Chapter Summaries

Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy reacted to Xi Nian’s return and his overnight transformation of the world’s deserts into forests. Xi Nian prepared to go underwater while considering the alliance’s sixth member.

• Harley Quinn regretted avoiding Xi Nian and decided she might as well honor her old promise to become his pet.
• Harley and Poison Ivy watched the news report that the Sahara, Arabian, Libyan, and Australian deserts had become vast forests overnight.
• Harley suspected Xi Nian had transformed the deserts and worried the gift would win Poison Ivy over, while Poison Ivy realized she felt hope and anticipation again.
• Xi Nian watched the reports and reflected that the forests were his promised compensation to Poison Ivy, not a scheme to recruit her.
• Xi Nian asked Shirley to prepare a deep-diving suit and decided to go underwater.

Xi Nian entered Empress Mera’s crystal palace and waited for her in her bedchamber, where he fell asleep on her bed. Maidservant Miya entered to inspect the palace, found him there, and reacted with horror at what she saw.

• Xi Nian passed through the oxygen barrier into the crystal palace and dismissed his Nano-Armor.
• The golden Trident Artifact attacked Xi Nian, then recognized him and stopped its defensive response.
• Xi Nian greeted the Trident Artifact and settled onto Mera’s bed to wait for her.
• Miya approached the crystal palace, proud to have been chosen as its maidservant and eager to serve Empress Mera.
• Miya entered the bedchamber and found Xi Nian asleep on the Empress’s bed, leaving her outraged and horrified.

Xi Nian reunited with Empress Mera in the Crystal Palace after the Golden Trident subdued Miya. Mera confessed how lonely she had become and made Xi Nian promise he would not die and disappear again, while Miya outside began to suspect his identity.

• The Golden Trident forced Miya to her knees until Xi Nian told it to stop.
• Empress Mera entered the bedchamber, ordered Miya to leave, and embraced Xi Nian after recognizing him.
• Miya stood guard outside and connected Xi Nian to Mera’s past and her laws permitting Atlanteans and land dwellers to marry.
• Mera told Xi Nian that ruling the underwater world had left her lonely and asked him not to disappear again.
• Xi Nian promised he would not die as before, and Mera said the bed had originally belonged to him.

Xi Nian and Mera reunited in the Crystal Palace, where Mera confessed she had been willing to give everything to him since three years earlier. After spending a day together, they prepared for Miya and Counselor Vico to discover that the Empress had been absent from the council hall.

• Mera told Xi Nian she had been willing to pay any price for him three years ago.
• Miya realized she had stood guard outside the Crystal Palace for a whole day and concealed from Vico that Xi Nian was inside with Mera.
• Vico sent Miya into the Crystal Palace to check why Mera had missed the council hall.
• Mera changed into imperial armor and gently straightened Xi Nian's clothes.
• Xi Nian teased Mera about their past as symbiotes, and she blushed and struck him lightly.

Mera discovered that her enhanced bloodline ability could compel undersea people to obey her, while Xi Nian gained the ability to connect with and command lesser animals across Earth. After making Mera the sixth member of the Destiny Alliance, Xi Nian returned home and learned that Wakanda’s new king had publicly condemned the Silver-Haired Goddess and supported the Hero Restriction Agreement.

• Mera ordered the maid Miya not to enter, and Miya found herself unable to disobey because Mera’s enhanced ability controlled undersea people.
• Xi Nian sensed that he could connect with and summon lesser animals across the planet, naming his sixth permanent ability Emperor’s Domain.
• Xi Nian gave Mera a Dimensional Ring, making her the sixth member of the Destiny Alliance.
• Xi Nian returned to Washington and found Aunt Diana and Wanda watching news about Wakanda’s new king, T’Challa, supporting the Hero Restriction Agreement and threatening sanctions against the Silver-Haired Goddess.

Xi Nian decided to confront Wakanda over its support for the Hero Limitation Protocol and its concealed vibranium wealth. The Silver God then appeared at the Washington courthouse and declared war on Wakanda.

