Chapter Summaries

After enduring Thor’s lightning, Chen Mo explained that Thor needed to wield thunder without relying on Mjolnir and then challenged him to a real fight. With his physical abilities greatly enhanced but unable to improve further through lightning, Chen Mo put away his shield and prepared to face Thor directly.

• Chen Mo told Thor that Mjolnir was only a weapon and that Thor needed to control the Power of Thunder himself to deserve his name.
• Chen Mo’s body gained a major boost from Thor’s lightning, but his growing resistance made further enhancement impossible and unsafe.
• Chen Mo calculated that his physical abilities had risen to about ten times those of an ordinary person, or twelve times with Riot’s enhancement.
• Chen Mo put away his shield, raised the King’s Sword, and challenged Thor to begin the real battle.
• Thor saw Chen Mo abandon his shield and, believing Chen Mo could not match him without it, prepared to fight without restraint.

Thor tested Chen Mo’s defenses before unleashing his full strength, while Chen Mo used the King's Sword to redirect and evade Mjolnir. The battle continued with Thor gaining the upper hand and Chen Mo remaining on the defensive.

• Thor charged Chen Mo and cautiously tested him with attacks, which Chen Mo deflected using the King's Sword.
• Chen Mo grew accustomed to his enhanced strength as he redirected Thor’s increasingly powerful blows and dodged when necessary.
• Thor, reassured that Chen Mo was not using the shield, unleashed his full strength while Loki watched with renewed hope.
• Chen Mo gripped the King's Sword with both hands and redirected Thor’s full-force strike so Mjolnir smashed into the ground instead of hitting him.
• Chen Mo continued defending and evading as Thor pressed his advantage, pleased that he could finally suppress him.

Chen Mo adapted to Thor’s fighting style and turned Thor’s assault into a counterattack, repeatedly suppressing him with the King's Sword. After mastering the strength gained from the Power of Thunder, Chen Mo decided the fight had served its purpose and struck at Mjolnir’s handle.

• Thor gained the upper hand with a relentless assault, while Chen Mo used the pressure to learn Thor’s habits and control his enhanced strength.
• Chen Mo began deflecting Thor’s attacks and knocked him onto one knee, then kept him pinned down with rapid sword strikes.
• The Avengers watched Chen Mo suppress Thor, while Loki feared what Chen Mo could have done to him earlier.
• Thor rose and charged again, but Chen Mo neutralized every attack and left sword marks across Thor’s armor without taking a hit.
• After deciding he had learned all he could from the fight, Chen Mo gripped his sword with both hands and slashed at Mjolnir’s handle.

Thor lost Mjolnir to Chen Mo and believed himself powerless without it, but Chen Mo urged him to recognize that his strength came from within. Thor awakened his ability to summon lightning without the hammer, fought Chen Mo to a standstill, and left with a new understanding of his power.

• Chen Mo deflected Mjolnir toward Thor's hand, forcing Thor to release the hammer and admit defeat.
• Chen Mo challenged Thor to identify himself and explained that Mjolnir only focused his power.
• Thor declared himself the son of Odin and summoned lightning from his own hand.
• Thor charged Chen Mo without Mjolnir, and the two fought evenly as Thor attacked with lightning and his fists.
• Chen Mo ended the fight, and Thor realized he could wield the Power of Thunder without Mjolnir.

After Thor fought Chen Mo without Mjolnir, he realized his reliance on the hammer had limited his growth and thanked Chen Mo for helping him awaken his potential. Chen Mo gained a major all-around increase in power, and his storage space expanded to 64,000 cubic meters.

• Thor realized that fighting with his fists had let him unleash his own strength and the Power of Thunder, and he thanked Chen Mo for helping him awaken.
• Thor put aside his former arrogance and resolved to become the strongest being in the universe.
• Chen Mo's physical capabilities doubled, reaching ten times those of an ordinary person, and his other abilities improved alongside them.
• Chen Mo concluded that his body developed as an integrated whole, allowing gains in one attribute to strengthen the rest.
• Chen Mo's mental space expanded from twelve meters per side to forty meters per side, reaching 64,000 cubic meters.

