Chapter Summaries

At Difan’s feast, Pietro and Wanda sampled their unusual dishes while Leo watched. The meal continued as Old Li prepared to try Chongxi Root with the juice inside a thorn.

• Pietro opened the Sea Fish, whose broth turned golden and delighted him.
• Difan confined the Sea Fish’s aroma to Pietro’s place and explained that he had not expected so many guests at once.
• Wanda pierced the grape in her White-Green Vegetable dessert, then ate it and was overwhelmed by its sweetness.
• Difan recommended that Old Li eat the Chongxi Root with the juice inside its thorn, and a tool appeared to help him open it.

Pietro’s enormous Four-Legged Fish Set Meal drew everyone’s attention, and he discovered that the fish’s roe produced an intense, unforgettable flavor. The others then turned to their own unfamiliar dishes, eager to try them.

• Pietro’s vat-sized fish dish arrived, and Wanda stopped him to photograph it for Xixi.
• Difan explained that the pale roe was rare but that Xihai still had around three thousand Four-Legged Fish.
• Pietro ate a roe and described its mustard-like sharpness and vivid sensation of swimming through the ocean.
• Pietro reached for another roe while Wanda, Old Li, Jenny, and her husband examined their own dishes.

Leo examined a hiltless blade that proved to be a Wing Feather as his Nirvana Golden Wings manifested, while Difan admired their power and beauty. The nearby fragmented stone glimmered under the wings’ spatial pressure, confirming its faint connection to Leo.

• Leo’s Nirvana Golden Wings appeared and caused the blade in his hand to glow and tremble.
• Difan studied the wings up close, praised their beauty, and recalled that their Spatial Shockwave could shatter a small warship.
• Leo identified the blade as a Wing Feather and told Difan he was curious about its connection to him.
• Difan said the Wing Feather and nearby fragmented stone seemed linked to Leo, while Leo denied any connection to the Brow Spirit Core.
• Leo examined the Wing Feather and noted it resembled his wings despite never having lost a feather.
• Difan noticed the Space Stone embedded in Leo’s wings, and the nearby fragmented stone glimmered as spatial pressure spread through the room.

Leo and the others toured Xandar’s commercial district in a flying car with a transparent virtual simulation, while Xiao Yi showed them the city and explained its technology. After an hour of sightseeing, they returned to the Red Whale Shop, where Leo told Xiao Yi to wait while the group went inside.

• Xiao Yi showed the group a projection of the commercial district and suggested they visit the food district first.
• Leo asked Xiao Yi to set the vehicle’s virtual mode to ninety percent transparency, and the group watched Xandar’s scenery through the convincing simulation.
• Old Li asked whether people outside could see them, and Leo explained that the vehicle remained opaque and the transparency was only a simulation.
• Xiao Yi guided the group around the city and described its buildings while they watched, spending an hour flying over the district without landing.
• Leo and the others returned with Xiao Yi to the Red Whale Shop, and Leo told Xiao Yi to wait while they went inside.

Leo experimented with changing Void Spirit Gold’s properties after Difan questioned whether he had used all his abilities. After ten seconds of pouring energy into it, the metal changed from pale black to brilliant gold.

• Difan asked Leo how he could react to Void Spirit Gold, and Leo said his metal-control ability could not affect it.
• Difan examined a piece of Void Spirit Gold that Leo tossed him and asked whether Leo had used all his abilities.
• Leo decided to try changing Void Spirit Gold’s properties and moved with Difan to a simulated training ground.
• Leo focused his golden beams on a piece of Void Spirit Gold, which showed no change for nine seconds.
• At the tenth second, the Void Spirit Gold turned entirely golden and began radiating light.

Leo and Difan investigated a mysterious Wing Feather that resembled Leo’s illusory wings, but neither knew its origin. The feather transformed into a stone fragment that fit one of Difan’s fragments, and Leo discovered something with a Golden Light Beam.

• Difan explained that he had found the Wing Feather and a broken stone fragment on a looted, destroyed planet, while Leo admitted he knew nothing about their origins or his own wings.
• Difan wondered whether the Red Whale was connected to the Wing Feather, but Leo said the Red Whale’s memories contained no one else with wings like his.
• Difan revealed that he had once acquired another Wing Feather but returned it to its owner in exchange for ten million.
• The Wing Feather in Leo’s hand shrank and transformed into an irregular stone fragment, and Difan brought out his own fragment.
• Leo and Difan found that the fragments fit together, and after they joined, Leo froze and projected an intense Golden Light Beam onto them.

Leo returned from China and visited Peter, who was studying late at night, before Tony Stark called him to Avengers Tower. Tony discussed moving the Avengers to a new northern base, and Leo offered to take him and the others exploring once his own work was finished.

