Chapter Summaries

Rimuru ended Thor and Loki’s confrontation by inviting Thor to drink baijiu, while Loki was taken into custody aboard the Helicarrier. In detention, Loki manipulated the team and provoked Banner, leaving suspicion and unease among the Avengers.

• Rimuru reassured Thor, dismissed the damage Loki had caused, and invited him to try Moutai.
• Thor seized Loki and accompanied Rimuru and Tony back to the Helicarrier, where S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers restrained and escorted Loki to a cell.
• Loki cooperated with his arrest while privately believing the Helicarrier’s layout and defenses matched his plans to begin the Battle of New York.
• Banner felt uneasy at Loki’s expression, while Nick Fury warned Loki not to attempt an escape.
• Loki taunted the Avengers through the interrogation chamber, targeted Banner to stir Hulk’s anger, and planted suspicion among Steve, Tony, Natasha, Bucky, and the others.

As the team analyzed Loki’s plans aboard the Helicarrier, Rimuru hoped the coming crisis would help him secure land for Metroplex and turned the tense meeting into a drinking party. Thor and Tony enjoyed Rimuru’s Moutai while Steve, Bucky, Natasha, and Banner refused, leaving the group’s discussion of Loki’s threat underway.

• Rimuru gave Thor an enormous goblet of Moutai, and Thor’s first gulp made him cough and blush.
• Thor recovered and began sipping the liquor slowly while Steve, Natasha, Bucky, and the others analyzed why Loki had stolen the Tesseract and allowed himself to be captured.
• Tony asked Rimuru for a glass, tasted the Moutai, and praised its flavor.
• Steve, Bucky, Natasha, and Banner refused to drink because of the mission and the risks alcohol posed.
• Thor and Tony continued drinking and chatting as the serious briefing became a relaxed gathering.

Tony explained Loki’s plan to use iridium to stabilize a portal for an alien invasion, while the team uncovered S.H.I.E.L.D.’s secret Tesseract weapons project. Trust collapsed in the command center, and Fury blamed Asgard, leaving Thor bewildered and accused.

• Tony explained that Loki had stolen iridium to stabilize a portal and bring an alien army to Earth.
• Tony and Banner analyzed Loki’s scepter while Rimuru played a video game with a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and Fury assigned Coulson to watch Thor.
• Tony and Banner questioned Fury’s secrecy, and Steve investigated S.H.I.E.L.D.’s classified files.
• Tony uncovered the Phase Two Project, and Steve confronted Fury about using Tesseract energy to develop weapons.
• The team accused Fury as Loki’s scepter amplified their anger, but Fury blamed Asgard and Thor protested that he had been on Earth for less than a day.

Nick Fury defended using the Tesseract to arm Earth, but the Avengers’ argument grew dangerously hostile as the Mind Stone amplified their negative emotions. Rimuru blocked the interference and calmed the group, then asked whether everyone had recovered.

• Nick Fury argued that Earth needed Tesseract-powered weapons to defend itself against threats from beyond the stars.
• Steve, Tony, Banner, and Thor condemned Fury’s plan, while Natasha tried to calm the escalating dispute.
• Coulson noticed the group’s anger was abnormal and told Rimuru about the strange arguments.
• Rimuru realized Loki’s Scepter was releasing mental interference and that Hawkeye could soon lead an attack on the Helicarrier.
• Rimuru blocked the Scepter’s radiation and gave Nick Fury, Thor, Tony, Steve, and Natasha medicine that eased their agitation.
• Rimuru asked the now-calm group whether everyone had settled down.

After the Mind Stone’s influence was exposed, the Avengers’ argument ended just as Loki’s attack struck the Helicarrier. Rimuru’s Terminators silently eliminated Hawkeye’s raiding squad, while Natasha and Banner fell through the damaged deck and Banner began transforming into Hulk.

• Rimuru confronted the Avengers over their infighting, and they realized Loki’s Scepter had intensified their suspicions and anger.
• The Tesseract’s energy trace located it at Stark Tower, but an explosion disabled Engine Three and threw the Helicarrier into chaos.
• Rimuru gave Coulson a recovery potion as Fury received Hill’s report, while Tony and Steve headed for their armor and shield.
• Natasha and Banner fell through a blown-out floor, and Rimuru sensed that the T-1000 Terminators had already defeated Hawkeye’s attackers.
• Rimuru reached the damaged lower deck and found Natasha injured and Banner losing control as he began transforming into Hulk.

