Recaps

Purple lightning transformed Earth, awakened powerful beings, and brought the League of Heroes fortress into existence. In New York, League chairman Li Chen met with Tony Stark as a monster suddenly attacked the restaurant.

• Purple lightning struck across the world, awakening Azir, Tushan Honghong, and Mio and scattering spirit crystals and mutation factors across Earth.
• Li Chen established the League of Heroes fortress in the suburbs of New York and declared that his era of heroes had begun.
• At Stark Tower, Li Chen waited with Mash Kyrielight, Grandis, and Ulquiorra Cifer while planning to recruit Tony Stark and prepare for the growing monster threat.
• Grandis drank high-proof liquor and Li Chen discovered that Michelle's Gospel of Holy Light contained an arsenal of cleric weapons and aggressive battle advice.
• Tony Stark arrived at the restaurant, and Li Chen told Ulquiorra not to underestimate him because technology could eventually make him a quasi-S-class fighter.
• The Light Pull-Cord Monster transformed and launched a powerful punch through the restaurant.

Li Chen and the League of Heroes encountered the Light Pull-Cord Monster, and Grandis defeated it after it wrecked Tony Stark’s Mark V armor. Tony invited the group to Stark Industries, then hosted them at his coastal villa, where he complained about Li Chen’s way of flying them there.

• Li Chen stopped Mash and Ulquiorra from fighting and let Tony test his Mark V armor against the Light Pull-Cord Monster.
• The monster shrugged off Tony’s repulsor blasts and smashed him into a wall, disabling the armor.
• Grandis intervened, used her holy cross and Godhead Fist techniques to overpower the monster, and killed it.
• Li Chen freed Tony from the wall, and Tony invited the League members to work as bodyguards for Stark Industries.
• Grandis returned with the monster’s head, earning energy for the League, and Tony took the group to his coastal villa.

Li Chen introduced the [Hall of Heroes] to Nick Fury and Tony Stark, warning them about threats to the world and revealing that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. He offered Tony a place in the [League of Heroes] as the chapter left Fury confronting the warning and Tony considering how to face Thanos.

• Li Chen brought Nick Fury and Coulson to Tony Stark’s villa, where Ulquiorra subdued them for questioning his lord.
• Li Chen described the [Hall of Heroes] as a cross-dimensional guardian organization and warned that several world-ending threats, including Thanos, had appeared or might come.
• Li Chen told Fury that Hydra had secretly infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., leaving Fury shaken and urging him to investigate carefully.
• Li Chen told Tony that Thanos would collect six gems and kill half the universe, including Tony’s fiancée, prompting Tony to ask how to stop him.
• Li Chen offered Tony a place in the [League of Heroes] and gave him a blue wristband that recorded achievements, stored energy, received missions, and enhanced abilities.

Li Chen returned to League of Heroes headquarters as All Might and Garen fought off a massive monster assault, while he noticed a hidden intruder approaching. Ulquiorra captured the chameleon monster, which revealed that Big Eye had sent the monsters.

• Tony Stark learned the League of Heroes' ranking system and discovered his Iron Man armor qualified only for C-Class, while Fury left to investigate Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Grandis raided Tony's wine cellar, and Li Chen received enough energy points for ten random summons as reports arrived of heroes defeating monsters.
• Li Chen, Grandis, Mash, and Ulquiorra teleported back to headquarters, where All Might and Garen were clearing an unusually large monster horde.
• Li Chen sensed a concealed presence in the mountains and identified a chameleon monster sneaking toward headquarters.
• Ulquiorra captured the chameleon monster and brought it before Li Chen, where it confessed that Big Eye had sent the monsters.

Li Chen expanded the League of Heroes by summoning new heroes and powerful allies, including Tatsumaki, Child Emperor, Sasuke, Annie, and the Noxian Legion. As the League became the main force against monsters in New York, Tony Stark arrived and Li Chen asked whether he was still using palladium.

