Chapter Summaries

Wang Yan brought twelve Reincarnators to Earth 7777, a newly reborn Marvel universe where fate rigidly guided events. He decided to push Steve Rogers toward a broader cause without altering his core beliefs and assigned a new mission to Orochimaru and an abnormal intruder.

• The Reincarnators received a mission alert and left the Reincarnation Space, leaving the non-combatants behind.
• Wang Yan guided the twelve Reincarnators to Earth 7777 and observed that the universe combined elements of Marvel comics and films.
• Wang Yan examined Steve Rogers's destined transformation into Captain America and the extreme influence of fate in the Marvel universe.
• Wang Yan chose to broaden Steve Rogers's vision by subtly influencing his path rather than hypnotizing him.
• Wang Yan assigned a new mission to Orochimaru and an abnormal intruder.

Orochimaru received a mission to turn Japan against all humanity, while Namikaze Minato accepted a mission to guide Steve Rogers into becoming humanity’s guardian. Minato appeared to Steve as a Guardian Spirit, leaving the frail young man bewildered about how he could protect anyone.

• Orochimaru received a one-year mission to make the Japanese stand against all humanity and decided he might need to borrow Reward Points from Jiraiya.
• Namikaze Minato accepted a mission to guide Steve Rogers beyond national and racial identity, then entered an ancient ring.
• Steve Rogers stood up repeatedly to a bully outside a Brooklyn movie theater until James Barnes intervened and drove the man away.
• Steve returned home and found an ancient ring, which he recognized as something his grandmother had left him and placed on his finger.
• Namikaze Minato emerged from the ring, introduced himself as a Guardian Spirit, and told Steve he would guide him to fight evil and protect humanity.
• Steve looked at his frail body and questioned whether he could be the one to protect humanity.

Namikaze Minato used Shorty Buster to transform Steve Rogers and urged him to join the fight against the Axis Powers. Meanwhile, Orochimaru began developing Oracle Cells into a weapon targeting Japanese citizens, leaving both plans underway.

• Namikaze Minato encouraged Steve Rogers to embrace his sense of justice and gave him the Shorty Buster vial hidden in his ring.
• Steve Rogers drank the vial, passed out, and woke up transformed and 188.5 centimeters tall.
• Namikaze Minato told Steve Rogers to join the anti-fascist war and destroy the Axis Powers.
• Orochimaru used Reward Points to acquire funds and materials, then traveled to Japan with a plan to fulfill his mission.
• Orochimaru chose Oracle Cells and began exploring how to modify them into a biochemical weapon that affected only Japanese citizens.

On June 18, 1943, General Wang Yan visited Dr. Abraham Erskine at America’s B12 Secret Military Base to review the Super Soldier Project. Wang Yan challenged Erskine’s plan over its failure rate and declared that he sought a world of understanding and equality.

• Dr. Abraham Erskine announced that he had perfected the Super Soldier Gene Serum and submitted a request for clinical testing.
• Wang Yan, a young Chinese American general, arrived at the base to examine the project on behalf of General Chester Phillips.
• Wang Yan quickly read Erskine’s research files and described the kinds of extraordinary threats humanity might face.
• Wang Yan revealed that Erskine’s plan had only an eighty-three-percent success rate and criticized him for risking volunteers’ lives.
• Wang Yan dismissed America’s interests and declared that he sought a new world built on mutual understanding, sympathy, help, and equality.

Wang Yan halted the Super Soldier Project and gave Dr. Abraham advanced research materials before visiting Master Ancient One at Kamar-Taj. After warning her that humanity would face a calamity within a year, he learned through the Time Stone that he was the hope of surviving it.

• Wang Yan ordered Dr. Abraham to seal away the Super Soldier Project and assigned him advanced technical plans to pursue instead.
• Dr. Abraham examined Wang Yan's materials, recognized their extraordinary potential, and set aside the Super Soldier Project.
• Master Ancient One invited Wang Yan to Kamar-Taj, where he met her and told her he wanted to create a peaceful, equal human society.
• Wang Yan warned Master Ancient One that humanity's first calamity would arrive within a year and urged her to use the Time Stone to see it.
• Master Ancient One used the Time Stone to explore the future and discovered that Wang Yan represented humanity's remaining hope against the coming crisis.