Rimuru calmed Banner, healed Natasha, and sent her to confront Hawkeye with a belt, while he headed to watch the engine repairs. Loki escaped the Helicarrier after stabbing Coulson, leaving Natasha grieving and angry.

• Rimuru used a paralyzing sleep breath to calm Banner and helped Natasha recover from her injury.
• Rimuru gave Natasha a Septwolves belt and told her to use it against the controlled Hawkeye, then went to watch the repairs at engine three.
• Natasha encountered Loki and Hawkeye in the corridor and fought Hawkeye while Loki interfered with illusions and the Mind Stone.
• Coulson confronted Loki, who stabbed him through the chest with the Mind Stone Scepter.
• Natasha knocked Hawkeye unconscious, but Loki escaped, leaving Coulson critically wounded.

Nick Fury discovered that Rimuru had secretly given Coulson a recovery potion and decided to fake Coulson’s death to unite the divided Avengers. As Coulson was carried away under a white sheet, Rimuru remained unaware of the emergency while watching Tony repair the Helicarrier’s engine.

• Natasha reported Coulson’s critical injuries and called for Rimuru, who could not hear because he was out of communication range.
• Nick Fury reached Coulson and learned about the recovery potion hidden in his jacket.
• Fury planned to stage Coulson’s death so the Avengers would set aside their divisions and unite against Loki.
• Coulson pretended to die, and Fury told Natasha and the arriving Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. that Coulson had been killed in action.
• The agents carried Coulson away beneath a white sheet, and his eyelashes trembled once they were out of sight.
• Rimuru finished watching Tony repair the engine and prepared to leave.

After the Helicarrier attack, Rimuru used Nick Fury’s staged account of Coulson’s death to bargain for land for an Avengers base, and Fury agreed to a concealed city-sized site. The group regrouped for the pre-battle briefing, while Steve and Tony accepted that Rimuru could not save Coulson.

• The Helicarrier stabilized after the fighting, and Natasha went to check on Hawkeye while Rimuru thought about food.
• Nick Fury showed Rimuru bloodstained autograph cards and claimed they had been found in Coulson’s jacket, but Rimuru recognized Fury’s attempt to stir the Avengers’ resolve.
• Rimuru demanded land for an Avengers base and revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had copied his technology and that Fury had used the Tesseract to make weapons partly to guard against him.
• Fury agreed to a site about the size of a medium-sized city after Rimuru promised to conceal it from satellites and radar.
• Fury asked Rimuru to wake Banner and gather everyone for a pre-battle briefing, and Rimuru dispelled Banner’s paralyzing sleep.
• Steve asked whether Rimuru could have saved Coulson, and Rimuru denied being able to do so, leaving Steve and Tony to accept Coulson’s death and focus on the coming battle.

Tony identified Stark Tower in New York as the stage for Loki’s planned invasion, and the Avengers united and headed there. They arrived too late to stop Selvig’s device, whose blue shield protected it as panic spread below.

• Tony deduced that Loki planned to open a portal over New York from Stark Tower and conquer Earth before a worldwide audience.
• Steve rallied the Avengers, and Banner, Natasha, Thor, and the others prepared to fight while Rimuru remained relaxed.
• Fury sent the Avengers to Manhattan in the Quinjet, then admitted to Hill that he had used Coulson’s staged death to unite them.
• Tony reached Stark Tower and found the mind-controlled Dr. Selvig activating the portal device.
• Tony fired at the device, but its blue energy shield blocked the blast as people below noticed the commotion and began to panic.

Loki’s attack triggered the Tesseract’s portal, bringing the Chitauri Army to New York as Thor, Tony, and the arriving Avengers fought to respond. Rimuru abandoned his spectator’s role when Chitauri fighters headed for his electric vehicle factory.

• Tony taunted Loki until Loki lost his temper, threw him from the rooftop, and Tony activated his new armor.
• The Tesseract opened a vast portal, and the Chitauri Army poured through to attack New York.
• Thor confronted Loki on the rooftop, but Loki’s boosted, slippery fighting style pushed Thor onto the defensive.
• Captain America, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Banner arrived in a damaged Quinjet after Loki blasted it with his scepter.
• The Chitauri capital warship descended over New York, and Rimuru spotted fighters heading toward his factory and prepared to fight.