• The chameleon mutant told Li Chen about the Mutant Association and the Monster King before Ulquiorra killed it.
• Li Chen spent energy on two ten-pulls, summoning mostly D-Class heroes and Sasuke, then summoned Child Emperor by designation.
• Li Chen's special summons brought Tatsumaki and the Noxian Legion, followed by Annie and early-Demon-tier Garou.
• Tatsumaki, Annie, Child Emperor, Sasuke, and nineteen D-Class heroes appeared at the League of Heroes headquarters, where Li Chen welcomed them.
• Tatsumaki's power helped the League grow into New York's main monster-fighting force, and Tony Stark arrived while Li Chen asked if he was still using palladium.

Li Chen took Tony Stark, Child Emperor, and Tatsumaki to New Mexico to meet Thor, whose divine power had been sealed after his banishment to Earth. The chapter ended with an abrupt scene introducing a researcher and a powerful, goggle-wearing child.

• Li Chen introduced Child Emperor’s scientific achievements to Tony Stark, leaving Tony shaken by the boy’s knowledge.
• Tatsumaki flung Tony around the room after he called her a runt, and Tony wondered why the League of Heroes’ children were so powerful.
• Li Chen told the group that Thor had come to Earth and offered to take them to meet him; Tatsumaki, Child Emperor, and Tony agreed.
• Li Chen teleported the group to New Mexico, where they saw Thor with a local woman, and Tony struggled with the journey’s dizziness.
• A researcher told a sweating man that a goggle-wearing child was as strong as a thousand ordinary adults and could handle Tiger-Level disasters.

Li Chen persuaded Thor to join the League of Heroes, but a Spacequake struck before they could leave, and the group encountered the Dragon-Level Spirit Mio. The chapter left Tatsumaki attacking Mio by hurling a meteor toward her.

• Li Chen offered Thor a place in the League of Heroes, and Thor agreed after Jane Foster was briefly choked by Li Chen's psychic power.
• Li Chen gave Thor a Member Bracelet and allowed Jane to accompany him.
• A spatial storm tore through the town, and Li Chen used his psychic power to lower the land and save the group from destruction.
• Mio appeared above the city and threatened the humans as Tony Stark, Child Emperor, Thor, Jane, and Li Chen reacted to her overwhelming power.
• Tatsumaki flew toward Mio and pulled a hundred-meter meteor from space, leaving Child Emperor stunned as it fell toward them.

Li Chen stopped Tatsumaki and a purple-haired Spirit from escalating their destructive fight by winning the Spirit’s surrender with Kinako Bread, then brought her to the League of Heroes headquarters. The chapter ended as Thor learned that Grandis’s Fist of Divine Punishment was created to slay gods.

• Tatsumaki and the purple-haired Spirit exchanged city-threatening attacks until Li Chen stepped between them and offered a one-move wager.
• Li Chen distracted the Spirit with Kinako Bread, and she surrendered in exchange for the promise of more food.
• Li Chen transported the group to League of Heroes headquarters, where Jane became fascinated by spatial folding and Thor agreed to let Child Emperor study his blood in exchange for beer.
• Li Chen gave the Spirit a bracelet to keep her from disappearing and identified her as the League’s third hero.
• The group entered the simulated forest training ground, where Grandis reprimanded Second Pillar and Mumen Rider for their training.
• Li Chen told Thor that Grandis’s Fist of Divine Punishment could slay gods, and Thor reacted with surprise.

Thor began brutal Godhead Fist training under Grandis while Jane objected, and Li Chen took Yatogami Tohka to Hero Restaurant, named her, and shared a meal with her. The chapter ended when Tony called to say that a congressional representative had approached him with Howard Stark’s relic.

