Chapter Summaries

T'Challa and Erik fought for more than a month, while Ramonda secretly sent Wakandan research to Doctor Trask. Shuri arrived in a powerful new White Panther Armor and joined T'Challa, reversing the stalemate against Erik.

• T'Challa grew stronger during his battle with Erik, created his own Magnetic Field martial arts, and battered Erik until he advanced to the Eleventh Heaven.
• The United States infiltrated Wakanda and contacted Ramonda, who sent research on Vibranium and Vibranium Magnetic Armor through a secure route to Doctor Trask for the Sentinel Type-3 Robot prototype.
• T'Challa and Erik fought for more than a month, improving their abilities but reaching a stalemate as Erik advanced to the Twenty-Five Heavens.
• Shuri developed Vibranium Magnetic Armor 3.0, reaching the Seventy-Five Heavens, and secretly flew a new White Panther Armor into the sky.
• Shuri ambushed Erik and then transferred the armor to T'Challa, turning the tide of their battle.

After T'Challa defeated Erik and restored Wakanda, Erik hid in a small country, furious that his dream had collapsed and unsure whether to risk his life for greater power. A visitor then offered Killmonger a way to become stronger and reclaim the throne.

• Erik escaped T'Challa by using crowds to hinder his pursuit, while the final survivors in Berlin were killed by a blast during the city's reconstruction ceremony.
• T'Challa rescued T'Chaka, became Wakanda's king, healed the captured Magnetic Field Warriors, and dismantled Erik's systems and Pan-African Alliance.
• Erik asked Zhan Liu for help, but his master refused and offered him a life-draining technique that could boost his combat power against T'Challa.
• Erik watched T'Challa receive public praise and wrestled with whether defeating him was worth sacrificing his life.
• A magnetic-voiced visitor knocked on Erik's hotel-room door and offered to make him stronger and help him reclaim the throne.

Eric joined Hydra and underwent a dangerous experiment to fuse the Vibranium Magnetic Armor into his body. The procedure succeeded, breaking Ultimate Limit Qigong’s restrictions and advancing him to the Fiftieth Heaven Magnetic Field Rotation as he prepared to return to Wakanda.

• Baron Strucker offered to help Eric fuse Vibranium Armor into his body in exchange for joining Hydra and promised Hydra’s support for the Pan-African Alliance, and Eric accepted.
• Baron Strucker took Eric to a Hydra base in Australia, where Eric gave the scientists the Vibranium Magnetic Armor blueprints and underwent weeks of tests.
• Eric cooperated with the scientists as they repeatedly skinned and cut his body, applied medicine, and covered him with the armor to fuse Vibranium into his body.
• The experiment succeeded, leaving Eric hairless and larger while advancing him to the Fiftieth Heaven Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Eric laughed as he felt his newfound power and declared that he was returning to Wakanda.

Erik returned to Wakanda and attacked the protestors gathered outside the ruined palace before challenging T'Challa to a fight in outer space. Their battle became a months-long war of attrition as Erik repeatedly broke through and recovered with the aid of his Vibranium Inner Armor.

• T'Challa struggled to manage the protests and demands for punishment over crimes committed under Erik's rule while protecting Wakanda's warriors from being handed over.
• Erik returned to Wakanda, killed protestors with his controlled landing, and taunted T'Challa for allowing people to challenge him.
• T'Challa confronted Erik in his White Panther Armor and challenged him to fight in outer space until one of them died, and Erik accepted.
• T'Challa's armor gave him the advantage and shattered Erik's arm, but Erik's Vibranium Inner Armor kept it functioning.
• Erik broke through to the Fifty-First Heaven and repeatedly fought through severe injuries as his realm rose during the battle.
• T'Challa struck harder, but Erik's Vibranium Inner Armor protected his body, and their fight continued as a months-long war of attrition.

Dr. Trask demonstrated the Sentinel Model 3 prototype, which instantly destroyed a Model 2 robot and convinced the gathered dignitaries that it could challenge Magneto. The group decided to test it against Zhan Liu first.

• Dr. Trask introduced the Model 3 robot’s materials, self-repairing circuits, improved AI, and Ultimate Limit Sect martial arts data.
• Dr. Trask had a Model 2 robot attack the Model 3 for ten minutes without damaging it.
• The Model 3 robot instantly decapitated the Model 2 robot during the offensive test.
• The dignitaries proposed sending the Model 3 after Magneto, but Dr. Trask urged caution and recommended an actual combat test first.
• After considering possible targets and consulting their superiors, the group decided to take Zhan Liu down first.

