Chapter Summaries

Rimuru reassured the Avengers that Earth held the advantage against the Skrulls and proposed building a new Terminator model to infiltrate and quietly assimilate their population. The Avengers understood that the plan could replace the Skrulls from within without exposing the operation or disturbing human society.

• Rimuru argued that billions of humans had the advantage over the hundreds of thousands of Skrulls, though the Avengers struggled to follow his speech about cosmic history.
• Rimuru explained that he would build new Terminators by combining Skrull genes and shapeshifting abilities with his living-metal technology.
• Rimuru said the new Terminators would perfectly imitate Skrulls, retain their ability to assimilate others, and pass those abilities on to converted Skrulls.
• The Avengers realized the new models could infiltrate Skrull ranks and replace the population layer by layer without violence, exposure, or unrest.

After the group agreed on a plan to replace and purge the Skrulls hiding across Earth, Tony mocked Nick Fury for the old problems tied to Carol and the Skrull crisis. Rimuru realized Fury had stopped worrying because Rimuru was taking on the operation’s biggest risks, and left expecting the trouble to fall on him.

• Banner explained the Skrulls’ unusual biology, and Tony and Rimuru discussed the alien material.
• Banner asked how powerful Carol was to have driven the Skrulls into hiding, prompting Tony to connect her to Fury’s old claims about a hidden superhero.
• Tony ridiculed Fury for bringing unresolved Skrull problems to Earth and leaving others to clean them up.
• The group left to prepare for the operation, while Fury stayed behind to pet the orange cat instead of reviewing the plan.
• Rimuru realized Fury had given up worrying because Rimuru had taken responsibility for the dangerous parts of the mission, and resigned himself to handling the trouble.

Tony and Banner built a device that identified Skrulls by their life-frequency, and its first field test revealed far more infiltrators than expected. After Carol Danvers returned to Earth, the Avengers gathered at Rimuru’s manor, where Fury withheld details about the crisis and left Carol fearing the situation had spiraled out of control.

• Tony and Banner developed a device that detected Skrulls by their unique life-frequency, and the team tested it in a suspected infiltration zone.
• Rimuru saw numerous Skrull signals on the device and concluded that the infiltration was much more widespread than expected.
• Nick Fury informed Rimuru and the Avengers that Carol had returned to Earth.
• The Avengers gathered at Rimuru’s manor and met Carol, who noticed the serious, distant atmosphere.
• Carol questioned Fury about the Skrull crisis, but he refused to explain its scale or the planned purge, leaving her uneasy.

Rimuru gathered Carol and the Avengers in a virtual meeting room to discuss the Skrull infiltration of Earth. She told Carol that the plan was to eliminate all Skrull forces on Earth, leaving Carol to learn the full scale and severity of the threat.

• Carol and Nick Fury followed the Avengers to Rimuru's manor, where Carol realized that Rimuru was directing the group.
• Rimuru opened a portal to the virtual planet, and everyone entered a round-table meeting room.
• The group sat in tense silence over the prospect of dealing with hundreds of thousands of Skrulls living under human identities.
• Rimuru asked Carol what she knew, and Carol said Fury had only told her the Skrulls were involved.
• Rimuru told Carol that the goal was to eliminate every Skrull force infiltrating Earth because they threatened humanity's survival.

Rimuru and Carol clashed over whether the Skrulls should be allowed to remain on Earth, with Carol arguing for their protection and Rimuru insisting their infiltration threatened humanity’s survival. The debate ended with Rimuru choosing humanity’s future over mercy, while Carol recognized the conflict had no easy resolution.

• Carol rejected Rimuru’s claim that the Skrulls planned to replace humanity, arguing that they were refugees and that only a few individuals could be responsible for wrongdoing.
• Rimuru explained that the Skrulls were secretly taking human identities and resources, and asked Carol who would protect humans from being displaced.
• Carol argued that the Skrulls’ instinct to survive did not justify punishing hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
• Rimuru said the Skrulls’ population tacitly accepted and benefited from the replacement plan, making their survival incompatible with humanity’s.
• Rimuru acknowledged the cruelty of killing the Skrulls but chose it over the peaceful extinction of human civilization, leaving Carol speechless.

