Chapter Summaries

After Xu Yue linked the attack on Happy to the Mandarin, Tony agreed to investigate and publicly declared war on the terrorist. Pepper tried to make Tony rest, but Maya, a woman from his past, arrived at the door and left him scrambling to explain.

• Banbu and Lange left separately to seek reinforcements, while Xu Yue stayed behind to maintain the connection with Happy and Tony.
• Xu Yue suggested that the people who attacked Happy might be connected to the Mandarin, prompting Tony to reconsider Rhodey's request and agree to look into it.
• Tony declared war on the Mandarin in front of reporters despite his anxiety, and Pepper confronted him about provoking terrorists.
• Pepper asked Xu Yue to make Tony get a good night's sleep, but Tony escaped the moment when the doorbell rang.
• Tony recognized Maya, the botanist he had slept with thirteen years earlier, and shut the door on her before Pepper reopened it.

Xu Yue and Tony escaped an attack on Tony’s beachfront home while two Holy Hill mechs were destroyed by enhanced firemen. Reviewing the mechs’ black boxes revealed that one attacker was a German Legion Reincarnator, prompting the gathered representatives to recognize the target’s potential value.

• Maya warned Tony about the danger, but missiles launched from three helicopters struck toward his beachfront home before he could finish packing.
• Xu Yue summoned two Holy Hill mechs from the sea, and they destroyed the incoming missiles before the helicopters released their attackers.
• More than a dozen vine-wielding firemen overwhelmed the mechs, while Tony fled with Pepper Potts and Xu Yue withdrew; both mechs exploded and Tony’s home was destroyed.
• Banbu and Lange retrieved the mechs’ black boxes and played the footage for Holy Hill’s gathered reinforcements and representatives.
• A representative of the German Provisional Government recognized one attacker as a German Legion Veteran Reincarnator who had received funding, and the gathered Reincarnators reconsidered the target’s potential value.

The legions launched a surprise attack on AIM’s base and defeated its defenders under Xu Yue’s command, but found the valuable supplies already gone. They discovered imprisoned Reincarnators and slaughtered those from their own legions, while Preta Path Xu Yue watched the footage and killed Killian after securing the virus research and evidence.

• A German Provisional Government representative obtained AIM’s location and plans, revealing that most Extremis Warriors would leave the base in five days.
• The coalition forces attacked AIM’s base and won with limited losses, largely because Xu Yue’s Wood Clone commanded the battle effectively.
• The attackers found the base stripped of most equipment and serums, then discovered Reincarnators imprisoned as Extremis test subjects.
• The legion representatives ordered their own imprisoned Reincarnators taken away, and the outsiders killed them despite their pleas to sign confidentiality agreements.
• Preta Path Xu Yue watched a recording of the slaughter, crushed the wounded Killian, and departed after securing the virus research and further evidence.

Saint Hill Legion secured a decisive victory and recruited Xu Yue’s Wood Clone to help eliminate the remaining Swastika Society Intruders. Meanwhile, Jigokudo Xu Yue arrived in London, where the Sanctum’s mages were suppressing spatial disturbances without realizing the Nine Realms’ Convergence was approaching, and a German Reincarnator mistook him for a Japanese agent.

• Saint Hill Legion learned that the Mandarin was a fabricated character and received an evaluation bonus for its victory.
• A Rothschild Family representative asked Xu Yue’s Wood Clone to help ensure the two Swastika Society Intruders could not escape or fight back, and Xu Yue agreed.
• Jigokudo Xu Yue arrived in London and sensed chaotic spatial energy around the city’s weak dimensional node.
• The London Sanctum’s mages worked to suppress the disturbance, unaware that it was caused by the approaching Convergence of the Nine Realms and the opening of a crack near the Reality Stone.
• Jigokudo Xu Yue considered meeting Jane and Dr. Erik, but a German Reincarnator accused him of being a Japanese operative sent to plot against Germany.

Xu Yue completed the enhancement of his twelve Truth-Seeking Orbs in Nidavellir, then helped Thor and the others quell the rebellion in Vanaheim. After Odin advised Thor to forget Jane and pay more attention to Sif, Thor returned to the Rainbow Bridge, where Xu Yue was waiting with Heimdall.

