Chapter Summaries

Richard criticized Black King Shaw’s emotionless Enhanced Clones before rejecting his offer to leave and forcing a fight. Shaw charged Richard with a superhuman punch, but Richard teleported behind him and struck at his nape.

• Richard explained that the Enhanced Clones’ lack of emotion and combat experience had made them ineffective fighters.
• Black King Shaw admitted he had supported restricting the clones’ emotions because he considered them weapons that should obey orders.
• Black King Shaw offered to let Richard leave, but Richard refused because he intended to kill Shaw and claim his ability.
• Black King Shaw abandoned negotiation and attacked Richard with a superhuman punch.
• Richard teleported behind Black King Shaw and swung Masamune at his nape.

Richard killed Magneto's Enhanced Clone with Hell Gate and gained Magnetic Field Manipulation, his seventh Alpha-level ability. He then faced Black King Shaw and began their final battle.

• Richard discovered that Black King Shaw absorbed the kinetic energy of his blade, then turned his attacks on Magneto's Enhanced Clone.
• Richard used Hell Gate to pierce Magneto's Enhanced Clone's Magnetic Force Field and kill him.
• Richard used Plunder to gain Magnetic Field Manipulation and Mental Isolation, fusing the latter with Telepathy to enhance it.
• Black King Shaw asked Richard why he had targeted the Hellfire Club, and Richard said it was because Shaw had kidnapped the twins.
• Richard summoned Black Magic Crystal and created over a hundred flaming meteors above Black King Shaw.

Richard used a meteor barrage to distract Black King Shaw while secretly removing his Mind Isolation Helmet, then froze him with Telepathy and searched his mind. As Richard killed Shaw and prepared to claim his ability, Captain America and Hawkeye arrived in a S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet and ordered him to stop.

• Richard bombarded Black King Shaw with magically created meteors, which Shaw absorbed without being harmed.
• Richard used a cable controlled with Magneto's magnetic ability to pull away Shaw's Mind Isolation Helmet, then froze him with Telepathy.
• Richard searched Shaw's mind for information about Wanda, Pietro, and the Hellfire Club's money.
• Richard approached Shaw with Masamune and prepared to kill him, but Captain America and Hawkeye arrived in a S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet and called for him to stop.
• Richard sighed and sliced across Black King Shaw's neck with Masamune.

Richard killed Black King Shaw and plundered his Energy Absorption, raising it to Alpha-level and gaining access to Shaw’s fortune and the Hellfire Club’s funds. Captain America and Hawkeye abandoned their attempt to arrest Richard after Nick Fury ordered them back, and Richard teleported to White Queen.

• Richard decapitated Black King Shaw, then plundered and enhanced Energy Absorption to Alpha-level.
• Richard discovered that Shaw’s overseas savings and the Hellfire Club’s working capital totaled more than five hundred million US Dollars.
• Captain America prepared to arrest Richard, but Nick Fury ordered him and Hawkeye to return to headquarters.
• After Fury reminded Captain America that Hulk had failed to stop Richard, Captain America and Hawkeye left in the Quinjet.
• Richard stored Masamune and teleported to White Queen, asking whether she had thought of any other positions that could make everyone happier.

Richard and the White Queen infiltrated a Hellfire Club research institute in Orlando to rescue Wanda and Pietro, discovering that Wanda wielded Chaos Magic. After Richard freed the twins from their cells and inhibitor collars, Pietro asked why Richard had come to save them.

• Richard used Shaw's memories to locate the institute holding Wanda and Pietro and learned that Wanda's apparent telekinesis and telepathy were actually Chaos Magic.
• Richard and the White Queen teleported into the institute, where Richard immobilized the staff and guards with telepathy.
• Richard tore open Pietro's cell door with Magnetic Field Manipulation, and Pietro followed them to Wanda's cell.
• Richard opened Wanda's cell, completing the One-Winged Angel (II) task and awakening Shadow Flare.
• Richard cut the inhibitor collars from Wanda and Pietro with wind blades, and Pietro asked why Richard had rescued them.
• Richard told Pietro that he had rescued them because they were special.

Richard rescued Pietro and Wanda from a research facility, destroyed it, and brought them to Las Vegas. After learning that Sebastian Shaw had used mutant clones, Professor X and Magneto prepared to confront the Department of Mutant Affairs and the forces behind the experiments.

