Arc 22Collisions and the Phoenix

Leon strengthened himself, confronted threats across the multiverse, and helped Tony navigate the Three-Body world before returning to a growing wave of World Collisions. After Odin’s death and Hela’s defeat, the Avengers repelled an invading Mutant Earth, while Leon captured a Phoenix Force Fragment for study.

  • Eri accepted Artoria’s oath, named her chief knight, and began uniting Britain as King Arthur, while Leon later sent Eri and Artoria to assist Chaldea with the Lostbelts.
  • Leon recruited Erina Nakiri and Liu Mao-xing as chefs, gave them Gourmet Cells, and traveled with Eri and Artoria through many worlds before returning to the Resident Evil universe.
  • Leon redirected the Three-Body Universe into a Parallel World, restored its damaged physical laws, and defeated the Great God Civilizations that attacked him.
  • Leon merged more than a hundred universes around the Resident Evil Universe and evolved toward Silver Superman, while Tony completed his mission in the Three-Body world and returned home with Leon.
  • As World Collisions spread, Leon sent Dark Doctor Strange and Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers into Hell to seize demon dimensions, then enslaved Mephisto and ordered him to help.
  • Odin died after naming Thor King of Asgard, and Hela returned to claim the throne until Diana defeated her and Leon stripped her of her Authority and banished her to Earth.
  • A Mutant Earth attacked under Professor X and Magneto, but Wanda, Diana, Kara, and the Avengers defeated the invasion and learned that the Mutants had destroyed four Earths during earlier collisions.
  • Leon continued investigating the multiversal crisis, captured the Phoenix Force Fragment as it left Jean Grey, and transformed it into a black Phoenix for study.
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Ch. 526The New Legend of King Arthur

Eri became King Arthur and united Britain before leading its people into Eternal Avalon, where Leon later ended the Incineration of Human Order and sent Eri and Artoria to help Chaldea resolve the Lostbelts. After Leon emerged from seclusion, he invited Eri to find a food world, and Artoria eagerly joined them.

  • Eri accepted Artoria's oath of fealty, named her chief knight, and unleashed both Oath Swords as the legend of King Arthur Eri began.
  • Artoria led Eri's armies to unite Britain, defeat the Saxons and Vortigern, and establish the Knights of the Round Table; Leon kept the realm fed and later opened Eternal Avalon for its people.
  • Leon explained that Avalon was not a Singularity, separated the Singularities from proper human history, killed Goetia, and sent Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash back to Chaldea.
  • When Chaldea later asked for help with the Lostbelts and the Alien God, Leon sent Eri and Artoria to join the expedition.
  • After more than ten years, Leon emerged from seclusion and invited Eri to find a food world, while Artoria hurried over to ask about the food.

Ch. 527Gourmet World

In the Gourmet World, Leon upgraded Eri’s cells with safer Gourmet Cells and decided to seek out talented chefs to prepare the best ingredients. The group traveled to the Food Wars! world and had Erina Nakiri cook for them as a potential private chef.

  • Eri and Leon ate in a giant cornfield until Artoria returned with an enormous fathead fish, which Leon cooked for them.
  • Leon explained that he had developed Gourmet Cells that strengthened the body without risking demonic backlash, then modified Eri’s cells.
  • Leon chose to try famous Gourmet Hunters’ menus and said they needed a skilled chef to bring out the ingredients’ best flavors.
  • Leon, Eri, and Artoria arrived in the Food Wars! world and asked Erina Nakiri to prepare a giant tuna as a test for a private-chef position.

Ch. 528The Journey Ends

Leon recruited Erina Nakiri, Liu Mao-xing, Little Fu Gui, and Master Hong, then led the chefs on a journey through increasingly powerful ingredients that transformed them into planetary-level fighters. After traveling through many worlds with Eri and Artoria, Leon sent them home and returned to the Resident Evil universe, where world-merging was underway and his true body awaited.

