Chapter Summaries

Su Ming defeated Giovanni by using Strangle and the Cloak of Levitation to carry him into space, where sunlight destroyed the Vampire and his Symbiote. Su Ming returned to the castle after reflecting on Giovanni's final question about whether humans and bloodkin could coexist.

• Strangle paralyzed Giovanni's Symbiotes and pinned him to his body, allowing Su Ming to stab and restrain him.
• Su Ming and the Cloak carried Giovanni through the castle roof and beyond the atmosphere while Giovanni explained his plan to turn all living beings into blood-drinking creatures.
• As sunlight reached them, Giovanni and his Symbiote caught fire and exploded, leaving Su Ming unable to answer Giovanni's question about coexistence.
• Su Ming returned to the castle, where Satana, Hela, and Parham waited, and said he had taken Giovanni to watch the sunrise.

Su Ming and his companions tracked Dracula to Madagascar and questioned him about Attilan and the Inhumans’ plans to spread Terrigen Mist. Dracula revealed that Attilan was somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean and hinted that his immortality had left him profoundly lonely.

• Su Ming learned Dracula’s location from Giovanni’s Symbiotes and took stained-glass panels from the ruined Throne Room.
• Satana opened a portal to Madagascar, where Su Ming, Hela, Satana, and Ghost Rider found Dracula waiting for sunrise.
• Su Ming sat with Dracula and explained that he had come to ask questions rather than kill him.
• Dracula told Su Ming that the Inhumans were neighbors with Atlantis and that Attilan was somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
• Dracula said he had heard about the Inhumans’ plan to spread Terrigen Mist but did not care because he could not die.
• Dracula described the loneliness of being the only one of his kind who could watch the sunrise.

Su Ming spoke with Dracula about his immortality and loneliness as they watched the sunrise, then learned Dracula’s feud with the Van Helsing family began over love. Back at Wilson Enterprises, Su Ming reviewed evidence that someone had staged Vampire attacks to provoke conflict between Vampires and Inhumans, and planned to investigate in Attilan.

• Su Ming discussed Dracula’s centuries of immortality and inability to experience food, sensation, or tears while they watched the sunrise.
• Dracula revealed that he and Van Helsing had both loved someone they should not have, and warned that Rachel Van Helsing might die at the hands of her own companions.
• Su Ming returned to Wilson Enterprises with Hela, Satana, and Parham, where Gin and Hamill joined him.
• Su Ming reviewed Gin’s report, which showed that Vegetarian Faction families had not targeted Mutants or Inhumans and that New York had no recent Vampire-like corpses.
• Su Ming concluded that someone had staged the attacks and planned to investigate the evidence from the perspectives of the Inhumans and Vampires in Attilan.

Su Ming arranged for Magik to help Satana, then prepared to travel to Attilan with Hela while asking Gin to monitor the Mutants. At Kamar-Taj, he warned Hela about Satana’s snake demon and asked Monark to contact Namor in secret.

• Su Ming sent Magik to deal with the tentacle problem in Satana’s Hell, then dismissed the others and told Gin to watch the Mutants’ movements.
• Su Ming and Hela went to Kamar-Taj, where he explained that he understood her visit as a test of his intentions and warned her to keep her distance from Satana.
• Hela accepted Su Ming’s warning and said that afterward they would owe each other nothing.
• Monark objected to Hela being at Kamar-Taj, but Su Ming reassured him that she was part of the Nine Realms and not an outer-dimensional threat.
• Su Ming asked Monark to contact Namor without involving Steve, Peggy, or Fury, and Monark began a grief-fueled ritual to speak with the sea.

Su Ming and Hela reached Attilan by hiding beneath its floating island, where they discovered a massacre in the city’s Fetal Care Center. Hela raised a badly mutilated victim so they could question her about the attackers.

• Monark obtained Attilan’s location from Namor, who warned that he would hold Monark responsible for any harm to Atlantis.
• Su Ming and Hela teleported into the ocean beneath Attilan and climbed through the clouds to the island’s underside.
• Su Ming planted remote bombs beside Attilan’s thrusters as a contingency in case the Atlanteans interfered.
• After an explosion sounded overhead, Hela sensed deaths nearby, and Su Ming drilled a tunnel into the building with Godslayer.
• Su Ming and Hela emerged in Attilan’s Fetal Care Center and found hundreds of people, mostly pregnant women, killed in a sudden attack.
• Hela raised a mutilated corpse with green flames in her eyes so Su Ming could question her.

