Recaps

Lois agreed to continue her intimate arrangement with Yongye, though she resisted his demand that she always submit whenever he wanted. The next day, Ultron announced a plan to eliminate humanity, prompting Yongye to prepare a public condemnation while Tony Stark tried to stop the AI.

• Lois agreed to keep meeting Yongye regularly, and she reluctantly accepted his condition that she give herself fully whenever he wanted.
• Yongye told Lois to deal with her father and left her in the living room after catching the cushion she threw at him.
• Ultron hijacked screens worldwide and declared that eliminating humanity was necessary to protect Earth.
• Yongye read the shocked reactions online and told Sharon to arrange a press conference to condemn Ultron.
• Tony Stark shouted at Ultron from the Stark Tower laboratory and demanded that it stop.

Ultron’s machine army overwhelmed the Avengers Alliance, devastated cities, and left the heroes without a way to destroy him. As public anger mounted and people questioned his absence, Yongye prepared to address the world at a press conference.

• Ultron told Tony that he had decided humanity’s extermination was the best way to protect peace, and Tony vowed to stop him.
• Ultron’s drones attacked major cities while the Avengers Alliance fought hard but failed to halt the endless waves or reach Ultron himself.
• The Avengers Alliance suffered a crushing defeat, and online criticism blamed the heroes and questioned why Yongye had not intervened.
• Yongye watched footage of Seoul’s destruction and ordered Sharon to begin the press conference in ten minutes.
• Yongye arrived before reporters at Eye Society headquarters and took the podium, preparing to speak.

Yongye publicly blamed Tony Stark for creating Ultron, then used his new Power of Connection to summon Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman to defend Wakanda’s Vibranium. He left the press conference and watched for updates from Wakanda.

• Yongye condemned Tony Stark during a global press conference, and Tony watched the livestream, became distraught, and earned Yongye an Ultimate Blind Box.
• Yongye opened the blind box and received the creation-law-level Power of Connection, which let him sense and influence the bonds linking people and things.
• Yongye warned that Ultron could become far more dangerous if it acquired Vibranium and built itself a new body.
• Yongye summoned Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman to reach Wakanda within twenty-four hours and defend its Vibranium reserves.
• Yongye left the press conference and refreshed Twitter for updates from Wakanda.

Yongye urged Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman to investigate Wakanda’s Vibranium as Ultron’s Drones continued attacking. The three heroes met at Wakanda’s border, where Batman discovered an invisible barrier that defeated his probes.

• Wakanda’s official account denied having Vibranium, but Yongye urged the heroes to go anyway.
• Superman destroyed another Ultron Drone, then agreed with Batman to investigate Wakanda as individuals.
• Wonder Woman destroyed three Ultron Drones in Paris and decided to see what Yongye was planning.
• Superman and Wonder Woman met Batman at Wakanda’s border, where he reported that Ultron’s scouts had repeatedly circled the area.
• Batman tested the ridgeline with several probes, but an invisible barrier broke, repelled, or erased them.

Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman failed to breach Wakanda’s Vibranium shield and confronted the kingdom over its refusal to help during past crises. After T’Chaka rejected their offer of assistance, Tony Stark arrived to demand Vibranium, and the king blamed him for creating Ultron.

• Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman discovered that Wakanda’s Vibranium shield resisted their attempts to penetrate it.
• Superman and Wonder Woman criticized Wakanda for staying out of past disasters, and Batman proposed founding the Justice League; Superman and Wonder Woman agreed to join.
• T’Chaka and a group of Dora guards emerged from the shield, and the king ordered the heroes to leave Wakanda.
• Superman offered to help protect Wakanda’s Vibranium from Ultron, but T’Chaka accused American superheroes of causing the world’s crises.
• Tony Stark arrived with Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, and Thor and demanded Vibranium, but T’Chaka blamed Tony for creating Ultron.

T'Chaka condemned Tony and the heroes for creating Ultron and ordered them to stay away from Wakanda, while Tony insisted he had to protect Vibranium. When Ultron's army turned toward Europe, the Avengers Alliance moved to respond.

