Chapter Summaries

Malekith tried to escape Asgard after losing the Aether, but Lucian captured him and knocked him unconscious. Lucian copied Malekith’s dark matter manipulation ability, leaving Malekith defeated in the square.

• Malekith fled toward a Dark Elf assault ship and threw two Black Hole Grenades behind him to trap Lucian in distorted space.
• Lucian avoided the gravitational vortex, opened a Portal to Malekith’s destination, and dragged him back through it.
• Malekith threatened to destroy Midgard and prepared a final attack, but Lucian struck him with Mental Power and rendered him unconscious.
• Lucian inspected Malekith’s available abilities and copied dark matter manipulation LV6.

After capturing Malekith, Lucian advanced Elemental Manipulation to LV8 and joined Thor as Odin prepared to finish the battle against the Dark Elves. Odin recognized Lucian’s extraordinary power and wondered whether he could help Asgard face the approaching Ragnarok.

• Lucian’s Elemental Manipulation fused with several abilities and advanced to LV8, allowing him to freely combine and control multiple forms of energy and matter.
• Thor arrived and found Malekith unconscious; Lucian told him he had captured the Dark Elf and confirmed that Frigga and Jane were safe.
• Odin arrived, thanked Lucian for defending Asgard, and sent Thor to escort him to the side hall while the king and army dealt with the remaining Dark Elves.
• Thor led Lucian toward Frigga and Jane, joking with him about the feast and Asgardian wine.
• Odin watched Lucian leave and privately wondered whether he was the Ancient One’s chosen successor, while reflecting on his fading strength and the coming Ragnarok.

Lucian accompanied Thor to the Side Hall after the battle and considered what to request from Odin’s Vault, while planning to seek Hela’s territorial power in the future. Frigga welcomed him and decided to arrange a banquet with Asgard’s young women, leaving Lucian suspecting she was trying to match him with someone.

• Odin considered giving Lucian a valuable reward and returned to the temporary command post.
• Lucian followed Thor to the Side Hall and thought about copying Hela’s ability to bind her power to Asgard.
• Thor reunited with Jane, while Frigga praised Lucian and asked about his business and romantic life in Midgard.
• Lucian said he had no intention of pursuing romance, and Frigga arranged for Asgard’s finest young women to dance for him at the banquet.

Frigga tried to arrange a marriage for Lucian, but he redirected the conversation to the aftermath of the Dark Elf attack. Frigga told him Odin would reward him with access to Asgard's treasury after the banquet.

• Frigga considered eligible Asgardian noblewomen as possible matches for Lucian, while he thought about Annie and Cate back in The Boys Universe.
• Frigga guided Lucian to a couch and encouraged him to meet Asgardian women at the banquet, while Thor's confusion prompted Jane to tell him to be quiet.
• Frigga poured Lucian Asgardian wine, and he asked how Odin would deal with Malekith and the remaining Dark Elves.
• Frigga said Malekith had been captured, Asgard's forces would destroy the remaining fleet, and Odin would judge Malekith.
• Frigga promised that Odin would take Lucian to Asgard's treasury after the banquet and let him choose a reward.

After Loki disappeared during a dungeon riot, Thor flew off to hunt for him while Frigga kept quiet about Loki’s earlier escape. Lucian left the palace and set out to find Asgard’s notable warriors, beginning with Sif and the Warriors Three.

• A royal guard reported that prisoners had escaped from the dungeon and Loki was missing.
• Thor took Mjolnir and flew away to search for Loki, telling Jane to stay in the Side Hall.
• Frigga allowed Lucian to leave and told him he could walk freely through Asgard as its honored guest.
• Lucian left the Golden Palace, intending to seek out Asgard’s warriors before visiting Odin’s treasury.
• A patrolling guard told Lucian that Sif and the Warriors Three were clearing wreckage and keeping order on Third Avenue.

Lucian met the Warriors Three and Sif in an Asgard plaza after the battle, where he demonstrated his speed and copied Volstagg’s Asgardian physique. He then asked Sif to teach him combat techniques, leaving open what he might gain from her.

