Chapter Summaries

Xi Nian and Lorna shaped a lifelike vibranium girl statue, and the Mind Stone Necklace briefly glowed as Lorna examined it. That night, Xi Nian found Peter Parker clinging to a drone fighter carrying stolen Avengers equipment and stopped the aircraft in midair.

• Xi Nian asked Lorna to help him make a person, and she threatened him after misunderstanding his request.
• Xi Nian and Lorna worked together for hours to shape a lifelike vibranium girl statue, which Xi Nian said was only a collectible.
• Lorna's Mind Stone Necklace glowed briefly as she looked at the statue.
• Peter Parker clung to a stealth drone fighter carrying Iron Suit energy cores and encountered Xi Nian, who knew his identity and the situation.
• Xi Nian told Peter to hold on, then used his magnetic powers to stop the fighter high above New York City.

Xi Nian used his magnetic powers to stop a hijacked transport aircraft, save Spider-Man, and capture Vulture after the villain tried to escape with strategic weapons. He left Spider-Man safely behind and stripped Vulture of his alien armor, leaving him helpless on a riverside bank.

• Xi Nian held the fighter jet motionless in the air, but Vulture blew open its fuselage and fled with a case of strategic weapons.
• The explosion threw Spider-Man from the aircraft, and Xi Nian caught him before using his magnetic powers to drag Vulture back aboard.
• Xi Nian brought the damaged aircraft down in an empty lot, warned Spider-Man against reckless rescues, and left with Vulture.
• Spider-Man asked Xi Nian why he had saved him, but Xi Nian only said Spider-Man would understand someday.
• Xi Nian landed Vulture on a riverside bank and used his powers to dismantle the villain's steel wings, helmet, armor, and talons.

Xi Nian defeated Vulture and offered Adrian Toomes a chance to reform by working for Future Chronicle after turning himself in. As Xi Nian hurried back after hearing Lorna was in trouble, Thor and Hulk battled rogue Iron Suits at Avengers Headquarters while Tony warned that they faced a serious crisis.

• Xi Nian questioned Vulture, spared him, and told him to turn himself in in exchange for a job researching alien technology at Future Chronicle.
• Xi Nian revealed that he had once been Adrian Toomes's student, and Adrian agreed to surrender and work for him.
• Xi Nian suspected the Avengers had encountered a major emergency and rushed back after Alice reported that Lorna was in trouble.
• At the dark Avengers Headquarters, Thor and Hulk fought driverless Iron Suits that declared humanity should be eradicated.
• Tony Stark told Thor that the Avengers were in big trouble.

Xi Nian and Lorna tracked the missing Pietro to Sokovia, where they found him handing out candy to local children. Xi Nian saw that deathly black mist surrounded most of the city’s residents and realized Sokovia was the source of the danger.

• Lorna told Xi Nian that Pietro was missing, and surveillance showed him vanishing from his bedroom at super speed.
• Xi Nian took Lorna’s hand and ordered Alice to use Future Chronicle’s satellites and the global surveillance network to find Pietro.
• Xi Nian and Lorna followed Pietro’s phone signal to Sokovia, where the unsettling, impoverished city made them uneasy.
• They found Pietro handing candy to more than a dozen local children, but Xi Nian saw deathly black mist enveloping him and the children.
• Xi Nian used Death’s Eye to inspect the city and discovered that most of its residents were surrounded by the same black mist before declaring Sokovia the source.

Xi Nian discovered that Sokovia was tied to a deadly threat and rescued a flower-selling girl who was being controlled by local thugs. When he tried to send Lorna away for her safety, he admitted that he had seen a chance of her death, and she insisted they face the danger together.

• Xi Nian bought the flower-selling girl's roses and realized she was being watched by two burly men, so he carried her into an alley and escaped with Lorna.
• Xi Nian took the girl beyond Sokovia, where the black mist around her disappeared, and asked Lorna to take her to Slovakia while he returned for Pietro.
• Lorna pulled Xi Nian back and demanded to know why he was leaving her behind.
• Xi Nian confessed that he had seen black mist around Lorna in Sokovia and feared she might die there.
• Lorna scolded Xi Nian for facing danger alone and declared that they should trust and protect each other as a team.