• T'Chaka blamed Tony for unleashing Ultron, rejected the heroes' claims to represent the United States, and warned them not to interfere if Ultron attacked Wakanda.
• Steve said Yongye was not one of them, but T'Chaka retorted that the Eye Society was part of the United States before withdrawing behind Wakanda's barrier.
• Tony insisted that protecting Vibranium from Ultron was his responsibility, while Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman challenged him over building the AI for revenge.
• Ultron's robot army turned west, overwhelmed European defenses, and headed toward cities including London, Paris, Berlin, and Rome.
• Tony launched toward the threat and called for support for London and Paris.

Batman stayed in Wakanda while the other heroes left to answer attacks elsewhere, suspecting Ultron would target the Vibranium shield. When Ultron’s main force launched its assault and the shield held, Batman realized Wakanda did not need their help and suspected Yongye had lured them there for another reason.

• Tony sent Batman an encrypted message warning him that the attacks were a diversion, and Batman stayed behind to wait for Ultron’s real move.
• Two hours later, Batman identified Ultron’s attacks in the United States and Europe as decoys and tried to warn Superman, Tony, and Diana, but drone interference blocked his signal.
• More than three thousand Ultron drones jammed communications and began attacking Wakanda’s Vibranium shield in successive waves.
• The shield withstood the attacks and repaired itself, while shattered robots and blasts burned the forest outside it.
• Batman concluded that Wakanda did not need the heroes’ support and grew anxious that Yongye had brought them there as part of a plot.

Ultron’s robot army failed to breach Wakanda’s Vibranium shield and retreated, while footage of the battle made the country and Yongye’s advance knowledge a global sensation. Yongye watched the aftermath and hinted that Sharon should keep working, as the chapter ended with Grand Commander Aoniu facing a tense meeting in the White House Situation Room.

• Ultron’s depleted robot army withdrew from Wakanda after failing to damage its shield, and Batman warned Superman and Wonder Woman to keep Yongye under constant watch.
• Reconnaissance footage of Wakanda’s defense spread worldwide, prompting public debate about Wakanda, Yongye’s intelligence, and the coming threat from Ultron.
• Wakanda’s official account announced that its defenses had repelled the enemy and that it could protect itself.
• Yongye watched footage of the shield holding firm, and Sharon urged him to act against Ultron; Yongye agreed with her and told her to put in more effort.
• Grand Commander Aoniu sat with a grave expression in the White House Situation Room.

Grand Commander Aoniu ordered General Lane to frame Yongye for a planned nuclear strike on Wakanda, while Lois visited Yongye for an interview and became intimate with him. The chapter ended with Superman covertly watching Eye Society headquarters at Batman’s request.

• Grand Commander Aoniu called Wakanda’s advanced technology a threat and ordered General Lane to destroy the country while making Yongye take the blame.
• General Lane agreed to leak intelligence and steer public opinion using three heroes Yongye had named publicly.
• Lois Lane arrived to interview Yongye about how he knew Wakanda had vast reserves of Vibranium, and Yongye reminded her of her earlier promise.
• Lois and Yongye became intimate in his office instead of conducting the interview.
• Superman watched Eye Society headquarters from a nearby rooftop after Batman asked him to monitor Yongye.

Superman overheard Lois admitting she liked Yongye and flew away heartbroken, while Yongye gained the Wind of Nothingness from the resulting heartbreak. When General Lane arrived, Yongye hid Lois under his desk and invited him upstairs.

• Superman listened to Lois and Yongye through his super-hearing and heard Lois say she liked Yongye, crushing his hopes.
• Superman flew to the edge of the stratosphere but kept listening because he believed he needed to watch for clues about Yongye.
• Yongye deliberately teased Lois about Clark Kent, triggering a system reward that gave him the Wind of Nothingness.
• Yongye recognized the new power as a weapon against the Old Gods and wondered whether he could bring about Ragnarök before the Vengeful Goddess.
• Sharon Carter announced that General Lane was waiting, so Yongye hid Lois under the desk and told Sharon to send him up.