• Thor asked Grandis to teach him Godhead Fist and was beaten badly during his first combat training session.
• Grandis healed Thor and ordered him to practice a horse stance and master the basics of Godhead Fist within three days, while Jane left in anger.
• Li Chen took the purple-haired girl to Hero Restaurant, where she ate Gem Meat and then requested one hundred servings of Kinako Bread.
• Li Chen gave the girl the name Yatogami Tohka, and she accepted it.
• Tony called Li Chen and said a congressional representative had contacted him about his father's relic.

Li Chen rejected the Superhero Registration Act and killed the congressman who demanded that he surrender Tohka, prompting the authorities to plan a rival hero team and turn public opinion against the League of Heroes. As a Deep Sea Clan invasion struck New York, Li Chen recalled his field personnel and left the crisis to the Avengers.

• Li Chen refused to register the League of Heroes or hand over Tohka, then killed the congressman who threatened him.
• Fury warned the council that the League was beyond conventional force, and the congressmen decided to accelerate the Avengers plan and spread accusations against the League.
• The Deep Sea King led a pollution-mutated army toward New York, while Captain America appeared publicly as part of the authorities' campaign.
• Mash and Tohka worried about the massive crowds celebrating Captain America, but Li Chen told them the authorities were trying to suppress the League through public opinion.
• After sensing abnormal energy along the coast, Li Chen ordered Mash to recall all field personnel and let the Avengers face the deep-sea threat as a tentacled monster rampaged on a New York coastal avenue.

Garou attacked the Avengers during the Deep-Sea Clan invasion, overpowering Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Captain America before Hulk joined the fight. Garou exploited Hulk’s weakness by targeting his joints and vital points, but Hulk remained resilient as the battle continued.

• The Avengers fought the Deep-Sea Clan while Garou revealed his hostility by ambushing Hawkeye Barton.
• Garou evaded Hawkeye’s arrows and deflected Captain America’s shield, then attacked Captain America, Black Widow, and Hawkeye.
• Garou knocked Hawkeye and Black Widow unconscious and used a ground-shattering shockwave to send Captain America flying.
• Hulk charged Garou after seeing Black Widow unconscious and blasted Garou into rubble with a powerful punch.
• Garou recovered and dodged Hulk’s attacks, targeting his joints and vital points, but Hulk kept fighting despite the repeated strikes.

Garou fled as the Deep-Sea Clan overwhelmed the Avengers and devastated New York, while Li Chen refused to send the League of Heroes to help and used his energy points to summon new heroes. As the invasion continued, Tony Stark deployed his new armor and automated suit legion to defend his home and fight the attackers.

• Garou escaped the encirclement, leaving Hulk trapped as Captain America ordered the Avengers to retreat with their wounded.
• With the Deep-Sea Clan advancing and reinforcements defeated, Captain America asked the League of Heroes for help despite the risk of court-martial.
• Li Chen withdrew the League of Heroes' remaining squad from New York and summoned Kazuto Kirigaya, Mine, Ken Kaneki, Joan of Arc, Armored Titan, Kakashi Hatake, Hassan of the Hundred Faces, and an unnamed S-Class Hero.
• Tony Stark donned his Mark VI armor and ordered thirty Mark II suits to clear enemies and defend his seaside mansion.
• Tony watched the automated armor legion attack the Deep-Sea Clan and calculated how much energy eliminating the invaders could earn him.

Tony Stark relayed the League of Heroes’ demands to S.H.I.E.L.D., and Congress accepted them as New York’s defenses collapsed under the Deep-Sea Clan invasion. As League heroes fought across the city, Thor killed a Wolf-level monster, only for Mumen Rider to warn that they were surrounded.