  • Leon tasted Erina Nakiri's tuna, hired her, and recruited Liu Mao-xing after sampling his cooking.
  • Leon brought Little Fu Gui and Master Hong back to the Toriko World, gave the chefs Gourmet Cells, and led them through feasts that made them planetary-level powerhouses.
  • Leon and the chefs traveled through space and prepared a 108-dish feast from the Space Taipan after Leon defeated it using Universe Birth in a Thought.
  • Leon said goodbye to the chefs and continued traveling through more than a hundred worlds with Eri and Artoria.
  • Leon explored Little Garden, then sent Eri and Artoria back to their worlds and returned to the Resident Evil universe.

Ch. 529Merging with "The Three-Body Problem"

Leon turned the approaching Three-Body Universe into a Parallel World, but its civilizations altered the laws of physics to hide from a suspected invasion. As Leon repaired the collapsing universe, a Great God Civilization ambushed him near the Rosette Nebula with a trap that threatened to flatten the region into two dimensions.

  • Leon redirected the Three-Body Universe into an orbit around the Resident Evil Universe and began turning it into a Parallel World.
  • Decades later, Leon discovered that the Three-Body Universe's physical rules had changed and saw stars, planets, and black holes collapsing as a result.
  • Leon used a four-dimensional fragment to learn that the Zeroers Civilization and other Great God Civilizations had disrupted the Cosmic Rules to evade a suspected interuniversal threat.
  • Leon entered the Three-Body Universe and restored the damaged physical laws as he raced across it.
  • A Great God Civilization ambushed Leon near the Rosette Nebula, slowing light and changing gravity while the region began collapsing into two dimensions.

Ch. 530Dimensionality Reduction Strike

Several Great God Civilizations attacked Leon with a Dimensionality Reduction Strike and other weapons, but he restored the universe’s rules and killed their leaders. He declared that the Three-Body Universe would become a Parallel World, then left, planning to send Tony and Banner to experience the real Three-Body world.

  • Several Great God Civilizations, including the Zeroers Civilization, attacked Leon with rewritten laws, time manipulation, and dimensional reduction.
  • Leon traced shapes in the Void, restored the collapsing space and altered physical rules, and nullified the civilizations’ attacks.
  • The Great God Civilizations failed to understand Leon’s power, and he killed nearly all their highest-level leaders by looking toward their observation instruments.
  • Leon restored order across the universe and announced that the Three-Body Universe was destined to become a Parallel World.
  • Leon considered intervening in Earth’s Wallfacer era but decided against it, then opened a passage to leave the universe.
  • Leon thought of sending Tony and Banner to experience the real Three-Body world and study its technologies.

Ch. 531Kryptonian Gene Evolution

Leon continued merging universes into a vast world cluster while studying the shared rules between them. After a century of genetic research, he fused the Doomsday Gene, surpassed 60,000 times his original genetic level, and began evolving toward Silver Superman.

  • Leon merged more than a hundred universes into Parallel Worlds surrounding the Resident Evil Universe and studied how their rules connected.
  • Leon halted his attempt to make the world cluster generate infinite Parallel Worlds because he lacked sufficient understanding of the rules.
  • After nearly a century of research, Leon successfully fused the Doomsday Gene and grew to a height of 90 million kilometers.
  • Leon’s genetic level surpassed 60,000 times its original level, and he awakened powerful psychokinesis as his body developed the abilities he desired.
  • Leon realized he was evolving toward Silver Superman and fell asleep while basking in the light of a blue giant star.

Ch. 532Walking Out of the Sun

After more than thirty years absorbing sunlight inside a blue giant, Leon emerged with strength far beyond the Super-Entity level and estimated his power at roughly one hundred-millionth of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse. He considered whether his transformed state made him a Golden Superman, while Tony called from the Three-Body Universe to say he had cleared it and wanted to return.

  • Tony called Leon from the Three-Body Universe, saying he had cleared it and asking Leon to take him back.
  • Leon left the blue giant after more than thirty years of absorbing sunlight and assessed his vastly increased strength.
  • Leon calculated that his raw power was roughly one hundred-millionth of the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse, enough to contend with many of its powerful beings.
  • Leon compared his transformation to Golden Superman and considered how that state ranked among powerful versions of Superman.

