Recaps

Fifty years in the future, the last Mutants fought a swarm of Sentinel robots while Logan’s consciousness was sent into the past to change their fate. As Magneto was about to be killed, Azazel rescued him and introduced Du Mu as the current Black King and leader of the Brotherhood, leaving Magneto stunned.

• Kitty sent Logan’s consciousness fifty years into the past while the Mutants waited anxiously in the temple.
• Magneto, Bishop, and Storm led the Mutants outside to hold off twelve transport aircraft carrying hundreds of Sentinel robots.
• Storm and Magneto destroyed many Sentinels with a storm and an exploding jet, but Magneto was wounded by a fragment he could not control.
• The Sentinels adapted to the Mutants’ abilities and overwhelmed their defenses, eventually surrounding Magneto and firing a barrage of energy beams at him.
• Azazel appeared beside Magneto and revealed that the Black King had sent him to help.
• Du Mu identified himself as the current Black King of the Hellfire Club and leader of the Brotherhood, leaving Magneto confused.

Du Mu and the younger Erik, Charles, and their allies arrived from the past to help Magneto’s group fight the Sentinels. After defeating the robots and healing Magneto, Charles revealed that in their timeline he had joined the Brotherhood, leaving Magneto stunned.

• Erik, Charles, and the other time travelers arrived and helped Magneto’s group battle the approaching Sentinels.
• Du Mu flooded the battlefield with sand, crushed and trapped dozens of Sentinels, then disabled them with an EMP bomb.
• Erik destroyed the remaining Sentinels with Adamantium spheres, while Magneto admired his weapons and asked to borrow his helmet.
• Magneto collapsed from his injuries, and Erik healed him with a Life Potion.
• Charles explained that their timeline differed from Magneto’s memories and revealed that he had joined the Brotherhood.

Du Mu proposed building an army of upgraded Whiplash robots to fight the Sentinel robots, and Professor X agreed to support the plan. At the secret base, Hank began his research while Charles learned that his future counterpart was paralyzed, though he himself could walk.

• Magneto introduced Charles as a member of his Brotherhood, and Professor X shared Logan's memories of the failed attempt to change the future.
• Du Mu argued that the Mutants should save their present timeline and proposed using technology to counter the Sentinel robots.
• Du Mu revealed Hank's eighth-generation Whiplash robot, Raven's blood, Sentinel data, and wreckage as resources for developing their own robot army.
• Professor X and Magneto agreed to cooperate, and Azazel transported the group to a secret Mutant base in the East.
• Hank began reverse-engineering the Sentinel technology while Charles asked Professor X about his baldness and discovered the older man was paralyzed.
• Charles revealed that he had only pretended to need a wheelchair and stood up to demonstrate that his legs worked.

Du Mu and Erik planned a prison break to free Mutants held by humans, and Erik dug into the prison to reach Quicksilver and the other captives. They escaped through a deep shaft into Du Mu’s underground hideout, where Quicksilver discovered an unusual bucket of water that prevented fall damage.

• Storm explained that humans controlled the Sentinels and used telepathy blockers and Mutant-suppressing technology to imprison Mutants for experiments.
• After Erik asked for his advice, Du Mu accepted the quest to rescue the prisoners and proposed using a tunnel to escape.
• Erik dug into Quicksilver’s cell, and Quicksilver mistook him for his father before gathering the other prisoners.
• Erik led the prisoners down the hole, and Quicksilver fell into a pool of Landing Water without being injured.
• Du Mu collected the water in an iron bucket, and Quicksilver asked whether he was a Mutant who had come to save them.

Du Mu helped Quicksilver escape his cell, restored his powers and healed his legs, then sent him to free the other Mutant prisoners. Du Mu drew the prison guards away and confronted the warden, whose Sentinel robots ignored him before Du Mu engulfed the office in black tentacles.