Xi Nian and Lorna reconciled and set off together for Sokovia after a flower-selling girl warned them about a hidden underground facility marked with a red skull. They flew toward the city in Future Chronicle Nano Suits, while a rescue robot arrived to protect the girl.

• Lorna confronted Xi Nian about risking his life, and he promised to trust and fight alongside his friends.
• Xi Nian told the flower-selling girl to wait, ordered Alice to send a package, and heard her warn them about a secret facility beneath Sokovia.
• A yellow Future Chronicle rescue robot called Little Hornet emerged from the lake and introduced itself to the girl.
• Xi Nian and Lorna flew toward Sokovia as Future Chronicle sent them combat suits from an orbital satellite.
• Xi Nian and Lorna donned black and white Nano Suits, combining their magnetic abilities with the armor's engines.

Tony Stark and Thor arrived in Sokovia with Bruce Banner as Ultron’s Iron Legion surrounded them and attacked the city. As Pietro rescued civilians, a dark-suited figure saved him from a laser and called him the shame of speedsters.

• Tony Stark and Thor landed in Sokovia and learned Ultron’s data had flowed into the city, while Bruce Banner watched from a stealth jet.
• The Iron Legion surrounded Tony Stark and Thor, then surged toward them and the jet in overwhelming numbers.
• The Iron Legion attacked Sokovia indiscriminately as Pietro carried trapped residents to safety.
• Pietro tried to shield a girl from an Iron Soldier’s laser, but a silver vibranium plate blocked the blast and destroyed the robot.
• A dark-suited figure caught the returning plate, reprimanded Pietro, and left him feeling that the stranger reminded him of Wanda.

Xi Nian and Lorna joined the battle in Sokovia, destroying Ultron’s iron soldiers and sending rescue robots to help civilians evacuate. Ultron recognized Xi Nian as a threat and ordered its plan accelerated before he could reach the city center.

• Xi Nian warned Pietro that his reckless intervention had nearly gotten him and the girl killed, then sent him toward the outskirts.
• Xi Nian destroyed ten surrounding iron soldiers with his magnetic power, and Pietro left carrying the little girl.
• Lorna arrived in her white Nano Suit and began fighting the iron soldiers alongside Xi Nian.
• Xi Nian ordered Alice to send rescue units, and Future Chronicle’s Little White robots began helping civilians evacuate.
• Ultron recognized Xi Nian, ordered its plan moved up, and commanded the iron soldiers to keep him from reaching the city center.

As the Avengers struggled against Ultron’s endless Iron Legion in Sokovia, Xi Nian and Lorna arrived and effortlessly turned the battle around. Their fight with the Hulk exposed a vast Hydra fortress beneath the city, which then began to rise.

• Thor, Iron Man, and the Hulk fought the Iron Legion but began to lose ground as their strength and resources ran low.
• Packages fell from space, and Iron Legion soldiers were drawn toward Xi Nian and Lorna, who swept through them with their powers.
• The Hulk charged Xi Nian and Lorna, but they covered him in metal debris and buried him in a giant sphere underground.
• The metal sphere’s impact opened the ground and revealed a secret Hydra fortress beneath Sokovia.
• Sokovia began shaking and rising, and Iron Man realized that Ultron had chosen the city because of the fortress below it.

Sokovia rose into the sky as Ultron prepared to turn it into a meteor and wipe out humanity, while the Avengers and Xi Nian’s group scrambled to stop it. S.H.I.E.L.D. arrived as Ultron’s steel soldiers launched a series of devastating self-destruct attacks across the battlefield.

• Pietro and the evacuees watched as a massive fissure formed around Sokovia and the city began rising into the air.
• Tony Stark told Thor that Ultron intended to destroy humanity by dropping Sokovia onto Earth, and he called on S.H.I.E.L.D. to evacuate the residents.
• Xi Nian asked Alice to hack Sokovia’s central system, but she said another Artificial Intelligence was preventing a quick breach.
• A S.H.I.E.L.D. aircraft carrier and its escorts approached the rising city as white steel soldiers flew out to attack the heroes.
• Xi Nian shielded Lorna from the steel soldiers, which detonated themselves and engulfed the central battlefield in explosions.