• Leo watched Peter study and wondered whether his presence would change how Peter became Spider-Man.
• Tony Stark called Leo after J.A.R.V.I.S. detected that Leo's location signal had returned and asked him to come over.
• Leo teleported to Avengers Tower and told Tony that his trip to China had gone mostly smoothly.
• Tony told Leo he wanted to leave Avengers Tower because its location and crowds made it difficult to come and go.
• Leo said he knew about the nearly completed northern base and planned to take Wanda and Pietro there to look around.

Leo told Tony he was investigating time travel and the nature of the timeline, and promised to give him another chance to see his parents. Tony struggled with the news, then discussed his developing armor and new nanotechnology with Leo.

• Leo questioned whether the past and future were fixed and said he suspected The Ancient One knew how events would unfold.
• Leo told Tony he had seen fragments of images in temporal turbulence and was investigating a strange organization connected to time travel.
• Leo promised Tony he would try to give him another chance to see his parents, and Tony accepted while trying not to raise his hopes.
• Tony told Leo he was developing the Mark XLVIII and described the nanotechnology in his Mark XLVI and Mark XLVII.
• Leo admired Tony's nanotechnology watch, and Tony offered to make him one.

Leo arrived with Wanda and Pietro, where Falcon and Rhodey greeted them before Pietro discovered a bomb. The bomb detonated in a mysterious hand, leaving everyone’s fate unclear.

• Falcon and Rhodey landed beside Red Whale and greeted Leo, Wanda, and Pietro.
• Pietro raced away and returned with a metal sphere that Rhodey and Sam recognized as a bomb.
• Pietro dropped the bomb and rushed to Wanda while she tried to contain it with Scarlet Energy.
• The bomb vanished just as it exploded, and a pale hand appeared in its place.

Leo joined the team at the training grounds as Natasha and Rogers tested Pietro’s speed. Pietro ran nearly a thousand laps in under two minutes, and Leo claimed he and Danvers could go even faster.

• Scott received a farewell ceremony at Saint Quentin Prison as several people secretly watched his movements.
• Leo arrived at the training grounds, where Wanda, Pietro, Natasha, Rogers, and Sam were preparing to assess the twins’ abilities.
• Wanda told Leo she had looked for him the previous night, and Leo reassured her that she would adjust to her new surroundings.
• Pietro ran 973 laps in under two minutes, covering more than 350 kilometers and reaching a recorded peak speed of approximately Mach 14.37.
• Pietro admitted he could not control his body well at that speed, while Rogers and Natasha reacted with astonishment at the test results.
• Leo told Pietro that he and Danvers could go faster, dampening Pietro’s smug pride.

Leo reassured Wanda that the future could not be known exactly and encouraged her to focus on the present, helping her decide to build a good life with Pietro. After the Avengers spent a relaxed evening together at the base, Nick Fury asked Leo to speak with him privately.

• Leo told Wanda that he worried about the future too and urged her to follow her heart and focus on the present.
• Wanda said she wanted to live a good life with Pietro and stop fixating on the past.
• Leo, Wanda, Pietro, and the others spent the day together and later gathered on the lawn to share stories and relax beneath the moon.
• Fury arrived as the group rested on the grass, and Leo used Golden Light to warm and refresh everyone.
• Fury asked Leo to chat with him, and Leo agreed after telling everyone else to get some rest.

Wanda demonstrated immense telekinetic power by suspending and crushing a twenty-ton metal sphere, while Leo noticed an unexplained energy aiding Rogers's strength. The others realized Wanda could exceed sixty tons in a stable state, though her ordinary body remained vulnerable.

• Natasha pulled Wanda clear as Wanda stopped a twenty-ton steel ball just above the floor with scarlet energy.
• Rogers lifted a 1,500-kilogram barbell overhead, prompting Leo to detect a strange energy circulating through Rogers's body.
• Stark struggled to lift the same barbell and was shocked by the gap between his strength and Rogers's.
• Leo estimated that Wanda could control more than sixty tons in a stable state, and Wanda crushed the twenty-ton sphere into a smaller, irregular block.
• Fury, Natasha, Stark, and the others watched Wanda's display with astonishment and fear.

Leo confronted Bucky over his guilt for the Winter Soldier’s killings and insisted he choose whether to accept responsibility or reject the Winter Soldier as someone else. Bucky finally got out of bed and asked how he could atone.

• Leo found Bucky lying motionless in bed for three days, refusing food and drink as he suffered over the memories of his killings.
• Leo told Bucky that he had been controlled by Hydra but still needed to atone, while Shuri argued that the Winter Soldier had been a separate personality.
• Leo said he had spared Bucky because Steve Rogers had pleaded for his life and demanded to know whether Bucky was still himself or the Winter Soldier.
• Leo tore the hut’s roof away to let in sunlight and told Bucky to either deny the Winter Soldier or accept responsibility for his actions.
• Bucky struggled out of bed and asked Leo how he was supposed to atone.

Leo stopped a gunman who had been following Catherine and showed her footage proving the man meant to kill her. After restoring Catherine and her baby and taking them home, Leo left to deal with an approaching storm, promising to return and help her.

