Chapter Summaries

Chen Haoran joined the fight against Ebony Maw’s guards and revealed his powerful fire abilities, helping Quill and the others defeat all twenty enemies. Nebula warned that they had fifteen minutes to escape before Sanctum One sealed off the planet, and Chen Haoran followed the group, still confused about the situation.

• Four guards attacked Jason, Little Jie, and Chen Haoran while Quill turned back to help them.
• Chen Haoran charged at the guards, stopped a blade with his skin, and knocked one enemy backward with a punch.
• Chen Haoran unleashed a powerful pillar of fire, engulfing one guard and setting his own body ablaze.
• Chen Haoran used his flames to overpower two more guards while Rocket shot the last one, and the group wiped out all twenty enemies.
• Nebula said they had fifteen minutes to evacuate before Sanctum One sealed off the planet, and Chen Haoran picked up his bundle and hurried after the others.

Chen Haoran and the others fought Ebony Maw, losing their Aether Rifle and two Black Hole Grenades while struggling to reach him. The chapter ended with Ebony Maw using stone, metal, and water to contain Chen Haoran.

• Ebony Maw blasted Jason backward with a mental shock wave and seized the Aether Rifle, but Chen Haoran charged him as Lorelei threw a Black Hole Grenade.
• Ebony Maw used the Aether Rifle to intercept the grenade, which swallowed the weapon and part of his mental power before Chen Haoran halted his attack to avoid the black hole.
• Ebony Maw taunted Gamora and Nebula, then attacked as Chen Haoran, Lorelei, and Quill advanced; he knocked Quill into the air and destroyed Lorelei's flight device.
• Lorelei returned to the ground wounded, while Gamora retrieved the remaining Aether Rifle and Jason shielded Little Jie.
• Chen Haoran's flames and resilience briefly pressured Ebony Maw, but Ebony Maw summoned stone and metal to bury him and drew water from a nearby building.

Leo destroyed Thanos's Vanguard force, Ebony Maw, and their transport warship, then prepared to leave Void Land as Quill and the others flew to Xandar. Thanos learned that the Black Tongue Strategist and his fleet had gone silent.

• Leo's Golden Shield protected everyone from the crashing transport warship, and he cleared the smoke with his golden wings.
• Leo killed the Vanguard who charged him, while Difan dispersed the rescue craft and warned that Thanos might soon arrive.
• Quill chose to take the new Milan to Xandar, and Leo gave him Golden Light before the others departed.
• Leo asked Difan about the Uru, and Difan said he had prepared ten million tons so far.
• Supergiant Star told Thanos that the Black Tongue Strategist and his fleet had lost contact, and Thanos opened his eyes.

Chen Haoran broke free from Ebony Maw’s crushing attack, but Ebony Maw seized the Aether Rifle in the fog. Quill’s quick thinking triggered an explosion that wounded Ebony Maw, who remained powerful and furious.

• Ebony Maw spun Chen Haoran inside a shell of stone and slammed him into the ground, leaving him badly shaken.
• Gamora lost sight of the fight in the fog, and Ebony Maw took the Aether Rifle from her hands.
• Quill descended into the fog, fired his Element Gun, and caught the Aether Rifle when it flew toward him.
• Ebony Maw pulled the rifle away and hurled Quill to the ground, but Quill pressed a controller and detonated an explosive attached to the gun.
• The blast scattered the fog and tore Ebony Maw’s clothes and wounded him, but he sealed his injuries with telekinesis and roared in fury.

Sanctum One arrived in the Void Land, where Thanos, Cull Obsidian, and Proxima Centauri approached Leo. Meanwhile, Eitri completed the first step of forging two divine-weapon molds for Leo, as a huge warship entered Nidavellir’s detection range.

• Sanctum One descended above Leo, and Ebony Maw awoke to the sight of the enormous warship.
• Thanos, Cull Obsidian, and Proxima Centauri emerged from a Gravity Beam and strode toward Leo.
• Eitri and two dwarves completed two enchanted molds using Tricolor Void Gold and exhausted their tools, resources, and energy.
• Eitri explained that the molds still needed their wielder’s empowerment and that the final forging could fail if the wielder could not control the weapon.
• A huge warship quietly entered Nidavellir’s satellite detection range.