• Eitri forged the twelve Truth-Seeking Orbs into embryonic chaotic worlds, giving Xu Yue a buffer that could help him obtain another Infinity Stone.
• Xu Yue returned to Asgard and went to Vanaheim, where he captured the leaders of several rebel factions and helped Thor’s group restore order.
• Odin welcomed the victorious warriors at a grand banquet and told Thor that Jane’s short lifespan made her unsuitable as a future queen, urging him to show more concern for Sif.
• Thor left the banquet and went to the Rainbow Bridge to ask Heimdall about Jane, where he found Xu Yue standing quietly.

Xu Yue tried to make Thor question his dependence on Mjolnir while helping him sort out his feelings for Jane and Sif. In London, Curse learned that the hated Muto was nearby and mobilized forces to hunt him down.

• Xu Yue teased Thor about marriage and asked why he preferred Jane despite Sif's feelings for him.
• Thor admitted that meeting Jane had changed how he understood his feelings, and Xu Yue guided him toward examining his bond with his hammer.
• Xu Yue challenged Thor to consider whether he was the God of Thunder or merely the God of Hammers, reminding him why Odin had sent him to Earth.
• A member of the German Provisional Government spread word that Muto was in London, drawing the attention of Reincarnators who blamed him for past losses.
• Curse learned that Muto was nearby and sent his forces to search for him, expecting the French and German legions to join the hunt.

Jigokudo Xu Yue drew closer to Erik and Jane as the Battle of London approached, while Erik’s attempt to awaken people by streaking led to his arrest. Jane followed her instrument to an abandoned factory, where Xu Yue sensed the Reality Stone’s power and found that the London Sanctum’s protections had no effect.

• Jigokudo Xu Yue befriended Erik and encouraged him to awaken people, while noticing that a team of Reincarnators was trying to approach the professor.
• Erik went streaking with three Reincarnators and was arrested, while Jane’s instrument began reacting to the Reality Stone.
• Jane ended her blind date and followed the instrument with Daisy and Glasses, then agreed to bring Jigokudo Xu Yue along after he showed her the report of Erik’s arrest.
• Jane, Daisy, Glasses, and Jigokudo Xu Yue reached an abandoned factory, where Xu Yue sensed a spatial rift and the Reality Stone’s power overcoming the London Sanctum’s suppression.

Jigokudo Xu Yue guided Jane into the passage leading to the Reality Stone, which possessed her while she was inside. Thor brought Jane back to the factory, confronted Xu Yue, and began listening as Xu Yue warned him of a new threat to Earth and the Nine Realms.

• Jigokudo Xu Yue used Jane's device to point her toward a spatial passage, and Jane vanished into it.
• Heimdall lost sight of Jane, prompting Thor to worry about her disappearance.
• Malekith sensed the Reality Stone's return, and his frozen mothership began to awaken.
• Thor used the Rainbow Bridge to reach Jane after Heimdall saw her again, and he accused Jigokudo Xu Yue of causing her disappearance.
• Xu Yue told Thor that a former manipulator had found new partners and planned to threaten Earth and the Nine Realms.

Xu Yue arranged for Thor to discover the Reality Stone inside Jane, while a Curse Warrior transformed in Asgard’s prison and broke free. Heimdall detected a hidden Dark Elf fleet, but destroying one ship revealed a much larger invasion force approaching Asgard.

• Thor took Jane to Asgard for examination, and the Reality Stone’s power forced Odin to investigate her.
• Xu Yue watched the captured Curse Warrior being taken to prison and waited for him to complete his transformation.
• Frigga visited Loki in his cell, where he complained that no one believed his story.
• The Curse Warrior crushed the Cursed Gem, transformed, killed the prisoners nearby, and shattered his cell’s barrier.
• Heimdall found and tore apart a cloaked Dark Elf ship, then saw a fleet of identical ships and a colossal mothership approaching Asgard.

As the Dark Elves invaded Asgard, Malekith and a Curse Warrior captured Frigga while searching for Jane and the Reality Stone. Xu Yue entered the room, took Malekith’s sword, and offered to lead them to Jane if they released Frigga.

• The Dark Elves overwhelmed Asgard’s defenses while Loki helped them destroy the palace’s protective force field.
• Odin fought the invaders as Xu Yue waited for Malekith to reach Frigga and Jane’s hiding place.
• Frigga fought Malekith but was ambushed and seized by a Curse Warrior.
• Malekith demanded that Frigga reveal Jane’s location, then prepared to kill her when she refused.
• Xu Yue entered, took Malekith’s sword, and offered to bring him to Jane in exchange for Frigga’s release.