• Du Mu and Erik freed Quicksilver, who discovered Erik might be his father, and removed his suppression device.
• Du Mu gave Quicksilver Black Jade Ointment, which healed his broken legs, then sent him to dig through the other cells and rescue the prisoners.
• Erik freed the other Mutants from their suppression devices, while Azazel transported prisoners to the secret base for screening by Professor X and Charles.
• Du Mu went to draw the prison guards' attention, defeated them with sand, and hypnotized successive guards to lead him to the warden.
• Sentinel robots arrived at the warden's office but ignored Du Mu, who revealed black tentacles and swallowed the room in darkness.

Du Mu helped Quicksilver, Erik, and Azazel break nearly all the Mutant prisoners out of prison while he held off a large force of Sentinel robots. The rescue succeeded, and Du Mu escaped after receiving the mission rewards, leaving the robots to find the prison empty.

• Du Mu hypnotized the warden, learned that Sentinel robots followed strict underlying code, and sent them away from the prison.
• Du Mu took control of the prison broadcast system and announced the escape as Quicksilver dug underground passages while Erik removed suppression devices and Azazel teleported prisoners away.
• When the higher-ups sent more than a hundred Sentinel robots, Du Mu summoned sand soldiers and fought them outside the prison.
• Du Mu used his enchanted Pharaoh's Scepter to destroy a Sentinel robot, and the system confirmed that nearly all the prisoners had been rescued.
• Du Mu received the mission rewards, discarded Andy's Rock Hammer, and fled as the sand soldiers fell and the Sentinel robots entered an empty prison.

Du Mu learned that Rogue’s genes were needed to finish the Whiplash Robot and accepted a mission to rescue her from the occupied X-Mansion. Magneto, Erik, Logan, and Jean Grey attacked the stronghold, where Jean joined the fight against the Sentinel robots.

• Du Mu returned to the Mutant base, where Charles reported that the rescue operation had freed more than five hundred prisoners.
• Hank showed Du Mu a metal Whiplash Robot and explained that Rogue’s genes were needed to give it the ability to copy Mutant powers.
• After learning Rogue was imprisoned at the X-Mansion, Magneto accepted Hank’s rescue mission, and Du Mu warned that the humans would expect another underground attack.
• Magneto and Erik launched a frontal assault on the X-Mansion by hurling a stadium and other buildings at its transport aircraft.
• Magneto, Erik, and Logan fought the Sentinel robots, while Jean Grey shielded them and used her telekinesis to dismantle several machines.
• Magneto warned Jean Grey not to push herself too hard, and she insisted she could keep fighting.

Du Mu infiltrated the castle, rescued Rogue, and escaped with her after defeating several Sentinel robots. He revealed that he needed Rogue for research, while the system rewarded him with new items whose effects he began considering.

• Du Mu infiltrated the castle through an underground tunnel, found Rogue restrained in a research chamber, and revived her with a Life Potion.
• Rogue distrusted Du Mu until he powered up a battery-operated Sacred Halo, then followed him after he freed her.
• Du Mu destroyed three Sentinel robots that blocked their escape and told Rogue he was the Brotherhood's leader and needed her help researching her.
• Du Mu escaped through the tunnels with Rogue as Erik, Magneto, and the others withdrew from the battle outside.
• Du Mu received the mission rewards, including a Taunt Potion and Vampiric Ring, and wondered whether the ring drained blood or gasoline from robots.

Du Mu stole research, equipment, and researchers from a human Sentinel Robot facility, helping Hank develop the Ultron Robots to fight the Sentinels. During their first test, an Ultron Robot overwhelmed Logan and escalated to a flying Gatling-gun attack that swallowed him in flames.

• Du Mu expanded the underground Mutant base and recruited former prisoners to help Hank with research.
• Du Mu infiltrated a human Sentinel Robot research facility, copied its data, and took its equipment, materials, and researchers back to the Mutant base.
• Hank used the stolen resources and expert assistance to develop the Ultron Robot, which could copy Mutant abilities and use several at once.
• Du Mu and Hank named the artificial intelligence Ultron and its machines Ultron Robots, then brought one to the training ground for testing.
• The Ultron Robot defeated Logan with copied abilities and predictive combat, then activated Level Two Combat Protocol and transformed into a Gatling gun.
• The Ultron Robot fired a barrage at Logan, engulfing him in flames as everyone watched in shock.

