Chapter Summaries

Li Si brought Tony Stark through a wormhole to the Pacific Rim parallel world, where he planned to use its mech industry to build machines and recruit a young apprentice. He explained his strategy for building trust by asking the girl for help, then left Tony wondering whether Li Si had used the same tactics on him.

• Tony Stark learned that he and Li Si had arrived on a deserted Earth in 2030, a parallel world threatened by monsters and equipped with Jaegers.
• Li Si told Tony they would help save the world and use its industrial system to build mechs, and Tony agreed despite concerns about money.
• Li Si used the local network to locate a little girl and led Tony to her home in an abandoned factory district.
• Li Si asked the wary girl for food and water, offering to pay, and she agreed to get them some.
• Li Si explained to Tony that accepting help could create trust and a lasting social connection, and Tony suspected Li Si had used the tactic on him.

Lee Stein and Tony Stark entered Amara Namani’s warehouse and showed her their advanced armor systems. Amara became eager to learn from them, while Tony’s own demonstration drew less admiration.

• Lee Stein forced his way into Amara Namani’s warehouse after spotting her unregistered mech, Boxer.
• Tony Stark teased Amara about Boxer until Lee Stein calmed them down and offered to show her their mech.
• Amara searched online for Lee Stein and Tony Stark, then introduced herself after Lee Stein asked her name.
• Lee Stein demonstrated Project Armor and its other combat forms, astonishing Amara with its flight and transformations.
• Tony Stark showed off his Mark Armor and Anti-Hulk Armor, but Amara admired them less than Lee Stein’s platform, leaving Tony furious.

Li Si accepted Amara as his apprentice after recognizing the extraordinary skill behind her homemade Gipsy Danger. Tony Stark criticized the Jaeger’s crude neural interface, and Li Si promised Amara he would teach her how to block the body’s neural signals.

• Amara eagerly served Li Si and Tony Stark, who joked about taking her as his apprentice, but Li Si refused to give her up.
• Li Si recognized that Amara had built Gipsy Danger from scavenged parts through self-study and saw her as a potentially valuable technician.
• Tony Stark inspected Gipsy Danger and criticized its neural interface, cockpit systems, and reliance on neural drift.
• Amara defended the Jaeger’s design, and Tony Stark told her that Li Si could block the body’s signals during mech control.
• Li Si reassured Amara that neural drift was an immature but workable approach and promised to teach her better techniques.

Li Si gathered intelligence on the Pacific Rim world while preparing to teach his apprentice, then sent data to Marvel Earth and had Pandora begin a simulated training session for Stein Group staff. On Skull Island, Engineering Robots received lifelike synthetic skin and moved toward a windowless metal tower.

• Li Si learned that Shao Industries' Nemesis Drone Jaegers had been compromised by Newton Geiszler and chose not to interfere before their deployment.
• Li Si opened a wormhole in Amara's residence and sent a large data packet to Marvel Earth.
• Pandora reconnected to Marvel's satellites and summoned Stein Group employees to the virtual training room for a simulated assessment.
• Pandora showed the employees a ruined virtual world and told them the chairman would explain their mission after they reviewed its background.
• On Skull Island, Engineering Robots emerged from a workshop covered in lifelike synthetic skin, formed up, and gradually began acting like real people.
• The synthetic-skinned robots headed toward a windowless metal tower.

Lee sent Stein Group employees into the parallel world to establish a business presence and infiltrate Shao Industries. When police and the sixth-generation Jaeger Winter Ajax surrounded Amara’s warehouse, Amara escaped in her makeshift Gipsy Danger.

• Lee opened a wormhole and brought Felicia and Stein Group managers through to the parallel world.
• Lee assigned Felicia to establish Stein Group and Mars to infiltrate Shao Industries and gather intelligence.
• Tony Stark questioned Lee about risking company employees, and Lee explained that they operated remotely controlled robot bodies.
• Lee and Tony found police and Winter Ajax surrounding Amara’s warehouse, and Lee concluded the capture operation had been planned in advance.
• Amara burst out of the warehouse in her crude Gipsy Danger and fled, while Lee and Tony watched.

Amara fled the Pan Pacific Defense Corps in Gipsy Danger until Li Si and Tony Stark intervened and dismantled Winter Ajax. They left with Amara before other Jaegers could arrive, while Tony angrily challenged Li Si to a one-on-one fight.