• Volstagg, Fandral, Hogun, and Sif warmly thanked Lucian for helping defend the queen and Asgard.
• Lucian crossed the plaza in a single step, startling the four warriors with his apparent teleportation.
• Lucian copied Volstagg’s Asgardians Physique, which fused with his existing physique and enhanced it to level eight.
• Lucian studied Sif and asked her to teach him a combat technique.

Lucian asked Sif to teach him close-quarters combat and used their sparring match to copy her Asgardian physique. After Sif conceded that he was stronger than her, Lucian brushed it off as having thick skin.

• Lucian asked Sif to spar with him, and she agreed to meet him at the training ground.
• Sif attacked Lucian bare-handed, but he blocked her first punch without moving and copied her Asgardian physique LV7.
• Sif launched a series of close-range attacks while Lucian deliberately held back and blocked each strike.
• Sif ended the spar after several minutes, saying the recoil from striking Lucian might crack her bones.
• Lucian told Sif that he just had thick skin.

After sparring with Sif and the Warriors Three, Lucian gained more Asgardian traits and was summoned to the Golden Palace’s victory feast. He arrived to find the court watching him, while Thor returned empty-handed from searching for Loki and immediately challenged Lucian to drink.

• Sif praised Lucian’s strength but criticized his cautious close-combat style, promising to write him scrolls of battlefield techniques.
• Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun praised Lucian and offered to take him hunting and train with him, while Lucian copied Hogun’s and Fandral’s physiques.
• A God-King’s guard announced that the inner city had been cleared and invited Lucian, Sif, and the Warriors Three to the victory feast.
• Lucian entered the great hall, where Asgardian warriors and noblewomen scrutinized him, and he suspected Queen Frigga’s decree had drawn the women’s attention.
• Thor returned from searching the dungeons without finding Loki, then joined Lucian at the feast and challenged him to drink.

At Asgard’s victory feast, Odin honored Lucian for protecting Frigga and defeating the Dark Elf vanguard. Thor challenged Lucian to a drinking contest, while Jane discovered how potent Asgardian mead was.

• Jane greeted Thor and joined him and Lucian at the banquet table.
• Odin and Frigga entered the hall, and Odin praised Lucian before leading three toasts to Asgard, the fallen, and peace in the Nine Realms.
• Thor challenged Lucian to a drinking contest, and Volstagg, Fandral, Sif, and Hogun joined in the banter.
• Lucian drank a cup of golden apple mead and sensed that its faint Asgardian energy could strengthen and heal the body.
• Jane sipped the mead, became dizzy, and accepted fruit from Fandral to settle herself.
• Lucian remained unaffected by the drink and asked Thor for another cup.

Lucian declined Frigga’s attempt to match him with Asgardian noblewomen, then followed Odin from the banquet to learn about the World Tree and enter Odin’s Vault. As he stepped into the vault’s middle section, his System Panel flickered and a ravenous thirst surged through his body.

• Thor tried to find out whether any Asgardian noblewoman had caught Lucian’s eye, but Lucian politely refused Frigga’s matchmaking offer.
• Frigga sent magical letters to Hera and the Queen Mother of the West, asking them to seek potential matches for Lucian.
• After several more rounds of drinking, a royal handmaiden summoned Lucian to meet Odin in the Side Hall.
• Odin showed Lucian the World Tree projection and explained how the Nine Realms were arranged across its branches and how the Convergence threatened them.
• Odin led Lucian into the outer section of Odin’s Vault, where weapons and wreckage from past campaigns were displayed.
• When Lucian entered the vault’s middle section, his System Panel flickered and an intense thirst rose through his body.

Odin showed Lucian the powerful relics in Asgard’s treasury while Lucian’s system hungered for each one. When Lucian looked toward the mist-filled doorway to the next level, the system reacted with far greater hunger than before.

