dodging.
• Hela noticed Lynn’s fearless stare, stopped the swords in midair, and asked what gave him the nerve to look her in the eye.

Lynn defied Hela on the battlefield, provoking her with taunts about Odin and urging her to claim the throne she deserved. Hela became interested in the defiant soldier and prepared to torture him with Death Force.

• Lynn resisted Hela’s supernatural pressure and refused to kneel, claiming that standing gave him the right to meet her gaze.
• Lynn insulted Hela and accused Odin of using her to conquer the Nine Realms before discarding her and imprisoning her in the Abyss.
• When Hela pressed a Night Sky Sword to his throat, Lynn seized the blade and praised her as Asgard’s rightful ruler.
• Hela laughed at Lynn’s audacity, then dismissed her sword and said he had earned her interest by angering her.
• Hela gathered Death Force at her fingertip and moved to press it into Lynn’s chest, promising to torture him.

Lynn endured Hela’s Death Force in a brutal test, taunting her and forcing her to drive it deeper until she gained a twisted admiration for him. While Lynn remained unconscious beside Mjolnir in New Mexico, Gwen detected Coulson’s approaching S.H.I.E.L.D. team and moved to intercept them.

• Hela pierced Lynn’s chest with Death Force, but Lynn disabled his pain suppression and endured the agony without kneeling.
• Lynn taunted Hela, seized her wrist, and forced her to push the lethal energy toward his heart as he challenged her to kill or be conquered.
• Hela’s contempt shifted to perverse admiration, and she grasped Lynn’s wrist after licking his blood from her cheek.
• In the New Mexico desert, Gwen sensed danger approaching Lynn and spotted three unmarked S.H.I.E.L.D. SUVs closing on the crater.
• Gwen charged her daggers with bioelectricity and slipped into the darkness to hunt Coulson’s task force.

Gwen Stacy attacked Coulson and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who approached Lynn in the desert, keeping them away from him while he endured agony in the simulated spacetime. At Helheim, Hela removed the Death Force from Lynn and dragged him toward her Underworld hall as her captive, while Lynn secretly considered his plan successful.

• Gwen Stacy watched over Lynn and prepared to stop anyone who came near him.
• Coulson led a S.H.I.E.L.D. convoy toward the crater, but the vehicles’ electronics failed as the agents approached.
• Gwen Stacy ambushed the agents, incapacitated them, and threatened Coulson when he came within ten paces of Lynn.
• At Helheim, Hela drew the Death Force out of Lynn and formed a chain around his neck.
• Hela dragged Lynn toward her Underworld hall and declared that his life and soul belonged to her, while Lynn secretly smiled that she had taken the bait.

Lynn was dragged before Hela in Helheim and taunted her about her undisciplined army and lack of military skill. Hela attacked him in a rage, leaving Lynn dangling by the throat as he continued to mock her.

• Hela ordered Lynn to kneel and called him her pet, but he sat down and criticized her throne and undead troops.
• Lynn warned that Odin's army would arrive soon and explained how its formations and weapons would defeat Hela's berserkers.
• Hela realized Lynn had identified her army's weakness, but became furious when he called her a stupid blade and a rabid dog who could not rule.
• Hela rushed at Lynn, grabbed him by the throat, and lifted him off the ground while threatening to tear out his tongue.
• Despite struggling to breathe, Lynn refused to beg and sneered at Hela.

Lynn confronted Hela while she strangled him, using intimacy and taunts about her abandonment and loneliness to make her lower her defenses. Just as Hela released him, Odin's vanguard arrived in the Underworld.

• Hela lifted Lynn by the throat, but he stopped struggling and cupped her face despite her tightening grip.
• Lynn mocked Hela's army and reminded her that Odin had abandoned her in the Underworld for thousands of years.
• Lynn told Hela that killing him would leave her with no one in the Nine Realms who could understand her, and she hesitated as her weapon dissolved and her grip loosened.
• War drums sounded across the Underworld, causing Hela to release Lynn and turn toward the horizon.
• Lynn collapsed onto the obsidian floor and gasped for air as a golden beam appeared, signaling Odin's vanguard had arrived.

Lynn took command of Hela’s Underworld army and annihilated Asgard’s vanguard with traps and terrain, leaving Hela fascinated by his strategic skill and increasingly possessive of him. In New Mexico, a powerful blond man tore through S.H.I.E.L.D.’s perimeter and headed for Mjolnir despite the agents’ gunfire.