Du Mu used Ultron Robots to seize Sentinel Robot factories across America and rapidly expand his forces, while Blink’s portals let him evade human counterattacks. The chapter ended with humanity’s leaders ordering researchers to upgrade the Sentinels or copy the Ultron Robots, despite being unable to reproduce their nuclear reactors.

• After testing the Ultron Robots against Logan, Du Mu decided to seize Sentinel Robot production facilities and ordered Hank to deploy his forces.
• Blink opened Portals to Alcatraz, where Ultron Robots defeated the Sentinel Robots and routed the human guards.
• Du Mu repaired damaged Ultron Robots with the Forging Hammer, then had engineers convert the captured factory into a production line.
• Du Mu led raids on factories and strongholds across America, growing his Ultron Robot force from dozens to hundreds while using teleportation to evade larger Sentinel forces.
• Humanity’s leaders argued over how to stop the Mutants, then ordered the research department to upgrade Sentinel Robots or reproduce Ultron Robots.
• The researchers said they could not copy the Ultron Robots’ nuclear reactor, but the white-haired leader insisted that finding a solution was their responsibility.

Du Mu expanded the Ultron Robot Legion and led it to attack a Sentinel Robot factory, while advising Charles to let Jean Grey learn to control her power instead of suppressing it. The new Sentinel Robots were swiftly destroyed, and Du Mu discovered their supposed fusion reactors were only LED lights.

• Ultron reported that the Legion had 3,680 robots and could produce more than 1,000 per day, as Du Mu continued seizing factories and resources.
• Du Mu reassured Professor X and Magneto about Mutant potential, while the Mutants settled into support jobs and Jean Grey grew stronger through combat.
• Du Mu warned Charles that suppressing Jean Grey's power could lead to a dangerous loss of control, and Charles agreed to let her develop it gradually.
• Du Mu attacked a Sentinel Robot factory by teleporting in a huge force of Ultron Robots, which overwhelmed the defending Sentinels.
• An officer deployed untested new Sentinel Robots with glowing chest devices, but the Ultron Robots destroyed them immediately.
• Du Mu removed a device from a wrecked new Sentinel and identified it as an LED light rather than a miniature Arc Reactor.

Du Mu’s Ultron Robots overwhelmed human forces and seized much of their territory, while the human leadership fractured under pressure and sought negotiations. Erik and Magneto rejected the leaders’ offer and demanded unconditional surrender, leaving the talks on the brink of collapse.

• Du Mu’s Ultron Robots defeated the Sentinel Robots at a production factory, spared the human soldiers who surrendered, and began raiding resource sites to expand their army.
• Human leaders’ tactics failed against Ultron, while public protests and defections weakened their government; Du Mu’s agent helped sow distrust among officials.
• The Ultron army captured key strongholds, and many humans welcomed its rule, deepening the leadership’s troubles and prompting it to request negotiations with the Mutants.
• Du Mu sent Erik and Magneto to negotiate in an occupied city, where the human delegation offered Mutant rights and autonomy in exchange for an Ultron ceasefire.
• Erik presented demands for the destruction of Sentinel Robots, the surrender of officials responsible for anti-Mutant operations, and recognition of an independent Mutant nation.
• The human delegation rejected the terms, and Magneto and Erik told them to accept unconditional surrender or continue fighting.

After humanity rejected the Mutants’ terms, Du Mu used Ultron’s army to defeat the Sentinel Robots in Washington and force human leaders to sign a peace agreement. The Mutants established their own nation, Krakoa, while Du Mu joked to Charles about claiming America as unoccupied land.

• The human delegation left negotiations without agreeing to the Mutants’ terms, and Erik gave them two days to decide.
• Du Mu learned that human leaders were divided and helpless, then sent Ultron’s full army to attack Washington after the two-day deadline passed.
• Ultron’s robots destroyed the Sentinel forces and captured the human leaders, and Du Mu forced them to sign the peace agreement.
• Du Mu ordered Ultron to destroy Sentinel Robots and related research, then handed the captured leaders to the Mutants after taking away their telepathy-blocking devices.
• Charles and Magneto established the Mutant nation of Krakoa, and Du Mu joked that America was unclaimed land suitable for another Mutant homeland.