• Tony Stark refused to deploy the League until S.H.I.E.L.D. accepted Li Chen’s demands, including League control, the Avengers’ disbandment, public support, and annual funding.
• Congress accepted the terms, and the League of Heroes began deploying to New York as Iron Man joined the battle against the Deep-Sea Clan’s main force.
• Thor, Second Pillar, and Mumen Rider arrived through a spatial rift, found a frightened girl, and confronted an Orca Monster while evacuating civilians.
• Orca Monster knocked Thor aside, and Second Pillar attacked it with a Great Fireball while Mumen Rider organized the civilians’ escape.
• Thor killed a Crucian Carp Monster with his first Godhead Fist punch, then Mumen Rider noticed that the group was surrounded and warned Thor to look behind him.

Thor's reckless stand against the Deep-Sea Clan ended with him gravely injured, until a golden-lit hero rescued the survivors. In New York, Joan of Arc rallied civilian militias to slow the invasion while Deep Sea King approached the main battlefield and Li Chen and Aizen discussed the League of Heroes' plans; the defenders' makeshift lines remained under heavy assault.

• Thor realized his defiance had endangered the civilians, tried to protect them, and was knocked unconscious by a boulder before a golden-lit hero killed the attacking Deep-Sea Clan monsters.
• Joan of Arc led nearly ten thousand armed civilians, organized defensive lines, and joined Captain and Sam Wilson on the New York battlefield.
• Deep Sea King wiped out the three regiments stationed in New York and headed toward the main battlefield.
• Li Chen asked Aizen about the war, and Aizen proposed establishing League of Heroes branches around the world under S-Class Heroes.
• Joan of Arc's fifteen thousand militia fighters held off the Deep-Sea Clan temporarily, but the monsters began hurling heavy objects into their defenses.

Joan of Arc protected the human defensive line while a strike team charged into the Deep-Sea Clan’s ranks, and Spider-Man fought the Deep Sea King in New York. Spider-Man brought several skyscrapers crashing down on his opponent, whose response was left unresolved.

• Joan of Arc ordered a decapitation strike and used her Noble Phantasm to shield the defensive line from incoming attacks.
• Reiner transformed into the Armored Titan and led the strike team’s charge, while Hulk rampaged through the enemy ranks and the other heroes attacked from the breach.
• Spider-Man confronted the Deep Sea King, dodging his punches and eel-like tongue while taunting him and hurling vehicles at him.
• Spider-Man wove webs between eight skyscrapers and used them to topple the buildings toward the Deep Sea King.
• The Deep Sea King dismissed Spider-Man’s trap and punched upward at the collapsing buildings.

Spider-Man’s fight with Deep Sea King turned against him when the rain restored the monster’s strength, but Garen defeated Deep Sea King with his ultimate attack. As Noxus prepared to invade Wakanda, Li Chen went to the New York Sanctum to retrieve Annie and meet the Ancient One.

• Spider-Man bound Deep Sea King in webs, but the rain restored the monster’s full strength and he escaped Spider-Man’s attacks.
• Garen arrived to protect Peter Parker, fought Deep Sea King, and defeated him with his Demacia ultimate.
• At an outskirt ranch, Darius learned that Noxus’s conquest would begin with Wakanda, and Draven showed him the target on a map.
• At League of Heroes Headquarters, Li Chen and Aizen discussed the battle and realized Annie was at the New York Sanctum.
• Li Chen entered the New York Sanctum, where the Ancient One was meeting Annie, and the two powerful figures assessed each other.

Li Chen took Mio from the New York Sanctum and learned that his presence had obscured The Ancient One’s visions of the future. As Kaecilius’s resentment grew, Draven attacked an international conference in Wakanda, leaving T’Chaka and T’Challa fighting for their lives.

• Mio accepted Li Chen’s offered hand and agreed to travel with him, while Annie chose to remain at the Sanctum to study magic.
• The Ancient One discovered that the Time Stone could no longer show her the future and agreed to live on as a witness instead of accepting her fate.
• Kaecilius confronted Li Chen and Mio, but Mio repeatedly insisted that she did not know him, deepening his jealousy and anger.
• The Ancient One stopped Li Chen from dealing with Kaecilius, and Kaecilius began thinking about forbidden rituals.
• Draven attacked T’Chaka’s international conference with rune-wreathed axes, killing civilians and forcing T’Challa to fight beside his father.