• Lynn persuaded Hela to give him control of the Underworld army and used her power to command its forces.
• Lynn lured Asgard’s troops into traps, collapsing the ground beneath its shield formation, drowning its Pegasus riders in the death swamp, and sending berserkers after its mages.
• Lynn’s forces killed Asgard’s vanguard in less than half an hourglass, and Hela became enthralled by his command of the battle.
• In New Mexico, Coulson learned that a blond man had forced his way into the exclusion zone while Ghost-Spider kept S.H.I.E.L.D. agents at bay.
• The blond man ignored gunfire and charged through the rain toward Mjolnir in the Meteorite Crater.

While Lynn remained focused on his contest with the Goddess of Death, Gwen Stacy attacked Thor for disturbing him and nearly killed him. A powerful energy surge then tore through the storm clouds and descended toward the desert, interrupting her.

• Thor pushed through S.H.I.E.L.D.'s gunfire and tried to lift Mjolnir, but it did not move.
• Gwen Stacy kicked Thor away from Mjolnir and attacked him with an electrified dagger and a series of punishing blows.
• Gwen Stacy pinned Thor in the mud and pressed her dagger to his throat, preparing to kill him for disturbing Lynn.
• A powerful surge of energy tore open the storm clouds and descended toward the desert, triggering Gwen Stacy's Spider-Sense and stopping her attack.

In Helheim, Lynn rejected Hela’s offer of eternal life and divine power, insisting he would remain mortal and fight for her. Hela’s possessiveness intensified, but Odin arrived with Asgard’s main army before she could act on it.

• Lynn coughed up blood in Helheim after the force striking him in the real world weakened his simulated body, while Hela approached him after defeating Odin’s vanguard.
• Hela offered Lynn the origin of death and Underworld Divine General Armor, promising to transform him into her immortal possession.
• Lynn slapped away Hela’s gift and declared that he would stay mortal and personally kill Odin for her.
• Hela became more obsessively possessive, gripping Lynn and warning that he had no right to die without her permission.
• Odin tore through Helheim’s death barrier and arrived with Asgard’s main army.

Odin attacked Helheim and crushed Hela’s undead army, leaving her isolated before he prepared to strip her of her divine power and seal her away. As Odin’s judgment neared, Lynn forced himself out from behind a pillar.

• Odin arrived at the Underworld Palace with Asgard’s army and accused Hela of crossing the line.
• Odin ordered his forces to fire, and Asgardian cannons and infantry slaughtered Hela’s undead legion.
• Hela attacked the flying ships with Night Sky Swords, but Odin’s shield stopped them and he declared her alone and defeated.
• Odin aimed Gungnir at Hela and announced he would strip her divine power and seal her in Helheim.
• Lynn dug his bloodied hand into the floor and forced himself out from behind the pillar.

Lynn endured Odin’s divine pressure and stood between the God-King and Hela, denouncing Odin for using her to conquer the Nine Realms and then branding her a traitor. Hela’s attachment to Lynn intensified as Odin turned Gungnir’s killing force toward him.

• Lynn forced his way through fleeing Ghouls and dragged Hela behind him, shielding her from Odin’s pressure.
• Lynn called Odin a hypocrite and accused him of discarding Hela after she conquered the Nine Realms for him.
• Hela was moved by Lynn’s sacrifice and tightened her grip on his hand as he promised to be her shield.
• Lynn challenged Odin and condemned Asgard’s glory as a cover for plunder and deceit.
• Odin, enraged, redirected Gungnir’s deadly power toward the space between Lynn’s brows.

As Odin prepared to strike Lynn and Hela in the simulated Underworld, Lynn held firm and readied his Substitute Death Skill, but his Spider-Sense warned him of danger in the real world. A massive War Armor arrived in the New Mexico desert and locked onto Lynn’s defenseless body.

• Lynn refused to let Hela push him away and insisted he would shield her from Odin’s attack.
• Hela embraced Lynn and broke down in tears, becoming terrified of losing him.
• Lynn secretly prepared to trigger his Substitute Death Skill and endure the pain to make his sacrifice convincing.
• Lynn’s Spider-Sense warned him of danger beyond the simulated space-time, and his vision shifted to the real world.
• A lightning strike brought a huge War Armor crashing into the desert, overturning S.H.I.E.L.D. vehicles before it opened its faceplate and targeted Lynn.

The Destroyer Armor attacked S.H.I.E.L.D.’s forces and turned its weapon on the unconscious Lynn as he remained trapped in Helheim’s simulation. Gwen abandoned her cover and threw herself over Lynn as the beam surged toward them.

• Coulson ordered his agents to fire on the Destroyer Armor, but their bullets could not penetrate its defenses.
• The Destroyer unleashed its beam, vaporizing agents and carving a magma trench through the desert.
• The Destroyer targeted Lynn, who remained unresponsive while facing Odin in the simulation.
• Gwen rushed toward Lynn and threw herself over him as the Destroyer’s beam erupted.