Ch. 533Changes on Earth in the Three-Body Universe

After reaching a new stage of power, Leon traveled to the Three-Body Universe to retrieve Tony. He found Earth’s civilization protected by a Black Domain and reunited with Tony, who had helped develop the technology behind it.

  • Leon realized that he had not yet reached Golden Superman’s full potential and began evolving his genes toward ninety thousandfold.
  • Leon entered the Three-Body Universe and found Earth surrounded by advanced ships and robots, with warp ships forming a Black Domain around the Solar System.
  • Tony used a Sophon to greet Leon, revealing that he had mastered the technology and helped Earth find a defense against the Dark Forest Law.
  • Leon appeared in Tony’s command room, startling the armed researchers and security personnel until Tony introduced him as his younger brother.
  • Tony realized Leon was nearly Golden Superman, complained that he had not caught up, and prepared to show Leon how he had completed his mission to save Earth.

Ch. 534Tony's Three-Body Strategy

Leon interrupted Tony at the United Nations Planetary Defense Council, healed the injured researchers, and took Tony back from the Three-Body World. At a farewell dinner, Tony recounted how he had defeated the Trisolarans and explained that Earth had chosen to broadcast harmless signals rather than isolate itself.

  • Leon used Kill Intent Rebound to explain how the researchers had been injured, then healed them and told Tony about the Great God Civilizations and the Zeroers Civilization.
  • Tony abandoned his planned speech to the Planetary Defense Council, and he and Leon left the Three-Body World after Tony said goodbye to Luo Ji, Shi Qiang, and Wade.
  • Tony recounted how he became the fifth Wallfacer, used JARVIS to break the Sophon blockade, and helped Earth develop its own Sophons, Droplets, and Warp Drive.
  • Tony said Earth used its technological advantage to destroy the Trisolaran fleet and its star system before the Trisolarans could broadcast Earth's location.
  • Tony described Earth's vote to either create a Black Domain or leave its star system, and said Earth chose to broadcast harmless signals despite his disagreement.

Ch. 535Morgan, Two and a Half Years Old

Tony and Leon returned to Los Angeles at the instant they had left, where Leon reunited with two-and-a-half-year-old Morgan and teased Tony about her affection. Three years later, Leon faced increasingly frequent World Collisions across the Multiverse, whose hidden cause remained unknown despite clues pointing to Doctor Strange.

  • Tony warned Leon to return them to the exact moment they had left, and Leon brought them back to their Los Angeles seaside home.
  • Leon carried the sleeping Tony upstairs and reunited with Morgan, who told him she loved him five thousand times after he coached her.
  • Leon took Morgan to get cloud ice cream, then bragged to Tony about what she had said before leaving Los Angeles.
  • Over the next three years, World Collisions became increasingly frequent across universes guarded by M-Bodies.
  • Leon traced clues to Doctor Strange, Stephen Strange, but World Collisions continued even in universes where Leon had subdued him.

Ch. 536Kamar-Taj Invades Hell

Leon considered the growing Multiverse collision crisis and worried that the Beyonders might be behind it, while preparing the Divine Kingdom Dimension as a fallback. He arrived at Kamar-Taj, where Dark Doctor Strange had begun leading sorcerers into Hell to weaken demon lords and seize their dimensions.

  • Leon consulted Eternity, who admitted he did not know who was behind the Multiverse crisis and suggested sending M-Bodies into neighboring Multiverses.
  • Leon reflected that collisions were spreading across thousands of universes and considered the Beyonders a possible cause, though he believed he could flee with the Divine Kingdom Dimension if necessary.
  • Leon traveled to Kamar-Taj and found everyone in an interstitial space Dark Doctor Strange had created inside its Small World.
  • Dark Doctor Strange opened passages into demon dimensions so he and Kamar-Taj's sorcerers could fight their inhabitants, weaken demon lords' control, and help Leon claim the dimensions.
  • Old Wang and Mordo accepted Dark Doctor Strange's approach after the sorcerers began using slain Hell demons to pay the cost of their spells.

