Chapter Summaries

Su Zhou confronted a Doombot, learned how Doctor Doom had pulled him out of Galactus’s mental world, and heard Doom’s plan to rebuild Battleworld from the remains of destroyed universes. When Doom proposed bringing dimensional demon gods and Hell Lords into Battleworld, a second Doombot ambushed Su Zhou, who prepared to fight both.

• Su Zhou identified the Doctor Doom before him as a soulless Doombot by sensing that it had no flesh and blood.
• The real Doctor Doom appeared and explained that he had used a healing spell to call Su Zhou’s consciousness back, bypassing the Phoenix Force because it considered him an ally.
• Doctor Doom told Su Zhou that the multiverse was still collapsing and that he was using Molecule Man’s power to gather universe fragments and rebuild them into Battleworld.
• Doctor Doom invited Su Zhou to help bring dimensional demon gods and Hell Lords, along with their Hell Dimensions, into Battleworld.
• A second Doombot attacked Su Zhou from behind, but Su Zhou blocked its blast and vowed to tear both Doombots apart.

Su Zhou fought Doctor Doom’s two Doombots, but Doom’s soul escaped through a spatial rift after one Doombot detonated and destroyed Earth. With Strange reporting an unfamiliar forbidden spell, Su Zhou decided to find targets to drain for power and draw prizes.

• Su Zhou inferred that Doctor Doom planned to conquer Hell Dimensions and chose him as a stepping stone, while Doom believed Su Zhou was a Kamar-Taj sorcerer with exploitable weaknesses.
• Su Zhou sent the Phoenix Force after the Doombot controlled by Doctor Doom, while the second Doombot’s energy beam briefly stalled the Phoenix’s attack.
• Doctor Doom abandoned the Doombot as a streak of white light, but Su Zhou attacked the empty machine with a dark-energy greatsword.
• The second Doombot detonated itself, destroying Earth and tearing open spatial rifts that Doctor Doom used to escape.
• Strange told Su Zhou he had sensed an unfamiliar forbidden spell, and Su Zhou identified it as a high-tech magic bomb designed to rupture space.
• Su Zhou decided to find people to drain for power and draw prizes.

Su Zhou planned to provoke a war among the Hell Lords to strengthen his Dark Dimension and prepare to face God Emperor Doom. Strange and Clea warned him of the danger, but Su Zhou set out to use himself and his dimension as bait.

• Su Zhou left Strange and decided he needed to grow strong enough to confront God Emperor Doom.
• On the way to the Demon Bazaar, Su Zhou told Strange and Clea he would impersonate Dormammu and fight the Hell Lords to expand the Dark Dimension.
• Clea agreed that Su Zhou's disguise could work but warned that a Hell Lord war would draw in other powers and leave Earth and Kamar-Taj out of it.
• Su Zhou revealed he intended to use his dimension as bait, drawing every Hell Lord into a chaotic battle so he could seize the Gate of Hell and the Demon Bazaar's largest Hell fragment core.
• Strange accepted that Su Zhou had made up his mind and wished him luck.

Su Zhou disguised himself as Dormammu and entered the Demon Gathering, where he tried to pose as a vulnerable amnesiac. Mephisto claimed to be his big brother, and Su Zhou played along while deciding that Mephisto was a promising target.

• Su Zhou went to the Demon Gathering in a cloak of Dark Energy while Strange and Clea waited in the Dark Dimension to help if needed.
• Su Zhou headed for the Hell Lords’ meeting place, where they gathered to compete for control of Hell’s largest fragment and the name Satan.
• A red demon recognized Su Zhou as Dormammu and asked which human he had possessed.
• Su Zhou claimed an intruder had stolen his memories and said he had come to find his big brother.
• Mephisto introduced himself as Su Zhou’s best big brother, and Su Zhou embraced him while accepting the claim.

Mephisto brought the amnesiac Su Zhou to the Hell Council and explained its vote over who would become Satan and control the largest Hell Dimension. After learning that voting for another Hell Lord exposed an alliance, Su Zhou asked Mephisto who he should vote for, and Mephisto asked whether he knew Hela.

• Su Zhou pretended to trust Mephisto while planning to attract more Hell Lords’ attention and use their rivalry to protect himself.
• Mephisto told Su Zhou that the Hell Council was about to convene and led him through the Demon Bazaar.
• Mephisto explained that the Hell Lords would vote on who inherited the title of Satan, though their repeated meetings had never settled the matter.
• Mephisto advised Su Zhou to vote for himself, explaining that giving another Lord a vote would reveal an alliance and make its members targets.
• Su Zhou asked Mephisto who he should vote for, and Mephisto asked whether he knew Hela.