• Leo caught up with Catherine and brought the bound gunman in front of her.
• Leo showed Catherine a projection of the gunman raising a gun behind her, and she broke down sobbing.
• Leo restored Catherine and her baby's strength, then teleported them to her apartment.
• Catherine told Leo she had been enduring the most painful days of her life as he pinned the gunman to the floor.
• Leo vanished in a flash of blue light to deal with the storm outside.

Catherine secured her home after Leo left to stop the approaching storm and tidal wave. At the seaside, Leo combined the Power Stone and the Power of Space to blast a brilliant opening through the storm clouds.

• Catherine checked that the bound attacker posed no threat to the baby, prepared formula, and secured the house.
• Catherine watched the dark sea and doubted that Leo could resist the storm and tidal wave.
• Leo teleported to the deserted beach, where Red Whale joined him as enormous waves approached.
• Leo rose above the ground, spread his purple-gold wings, and gathered the Power of Space and purple lightning around his fist.
• Leo punched an expanding energy projectile through a spatial rift into the clouds, where it exploded like a miniature sun and tore open the darkness.

Leo interrogated the assassin who had attacked Catherine and learned that Han, a Sultan Group shareholder and Black Snake Society owner, had ordered the hit. After sending the badly wounded assassin to the hospital, Leo asked Catherine to explain what had happened to her husband, Roz.

• Leo asked Catherine for her name, and she said her husband, Roz, had been killed thirteen days earlier and that the police had not let her see him.
• The assassin confessed that Han had sent him to kill Catherine, but claimed he did not know why.
• The assassin identified Han as a Sultan Group shareholder and Black Snake Society owner and gave Leo the locations of two branches where he had taken jobs.
• Leo questioned the assassin about his killings and learned that he had completed more than twenty jobs for the Society.
• Leo enclosed the assassin in a metal coffin and sent him to the hospital, then asked Catherine what had happened.

After Leo appeared as a thousand-meter Golden Giant, the Avengers discussed the public frenzy and whether to give the Golden Legend an official online channel. Leo returned to Catherine’s home, where she struggled to believe that the man before her had created the spectacle.

• Videos and photos of Leo as the Golden Giant spread across the internet, and the Avengers watched footage of his appearance at their base.
• Tony, Wanda, Pietro, Falcon, Natasha, Banner, and Hill discussed Leo’s immense, still-unknown power and the growing public obsession with the Golden Legend.
• Hill proposed opening a channel for Leo, but Tony said he had rejected repeated offers from Facebook and Twitter and wanted to ask Leo first.
• Leo returned to Catherine’s home after using his power and said the situation outside had been taken care of.
• Catherine asked whether Leo was a god, and Leo told her he was just a person with a special ability.

Leo forced the bearded police chief to confess that Han had killed Roz and her husband, while the chief helped cover up their deaths. Catherine chose to expose their crimes and let the law judge them, then broke down grieving for Roz.

• Leo made the bearded police chief explain how Han stabbed Roz's husband and shot Roz, while the chief and his men covered up the murders.
• The chief begged for his life and blamed Han, and Leo confirmed that the confession was true.
• Han woke up screaming, so Leo sealed his mouth with metal.
• Leo asked Catherine what she wanted to do with the men, and she first said they should all die.
• Catherine stopped Leo from killing them and asked him to expose evidence of their crimes so the law could judge them.
• Leo said he had already begun collecting evidence, and Catherine broke down crying for Roz.

Natasha explained why Stark had asked her to contact Leo, while Banner showed little fear of him and discussed communicating with Hulk. Leo then visited Scott at his new Baskin Robbins job and learned how prison had made it difficult for Scott to find work.

• Natasha told Banner that Stark expected Leo to return and that Leo needed time to adjust to his power.
• Natasha praised Banner's goodness and his efforts to restrain Hulk and prevent innocent deaths.
• Natasha suggested Banner contact Leo next time and asked when he would talk with Hulk again.
• Leo went to the Baskin Robbins where Scott was working and ordered a Mango Fruit Storm.
• Leo noticed Scott's name tag said Jack, and Scott explained that it belonged to a previous employee.
• Scott reflected that his time in St. Kuntin Prison had made finding work difficult, though he hoped to earn enough to visit his daughter.

Rogers, Wanda, and Pietro fought through the training exercise and found all three mission fragments while reinforcements closed in. As the team prepared to retreat, Rogers sensed that something was wrong.

• Leo noted that Rogers's strength exceeded what an ordinary Super-Soldier Serum could produce as Rogers defeated the attackers on the third floor.
• Wanda held off bullets with a Scarlet Energy shield, while Pietro disabled the fortress attackers and cleared the second floor.
• Rogers ordered Wanda to watch the enemy and Pietro to search for the mission fragments as reinforcements approached.
• Wanda caused explosions outside to delay the reinforcements while Rogers and Pietro searched the downed agents.
• Pietro found all three fragments, and Rogers told the others to retreat before suddenly warning them that something was wrong.