Xu Yue rescued Frigga and removed the Reality Stone from Jane, but Malekith escaped with the Stone after absorbing it. Thor blamed himself for failing to stop him, while Frigga urged Thor to find Odin and prevent Malekith’s plan.

• Xu Yue revealed Jane to Malekith, then blocked the Reality Stone from leaving her and threatened to seal it unless Malekith released Frigga.
• Malekith freed Frigga, and Xu Yue tossed him the Reality Stone before killing the Curse Warrior with a spatial rift.
• Thor attacked the Reality Stone with Mjolnir, but it survived and Malekith absorbed it before escaping aboard his mothership.
• Thor rushed to Frigga, who urged him to find Odin and stop Malekith; Xu Yue apologized for letting Malekith escape, leaving Thor feeling responsible for the failure.

After Asgard repelled Malekith’s attack but lost the Reality Stone, Xu Yue arranged for Thor and the others to travel to Earth while he pursued the Dark Elves in a spacecraft. Malekith’s fleet surrounded Xu Yue, and Xu Yue said he had come to seek cooperation.

• Malekith escaped with the surviving Dark Elves after Odin and Xu Yue helped defeat their assault, but the invaders took the Reality Stone.
• Thor urged the Asgardians to pursue Malekith, and Jane explained that the Nine Realms’ alignment would bring the Dark Elves to London on Earth.
• Xu Yue offered to use a secret passage to send Thor, Sif, and the Warriors of the Three Palaces to Earth while he followed the Dark Elves’ ship.
• Xu Yue left Asgard in a spacecraft despite Odin’s order that no one leave, and he pursued the Dark Elves through space.
• Malekith’s fleet surrounded Xu Yue’s spacecraft, and Xu Yue told Malekith he had come to seek cooperation.

Xu Yue confronted Malekith and began forcing him to learn to use the Reality Stone in combat while discussing cooperation. Meanwhile, Thor assembled the Avengers and other allies in London to prepare for the Dark Elves’ attack at Greenwich, and Reincarnators gathered to join the expected winning side.

• Malekith questioned Xu Yue’s offer to cooperate, so Xu Yue crossed the void and struck him from the Dark Elf mothership through a planet.
• Malekith survived the blow with the Reality Stone and acknowledged Xu Yue’s strength, while Xu Yue judged his control of the Stone to be crude.
• Thor and his companions met Dr. Erik in London and used his calculations to identify Greenwich as the point where the Nine Realms would converge.
• Thor gathered the Avengers aboard S.H.I.E.L.D.’s repaired Helicarrier and recruited Muto as an ally.
• Reincarnators converged on London after noticing the altered course of events and chose to follow the expected victory.

After earning recognition as a tactical master, Xu Yue joined the Holy Hill Legion's Reincarnators in London as S.H.I.E.L.D. prepared for an alien attack. Reincarnators from across the Mission Space gathered to share the mission's rewards and target the Swastika Society, just as the alien mothership appeared near Greenwich.

• Xu Yue's tactical success earned him a reputation among Reincarnators, and Banbu and Lange joined him in traveling to London after S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier was located.
• The Holy Hill Legion's group piloted their VF Series mechs to London, where British authorities tolerated the influx of Reincarnators claiming to be friendly forces.
• The Rothschild Family gathered representatives from numerous legions and revealed that a spy had exposed the Swastika Society's plans and movements.
• The assembled Reincarnators agreed to pursue the mission and its valuable rewards while remaining wary of the Swastika Society and the Japanese Reincarnator who had caused trouble previously.
• A massive alien mothership emerged from invisibility beyond London's outskirts and moved toward Greenwich.

The Avengers and Reincarnators attacked the Dark Elves’ mothership as it arrived over London, while Wildcat and Sly Rat prepared a hidden plan. After exposing and killing a suspicious guard, they watched the mothership open and prepared to act.

• The Dark Elves’ mothership appeared, and Thor, Tony, Captain America, and Dr. Banner prepared to fight.
• Reincarnators began attacking the mothership before it landed, while Nick Fury watched their intervention with suspicion.
• Wildcat and Sly Rat discussed the falling firepower and growing number of Reincarnators around them.
• Wildcat and Sly Rat killed a guard who tried to signal someone after they revealed they had noticed the trap.
• The mothership landed and opened its hatch, and Wildcat announced that the native boss had appeared and their plan would begin.