Chen Mo’s spatial capacity and mutant abilities improved dramatically, strengthening his storage, healing, teleportation, psychic power, and electromagnetic control. He could now survive far greater threats, though his chapter ended as the effects of Thor’s Power of Thunder on his electromagnetic ability became apparent.

• Chen Mo’s expanded space let him carry vastly more supplies and store objects as large as fighter jets and medium-sized yachts.
• Chen Mo’s self-healing advanced until even fatal wounds and destroyed organs could regenerate rapidly.
• Chen Mo’s teleportation range exceeded a thousand meters, and repeated jumps could carry him more than ten thousand kilometers.
• Chen Mo’s psychic range grew to one hundred meters, while his telekinesis could lift up to ten tons and his other psychic abilities strengthened.
• Chen Mo’s electromagnetic control changed after the Power of Thunder tempered him, leaving his mental power denser and its blue electrical strands stronger.

After helping Thor awaken his own Power of Thunder, Chen Mo saw Thor and Loki return to Asgard with the Cosmic Cube. Earth celebrated the Avengers’ victory over the Chitauri, and Chen Mo was hailed as the hero who had saved the world once again.

• Chen Mo’s electrical power increased to ten thousand volts, allowing him to unleash powerful arcs without weapons.
• Two days later, Thor returned to Asgard with Loki and the Cosmic Cube, leaving humanity to clean up the invasion’s aftermath.
• Nick Fury and the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division contained the damage, while civilian casualties remained almost nonexistent.
• People across Earth celebrated the Avengers for defeating the Chitauri invasion and began buying and wearing Avengers memorabilia.
• Chen Mo was celebrated as the war’s greatest contributor for destroying much of the Chitauri army and entering the wormhole to eliminate their forces.

After the Battle of New York, Chen Mo considered Earth’s vulnerability to future threats and decided to strengthen his real-world forces and develop space technology. He secretly left New York for Norway, while the Avengers established their headquarters under Steve’s command.

• Nick Fury reconsidered his wariness of Chen Mo and concluded that Chen Mo could be trusted to lead Earth.
• Chen Mo resolved to grow stronger so he could face Thanos and prepare Earth for possible dangers from space.
• After seeing Thor and Loki off, Chen Mo made arrangements and secretly traveled from New York to Norway to begin strengthening his real-world forces.
• Nick Fury led S.H.I.E.L.D. in cleaning up the Chitauri invasion and the United States began rebuilding the damaged areas.
• Tony Stark changed Stark Tower’s sign to “Avengers,” making it the team’s headquarters.
• Before leaving, Chen Mo appointed Steve captain and put him in charge of the Avengers, leaving Tony resentful.

The Avengers settled into Stark Tower under Steve’s leadership while the team trained and adjusted to life after the battle. Hawkeye received Chen Mo’s X-Gene Serum, gaining powers that greatly strengthened his combat abilities, while Sharon remained in school and Pepper continued running Stark Industries.

• Tony Stark accepted Steve as captain, and the Avengers moved into Stark Tower, where Tony, Bruce Banner, and Ethan set up a laboratory and Steve led combat training.
• Natasha Romanoff joined the Avengers and spent her free time cooking and shopping with Carter, while Clint Barton trained to overcome his vulnerability to mind control.
• Steve gave Clint the X-Gene Serum Chen Mo had left for him, granting him regeneration, telekinesis, and teleportation.
• Clint’s new powers strengthened his resistance to mental attacks and let him control arrows, fly, and escape close-range threats, making him a formidable Avenger.
• Sharon Rogers continued attending school under Steve and Carter’s watch, while Pepper Potts balanced Avengers missions with her role as Stark Industries president.

Chen Mo invited Old Albert to leave HYDRA and travel with him to another world, and the loyal butler gladly accepted. Chen Mo arranged for Colonel John and Dr. Zola to manage HYDRA, then revealed that Old Albert would not be the only person he planned to bring back.