The military lured Zhan Liu away from his guard by using a disciple’s distress call, then attacked his Martial Arts School with a space-based weapon. Zhan Liu confronted the Sentinel Model 3 Magnetic Field Rotation Robot in outer space as its power continued to rise.

• The military decided to kill Zhan Liu as a demonstration and plotted to draw him to a remote location using one of his disciples.
• A new disciple called Zhan Liu for help during a staged missile attack, but Zhan Liu insulted him and refused to come.
• Natasha warned Zhan Liu that many disciples were leaving, but he dismissed her and stayed at the Martial Arts School.
• A tungsten rod struck the Martial Arts School, destroying it, and Zhan Liu realized the military had attacked him.
• Zhan Liu returned the tungsten rod toward the military satellite, then caught a second rod that revealed the power of Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Zhan Liu flew into outer space and found the Sentinel Model 3 Magnetic Field Rotation Robot charging its power beyond the Ninetieth Heaven.

Zhan Liu fought the Sentinel Robots in space, then escaped toward Washington and destroyed the Pentagon. The robots returned to the Mojave Desert Military Base, where General Hale secured unanimous approval for mass-producing them to attack Magneto and Zhan Liu.

• Zhan Liu battled the Sentinel Robots, but their True Adamantium Alloy bodies and protective energy made them difficult to damage.
• Zhan Liu fled toward Washington while the Sentinel Robots pursued him, alarming the generals at the Mojave Desert Military Base.
• Zhan Liu changed course toward the Pentagon and destroyed it and the surrounding buildings with a punch, killing everyone who remained there.
• The Sentinel Robots returned to the Mojave Desert Military Base and entered silent mode, while the furious generals reacted to the destruction.
• General Hale persuaded the generals to approve mass production of the Sentinel Model 3 Magnetic Field Rotation Robot, planning to target Magneto and then Zhan Liu.

Zhan Liu arrived at Paradise Island for the Mutant Founding Ceremony and saw the advanced city Magneto and the Mutants had built. He noticed that the island’s Mutants had become unusually powerful, then took his seat among foreign diplomats as he waited for the ceremony and the military’s possible response.

• Zhan Liu flew to Paradise Island, where Storm greeted him and guided him through the newly built city.
• Storm explained that Magneto and the Mutants had spent more than a year building districts to support millions of residents and turning former fighters toward civilian life.
• Zhan Liu noticed that every Mutant he encountered seemed as strong as Scott, but his mind-reading revealed that neither the Mutants nor Storm knew why their abilities had surged.
• Zhan Liu suspected the military might use the ceremony to test its Sentinel Robots and hoped the event would reveal more about Magneto’s deal with Ancient One.
• Storm escorted Zhan Liu to the stadium, where he took a front-row seat among diplomatic representatives sent in place of their countries’ leaders.

At the Mutant Nation’s founding conference, Professor Charles gave a conciliatory speech before Magneto Erik publicly activated the X-Genes of Norman and Harry Osborn. Erik declared that he would not artificially awaken anyone else, leaving the guests to understand the warning behind his promise.

• Raven pushed Professor Charles onto the stage, where he delivered a speech calling for peaceful coexistence between humans and Mutants.
• After Ororo wheeled Charles away, Magneto Erik announced that Norman Osborn and Harry Osborn would join the Mutants.
• Norman and Harry declared that they wanted their X-Genes activated, and Erik awakened their powers while keeping the energy contained.
• The crowd saw that the Osborns retained their human appearances and displayed powerful abilities, prompting speculation about the potential of artificial activation.
• Erik credited Osborn Corporation’s support for the awakenings and said future Mutant awakenings would rely on natural causes, while guests heard an implied warning against provoking the Mutants.

Norman Osborn and his son secretly gained Magneto’s Magnetic Field Control, while Raven’s coronation was interrupted by ten U.S. Military Sentinel Robots moving to arrest Erik Lehnsherr. The mutants fought back, but their attacks sent the robots’ shockwaves through Blink’s portal into a city, and the chapter ended with the portal closed and the mutants celebrating their survival.

