Chapter Summaries

The Wanderer and Tartaglia continued their airborne duel as Tartaglia prepared to reveal his true strength. Meanwhile, Wanda confronted Lin Ze over their dream chase, and the escalating misunderstandings led Pietro to challenge him just as an enormous whale appeared.

• The Wanderer dodged Tartaglia’s attacks and used his height advantage to keep escaping his close-range strikes.
• Tartaglia suspected the Wanderer was anticipating his moves, then announced he would show his true strength.
• Wanda mistook Lin Ze’s proposed bet for another chase and accused him of humiliating her in their dream.
• Nahida’s explanation and Tony’s teasing made the group misunderstand Lin Ze’s dream encounter even more.
• Pietro challenged Lin Ze to a race, and Lin Ze noticed his hair standing on end as an enormous whale rushed toward him.

Lin Ze survived the whale’s attack after Xiao rescued him, while Tartaglia and Tony collided during the search. The group later discussed Ultron’s betrayal and Wanderer’s return to him to uncover the Scepter’s purpose, leaving Paimon asking whether Wanderer’s departure had been planned.

• Tartaglia’s whale attack flooded the cabin, and Xiao pulled Lin Ze onto the steel framework as Paimon called for help.
• Tartaglia and Tony rushed to find Lin Ze, collided, and then searched the water while Tartaglia rescued the unconscious Twins and Ultron.
• Wanderer appeared unharmed beside Xiao and Lin Ze, then let Tartaglia’s lightning blade strike him without resisting.
• Aboard the aircraft, Nahida gave the soaked Tartaglia a towel while the others discussed Ultron abandoning Wanderer and the Twins.
• Lin Ze said Wanderer might learn Ultron’s plans for the Scepter, and Paimon asked whether his departure had been agreed upon in advance.

Nahida, Lin Ze, and the Avengers planned to use a shared dream to test what might happen after Ultron was created, with the Scepter's gem supplying energy. They arranged to gather the dream participants at a Stark Tower party and asked Wanderer to observe for changes involving Ultron.

• Tony questioned whether Nahida's dream could simulate Ultron, since Ultron had no brain and might not dream.
• Wanderer criticized the Avengers for underestimating Nahida, and Nahida explained that dreamers' subconscious knowledge could make the dream realistic.
• Lin Ze proposed having Nahida pull multiple people into one shared dream, and the group discussed choosing participants with broad expertise.
• Nahida revealed that Tony had found the Scepter's gem could provide energy to sustain the dream.
• Tony proposed holding a send-off party for Thor at Stark Tower to gather the participants without revealing the plan.
• Lin Ze said they would tell Zhongli about the dream and asked Wanderer to observe Ultron for any changes; Wanderer agreed.

After Ultron abandoned Wanda and Pietro on an island, Wanderer confronted him over the missing Scepter and learned he planned to use it with Doctor Zhao’s Regeneration Cradle to make a new body. Lin Ze connected Ultron’s plan to Helen Cho, while Paimon and Wade’s antics derailed the discussion; the chapter ended with Lin Ze attacking Wade.

• Wanderer rescued Wanda and Pietro, who warmed themselves by a fire and criticized Ultron for abandoning them.
• Wanderer destroyed Ultron’s makeshift Fake Shouki no Kami and demanded the Scepter, prompting Ultron to explain his plans for a new body.
• Wanda and Pietro confronted Ultron for saving vibranium instead of them, and Ultron defended himself while admitting he needed the Scepter.
• Lin Ze asked Tony about Helen Cho’s Regeneration Cradle, and Tony explained that it could regenerate tissue and reconstruct a body.
• Paimon revealed that Wade had once planned to visit Doctor Zhao, and Wade joked about the book before flirting with Lin Ze.
• Lin Ze used Starfell against Wade after Wade imagined Lin Ze as a girl and tried to kiss him.

Ultron used the Scepter’s gem to create a new body in Helen Cho’s Regeneration Cradle, while Lin Ze and the others watched from hiding and learned that Ultron planned to wipe out humanity. As the body neared completion, Wanda and Pietro arrived, and Wanderer urged them to enter the laboratory and see for themselves.

• Ultron removed the gem from the Scepter and placed it in the body being grown in the Regeneration Cradle.
• Wanderer dismissed Ultron’s creation as inferior to Shouki no Kami, then left the laboratory.
• Lin Ze and the others revealed they had been observing Ultron and learned that he intended to replace humanity with mechanical life-forms.
• Nahida confirmed she could sense energy matching the gem’s, and the group decided to wait until Ultron’s new body was complete before acting.
• Wanda and Pietro arrived, and Wanderer invited them to enter the laboratory and discover what Ultron was making.