Ch. 537Mephisto's Chilling Realization

Leon entered Hell and saw Kamar-Taj’s mages and the Men in Black using Contribution Points to fight Mephisto’s demons while Dark Doctor Strange and Infinite JARVIS battled Mephisto. As Mephisto prepared to ask the other Lords of Hell for help, Leon arrived, and Mephisto realized the Sorcerer Supreme had orchestrated the invasion.

  • Leon entered the pocket space between Small Worlds and saw injured mages resting before returning to battle with Healing Factor.
  • Leon passed through the portal and saw hundreds of mages fighting Hell’s demons while Hulk, Diana, Kara, and others fought stronger enemies deeper inside.
  • Dark Doctor Strange and Infinite JARVIS battled Mephisto in the void at Hell’s core, while Mephisto struggled to retain control of Hell and had already been killed seven times.
  • Mephisto decided to ask the other Lords of Hell for help rather than lose his Authority.
  • Leon flew into the battle and greeted Mephisto, who recognized the Sorcerer Supreme and realized he had sent the invaders.

Ch. 538I Want Them All

Leon confronted Mephisto in Hell, rejected his offer to target other demons, and declared that he wanted every Dimension Lord’s dimension. Mephisto fled through a spatial passage, leaving Leon’s pursuit unresolved.

  • Mephisto threatened to expose Leon to Vishanti, then tried to persuade him to attack Satannish and Dormammu instead of Hell.
  • Leon clarified that he wanted the dimensions belonging to Mephisto, Satannish, Marduk, and the other Dimension Lords.
  • Mephisto realized Leon intended to take them all and opened a spatial passage to flee.

Ch. 539Enslaving Mephisto

Leon enslaved Mephisto and ordered him to help conquer the dimensions of other demon gods. After returning from the Split Domain, Leon was reunited with JARVIS, Diana, Kara, and Wanda, who dragged him through a portal to the Moon.

  • Leon used the Enslavement Secret Art to enslave Mephisto and ordered him to join forces with the other demon gods to seize their dimensions for Leon.
  • Leon told Mephisto to rebuild his army and take only the souls of evil people, then sent Dark Strange and the sorcerers back to Earth.
  • Leon spoke with JARVIS, who welcomed him home and explained that Tony had been worried about his long absence.
  • Diana and Kara rushed to Leon, while Wanda opened a Mystic Arts Portal and the three women pushed him through to the Moon.
  • Wanda transformed the lunar surface into a sea of cherry blossoms with Chaos Magic, and Kara announced that they were robbing Leon of his virtue.

Ch. 540An Unusual Invitation

Leon investigated World Collisions across thousands of universes, finding that Doctor Strange’s Memory Spell had disturbed many timelines but suspecting another cause remained. Back home, he learned that Odin had invited him and the others to his funeral.

  • Leon visited a universe where Doctor Strange caused a collision and separated the two worlds.
  • Leon stabilized a collapsing universe by making Peter Parker its new Anchor Being, then investigated its unexplained collision with Party Thor’s world.
  • Leon examined thousands of universes and traced many World Collisions to the Main Universe Doctor Strange’s Memory Spell, though he suspected he had missed something.
  • Leon returned home and found Diana and the others dressed formally for an invitation from Asgard.
  • Leon read Odin’s invitation and discovered it was for his funeral.

Ch. 541Odin's Envy

At Odin’s sea burial, Leon learned that Odin planned to die so Thor could inherit his power and become a God King strong enough to face a greater coming crisis. Odin offered Leon Asgard’s divine artifacts and treasury, admitting he should have trusted Leon and the Ancient One earlier.

  • Asgardians and Kamar-Taj’s mages gathered at the harbor as Odin prepared to enter his sea-burial boat, while Frigga, Thor, and Loki mourned.
  • Odin called Leon to his side, and Leon joked that Odin was dying out of guilt over the borrowed divine artifacts.
  • Odin told Leon that he knew of the coming crisis and wanted Thor to grow stronger than him, so Asgard would have a more powerful God King.
  • Odin gave Leon the Eternal Flame and the Casket of Ancient Winters and invited him to take anything useful from Asgard’s treasury.
  • Odin confessed that he envied the Ancient One’s judgment and said he should have bound Asgard to Leon when they first met.