• Norman Osborn chose to activate his mutant genes, and Magneto let him and his son replace their poor abilities with Magnetic Field Control.
• Charles and Erik crowned Raven as the mutants prepared to celebrate.
• Ten Sentinel Robots bearing U.S. Military insignias arrived and announced that Erik Lehnsherr was under arrest.
• Mutants attacked the robots, and Magneto tried to haul them toward space while Iceman raised an ice wall.
• Blink opened a portal above a city, and the robots’ shockwaves shattered the ice and devastated the city before Blink closed the portal.
• Professor Charles stopped the mutants from openly celebrating, while Pyro John told Blink she should have opened ten portals.

Magneto destroyed the Sentinel Robots and retaliated against their suspected commanders by annihilating Washington and turning it into an abyss. He erected a monument there and returned to Paradise Island to crown Raven at the Mutant Nation’s founding ceremony.

• Magneto crushed and dismantled the Sentinel Robots in space, hurling their parts toward cities below.
• Officials who had arranged the attack fled, while some directed their planes to Paradise Island to seek safety.
• Magneto identified the robots’ insignia as a clue and flew to Washington to punish those responsible.
• Magneto annihilated Washington with a punch and transformed the city into a vast, lightless abyss.
• Magneto built a monument beside the abyss inscribed with “Everything for peace!” and “Abyss of Sin,” then returned to crown Raven.

Raven announced the establishment of the Mutant Nation as Magneto’s destruction of Washington and other cities left the world in chaos. Zhan Liu returned to New York, where magnetic field warriors and martial arts schools had quietly divided control of the city.

• Raven officially established the Mutant Nation, while human guests left Paradise Island shaken by Magneto’s devastation.
• Zhan Liu decided not to ask Magneto to alter his genes, said goodbye to Raven and the others, and flew back to New York.
• With Washington’s government destroyed, panic, looting, and cult activity spread while superheroes and magnetic field warriors tried to maintain order in New York.
• Magnetic field warriors dominated the police force and the underworld, while gang leaders turned to Chinese martial arts schools to gain fighting skills.
• Chinese tutoring schools spread across the city, and martial arts disciples established a de facto division of power in New York.

Loki warned the Chitauri King that Earth was stronger than expected, but agreed to open a portal while planning to let the invasion meet its doom. After Magneto’s destruction of Washington and his progress in Ultimate Limit Qigong, Loki became determined to grow strong enough to defeat Thor and claim Asgard’s throne.

• Loki urged the Chitauri King to revise the invasion plan and send more experts, but the king rejected his warning and threatened him for doubting the Chitauri.
• Loki promised to open the space portal, then ended the communication and resolved to choose a time and place that would keep the Chitauri from going straight into the line of fire.
• Loki regretted making a deal with Thanos after learning how powerful Magneto was and realizing that Earth held dangers beyond his abilities.
• Loki recalled that he had come to Earth to investigate Tony Stark, Mjolnir, and the Martial Arts School, but Zhan Liu had seen through his illusion and Loki had pretended to become his student.
• Loki discovered that reaching the First Heaven of Magnetic Field Rotation had transformed his strength, so he trained harder and imagined beating Thor and becoming king of Asgard.

Loki offered John Garrett a plan to lure the Chitauri to Earth in exchange for access to the Tesseract, then used magic to manipulate S.H.I.E.L.D. into accepting his terms. John ordered Leopold Fitz to study Loki’s portal blueprints and had the Tesseract unsealed for experiments.

• Loki told John Garrett he could provide portal blueprints to lure in the Chitauri and asked for the Tesseract in return.
• John refused to hand over the Tesseract, but Loki explained that it was the Space Stone, one of the six Infinity Stones, and gave him portal blueprints anyway.
• John accepted Loki’s device and decided to have S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists study the blueprints without involving Loki further.
• John summoned Leopold Fitz, who identified the plans as a spatial transmission device and said he needed the Tesseract to conduct experiments.
• Loki secretly used magic to guide John and Fitz, causing John to agree to transfer the Tesseract and order it unsealed.

Erik killed T'Challa after advancing to Eightieth Heaven, but Shuri's White Panther Armor drove him away. Erik confronted Shuri at the Wakanda Royal Palace and let her leave with her family, intending to use her desire for revenge against her later.

• Erik overwhelmed T'Challa, whose Magnetic Field Rotation remained stuck at Fifty Heavens, and advanced to Eightieth Heaven while beating him.
• Erik pierced T'Challa's heart and killed him, but Shuri's Ninetieth Heaven White Panther Armor struck Erik and forced him to retreat toward Wakanda.
• Erik raced to Wakanda, where he found Shuri entering the White Panther Armor beside T'Challa's corpse.
• Shuri refused to submit, and Erik argued that she could not wield the armor's full power because she had not reached Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Erik allowed Shuri and her family to leave Wakanda, while privately planning to exploit her desire for revenge.

