Chapter Summaries

Odin and Frigga prepared to return to Asgard after Tony’s banquet, leaving Thor and Loki on Void Island. At the Records Temple, a conversation about Mogri beauty led Lex to demonstrate that he could change his size with Void Power.

• Thor agreed to spar with Void Cult members after Odin’s family joined the cult.
• At Tony’s banquet, Odin told Tony that he and Frigga would return to Asgard, while Thor and Loki would stay on Void Island; Frigga asked Tony to keep an eye on Loki.
• Odin and Frigga registered their absence at the Records Temple, and Frigga invited Sarah to visit Asgard before they left.
• Lex discussed Mogri standards of beauty with Sarah, and Lacey confronted him after overhearing his remarks about her appearance.
• When Sarah asked whether Lex’s huge size would become inconvenient, Lex used Void Power to shrink from over four meters to two and a half meters and explained the limits of the ability.

Lex revealed that he had mastered a technique for making special metal vibrate, while Sarah considered whether she could use Void Power to create a sensory-sharing clone. After the feast, Banner brought Steve, Peggy, and Pepper to the training grounds, where Steve learned how difficult it was to strike Vibrating Gold without being hurt by its rebounding force.

• Lex explained that he had not taught his technique to other Void Cult members because he had not encountered worthy opponents and did not want to force guidance on them; Sarah offered to recommend suitable juniors to him.
• Lex left for Mogri, and Lacey went to tell Kyle about the technique while Sarah wondered whether she could create a clone that shared her six senses.
• After Tony funded a three-day feast, Banner took Steve, Peggy, and Pepper to the training grounds to learn the basics, while Thor and Loki headed to the gravity chamber.
• Banner explained that trainees had to strike graded Vibrating Gold until it shook continuously, while managing the force it reflected back at them.
• Steve struck a five-hundred-ton metal mountain with full strength, made it tremble only once, and was injured by the rebound.
• Banner explained the safety precautions and said he needed to attack continuously for thirty minutes without injury to complete his foundation, though he had only managed eighteen minutes so far.

Steve, Peggy, and Pepper began painful Vibrating Gold training as Steve committed to building the foundation needed to catch up with the Void Cult’s strongest members. Meanwhile, Tony and Banner received sublight propulsion engine research materials from Dam, who stayed within the limits of what he could share with the Nova Corps.

• Steve asked Banner what Vibrating Gold weight he should train with, and Banner recommended starting at one hundred tons before finding a suitable metal.
• Banner advised Steve, Peggy, and Pepper to learn from other Void Cult members and spar as they continued training.
• Steve, Peggy, and Pepper began training against Vibrating Gold, and its recoil injured them without discouraging them.
• Banner told Tony that Steve had tried a five-hundred-ton metal mountain before adjusting his approach and starting from the beginning.
• Dam warned Tony and Banner that he could provide materials and data but not manufacturing equipment or restricted research, then sent over one hundred documents on sublight propulsion engines.

Tony visited Harvey to find a source for the instruments needed to build a sublight propulsion engine, and Harvey pointed him toward Knowhere’s Black Market and recommended Star-Lord as a guide. After Tony left, Harvey offered to teach Sonia Void Detection Art that night, while she returned to planning incentives for the Void Cult’s farming and animal husbandry.

• Tony and Banner studied unfamiliar theories for sublight propulsion engines while Steve, Pepper, and Peggy trained against Vibrating Gold blocks.
• Sonia received 18.193 billion in New Year tributes and began planning the Void Cult’s development for the year.
• Tony asked Harvey where to obtain the instruments he and Banner needed, and Harvey suggested the Black Market at Knowhere.
• Harvey recommended Star-Lord Peter Jason Quill as a guide, and Jarvis reported Quill’s background and connection to the Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Harvey told Tony that Quill had an unawakened demigod body, and Tony left to contact him.
• Harvey agreed to teach Sonia Void Detection Art that night, and Sonia resumed work on plans to encourage Void Cult members to join farming and animal husbandry.

