Chapter Summaries

Yuri, Kate, and Vanax drove Xu Xialing away while Xu Wenwu pursued them with the Ten Rings. As the cars neared a large farm, one of Xu Wenwu’s subordinates defied his orders to race ahead, and Xu Xialing sought Yuri’s protection.

• Yuri told Xu Xialing that Xu Wenwu’s pursuit proved he still loved her, making her cry and fear being taken home.
• Xu Wenwu failed to break through the villa’s protective barrier and ordered his gang to follow Yuri’s group.
• Yuri judged Xu Wenwu an inept wielder of the Ten Rings and planned for Xu Xialing to reconcile with her father.
• Xu Wenwu ordered his men to keep their distance and not act without authorization, but a burly white deputy instructor convinced his car’s crew to race ahead.
• A Ghost Face Mask-wearing chief instructor let the rogue car go and reported its actions to Xu Wenwu.
• The burly white man’s car pulled beside Yuri’s, startling Xu Xialing, who hid in Yuri’s arms as he reminded her she had vowed not to talk to him all day.

Yuri brought Xu Xialing to the farm and wagered that Xu Wenwu still loved her, while planning to confront Xu Wenwu and use the farm’s livestock to replenish his strength. Xu Wenwu arrived with his gang as Kate and Vanax prepared to stall them, leaving the confrontation about to begin.

• Yuri wagered with Xu Xialing that Xu Wenwu loved her, agreeing to grant her a wish if she won and asking her to help him if he won.
• Kate drove Yuri’s car through the white giant and the farm’s steel gate while Yuri kept Xu Xialing safe inside.
• Yuri entered the farm alone and used his Deathly Stillness Domain to drain life force from the livestock.
• Xu Xialing secretly decided that, if she won the wager, she would make Yuri her dad.
• Xu Wenwu arrived, questioned his captured underlings, and confronted Kate and Vanax about Xu Xialing.
• Vanax proposed that she and Kate knock Xu Wenwu’s group flat to keep them occupied.

Yuri drained the farm animals to restore his strength, then rescued Xu Xialing from the Ten Rings gang and confronted Xu Wenwu at the farm gate. He threatened Xu Xialing to force her father to surrender, leaving the battle at a standstill.

• Xu Wenwu attacked Kate and Vanax with the Ten Rings, but Vanax's empowered blast pierced his shield and wounded him.
• Ghost Face Mask and the Ten Rings gang tried to smash into Xu Xialing's car, while she discovered its defenses kept her completely safe.
• Yuri arrived in a patrol car, redirected the gang's bullets through a portal, and killed the remaining attackers with blades formed from a spatial portal.
• Yuri stopped Xu Xialing from looking at the bodies, told her he could make Xu Wenwu answer honestly, and carried her through a portal to the gate.
• Yuri threatened Xu Wenwu with a knife at Xu Xialing's neck and ordered him to drop his weapons and surrender.

Yuri tricked Xu Wenwu into confronting his love for Xu Xialing, leading him to embrace her and give up the Ten Rings. Yuri then began studying the rings and activated their hidden patterns, revealing that Xu Wenwu had never truly controlled their power.

• Yuri pretended to hold Xu Xialing hostage and pressured Xu Wenwu to explain why he had neglected her.
• Xu Wenwu admitted that Xu Xialing reminded him of her late mother, and Yuri revealed that the hostage had been an illusion.
• Yuri told Xu Xialing to retrieve the Ten Rings as part of their bet, while Xu Wenwu reflected on the life he might have had without them.
• Xu Wenwu embraced Xu Xialing, promised to stop neglecting her, and sent the Ten Rings floating to Yuri.
• Yuri examined the Ten Rings and activated their gemstones and patterns, telling Xu Wenwu that he had mistaken wielding them for controlling them.

Yuri activated the Ten Rings, discovered their true master was meant to be Tiamut, and recruited Xu Wenwu as a partner by crafting him a new ring. The group arrived at Yuri’s villa, where Xu Wenwu and Xu Xialing were invited to stay.

• Yuri deciphered the Ten Rings’ activation runes, awakened their power, and concluded that Tiamut was their intended master.
• Yuri altered the unconscious farm workers’ memories to cover up the battle, then offered Xu Wenwu a place at his side and greater power than the Ten Rings had given him.
• Yuri transformed his phone into a ring and enchanted it with runes that granted Xu Wenwu powerful abilities, though the ring’s poor material could make it break after repeated use.
• Xu Wenwu accepted Yuri’s offer and agreed to join him as a partner.
• Yuri opened a portal to his seaside villa, and he invited Xu Wenwu and Xu Xialing to stay there as friends.