After the League of Heroes expanded and received S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Tesseract, Li Chen converted the Space Stone into a vice-chairman summon and recruited Doraemon. He then planned global branches and selected Artoria Pendragon as the European branch director.

• Darius killed Wakanda's king during Noxus's attack, and he and Draven escaped with the king's head as T'Challa watched.
• Li Chen reviewed the League of Heroes' growth, accepted the Avengers' members, and assigned a trillion dollars to research and operations.
• Li Chen shattered the Tesseract, converted the Space Stone, and summoned Doraemon as the League's first vice chairman.
• Li Chen conducted a hundred summons, drawing Gao Shun, King, and the Heroic Spirit Li Zilong.
• Li Chen designated Heroic Spirit Li Yun as the Asian branch director, then summoned Artoria Pendragon as the European branch director.

Li Chen used Special Summoning to recruit powerful Heroes and unleash several dangerous calamities, then assigned continental branch directors to Aizen. When Thor asked to return to Asgard and confess to Odin, Li Chen brought him to the training room and trapped him in an illusion designed to awaken his power, where Thor found himself in a strangely deserted Asgard.

• Li Chen summoned Lancer Artoria, Hashirama Senju, Yuriko Suzuka, Ikaros, and Yugi Mutou, while also summoning Gensokyo, Boros, Voidland, and the God-Level Calamity known as an Apostle of Creation.
• Li Chen gave Aizen a list of the continental branch directors and tasked him with establishing the branches and assigning Heroes to them.
• Thor asked Li Chen to open the Bifrost so he could return to Asgard and confess his failures to Odin, and Li Chen agreed but said Thor would have to find his own way home.
• Li Chen took Thor to the Hero Training Room and used his Mangekyō Sharingan to place him in an illusion intended to awaken the power within him.
• Thor awoke in an apparently real Asgard, but found the city unnaturally silent as he ran toward Odin's palace.

Thor endured a devastating illusion in which Hela killed his family and comrades, and his grief awakened his lightning power before Li Chen shattered the illusion. After learning Hela was truly his sister and would threaten Asgard, Thor asked Li Chen to stop her, but Li Chen told him to grow stronger and use the Battle Ring enhancement system.

• Thor found the dead Warriors Three and Sif, then discovered Odin, Loki, and Heimdall slain in the palace by Hela.
• Hela threatened Frigga, blocked Thor's League of Heroes communication, and killed Frigga while Thor struggled to fight her.
• Thor's anguish awakened a storm of lightning that shattered Hela and the collapsing illusion.
• Li Chen revealed that Thor's experience had been an illusion, then confirmed Hela would truly descend upon Asgard and was Thor's sister.
• Li Chen refused to seal Hela away and instructed Thor to strengthen himself through the Battle Ring enhancement system.
• Thor opened the system and saw that enhancing his divine hammer, body, and lightning required far more points than he could afford.

Thor regained Mjolnir and returned to Asgard to apologize to his father, while Li Chen approved Peter Parker’s admission to the League of Heroes. Aizen then arranged a combat test for King, whose intimidating reputation concealed his panic as he faced the prospect of fighting.

• Thor summoned Mjolnir, discovered Heimdall would not answer from inside League of Heroes territory, and eventually traveled to Asgard after calling from outside.
• Tony Stark and Garen argued over their hero recommendations, realized they had both chosen Peter Parker, and Li Chen approved Peter’s admission while allowing him to hide his identity.
• Sosuke Aizen told Li Chen that King seemed suspicious and received permission to test him in combat.
• King arrived at the training grounds with Child Emperor, who boasted about King’s supposed legendary feats as Aizen grew eager to fight him.
• King stood motionless as his King Engine roared, while he panicked inside about facing Aizen.