Tony Stark and Bruce Banner hired Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy to guide them around Knowhere. Star-Lord accepted the job despite Nebula’s concerns, and the group set out for Xandar, still puzzled by Tony calling him a demigod.

• Tony returned to the laboratory and told Banner that Kassadin had sent them to Knowhere, where Star-Lord could serve as their guide.
• Banner recognized Star-Lord’s group from their encounter aboard Ronan’s warship, so Tony had Jarvis contact them.
• Tony offered Star-Lord’s group three million Universe Coins to guide them around Knowhere, and Star-Lord accepted despite Nebula’s objections.
• Nebula confronted Star-Lord about dealing with the Void Cult, while Drax and Gamora defended the group and Rocket asked why Tony had called Star-Lord a demigod.
• Star-Lord and the Guardians decided to leave for Starfall Harbor on Xandar and ask Tony about the strange title.

Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy arrived on Xandar and met Tony Stark, who hired them to guide him and Bruce Banner to Knowhere. Tony revealed that Star-Lord was a human-god hybrid with the potential to become a top powerhouse, leaving Loki stunned and asking who his father was.

• Star-Lord and the Guardians boarded Tony's AI-controlled Cosmic Battleship and traveled to Tony's laboratory on Void Island, while Nebula stayed behind to guard their ship.
• Tony introduced the Guardians to Pepper and the others, then explained that he and Banner planned to visit Knowhere's Black Market and expected the trip to take no more than one or two months.
• After Tony and Banner finished eating, Star-Lord asked Tony why he had called him a demigod.
• Tony said Kassadin had told him Star-Lord was a human-god hybrid whose father's identity was unusual and that awakening his power could make him one of the universe's strongest.
• Loki heard Tony's explanation and asked Star-Lord who his father was.

Tony and the others investigated Star-Lord’s origins and learned from Yondu that his biological father had hired the Ravagers to bring him in. Yondu revealed that Star-Lord’s father had abandoned children across the universe and was a scumbag who crossed even the Ravagers’ moral limits.

• Jarvis scanned Star-Lord and confirmed that his physical traits suggested he was a human-god hybrid with powerful potential.
• Star-Lord told Tony and the others that Yondu had taken him into space after his mother died, and that Yondu had always claimed his father was dead.
• Tony argued that Kassadin and Yondu could provide clues, so Star-Lord contacted Yondu and asked about his father.
• Yondu reacted with alarm when Star-Lord said he was with Tony Stark and the Void Cult, then apologized after Banner warned him to watch his mouth.
• Tony pressed Yondu about why he had taken Star-Lord from Blue Star without delivering him to his employer.
• Yondu admitted that Star-Lord’s father had hired him to collect Star-Lord, but said he refused because the man abandoned his many children and crossed even the Ravagers’ moral limits.

Yondu revealed that Star-Lord’s half-siblings had all died after Ego took them, and explained that he had kept Star-Lord away from his biological father. Tony and the others learned that Ego was a former member of the Elders of the Universe, leaving Star-Lord determined to learn more while Tony urged him to awaken his powers before seeking revenge.

• Yondu told Star-Lord that Ego had taken his half-siblings, whose mothers died when they were young, and that every one of them had been found dead as bones on Ego’s planet.
• Yondu admitted he had taken Star-Lord to protect him from Ego, and Star-Lord asked for his father’s name.
• Tony contacted Lacey, who explained that Ego had been a former member of the Elders of the Universe and had posted bounties long ago before being expelled.
• Yondu confirmed that he had met Ego more than ten years earlier and that Ego had still been alive despite rumors that he was nearing death.
• Tony told Star-Lord that he likely had a special power to awaken and warned him not to seek revenge against Ego before understanding his own strength.