Su Ming and Hela investigated a massacre at Attilan’s Fetal Care Center, while Su Ming recounted Earth’s history and the Inhumans’ origins. They discovered that Attilan’s Guard had taken all the infants, leaving Su Ming to suspect a sudden coup.

• Hela read a dead woman’s memories and learned that Attilan’s army had stormed the center during a prenatal checkup and killed everyone.
• Su Ming explained the histories of the Inhumans, Atlantis, and Earth as he inspected the wreckage.
• Su Ming found empty Incubation Chambers and discovered that the fetuses had been taken from the pregnant women’s bodies.
• Hela reported that none of the dead women knew what had happened to their children, and Su Ming suspected the Guard had retrieved the infants from a distance.
• Su Ming invited Hela to live on Earth and warned her to prepare for Odin’s death in Ragnarök, but Hela refused.

Su Ming and Hela discovered Tanith hiding with an infant in an attacked nursery and learned that the Council Guard had seized Attilan’s children. When the Guard returned, Su Ming realized Tanith’s child was their real target because he had awakened an exceptionally powerful ability.

• Su Ming entered a ransacked office and used Strangle to catch the invisible Tanith, who was hiding with a baby.
• Tanith told Su Ming that the Council Guard had killed people and taken the children, and she admitted she had stolen the infant back.
• Su Ming learned that Attilan had two million residents and four thousand guards, then questioned Tanith about the child and the attack.
• Hela killed an approaching armored figure and fought off a renewed assault by the Council Guard.
• Su Ming threatened the infant to make Tanith explain the Guard’s return and concluded that the child had awakened the highest-level power and was the next Supreme Speaker.

Su Ming confirmed Tanith was Black Bolt’s grandmother and protected her and her child from the Inhumans attacking them. Tanith agreed to trust him as he prepared a contract, while Hela returned with information gathered from the attackers.

• Su Ming recognized Tanith as Black Bolt’s grandmother and decided to protect her and her son.
• A shapeshifting Inhuman entered the room, and Su Ming killed him by folding him into a ball and stomping on him.
• Tanith asked how she could trust Su Ming, then agreed she had no choice but to rely on him.
• Su Ming wrote a blood-signed contract for Tanith to consider while Hela finished killing the attackers outside.
• Hela returned and told Su Ming she had obtained interesting information from the attackers’ minds.

Su Ming learned that Attilan had split into six factions over how to respond to the Kree ultimatum, while the Terrigen Crystals made the city’s safety vital to Earth. With less than twelve hours remaining, he planned to draw the factions seeking control of Attilan toward its steering room.

• Hela explained that the resistance and surrender factions were scattered, while the flight faction planned to abandon Attilan with its supplies and infants.
• Hela described the factions that wanted to wait out the Kree, seek Odin’s protection, or land Attilan on Earth to bring humanity into the war.
• Su Ming learned that the landing faction had chosen China’s Imperial Capital after mistaking Chinese legends for evidence of powerful beings.
• Su Ming concluded that four factions would seek Attilan’s steering room and asked Tanith if she knew how to reach it.

Deathstroke and Hela forced Tanith to reveal Attilan’s control-room location after rejecting the Inhumans’ requests for Asgardian protection and permission to land on Earth. Tanith led them through the city to find a terminal, where she discovered her younger brother among the dead and continued onward despite her grief.

• Su Ming and Hela refused Tanith’s requests for Asgard to protect Attilan and for Attilan to land on Earth, leaving her to join her husband’s resistance faction.
• Tanith drew a rough route to the underground control room, but Su Ming asked her to find a terminal so they could obtain a proper map.
• Tanith led Su Ming and Hela through a dark transport tunnel, where they found a crashed craft and the bodies of its passengers.
• Tanith recognized her dead younger brother among the wreckage and wept, while Su Ming urged her to keep moving before more people died.
• Tanith wiped her tears and continued leading them toward a maintenance station with a terminal.