Su Zhou used his supposed amnesia to get Mephisto to promise to introduce him to Hela at the Hell Council. When Mephisto learned that Doctor Doom had supposedly stolen Su Zhou’s memories, he panicked about his dimension’s coordinates and tried to leave, but Su Zhou caught and restrained him.

• Su Zhou explained that the Hela Mephisto knew was a different version from the Hela being raised in Asgard, and claimed he could not remember what she looked like.
• Mephisto asked Su Zhou to attend the Hell Council and sound out Hela, promising to introduce them.
• Su Zhou claimed Doctor Doom had beaten him and stolen part of his memories, and Mephisto recognized Doom as an enemy.
• Mephisto worried Doom might have stolen the coordinates to the Hell Dimensions and asked whether Su Zhou knew the coordinates to his own dimension.
• Mephisto tried to leave and return to change his dimension’s coordinates, but Su Zhou grabbed him and threatened him for breaking their agreement.

Su Zhou forced Mephisto to take him to the Hell Council instead of returning to his own dimension. There, Su Zhou recognized Mephisto’s son, Blackheart, and Mephisto called him over to meet his uncle.

• Su Zhou discovered Mephisto’s hidden mark and placed Dark Energy on him to track him, threatening war if Mephisto fled.
• Mephisto abandoned his attempt to return to his dimension and persuaded Su Zhou to attend the Hell Council with him.
• Mephisto used a teleportation array to bring Su Zhou to a vast gathering of Hell Lords.
• Su Zhou took the seat Mephisto had chosen and found himself able to see Cyttorak, Chthon, and Shuma-Gorath at the head of the table.
• Su Zhou asked whether the figure beside Mephisto was Blackheart, and Mephisto called his son over to meet his uncle.

At the Hell Council, Su Zhou posed as an amnesiac Dormammu and swiftly established his strength by attacking Blackheart. After Hela introduced herself and invited him to her dimension, Mephisto warned that she only wanted his body.

• Blackheart reluctantly insulted Su Zhou, prompting Su Zhou to pin him to his seat with a flaming black sword.
• Su Zhou warned Blackheart that he would kill him if he moved before the meeting ended, and the other Hell Lords took renewed interest in him.
• Mephisto admitted that Blackheart’s provocation had been arranged to test Su Zhou’s abilities, then backed down when Su Zhou threatened him with another sword.
• Su Zhou noticed the dark-green woman and accepted her telepathic request to communicate.
• Hela introduced herself as Asgard’s Goddess of Death and invited Su Zhou to visit her dimension.
• Mephisto told Su Zhou not to go because Hela only wanted his body.

Su Zhou uncovered Hela’s attempt to manipulate him and attended the Hell Council, where Mephisto passed him the floor after a long round of Satan-candidate speeches. Su Zhou began his address by challenging any Hell Lord with a grudge to a fight to the death and calling Mephisto his big brother.

• Su Zhou revealed that he had invaded Hela’s mind, seen through her scheme, and found the Hel Dimension; he promised to visit after the Hell Council.
• Mephisto explained that the Hell Lords would give speeches before voting, and the candidates took turns promising to make Hell great again.
• Cyttorak, Chthon, and Eye Demon Shuma-Gorath watched Su Zhou, making him ready himself to escape or fight.
• Mephisto finished his speech and handed the floor to Su Zhou, who had prepared nothing.
• Su Zhou challenged any Hell Lord who held a grudge against him to a fight to the death and described Mephisto as his big brother.

Su Zhou won over the Hell Lords, who promised to vote for him as the next “Satan,” but he accidentally wrote his own name while playing Dormammu. Eye Demon Shuma-Gorath then offered to trade the title of “Satan” for the mysterious thing within Su Zhou.

• The Hell Lords enthusiastically invited Su Zhou to visit their realms and promised to vote for him as the next “Satan.”
• Mephisto questioned Su Zhou about what the others had said, and Su Zhou told him they had called him a liar.
• Eye Demon Shuma-Gorath began the vote, and Su Zhou wrote his own name on the parchment before remembering he was playing Dormammu.
• Shuma-Gorath asked Su Zhou about Strange and the power Strange had taken, then said it did not matter to him.
• Shuma-Gorath asked what the unknowable thing within Su Zhou was and offered the largest Hell Dimension in exchange for it.