After learning that Ego had abandoned his family and might be consuming his descendants to prolong his life, Star-Lord sought a way to awaken his inherited power and take revenge. The others warned him that he could not defeat Ego yet and explained that joining the Void might help awaken his potential, but Tony could not guarantee his acceptance.

• Loki and Thor warned Star-Lord that Ego was immensely powerful and might be extending his life by devouring his bloodline.
• Loki explained that Star-Lord's hybrid power might take a long time to awaken, and that confronting Ego now would be suicidal.
• Gamora comforted Peter and urged him to stay calm, while Steve asked whether joining the Void could awaken his abilities sooner.
• Thor said that Void Power had drawn out more of his own hidden Godly Power, and Loki noted that Star-Lord would have to pass the Void Cult's formal test.
• Star-Lord asked Tony Stark how to pass the test, but Tony said only Great God of the Void Kassadin could approve him and that he could not help.

Star-Lord learned that his father had abandoned his family and used his children as fuel, and he decided that joining the Void Cult might be his best chance to take revenge. As Tony and the others prepared to travel to Knowhere, Star-Lord returned to his crew, where Nebula’s teasing broke his serious mood.

• Star-Lord agreed to guide Tony’s group to Knowhere and left with the Guardians of the Galaxy while Tony, Loki, and Thor discussed the Collector and Star-Lord’s future.
• Tony promised Thor that he would advise Star-Lord to avoid reckless choices, then went to see Sarah while Banner headed to order food for the trip.
• Loki, Thor, Steve, Peggy, and Pepper returned to their training routines, with Thor aiming to reach seventy times gravity within a month.
• At Starfall Harbor, Star-Lord resolved to seek the Void Cult’s approval after finishing the guiding job, believing it offered his best hope of taking revenge on his father.
• Nebula noticed Star-Lord’s unusual silence, teased him for pretending to be cool, and drew an immediate insult in response.

Star-Lord learned that he was Ego’s demigod son and resolved to pursue revenge for his mother and murdered half-siblings. He planned to leave the Guardians of the Galaxy for a time and seek entry into the Void Cult so he could awaken his power, leaving his friends to face a long separation.

• Nebula questioned Star-Lord’s sudden desire to join the Void Cult, and he revealed that he was a demigod.
• Rocket, Groot, and Gamora confirmed Star-Lord’s divine bloodline and explained that Ego was his powerful father.
• Star-Lord told the Guardians that he intended to kill Ego and might leave them for years while pursuing revenge and awakening his power.
• Nebula apologized for mocking him and accepted that he remained the Guardians’ captain, while Gamora explained what the group had learned about Ego and the Void Cult.
• Star-Lord said joining the Void Cult was the only path he knew to speed his awakening, and Nebula realized their upcoming trip to Knowhere might be their last time together for decades or longer.

Star-Lord and his companions joined Tony Stark and Bruce Banner aboard Tony’s Cosmic Battleship, where Star-Lord explained his plans to seek recognition from the Void Cult before pursuing revenge. Tony warned Gamora and Nebula about their ties to Thanos, and Star-Lord outlined Knowhere’s dangers as they prepared to find a Black Merchant there.

• Tony Stark invited Star-Lord and his companions aboard his Cosmic Battleship, and they agreed to travel with him.
• Drax thanked Bruce Banner for helping kill Ronan, and Banner accepted his gratitude.
• Star-Lord told Tony he planned to stay on Void Island until he awakened and could join the Void; Tony advised him to give up if Lord Kassadin did not recognize him within two years.
• Tony warned Gamora and Nebula that he would kill them if they betrayed the group or tried to contact Thanos, and Gamora said they hated Thanos.
• Star-Lord explained that Knowhere had no rules, warned them about the Collector’s forces and local desperadoes, and offered to introduce them to a Black Merchant for intelligence.

Tony Stark and Bruce Banner traveled to Knowhere to learn about the Collector and the lawless station, but Taneleer Tivan turned them away before they could enter. Tony suspected the Collector had foreseen the Void Cult's plans and ordered a return to Void Island to report to Lord Kassadin.