The Reincarnators surrounded the Swastika Society and launched a large-scale assault, unaware that its automated turrets had become part of a magic formation. The formation redirected their combined attacks at Malekith, who absorbed them effortlessly, leaving the attackers stunned.

• Malekith retaliated against the Reincarnators who kept firing at him, absorbing their attacks into his black fluid.
• Xu Yue warned the assembled Reincarnators that the Swastika Society had noticed them and that the turrets and a Japanese swordsmanship master might pose a threat.
• A Rothschild representative led an assault on the Swastika Society, and the other Reincarnators followed with large-scale attacks.
• The automated turrets became nodes in a gigantic magic formation that gathered the Reincarnators' attacks and fired them at Malekith.
• Malekith blocked and absorbed the concentrated beam, while the Reincarnators realized their attack had been redirected.

Malekith’s counterattack devastated the Reincarnators, but Thor and Hulk drew his attention away, giving the survivors a chance to confront the Swastika Society. As the Rothschild Family’s forces charged, Xu Yue’s Wood Clone warned his allies that their opponents were hiding another plan.

• Malekith attacked the Reincarnators who had struck his mothership, killing nearly everyone below Intruder level and wounding the survivors.
• Thor and Hulk engaged Malekith, briefly drawing his attention away from the Reincarnators.
• The injured big shots blamed the Swastika Society for their losses, and a Rothschild Family representative vowed to crush them.
• Wildcat told the big shots that the Swastika Society had no intention of dying, while One-Arm charged with two Rothschild Family Intruders.
• Xu Yue’s Wood Clone stopped Banbu and Lange from joining the fight, warning them that the Rothschild Family might be concealing another plan.

Rommel and Muto Kendo Master revealed their ambush against the Intruders, killing seven in seconds and sealing off the enemy’s escape routes. The surviving Intruders were trapped between the native BOSS, Rommel, and Muto.

• Wildcat and Sly Rat kept One-Arm and another opponent occupied while the other Intruders prepared to attack.
• Nine fox tails erupted from the ground and captured seven of the nine Intruders guarding the perimeter.
• Rommel crushed the seven captives in under ten seconds, revealing himself in the Nine-Tails Feather Robe.
• One-Arm recognized Rommel and realized the operation had been a trap, while Banbu and Lange understood why Xu Yue had warned them.
• Several Intruders tried to flee, but Muto Kendo Master killed the fastest one and blocked their route, leaving the survivors surrounded.

Xu Yue warned Banbu and Lange that Rommel’s strength had left them outmatched, then revealed that the Rothschild Family might have prepared a countermeasure. Nathaniel Charles Rothschild appeared and struck down Muto, but Xu Yue cautioned his allies that the apparent shift in advantage might not be safe.

• Xu Yue told Banbu and Lange that Rommel and the Swastika Society had separated their forces and could defeat them individually, then suggested the Rothschild Family’s preparations might offer their only opportunity.
• Curse of the Power of the Era planned to use Rommel’s attack on Saint Hill as a chance to escape toward Muto, but Rommel targeted Curse and the other three survivors instead.
• The four Intruders used their hidden methods to withstand part of Rommel’s Nine-Tails barrage.
• Nathaniel Charles Rothschild appeared and struck Muto into a building with his pulverizer, then faced off against Rommel as the opposing groups regrouped.
• Xu Yue stopped Banbu and Lange from joining the Rothschild Family’s Coalition Forces, warning that the area might still be dangerous, and they stayed behind.

Nathaniel offered Xu Yue a place as an outsider member of the Rothschild Family, but Xu Yue refused. Nathaniel ambushed the gathered Intruders with parasitic insects and attacked Xu Yue, only for Xu Yue to reveal that he had survived the corrosive strike.

• Nathaniel invited Xu Yue to join the Rothschild Family as an outsider member, but Xu Yue politely declined.
• Nathaniel's spider-like limbs paralyzed the gathered Intruders and implanted insects in them; One-Arm broke free while Curse and the others were killed by the hatching insects.
• Nathaniel urged the survivors to join forces against Rommel and sent a golden insect toward Xu Yue's Wood Clone.
• The insect burst into corrosive mist that swallowed Xu Yue's Wood Clone and carved a trench through the ground.
• Xu Yue spoke from the end of the trench, dropped his shattered shield, and said he understood but was civilian staff who disliked using violence.