• Richard freed the mutants imprisoned at the institute, then burned the facility down after rescuing Pietro and Wanda.
• Richard teleported Pietro, Wanda, and Emma to his Las Vegas hotel suite and heard how the twins had lost their home and been captured by Sebastian Shaw.
• Professor X learned that Richard had killed Sebastian Shaw and several mutants, including a younger clone of Erik, and sent Jean, Logan, and Ororo to retrieve the clone's body.
• Professor X ordered Scott to accompany him to Washington D.C. to confront the Minister of the Department of Mutant Affairs.
• Mystique showed Magneto footage of his clone's death, and Magneto declared that he would give his enemies war.

Richard decided to force the Department of Mutant Affairs to revoke his wanted status and compensate him, while the Brotherhood of Mutants launched attacks on the agency’s branches. At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Natasha opposed helping the department, but Captain America urged Nick Fury to join the hunt for Richard.

• At breakfast, Richard told Wanda and Pietro that Emma had left the Hellfire Club and that he planned to make the Department of Mutant Affairs apologize, revoke his wanted order, and compensate him.
• A news report announced a new high-level hunt for Richard and Erik Lehnsherr, Brotherhood of Mutants attacks on Department of Mutant Affairs branches, and Richard’s fight at a Miami marina.
• Richard erased the restaurant guests’ memories after they recognized his image on the news.
• Nick Fury asked Natasha, Captain America, and Hawkeye for their views on the Department of Mutant Affairs’ request for S.H.I.E.L.D. assistance.
• Natasha recommended refusing the request, while Captain America argued that S.H.I.E.L.D. should help capture Richard.

Nick Fury agreed to help the Department of Mutant Affairs capture Richard, while Richard received a system mission to kill Captain America in exchange for Yamato. Richard took Wanda and Pietro into the desert to test their abilities and quickly demonstrated Pietro’s vulnerability when he stopped moving.

• Rogers demanded that S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers capture Richard, but Natasha advised against accepting the Department of Mutant Affairs’ request and Barton left the decision to Fury.
• Fury accepted the request and assigned Rogers to plan the capture, Natasha to question Banner, and Barton to gather intelligence.
• Richard asked the White Queen to find a way to contact Magneto and Mystique so he could confirm whether Wanda and Pietro were Magneto’s children.
• The system gave Richard a one-week mission to kill Captain America, with Yamato as the reward, and Richard concluded that S.H.I.E.L.D. would soon join the Department of Mutant Affairs against him.
• Richard teleported with Wanda and Pietro to a desert and challenged them to attack him, then appeared behind Pietro and pressed Masamune to his neck after Pietro stopped moving.

Richard tested Wanda and Pietro’s powers in the desert, absorbing Wanda’s Chaos Force and defeating her before Magneto arrived. Magneto recognized the Maximoff name and learned that Wanda and Pietro were eighteen-year-old children of Irina, leaving him stunned as Richard suggested they continue the conversation at the hotel.

• Pietro protested that Richard’s fight with him had been unfair, and Wanda began her own test by attacking Richard with sand and Chaos Force.
• Richard blocked Wanda’s sand with Magnetic Field Manipulation, absorbed her Chaos Force, and disarmed her with the metal necklace before holding Masamune near her face.
• Magneto sensed Richard’s powerful magnetic field from his plane, flew down to the desert, and confirmed Richard had used Magnetic Field Manipulation.
• Richard introduced Wanda and Pietro as the Maximoff Siblings he had rescued from the Hellfire Club’s research facility.
• Magneto asked whether their mother was Irina Maximoff, and Pietro confirmed that he knew her, leading Magneto to realize Wanda and Pietro were his children.
• Wanda and Pietro moved behind Richard warily, and Richard suggested that everyone talk at the hotel.

Richard rejected Magneto’s offer to join forces, while Magneto persuaded Wanda and Pietro to accept him as their father and return to the Brotherhood of Mutants. Richard then brought White Queen to New York and began his final battle by slashing the Department of Mutant Affairs Headquarters Building in half with God Avoidance.

• Magneto asked Richard whether he had known Wanda and Pietro were his children, offered to repay him by reclaiming the Wesley Family’s property, and warned that the Department of Mutant Affairs and S.H.I.E.L.D. planned to capture him.
• Richard declined Magneto’s offer to team up and urged him to focus on being a father to Wanda and Pietro.
• Magneto persuaded Wanda and Pietro to acknowledge him as their father and go with him to the Brotherhood of Mutants’ headquarters.
• Richard told White Queen he planned to handle the coming conflict alone, then used Teleportation to take her to her New York apartment the next afternoon.
• Richard teleported to the Department of Mutant Affairs Headquarters in Washington D.C. and used God Avoidance to cut through its building, starting his final battle with the department.

Richard attacked the Department of Mutant Affairs Headquarters, killing its Mutant Agents and gaining new abilities before Sentinel Robots arrived. He began destroying the silver-white robots with Dimension Slash.