• Lucian noticed the Destroyer Armor and the treasures displayed in the treasury’s middle-level hall.
• Odin identified the Eternal Flame and explained that he had taken it from Surtur to prevent Ragnarok.
• Odin showed Lucian the Casket of Ancient Winters and the Thousand-Day Gem, describing their destructive cold and vast stored energy.
• Odin passed the Fake Infinity Gauntlet and explained the Vanir Nature Staff’s powers over life and healing.
• Odin identified the Dark Energy Core taken from a Dark Elf flagship, and Lucian realized his system coveted several treasures.
• Lucian looked toward the doorway to the treasury’s next level, triggering a surge of hunger from the system more than ten times stronger than before.

Lucian discovered that the strange light sealed beneath Odin's Vault was a seed of the World Tree, created during the tree's first era. Odin explained that it could sprout into a smaller World Tree if it found a suitable world or high-energy environment.

• Lucian sensed an immense power beyond the gray-mist portal, and Odin recognized his interest in the vault's hidden treasure.
• Odin led Lucian through the portal into a bare stone room containing a wooden chest and a faintly glowing object.
• When Lucian looked at the light, he saw a vision of Eternity giving the Heart of the World to Bor, who used it to create the World Tree and establish the Nine Realms.
• Odin revealed that the object was the World Tree's naturally formed Seed of Life and said it could grow into a smaller World Tree in a suitable environment.

Odin gave Lucian a World Tree seed and asked him to save Hela after Odin's death, revealing that he had sealed his firstborn daughter in Helheim and erased her from Asgard's history. Lucian accepted the seed and promised to help Hela, leaving Odin's final request in his hands.

• Lucian recognized that the World Tree seed could help him claim the Boys Universe and resolved to obtain it.
• Odin explained that he foresaw Ragnarok and Asgard's destruction but could not see exactly how they would unfold.
• Odin told Lucian that Hela was his eldest daughter, whom he had sealed in Helheim after her rebellion and erased from Asgard's records.
• Odin said his death would break Hela's seal and asked Lucian to prevent her from dying with Asgard in Ragnarok.
• Lucian accepted the World Tree seed and promised Odin that he would help Hela.

Odin warned Lucian about the dangers of planting the World Tree Seed and using the Infinity Stones, then explained how Lucian might gain control over worlds the seed created. After leaving the treasury, Lucian agreed to let his system absorb the seed’s essence in exchange for helping him claim full control of the newborn World Tree and its dimensions.

• Odin told Lucian never to plant the World Tree Seed in Midgard because its roots could rupture the dimensional barrier and let demon gods enter.
• Odin explained that worlds grown from the seed would be ownerless unless Lucian imprinted his will into the seed before it sprouted and later refined it.
• Odin warned Lucian that powerful beings were watching the Infinity Stones and that using several at once could cause a dangerous backlash.
• Lucian left the treasury with the seed, and his system offered to erase its original imprint and give him complete control over the World Tree and its derivative dimensions if it absorbed the seed’s essence.
• Lucian agreed to let the system absorb the seed once they returned to Earth, provided it gave him something worthwhile in return.

Lucian finished his visit to Asgard, collected gifts from Frigga, and returned to Midgard through the Bifrost. He left with Heimdall’s promise to watch over Earth, but Frigga’s plans to arrange matchmaking dates for him across pantheons followed him home.

• Lucian joined Thor, Volstagg, Sif, Fandral, and Hogun for a drinking contest, then slept soundly in the palace guest room.
• Lucian woke refreshed, thanked the King and Queen of the Gods, and said he was returning to Midgard.
• Frigga sent Lucian twenty barrels of aged Golden Apple Mead, Starlight Silk, Uru metal, and Asgardian preserved fruit, along with a message arranging matchmaking dates with candidates from Olympus and Great Luo Heaven.
• Lucian stored the gifts in the System Space and asked Heimdall to warn him about alien threats approaching Midgard.
• Heimdall activated the Bifrost, and Lucian returned to Earth.

Lucian arrived at Camp Lehigh, where Pierce and Pietro were preparing to deal with Arnim Zola, whose consciousness lived in an underground computer system. Lucian had Jade Balance begin absorbing Zola, but the old scientist resisted with encrypted firewalls as Jade Balance prepared a physical attack.