Ch. 542The Death of Odin

Odin died after naming Thor the new King of Asgard and warning him and Loki about their sister Hela. As Thor’s power awakened, Hela arrived and demanded that everyone kneel to her.

  • Leon implicitly agreed to help Asgard when needed, while Odin offered Kamar-Taj access to Valhalla.
  • Odin named Thor the new King of Asgard and transferred his power to him.
  • Odin revealed that Hela was his first child, imprisoned in the Underworld, and warned that she would escape after his death.
  • Thor and the Asgardians sent Odin’s burning boat out to sea, and Odin died as Loki’s divine power returned.
  • Thor’s lightning awakened, and Hela emerged through a spatial passage and ordered everyone to kneel.

Ch. 543Thor, Slain in an Instant

After Odin died, Hela returned to Asgard and demanded that its people recognize her as queen. Thor challenged her but was swiftly impaled and thrown into the sea, leaving Hela facing a silent, wary crowd.

  • Hela appeared after Odin's death, reclaimed her power in Asgard, and demanded that everyone kneel to her.
  • Thor identified Hela as the sister Odin had warned would bring Ragnarok and refused to yield Asgard to her.
  • Hela declared herself Asgard's true ruler and vowed to conquer the universe, while Loki moved Frigga behind Thor and disguised them as mages.
  • Thor attacked Hela with Mjolnir, but she caught the hammer and pierced his chest with a sword.
  • Hela revealed she had once owned Mjolnir, struck Thor with it, and sent him into the sea.
  • Loki brought Frigga into the mages' ranks as Hela stepped toward the wary Asgardians and demanded their response.

Ch. 544Diana, Daughter of Zeus

Diana intervened when Hela attacked Asgard, while Leon’s illusion helped awaken Thor’s full thunder power. Hela defeated Thor again, but Diana subdued her and forced her to kneel before Leon.

  • As Hela demanded that Asgard kneel, the Warriors Three and hundreds of warriors stood against her.
  • Leon revealed that he had placed Loki and Thor under an illusion, and Diana confronted Hela after she wounded Hogun.
  • Diana fought Hela from the coast into the sky, blocking her death-infused attacks with ease.
  • Thor emerged from the sea with awakened thunder power, but Hela struck him down again.
  • Diana bound Hela with the Lasso of Truth and forced her to kneel before Leon as Hela threatened revenge.

Ch. 545Thor's Hammer, Hela's Crown

After Hela’s defeat, Thor asked Leon to imprison her, but Leon stripped her of her power and banished her to Earth. Thor was left wondering how Leon had wielded his divine power so effortlessly.

  • Thor realized he did not know how to imprison Hela in the Underworld, and Loki pointed him toward the Kamar-Taj mages for help.
  • Thor asked Leon to lock Hela away, while Hela mocked Thor and the Asgardians for relying on a Midgardian.
  • Leon took Hela’s crown and declared that, in Odin’s name, he stripped her of her Authority and made the crown available to anyone who cherished life.
  • Leon invoked Thor’s name to banish Hela from Asgard, and the Bifrost carried her to Earth with the crown.
  • Thor asked how Leon had stripped Hela of her power and used his divine power, then suspected Leon might be Odin in disguise.

Ch. 546Another Collision

Leon banished Hela to Earth, where she could no longer wield her crown, then returned to the Mage Academy to award three students scholarships. He discovered that his universe was facing another World Collision and waited outside it to investigate its cause while the Avengers prepared to contact the other Earth.

  • Frigga recognized that Leon had banished Hela through Words Become Law, and Thor led Leon and the others to Asgard’s treasury.
  • Hela failed to lift her crown on Earth, was imprisoned by the Men in Black, and later played a powerless villain in Loki’s film.
  • Leon awarded scholarships to Sherry, Ned, and Shafika, then discovered another universe approaching his own and told Earth’s heroes to stay calm.
  • Leon let the collision proceed so he could investigate its cause, while Tony gathered the Avengers and asked JARVIS to contact the other Earth.