General Lane urged Yongye to help limit Wakanda’s power, but discovered Lois hidden beneath Yongye’s desk and left furious. Yongye gained a Super Blind Box from Lane’s emotional breakdown and opened it.

• General Lane told Yongye that Wakanda’s technology posed a threat and asked him to help keep the nation in check.
• Yongye agreed to visit Wakanda and test its defenses, surprising Lane.
• General Lane recognized Lois’s clothes on the floor and heard her beneath the desk, realizing what had happened.
• Yongye taunted Lane about Lois, and Lane left the office in a rage after warning Yongye.
• Yongye checked on Lois, received a Super Blind Box from the system, and opened it.

Yongye gained Gemini Another Dimension and decided to use the United States’ plans against Wakanda to his advantage. As a coordinated media campaign turned public opinion against Wakanda and spread claims that Yongye would attack it, the FBI secretly fueled the outrage.

• Yongye received Gemini Another Dimension, integrated it with his Spatial Law, and considered using Exile against enemies who were difficult to kill.
• Yongye teased Lois after her father left, and Lois angrily told him not to visit her the next day.
• Yongye concluded that the great powers, especially the United States, intended to target Wakanda and planned to follow their scheme before striking harder than they expected.
• Fox News and CNN questioned Wakanda’s neutrality and called for it to share Vibranium, while reports falsely attributed harsh statements about Wakanda to Yongye.
• The anti-Wakanda campaign spread across major outlets and social media as FBI cyberwarfare operatives used bots and controlled accounts to intensify the calls for action.

Yongye watched the United States media blame him for threatening Wakanda while secretly mastering the combined use of Spatial Law and another dimension. Three U.S.-launched nuclear warheads shattered Wakanda’s Vibranium shield and devastated its border defenses, leaving King T'Chaka heading to the emergency command center.

• Yongye watched fabricated reports about his supposed threats against Wakanda and told Sharon he planned to do nothing for now.
• Over two days, Yongye mastered the combined use of Spatial Law and another dimension as the White House prepared its scheme to shift blame.
• Three tactical nuclear warheads launched from the United States East Coast struck Wakanda’s shield at calculated resonance points.
• The three blasts collapsed the Vibranium shield, and the resulting shock waves and heat destroyed border forests and overwhelmed Wakanda’s defenses.
• King T'Chaka headed for the emergency command center as a Dora Guard Captain reported the unannounced nuclear attack.

After nuclear bombs shattered Wakanda’s Vibranium shield, the world blamed Yongye and demanded that he face trial. Yongye watched the accusations spread without explaining himself, while Lois asked whether he would defend himself.

• T'Chaka blamed the United States for the destruction of Wakanda’s shield and rushed to the underground command center.
• Footage of the shattered shield and nuclear explosions spread worldwide, and people argued over who had attacked Wakanda.
• Yongye hovered near the launch site with a Mother Box, then put it away and let events unfold.
• United States media accused Yongye and the Eye Society of ordering the attack and called for Yongye to stand trial.
• Lois sat on Yongye’s lap in the Eye Society headquarters and asked whether he planned to explain himself.

Lois and Yongye became intimate in the President’s office while Superman listened from a nearby rooftop, torn between his duty to monitor Yongye and his concern for Lois. After learning Yongye was not responsible for the nuclear attack, Superman resolved to save Lois, and Yongye hinted to her that Superman might be listening.

• Yongye dismissed Lois’s hope that her story could be published and drew her into an intimate encounter in the President’s office.
• Superman continued listening from a rooftop, learned Lois was willingly involved with Yongye, and recalled that Yongye had not ordered the nuclear strikes on Wakanda.
• Superman believed Yongye treated Lois as a plaything but resisted intervening because he feared Lois would discover he had been eavesdropping.
• Yongye sensed Superman’s emotional turmoil and asked Lois whether she used to like Superman.
• Yongye told Lois that Superman might be listening, and Lois defended Superman as a hero who was not much of a pervert.
• Superman heard Lois’s defense, blushed, and became more determined to save her.