Yuri reassured Xu Wenwu that he would make the Ten Rings and Xu Xialing’s rope dart, while explaining that the best materials for Magic Manufacturing were in Asgard. Meanwhile, Thanos tasked Loki with retrieving the Space Stone from Midgard and promised him the throne of Asgard.

• Xu Wenwu asked Yuri about the strange patterns and noises from the previous night, and Yuri claimed he had been working on weapons.
• Xu Wenwu offered to find materials for Yuri, but Yuri said Magic Manufacturing required materials from Asgard and urged Xu Wenwu to spend time with Xu Xialing and help Yinsen at the company.
• Xu Xialing asked Xu Wenwu to take her to Disneyland, while Yuri opened a portal and left the dining room.
• Loki told Thanos that the Cosmic Cube was on Midgard and that Yuri was concealing it, then warned that Odin, The Ancient One, and Yuri made the realm too dangerous for Thanos to visit.
• Thanos gave Loki the Mind Scepter and the Chitauri Army, promising to make him King of Asgard if he brought back the Space Stone.
• Loki accepted the mission and vowed to bring the Space Stone to Thanos.

Loki arrived on Earth through the Cosmic Cube energy source and attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. research facility. He escaped Fury’s attempt to stop him and used the Mind Scepter to take control of Barton.

• A Chitauri scientist explained that an energy source on Earth shared the Space Stone’s origin and sent Loki through a spatial transportation device.
• Fury, Jane Foster, and Professor Erik discovered that the Cosmic Cube energy source was opening a passage to Earth, and Fury ordered an evacuation.
• Loki emerged from the expanding passage, resisted Barton’s anesthetic arrow, and attacked the facility with the Mind Scepter.
• Fury fled as Loki fought the security guards and evaded Barton’s attacks.
• Loki made an illusion solid before Barton and used the Mind Stone to control him.

Tony relit Stark Tower with his Arc Reactor, then received S.H.I.E.L.D. intelligence about Loki and other threats. S.H.I.E.L.D. began recruiting Banner and Captain America, while Fury prepared to approach Tina, whose mood had soured at his arrival.

• Tony powered Stark Tower back on and saw Yuri among the people in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s files; Pepper left for Washington with Coulson.
• Banner followed a girl to a slum house, where Natasha revealed she was with S.H.I.E.L.D. and asked him to help save the world; Banner discovered agents had surrounded him.
• Fury visited Rogers and showed him information about an alien threat, asking him to save the world.
• Tina heard that Yuri missed her, but when Fury and Rogers arrived outside her flower shop, she went upstairs rather than greet them.

Yuri ordered Vanax and Kate to gather the Arctic members who had awakened their minds, while he continued studying the Ten Rings. In Germany, Loki used the Mind Scepter to steal iridium and was captured by Captain America and Tony; Tina then demanded the scepter from Tony.

• Yuri told Vanax to bring all the Arctic members who had awakened their minds to him so they could return to the world.
• Yuri analyzed the Ten Rings and discovered that they were creations of the Celestials.
• Loki and mind-controlled Barton broke into a gathering in Stuttgart, used Dr. Heinrich Schafer's retinal scan to unlock a device, and retrieved iridium.
• Loki tried to force the crowd to kneel, but Captain America deflected the scepter's blast with his shield and Tony knocked Loki down.
• Natasha, Rogers, and Tony took Loki aboard their plane, where Rogers cuffed him with electric shock handcuffs.
• Tony learned that the scepter contained the Mind Stone, and Tina appeared and demanded that he hand it over.

After Loki’s attempt to control Tony was stopped, Thor arrived to take Loki back to Asgard, but Tony and Captain America challenged him. Tina warned Thor that Yuri was coming, and Yuri appeared through a portal as Loki tried to flee.

• Tina took the Mind Scepter from Tony and wounded Loki to stop his tricks, then Natasha gave Loki a Regeneration Potion that healed him.
• A thunderbolt announced Thor’s arrival, and he entered the plane, seized Loki, and carried him outside.
• Thor and Loki argued about their family and their past before Tony attacked Thor to stop him from taking Loki away.
• Thor said Loki would face judgment in Asgard, while Rogers insisted Loki should face justice on Earth, and Tina warned that Yuri was coming.
• Yuri opened a portal from his seaside villa, and Loki sprang up to flee before Yuri walked toward him.