Wanda discovered Ultron’s plan to destroy humanity while he transferred his consciousness into the Regeneration Cradle, and she and Pietro fled the laboratory. Lin Ze’s group moved to stop the experiment as the battle spread through the facility.

• Steve urged the group to stop Ultron’s consciousness transfer, but Tony and Lin Ze supported letting the experiment continue under Nahida’s watch.
• Wanda connected with the developing body and learned that Ultron intended to destroy humanity and rule the Earth.
• Pietro helped Wanda escape, and Wanderer cut down Ultron’s robots before telling the twins to leave.
• Wanderer refused to join the fleeing twins, and Lin Ze arrived with the others as Pietro and Wanda ran off.
• Xiao went to help Tony and the others seize the Regeneration Cradle, while Lin Ze and Paimon headed into the laboratory to end the experiment.

Ultron’s attempt to upload his mind into the Regeneration Cradle failed, and the Avengers defeated his forces after he denounced humanity and fled. Wanderer captured Ultron’s damaged body, while Lin Ze ended up mediating a playful quarrel between Wanderer and Paimon.

• Wanda freed Helen Cho from Ultron’s control, interrupting the upload into the Regeneration Cradle, while Tony, Xiao, and Lin Ze confronted Ultron.
• Ultron condemned the twins, Wanderer, and humanity, then summoned robots to attack the Avengers.
• Lin Ze, Xingqiu, Xiao, Steve, Natasha, Clint, and Tony fought Ultron’s robots, forcing Ultron to flee through the ceiling.
• Wanderer kicked Ultron back into the laboratory, cut off his limbs with Wind Blades, and removed his head.
• Tony warned that Ultron could return through the internet, then kicked Ultron’s head away.
• Wanderer teased Paimon until Lin Ze intervened, and Paimon called Lin Ze’s admiring smile perverted.

Lin Ze and the Avengers discussed how to deal with Ultron and the body in the Regeneration Cradle, while Tony proposed installing JARVIS in it. The chapter ended with Steve sending Lin Ze to find a godmother for Tony’s prospective creation.

• Clint joked that the body in the Regeneration Cradle needed a kiss, and Paimon objected to kissing someone so ugly.
• Banner shared laboratory data and asked about Dr. Helen Wang, while Lin Ze said Nahida would leave her with only pleasant dream memories.
• Lin Ze asked how they could stop Ultron from escaping through the internet, and Tony admitted flaws in his original design.
• Tony proposed installing JARVIS in the cradle, but Banner warned that the new life-form would need parental guidance.
• Steve whispered to Lin Ze, who left to find Tony’s unborn son a godmother.

JARVIS awoke in a new body but felt confused by the Ultron data inside him, so Nahida helped him consider his identity and a new name. Lin Ze then interrupted their conversation to report that Wanda and Pietro had arrived with news about Ultron.

• JARVIS's transfer finished, and Pietro crashed into a pillar while trying to sneak Wanda into the lab.
• JARVIS awoke in the Regeneration Cradle, recognized Tony, and said Ultron's data was confusing him.
• Nahida spoke with JARVIS while Lin Ze and the others left them alone; Nahida encouraged him to choose a new name, and he said Tony could name him.
• Paimon found Pietro and Wanda outside, and Wanda objected when she learned Tony had already used the gem on the Regeneration Cradle.
• Lin Ze interrupted Nahida and JARVIS to say the twins had brought bad news: Ultron had prepared something big.

Tony named the newly independent JARVIS Vision and accepted that the Twins might act against him over their parents’ deaths. Nahida advised Steve to focus on the future, then whispered something about Aether and Paimon’s ages that shocked him.

• Tony explained that he had built a Shouki no Kami for A Scaramouche, powered by energy Nahida helped infuse into it.
• Tony thanked Lin Ze’s friends for spending time with Qiqi, and Nahida cautioned Paimon against becoming too absorbed in dreams.
• Tony named JARVIS Vision, and Vision agreed to call him Tony instead of sir.
• Lin Ze asked Tony whether he was worried the Twins would betray him, and Tony said he would accept their choices and take responsibility for his past.
• Nahida shared Wanderer’s advice with Steve about moving forward despite an unchangeable past, then whispered Aether and Paimon’s ages to him.
• Steve reacted with shock after hearing Nahida’s explanation of the Traveler’s and Paimon’s ages.