Rimuru explained why he believed the Skrulls’ origins and survival instincts made coexistence with humanity untenable, leaving Carol to challenge him to a match that would decide the Skrulls’ fate on Earth.

• Rimuru told Carol that the Skrulls’ civilization was founded on plunder and replacement, and argued that humanity could not risk trusting them.
• Rimuru warned that the peace on Earth depended on humanity’s ignorance and Carol’s protection, while the Avengers and Nick Fury silently accepted the dilemma.
• Carol considered the risks, then proposed a match with Rimuru: if he won, she would cooperate with the purge; if she won, he would spare the Skrulls and let her take them away from Earth.
• Carol unleashed her full presence as the Avengers watched, leaving the fate of humanity and the Skrulls to their contest.

Rimuru and Carol began their duel to decide the fate of humanity and the Skrulls, fighting inside a barrier that protected the Avengers. After Carol struck him in Binary Mode, Rimuru unleashed his holy armor and Thunder Sovereign, leaving Carol badly injured but ready to continue.

• Rimuru raised a crimson barrier around the battlefield and protected the Avengers from the fight’s shockwaves.
• Rimuru unleashed Demon Lord's Haki, forcing Carol to one knee before she broke free and activated Binary Mode.
• Carol struck Rimuru with a full-powered blow, but he recovered without injury.
• Rimuru summoned the Vishanti Ring-Domain Holy Armor and attacked Carol with Thunder Sovereign.
• Carol was blasted into a crater, her uniform scorched and her energy unstable, but she began gathering strength to fight again.

Rimuru tested his new defensive abilities against Carol in their duel, proving that his shield and holy armor could withstand her Binary power. He then used Watoomb's Sonic Howling Wind Breath to weaken Carol and seize the initiative.

• Carol surged out of the crater and charged Rimuru with her Binary power.
• Rimuru activated Seraphim Ring-Realm Sanctuary, which blocked Carol's attack and rebounded its force onto her.
• Rimuru dismissed the shield and clashed directly with Carol, testing the Vishanti Ring-Domain Holy Armor as they fought to an even draw.
• Rimuru cast Watoomb's Sonic Howling Wind Breath, whose wind blades and Paralysis Breath weakened Carol's energy and movements.
• Carol compressed the energy in her hands and blasted apart Rimuru's wind attack.

Carol used faster-than-light speed to strike Rimuru from a blind spot and damage his holy armor, but Rimuru countered by filling the battlefield with clones and sealing it with scarlet chains. Carol’s assault slowed as she hesitated to touch the unknown magic, leaving the fight at a tense standstill.

• Carol recovered from Watoomb's Sonic Howling Wind Breath and vanished from Rimuru's sight with a burst of extreme speed.
• Carol struck Rimuru from behind, sending him crashing into the ground and dimming the magical patterns on his holy armor.
• Rimuru realized Carol's apparent teleportation came from faster-than-light flight and decided he could not match her speed directly.
• Rimuru cast Form of All Things and filled the sky with clones that crowded Carol and disrupted her attacks.
• Rimuru summoned Cyttorak's Scarlet Myriad Binding Chains to seal the battlefield, and Carol slowed down rather than risk touching the unknown magic.

Rimuru and Carol both chose to end their battle with an ultimate attack, but Rimuru froze the battlefield with Ruins of Eternal Extreme Cold Sealing and immobilized Carol. He declared himself the winner while Carol remained suspended in the air, unable to perceive what had happened.

• Carol realized Rimuru's clones and chains were overwhelming her, so she prepared a full-powered attack to break free.
• Rimuru decided to meet Carol's ultimate attack head-on rather than continue wearing her down.
• Carol charged forward with her golden Cosmic Energy, but Rimuru unleashed Ruins of Eternal Extreme Cold Sealing and froze the battlefield.
• The extreme cold stopped Carol, her energy, and the remaining clones and chains, leaving her motionless in midair.
• The Avengers watched in shock as Tony and Banner recognized how close Rimuru's ability came to suppressing molecular motion.
• Rimuru admired the frozen scene, declared that he had won, and reflected that he had barely needed to try.

After Carol accepted defeat and agreed not to interfere with humanity’s response to the Skrulls, Rimuru assigned the Avengers to carry out a covert purge of the infiltrators. He then showed them the original future, where Skrull infiltration brought Earth to the brink of nuclear war and collapse, leaving the team convinced that the purge would prevent a catastrophe.