Leo arrived just in time to stop the collapsing wall from crushing Quill and the others. After learning Ebony Maw had attacked his companions, Leo turned the wall around and sent it spinning after him.

• Ebony Maw used telekinesis to bring down a massive wall over Quill, Gamora, Nebula, Jason, Little Jie, and the others.
• Quill blasted a small depression into the wall, and he and Jason pushed Gamora and Little Jie toward it as the wall fell.
• Leo arrived and held the wall in midair, saving everyone beneath it.
• Jason told Leo that Ebony Maw had attacked them, and Leo spotted Ebony Maw outside the barrier.
• Leo flipped the wall upright and sent it tumbling through the air after Ebony Maw, who fled under its pursuit.

Leo resisted Ebony Maw’s Mental Impact, met Red Whale in the Celestial Skull, and reflected on the dangers facing Earth and his need to protect those he cared about. He told Red Whale that finding the last two Golden Cores might give them a chance to return, leaving their origins unresolved.

• Ebony Maw attacked Leo with a Mental Impact, but Leo’s defenses repelled it and knocked Ebony Maw unconscious again.
• Leo called Red Whale, who emerged from underground after consuming more than a third of a vast layer of Uru and Void Gold Ore.
• Leo declined to spend time absorbing the remaining metal because he feared missing a crisis involving Earth or Thanos.
• Leo considered his responsibility to protect Earth and the people he cared about from threats including Dormammu, Thanos, Ego, and Hela.
• Leo told Red Whale that finding the last two Golden Cores might let them return, reflecting on the fragments that revealed Red Whale’s origins and their separation.

Thanos arrived at the Void Land aboard the Sanctum One after Variant 134 had already escaped, and his forces sealed off the surrounding Warp Points and StarNet nodes. After learning that Leo had captured Ebony Maw and was waiting outside the Void Land, Thanos armed himself and approached, while Leo watched the warship draw near.

• Variant 134 escaped through the warp portal before the Sanctum One emerged from a nearby Space Wormhole.
• Thanos’s smaller warships surrounded the Void Land and began blocking travel and communications.
• Supergiant Star showed Thanos images of Leo standing beside the captured Ebony Maw, and Thanos recognized Leo as Earth’s Golden Legend.
• Thanos ordered the Warp Points sealed and the StarNet transmission nodes shut down, then had his armor and Dual-bladed Greatsword brought to him.
• Thanos, Cull Obsidian, and Proxima Midnight advanced toward the Void Land as Leo watched the Sanctum One approach.

Leo and his companions prepared to flee the approaching Vanguard horde while Ebony Maw was captured and a Type-Q transport ship came to retrieve him. Leo stopped the ship and brought it crashing down onto the horde, shielding the group from the explosion.

• Rocket urged everyone to leave, and the group realized Howard the Duck was still missing until he appeared in a bathrobe with a cigar.
• Chen Haoran broke free from being buried and joined Leo as the captured Ebony Maw was brought back to the group.
• The approaching Type-Q transport ship tried to retrieve Ebony Maw, who began casting a spell before Chen Haoran struck him unconscious.
• Leo seized the Type-Q transport ship, disabled it, and pulled it down onto the Vanguard horde.
• Leo raised a huge Golden Shield around the group to protect them from the resulting explosion and shockwaves.

Aboard the New Milan, the team left the Void Land and chose Kontraxia Star as a place to refuel before continuing to Xandar. As they prepared to enter a Warp Point, Chen Haoran learned that Kontraxia was an entertainment planet and a gathering place for the Ravagers.

• Chen Haoran admired the Void Land and the stars, then asked whether the ship was safe and worried about leaving Leo behind.
• Howard the Duck mocked Groot, so Rocket ordered Groot to crush Howard’s cigar, while the others showed their dislike of Howard.
• Rocket warned that the ship needed fuel before it could reach Xandar, and Quill chose Kontraxia Star as their resupply stop.
• Gamora warned Quill that the Ravagers frequented Kontraxia and that Yondu might catch him, while Quill admitted he wanted to talk with Yondu.
• Rocket accelerated toward the Warp Point, and Jason told Chen Haoran that Kontraxia was a famous entertainment planet and Ravager gathering place.