• Amara tried to escape Winter Ajax by using smoke bombs and a risky maneuver, but the Jaeger cornered her inside an abandoned building.
• Li Si and Tony Stark arrived in their armors and stopped Winter Ajax from reaching Amara.
• Li Si and Tony assembled their armors and began dismantling Winter Ajax, removing its arms and damaging its joints.
• Tony removed Winter Ajax's knee and boasted that he had beaten Li Si, while Amara cheered for Li Si.
• Li Si flew off with Gipsy Danger to avoid reinforcements, and Tony furiously demanded a one-on-one fight with him.

General Quan showed the Moyu Shatterdome pilots and Dr. Gottlieb footage of Winter Ajax fighting two unknown armored figures. After the figures transformed and dismantled the sixth-generation Jaeger, the room was left shaken by the threat posed by their technology.

• General Quan gathered the Jaeger pilots and Dr. Gottlieb to watch footage of Winter Ajax deployed in Los Angeles.
• The pilots relaxed when Winter Ajax appeared to face only a small, privately made Jaeger.
• Dr. Gottlieb identified the armored figures' chest power sources as possible miniature cold-fusion reactors and their flight systems as likely Ion Thrusters.
• Dr. Gottlieb urged General Quan to invite the figures to the base, but General Quan said they could no longer be tracked.
• The armored figures transformed and dismantled Winter Ajax, leaving the pilots alarmed and questioning whether their own Jaegers could withstand them.

Lee Stein used his influence over Shao Industries to establish a Jaeger research department, insisting he wanted the company’s resources rather than control. Liwen Shao remained wary of him as he headed upstairs with Tony Stark and Amara.

• Newton Geiszler questioned Liwen Shao about the board’s decision to restart projects, but she told him to focus on his own department.
• Liwen Shao learned that the Stein Group had been buying Shao Industries shares and attracting its shareholders and employees.
• Lee Stein arrived at Shao Industries with Tony Stark and Amara, where employees greeted him as their boss.
• Lee Stein told Liwen Shao that he and Tony Stark planned to build a Jaeger using Shao Industries’ resources, while leaving her in charge of the company.
• As the elevator doors closed, Lee Stein complimented Liwen Shao’s appearance, then bantered with Tony Stark about romance and godchildren until Amara silenced them.

Li Si completed the revised blueprints for the Calamity Demon God, a heavily armed warship that could combine with Pandora's Box to form a layered mecha. He sent the plans to Pandora and activated Rapid Construction, setting the New Mecha Project Department to work.

• Li Si led the New Mecha Project Department while Tony Stark pursued his own mecha design and Amara ran errands between the laboratories.
• Li Si revised Ivan Vanko's Calamity Demon God design into a space-capable warship that could combine with Pandora's Box and its Medium Assault Armor form.
• Samuel Sterns studied advanced technologies in accelerated virtual space, Tony Stark conducted independent research, and Otto Gunther completed the energy module.
• Li Si finished the complex structural and transformation blueprints after more than ten days of intensive work.
• Li Si sent the blueprints to Pandora and activated Rapid Construction, mobilizing the New Mecha Project Department.

Shao Industries’ Nemesis drone Jaegers opened breaches to the Precursor world, while Li Si prepared to use the new spatial nodes for his own forces. The Precursors had gained a route to invade Earth, but Li Si had also gained their location and a way through the door.

• Liwen Shao secured PPDC approval for deploying Nemesis drone Jaegers after Obsidian Fury attacked the Sydney summit and shot down Mako Mori’s helicopter.
• Newton Geiszler secretly built Obsidian Fury and sabotaged the Nemesis units to help the Precursors advance their plan.
• Two days after deployment began, the Nemesis Jaegers went berserk, destroyed the Moyu base at X Harbor, and opened breaches along the Pacific coast.
• Li Si ordered Pandora to record the spatial nodes and warm up the mercenary terminal, while Gwen began producing magic network base stations and Aizeman-series equipment.

Liwen Shao regained control of the drone Jaegers and closed the wormholes, but three Kaiju escaped toward Mount Fuji, threatening to destroy Earth. At Moyulan Base, with the Jaegers badly damaged and time running out, Gottlieb proposed using experimental thrusters while Liwen Shao organized emergency repairs.