Rimuru destroyed the Chitauri leviathan warships with a casual attack, leaving the Avengers relieved but Nick Fury and the World Security Council alarmed by the destruction his power could cause. Fury insisted the situation was under control and warned that Rimuru would be far more dangerous as an enemy.

• Rimuru combined Black Flame Lightning with Kamar-Taj magic and destroyed the Chitauri leviathan warships above New York in one attack.
• The Avengers relaxed after seeing Rimuru eliminate the ships, then realized how disastrous Loki controlling him could have been.
• Nick Fury ordered Hill to contact Rimuru, but she said he had no communicator; Fury then told her to reach Tony and ask him to intervene.
• The World Security Council confronted Fury over the apparent nuclear-scale destruction in New York and challenged his claim that the situation was under control.
• Fury defended Rimuru as an ally and warned the council that they would not have time to question him if Rimuru were their enemy.

Rimuru deployed his Terminator army to rescue civilians and overwhelm the Chitauri ground forces, then summoned the Transformers to seize control of the skies. The Avengers watched as Optimus Prime, Megatron, and their forces destroyed the Chitauri ships and cut off the enemy reinforcements.

• Tony delivered Fury's urgent message, and Rimuru stopped his indiscriminate bombardment while the Chitauri portal continued pouring out troops.
• Rimuru surveyed the battlefield, saw the heroes and civilians under pressure, and ordered Black Dragon to deploy Terminators to New York.
• The Terminators overwhelmed the Chitauri ground forces and evacuated the remaining civilians, but could not reach most enemies in the sky.
• After confirming the danger zone was clear, Rimuru ordered Black Dragon to deploy the Transformers army.
• Optimus Prime and Megatron led the Autobots and Decepticons in destroying Chitauri fighters and warships, securing the skies and stopping reinforcements from reaching the city.

Rimuru’s Transformers and Ultimate Nullifiers overwhelmed Loki’s Chitauri army while Thor subdued Loki. Fearing Rimuru’s power, the World Security Council secretly ordered a nuclear strike on New York, but Nick Fury and the T-1000s stopped the attack before it could reach the city.

• Rimuru’s mechanical forces slaughtered the Chitauri across the battlefield as Thor pinned down and beat Loki.
• The World Security Council bypassed Nick Fury and ordered two nuclear-armed fighters to launch toward downtown New York.
• Hill alerted Fury to the unauthorized takeoff, and Fury ordered the T-1000s and Helicarrier defenses to intercept the fighters.
• Nick Fury destroyed one fighter with a cannon, while T-1000s tore apart the second and secured its nuclear warhead.
• Nick Fury condemned the Council’s decision and feared that Earth’s shortsighted leaders posed a greater danger than alien invaders.

Rimuru watched the Transformers defeat the Chitauri and abandoned his plan to profit from a nuclear strike after realizing Fury had stopped it. As the Avengers cornered Loki on Stark Tower, Hulk smashed him across the rooftop while Rimuru recorded the scene.

• Rimuru watched the Transformers wipe out the Chitauri at the portal and considered, then rejected, renting out the living Transformers.
• Rimuru waited for the World Security Council to launch a nuke, then realized Nick Fury had prevented the strike and vowed to demand compensation from Fury.
• Rimuru turned his attention to Stark Tower, eager to record Hulk's famous confrontation with Loki.
• Loki tried to escape as the Avengers surrounded him, then provoked Hulk by declaring himself a god.
• Hulk grabbed Loki by the leg and repeatedly smashed him into the rooftop, leaving him dazed and subdued.
• Rimuru recorded the beating and watched the footage with satisfaction.

After Dr. Selvig revealed that Loki's Scepter could close the portal, the Avengers and their allies searched the battlefield for it. Eddie and Venom emerged with the scepter, leaving the heroes on guard against the strange creature.

• Dr. Selvig told the Avengers that Loki's Scepter could activate the portal's failsafe, but the scepter had been lost in the battle.
• Loki claimed he did not know where the scepter was, and Thor stopped Hulk from attacking him after judging that he was telling the truth.
• Tony ordered the Avengers to search the battlefield, while Rimuru sent the Terminator legion and the Transformers to look through the rubble.
• Eddie and Venom emerged from the ruins holding Loki's Scepter, prompting the Avengers to take fighting stances.
• Natasha recognized Venom's appearance as a painful reminder of her encounter at the Life Foundation.