Child Emperor’s invention failed to measure King, and Aizen’s illusion-based test convinced the heroes that King was extraordinarily strong. Tony then proposed a virtual reality training system, leaving the group ready to begin simulated battles.

• Child Emperor used his Ugly Woman Mask to measure the heroes, but it could not assess King, Sosuke Aizen, or Li Chen.
• Aizen activated Complete Hypnosis and staged an unseen fight with King, then praised King’s supposed strength after the illusion ended.
• Li Chen explained that Aizen and King had exchanged hundreds of attacks in the illusion, while the others had seen them stand motionless.
• Tony introduced a virtual reality helmet that could let heroes fight simulated enemies without suffering real injuries.

Li Chen integrated Tony Stark’s virtual technology into the Hero Training Room and launched the first Hero Showdown Tournament. Dr. Banner’s first match began against the Dragon-Level virtual opponent Philosophy Lord Billy, whose overwhelming strength left Hulk struggling as the tournament audience watched.

• Li Chen synchronized Tony Stark’s virtual technology with the Hero Training Room, allowing heroes to fight safely as digitized bodies.
• Li Chen announced the Hero Showdown Tournament, offering energy points, equipment, and bloodlines as rewards for top performers.
• Dr. Banner chose to fight a virtual opponent and was matched with the Dragon-Level Philosophy Lord Billy.
• Banner called on Hulk, who attacked Billy with a powerful punch, but Billy seized him and battered him with superior speed and technique.
• Child Emperor observed that Billy’s combat value rose twice as quickly as Hulk’s, while Lion King noted Billy’s special threat mainly affected men.
• Yuriko Suzuka watched from the audience and declared that the match’s outcome was already decided.

The League of Heroes held its first Hero War, where random virtual matchups led to several lopsided duels. King defeated Tony Stark using an outdated Iron Man armor, while Zero asked Li Chen to help reunite her with the Spirits she missed.

• Billy defeated Hulk with a wrestling hold, and Banner returned to the audience shaken by Hulk’s experience.
• Mumen Rider drew a virtual opponent modeled on Li Chen, who defeated him after claiming to offer Godhead Fist guidance.
• Zero revealed she had added the eleven Spirit Crystals she created to the opponent database, and Li Chen promised to bring them back to the League if they met.
• Tony Stark chose the first battle mode and was matched with King, then agreed to fight him in a Mark III armor in exchange for a real suit.
• King adapted to the Mark III and defeated Tony in ten minutes, earning Tony’s surrender and the promised armor.

Li Chen drew powerful rewards for the Hero War, including the Crystal Love · Fantasy Ring, which he gave to Zero, and Koro-sensei. As the tournament concluded, the heroes received their prizes, while the results and upgraded abilities reshaped the roster for future battles.

• King's extraordinary luck inspired Li Chen to consider building him a custom VR combat suit, while the Hero War matches continued with Grandis awakening as a Paladin and rising to B-Class, the Armored Titan defeating the Attack Titan, and Dugu Qiubai instantly defeating Kazuto Kirigaya.
• Uchiha Itachi easily defeated Sasuke, while the Star-Spangled Warrior and Immortal Man fought to a draw until Li Chen stopped them.
• Doraemon prepared tournament prizes, and Li Chen used the Chairman's Ring for a hundred focused draws, obtaining the S-Class Crystal Love · Fantasy Ring and summoning the S-Class hero Koro-sensei.
• Li Chen gave the Fantasy Ring to Zero, whose attributes rose and feelings for him intensified; the Hero War ended with Tornado of Terror as the final victor and Sosuke Aizen as points champion.
• Li Chen awarded Mumen Rider the Source of Life Devil Fruit and Doran's Shield, Grandis the Four-Winged Angel Bloodline, and Garen the War God Ryze skin.
• Tony received a Potential Breakthrough Crystal and swallowed it, raising his physical constitution to five times that of an ordinary person.