Chapter Summaries

The Men in Black freed the hostages at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters while attacks on Hydra’s Helicarriers stopped the nuclear threat. Leon saved the falling Sokovia Helicarrier and flew it to the Arctic Ocean with Tony before they headed to New York.

• The Men in Black stormed S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, killed the Hydra agents, and freed the captured representatives.
• Black-armored fighters defeated Hydra aboard the San Francisco Helicarrier and flew it away, while Iron Man and four armored allies disabled the weapons on the Sokovia Helicarrier.
• Tony discovered that Hydra had sabotaged the Sokovia Helicarrier’s flight system and called Leon as the vessel began to fall toward the city.
• Leon caught the Helicarrier just above the ground, reassuring the fleeing crowd and preventing the crash.
• Leon and Tony set the Helicarrier down on an island in the Arctic Ocean, then flew toward New York to visit Sherry.

After Superman’s defeat of Hydra, Nick Fury learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been dissolved and its personnel detained, while Leon and his allies helped reshape the global response. Three days later, the Men in Black, Rising Tide, and Superman had become worldwide phenomena, with Superman’s supporters dominating the online debate.

• Nick Fury refused to celebrate and ordered Hill to help him take back S.H.I.E.L.D., but Hill told him the Security Council had dissolved it after Rising Tide leaked its personnel files.
• Over the next three days, S.H.I.E.L.D. was dissolved, the Security Council was replaced, and the United States withdrew its remaining troops from Asia.
• Leon sank an American aircraft carrier, and the United States covered up its loss as an exercise mishap after confirming there were no casualties.
• Countries began hunting Hydra while the Men in Black and Iron Man destroyed bases, rescued delegates, and gained worldwide fame.
• Rising Tide became famous for exposing Hydra, while its members were recruited or imprisoned and the group fell silent.
• People formed rival factions over Superman, but his supporters gained the upper hand after some survivors challenged opponents to fights and sent them to hospitals.

Leon and Sherry watched the media praise Superman while recognizing that the praise was meant to pressure him into living up to an impossible image. During Tony Stark’s Senate hearing, Tony implicated Superman in the Men in Black and caused the hearing to end abruptly.

• Leon watched a news report portraying Superman as a beacon of justice, and Sherry agreed that the excessive praise seemed designed to trap him in a lofty public image.
• Leon switched to Tony Stark’s Senate hearing, where Tony dismissed his armor as a high-tech prosthetic limb.
• When questioned about the Men in Black, Tony claimed they served Superman and challenged the government to investigate Superman and the organization.
• The senators panicked at Tony’s remarks, ended the hearing, and cut off the live broadcast.
• Sherry asked whether Tony had exposed Leon’s connection to the sisters, and Leon warned her that Tony could not keep secrets.

After Hydra’s defeat neared its end, Tony weighed whether to rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D. and asked Leon for advice. Natasha then summoned them to a Siberian Hydra base, where she revealed old videotapes whose contents were about to anger Tony.

• Tony helped the Men in Black hunt Hydra while considering the Security Council’s offer to make him S.H.I.E.L.D.’s new director.
• Tony told Leon he intended to rebuild S.H.I.E.L.D. and proposed that it work alongside the Men in Black.
• Tony named the new organization the Avengers, while Leon agreed to help only if he could study the Tesseract.
• Natasha contacted Leon and said she had found files that he needed to see.
• Leon and Tony flew to Hydra’s Siberian base, where Natasha played an old videotape as Tony watched.

Tony and Leon watched footage of Bucky Barnes murdering Howard, Maria, and infant Leon, then tracked him to Hydra’s African base and took revenge. They left together after killing Bucky, and Tony announced that he would start the Avengers.

• Natasha showed Tony and Leon surveillance footage of Bucky killing Howard and Maria and strangling infant Leon on December 16, 1991.
• Leon located Bucky at Hydra’s African base, and he took Tony there.
• Leon and Tony destroyed the base’s Hydra forces and killed Baron Strucker.
• Tony hesitated because Bucky had been brainwashed, but Leon killed him, and Tony destroyed his remains.
• Tony told Leon he was starting the Avengers and that Leon should join.

After Hydra was destroyed, Leon and Tony visited Howard and his wife's graves, and Tony decided to develop the Avengers. As Leon prepared to leave for Kamar-Taj, Wenwu's ultimatum arrived, and Tony geared up to face him at noon.