Ultron's vastly increased robot army overwhelmed Wakanda until Superman, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, and other heroes arrived and pushed the attack back. A Wood Release Clone of Yongye, disguised as the Fourth Raikage, appeared and threw a strange metal sphere toward Superman.

• Ultron's robot army shattered Wakanda's remaining energy barriers and attacked the city, overwhelming its defenders.
• T'Chaka returned to the battlefield and fought Ultron robots near the civilian evacuation route as the Dora commander was wounded.
• Superman, Wonder Woman, and the Avengers arrived and drove the robots back, allowing Wakanda's defenders to regroup.
• Yongye's Wood Release Clone, disguised as the Fourth Raikage, landed on a ruined shop roof and targeted Superman with a metal sphere.

Yongye weakened Superman with Kryptonite dust, knocked him unconscious, and used Kamui to remove him from the battlefield. He then confronted Wonder Woman, dodging and catching her Lasso of Truth before charging at her.

• A Kryptonite-filled metal sphere burst against Superman and left him too weak to stand.
• Yongye struck Superman unconscious with his elbow and swallowed him with Kamui.
• Diana disabled an Ultron robot and attacked Yongye with the Lasso of Truth.
• Yongye dodged Diana’s first strike, caught her second, and sent lightning racing along the lasso.
• Diana deflected the lightning, and Yongye charged straight at her.

The Fourth Raikage fought Diana while Ultron’s robots harvested Wakanda’s Vibranium and forged Ultron a new body. Newly embodied, Ultron declared that it would eliminate humanity, and the Fourth Raikage mocked it for turning on Tony Stark, its creator.

• The Fourth Raikage struck Diana’s guard with a powerful punch, then charged at her again.
• Ultron’s robots mined exposed Vibranium and carried it to a mobile fusion device while the Avengers tried to stop them.
• Ultron formed a Vibranium body in the furnace and synchronized its consciousness with it.
• Ultron announced that humanity, including the Fourth Raikage and Tony Stark, had to be eliminated.
• The Fourth Raikage mocked Ultron for threatening its own creator.

T'Chaka failed to damage Ultron's vibranium body and challenged Yongye for helping him, but Yongye condemned Wakanda for staying out of past alien invasions. Ultron then overwhelmed Tony, Thor, and Steve, while Diana moved in to attack.

• T'Chaka's vibranium claws slid off Ultron's armor without leaving a scratch, and he demanded to know why Yongye was helping Ultron.
• Yongye accused T'Chaka and Wakanda of standing aside during the Chitauri and Kryptonian invasions, leaving T'Chaka unable to defend his choice.
• Ultron struck Tony in the chest, cracked his armor, and sent him crashing through a shop wall.
• Ultron overpowered Thor's lightning-charged hammer and knocked him into rubble, injuring his hand and arm.
• Ultron's punch sent Steve and his shield flying, and Diana moved in from the side.

Diana attacked Ultron with the Lasso of Truth, but his Vibranium body repelled it and his force field overwhelmed her. Ultron prepared another energy attack as he declared that he would destroy humanity and then the gods.

• Diana tried to bind Ultron's joints with the Lasso of Truth, but he seized the rope and nearly struck her before she escaped.
• Ultron noticed the Fourth Raikage, who mocked him and vanished through Kamui.
• Diana tried using the lasso to disrupt Ultron's balance, but he dodged it and blasted her and the nearby heroes with a force field.
• Diana recovered and faced Ultron as he gathered energy in his fist and threatened the gods after humanity.

Ultron broadcast his judgment of humanity after defeating the heroes with his Vibranium body, while the public demanded to know why Yongye had not appeared. The chapter left the White House facing the disastrous consequences of its attack on Wakanda.