Steve kept Aether and Paimon's true ages secret as the team prepared in Sokovia to fight Ultron, with Nahida reassuring them they could retry if they failed. On the way to battle, Deadpool caused trouble aboard the plane and was killed by Xiao, while the others discovered the crash had only been the sound of his death.

• Vision identified the stone as the Mind Stone and said he could cut Ultron off from the internet, while Steve made civilian safety the team's priority.
• Nahida and Paimon reassured the team that they could retry the battle, and Paimon revealed that Lin Ze had fought Shouki no Kami 168 times before succeeding.
• Tony called Rhodey for air support, Steve assigned Sam to watch the children, and Natasha helped Rosaria practice with a handgun.
• Lin Ze caught Deadpool smoking, learned that he had entered Tony's party by using Lin Ze's name, and attacked him after Deadpool admitted he had snuck in behind Little Li.
• Xiangling handed out meals as the group flew to Sokovia, then Bennett reported that the plane was fine and Deadpool had died, prompting the others to realize what he had said.

The team split up to evacuate civilians and prepare for Ultron’s attack. Pietro struggled to make people take the warning seriously, while Deadpool delegated evacuation duties to Klee, Qiqi, and Sayu and then sat down beside Zhongli.

• Deadpool led Klee, Qiqi, and Sayu while Zhongli followed, and the other teammates headed to their assigned areas.
• Clint and Bennett began evacuating residents as Pietro warned the police station that the city was under attack.
• Pietro found the police ignoring him, fired a few shots to get their attention, and warned them again before rushing back outside.
• Pietro caught up with Bennett and carried an elderly man away while the man tried to demonstrate a one-legged pose.
• Deadpool assigned buildings to Klee, Qiqi, and Sayu, then invited Zhongli to sit with him instead of helping.

Wanda, Lin Ze, and their allies hurried to evacuate the city before Ultron’s attack, using magic, force, and Tartaglia’s questionable checks to move residents along. With eight percent of the population still unaccounted for, Wanda told the red-armored flyer that Ultron was waiting at the church in the east.

• Wanda used magic to command residents to leave the city, while Lin Ze and Xiao warned people and forcibly evacuated those who refused.
• Paimon helped Lin Ze get a stubborn resident out of his home, and Xiao passed him to Thor, who flew him toward safety.
• Tartaglia sped up the evacuation by handing out checks, then admitted that recipients might not be able to cash them.
• F.R.I.D.A.Y. reported that eight percent of the population had yet to evacuate, and Wanda told the red-armored flyer that Ultron was at the eastern church.

Wanderer and Tony confronted Ultron in a Sokovia church while civilians were being evacuated, but Ultron revealed a hidden mechanism beneath the floor. Tony realized Ultron had been stalling too and learned the remaining vibranium was buried below, though its purpose was still unknown.

• Ultron accused Wanderer of betraying him, and Wanderer dismissed his threat before dodging Ultron’s laser.
• Tony arrived and asked Wanderer to let him settle his score with Ultron, and Wanderer reluctantly stepped aside.
• Tony taunted Ultron, who accused him of stalling to evacuate civilians and claimed he was free of his original mission.
• Wanderer mocked Ultron’s idea of freedom, and Ultron revealed a massive metal pillar rising from beneath the church floor.
• Tony asked F.R.I.D.A.Y. to scan below ground, learned the remaining vibranium was there, and heard Ultron declare he would destroy and remake the world.

Lin Ze, Xiao, and Paimon reached the church and fought robots emerging from underground, then joined Tony and the others as they investigated a mysterious switch and Ultron. Outside, Zhongli and the others defended civilians in the Safe Zone while robots attacked the city.

• Xiao rushed Lin Ze to the church with Lemniscatic Wind Cycling, then returned for Paimon and carried them both there.
• Robots burst from the ground near the church, and Xiao and Lin Ze defeated them.
• Lin Ze, Xiao, and Paimon entered the church, where Wanderer had Ultron restrained and Tony was examining a metal pillar that he identified as a switch.
• Steve and Natasha reported that robots were attacking civilians and that Zhongli, Tartaglia, and the others were defending the Safe Zone; Hulk and Clint then arrived.
• Rosaria, Wanda, Zhongli, and others protected civilians from the robots outside the city, while Klee and Deadpool fought beyond the shield.

The group learned that Sokovia was rising because Ultron had secretly set the city’s mechanism on a timer, while the last civilians evacuated and the heroes fought to contain the robots. Venti revealed he was trying to slow the city’s ascent, then unleashed a powerful wind that left Sam pinned to a rooftop and Rhodey stunned.