Ancient One accepted Wang Yan’s offer to become a Reincarnator, while Peggy Carter joined the secret God Eater Project with Steve Rogers and James Barnes. Three days later, an exceptionally young major general arrived to meet the project’s participants.

• Wang Yan offered to save the world in a year if Ancient One became his colleague, and she agreed to join the Reincarnation Space as Reincarnator Number 013.
• Ancient One learned about the Reincarnator system and began browsing the Main God Exchange List before Wang Yan vanished.
• Peggy Carter was recalled to America and brought to a secret base, where she learned she would join the God Eater Project with Steve Rogers and James Barnes.
• Carter, Rogers, and Barnes trained with oversized greatsword models, and Rogers explained that they might face a giant creature conventional weapons could not defeat.
• Three days later, an exceptionally young major general appeared before the three God Eater Project participants.

Wang Yan tested the recruits for the God Eater Project by asking about their dreams and judging whether they were telling the truth. After Steve Rogers and some soldiers passed and a racist NCO was expelled, Wang Yan turned to Carter and James Barnes and asked for their dreams.

• Wang Yan addressed Steve Rogers, Carter, and James Barnes, then asked whether they had dreams.
• Steve Rogers declared that he wanted to be a Partner of Justice and Guardian of Humanity, and Wang Yan accepted him into the God Eater Project.
• Wang Yan exposed a burly NCO's racist thoughts, stripped him of his rank, and ordered him expelled from the military.
• Wang Yan questioned the other recruits about their dreams, passing some and rejecting others according to their answers.
• Wang Yan asked Carter and James Barnes what their dreams were.

Wang Yan completed the first round of God Eater Project recruitment, accepting Carter and Bucky before announcing training would begin the next day. Ancient One completed her novice mission by driving the invading Island Nation army out of China, while Wang Yan prepared Orochimaru as a backup and drew up a Marvel recruitment list.

• Carter said she dreamed of marrying a hero who could protect the country and its people, and Wang Yan passed her.
• Bucky said he had no dreams, but Wang Yan praised his honesty and passed him despite Steve's concern.
• Wang Yan said twelve of the twenty-seven candidates had passed, dismissed a failed candidate's plea, and announced that training would begin the next day.
• Ancient One received a mission to annihilate the Island Nation army invading China and decided to act for her compatriots.
• Ancient One drove the army out of China while sparing those she judged less culpable, and Wang Yan gave her mission a barely passing evaluation.
• Wang Yan prepared Orochimaru as a backup and listed Wolverine Logan, Professor X, Magneto, Ghost Rider, Black Widow, and Ant-Man Hank Pym as his first Marvel recruits.

Steve Rogers died during the brutal God Eater training, but Wang Yan revived him with Particle Reconstruction. After the trainees protested and Wang Yan offered generous terms to quit, only four remained.

• Steve Rogers pushed through the punishing training until he collapsed during his 1,300th sword strike, and the medical team declared him dead.
• James Barnes mourned Steve while Wang Yan used Particle Reconstruction to repair Steve’s body and bring him back to life.
• The trainees protested the lethal training, and Wang Yan offered anyone who quit a bonus and a two-grade military promotion.
• Several trainees quit, leaving only four, as Wang Yan remarked that they lacked Super Genes and were merely Ordinary people.

Wang Yan began the God Eater Project’s final stage, implanting Aragami factors and granting the four candidates living Divine Machines. Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, and Bucky Barnes gained weapons with multiple forms, while the last candidate received permanent claws and an indestructible skeleton.

• Wang Yan told Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, James Barnes, and the final candidate that the implantation had a 6% chance of failure, but all four chose to proceed.
• Steve Rogers underwent modification and received a red, blue, and white Divine Machine that shifted between a shield and a greatsword.
• Peggy Carter gained a gold Divine Machine that took the forms of a handgun and a skintight suit, while Bucky Barnes gained a silver-white one that formed a greatsword and an iron arm.
• The final candidate’s Divine Machine manifested as permanent claws that strengthened his bones and made his skeleton indestructible.
• Steve Rogers hugged the clawed man and offered to protect him, but the man responded by giving him the middle finger and telling him, “Fuck you.”

Wang Yan introduced the four new Divine Machine Wielders to feeding on living beasts so their Oracle Cells could grow stronger. Logan Howlett recovered part of his lost memories, and Wang Yan prepared to send the group out to show the world they existed.