• Pepper continued working at Stark Industries while Happy served as her driver and head of security, and Wang Jin trained with the Avengers and visited his family.
• The Avengers rebuilt after the war and continued handling threats around the world while Chen Mo returned to HYDRA's base in Norway.
• Chen Mo asked Old Albert to accompany him to another world, and Old Albert accepted after jokingly asking whether meals and lodging were included.
• Chen Mo summoned Colonel John and Dr. Zola and assigned them responsibility for HYDRA after Old Albert's departure.
• Chen Mo delayed leaving because he planned to bring back someone besides Old Albert.

Chen Mo chose HYDRA agents to help him build a secret organization in the real world, confident that their devotion to him would ensure their loyalty. After assembling one hundred elite agents, he considered who should lead the rebuilding effort and settled on Maria Hill.

• Chen Mo decided to bring carefully vetted HYDRA agents from his world to establish an organization in the real world.
• He ordered Eddie to assemble one hundred elite agents, explaining to Old Albert that he planned to rebuild HYDRA in another world.
• Old Albert selected one hundred top agents, who eagerly prepared to follow Chen Mo into battle in another realm.
• Crossbones Brock Rumlow and Maria Hill returned to the Top-Secret Base, and Chen Mo concluded that Hill should manage the new HYDRA.

Chen Mo prepared to rebuild HYDRA in the real world by taking Maria Hill and Brock Rumlow from S.H.I.E.L.D. and gathering agents and supplies for the journey. After ordering Dr. Zola to study Chitauri technology, Chen Mo headed to Wakanda to check on the changes there.

• Chen Mo obtained Nick Fury’s permission to take Maria Hill and Brock Rumlow to Norway, where they prepared to rebuild HYDRA in the real world.
• Chen Mo had Hill, Rumlow, Albert, and the other agents frozen and stored them with extensive supplies in his expanded space.
• Chen Mo gave Dr. Zola the Chitauri technological data and asked him to study it, then added instructions about the Leviathan.
• Chen Mo put on the cloaked Iron Man suit and flew south toward Wakanda.
• Erik Killmonger had taken the throne from T’Challa, unified Africa with HYDRA and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s help, and begun large-scale development across the continent.

Chen Mo visited Wakanda to check on its preparations for Thanos’s future invasion and collect new technology from Princess Shuri. Shuri showed him a miniature cloaking device and said she had also built the aircraft he requested.

• Chen Mo flew through Wakanda’s hidden barrier and entered the laboratory beneath the panther-shaped mountain.
• Princess Shuri was startled when Chen Mo arrived without warning, then greeted him with irritation and admiration.
• Chen Mo asked about her progress, and Shuri explained that she had focused on energy shields.
• Shuri showed Chen Mo the miniature cloaking device she had made, and he told her to install it in his suit and connect it to J.A.R.V.I.S.
• Chen Mo asked about his other requests, and Shuri said she had built the aircraft he wanted.

Chen Mo inspected the spacious Wakandan spaceship Princess Shuri had built for him and connected J.A.R.V.I.S. to its controls. He stored the ship away in front of Shuri and then offered her a gift of alien technology, catching her interest.

• Princess Shuri introduced Chen Mo to his new spaceship and described its engines, defenses, and weapons.
• Chen Mo explored the luxurious interior and connected J.A.R.V.I.S. to the ship's control system.
• Chen Mo made the spaceship vanish before Shuri's eyes and called it magic, leaving her stunned.
• Chen Mo offered Shuri a gift of alien technology, and she eagerly turned back to him.

Chen Mo gave Princess Shuri the Chitauri technology he had captured and urged her to prepare Earth against future alien invasions. After returning to Castle, he freed Old Albert from cryogenic storage and welcomed him home.

• Chen Mo gave Princess Shuri the Chitauri technology files and asked her to develop an alien army to defend Earth.
• Princess Shuri questioned why Chen Mo kept strengthening Earth's military, and he told her the world was already under his control and needed protection from other alien races.
• Princess Shuri promised to finish the energy shield and master the alien technology as quickly as possible.
• After making new arrangements with Erik Killmonger, Chen Mo left Wakanda in his upgraded suit and returned to Castle.
• Chen Mo released Old Albert from cryogenic storage and welcomed him home, then offered to show him around the estate.