Yuri defeated Loki, took the Mind Stone, and brought the group to the Helicarrier, where he briefed S.H.I.E.L.D. and world representatives on Thanos’s Chitauri army and its Hive System. The chapter ended with Tony quietly wondering whether destroying the Hive’s central controller would disable its soldiers.

• Yuri revealed that Tina had taken the Mind Stone from Loki and forced Loki to remain on Earth because Thanos was targeting it.
• Yuri warned Thor and the others that Thanos had set his sights on Earth, then sent Loki crashing through trees when he suggested giving Thanos the stone.
• Tina handed Yuri the Mind Scepter, and Yuri opened a portal so the group could board the plane with Natasha.
• Yuri controlled the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents guarding the Helicarrier, and Rogers defended him to Fury as a friend rather than an enemy.
• Yuri briefed S.H.I.E.L.D. officials and United Nations representatives on the Chitauri army and how its Hive System coordinated its soldiers.
• Tony privately asked Jarvis whether eliminating the Hive System’s central controller would leave the Chitauri soldiers alive.

Yuri brought Banner to the Mirror Dimension and explained his theory that Hulk was an independent being embodying anger, not a second personality. He forced Hulk to emerge and secured his agreement to learn and help when needed, leaving Banner shocked by the encounter.

• Yuri persuaded Fury to take him to Banner's lab, then asked Banner to help prepare Hulk for the coming battle.
• Yuri brought Banner into the Mirror Dimension and explained that Hulk was a conscious individual formed from the emotion of anger.
• Yuri separated Banner's soul from his body and used the Mind Scepter to make Hulk emerge.
• Yuri pulled a tiny Hulk from Banner's head and offered to return him to normal if he agreed to learn under Banner and help Yuri when asked.
• Hulk knelt and agreed to Yuri's terms.

Tony and Rogers uncovered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s renewed Cosmic Cube weapons research as Loki's allies infiltrated Stark Tower and attacked the Helicarrier. With the Helicarrier in chaos, Thor and Rogers went to confront the danger while Tina contacted Vanax for help.

• Coulson confined Loki in a glass cell, and Loki secretly used his powers to influence the guards after Thor and the agents left.
• Tony showed Rogers evidence that S.H.I.E.L.D. had resumed Cosmic Cube weapons research, and Rogers went to retrieve classified paper files.
• Barton and Professor Erik led their disguised team into Stark Tower, where they assembled a portal generator on the rooftop and Barton called to Loki.
• Fury confronted Tony over hacking S.H.I.E.L.D., but Rogers arrived with a classified file and challenged Fury about the Cosmic Cube and his rescue.
• The Helicarrier came under attack, with its outer hull damaged and engine three disabled, so Tony set out to repair it while Thor and Rogers headed for the engine room.
• Tina agreed to act but secretly called Vanax, then ordered a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent to tell her where the Helicarrier was.

Thor escaped Loki’s trap aboard the Helicarrier but chose to save its crew instead of pursuing him. Loki reached Stark Tower and opened a portal for the Chitauri, while the Avengers raced to stop him and Tony found that the portal’s barrier blocked his attack.

• Loki tricked Thor into entering the glass pod and dropped it from the Helicarrier, but Thor broke free with a lightning strike and flew to restart a stopped turbine.
• Loki escaped in an aircraft, while Fury learned from Tina that the portal would open at Stark Tower and the team identified Loki’s plan to use the tower as a spectacle.
• At Stark Tower, Loki ordered Professor Erik to activate the generator, and a blue energy beam began opening the portal as the Chitauri awakened.
• Tony flew to the rooftop and tried to destroy the generator, but the portal’s barrier blocked his missile, so he ordered Jarvis to deploy the Mark VII armor.

Tony confronted Loki at Stark Tower, escaped his attack in the Mark VII, and joined the defense when the Chitauri Army poured through the portal. As the Avengers and Symbiote warriors fought to hold the line, Yuri emerged and wondered how the invasion had happened.

• Tony tried to unsettle Loki by describing the Avengers, but Loki attacked him when his magic failed to control Tony.
• Loki hurled Tony through the tower's glass, and Jarvis deployed the Mark VII in time to save him.
• Tony blasted Loki with his repulsor just as the portal opened and the Chitauri Army began invading.
• Tony called for backup as Vanax, Tina, and Symbiote warriors attacked the Chitauri, while Natasha reported that more forces were on the way.
• Yuri emerged from the portal, saw the enormous gateway, and asked how the invasion had happened.