• Xi Nian rejected T'Challa's call to return to negotiations and decided Wakanda should lose the advantages of its vibranium mines.
• Xi Nian told Diana that he would make Wakanda return to being a poor small country.
• Julia spotted the Silver God flying over Washington and rushed to the courthouse, expecting breaking news.
• The Silver God landed at the courthouse and declared war on Wakanda.

The Silver God publicly declared war on Wakanda, prompting outrage and alarm around the world. Wakanda prepared to meet her in battle, while the Avengers were urged to intervene and ensure Wakanda won.

• Nick Fury told S.H.I.E.L.D.'s council that the Silver God had the power to declare war, leaving the council members silent.
• Wakandan nobles confronted King T'Challa, who argued that the coming battle could showcase Wakanda's strength to the outside world.
• T'Challa and the nobles accepted that war with the Silver God could not be avoided and would reshape the world's future.
• Tony Stark told Pepper Potts that S.H.I.E.L.D. and world leaders wanted the Avengers to stop the conflict, but required Wakanda to win if fighting began.
• Tony Stark said he would rather watch from home because he doubted anyone could defeat the Silver God.

Tony Stark and Spider-Boy traveled to Wakanda as Silver God’s threatened war approached, while T’Challa decided to reveal the nation’s true face. The chapter ended with the outside world discovering Wakanda’s advanced hidden city and T’Challa challenging Silver God to come.

• Tony Stark told Peter Parker that they had landed in Wakanda, and Peter changed into his Spider-Man suit as Stark predicted Silver God would attack that day.
• Tony Stark and Spider-Boy decided to wait and see what Wakanda would do before choosing how to respond.
• Wakandan Princess Shuri reported that foreign satellites and personnel were observing the country, but the camouflage barrier still concealed its capital.
• T’Challa ordered Shuri to remove Wakanda’s camouflage barrier, declaring that the country no longer needed to remain hidden.
• Wakanda’s advanced city appeared beneath the disguise, astonishing foreign observers, and T’Challa publicly challenged Silver God to come.

Wakanda revealed itself to the world and prepared to face Xi Nian, who attacked by hurling a meteorite at its capital. After Wakanda’s shield stopped the meteorite, Xi Nian tore through the shield and entered the city, where T’Challa rallied the nation for battle.

• Wakanda dropped its camouflage, stunning foreign leaders with its advanced technology and wealth.
• T’Challa and Wakandan forces waited for Xi Nian to appear as noon approached, while Tony Stark and Spider-Boy observed the city.
• A meteorite approached Wakanda, and T’Challa ordered the energy shield activated as Xi Nian leaped away from the falling rock.
• Wakanda’s shield shattered the meteorite, but Xi Nian sliced through the shield and invaded in his perfected King of the Gods Mode.
• T’Challa activated his Black Panther suit and rallied Wakanda as Xi Nian entered the capital.

Xi Nian overwhelmed Wakanda’s aerial defenses and descended into the capital, where Wakandan forces tried to stop him. The chapter ended with Okoye’s vibranium spear thrusting toward Xi Nian’s exposed throat.

• Xi Nian used his shield to absorb the fighters’ electromagnetic blasts and destroyed the first super fighter with the Sword of Hephaestus.
• Xi Nian wielded Odin’s Sword to send the remaining super fighters to the moon with the Bifrost beams.
• The Black Panther attacked Xi Nian, who told him the fighters had been sent somewhere quiet, then descended to Wakanda’s capital.
• Xi Nian knocked back the first wave of soldiers with a Divine Power shockwave and dodged the royal guards’ thrown spears.
• Okoye used the spears to trap Xi Nian in a small cage, then lunged at him with her vibranium spear aimed at his throat.

Xi Nian overwhelmed Wakanda by using his King of the Gods Mode to control its vibranium weapons and aircraft. As T’Challa prepared to surrender, Iron Man arrived and asked Xi Nian to end the war, but Xi Nian gave no assurance.