• Richard sliced the headquarters building in half, then used Telepathy and Mind Erase to kill more than 150 Mutant Agents and Plundered their abilities.
• Richard gained Alpha-level Super Senses, Gravity Manipulation, Telepathy, and Invisibility, then spotted the remaining agents, including two Telepaths and eighteen wearing mind-isolating helmets.
• Richard killed the two Telepathic agents, immobilized the unhelmeted agents, and killed them, gaining Alpha-level Heat Vision.
• Six silver-white Sentinel Robots arrived, and Richard attacked the nearest one with Dimension Slash, cutting it into wreckage.

Richard destroyed the Department of Mutant Affairs Headquarters’ Sentinel Robots and agents, then used Mind Erase to eliminate everyone there. As S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Department’s leaders watched the attack, Natasha suggested releasing Richard’s father and withdrawing the warrant, but Filippo Todd mocked her.

• Richard used Dimension Slash and Continuous Dimension Slash to destroy all six Sentinel Robots, then defeated the Mutant Agents wearing Mind Isolation Helmets.
• Richard killed eighteen Mutant Agents, used Plunder to gain abilities, and erased everyone else at the Department of Mutant Affairs Headquarters with Mind Erase.
• Richard sat at the ruined Headquarters Building and reviewed his newly acquired superpowers while police gathered outside.
• At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Nick Fury asked Filippo Todd about a contingency plan, and Todd announced that he would capture Richard with Winston Lambert and Basque Mayor.
• Natasha proposed releasing Richard’s father and withdrawing the warrant to stop the attacks, but Filippo Todd mocked her suggestion.

Natasha refused to help the Department of Mutant Affairs capture Richard, while Captain America, Hawkeye, and the department’s leaders confronted him at its ruined headquarters. Richard opened the battle by striking Major with FS Dimension Slash, leaving the attack’s result unresolved.

• Natasha rejected Filippo Todd’s request for help and left S.H.I.E.L.D. with Banner after Mayor threatened her.
• Nick Fury sent Captain America Rogers and Hawkeye Barton to the Department of Mutant Affairs headquarters, while Filippo Todd and his colleagues departed separately.
• Richard waited at the ruined headquarters until three Quinjets arrived, then destroyed two with Great Lightning as Winston Lambert absorbed the strike on the third.
• Filippo Todd, Lambert, and Major descended from the surviving Quinjet, and Major transformed into a Red Demon before Captain America Rogers and Hawkeye Barton emerged.
• Richard confirmed Major resisted Telepathy, charged FS Dimension Slash, and struck as Major prepared to attack with his Magma Whip.

Richard killed Major, Todd, and Lambert in quick succession, then acquired and enhanced several abilities through Plunder. After discovering his new Shatter power could break atomic bonds, he turned his attention to Captain America Rogers’s Vibranium Shield.

• Major tried to withstand Richard’s FS Dimension Slash, but his regeneration failed and he disintegrated; Richard Plundered his Demonization ability and fused it with Giant Body.
• Richard used intensified gravity to send Todd and Lambert crashing downward, then killed Todd with Octaslash.
• Lambert protected himself with an energy shield, but Richard’s Shadow Flare engulfed and erased him; Richard Plundered Lambert’s Shatter, Flight, and Energy Control abilities.
• Richard learned that Shatter could instantly break the atomic connections in touched materials and planned to test it on Captain America Rogers’s Vibranium Shield.
• Captain America Rogers and Hawkeye Barton watched the three agents die without being able to fight back.

Richard confronted Captain America Rogers and Hawkeye Barton, exposing Rogers's hypocrisy before killing him in battle. The death completed Richard's mission and delivered Yamato as his new weapon.

• Captain America Rogers prepared to fight Richard while Hawkeye Barton urged retreat, and Richard offered Hawkeye a chance to leave alive.
• Richard accused Rogers of hypocrisy, revealing that Bucky Barnes had killed Howard and his wife while Rogers had kept the truth from Tony Stark.
• Hawkeye chose to stand by Rogers, but Hulk arrived with Black Widow Natasha, who offered a ceasefire on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s behalf.
• Richard rejected the ceasefire, teleported to Rogers, shattered his Vibranium Shield with Octaslash, and beheaded him.
• Richard's mission was completed, and he received Yamato as a reward.

Richard killed Captain America, issued demands to the White House, and tested the Yamato’s Dimension Slash before returning to White Queen. At S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Nick Fury revealed that Roy Wesley was dead, leaving Natasha unwilling to act as the White House’s intermediary with Richard.