• Star-Lord and Gamora explained Knowhere's lawless nature and the Collector's influence, while Banner proposed taking control of the station and ending human trafficking.
• Tony warned Banner not to act without the Void Cult's approval, and the group reached Knowhere, a skull-shaped world formed from an Ancient God's corpse.
• Gamora explained that the Collector bought trafficked people and turned some into specimens, prompting Banner to press again for action.
• Taneleer Tivan deployed the Tivan Group's fleet and ordered Tony and Banner to leave, claiming Knowhere did not welcome the Void Cult.
• Tony accepted the warning, then told Jarvis to return to Void Island because he suspected the Collector could foresee the future and had learned of the Void Cult's plans.

After the Collector barred Tony and Banner from entering Knowhere, they returned to Void Island and sought Kassadin’s instructions about the likely conflict. Kassadin authorized them to prepare for war, leaving the Void Cult mobilizing against Knowhere.

• Tony turned the Cosmic Battleship back toward Xandar, paid Star-Lord three million for the guide fee, and left him at Starfall Harbor before returning to Void Island with Banner.
• Tony told the others that the Collector had foreseen the Void Cult destroying Knowhere and might seek support from the other Elders of the Universe.
• Tony contacted Sonia, and Harvey switched the call to video so he could address the group directly.
• Kassadin explained that the Collector’s precognition was unsurprising, identified the Grandmaster as the remaining powerful Elder, and said he would deal with him if he intervened.
• Kassadin allowed the group to act as long as they could handle the consequences and upheld the commandments and the strong’s dignity and boundaries.
• Kassadin ordered Sonia to announce a call to prepare for war, and the Void Cult’s group community erupted with the news.

After the Collector’s precognition led Kassadin to order an attack on Knowhere, Void Cult members gathered to learn the reason and discuss the danger of the lawless hub. The chapter left the Cult preparing to seize Knowhere and considering a puppet ruler to govern it.

• Sonia announced Kassadin’s order for Void Cult members to return within two days and prepare for war against Knowhere.
• Lacey guessed that Tony had been rebuffed by the Collector, prompting Sarah and several other members to visit him for details.
• Tony explained that the Collector’s powerful precognition had made him regard the Void Cult as an enemy, and said Kassadin had warned them to watch the Collector’s brother, the Grandmaster.
• Lacey described Sakaar as a remote haven for exiles ruled by the Grandmaster, while Kyle and Renoli joked about the temptations of ruling a lawless planet.
• Odin asked who would govern Knowhere after its conquest, and Lacey suggested the Void Cult install a puppet because the place could corrupt its members.

The Void Cult prepared to wage war on Knowhere after the Collector refused to let its members enter, while Star-Lord and the Guardians watched the forces gather. Sonia organized reinforcements and would join the front lines with Lex as Harvey prepared to oversee the battle from the shadows.

• Tony explained to Lex that Lacey had misrepresented what happened at Knowhere, while Odin and Tony discussed supporting a puppet and searching the Collector's collection for technology and treasures.
• Star-Lord, Gamora, Nebula, Rocket, and Drax watched the Void Cult's ships head for Void Island, and Star-Lord decided to observe the war before leaving for Void Island.
• Sonia told Harvey that four hundred Void Cult members could return within two days and raised concerns about the Elders of the Universe; Harvey approved summoning more members to reduce casualties.
• Sonia instructed Sarah and Lalatina to guard Void Island and guide returning members while she and Lex prepared to fight at Knowhere, with Harvey ready to intervene if needed.
• Sonia announced a pre-war banquet and said the Void Cult would depart shortly after midnight the following night, prompting Lex to resolve to train his subordinates after the war.

The Void Cult prepared for war against the Collector, while the Collector learned that Kassadin’s presence had made the future impossible for him to foresee. The Cult departed for battle under Mr. Precognitor’s command, with Sonia aboard to provide support.