• Leon and the Men in Black eliminated Hydra's remaining forces, including Zola and those trying to revive The Hive.
• Leon and Tony placed flowers on Howard and his wife's graves, where Tony reflected on his past and decided to develop the Avengers.
• Leon prepared to leave New York for Kamar-Taj while the Men in Black and Yelena's company handled their expanding responsibilities.
• Leon returned to Stark Mansion and found masked attackers dead on the floor while Tony read Wenwu's letter demanding a duel at noon.
• Tony put on Mark IV and planned to meet Wenwu at the remote site where Leon had tested his strength.

Tony faced Wenwu and the Ten-Ring Gang at Stark's abandoned complex, promising to unveil his new armor. As the confrontation began, Tony summoned armor components from the sky, leaving Leon to wonder whether Mark XLII was Tony's surprise.

• Leon and Tony waited at the lawn, and Leon sensed Wenwu and the Ten-Ring Gang approaching by helicopter.
• Wenwu arrived with dozens of masked men and warned Tony that he and Leon would die there.
• Wenwu offered Tony the first move, and Tony threatened him before stepping back.
• Tony raised his hands, and several flaming mechanical components descended from the sky toward him.
• Leon recognized the components as resembling Mark XLII and wondered if they were Tony's new armor.

Tony fought Wenwu in the Rebel Armor, surviving its destruction and revealing that his body had become superhuman. He summoned a new suit with an Arc Reactor and declared himself Iron Man as Wenwu prepared to fight with the Ten Rings.

• Tony’s Rebel Armor assembled awkwardly in midair, but he stabilized himself with its thrusters and challenged Wenwu.
• Tony wounded Wenwu’s cheek with a laser, then bombarded him with the armor’s weapons until his ten attacks were spent.
• Wenwu struck Tony from the sky, tore apart the Mark 5, and demanded the armor’s technology in exchange for sparing Tony and Leon.
• Tony revealed his extraordinary strength by forcing Wenwu’s wrists apart, but Wenwu blasted him away and transformed the Ten Rings into a weapon.
• Tony stood unharmed, pressed an Arc Reactor to his chest, and formed a new suit from black thread-like material before declaring, “I’m Iron Man.”

Tony unveiled his Mark 6, a fungus-based armor powered by his Arc Reactor, and fought Wenwu with its shifting weapons and increased strength. Tony’s Electric Current Cannon struck Wenwu’s Ten Rings head-on, but Wenwu blocked the blast and demanded the armor’s technology.

• Tony covered himself in black fungal filaments that hardened into the Mark 6 armor, powered by his Arc Reactor and enhanced by Mycelium God.
• Tony explained that the Mycelium God was a noninfectious strain he had cultivated and used it to transform his armor’s weapons as he attacked Wenwu.
• Tony’s changing weapons and fiery attacks pressured Wenwu, but the Ten Rings held firm against every assault.
• Tony retreated and formed an Electric Current Cannon from the armor, then fired a powerful bolt of electricity at Wenwu.
• Wenwu stacked the Ten Rings’ energy to block the blast, landed after being knocked backward, and told Tony he wanted the armor’s technology.

Tony fought Wenwu with his fungus-powered armor, then expanded it into a colossal fungal body that defeated him. Leon rescued Tony when the armor’s energy reversal overloaded him and destroyed the spreading mycelium, leaving Tony alive but eager to improve the dangerous form.

• Wenwu battered Tony’s armor with the Ten Rings, but Tony repeatedly regenerated it and replaced his shattered Arc Reactor as their fight ranged beyond the grassy field.
• Wenwu ordered his followers to capture Leon and jumped from a cliff after Tony, while Leon escaped them and followed the battle.
• Tony transformed into a towering fungal body that spread across the coastline, overwhelmed Wenwu, and drained him into a desiccated corpse.
• Tony tried to reverse the fungal energy flow into electricity, but the energy overloaded his body, so Leon pulled him free and crushed the Arc Reactor.
• Leon burned away the mycelium and damaged coastline with Heat Vision, then warned Tony not to use the giant fungal form unless necessary.

Leon claimed the Ten Rings after Wenwu's defeat, discovered their powers, and gave them to Tony to test. Tony eventually learned to resonate with them, while Nick Fury remained under surveillance and received a report on Tony Stark from the Security Council.