Thanos ambushed Leo to seize the Space Stone, but Leo stopped his Dual-bladed Greatsword and blocked Thanos’s attacks with the Golden Light Shield. Thanos learned that the shield could be drained, while Leo remained in the fight.

• Thanos recognized the Space Stone on Leo and hurled his Dual-bladed Greatsword at him before charging after it.
• Leo seized control of the greatsword and sent it flying back at Thanos, who caught it and tried to strike again.
• Leo halted Thanos’s blade, but Thanos punched him with enough force to send him flying more than ten meters.
• Leo’s Golden Light Shield absorbed the blow and his Source Body replenished its energy, leaving him unharmed.
• Thanos noticed the shield’s energy loss and realized it could be broken, while Leo chose not to leave the battlefield.

Leo shielded himself from Thanos and his allies with his Golden Wings and Immovable Golden Body, leaving their attacks unable to break through. The wings opened after the assault, revealing Leo still protected as Thanos's forces grew wary.

• Cull Obsidian, Thanos, Proxima Centauri, and Ebony Maw attacked Leo with a cannon blast, a laser blade, stone spikes, and a melee strike.
• Leo gathered energy while his Golden Wings enclosed him and absorbed or deflected the incoming attacks.
• Thanos's shell exploded against the wings, but the blast barely damaged the ground near Leo.
• Cull Obsidian's blade melted against the wings, and the Golden Light transformed parts of his body into dark-silver metal.
• Ebony Maw reported the unusual difference between the damaged ground around Leo and the nearly intact ground within five meters of him.
• Proxima Centauri retrieved his damaged weapon and found it had only enough energy for three shots before the Golden Wings opened.

Leo fought Thanos’s forces, destroying the fighter jets and ground troops and killing Cull Obsidian. As Leo used a remotely controlled Mecha to trap Thanos, the Sanctum One’s cannons aimed at him, and Thanos ordered them to open fire.

• The shockwave bomb broke the ground beneath Leo, weakening his Golden Light Shield as fighter jets and ground troops attacked him.
• Cull Obsidian blocked Leo’s golden beam to protect Thanos, but Leo’s smaller ball of light later blasted Cull Obsidian apart.
• Leo flew into the fighter formation and destroyed the jets, then used metal shards and the Dual-bladed Greatsword to kill the remaining ground troops.
• Thanos tore through the Mecha attacking him, but Leo controlled its pieces to wrap around Thanos and struck Ebony Maw back to the ground.
• The Sanctum One’s charged cannons aimed at Leo, and Thanos shouted for them to open fire.

Leo fought Thanos’s forces by sweeping the sky with a Golden Light Beam and pulling fighters from the air, while his Golden Light Shield endured their attacks. Cull Obsidian’s explosive Black Shell shattered the ground beneath Leo and rapidly dimmed his shield, leaving his immediate fate uncertain.

• Thanos arranged airships, troops, Energy Cannons, and Concussion Grenades to attack Leo.
• Leo fired a Golden Light Beam that cut through the airships and soldiers as their cannons struck his shield.
• Leo turned the beam on Thanos, melting through his shield and driving him backward while his chest armor resisted the attack.
• Leo dragged two-thirds of the fighters out of the sky, and their crashes wounded hundreds of ground troops.
• Ground troops fired Black Shells at Leo, and Cull Obsidian threw another shell that exploded near him.
• The blast cracked and shattered the ground under Leo’s feet, causing his Golden Light Shield to rapidly dim.

With both feet planted on the planet, Leo's Immovable Golden Body absorbed Thanos's attacks and made his shield impossible to break. Leo took control of Thanos's Dual-bladed Greatsword and turned it against him as the other members of Thanos's forces joined the assault, leaving Leo facing Cull Obsidian's charge.

• After Leo's feet touched the ground, his Golden Shield replenished its energy, and Thanos's punches and knee strike failed to move or harm him.
• Leo summoned Thanos's Dual-bladed Greatsword and drove it against Thanos, cracking his forearm guards and forcing him to retreat.
• Proxima Centauri fired a laser at the flying greatsword, but the weapon reflected the shot and remained unharmed.
• Ebony Maw attacked Leo with a mechanical grabbing claw while Cull Obsidian charged toward him with a blade extended.
• Leo's Golden Wings severed the chain behind the claw's pincers, and he clenched a fist as Cull Obsidian approached.