Chen Mo brought Old Albert to live beside him in the Castle and encouraged him to return to painting after years of managing HYDRA. He then showed Old Albert the coastal estate and told him it was his home too.

• Chen Mo offered Old Albert the choice of two rooms next to his, and Old Albert chose the sunnier southern room.
• Chen Mo explained that HYDRA was stable and that Old Albert could leave its management to enjoy painting again.
• Chen Mo invited Old Albert to ride a horse and suddenly transported him from the Castle to the surrounding grassland.
• Old Albert surveyed the peninsula, coastline, mountains, and Castle before Chen Mo told him the estate was his home now.

Chen Mo introduced his butler, Eddie Albert, to Wade and Agent Zero while showing Albert the powerful young horse Thunder. Wade reluctantly accepted that Albert would supervise and assign their work.

• Thunder galloped ahead of the herd and halted before Chen Mo and Old Albert, then calmly let Chen Mo stroke him.
• Chen Mo told Old Albert that Thunder was still young and would grow even stronger.
• Wade and Agent Zero arrived and greeted Chen Mo, and Wade asked if Old Albert had come to take over herding the horses.
• Chen Mo introduced Old Albert as his butler and said he would supervise and assign their work.
• Wade abandoned his objection and warmly offered to work for Albert, while Agent Zero introduced himself.

Chen Mo introduced Old Albert to his household and explained to him and the revived Hill and Crossbones Brock Rumlow that they were in a parallel world. He then began enhancing the three of them with mutant abilities as they prepared to rebuild HYDRA.

• Chen Mo rode across the pasture with Old Albert, who gradually relaxed after years confined in the HYDRA base.
• At dinner, Chen Mo told Old Albert to stop observing master-and-servant rules and eat with everyone, then introduced him to the household.
• Chen Mo brought Old Albert to the underground laboratory, revived Hill and Crossbones Brock Rumlow, and explained the main world and its connection to their original world.
• Chen Mo reassured the two that the Avengers films were projections of their world rather than proof that it was fictional.
• After Hill and Crossbones Brock Rumlow recovered, Chen Mo transformed into Doctor Chen and began giving all three standard abilities and a different additional mutant power each.

Chen Mo gave Brock Rumlow, Hill, and Old Albert new mutant abilities, then strengthened their bodies with Enhanced Super Soldier Serum and Heart-shaped herbs. After bringing them to six times an ordinary person's physical strength, he began helping them learn to control their abilities.

• Chen Mo gave Brock Rumlow Shockwave, Hill Ice abilities, and Old Albert Rock manipulation, matching their roles and interests.
• Brock, Hill, and Old Albert each received Enhanced Super Soldier Serum, raising their physical abilities to five times those of ordinary people and their new X-Gene abilities to Level Five.
• Chen Mo gave the three Heart-shaped herbs, increasing their physical abilities to six times those of ordinary people.
• Chen Mo rejected Brock's hopeful request for another enhancement and began training the group to use their abilities, especially telekinetic manipulation and Old Albert's Rock manipulation.

Chen Mo began practical training by having the others use their abilities to excavate an underground base beneath the Castle according to his blueprints. After the group dug out a large second level and reinforced it with stone pillars, Chen Mo prepared to demonstrate how to build its rebar framework.

• Chen Mo cut an opening through the laboratory floor with the King's Sword, removed the concrete slab, and had J.A.R.V.I.S. project his four-level underground-base blueprint.
• Chen Mo told Crossbones Brock Rumlow, Hill, and Old Albert that they would build the base themselves, then asked Old Albert to demonstrate his Rock manipulation ability.
• Old Albert excavated earth and rock from beneath the laboratory while Chen Mo stored the debris in his space.
• Crossbones Brock Rumlow used telekinesis to help excavate, and the group took turns digging out a second underground level while Old Albert formed stone pillars to support it.
• After the level reached the blueprint's planned size, Chen Mo produced steel reinforcement bars and used telekinesis to weave them into grids for the others to copy.