Yuri split the Chitauri invasion between the Mirror Dimension and a lethal Deathly Stillness Domain, while Mark Spector joined him in wielding that power. After a space shark crashed into New York, the United Council ordered Nick Fury to launch a nuclear missile at the city.

• Yuri opened a Mirror Dimension portal and sent Vanax, Kate, Tiger, Cheetah, and Hulk through it to fight the Chitauri there, while Tina and others stayed behind.
• Yuri used a psychic network to order civilians evacuated, and the Ancient One opened portals that let them leave the danger zone.
• Yuri and Mark Spector unleashed their Deathly Stillness Domains, draining the life from Chitauri soldiers and causing a space shark to fall dead in New York.
• Nick Fury celebrated the space shark's defeat, but Agent Hill brought him a call from the United Council, whose members ordered him to launch a nuclear missile at New York.

Fury defied the Council’s order to nuke Manhattan, but they sent a nuclear missile anyway. Tony carried it through the portal and destroyed three Chitauri Motherships before Yuri rescued him; Yuri healed Tony and Rogers and prepared to finish the battle.

• Fury refused to launch a nuclear strike on Manhattan, then sabotaged one aircraft carrying a nuke and learned another had taken off.
• Loki caught Hawkeye’s arrow, but its hidden blast knocked him from his Chitauri craft.
• Fury warned Tony about the incoming nuclear missile, and Yuri explained that Tony would carry it through the portal while Mark faced the swarm.
• Tony caught the missile, forced it through Yuri’s portal, and detonated it against a Chitauri Mothership, destroying three ships before his armor lost power.
• Yuri rescued Tony and brought him back to Earth, then healed Tony and Rogers and told them he would handle the remaining fight.

Yuri sealed the portal, confronted Thanos, and accepted his offer to meet in person, leaving Earth with the Mind Scepter behind and instructions for the Avengers. After the invasion, Fury confronted the lawmakers and Rogers delivered Yuri’s message, while Thor set out to pursue Loki.

• Yuri froze the portal shut, destroyed the Chitauri who attacked him, and demanded that Thanos withdraw his forces.
• Thanos ordered his army to retreat and offered Yuri the Mind Scepter as an apology; Yuri accepted and agreed to come aboard a Chitauri mothership.
• The Chitauri withdrew from New York, and Rogers received Yuri’s message to give the Mind Scepter to Fury and find sorcerers to rescue people trapped in the Mirror Dimension.
• Thor vowed not to give Loki another chance and flew off to find him, while Tony went to locate the sorcerers.
• Fury showed lawmakers evidence of their actions and revealed that the footage had been posted online; Rogers then gave him the Mind Scepter and told him the public’s new nickname for him.

Yuri met Thanos aboard the Chitauri motherships and learned that Thanos sought to eliminate half of all life to kill the Celestial embryos hidden within inhabited planets. Thanos left Yuri with his justification for the plan, while the two had yet to decide how to deal with one another.

• Yuri recalled why he had given the Mind Scepter to Nick Fury and considered his plans for Xu Wenwu and Earth.
• Yuri and Thanos tested each other's strength with their auras, and Thanos's Black Order and adopted daughters were swept aside before both men withdrew.
• Thanos asked what Yuri knew about the Celestials, and Yuri admitted he knew they had created intelligent life for an unknown purpose.
• Thanos showed Yuri a projection of the Celestials' history and explained that their embryos developed inside planets by feeding on intelligent life.
• Thanos said he had concluded that eliminating half of all life in the universe would starve the Celestial embryos and prevent them from hatching.

Thanos explained to Yuri why he believed killing half the conscious life on planets could stop Celestial embryos, and why the Infinity Stones could not erase the Celestials themselves. Yuri refused to accept Thanos’s methods without verifying his claims, and Thanos led him toward a collection of Celestials.

• Thanos told Yuri that young Celestial embryos could die when their planets lost half their conscious life, while adult Celestials would notice attempts to kill one near birth.
• Thanos explained that the Infinity Stones could not erase the Celestials because they did not belong to the universe, so he believed mass culling was his only option.
• Yuri said he respected Thanos’s goal but would test his claims himself, and warned him not to threaten Earth or act against it.
• Thanos praised Yuri as the most perfect Mutant he had encountered and led him through a corridor marked with patterns connected to the Celestials and Eternals.
• Thanos admitted he had learned to wield the patterns by experimenting on Titans who opposed him, and Yuri asked whether his sacrifices had been worth it.
• Thanos said future generations would judge his actions, then opened a hidden doorway and invited Yuri to see his collection of Celestials.