

She can void the deal and let him pass on to the afterlife. But then to Ted's surprise, Magik offers him a way to end his curse. He had long accepted his punishment for cursing himself, spending years to watch and guard the Nexus of All Realities through the Man-Thing's eyes. Ted admittingly knows that Man-Thing purposely locked him away for his deal with Belasco. His desperate escape from AIM and resulting car crash unleashed Man-Thing's birth and as well creating the Nexus of All Realities in the same moment. Unfortunately Ted did not foreseen that his wife selling him out to AIM, causing him to injected the serum in himself to hide the evidence of his ruse and mixed inter-dimensional magic with his blood. A magic spell was used to perfect SO-2 in which Ted kept this secret. The scientist was confident that he could outwit Belasco and took the deal. Ted had went to his old lab and summoned Belasco, who promised a solution for Ted's work but at a great cost. She explains to Ted that she is intimately aware of how he was able to make a "shortcut" on SO-2 is because he had made an unholy deal with the demon Belasco, the former ruler of Limbo and Magik's predecessor. Magik enters Man-Thing's mind and meets Ted. Man-Thing's summoning had brought Magik to him. Ororo rebuke Sinister, calling him a fool for not considering how Earth's ecosystem is fragile and comparing his rationale to exterminating bees and allowing flowers to go extinct. The Quiet Council convene on whether they should help the human nations or not-members like Mister Sinister are in favor of allowing the cleansing to continue and leaving the world bare for mutants. Elsewhere the growths in the other cities continues to remain a threat except in Krakoa-the growth there had been rendered inert by the sentient island. Meanwhile, the growth in New York City has stopped spawning drones due to Man-Thing having absorbed them, but its toxic pollen remains. Angered, Harriet swears that she will find a way through, deal with the Hordeculture, and then spreading her human genocide across the Multiverse. She attempts to go through the portal but quickly finds out that she is being blocked. Harrower looks into a portal where her great aunt Augusta and Lily went and finds out that they had fell through the Nexus of All Realities. Synopsis for "Devils and Dark Rooms" Chapter Seven: Devils and Dark Rooms Unidentified reality (First appearance).Man-Thing's Swamp (Main story and recap).

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