• Lucian arrived at Camp Lehigh and was greeted by the Vought task force, Pietro, and Alexander Pierce.
• Pierce explained that Arnim Zola had uploaded his consciousness into a vast array of old computers beneath the camp.
• Lucian decided to preserve Zola and asked Jade Balance to absorb his data and accumulated experience.
• Lucian and the others entered the underground computer room, where Jade Balance connected to the central console.
• Zola appeared on the monitor and refused to surrender his permissions or database, while Pierce denounced him as an obstacle to Hydra’s new order.
• Jade Balance began its intrusion, but Zola’s hardware-bound consciousness resisted with encrypted firewalls, prompting Jade Balance to initiate a physical dimensional-reduction strike.

Lucian and Jade Balance destroyed Arnim Zola’s physical servers while preserving his core data, allowing the AI to absorb his legacy. Jade Balance emerged with a new humanlike avatar and a more playful personality, then withdrew into Lucian’s watch to digest the data.

• Jade Balance directed the task force to shoot specific server cabinets while pinpointing Zola’s attempts to move and escape with his data.
• Pietro disconnected the cables in section C at Jade Balance’s instruction, cutting off Zola’s transfer route.
• The task force destroyed more cabinets, and Jade Balance absorbed Zola’s remaining data, ending his consciousness.
• Jade Balance appeared on the monitor as a white-haired, red-eyed girl and told Lucian she needed time to process Zola’s memories.
• Jade Balance teased Lucian about her appearance, then returned to the USB drive as it transformed into a watch on his wrist.

Lucian ordered Pierce to dismantle Hydra, arranged for Wakanda to make Vibranium armor for Vought, and returned to Kamar-Taj to contain the Reality Stone and feed the World Tree Spark to his system. The Spark’s absorption triggered a massive surge of dimensional laws and life essence through his mind and body.

• Lucian ordered Pierce to destroy the server room’s remaining files and use Zola’s database to locate Hydra’s sleeper bases, accounts, and loyalists.
• Lucian sent Wakanda an order for standard Vibranium armor and high-spec alloy armor, and arranged for Pietro to design his own suit with Wakanda’s craftspeople.
• Lucian left the New Jersey camp through a Portal and returned to Kamar-Taj, where he contained the Aether with Telekinesis and the Space Stone.
• Lucian took out the wooden chest containing the World Tree Spark and allowed his system to absorb it.
• The World Tree Spark entered Lucian, unleashing a surge of dimensional laws, spatial pathways, and life essence through his mind and body.

Lucian absorbed the World Tree Seed’s Creation Essence, transforming his body and granting him a deeper understanding of space and dimensions. He left the System upgrading for seven days and decided to use the downtime to study what he had on hand.

• Lucian’s system began analyzing and devouring the World Tree Seed, while the Creation Essence strengthened his body and revealed how space and dimensions were formed.
• After the analysis ended, Lucian discovered his enhanced strength could distort nearby space and create powerful winds.
• Lucian used his new grasp of spatial pathways to teleport from Kathmandu to the summit of Mount Everest in a single step.
• Lucian found that the System was upgrading and would remain unavailable for seven days, though System Space still worked.
• Lucian decided to spend the downtime studying his resources and teleported away from Everest.

Lucian used the Reality Stone to test thousands of Uru-and-vibranium nanosuit designs, despite the Stone’s mental and physical corruption. The armor reverted when he cut off the Stone’s energy, but he had memorized the ideal structure.

• Lucian returned to Vought Tower and had Jade Balance analyze the Uru metal he brought from Asgard.
• Lucian summoned Helen Cho to record the nanosuit’s nanostructure data while he used the Reality Stone.
• The Reality Stone distorted Lucian’s thoughts and began turning his fingertip into a fluid, but he fought off its effects.
• Lucian repeatedly restructured Uru and vibranium with the Stone as Jade Balance and Helen Cho tested each design.
• Helen Cho identified a stable design after 2,400 simulations, but the armor reverted to its original materials when Lucian sealed the Stone.
• Lucian told Helen Cho that the Stone’s changes required continuous energy and revealed that he had memorized every tested atomic arrangement.