Su Zhou refused the Eye Demon’s offer to trade away his system, but the Hell Lords voted to make him Satan, setting him up to face challengers before he could claim the largest Hell Dimension. He accepted that he could not leave and called for the first challenger.

• Su Zhou rejected the Eye Demon’s request to trade his system for the Hell Dimension beneath him.
• The Hell Lords voted overwhelmingly for Dormammu to inherit the title of Satan, and Shuma-Gorath, Chthon, and Cyttorak supported the decision.
• The Eye Demon declared Su Zhou the legitimate master of the largest Hell Dimension and heir to Satan’s title.
• Su Zhou realized the Hell Lords intended to challenge him and that Strange and Clea feared being caught in the coming battle.
• Su Zhou stepped onto the enchanted stone table and asked who would challenge him first.

Su Zhou was forced into a contest for Satan as the three powerful Hell Lords used the other Hell Lords as bait to break their stalemate. After quickly devouring an opponent and earning Justice Points, Su Zhou challenged Mephisto to fight.

• Su Zhou realized the three big shots planned to use him and the Hell Lords to create an opening for one of them to claim the scattered Hell Dimensions.
• The Hell Lords waited for someone else to fight Dormammu first, while Su Zhou argued with the system over how many Justice Points a Hell Lord was worth.
• Chthon threw an oversized goblin Hell Lord onto the stone table, and Su Zhou immediately attacked him with the Dark Dimension and Phoenix Force.
• Su Zhou destroyed the goblin, absorbed his Hell Dimension fragment, and earned 1,000 Justice Points.
• Su Zhou challenged Mephisto, who accepted because refusing would mean conceding Su Zhou's title of Satan.

Mephisto and Blackheart prepared to fight Su Zhou, but Su Zhou exposed Mephisto’s plan to weaken him with an ambush. Su Zhou revealed that he was not Dormammu but a human mage from Kamar-Taj, leaving the Hell Lords shaken by the implications of his strength.

• Mephisto burned his hand on the lingering dark energy in Su Zhou’s greatsword, and Blackheart’s chest wound also continued to resist healing.
• Mephisto cleared the dark energy from Blackheart’s wound and promised to make him a powerful lord if they won.
• Su Zhou read Blackheart’s thoughts and decided he might help Blackheart betray Mephisto during the fight.
• Su Zhou told Mephisto that he knew Mephisto grew weaker away from his Hell Dimension and had seen through his planned ambush.
• Su Zhou admitted he had not lost his memory and revealed that he was Su Zhou, a human mage from Kamar-Taj rather than Dormammu.
• The Hell Lords realized that Su Zhou had defeated Dormammu and taken control of the Dark Dimension, and feared what he could do without its power.

Su Zhou revealed his identity and demanded the Hell Lords surrender their dimensions or face him. He dragged Mephisto and Blackheart into Mephisto’s Hell Dimension to fight, leaving Hela wondering whether the two had run off together.

• Su Zhou told Mephisto he had used Dormammu’s name for fun and demanded that the Hell Lords surrender their dimensions or fight him.
• Su Zhou attacked Mephisto, who opened a portal to his Hell Dimension and unleashed the power he had concealed.
• Mephisto explained that he had lured other Hell Lords into his dimension to absorb them and take their territory, then tried to burn Su Zhou’s soul with green fire.
• Su Zhou spat Dark Energy at Mephisto, spread six black wings, and carried Mephisto and Blackheart into Mephisto’s Hell Dimension for a fight.
• Hela looked at the remaining Hell Lords and wondered whether Su Zhou and Mephisto had run off together.

Chthon, Cyttorak, and Shuma-Gorath argued over alliances while tracking Su Zhou and Mephisto. In Mephisto’s Hell, Su Zhou watched his opponent draw on the dimension’s power and challenged him by asking whether he wanted to know how Dormammu died.

• Shuma-Gorath asked Chthon whether he would ally with Su Zhou, but Chthon challenged him to fight alongside Su Zhou against Chthon and Cyttorak.
• Cyttorak offered to team up with Su Zhou, making Chthon and Shuma-Gorath suspicious of one another’s plans.
• Su Zhou entered Mephisto’s Hell and said he wanted the dimension for himself.
• Mephisto returned to his Hell, drew on its energy, and grew into a hundred-meter giant as Blackheart left to gather an army.
• Su Zhou donned his uru armor and asked Mephisto whether he wanted to know how Dormammu died.