Ch. 547Loki, God King of Earth

As the two Earths drew closer, Loki and Tony calmed people on Earth while JARVIS reported that fighter jets from the Mutants’ world were approaching. The chapter ended when Professor X launched a psychic attack against everyone on Earth.

  • JARVIS told Tony that the other Earth belonged to the Mutants and that Professor X had agreed to calm its people.
  • The Avengers waited at the tower as the other Earth approached, and Tony flew around the world to reassure people.
  • Loki broadcast as God King and urged his subjects to stay calm, drawing an enthusiastic response from viewers.
  • JARVIS detected fighter jets from the other Earth that had cut off communications, and Banner suspected they intended to destroy Earth.
  • Professor X, aboard one of the jets, unleashed a powerful psychic attack on everyone on Earth.

Ch. 548Mutants vs. the Avengers

Wanda and the Avengers fought Professor X, Magneto, and the Mutants after Professor X tried to control the minds of everyone on Earth. The battle reached the ground outside New York, where Apocalypse appeared as Tony pursued Kitty Pryde.

  • Professor X used Cerebro to project his psychic power across Earth, but Wanda’s Chaos Magic made his attack rebound and invaded his mind.
  • A second psychic force joined Professor X against Wanda while Magneto hurled metal and buildings at her; Wanda restored the destruction as Tony, Diana, and Kara arrived to help.
  • Tony’s first shot destroyed a Mutant jet, but Magneto tore apart his armor until Tony detonated the nanomaterials Magneto had drawn toward himself.
  • Kara destroyed the remaining jets, and violet portals brought the Mutants to the ground outside New York as Tony scanned their profiles and prepared a new suit.
  • Captain America, Hawkeye, Carter, and the others fought Wolverine and the landed Mutants while Magneto recovered and attacked Tony alongside Storm.
  • Tony flew toward Kitty Pryde, then stopped when his visor showed that Apocalypse had joined the battle.

Ch. 549Experiences on Mutant Earth

The Avengers defeated the Mutants from another Earth, and Wanda revealed that the Mutants had destroyed four other Earths to survive previous collisions. She began recounting how their first collision led them to unite with governments and destroy the opposing Earth.

  • Diana killed Apocalypse, Magneto, and Storm, while Kara killed most of the Mutants who tried to flee.
  • Pietro defeated the other world's Quicksilver, Hulk beat Juggernaut, and Wanda overwhelmed Professor X, forcing the remaining Mutants to surrender.
  • The Avengers bound the surviving Mutants, and Wanda stopped Hawkeye from interrogating Wolverine because she had learned the reason for their invasion from Professor X's mind.
  • Wanda revealed that the Mutants had already destroyed four Earths, then explained that during the first collision Magneto's forces and the governments used Sentry Robots and compression bombs to destroy the opposing Earth.
  • Wanda said the X-Men attacked Magneto after the first Earth was destroyed, but a second collision crisis began before the dispute was resolved.

Ch. 550A World Gone Mad

Wanda explained how repeated World Collisions drove the Mutants to commit mass murder, and the Avengers decided to end their suffering by sending them back to their Earth. Outside the universes, Leon captured the Phoenix Force Fragment from Jean Grey and continued investigating the collisions.

  • Wanda described how the Mutants had destroyed four Earths and prepared to invade the fifth, while Tony wondered whether the Avengers might have made the same choices without Leon.
  • Tony asked what to do with the defeated Mutants, and Wolverine begged the Avengers to kill him and his companions so their suffering would end.
  • Carter shot the Mutants with ordinary constitutions, and Wanda used Chaos Magic to turn the survivors into bubbles that drifted back to the Mutant Earth.
  • Tony warned that World Collisions might be part of a larger Multiversal crisis and urged the Avengers to prepare, while Hela reconsidered her former arrogance.
  • Leon caught the Phoenix Force Fragment leaving Jean Grey, transformed it into a black Phoenix, and stored it for study as he continued observing the universes.
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