• Xi Nian stopped Okoye’s spear thrust with two fingers and flung her away, dismissing Wakanda’s forces as primitive.
• Tony Stark and Spider-Boy watched the battle from outside the capital, and Tony concluded Wakanda was doomed.
• Xi Nian used metal manipulation to seize Wakanda’s vibranium weapons, equipment, and fighter jets, then aimed them at the gathered soldiers.
• T’Challa removed his Black Panther suit and necklace and approached Xi Nian unarmed as Shuri called out to him.
• Iron Man landed with Spider-Man, said he would not join the fight, and asked Xi Nian to let the war end; Xi Nian asked what he thought, and Iron Man gave up.

After Xi Nian defeated Wakanda, T'Challa began announcing the result, but a mysterious female panther attacked and killed him. She then overwhelmed Okoye and Wakandan soldiers, while elderly nobles identified her as the Panther Goddess.

• Xi Nian confirmed that he was Magneto to Peter Parker, and Tony Stark realized the Silver God had won the battle alone.
• Xi Nian demanded that T'Challa announce Wakanda's defeat as officials around the world watched and feared his power.
• As T'Challa began his announcement, a mysterious female panther pierced his chest with a claw and killed him.
• The female panther struck Okoye with her tail and tore through a group of Wakandan soldiers with her claws.
• Elderly Wakandan nobles recognized the attacker as the Panther Goddess.

A feral Black Panther Goddess attacked Wakanda's defenders, and Xi Nian intervened to protect Spider-Man. He stopped her assault and began overpowering her in the palace plaza.

• An elderly Wakandan noble hailed the humanoid pantheress as Wakanda's Black Panther Goddess, but she killed him with her tail.
• Princess Shuri urged the Wakandans to fight the monster, and Iron Man and Spider-Man moved to protect them.
• The Black Panther Goddess ambushed Iron Man and sent him flying, then attacked Spider-Man.
• Xi Nian caught the Black Panther Goddess's claw before it struck Spider-Man and tossed him clear of the plaza.
• Xi Nian blocked the Goddess's headbutt, caught both her wrists, and slammed her into the vibranium plaza.

Xi Nian subdued the mindless Black Panther Goddess and used the Lasso of Truth to question her, inadvertently restoring her awareness and control over her power. She attacked him with newfound strength, but found him unharmed after he crashed into a skyscraper.

• Xi Nian repeatedly slammed the humanoid mother panther into the plaza until she stopped resisting.
• Xi Nian used the Lasso of Truth to ask the panther who she was, and she identified herself as the Black Panther Goddess.
• The Black Panther Goddess healed, grew stronger, and attacked Xi Nian, sending him crashing into a Wakandan skyscraper.
• Xi Nian realized the Lasso of Truth had restored the Black Panther Goddess from her beastlike mental disorder.
• The Black Panther Goddess appeared inside the damaged skyscraper and questioned why Xi Nian was unhurt.

God King Xi Nian fought the Black Panther Goddess, overpowering her with his strength and divine weapons. After restraining her, he learned she was an ancient Earth god who recognized Odin’s sword and warned that powerful beings may have set their sights on him.

• The Black Panther Goddess sensed Xi Nian’s unusual energy and recognized one of his swords, but Xi Nian attacked before they could talk.
• Xi Nian and the Black Panther Goddess fought through several high-rises while Xi Nian remotely controlled metal weapons in Wakanda’s palace square.
• Spider-Man worried that Xi Nian was being beaten, but Iron Man pointed out that Xi Nian was still controlling the metal from afar.
• Xi Nian’s body resisted the Black Panther Goddess’s claws, and he subdued her with the Lasso of Truth and his divine swords.
• The Black Panther Goddess revealed that she was one of Earth’s oldest gods, recognized Odin’s sword, and warned Xi Nian that others may have set their sights on him.

God King Xi Nian forced the Black Panther Goddess to reveal that mysterious beings had created Earth and would eventually reset it, but a thunderclap made her faint before she could finish naming them. After returning to the royal plaza, Xi Nian watched the Wakandan Queen assume temporary control and declare Wakanda’s unconditional surrender.