Du Mu completed the future-world mission, gained new achievements and rewards, and returned to the X-Mansion with his companions. Meanwhile, Mutants’ status in the present had risen sharply as the public and American government accepted that many people carried the X-Gene.

• Du Mu unlocked Enemy of Machines and Friend of Machines, then received the completed mission’s experience, attributes, skills, and items.
• Du Mu distributed the Ultron Robots among the future Mutants, while Charles and Magneto reluctantly performed his recorded requests before he and his companions departed.
• Du Mu returned to the X-Mansion with the others, and he discovered that he could teleport between the two servers.
• Du Mu kept an Anti-Telepathy Device taken from the human authorities in the future and learned that the Marvel Industrial Expo’s revelations had transformed public opinion about Mutants.
• The American government recognized Mutants as lawful citizens, and Mutants became widely admired rather than openly discriminated against.

Du Mu persuaded Charles and Erik to join Marvel International, a company formed to combat Mutant criminals and protect Mutants’ public image. At a press conference, Charles debuted as Marvel’s first superhero, drawing an uproar from the assembled reporters.

• Mutants across America openly celebrated their new acceptance, while news exposing the truth behind the Cuba Crisis made Charles and the others widely hailed as heroes.
• Du Mu proposed creating a superhero company to stop Mutant criminals, handle damage claims, manage public relations, and build public trust.
• Du Mu convinced Charles to become Marvel International’s first superhero, then recruited Erik by telling him Charles had already agreed.
• Marvel International was established and quickly organized its core departments before announcing a press conference.
• At the press conference, Charles rolled onto the stage and introduced himself as Marvel’s superhero, stunning the reporters.

Charles announced that he would become a publicly accountable superhero with Marvel Industries, prompting widespread support and a flood of Mutant applications. Du Mu revealed that Marvel’s recruitment drive would sort Mutants into company heroes, Hellfire Club members, staff, or future villains for the heroes to fight.

• Charles told reporters that he would use his powers to protect society within the law, with official approval and public oversight.
• Charles said he had joined Marvel Industries because their goals aligned and announced that other Mutants would be invited to become superheroes.
• Marvel’s headlines spread across America, earning public approval and overwhelming the company’s registration hotline and mailroom with Mutant applications.
• Du Mu told Psylocke that Marvel would screen applicants and assign Mutants to different roles based on their abilities and character.
• Du Mu explained that even useless, immoral Mutants would be kept as future Super Villains, with their past misdeeds documented for the heroes to expose.

Marvel Company’s publicity campaign turned Charles, Erik, and other Brotherhood members into famous superheroes and introduced the X-Men, while Du Mu began a project to activate human X-Genes called Compound V. On Vanaheim, he discovered that spatial rifts from a rare Celestial Convergence had brought people from other realms together, leaving him intrigued by the village chief’s detailed explanation.

• Marvel Company publicized Charles and Erik, established the Marvel Foundation, introduced more Brotherhood members, and announced that the heroes would form the X-Men.
• A surge of Mutant applicants included Pietro, whom Du Mu ordered someone to keep under observation.
• Du Mu asked Hank whether ordinary humans’ X-Genes could be activated, and Hank agreed to research the idea under the name Compound V.
• Du Mu visited Hydra’s nearly completed lunar base, then remembered the Ravager ships he had hidden in Vanaheim and teleported there to retrieve them.
• Flying toward the hiding place, Du Mu saw natives, Frost Giants, Elves, Dwarves, and Trolls fighting in a clearing and learned from a grateful village chief that spatial rifts had brought them there ahead of a Celestial Convergence.

Du Mu drove the outsiders out of Vanaheim by defeating the Frost Giants and intimidating the other races, then discovered that a spatial rift had swallowed many of his Ravagers' ships. After his scouting devices and an Ultron Robot vanished inside the rift without returning, he was left wondering what lay beyond it.