• Carol admitted defeat and said she would neither interfere with the plan nor help eliminate the Skrulls.
• Rimuru assigned Tony and Banner to mass-produce detection devices and ordered the others to help identify and eliminate Skrull infiltrators with his combat robots.
• Rimuru showed the Avengers a reconstruction of the future without his intervention, including widespread infiltration of governments and the military.
• The Avengers watched as Agent Hill died, a Skrull replaced Rhodey and nearly provoked nuclear war, and Talos was murdered by Skrull radicals.
• The future revealed Super-Skrulls equipped with the powers of multiple Avengers, and the team’s remaining doubts about the purge faded.

Rimuru took command of a global operation to purge the Skrulls, with the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. preparing a phased sweep. Carol left Earth rather than take part or interfere, and the chapter ended with the operation ready to begin.

• After the future footage ended, Rimuru assumed command and set a plan to target Skrulls in government and military leadership, elite positions, strongholds, and then remaining infiltrators.
• Tony connected the combat channels and activated Terminator robots equipped with devices that could identify Skrulls, while Captain America's ground teams prepared to capture them.
• Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. bases and national special forces to stand ready, sealed transport routes, and restricted online discussion to prevent panic and escape.
• Carol arrived, conflicted over the Skrulls she had once protected, then left Earth without joining or obstructing the operation.
• Rimuru used his perception to locate Skrulls worldwide and ordered the Avengers to target upper-rank infiltrators first, contain elite targets, and then clear the strongholds.

Rimuru launched a worldwide operation to capture Skrulls who had infiltrated the highest levels of government and the military. The Terminator robots and Avengers quickly subdued the priority-one targets, leaving the command room to watch the purge succeed.

• Rimuru ordered the global purge, and Tony sent Terminator robots to the locations of priority-one Skrull targets.
• Terminator robots broke into restricted government and military sites, detected Skrulls through their disguises, and restrained them with targeted suppression technology.
• Black Dragon blocked internal communications, preventing infiltrators from using their authority or calling for help.
• Terminator units subdued Skrulls who resisted, while Steve and the Avengers guarded building perimeters and stopped escapees.
• Red target markers went dark across the world, and Fury kept the operation hidden from the public as the priority-one purge concluded.

Nick Fury lured mid-level Skrull infiltrators into a S.H.I.E.L.D. command branch and had them killed after the high-ranking purge drew their attention. Though the operation crippled S.H.I.E.L.D.’s networks and projects, Fury prepared to begin the wider level-two purge.

• Mid-level Skrulls around the world noticed their high-ranking contacts had vanished and gathered at a S.H.I.E.L.D. branch to demand answers from Nick Fury.
• Fury sealed the exits and activated containment devices as S.H.I.E.L.D. forces trapped the Skrulls.
• The suppression field immobilized the Skrulls, and the T-1000s killed them within seconds.
• Fury reflected on the loss of valuable contacts, resources, and projects that S.H.I.E.L.D. had relied on.
• Fury confirmed the preliminary cleanup was complete and prepared to launch the area-wide level-two purge.

Rimuru oversaw a secret global operation to replace thousands of Skrull industry elites with Terminators, while Nick Fury suppressed several near-exposures. The operation mostly succeeded, but rumors blamed mysterious clones for the elites’ changed behavior, leaving Rimuru resentful as the wider purge remained unfinished.

• The command room rejected a violent assault on the level-two Skrull targets and chose a covert replacement plan using Rimuru’s Terminators and Mimicry system.
• Rimuru deployed Terminators to replace more than a thousand targets worldwide, and most of them took over their roles without detection.
• Some replacements failed when suspicious Skrulls raised alarms or Terminators could not imitate their targets’ unusual private behavior, sparking rumors that elites had changed personalities.
• Nick Fury used S.H.I.E.L.D. authority to suppress gossip, control information, and contain the near-exposures.
• Rimuru reviewed the reports and learned that people suspected the elites had been replaced by clones, so he grudgingly accepted the blame while the global purge continued.