Leo fought Thanos after Thanos attacked him to seize the Space Stone, using his powers to turn Thanos’s weapon against him and briefly gain the upper hand. Thanos broke free by changing his armor, then pinned Leo in close combat as Leo renewed his Golden Light Shield and prepared to counterattack.

• Thanos attacked Leo to take the Space Stone, but Leo held him off with his Golden Light Shield and immobilized his Dual-bladed Greatsword.
• Leo used his powers to make the Dual-bladed Greatsword attack Thanos and control his armor, forcing Thanos onto the defensive.
• Thanos changed his Dark Gold Armor into a dark gray substance that Leo could not control, then broke free and charged at him.
• Thanos pressed Leo with rapid close-range attacks, draining the Golden Light Shield while Leo struggled to respond.
• Leo planted himself on the ground, and his Golden Light Shield flared brightly again.

Leo tested how the Destructive Energy affected his Source Body, enduring severe damage as his body rapidly developed resistance and healed. As the Chitauri forces and Leviathan Beasts closed in, Thanos attacked him on the ground.

• Leo exposed his hand to the Destructive Lightning, which burned and devoured flesh before his wounds healed and his palm grew tougher.
• Leo endured the Destructive Energy across his arm and sensed unfamiliar energy entering his body as his Source Body began developing resistance.
• Thanos saw Leo withstand the energy and tried to seize the chance to attack, but the Destructive Energy Cannon exploded and forced him back.
• Leo dodged another shot from the Sanctum One and landed, where his arm and Golden Light Shield quickly began recovering.
• Thanos slammed into Leo as tens of thousands of Chitauri and more than a dozen Leviathan Beasts dove toward them.

Sanctum One battered the Red Whale and Supergiant Star fired a devastating cannon shot, forcing Leo to act as the attack closed in. Leo appeared on the Red Whale’s forehead and activated his Indestructible Golden Body, with only half a second before impact.

• Leo saw that Sanctum One’s attack had only damaged the Red Whale’s surface defenses.
• The Red Whale struck Sanctum One’s shield with its tail, while Supergiant Star prepared the ship’s powerful Energy Cannon.
• Supergiant Star fired the partially charged cannon at the Red Whale’s head.
• The Red Whale tried to retreat as the energy sphere rushed toward it, and Thanos watched the shot approach.
• Leo appeared on the Red Whale’s forehead and activated his Indestructible Golden Body as the cannon shot neared.

Leo used his Invincible Golden Body to halt Thanos’s Star Killer Cannon, then froze the unstable energy sphere with spatial power to prevent it from exploding. With only forty-five seconds left in his golden state, he had contained the threat but still faced the danger of the cannon’s volatile energy.

• Leo transformed into a golden, seemingly invulnerable state, leaving Thanos convinced he could not break through Leo’s defense.
• Leo collided with the Star Killer Cannon’s energy sphere and stopped its advance, while the resulting energy storm devastated the surrounding forces and injured Ebony Maw and Proxima Centauri.
• Red Whale recovered from its injuries and watched as Leo remained unharmed at the center of the sphere.
• Leo recognized the sphere’s purple energy as resembling the Power Stone’s energy and worried that an explosion could harm Red Whale and others.
• With forty-five seconds remaining in his golden state, Leo used spatial power to freeze the entire energy sphere in midair.

Leo destroyed the invading fleet and slaughtered its remaining forces, leaving only one enemy alive on the battlefield. The last survivor approached Leo as the Nidavellir Dwarves watched in shock.

• Leo turned ship wreckage into metal darts and swept them through the falling enemies and the forces on the ground.
• Leo destroyed the four remaining airships and killed nearly all the attackers, including the Vanguards and Insectoids.
• The last survivor descended through the flames and landed amid the battlefield’s wreckage.
• Leo killed an Insectoid that had feigned death, then walked toward the final survivor.
• The Nidavellir Dwarves watched Leo’s victory in disbelief, and Eitri called him a true god.