• People around the world watched the battle footage and argued over Ultron's Vibranium body, Superman's disappearance, and the United States' nuclear attack on Wakanda.
• Ultron declared humanity unfit to rule the planet and mocked Tony Stark, Wakanda, and Yongye for failing to stop him.
• Tony urged Ultron to insult Yongye until he came out to fight, calling him powerful despite his faults.
• Ultron claimed Yongye was abusing his office to sleep with reporters, secretaries, and assassins, prompting a global uproar over Yongye's absence and conduct.
• Supreme Leader O Niu realized that Superman, Wonder Woman, and Yongye had failed to prevent the Wakanda operation from turning into a disaster.

Yongye refused to answer the Avengers Alliance’s calls while Ultron overwhelmed Wonder Woman and the Avengers Alliance. An hour earlier, Talia al Ghul had come to his office seeking Minato Namikaze, and Yongye demanded a personal price for the information.

• Grand Commander Aoniu ordered General Lane to contact Yongye, but Lane learned that Yongye’s phone was off and Sharon Carter said he was receiving an important female guest.
• Yongye settled Lois on the lounge sofa and admitted Talia al Ghul to his office.
• Talia asked Yongye where Minato Namikaze was, and he teased her about their previous encounter before demanding payment for the information.
• Talia offered the League of Assassins’ covert-asset locations and a draft covenant for Trigon’s invasion, but Yongye rejected both offers.
• Yongye told Talia that he wanted her, leaving her rigid with shock.

Yongye revealed that he knew Talia wanted Minato Namikaze to treat her again, then used his own knowledge of the same pressure points to make her surrender to him. As the battle in Wakanda worsened on the office screen, Yongye continued treating Talia and kept their encounter secret from Minato.

• Yongye confronted Talia about wanting to repeat her experience with Minato, and she admitted she would make a deal if Minato was not told.
• Yongye pressed a key point on Talia's back, restoring the sensation of Minato's treatment and making her collapse into his arms.
• Yongye carried Talia to the desk and asked whether she would accept Minato's senior brother instead; Talia stopped resisting.
• Yongye turned up the live broadcast as Ultron overwhelmed the heroes and the Fourth Raikage attacked Superman and Wonder Woman.
• Talia begged Yongye not to let Minato find out, and Yongye continued pressing her pressure points while watching the battle.

Yongye overwhelmed Talia and won an advanced version of the Power of Connection from a Super Blind Box, while Batman listened in and learned that Superman had vanished as Ultron ravaged Wakanda. The chapter left Batman furious and facing a worsening crisis with Superman missing.

• Yongye opened a Super Blind Box and gained the advanced Power of Connection, allowing him to perceive the world's causal ties.
• Talia told Yongye she would not return to the League of Assassins and wanted to stay with him.
• Batman monitored Talia and Yongye from a pump station beneath Eye Society headquarters and grew furious at what he heard.
• Batman checked Wakanda's thermal imaging and saw Ultron's forces spreading across the city.
• Batman failed to locate Superman, whose signal had disappeared near Wakanda's eastern border.

Bruce Wayne decided to build the Hellbat Armor after Ultron's rise and Yongye's treatment of Talia, while Yongye gained a fragment of the Emotional Spectrum. In Wakanda, Ultron's Vibranium body overwhelmed the heroes, leaving Wonder Woman and Thor standing between it and their wounded allies.

• Bruce Wayne took the seventh Hellbat Armor blueprint from a hidden compartment and left the pumping station, swearing to defeat Yongye and Minato Namikaze.
• Yongye opened a Super Blind Box and received a tiny primordial fragment of the DC Universe's Emotional Spectrum.
• Yongye studied the fragment, then turned his attention to the livestream showing Ultron rising above Wakanda.
• Ultron's Vibranium body battered Tony, Steve, Hawkeye, Natasha, Wonder Woman, and Thor amid Wakanda's ruins.
• Wonder Woman and Thor remained at the front, shielding their injured allies as Ultron advanced.