Rimuru and the others struggled to decide how to purge hundreds of thousands of ordinary Skrulls without exposing the plan, triggering rebellions, or leaving behind countless bodies. After Rhodey’s proposal to disguise the purge as a counterterrorism or anti-Hydra operation was rejected, Tony proposed creating a major case to justify it.

• Rimuru, Steve, Tony, and Rhodey confronted the risks of purging hundreds of thousands of Skrulls and disposing of their bodies.
• Everyone turned to Nick Fury to solve the problem, but Fury had no answer.
• Rhodey proposed using the regular army to conduct a large-scale purge under the cover of a counterterrorism or anti-Hydra operation.
• Tony and Steve rejected Rhodey’s proposal because its scale would arouse suspicion and risk destroying public trust.
• Tony suggested creating a major case large enough to justify the purge.

Rimuru and the command team finalized a plan to disguise the global extermination of Skrulls as a crackdown on alien-weapons smuggling, then launched it openly. After weeks of operations, they purged the remaining low-ranking Skrulls worldwide and erased the evidence, leaving the infiltration officially declared over.

• Tony proposed blaming a global alien-weapons smuggling network for the missing Skrulls, and the command team adopted the cover story for the purge.
• Rimuru offered to dispose of the hundreds of thousands of Skrull corpses and all other evidence in his virtual space.
• Fury announced a global crackdown on the supposed Chitauri-weapons smuggling network, drawing public and government attention to the fabricated case.
• Rimuru ordered the Terminators deployed worldwide to surround Skrull settlements, suppress resistance, and arrest or eliminate the inhabitants.
• Tony coordinated precise strikes against holdouts, Captain America blocked escape routes, and Rhodey managed military communications as the purges spread across the world.
• Rimuru sent the bodies and battlefield traces through spatial passages to Kuscia for dissolution, and the global purge ended with the Skrull population eliminated.

After the Skrulls were wiped out, Rimuru welcomed Steve Rogers and elderly Peggy Carter to his residence to discuss the plan to restore her youth. He explained that he could not rejuvenate her aging body, but could grow a new young body from her genes in his underground laboratory.

• Rimuru relaxed after the Skrulls were eliminated and thought about taking a vacation with Natasha, though the global reshuffle threatened to delay his plans.
• Rimuru reflected that the Skrull crisis had left Tony anxious and obsessively building suits of armor, which he kept bringing to Rimuru to test.
• Black Dragon informed Rimuru that Steve Rogers and Peggy Carter had arrived to see him.
• Steve reminded Rimuru of his promise to help Peggy regain her youth and extend her life, and said she had agreed to the plan.
• Rimuru told Peggy he could not reverse the aging of her current body but could separate her from it and give her a long life.
• Rimuru brought Steve and Peggy to his underground laboratory and explained that he would grow Peggy a flawless young body using her youthful genes as a template.

Rimuru explained how he would grow Peggy Carter a new body and transfer her soul into it, and Peggy agreed to the rebirth. Tony arrived hoping to test his armor, but left when he learned he might witness Peggy's naked body during the process; Rimuru then prepared to begin.

• Rimuru described creating a new body for Peggy Carter and transferring her soul, memories, and personality into it.
• Peggy Carter agreed to the procedure because she trusted Rimuru, and Steve felt relieved.
• Tony Stark entered the laboratory in upgraded armor, greeted Steve and Peggy, and asked about the project.
• Rimuru explained Peggy's wish to protect Earth and offered Tony a chance to observe, then warned him the new body would be unclothed.
• Tony realized the awkwardness of watching and quickly left the laboratory.
• Rimuru raised his hand toward the cultivation chamber and prepared to begin growing Peggy's new body.

The narrator created a youthful body for Peggy Carter and transferred her soul into it, restoring her youth and reuniting her with Steve. Peggy confirmed her identity as Tony cautiously asked to enter the laboratory.

• The narrator used Peggy's genetic blueprint to cultivate a healthy body modeled on her twenty-seven-year-old self.
• Steve and elderly Peggy watched the new body form and reacted with shock and emotion.
• The narrator transferred Peggy's consciousness, memories, and emotions into the cultivated body, leaving her old body lifeless.
• Peggy woke in her youthful body, stepped out of the chamber, and told Steve, "it's me."
• Tony knocked on the laboratory door and asked whether he could come in.