• Du Mu received a quest from village chief Thomas to send the outsiders back to their realms, then stopped a charging Frost Beast with a black tentacle.
• Du Mu defeated the Frost Giants with explosive playing cards and by throwing one of them into the others, then forced their leader to retreat to Jotunheim.
• Du Mu persuaded the remaining outsiders to return to their realms, completed the quest, and received equipment and items from the system.
• Du Mu accepted a thousand-year salted fish from Thomas, discovered that its first bite permanently increased his Strength, and stored the remainder.
• Du Mu reached the Ravagers' ship hideout and found that a spatial rift had swallowed more than a dozen ships and their resources.
• Du Mu sent small intelligent devices and an Ultron Robot into the rift to investigate, but none returned.

Du Mu entered Helheim to recover his stolen Ravagers ships and met Hela, Odin’s imprisoned eldest daughter, who demanded the ships in exchange for helping him. When Du Mu threatened to turn Helheim into a cesspit, Hela attacked him, and their fight ended with her furious over his use of a pistol that he insisted was sword qi.

• Du Mu entered the sunless Helheim and found the wreckage of the Ultron Robots he had sent ahead.
• Hela Odinsdottir appeared and told Du Mu that Odin had sealed her in Helheim after she helped conquer the Nine Realms and later rebelled against him.
• Hela revealed the Ravagers ships beneath a pile of bones, then claimed they belonged to her and demanded that Du Mu agree to her conditions to reclaim them.
• Du Mu threatened to connect the Nine Realms’ septic tanks to Helheim and make Hela the Goddess of Cesspits.
• Hela attacked Du Mu, but he blocked her sword strikes and fired a pistol that grazed her cheek.
• Du Mu denied using a gun and called it an unsharpened sword, leaving Hela enraged at his shamelessness.

Du Mu fought Hela in Helheim, using his magic and equipment to wound her before learning that Odin’s death was the only thing that could free her. Hela decided that having a child with Du Mu could help her claim Asgard’s throne, leaving him stunned by her proposal.

• Du Mu and Hela exchanged blows, then both transformed and resumed their increasingly fierce duel.
• Hela’s relentless attacks forced Du Mu into a battle of attrition, but his Vampiric Ring restored his health as he wounded her.
• Du Mu used tentacles, a rocket pack, and blinding light to pin Hela to a rock with a thrown sword.
• Hela explained that Odin’s death would dissolve the power sealing her in Helheim, and she planned to use a child of royal blood to secure Asgard’s throne.
• Hela realized Du Mu was male and abruptly told him they should have a child.

Du Mu rejected Hela’s proposal to have a child, then negotiated for territory and magic in exchange for staying in Helheim. He revealed that he could travel between realms on his own, but could not take Hela with him, leaving her trapped and eager for revenge against Odin.

• Hela asked Du Mu to father a child so their offspring could inherit Asgard, but Du Mu refused and mocked her appearance and plan.
• Du Mu demanded half of Helheim, money, equipment, magic, and half of Hela’s divine power if they failed to have a child; Hela rejected his terms and tried to stop him from leaving.
• Hela agreed that Du Mu could use Helheim freely and that she would teach him magic, while explaining that she had no money and her equipment could only be used by her.
• Du Mu delayed having a child until he had learned enough magic, and Hela agreed to let him stay because she was too weak in Helheim to force him.
• Hela warned Du Mu that a rare celestial convergence had opened the only route between Helheim and the other realms, but Du Mu vanished and returned carrying Asgardian food.
• Du Mu told Hela he could travel anywhere but could not take her with him, and Hela lamented that she could not return to Asgard to attack Odin.

Du Mu escaped Hela, recovered Ravager ships, and discovered that Quill and the Guardians of the Galaxy were being hunted by Ronan’s Necro Corps. He rushed to their latest location, but the chapter left the Guardians cornered on Svartalfheim as Yondu arrived and Quill tried to use him as a shield.