• Banner blamed himself for the crisis, but Tony encouraged the group to prepare for the Void Cult’s first territorial war, and the members shared a pre-war meal.
• The Collector told the Grandmaster that he could no longer foresee the Void Cult’s future, and his brother promised to seek the other Elders’ help and secretly revive him if necessary.
• At the harbor, Sonia rallied more than four hundred Void Cult members and ordered them to depart for battle.
• Sonia joined Tony’s battleship and said Mr. Precognitor would command the operation while she stood by to assist.
• Tony arranged for Jarvis to relay Mr. Precognitor’s instructions to all the Void Cult members, while Loki nervously avoided speaking to Sonia.

The Void Cult's fleet advanced toward Knowhere while the Nova Corps and the Guardians of the Galaxy followed to observe. The Collector and the Grandmaster prepared their defenses, and the chapter ended as the Void Cult arrived and the Grandmaster sensed Kassadin watching from afar.

• The Precognitor allowed the Nova Corps fighter and the Guardians of the Galaxy ship to follow the eight Void Cult Cosmic Battleships toward Knowhere.
• Star-Lord and the others saw the Collector's bounty offering two million Universe Coins per day to protect him from the coming threat.
• The Grandmaster criticized the Collector's call for Bounty Hunters, but the Collector said he wanted cannon fodder and planned to use the Undead Legion.
• The Grandmaster and the Collector waited at Knowhere while fleets and Bounty Hunters gathered to defend it.
• Ten hours later, the Grandmaster sensed the Void Cult's arrival, and the Collector's AI reported Tony Stark's warship and the eight Cosmic Battleships entering Knowhere's territory.
• The Grandmaster sensed Kassadin's terrifying gaze from beyond his reach and called out the God of the Void Kassadin.

Harvey watched the Void Cult begin its assault on Knowhere after the Grandmaster appeared to support the Collector. The Cult’s fighters destroyed the fleets guarding Knowhere, then prepared to enter the station while avoiding a direct fight with the Grandmaster until Kassadin arrived.

• Harvey told Sonia that the Grandmaster’s presence did not change the plan, and the Void Cult’s fighters emerged from their battleships near Knowhere.
• The Precognitor ordered the Cult to secure space around Knowhere and prioritize returning alive; Lex charged the enemy fleet and burned a Cosmic Battleship to destruction.
• Lacey, Banner, Thor, and Renoli tore through warships and fighters as the Collector’s forces retreated toward Knowhere.
• The Precognitor ordered the Cult to invade Knowhere cautiously, target the Elders of the Universe, and avoid confronting the Grandmaster because he could revive the dead.
• Thor agreed to hold back after the Precognitor warned that the Grandmaster had killed him in a future vision, and the Precognitor explained that Kassadin’s presence made the future impossible to see.

The Void Cult prepared to invade Knowhere after learning that the Grandmaster could resurrect the dead, and both sides readied themselves for a decisive battle. After a one-hour pause, Tony and the others landed under fire, beginning the assault while the Grandmaster waited for a chance to exploit Kassadin’s hesitation.

• The Precognitor explained that the Undead Legion needed the Grandmaster to cast a spell to revive, and Sonia ordered the Void Cult to rest for an hour before entering Knowhere.
• Valkyrie recognized Thor among the Void Cult forces and considered how to escape safely, while the Precognitor assigned battle plans and Danna Saal reported the fleet’s victory to Xandar.
• The Grandmaster openly demonstrated his resurrection ability to rally Knowhere’s defenders and tested whether Kassadin would abandon his attack.
• After the hour passed, the eight Cosmic Battleships moved in, and the Grandmaster concluded that the battle could not be avoided.
• Tony led the landing force into Knowhere, where he blocked incoming fire and killed hundreds with a concentrated laser barrage.
• Steve, Peggy, and Pepper took cover with Loki, who had been assigned to protect them and draw enemy fire.