• Wang Yan fed Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Bucky, and Logan before directing them to Restaurant B, an artificial wilderness filled with beasts.
• Wang Yan explained that Oracle Cells fed best on living creatures and advised the group to eat their kills quickly.
• Logan killed and devoured a tiger, grew taller, and began recovering memories of his true name; he asked Wang Yan for a smoke before returning to hunt.
• Steve, Carter, and Bucky hunted beasts as Wang Yan collected their dining data and adjusted his cultivation method.
• After the four finished eating, Steve noticed his Divine Machine had grown heavier and his body more muscular, while Wang Yan told them it was time to show the world they existed.

Logan Howlett worried that his teammates would learn he was a mutant, but Wang Yan brought Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, and James Barnes together to reassure him. After sending them to rest before their first mission, Wang Yan surveyed Earth 7777 with his spiritual force and considered how to gather resources without destroying the Marvel World.

• Logan went to Wang Yan's room late at night, hoping to ask for help keeping his mutant identity secret.
• Wang Yan summoned Steve, Carter, and Bucky and argued that Logan could not hide his abilities from teammates he would fight beside.
• Steve accepted a cigarette from Logan as a gesture of friendship, while Carter regretted having misread Wang Yan's summons.
• Wang Yan sent the four Divine Machine Wielders back to their rooms to rest before their first mission.
• Wang Yan spread his spiritual force across Earth 7777, observed people across the world, and decided not to drain the Marvel Plane before key figures appeared.

The God Eaters confronted First Generation Ant-Man, Hank Pym, on their first mission, but Wang Yan quickly neutralized him. As the team regrouped, the sound of approaching hoofbeats signaled the arrival of their true opponent.

• Steve Rogers questioned whether Hank Pym was a good person, while Peggy Carter ordered him to complete the mission regardless of Pym’s character.
• The God Eaters watched Pym attack soldiers with his nearly invisible, ant-sized body, then Logan, Steve, Bucky, and Peggy entered the battlefield to fight him.
• Pym struck Logan and fled from the team, then charged at Wang Yan, believing that killing their commander would stop the attack.
• Wang Yan used his power to enlarge Pym to ten meters, leaving him too sluggish to fight, and told the God Eaters that Pym had only been an appetizer.
• Hoofbeats approached as the air grew warmer around Wang Yan and the God Eaters.

Wang Yan captured half of Ghost Rider Carter Slade’s demonic power, summoned Mephisto, and ordered the God Eaters to fight him. Meanwhile, Wang Yan discovered Japan’s leaders were preparing an attack on Pearl Harbor and turned his attention to Reincarnator Orochimaru.

• Carter Slade bound Hank Pym with a flaming chain and began dragging him away on his ghostly horse.
• Wang Yan stopped the God Eaters from pursuing Carter, stripped away half his demonic power, and summoned Mephisto from the extracted magic.
• Wang Yan ordered Captain America Steve Rogers, Wolverine Logan, and the other God Eaters to attack Mephisto.
• Wang Yan listened to Japan’s lawmakers debate an air raid on Pearl Harbor after Japan’s early withdrawal from China left its domestic crisis unresolved.
• Wang Yan noticed that Orochimaru had made no progress, unlike Gaara, Mei Terumi, and Sakura Haruno, who had joined Hydra or the Soviet Red Room.

Orochimaru successfully created Oracle Cells XD139 that affected only Japanese subjects, turning one into an Aragami while the cells failed in people from other countries. In Cambridge, Charles Xavier focused on whether Erik Lehnsherr would attend a party, confident that he would.

• Orochimaru injected a Japanese businessman with Oracle Cells XD138, transforming him into a mindless Aragami.
• Orochimaru subdued and crushed the Aragami, then used its cells to prepare three hundred units of Oracle Cells XD139.
• Orochimaru tested the cells on more than a hundred subjects from other countries, but their cells withered without causing any changes.
• Charles Xavier spoke with a red-haired girl at the Cambridge Library, who invited him to a party at Gunfire Rose.
• Charles asked whether Erik Lehnsherr would attend, and the girl dismissed the idea; Charles insisted that Erik would definitely go.

Erik Lehnsherr agreed to help Charles Xavier investigate a terrifying disturbance by amplifying his brainwaves, while Wang Yan’s team defeated Mephisto and drove his spirit back to hell. In London, Charles prepared to begin the search beneath Taros Bridge.