After the battle, Rimuru introduced Venom and Eddie to the Avengers as allies, while the heroes welcomed Peter for his bravery. With the Mind Stone Scepter recovered and Dr. Selvig ready to close the portal, the group prepared to end the invasion, but someone called for them to wait.

• The Avengers recognized Venom as an ally, and Rimuru introduced him and Eddie as his personal sales manager and partner.
• Peter arrived after rescuing civilians and fighting Chitauri, and the Avengers praised him and welcomed him.
• The Avengers kept their distance from Venom until Rimuru offered Eddie dark chocolate, prompting Venom to retreat into Eddie's body.
• Steve took the Mind Stone Scepter as Dr. Selvig repaired and calibrated the portal device for its closure.
• The Avengers prepared to close the portal as the Chitauri gathered beyond it, but a familiar voice told them to wait.

Rimuru summoned Galactron to destroy the Chitauri forces and their space fortress through the portal. Steve and Dr. Selvig closed the portal after the attack, ending the invasion with Galactron hovering over New York.

• Rimuru told the others to keep the portal open so he could give the Chitauri a final gift, then summoned Galactron.
• Galactron charged its chest core and fired a powerful beam through the portal, annihilating the Chitauri ships and destroying Sanctuary II.
• Nick Fury watched the attack on the S.H.I.E.L.D. carrier and recognized Galactron as the machine that had destroyed Abomination.
• Steve ordered the portal closed, and Dr. Selvig and Steve used the portal device and scepter to seal it.

After the Battle of New York, Rimuru confirmed that his intervention had erased the original timeline’s time travel and its tragic deaths, but worried that it had also removed important reunions and altered Loki’s path to becoming the God of Stories. The chapter left him suspecting his changes might bring Thor and others more trouble, and resolving to make amends.

• Rimuru sent the Transformers and Galactron away after the Battle of New York, and Tony invited the exhausted heroes to eat shawarma.
• Rimuru asked Black Dragon to scan the timeline and learned there were no signs of spacetime disruption.
• Rimuru reflected that his intervention had prevented Tony and Natasha’s deaths, but had also erased the time travel that would have allowed Tony and Steve to reunite with loved ones from the past.
• The heroes ate at a shawarma shop, while Rimuru wondered whether Loki would still encounter the TVA and become the God of Stories without escaping with the Tesseract.
• Rimuru worried that his intervention might make things worse for Thor and decided he would have to make amends.

After learning that New York's shutdown order stemmed from its collapsed power grid rather than officials targeting his factory, Rimuru decided to accompany Thor to Asgard. He planned to acquire the Tesseract, arrange specialized gear for Pietro, recruit Nidavellir's dwarves, and avert Ragnarok.

• Rimuru initially suspected that S.H.I.E.L.D. and city officials had targeted his factory, but realized the citywide shutdown was caused by the ruined power grid.
• Rimuru decided to return to Asgard with Thor and obtain the Tesseract after the Bifrost was repaired.
• Rimuru planned to have Nidavellir's dwarves forge speed-focused weapons and protective gear for Pietro, while bringing the dwarves under his influence.
• Rimuru concluded that he could persuade Odin by preventing Ragnarok and saving Asgard from its destined destruction.
• Rimuru looked at Thor eating kebabs and resolved to claim Asgard's benefits, strengthen his forces, and change its fate.

Rimuru joined Thor and the bound Loki on their journey to Asgard, claiming he had important business concerning the realm’s survival. After they departed, Natasha and Barton reported the news to Nick Fury, who realized his plans to use Rimuru’s forces for New York’s recovery and Earth’s defense were now on hold.

• Thor prepared to take the bound Loki back to Asgard as the Avengers gathered to see them off.
• Rimuru interrupted their departure and asked Thor to take him to Asgard, saying he had important business tied to the realm’s survival.
• Thor welcomed Rimuru as a guest, and the Tesseract transported him, Thor, and Loki to Asgard.
• Natasha and Barton agreed that Rimuru’s involvement in Asgard was top-priority intelligence, and Barton sent the news to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
• Nick Fury learned that Rimuru had left Earth and lamented that his plans for postwar cleanup, land negotiations, and Ultimate Nullifier cooperation had been derailed.