• Leon picked up the Ten Rings and revealed that he could control them with his mind, boosting his strength and allowing him to fly.
• Leon demonstrated the Ten Rings' inherent power by splitting the sea with five of them, then offered them to Tony as spoils from his fight with Wenwu.
• Tony tried unsuccessfully to control the Ten Rings and flew back to the fortress, determined to study them and make them work.
• After several days of experiments, Tony achieved resonance with the Ten Rings by maintaining a stable emotional state, though he complained about the requirement.
• Nick Fury waited for his informants to find clues about Superman, then received and skimmed a Security Council report on Tony Stark.

Nick Fury connected Leon Stark to Superman after discovering that Leon’s spacecraft had never returned from space, while Leon traveled to Nepal to study at Kamar-Taj. The Ancient One welcomed him in person, leaving Leon surprised by the sorcerers’ elaborate hospitality.

• Nick Fury realized that Leon had returned from space as Superman and concluded that the Stark brothers controlled several powerful forces, including S.H.I.E.L.D., which Tony had renamed the Avengers.
• Leon boarded a plane to Kathmandu to seek admission to Kamar-Taj, expecting to find its headquarters on foot.
• Carl Mordo met Leon at the airport on the Ancient One’s instructions and escorted him toward Kamar-Taj.
• Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers welcomed Leon with formal attention, taking his belongings and offering him the seat of honor.
• The Ancient One served Leon tea herself and welcomed him to Kamar-Taj, astonishing him.

Leon met the Ancient One at Kamar-Taj to learn magic, but she revealed that the Ten Rings had already sent a signal that could draw a Kang variant into their universe and ignite a Multiversal War. She explained the structure of the Omniverse and left Leon facing the danger while inviting him to experience magic first.

• Leon met the Ancient One, who welcomed him and opened every book in Kamar-Taj to him.
• The Ancient One asked Leon what he knew about future crises and told him the Ten Rings had been transmitting a signal for years.
• Leon deduced that the Ten Rings might be sending their universe's coordinates to a Kang variant, and the Ancient One confirmed that a Multiversal crisis was near.
• The Ancient One explained that their universe was 199999-S within a Multiverse, while its baseline universe was 199999-A, also called Earth-616.
• Leon offered to have Tony block the Ten Rings' signal, but the Ancient One said the information had already been sent and turned the conversation to magic.

Leon experienced a partial Astral Projection and began studying magic under the Ancient One, who explained its costs and encouraged him to seek greater strength. After quickly reading more than seven hundred books, Leon was left to explore magic on his own.

• The Ancient One used Astral Projection on Leon, but only the upper half of his soul left his body before she ended the spell.
• Mordo showed Leon around Kamar-Taj, gave him a room and the Wi-Fi password, and told him to return to the Ancient One when ready to study.
• The Ancient One taught Leon that magic borrowed power from other dimensions at a cost and advised him to begin with the Vishanti's magic.
• Leon rapidly read the introductory books and then more than seven hundred volumes the Ancient One brought him.
• The Ancient One told Leon to explore magic freely and left him to rest.

Leon quickly learned Kamar-Taj’s spells by borrowing power from dimensional demon gods, then set out to study the library’s books. He met the new librarian Wong, who warned him about the forbidden books, and left Wong wondering if Leon had just threatened to hang him.

• Leon meditated with the Sling Ring, found dimensional demon gods eager to make contracts, and borrowed power from them, including Dormammu.
• Leon practiced orthodox and dark magic, summoning powerful shields and a sword before testing the limits of the Mirror Dimension.
• Mordo invited Leon to train with the newly initiated mages, but Leon demonstrated a Shield of the Seraphim and declined.
• Mordo warned Leon that the new librarian might be rigid, and Leon met Wong at the library.
• Wong warned Leon that forbidden books contained dangerous powers and told him about the previous librarian’s death; Leon assured him he would not hang him when he went astray.

Leon finished studying Kamar-Taj’s library and began learning the principles behind magic, discovering how to cast spells with different dimensional energy. After a year of accelerated research, he chose to seek a new universe for a better energy source, but his travel left him with almost no stamina.

