Chapter Summaries

After discovering that more than a hundred nuclear weapons had vanished from a military base, the white-haired man ordered Andrei to escort them to Base Two, fearing supernatural involvement. On an uninhabited island, Rising Tide’s leader revealed the stolen weapons and declared the island their new home, then began building a settlement.

• The white-haired man learned surveillance showed no technical problems and was told supernatural means had likely been used to steal the nuclear weapons.
• Remembering Su Yu’s warning, the white-haired man ordered Andrei to take them to the more heavily defended Base Two.
• Rising Tide’s leader and the group gathered on an island beside the stolen nuclear weapons, which two members had taken using spatial and hypnotic abilities.
• The leader renamed Rising Tide as Rising Tide Village and declared that the island would be their home.
• Tier Three wind users cleared a large area for construction, and the leader prepared to create buildings with their unusual class.

The leader used his Materializer ability to create Rising Tide Village and a fertile field, then learned that Su Yu was inviting Blind Box Shop customers to a potentially deadly game. He chose to participate with the village, while people around the world made their own decisions.

• The leader materialized a large village and invited everyone to choose a home.
• The leader created a tilled field, then spoke with the hypnosis-type and space-type users about their new home.
• Su Yu announced a voluntary game for Blind Box Shop customers and revealed that the top ten would receive valuable rewards.
• People received a prompt asking whether they would participate, and many chose yes despite not knowing the rules.
• The leader told Rising Tide's people to join the game, and they accepted.

The Avengers and millions of others joined Su Yu’s game, and Su Yu announced qualifiers would begin in six hours with a free-for-all and one-on-one matches. Meanwhile, the white-haired man’s group launched a nuclear missile toward a densely populated urban area, leaving the soldier who pressed the button terrified and the group satisfied.

• The Avengers accepted Su Yu’s invitation, and the number of participants climbed to fifty-five million.
• Su Yu announced that qualifiers would begin in six hours and include a free-for-all and one-on-one matches.
• Tony and the other Avengers found little to do to prepare and went back to their rooms to sleep.
• The white-haired man’s group arrived at Base Two and confirmed its nuclear warhead warehouse was undamaged.
• Johnson ordered a soldier to follow the group’s instructions, and the soldier accidentally pressed the launch button.
• A missile launched toward a densely populated urban area as the soldier panicked, Johnson watched in a daze, and the white-haired man’s group celebrated.

Tony and the Avengers rushed to intercept an incoming nuclear missile, only for JARVIS to report that it had turned into a model toy. They returned to the conference room with the unexploded missile, puzzled by the sudden change.

• JARVIS warned Tony that a nuclear missile was approaching, and Tony flew out to intercept it.
• Steve and the others followed Tony as the missile drew frightened attention from people along its route.
• Tony redirected the missile upward, but its engines went out, and Steve caught it as it fell.
• The Avengers waited for the missile to explode, but JARVIS said it could no longer detonate because it was now a model toy.
• Tony and the others returned to the conference room and examined the missile on the table.

After every nuclear bomb was transformed into scrap metal, the Avengers and millions of others were transported to a vast cosmic space for the qualifier. Thor drew the attention of the enormous crowd by declaring that the Avengers were the strongest, making them targets before the competition began.

• Tony and the others realized the nuclear bomb aimed at them had become a fake and suspected who was responsible.
• White Hair ordered another launch, but Johnson discovered that all one hundred nuclear bombs at Base Two had turned into models.
• Johnson learned that every base’s nuclear stockpile had become scrap metal, destroying their nuclear deterrent.
• On Rising Tide Island, the leader and his people found that their stolen nuclear bombs had also become scrap metal and turned their attention to the upcoming qualifier.
• Six hours later, the contestants turned into light and arrived in a vast, bright space where more than fifty million people had gathered.
• Thor declared that the Avengers were the strongest, drawing curious, hostile, and combative attention from the surrounding contestants.

Tony Stark encountered two Rising Tide members who called him a murderer, and Wanda explained that Stark Industries weapons had destroyed their home. Su Yu announced that only a hundred contestants would survive the game and began the elimination rounds.

• Thor drew unwanted attention to the Avengers, and Natasha told him to be quiet.
• A masked woman attacked Tony with a red wave, but a blue barrier stopped it; a masked man called Tony a murderer before Wanda pulled him away.
• Nick Fury identified the pair as Rising Tide members Wanda and Pietro, and Wanda told their leader that Tony’s weapons had destroyed their home.
• Su Yu appeared before the crowd and said the game was meant to make a hundred people despair because a few people had offended him.
• Su Yu announced that contestants would be divided into a hundred free-for-all groups, with the last 512 in each group advancing to one-on-one fights, and offered anyone the chance to withdraw.
• Some contestants chose to withdraw and vanished.