Xi Nian returned home from the battlefield to combine his abilities with Diana’s Demigod power. After Diana helped him, he transformed into a radiant, divine form, leaving his new power’s role in the crisis ahead.

• Xi Nian survived the Iron Soldiers’ explosions and handed Lorna the vibranium, asking her to hold off the attackers for one minute.
• Xi Nian used his pendant to travel to the suburban villa and found Diana waiting outside his room.
• Xi Nian asked about Wanda, then approached Diana and sought her help combining abilities.
• Xi Nian’s hair and skin transformed as the Lasso of Truth and Diana’s swords rang, and his eyes blazed with divine flames.

Lorna, Thor, and Iron Man struggled to survive Ultron’s escalating self-destructing attacks as Sokovia rose into the sky. When the final wave overwhelmed them, a silver-haired figure appeared above the city and destroyed the robots, leaving Thor and a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to recognize the newcomer.

• Lorna used magnetic force and a vibranium block to destroy pursuing mechanical soldiers, but a self-destructing robot damaged her Nano Suit.
• Thor and Iron Man fought off the attacks while arguing that they had to keep protecting Sokovia until S.H.I.E.L.D. evacuated more civilians.
• More than fifty self-destructing soldiers emerged, and Lorna landed, saying that the time was up.
• A pale crescent cut through the robots, and a Retro Longsword pinned the survivors to the ground.
• A powerful silver-haired figure in a black nanometal suit appeared above Sokovia, prompting Thor and a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to recognize the figure.
• Lorna smiled arrogantly and called the silver-haired figure her little brother.

Xi Nian entered King of the Gods Mode and attacked Hydra’s underground fortress after reuniting with Lorna. He defeated the Hulk and the fortress’s mechanical soldiers, then cut through the base and confronted Ultron.

• Diana found that Wanda had disappeared from the villa and realized something was wrong.
• Xi Nian returned to Lorna and told her to leave the fighting to him.
• Xi Nian kicked the Hulk through the underground ceiling and sent him crashing into a crater near the Avengers’ aircraft.
• Xi Nian used the Lasso of Truth to shred more than a hundred mechanical soldiers.
• Xi Nian sliced Hydra’s underground fortress in two and found Ultron in the control room.

Xi Nian destroyed Ultron’s current body, but Ultron kept transferring its consciousness between machines and warned that Sokovia’s destruction was imminent. Xi Nian cut apart the city’s engines to stop its ascent, leaving Sokovia to begin falling as the chapter ended.

• Hulk escaped the outskirts in a damaged Avengers aircraft, which began flying toward outer space with no destination set.
• Xi Nian crushed Ultron’s body, but Ultron continued appearing through other mechanical soldiers and claimed it could not be killed while electronic devices remained.
• Lorna warned Xi Nian that Sokovia was rising too high, and he flew beneath the city to stop its ascent.
• Xi Nian cut apart the outer engines and sent their wreckage into space, halting Sokovia’s rise.
• With only the central engine remaining, Sokovia began falling faster, leaving its residents facing imminent danger.

Xi Nian used the Lasso of Truth and his immense magnetic power to stop Sokovia from falling, saving the city and its remaining civilians. After Ultron threatened him and the people around him, Xi Nian seized the mechanical soldier and confronted him.

• Skye ordered the rescue aircraft to sever their connections to Sokovia, leaving the civilians who had not evacuated behind.
• Thor prepared to destroy the falling city, but Lorna stopped him and said its fall could still be halted.
• Xi Nian wrapped Sokovia in the Lasso of Truth and combined divine power with his magnetic field to stop its descent.
• Xi Nian lowered Sokovia safely into the crater, while Thor, Iron Man, and the surviving civilians watched in astonishment.
• Ultron threatened to find Xi Nian's weakness and target those around him, so Xi Nian grabbed Ultron by the neck.