Su Ming led Tanith and Hela through Attilan’s underground passages, using a maintenance terminal to map the city before diverting toward the Terrigen Crystal vault instead of the Main Control Room. He left the group heading through the underground water system, intent on securing the crystals and forcing the fleeing faction to confront him.

• Su Ming took Tanith and Hela through maintenance passages to an emergency station, where Tanith restored power and brought up Attilan’s map.
• Su Ming memorized the underground layout, cut into a ventilation duct, and guided the group upward on the Cloak of Levitation.
• Tanith’s husband arrived at the infant cultivation center to rescue his family, found them gone, and encountered fleeing-faction troops, who inflicted heavy losses on the resistance faction.
• Su Ming led Tanith and Hela through ventilation and water pipes into an underground reservoir.
• Su Ming revealed that he planned to seize the Terrigen Crystals first, believing their loss would prevent the fleeing faction from escaping and might expose Doctor Xavier’s killer.

Su Ming, Hela, and Tanith reached Attilan’s Terrigen vault, where Su Ming fought the guards and stole the crystals. With the crystals in hand, he claimed leverage over the Inhumans’ factions and headed toward the Main Control Room by way of the ventilation ducts.

• Su Ming cut into the vault’s energy conduits, triggering emergency lights, and Tanith realized they had reached the crystal vault.
• Hela knocked Tanith unconscious, and Su Ming broke through the vault gates while Hela stayed behind to guard Tanith and the infant.
• Su Ming killed the Inhuman guards who tried to stop him, then collected every Terrigen Crystal in the vault.
• Su Ming told Hela that the crystals gave him leverage over the Inhumans’ factions and left a message challenging the others to meet him in the Main Control Room.
• Su Ming offered to return through the ventilation ducts, and Hela crawled into the opening after refusing to use the sewers again.

Deathstroke forced Attilan’s elders into a meeting after seizing the Main Control Room, then pressed them to resist the Kree and reveal the location of stolen babies. He began checking the Speaker’s elite roster for a teleporter, but the Speaker claimed the person in Tanith’s file was not one of his people.

• Deathstroke welcomed Symak to the Main Control Room, where he had compelled the elders to surrender after defeating their forces.
• Deathstroke called an assembly and ordered Hela and Cloak to take two elders away when they argued against fighting the Kree.
• Deathstroke demanded the Speaker’s elite troop roster to identify a suspected teleporter, and offered to trade a Terrigen Crystal for the stolen babies and cooperation.
• Deathstroke threatened to use Psionic Inhumans to check whether the Speaker lied, and Symak agreed to have them test him.
• Tanith opened a file on the terminal, and the Speaker said the person shown was not one of his people.

Su Ming forced Attilan’s Elders to abandon hopes of Asgard’s protection and support resistance against the Kree, then discovered that a fake Colonel belonged to the Kree-aligned Surrender Faction. He offered Terrigen Crystals as a reward for capturing the spy and stayed behind while the Elders rushed to compete.

• Su Ming made the returned Elders admit that they had been wrong to expect shelter from Asgard, and they agreed to fight the Kree.
• The orange-red Elder mistook Su Ming for an immortal master, and Su Ming introduced himself as the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Su Ming identified the fake Colonel as a likely agent of the Kree-led Surrender Faction and suspected that a Kree spy was hiding among humans.
• Su Ming offered Terrigen Crystals to whoever captured the fake Colonel, and the former Speaker asked to join the hunt.
• Su Ming warned the Elders not to fight among themselves, then watched them hurry out to search for the spy.

Su Ming learned Kree while restoring Attilan’s systems and manipulated the former Speaker into fleeing, where the Kree destroyed his fleet. After tracing the Kree attack, Su Ming left to pursue them and told Hela to keep a spatial ability user alive if he was captured.