• The Black Panther Goddess told Xi Nian that powerful beings had created Earth and kept its people like livestock, but a sudden thunderclap interrupted her as she began to name them.
• The Black Panther Goddess’s appearance changed, revealing her to be Cheetah Barbara Minerva, and Xi Nian stored her safely in the Energy Absorption Space.
• Xi Nian wondered whether Earth had been created by someone like himself and recalled Odin’s regretful behavior before flying back to Wakanda’s royal plaza.
• Iron Man told Spider-Man that the battle was over, while Spider-Man and Tony Stark reflected on Xi Nian’s victory over Wakanda.
• The Wakandan Queen announced that the injured Black Panther King had been sent for treatment and declared Wakanda’s unconditional surrender to Xi Nian.

After Wakanda surrendered, God King Xi Nian refused to accept without compensation and claimed the right to take spoils once before leaving. He found Wakanda’s vast underground vibranium deposit and returned with Little Huang to begin mining it.

• The Wakandan queen surrendered, but God King Xi Nian demanded war spoils rather than accepting her surrender outright.
• The queen agreed that Xi Nian could take anything in Wakanda except its citizens, settling the conflict once he left the country.
• Xi Nian dug beneath the capital and discovered a huge underground hollow containing a mountain-sized vibranium deposit.
• Xi Nian teleported to the Destiny Alliance headquarters, borrowed Little Huang from Gwen, and returned to Wakanda.
• Xi Nian and Little Huang prepared to dig up the vibranium ore.

Xi Nian excavated Wakanda’s vibranium vein and discovered an ancient mural showing the Black Panther Goddess and Odin fighting descending figures. He then lifted Wakanda’s vibranium palace as his final spoils, leaving the Wakandans watching helplessly.

• Xi Nian used divine swords and Little Huang to excavate and devour the vibranium vein beneath Wakanda, then sensed something in the emptied area.
• Xi Nian found a hidden cave, identified the heart-shaped herbs as a medium for the Black Panther Goddess’s power, and studied a mural depicting her fighting alongside Odin against figures descending from the sky.
• Xi Nian connected the mural to Odin, Ego, Apokolips, and other mysteries, and decided that finding Odin could reveal the truth.
• Xi Nian returned to the surface and told the Wakandan Queen that he still had two things to take.
• Xi Nian lifted the vibranium palace and part of the plaza into the air, letting the guards evacuate while the Wakandans watched their royal symbol depart as spoils of war.

Gwen, Mera, Skye, and Polaris gathered at Destiny Alliance headquarters and prepared to settle their introductions with a fight. Meanwhile, Xi Nian left Wakanda with the royal palace and its giant Black Panther statue as trophies.

• Gwen welcomed Little Huang back to the Destiny Alliance headquarters and learned that Xi Nian was still away.
• Mera arrived as the alliance’s sixth member, and she and Gwen recognized each other from the Great Era three years earlier.
• Skye and Polaris arrived as the fifth and fourth members, completing the gathering of the alliance’s third through sixth members.
• Polaris proposed that the four women fight to get acquainted, and none of them agreed to back down.
• Xi Nian flew away from Wakanda atop the royal palace, then lifted the giant Black Panther statue from the capital and took it with him.

After defeating Wakanda, God King Xi Nian took its vibranium palace and giant Black Panther statue as spoils, then returned to Destiny Alliance headquarters. He reunited with Diana and Wanda, but a commotion inside the palace revealed that four powerful women were already fighting.

• God King Xi Nian carried Wakanda's vibranium palace and giant Black Panther statue away, leaving the Wakandans defeated but unharmed.
• Diana Prince and Wanda watched from the Mirror Dimension, and Diana asked Wanda whether Xi Nian had been wrong to attack Wakanda.
• Wanda said she supported anything Xi Nian did, and she and Diana left the Mirror Dimension through a portal.
• Starro was stunned by the mountain of vibranium as Xi Nian stored the spoils and returned to Destiny Alliance headquarters.
• Xi Nian reunited with Diana and Wanda, but a battle inside the palace made the building tremble.
• Four women fought amid webs, flying metal, swirling wine and juice, and powerful shockwaves.