• Erik confronted Charles for using his powers to influence his thoughts, and Charles apologized before asking for his help with a threat more frightening than Hitler.
• Erik agreed to amplify Charles’s brainwaves so Charles could investigate the source of the worldwide unease.
• Wang Yan’s four-man God Eater team defeated Mephisto, killed his physical body, and devoured his remains with their God Arcs.
• Mephisto’s Vengeful Spirit fled to the hell plane after cursing the team and promising revenge.
• Beneath Taros Bridge in London, Erik generated currents with metal fragments while Charles prepared to search for the source of the terror.

Charles Xavier used Erik Lehnsherr’s help to search the world for the source of an impending catastrophe, discovering that Wang Yan allowed him to observe but not interfere. Charles found that Japan faced the coming deaths of at least seventy-eight million people, while Japanese officials learned that Aragami had appeared in Hokkaido and began considering how to weaponize them.

• Erik amplified Charles’s brainwaves, allowing Charles to sense Wang Yan’s boundless spiritual power and learn his name.
• With Wang Yan’s tacit permission, Charles searched across the globe and found the source of the coming terror in the East.
• Charles told Erik that at least seventy-eight million people would die and that an entire race would be wiped out, then decided they had to go to Japan.
• Japanese officials learned that Aragami transformed from infected humans, resisted conventional weapons, and evolved by devouring living things.
• The Japanese military minister proposed sending infected people to other countries as a biological weapon, using the time before their transformation to transport them by fighter jet.

Orochimaru gave Japan’s Minister of Defense a neutralizing agent in exchange for approving the release of Aragami into other countries, furthering his mission to make Japan humanity’s enemy. Meanwhile, Charles and Erik arrived in Japan and faced the Aragami, whose biology and resistance to Charles’s powers left them scrambling for a way to fight back.

• Orochimaru gave the Minister of Defense one vial of neutralizing agent after the plan to spread Aragami to other countries passed through Parliament.
• The Minister of Defense drank the medicine, accepting that he could not save his family and friends with it.
• Orochimaru returned to his underground laboratory in Hokkaido and failed to understand how Wang Yan would approach the mission.
• Charles and Erik arrived in Japan and saw the devastation as Aragami attacked survivors across the country.
• Erik struck an Aragami called Ogre’s Tail with a concrete chunk, while Charles discovered that his telepathy had no effect on the creatures.
• Charles asked Erik to control the metal in the Aragami’s bodies, and Erik agreed to try.

Erik and Charles failed to defeat an Aragami and decided to seek help from Wang Yan, while the God Eaters fought Aragami in China. Three days later, Charles and Erik reached Wang Yan’s secret base in San Francisco, where Charles realized Wang Yan already knew why they had come.

• Erik used magnetic force to crush an Ogre's Tail, but it regenerated, and Charles warned him that conventional methods could not defeat Aragami.
• Charles proposed asking someone powerful for help, and he and Erik returned to America to find Wang Yan.
• Logan, Bucky, Steve Rogers, and Peggy Carter hunted Aragami in China as God Eaters, discussing their Divine Machines and Wang Yan during the flight.
• Wang Yan sent God Eaters and nearly free food to support China, prompting criticism from American officers, politicians, the president, and Congress.
• Charles used telepathy to locate a key figure, then brought Erik to a hidden military base in San Francisco and suspected Wang Yan already knew their purpose.

Charles and Erik met Wang Yan to ask for his help, and Wang Yan presented his ideal of a peaceful, equal world through a glowing orb. Charles embraced the ideal and offered to support it, while Wang Yan temporarily stripped Erik of his powers until he passed certain tests.

• Charles promised Erik he would never read or influence Erik’s mind without permission.
• A lieutenant colonel escorted Charles and Erik through the underground complex to meet Wang Yan.
• Wang Yan offered to help Charles and Erik on the condition that they understand and acknowledge his ideal, then gave Charles an Ideal Orb to read.
• Charles read the orb, believed Wang Yan’s plan for a peaceful and equal world was achievable, and offered to contribute to it.
• Erik confronted Wang Yan, but Wang Yan dissolved Erik’s metal needles and temporarily deprived him of his superpower until he passed the relevant tests.