• Hu Tao and the others waited inside the Jade Shield as the Traveler and Klee fought outside, while Bennett worried that Klee might destroy the mountain.
• Deadpool ran toward the group carrying Klee’s backpack and warned them that Sokovia was ascending, prompting everyone to discover the city rising into the sky.
• Lin Ze questioned Ultron, who revealed that the city’s mechanism had activated on a timer, while Nahida reported that the civilians had evacuated with Kaeya, Diluc, and Barbara’s help.
• Sam and Rhodey fought the robots outside as Venti used wind walls to keep them from escaping the rising city.
• Venti told Sam he was trying to slow Sokovia’s ascent, then unleashed a blast of wind pressure that flattened Sam and shocked Rhodey.

The Avengers discovered that Sokovia’s rising antigravity device could make the city fall like a meteor, but they laughed at Ultron’s grand speech and tested Vision’s ability to sever his network connection. As dust blew through the damaged room, Xiao cleared sand from Paimon’s eyes, and Lin Ze awkwardly claimed he had simply been thinking.

• Tony explained that Sokovia’s antigravity device could reverse and send the city crashing into Earth, threatening everyone below.
• Ultron celebrated humanity’s impending destruction, but Lin Ze and the Avengers burst out laughing at his theatrical speech.
• Nahida signaled Vision, who invaded Ultron’s data stream and disconnected him from the network; F.R.I.D.A.Y. confirmed the test succeeded.
• Hulk punched a hole in the wall, and Thor patched it with a board and rebar as wind and dust swept into the room.
• Paimon got sand in her eyes, and Xiao gently cleared it with Anemo.
• Paimon tried to blow sand from Lin Ze’s eyes, but he stopped her and said he had closed them because he was thinking.

The Avengers accepted that their attempt to save the city had failed, and Nahida restarted the dream after Venti calmed the storm with a song celebrating their friendship. As the others vanished from the dream, Lin Ze asked Nahida how many times they had restarted it.

• Tony explained that destroying the city in midair could reduce the damage on the ground, but Ultron taunted the Avengers for destroying a city, and Wanderer kicked him down.
• Lin Ze suggested returning to when the group had first gotten off the plane, and Nahida agreed to restart the dream.
• Thor joked about Xingqiu's cultivation stories and called his hammer crude before it fell on his foot, while Wanda and Pietro remained despondent.
• Lin Ze called for Venti, who stopped the storm and sang a song about the Avengers and their friendship.
• The Avengers admired the restored sky and thanked Nahida before they gradually disappeared, leaving Lin Ze to ask her how many times they had restarted the dream.

Lin Ze learned that repeated attempts to stop Sokovia from falling had failed, with Pietro dying in an earlier dream while protecting Clint and a child. Nahida began a final dream with everyone’s memories restored, leaving the group one hour from Sokovia and ready to try again.

• Nahida confirmed that the group had failed in previous attempts, and Lin Ze realized Venti had put more effort into helping because Sokovia had fallen before.
• Nahida showed Lin Ze memories of earlier experiments, in which evacuating civilians delayed the plan and Pietro died protecting Clint and a child from Ultron’s gunfire.
• Nahida reassured Lin Ze that he had prevented Pietro’s sacrifice in the latest attempt, and Lin Ze resolved to finish the experiment successfully.
• Lin Ze woke aboard the plane to Wanderer teasing him, while Nahida explained that the dream had rewound to one hour before the plane landed in Sokovia.
• Nahida restored everyone’s memories, Wanda and Pietro stood together, and Pietro joked with Clint before Clint’s offer of his body sent him leaping away.

Zhongli destroyed Ultron’s church and Sokovia’s vibranium thrusters with a giant meteor, ending the threat without civilian casualties. With Ultron cut off from the internet and some robots escaping, Tony gave Wanderer the body of Shouki no Kami so he could hunt them down.

• Ultron gloated that Sokovia would rise and blamed the Avengers, but Lin Ze and the others remained calm.
• Zhongli protected the group with golden light and called down a meteor that destroyed the church and vibranium thrusters.
• The Avengers recovered from the blast while Klee praised Zhongli’s attack and Tony searched unsuccessfully for the meteor.
• Vision reported that some Ultron robots were fleeing Sokovia, and Tony decided to let Wanderer pursue them.
• Tony assembled Shouki no Kami for Wanderer, who vowed to make Ultron pay for defying a god.