• Tony Stark warned Lee Stein that the Kaiju were heading for Mount Fuji, where their blood could trigger a catastrophe, and Lee Stein said Liwen Shao could close the wormholes.
• Liwen Shao regained control of the drone Jaegers and made them self-destruct, causing the wormholes to close and cutting many Kaiju in half.
• Liwen Shao hurried to Moyulan Base, where she found the base damaged, its pilots devastated, and only Gipsy Avenger operational.
• Gottlieb and the others determined that three escaped Kaiju were headed for Mount Fuji, while the damaged Jaegers could not reach Tokyo in time.
• Gottlieb proposed using his experimental thrusters to send Jaegers into the sky, and Liwen Shao began emergency repairs with her researchers and the base's pilots.

Three Jaegers launched from Moyulan Base to defend Tokyo, but rookie pilots and an overwhelming Kaiju fusion left the city defenseless. Liwen Shao realized Shao Industries might have new Jaegers and rushed to retrieve them with a spare rocket booster.

• Moyulan Base sent Gipsy Avenger, Saber Athena, and Guardian Bravo to Tokyo after Gottlieb completed emergency repairs and experimental rocket boosters.
• The three Jaegers fought two Category IV Kaiju and one Category V Kaiju, but Guardian Bravo's rookie pilots disobeyed Jack Pentecost and were killed.
• Newton Geiszler activated mechanical beasts from a Shao Industries factory, which fused the three Kaiju into a super-giant Kaiju that crippled Gipsy Avenger and Saber Athena.
• The super-giant Kaiju headed toward Mount Fuji, while Gottlieb told Jack Pentecost that Moyulan Base had no support left.
• Liwen Shao remembered the Jaeger project at Shao Industries, took the remaining booster, and flew with Gottlieb and rookie pilots Ouyang Jinhai and Victoria to the laboratory.

Liwen Shao arrived to requisition Li Si and Tony Stark’s Jaegers for the crisis at Mount Fuji, but they refused and insisted on piloting their own machines. Li Si revealed his completed armor and launched it for a combat test, while Dr. Gottlieb recognized it as the armor he had been searching for.

• Liwen Shao warned Li Si that a Precursor monster was climbing Mount Fuji and demanded the Jaegers for the crisis.
• Li Si refused to hand over the Jaegers, and Tony Stark agreed that only he would pilot Veronica.
• Liwen Shao offered to let Li Si and Tony keep one Jaeger if they gave the other to Ouyang Jinhai and Victoria.
• Otto Gunther told Li Si that Calamity Demon God was complete, and Li Si prepared to test it.
• Li Si’s Medium Assault Armor assembled around him, and Dr. Gottlieb recognized it as the armor that had defeated Winter Ajax.
• Li Si flew out through the opened skylight, teasing Tony Stark for not being ready to follow.

Lee demonstrated the Calamity Demon God, a warship that transformed into a heavily armed flying mech, leaving the observers stunned by its advanced design. Lee departed in it while Tony Stark rushed Ultron to finish Veronica.

• Lee revealed the Calamity Demon God's warship form, built for fast hit-and-run attacks and equipped with advanced defenses and mobility systems.
• Lee ordered Pandora to transform the warship into a humanoid mech armed with floating cannons, steel wings, and a sixty-meter ship-slicing blade.
• Liwen Shao, Dr. Gottlieb, Ouyang Jinhai, and Victoria watched in shock as they realized the mech needed no additional pilots.
• Amara proudly identified the Calamity Demon God as her master's mech before Lee told her to find Dr. Otto and the others.
• Lee flew away in the Calamity Demon God, and Tony Stark angrily gave Ultron five minutes to finish Veronica.

With the world facing destruction from the fused monster climbing Mount Fuji, Jake Pentecost and Nate Lambert lost hope until Dr. Gottlieb announced that help was coming. Li Si arrived in the Calamity Demon God and landed before the monster, choosing to fight it without risking a strike that might trigger Mount Fuji.

• Jake Pentecost and Nate Lambert sat amid the ruins after defeating Newton Geiszler, believing they could do nothing to stop the fused monster.
• Dr. Gottlieb contacted Nate Lambert and said a Jaeger was coming, but the damaged comm headset went silent before Nate learned more.
• Nate saw a black Jaeger fly toward Mount Fuji and suspected it was the advanced machine from classified footage, so he took Jake and rode toward the mountain.
• Li Si and Pandora discussed testing the Calamity Demon God's armor with a falling strike, but Li Si avoided the move because Mount Fuji was an active volcano and geological node.
• Li Si reduced the Calamity Demon God's thrusters and landed before the fused monster on Mount Fuji.