Su Zhou revealed his Heaven Dimension and a second Divine Dimension, rallying a thousand Valkyries as he challenged Mephisto without using Dark Energy. Mephisto attacked, and Su Zhou answered by surrounding him with countless blades of light.

• Mephisto questioned how Su Zhou had defeated Dormammu, and Su Zhou revealed his Holy Energy shield, sword, and Divine Dimension.
• Su Zhou opened a second portal, while Urd and one thousand Valkyries prepared to join the battle with their unicorns.
• Blackheart arrived with Gressil, Wallow, and Abigor as Su Zhou challenged Mephisto to begin the fight.
• Mephisto said the Vishanti would not attack him under their agreement and hurled a massive fireball at Su Zhou.
• Su Zhou split the fireball with a sword of light and summoned countless blades around Mephisto, naming his spell Su Zhou's Unlimited Blade Works.

Su Zhou fought Mephisto while ordering Urd and the Valkyries to attack Blackheart’s forces and protect themselves. He drew on the Divine Dimension’s holy energy to become a giant of light, leaving everyone in Hell stunned as he prepared to strike Mephisto.

• Su Zhou’s holy longswords shattered Mephisto’s lava shield and pinned him under a barrage of attacks.
• Su Zhou ordered Urd and the Valkyries to spare only Blackheart, avoid purifying Hell, and send the wounded to Heaven.
• Urd led the Valkyries toward Blackheart’s forces, and they charged eagerly despite Su Zhou’s warnings to stay safe.
• Su Zhou used holy energy from the Divine Dimension to purify Hell and weaken Mephisto’s power.
• Su Zhou grew into a hundred-meter-tall giant of light and announced that he would use his Leo Kick.

Su Zhou transformed into a giant of light and battered Mephisto with Ultraman-style kicks while the Valkyries routed the demons and captured Blackheart. Mephisto then threatened to destroy Hell's origin, leaving the Hell Dimension at risk.

• Su Zhou kicked Mephisto repeatedly while shouting the names of different Ultraman moves, leaving the onlookers bewildered.
• Blackheart tried to escape through a dimensional gateway, but Urd and the Valkyries blocked him and beat him and his three lackeys.
• Su Zhou exhausted his supply of close-combat move names and prepared to fire a beam finisher at Mephisto.
• Mephisto sprang up, demanded that Su Zhou speak properly, and grew enraged when Su Zhou answered only with sound effects.
• Mephisto pulled a glowing red energy ball from the ground and threatened to destroy Hell's origin, even if it killed them all.

Su Zhou ignored Mephisto’s attempts to trick him into taking Hell’s essence, then overwhelmed him with a holy spell. Mephisto detonated the Hell core hidden in his body and vanished in the blast, but he soon reappeared unharmed and seized Blackheart.

• Su Zhou refused to believe Mephisto’s claim that the energy mass was Hell’s essence and let him throw it away.
• Mephisto attacked Su Zhou with a lava sword, but Su Zhou dodged it, choked him, and cast Light of the Vishanti’s Judgment.
• As the spell dissolved much of Mephisto’s body, Mephisto detonated himself and the Hell core hidden inside him, interrupting the spell and engulfing Su Zhou in an explosion.
• Urd sensed that the Heaven Dimension’s power remained intact, then broke Blackheart’s spine while worrying that Mephisto had harmed Su Zhou.
• Mephisto reappeared unharmed, blasted away Urd and the other Valkyries, and picked up Blackheart, praising him for not surrendering.

Mephisto tried to flee Hell with Blackheart, but Blackheart betrayed him under Su Zhou’s influence, and Su Zhou killed them both. When Su Zhou demanded a major reward from his system, the system’s controller appeared and revealed that the triune Vishanti was one being.

• Mephisto prepared a concealment spell to teleport himself and Blackheart away from Hell.
• Blackheart stabbed Mephisto and demanded to know why his father would not die.
• Su Zhou appeared, revealed that he had manipulated Blackheart, and displayed Hell’s essence.
• Su Zhou beheaded Mephisto and Blackheart, then destroyed Mephisto’s soul.
• Su Zhou demanded Justice Points or a reward from his system, which summoned an enraged old man identifying himself as the triune Vishanti and the system’s controller.
• The old man seized Su Zhou and said the other two Vishanti were also him.