• Richard told Natasha and Hawkeye to relay his three demands to the White House and threatened to destroy one city a day if the United States opposed him.
• Richard collected Captain America’s damaged Vibranium Shield, promised Hulk they would spar another time, then used Shatter to destroy Vibranium and tested the Yamato’s Dimension Slash in a forest.
• Richard returned to White Queen’s apartment and carried her to the bedroom.
• Nick Fury told Natasha, Banner, and Hawkeye that the White House could meet only two demands because Roy Wesley was dead and his body had been cremated.
• Nick Fury said the White House wanted Natasha to tell Richard the truth and offer other compensation, but Natasha refused to contact him.

After the White House publicly revoked Richard’s wanted order and announced that Roy Wesley had died, Richard rejected Professor X’s attempt to negotiate and demanded a satisfactory explanation before his deadline. The next morning, Natasha delivered the White House’s compensation and evidence that the people connected to Roy’s arrest and death had been dealt with.

• The White House announced that Filippo Todd and Winston Lambert had been detained, Richard’s S-level wanted order had been revoked, and explosions at the Department of Mutant Affairs were blamed on a gas leak.
• Richard told White Queen he still expected the White House to meet his other conditions, then received Professor X, Cyclops, Black Widow, and Hulk at his apartment.
• Professor X told Richard that his father, Roy Wesley, had died two months earlier and said the White House could fulfill only two of Richard’s three conditions.
• Richard refused to accept the White House’s offer, set a deadline for a satisfactory explanation, and warned Natasha not to bring Hulk as leverage again.
• The next morning, Natasha gave Richard a list showing that the officials connected to Roy’s arrest and death had died or disappeared, and reported that his accounts, estates, family possessions, vehicles, and private islands had been restored or provided.

Richard accepted the White House’s compensation and warned Natasha not to let Tony seek revenge without knowing the truth. As Richard enjoyed lunch with the White Queen, Tony arrived furious and confronted him about killing Rogers.

• The White House offered Richard five times the requested compensation and dismissed the Department of Mutant Affairs employees connected to his father, and Richard agreed to leave it alone if it left him alone.
• Richard asked Natasha whether Tony knew he had killed Rogers or that Bucky Barnes had killed Tony’s parents, and Natasha said S.H.I.E.L.D. had told him neither truth.
• Richard warned Natasha that Tony could die if he came seeking revenge, and she promised to tell him the truth.
• Richard told the White Queen he planned to enjoy his billionaire lifestyle rather than build an organization to help mutants, while news and fan forums celebrated him as a powerful mutant idol.
• Richard and the White Queen ate lunch at her Manhattan restaurant when Tony flew in, confronted Richard, and asked whether he had killed Rogers.
• Richard admitted that he had killed Rogers and warned Tony to consider carefully whether he wanted revenge.

Richard told Tony how to find Hydra leader Alexander Pierce, and Tony later killed Bucky Barnes to avenge his parents. When Tony asked Richard to help with his insomnia, a new task appeared: defeat Dark Phoenix Dr. Jean Grey, leaving Richard to implant a month-long sleep suggestion in Tony.

• Richard told Tony that Alexander Pierce was a Hydra leader and Bucky Barnes’s handler, and Tony agreed to capture Pierce to find Barnes.
• Richard asked Tony to make him an Anti-Richard Armor as payment, then erased the restaurant patrons’ memories so Pierce would not learn of Tony’s plan.
• A week later, Tony told Richard he had killed Bucky and pressured Nick Fury to cover up the truth about Hydra.
• Tony asked Richard to ease his trauma-related insomnia, and Richard agreed in exchange for another Mark Armor.
• The system assigned Richard a task to defeat Dark Phoenix Dr. Jean Grey, with Vergil’s True Devil Trigger Form as the reward.
• Richard implanted a month-long Psychological Suggestion in Tony to help him sleep.

Richard went to the School for Mutants to warn Professor X that Jean Grey might lose control and become an Omega-level mutant with a dangerous Dark Personality. Professor X revealed that he had long feared this possibility, and the two began discussing how to prevent it.

• After Tony left, Richard decided to visit the School for Mutants because he could not predict when Phoenix might become Dark Phoenix.
• Richard teleported to the school, where Phoenix and Cyclops greeted him and led him to Professor X.
• Richard told Professor X that he had seen future fragments of Jean Grey becoming an Omega-level mutant and causing serious danger.
• Professor X explained that Jean's Dark Personality had grown stronger over time, and that he had sealed it inside her subconscious with a Mind Cage.
• Richard offered to help stop Jean if her Dark Personality broke free, partly in gratitude for Professor X's care of Clarice.