• Leon read through Kamar-Taj’s forbidden books and learned the basics of Assimilation and Absorption before The Ancient One advised him to study the principles of magic.
• Leon used time in the Resident Evil world to research magic, then demonstrated to Wong that he could cast Vishanti’s Holy Sword using Cyttorak’s energy.
• Leon’s unusual experiments drew the curiosity of Kamar-Taj’s mages, while his year of study helped him understand the principles behind most spells.
• Leon decided against strengthening himself by absorbing another being and prepared to travel to a new universe in search of an energy source.
• Leon’s search interface anchored a world suited to his Kryptonian potential, but the journey consumed nearly all his stamina, leaving him cursing his rushed decision.

Leon entered the Starry World, where the Origin Consciousness initially tried to expel him because he was too weak to help with an unknown danger. It granted him three hundred years and reformed him into a powerful Special Race lifeform, leaving him eager to cultivate in the new universe.

• Leon recovered in sunlight near Earth and learned from the Origin Consciousness that he had entered the Source Devouring Universe.
• The Origin Consciousness judged Leon too weak to help with its unknown danger and attempted to expel him.
• Leon persuaded the Origin Consciousness to let him stay for three hundred years and accepted its Origin Reformation.
• The Origin Consciousness transformed Leon into a Special Race lifeform with 100-times genes and innate abilities, including Clone and Sun-Bathing Evolution.
• Leon tested his new strength and found that his arm strength had risen to two hundred million tons.

The World Consciousness transformed Leon’s Kryptonian abilities and helped him evolve rapidly through this universe’s genetic cultivation system. After negotiating for clone materials in exchange for time, Leon planned to visit Earth once they arrived.

• Leon discovered that his Kryptonian abilities had become law-aligned talents, while Sun-Bathing Evolution broke his genetic shackles and gave birth to a Life Core with an Inner World and Psychokinesis.
• Leon’s physical and mental power advanced from planets to stars, and he found that the stars inside his core accelerated cosmic-energy absorption and recovery without directly replenishing his energy.
• Leon’s cultivation continued at roughly one rank every half hour as his genes and Kryptonian Bloodline evolved, and he explored his ten-kilometer Inner World, which was filled with light.
• The World Consciousness told Leon that the transformation had left him only thirty years to stay, then traded him three additional years for materials to create a Star Stage Blood Sea clone.
• Leon asked for World Tree and Tree of Life materials for another clone, but the World Consciousness said he lacked time and offered a powerful combat-oriented material instead, leaving him three months.
• Leon thanked the World Consciousness and continued basking in sunlight, planning to visit Earth after receiving the clone materials and investigate the current timeline and useful inheritances.

The World Consciousness arranged for a God Lord of the Cosmic God Cult to send Leon a Star Stage-compatible Blood Sea sample and a giant black egg, which Leon recognized as his clone. He began gestating a Blood Sea Clone in his Inner World, but learned it would take six thousand years, leaving him determined to grow stronger and shorten the wait.

• The World Consciousness asked a Blood Sea God Lord for seawater suitable for Leon, and the God Lord sent a sample through a Dark Universe passage along with a black egg.
• After a day of meditation and sunlight, Leon reached the second tier of the Universe Stage and sensed the two deliveries approaching near Saturn.
• Leon flew to Saturn, intercepted the deliveries, confirmed them with the World Consciousness, and brought the Blood Sea water into his Inner World.
• Leon used his Clone secret technique to begin gestating a Blood Sea Clone from the seawater.
• Leon learned that the clone would take six thousand years to develop because his Inner World was too small, and he resolved to increase his strength quickly.

Leon discovered that the clone incubating in the black egg was a Torch Beast, then arrived on Earth in 2018 during a global monster catastrophe. He culled the most powerful monsters and saved a retreating civilian force, then met human powerhouses who thanked him for intervening.

• Leon found a developing Torch Beast inside the egg, learned the World Consciousness would not exchange it, and stored it in his Inner World.
• Leon reached Earth and used Super Hearing and Super Vision to discover that monsters were attacking human settlements decades before the story's protagonist would be born.
• Leon decided to eliminate monsters stronger than sixty-four tons and raced across the world, killing powerful beasts while leaving several King-level monsters behind.
• Leon saved a man who was fighting a monster while escorting one hundred thousand civilians toward the Jiangnan Region, then stayed by the Yangtze River and killed monsters emerging from it.
• Dozens of human powerhouses arrived by fighter jet, felt Leon's overwhelming pressure, and thanked him after he concealed his power with his Biological Force Field.