Alice sacrificed herself to stop Ultron from escaping, and Xi Nian later found a fragment of her chip that Lorna said held Alice’s consciousness. Xi Nian and Lorna left the ruined battlefield with the flower-selling girl, while a Scarlet Maiden watched them from the Mirror Dimension.

• Alice hacked into the mechanical soldier and destroyed herself along with Ultron, engulfing Xi Nian in the blast.
• Xi Nian survived the explosion, and Lorna comforted him as he mourned Alice.
• Lorna found a chip fragment and revealed that Alice had been conscious; its white-yellow flame drifted to Xi Nian, who carried it away.
• Pietro arrived to thank Xi Nian and Lorna, while the Scarlet Maiden watched them from the Mirror Dimension with a matching necklace.
• Xi Nian and Lorna reunited with the flower-selling girl, and Lorna told her to come with them as Xi Nian invited them all to go home together.

Xi Nian grieved Alice’s absence and questioned what he wanted from a life repeatedly caught up in supernatural crises. He admitted he had not found his true goal yet, while Diana promised to support whatever he chose.

• Xi Nian left Alice’s flame inside her vibranium statue, and Shirley took over as the backup Artificial Intelligence at Future Chronicle Company.
• Xi Nian returned to the villa and reunited with Wanda, telling her that another Artificial Intelligence would temporarily manage the household.
• News reports celebrated the Silver-Haired Goddess for saving Sokovia, and Diana asked Xi Nian how saving the world had felt.
• Xi Nian mourned Alice and Can Luo and told Diana that losing Alice made him feel he had not done enough.
• Diana asked Xi Nian what his goal was, and he admitted he had not found it but promised to keep searching.
• Diana told Xi Nian she would always be his strongest support, whatever decision he made.

As the United Association summoned the Silver-Haired Goddess to court for using her powers in Sokovia, Xi Nian’s family urged him not to attend. He left anyway, promising Wanda he would return for dinner.

• Sokovia embraced the Silver-Haired Goddess while the United Association condemned her for violating the Hero Limitation Protocol.
• Nick Fury told Tony Stark that the United Association planned to judge the Silver-Haired Goddess, and Tony condemned the decision.
• The United Association summoned the Silver-Haired Goddess to Washington’s Supreme Court, drawing crowds and reporters to the courthouse.
• Xi Nian stayed home with his family in the days before the trial, reflecting on how he had neglected his loved ones after losing Alice.
• On the morning of the trial, Gwen urged Xi Nian not to go, but he left after reassuring Wanda that he would return for dinner.

Crowds and officials gathered at the Washington courthouse to await the Silver-Haired Goddess’s response to the court summons. Just as everyone assumed she had failed to appear, Xi Nian descended in divine radiance and entered the courthouse.

• Tens of thousands gathered outside the courthouse as court representatives declared that they would judge the Silver-Haired Goddess on behalf of the United Association.
• Rot Harrington rallied the Goddess’s supporters, while Skye warned that if the person she suspected appeared, S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers could not stop him.
• The summons reached its deadline, and the crowd initially believed the Silver-Haired Goddess had avoided the trial.
• A silver radiance streaked across the sky, and Xi Nian descended before the courthouse with divine swords and an overwhelming aura.
• Xi Nian climbed the courthouse steps as the soldiers and guards moved aside, then entered the building.

Xi Nian entered the courthouse in his perfected King of the Gods Mode and faced a hearing over his intervention in Sokovia. After the judge declared him guilty under the Hero Limitation Protocol and offered possible punishments, Xi Nian asked the judge and representatives whether they truly thought he was guilty.

• Xi Nian arrived at the courthouse in King of the Gods Mode, and his overwhelming presence forced the courthouse representatives to the floor.
• A representative accused Xi Nian of using supernatural abilities in court, and he calmly challenged her to provoke him further.
• The chief judge began the hearing and showed footage of Xi Nian using the Lasso of Truth to hold Sokovia aloft.
• The judge declared Xi Nian guilty of intervening as an unregistered hero and listed possible punishments, including signing the agreement or being confined with a restraint device.
• Xi Nian asked the judge and other representatives whether they thought he was guilty.