After fleeing Wakanda, T'Chaka and Ramonda planned to train while Shuri developed armor for their eventual return. T'Chaka rejected Baron Strucker's offer to work with Hydra, but agreed to join S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Avengers after Grant Ward offered support for Shuri's research and named the Tyrant Martial God as a threat.

• Shuri escorted T'Chaka and Ramonda from Wakanda to New York, where they planned to reclaim their homeland and began training and armor research.
• Baron Strucker visited the family and described Hydra's history before offering cooperation, but T'Chaka refused to trust the organization.
• The family continued its training and research without interference from Hydra.
• Grant Ward visited on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D. and invited T'Chaka to join the Avengers to help protect world peace.
• After hearing that the Tyrant Martial God was among S.H.I.E.L.D.'s leading threats and that Shuri could receive research support, T'Chaka agreed to join as Black Panther.

Erik rebuilt the Pan-African Alliance into an empire and imposed education and ranking systems to develop Africa. When Baron Strucker resisted Erik’s demand to reassign Hydra’s black members, Erik killed him and took control of the organization’s local forces.

• Magneto’s devastation left Europe in ruins, allowing supernatural creatures and devils to prey on survivors while many black people fled to Africa.
• Erik reorganized the Pan-African Alliance, promoted education, and created a ranking system that linked people’s status to their schooling or martial ability.
• Baron Strucker criticized Erik’s policies but agreed to help Hydra promote Wakanda in the United States in exchange for access to Shuri’s research.
• Erik ordered Strucker to withdraw Hydra’s black members for work in African government departments and schools, and Strucker refused.
• Erik killed Baron Strucker, then declared that Hydra needed a new head, and the guards accepted his leadership.

Erik used Hydra’s Black members to unify the Grand Alliance and transform Africa through strict rule, mass executions, and sweeping economic and social reforms. He was satisfied that Africa had begun to develop into a stronger, orderly country, even though it bore Hydra’s influence.

• Erik deployed Hydra’s Black members across African countries, where they reunited the Grand Alliance and advanced its policies.
• The Grand Alliance promoted currency integration, infrastructure projects, industrial growth, and literacy while punishing anyone who obstructed its plans.
• Hydra’s enforcers killed troublesome citizens until resistance disappeared, then left their weapons and entered other lines of work as gangs and their protectors were purged.
• African cities became safer and cleaner, while strict rules governed education, public behavior, sanitation, entertainment, and social services.
• Erik approved of Africa’s transformation and accepted Hydra’s influence as the price of building a stronger country.

John Garrett and Alexander planned to use an alien invasion in New York to boost Steve’s presidential campaign and advance Hydra’s takeover of the United States. Loki overheard their plans and began considering recruiting Hydra members to build his own power in Midgard.

• Steve delivered a campaign speech promising to redirect foreign aid to Americans, and Alexander stopped the video as he and John discussed using an alien invasion to promote him.
• Alexander worried about opening a space gate in New York, but John said Loki had assured him the aliens could be defeated and that Zhan Liu might provide backup if necessary.
• John said Rising Tide members would take the blame for summoning the aliens and that his agents would keep cameras focused on Captain America while sabotaging other media equipment.
• Alexander approved the plan, and he and John declared their loyalty to Hydra and prepared to coordinate the operation.
• Loki, who had followed John invisibly, decided Hydra’s people might help him establish his own power in Midgard.

Skye and Lyden stole the R-37 files from a S.H.I.E.L.D. transport, but the truck’s remaining cargo was used to open a portal that unleashed an alien invasion in New York. Skye returned to fight, only to be mistaken for a criminal by S.H.I.E.L.D. forces.

• Skye loaded the R-37 crates into Lyden’s car, and they speculated that her parents’ identities were tied to highly classified information.
• After Skye and Lyden left, an unknown team activated the portal device hidden in the truck, opening a gateway to alien warships.
• Skye spotted the portal and its invading aliens, sent Lyden away, and rushed back to the district.
• Skye tried twice to destroy the device but was repelled by its energy shield and badly injured.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents mistook Skye for a criminal, opened fire, and watched her disarm them and crush their weapons.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. Magnetic Field Warriors attacked Skye, accusing her of assaulting the agents.