• Su Ming gave a crystal to the former Speaker’s subordinate and let his faction leave after they traded for it, while Tanith secured the infant pods.
• Su Ming explained that he had honored his promise to let the faction go, while Hela said they were doomed.
• Su Ming learned Kree and restored Attilan’s power and surface surveillance, then saw the former Speaker’s spacecraft flee into orbit.
• The Kree fleet destroyed the fleeing spacecraft, and Su Ming told Tanith to testify that the Kree had killed them.
• Su Ming traced the Kree attack’s trajectory and left to pursue the fleet, instructing Hela to restrain a spatial ability user without killing him.

Su Ming located the Kree fleet at the edge of the Solar System and prepared to provoke a spectacle that would draw the Skrulls into the conflict. The Kree mocked his weapons until he suddenly vanished from their sensors, forcing the fleet to respond as a serious threat.

• Su Ming used Attilan’s detection range and the debris trail to narrow his search for the Kree fleet.
• Su Ming found the fleet, prepared Godslayer and Nightfall, and told Cloak and Strangle to support him.
• The Kree Visitor identified Su Ming as human, while the captain waited for him to enter the fleet’s strike range.
• The Kree bridge crew laughed at Su Ming for drawing cold weapons, but their mainframe soon reported that he had broken their lock.
• The Kree captain ordered scans, fighters, combat squads, and the fleet to regroup around the flagship.

The Kree flagship was boarded by an unknown black-and-yellow intruder whose attack bypassed its shields and damaged the ship. The Kree tried to reinforce the defense, but a live feed showed their warriors being slaughtered in close combat.

• The intruder damaged the flagship’s bow and severed connections between its turrets while its shields remained intact.
• The visitors learned that intruders had entered the ship and ordered the space squadrons to return and reinforce the flagship.
• The captain requested a live projection of the combat area to record the enemy’s tactics.
• The Kree saw the black-and-yellow intruder cut through a squad of Kree Warriors with two greatswords, spreading fear across the bridge.

Su Ming infiltrated the Kree flagship, disrupted its power and tricked the Visitor into concentrating troops there while he hid and studied the fleet. The Kree filled the flagship with soldiers, but a smaller warship then exploded, and the Visitor realized Su Ming had begun his attack.

• Su Ming wiped out a Kree squad, wrote a threat for the surveillance camera, and destroyed it.
• The Visitor ordered troops from other ships to fill the flagship’s chambers after its power and surveillance systems were disrupted.
• Su Ming hid in a ventilation duct, collected Kree weapons and samples, and waited for a weakened smaller warship to become vulnerable.
• The Visitor learned that the flagship was full of soldiers but still had no trace of Su Ming.
• The Kree warship Light of Hala exploded after its self-destruct system was triggered.

Visitors’ fleet was devastated by the unseen human attacking its warships, then ambushed by the Skrull Seventh Fleet. The Supreme Intelligence took control, ordered the surviving ships to retreat, and dismissed Visitors, who was sent back to Hala for judgment.

• Visitors suspected the human had survived the first warship’s explosion, and a second explosion confirmed the enemy remained active.
• The human continued destroying Kree warships, throwing the fleet into disarray as Visitors hesitated to send crews away from the flagship.
• Visitors ordered the fleet to prepare for a jump toward Earth’s satellite, hoping to avoid the attacker and resume operations on the Moon.
• The Skrull Seventh Fleet arrived and destroyed more than two hundred Kree warships in successive attacks.
• The Supreme Intelligence seized control of the fleet, ordered the remaining ships to jump to the Centaurus Galaxy, and replaced Visitors with Pursuer Korath.

After the Kree defeat, Visitors lost his command but retained access to his laboratory and prepared to unleash the Cosmic Virus against humanity. Before he could inject a caged creature, a mysterious intruder entered and revealed a dazzling red light.

• The Skrull Fleet recovered salvage, received the outpost crew’s intelligence commendation, and departed the Solar System with the outpost personnel aboard.
• The fleet commander secretly arranged for troublesome volunteers to replace the outpost crew and took credit for their contribution.
• Visitors returned to his laboratory, brooded over his defeat, and decided to take revenge on all humanity.
• Visitors retrieved the Cosmic Virus and approached a sleeping creature in a heavily secured cage with an injection gun.
• A fat, white-skinned Kree entered the laboratory, sealed the door, extinguished the lights, and transformed amid a dazzling red flare.