Li Si piloted Calamity Demon God in a brutal fight against the fused monster on Mount Fuji, overpowering it and cutting it in half with the Ship-Slicing Blade. As a second mech arrived, Gottlieb celebrated the War Clock returning to zero and asked Liwen Shao who Li Si was.

• The fused monster attacked Calamity Demon God, and Li Si grabbed its tail and slammed it into the ground.
• Li Si twisted the monster’s jaw, punched it into the snow, and countered its energy-powered shockwave.
• Li Si repeatedly grappled and battered the monster until it could no longer rise.
• Li Si drew the Ship-Slicing Blade and sliced the fused monster in half.
• A gold-and-red mech arrived, and its pilot complained that Li Si had left no fight for him.
• Gottlieb asked Liwen Shao who Li Si was, then declared that the War Clock had returned to zero as the crowd cheered.

Pandora recruited Liwen Shao to help Stein Group launch a counteroffensive against the Precursors, and Shao Industries merged into Stein Group. As Stein Group spread across Earth and opened wormholes, Players from the Azeroth-Marvel Continent began entering the Precursors’ world to attack it.

• Liwen Shao returned to the abandoned Jaeger laboratory and learned from Pandora that Lee Stein had asked whether she would join a counteroffensive against the Precursors.
• Liwen Shao agreed to help if success was possible, and Pandora made her Executive President of Stein Group after Shao Industries merged into it.
• Two days later, Stein Group’s takeover of Shao Industries shocked the public, and the merged company began expanding rapidly with PPDC support.
• Stein Group built hidden bases and opened wormholes through which Players, remotely controlling robot bodies equipped with gear based on their game characters, entered the Precursors’ world.
• The Players established bases in the Precursors’ world and began relentlessly attacking the Precursors.

Li Si returned to Marvel Earth with Amara and introduced a paid, nanobot-based magic system that let ordinary people cast spells. As Weave Mages began using their new abilities, Wong witnessed the spells in New York and hurried to warn Ancient One.

• Li Si brought Amara from Skull Island to New York and told her they were on a parallel Earth.
• A month and a half later, Azeroth-Marvel Continent opened to Marvel Earth's inhabitants, and Players received new missions and equipment.
• Li Si activated the Weave system, allowing Weave Mage Players to cast spells by using nanobots connected to the wireless power grid.
• Li Si ordered Pandora to spread Weave subunits and directed Players in the Precursors' world to build power-transmission base stations.
• Wong saw people casting lightning and other spells outside the New York Sanctum, then hurried through a portal to warn Ancient One.

Lee Stein met Ancient One, who explained how the soul and body influenced each other and helped resolve his uncertainty about his identity. Before leaving, she delivered an unnamed great being’s message: Lee should level up.

• Pandora guarded Lee Stein when Ancient One arrived through a portal, but Ancient One banished her into the Mirror Dimension.
• Ancient One struck Lee Stein and separated his soul from his body, allowing him to experience his soul directly.
• Ancient One explained that the soul recorded information about the body and that the body also shaped the soul, prompting Lee to connect the idea to the Extremis Virus and Earth OL’s ability exchanges.
• Lee Stein unlocked Soul Knowledge, returned to his body, and asked Ancient One about the source of the soul; she described the mark of life and the soul’s essence.
• Ancient One said she had been entrusted by a great being to deliver a message, then departed after telling Lee to level up.
• Pandora returned from the Mirror Dimension, and Lee wondered whether Ancient One meant he should level up his Commoner Template.

Li Si reached the Commoner Template’s maximum level and entered its final assessment, where he met the Lord of the Astral Realm. She revealed that Earth OL was eroding Earth’s Astral Realm and that her future self had helped send Li Si back through time.

• Li Si leveled the Commoner Template to eighteen, passing intelligence-based breakthrough assessments at levels twelve and sixteen.
• Li Si began the final assessment and noticed a second point of light appear in the void, changing the usual sequence of the test.
• A blonde figure appeared and identified herself as the Lord of the Astral Realm, the consciousness of Earth’s Astral Realm and, in a sense, humanity’s collective consciousness.
• The Lord of the Astral Realm explained that her future self had helped Li Si travel back through time and used his soul to transmit information that awakened her.
• The Lord of the Astral Realm revealed that Earth OL was eroding the Astral Realm, and that her future self had discovered the threat too late.