• Du Mu learned that Hela had wielded Mjolnir and that her slain Valkyries had left behind valuable equipment, which he sent Ultron Robots to collect before fleeing her advances.
• Du Mu repaired the Ravager ships and found Quill’s old pleas for help, including a message saying the Guardians had been surrounded by the Necro Corps.
• Du Mu ordered Ultron to lock onto Quill’s latest coordinates and set out to rescue Rocket and the Guardians.
• On Svartalfheim, the Guardians hid from the Necro Corps, whose soldiers soon broke into their cave and trapped them.
• Yondu crashed his ship through the cave wall, and Quill grabbed his leg while claiming Yondu was his father.

Quill lured Yondu into a battle with the Necro Corps, where Ravager ships and Du Mu’s Ultron Robots turned the tide. Du Mu revealed that he led the Ravager-Ravagers Legion, and Quill had joined him in raiding Ravager crews, leaving Yondu at gunpoint and furious with his adopted son.

• Quill sent Yondu his coordinates, drawing him into a fight with the Necro Corps as Quill’s group faced overwhelming odds.
• Yondu attacked with his whistle-controlled Yaka Arrow, while his Ravager crew joined the ground battle against the Necro soldiers.
• More Ravager ships arrived and destroyed the Necrocraft, then deployed Ultron Robots that overwhelmed the Necro Corps.
• Du Mu arrived, and Yondu mistook the Ravager fleet for a rescue before learning Du Mu commanded the Ravager-Ravagers Legion.
• Du Mu pointed a gun at Yondu and demanded his valuables, while Quill admitted he had helped Du Mu seize Ravager ships.
• Yondu accused Quill of betraying him, and Quill realized Yondu had protected him from his crew when he was young.

After the Ultron Robots routed the Necro Corps, Du Mu and the Guardians planned to draw the Nova Empire and Thanos against Ronan. As they prepared to leave, a massive warship appeared and its Dark Elf occupants demanded to know who had disturbed their slumber in Svartalfheim.

• The Necro Corps retreated after the Ultron Robots overwhelmed them, while the Ultron Robots captured the Ravagers and Quill declared his loyalty to the Ravager-Ravagers.
• Quill and the Guardians explained that Ronan had pursued them for more than a month, and Du Mu warned that surrendering the Orb would not make Ronan spare them.
• Drax called for Ronan's death, and the Game System gave Du Mu a quest to kill Ronan and save him from being cringe-danced to death by Star-Lord.
• Du Mu proposed tricking the Nova Empire into fighting Ronan by spreading false news that Ronan had obtained the Power Stone and planned to destroy Xandar; Quill suggested adding that Ronan intended to betray Thanos.
• Du Mu repaired the Ravagers ships using Necrocraft wreckage, but a huge warship appeared overhead and an angry voice asked who had disturbed the Dark Elves in Svartalfheim.

Du Mu escaped Ronan’s returning Necro Corps by misleading Malekith into accepting the tracked Necrocraft, then used the Dark Elves as a diversion. After warning the Nova Empire that Ronan had obtained the Power Stone, Du Mu and his crew left the response to Xandar’s Nova Corps.

• Malekith awakened with the Dark Elves and confronted Du Mu, who blamed the disturbance on Ronan’s Necro Corps and warned them not to provoke him.
• After learning Ronan’s forces were returning, Du Mu gave Malekith the tracked Necrocraft and fled; Malekith threatened Ronan until the Necro Corps arrived and Ronan demanded to know who had challenged him.
• Du Mu explained to Quill and the others that the tracked ships would draw Ronan’s fire, revealed he had sent Ronan Malekith’s threats, and put Yondu and the Ravagers under Quill’s management.
• Du Mu sent most of the Ravager ships back to the lunar base with Ultron Robots while his group kept the flagship and contacted the Nova Empire about Ronan’s Power Stone.
• Quill informed Irani Rael that Ronan had the Power Stone, and Irani ordered an investigation, Xandar’s highest alert, and the recall of patrol fleets to capture Ronan.