Su Yu began the melee, and Tony’s group came under attack as the other participants targeted the famous Avengers. Tony unleashed his purple skill, Forest of Thunder, killing nearly ten thousand Transcendents, but the survivors’ greed for purple skills drove them to prepare another assault.

• Su Yu started the melee after dividing the arena into one hundred sections and announcing that disqualified contestants would not truly die.
• Tony and the others moved toward the edge, but the crowd focused its attacks on the Avengers.
• Tony used Forest of Thunder, wiping out nearly ten thousand Transcendents and clearing the area around his group.
• Spectators recognized the attack as a purple skill and became eager to obtain such powerful skills.
• The surviving participants decided to attack Tony’s group before the later one-on-one matches.

The crowd surrounded Tony and the Avengers, hoping to eliminate them and improve their own chances in the competition. After the Avengers endured a barrage behind Steve’s protective shield, their Chain Lightning struck back and eliminated thousands, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• The superhumans grew greedy after an unknown person urged them to target Tony and the others, while some of the more cautious people backed away.
• Tony wondered why the crowd was not afraid of the Avengers, and Natasha suggested his powerful attack had made them covet purple skills.
• Steve warned that the crowd was preparing to attack, and a superhuman fired the first shot, prompting a barrage of ranged attacks.
• The Avengers remained protected when Steve activated Lesser Invincibility Shield, while Chain Lightning leapt through the tightly packed attackers and eliminated two or three thousand people.
• The smoke cleared to reveal the Avengers behind Steve’s milky-white protective barrier as the surviving crowd faced them.

The superhumans’ assault on the Avengers stalled against their shield, while the Mind Reaver and the Golden Emperor used psychic powers to disrupt the crowd. The Golden Emperor left to compete for the remaining spots, abandoning the others to decide whether to keep fighting the Avengers.

• Several superhumans attacked one another after the Mind Reaver manipulated their minds, but Brother Silence silenced them and restored their clarity.
• A psychic admitted that nobody could resist the Mind Reaver, and Brother Silence asked the Golden Emperor for help.
• The Golden Emperor offered psychic seeds that would protect people from the Mind Reaver, while Brother Silence warned that the seeds gave her access to their minds.
• The Golden Emperor’s psychic influence made more than a hundred people praise her and attack Brother Silence, and his power could not dispel their infatuation.
• The Golden Emperor left to compete for the other five hundred and five spots, and her psychic captives followed her.

After the zone battles ended, Su Yu restored the survivors and announced the one-on-one elimination rounds, where randomly matched fighters would battle until only a hundred remained. The first matches began in separate spaces, and some ended almost immediately when weaker fighters faced stronger opponents.

• As the Golden Emperor departed, Thor unleashed a pillar of purple lightning that drove everyone away from the Avengers’ zone before returning beside them.
• Wanda and the Rising Tide group watched their leader’s two dragons dominate the adjacent zone while he observed the surrounding fighters’ classes and skills.
• Five hours later, the battles across the hundred zones ended, leaving 512 people in each zone, and Su Yu restored the survivors with streams of sweet dew.
• Su Yu announced random one-on-one elimination matches and ruled that anyone who continued attacking after an opponent surrendered would be eliminated.
• The contestants were transported into separate spaces, where countdowns began and randomly assigned matches quickly eliminated some weaker fighters.

Tony fought a Third-Tier Transcendent whose Mechanical War God class let him turn nanobugs into a powerful mech. After the mech absorbed Tony’s lightning and outpaced his attacks, Tony strengthened himself with blessings, but the fight left him facing a charged cannon aimed from the mech’s chest.

• Tony’s opponent transformed into a five-meter mech and attacked him with missiles and homing lasers.
• Tony blocked the lasers with a Whirlwind Shield and struck the mech with Chain Lightning, but the mech absorbed the electricity and grew stronger.
• The mech used tremendous speed to attack Tony, who narrowly avoided its punches before applying several elemental blessings to improve his speed, defense, and recovery.
• Tony dodged another charge and hit the mech with a giant fireball, but its forearm shield absorbed the blast.
• The mech formed an energy sword, then revealed a fully charged cannon in its chest and aimed it at Tony.

Tony fought the mech, whose energy cannon and sudden close-range attacks initially caught him off guard. After trapping the mech with ice, Tony faced its final cannon attack and answered with his strongest lightning spear; their attacks collided, leaving the outcome unknown.

• The mech blasted Tony with an energy cannon, but Tony emerged with only minor injuries and attacked with wind and water.
• The mech vanished and struck at close range, while Tony froze puddles beneath it and bound its limbs with resilient ice pillars.
• The mech detached its trapped limbs, propelled itself into the air, and transformed into a giant cannon that began charging a final attack.
• Tony gathered the Forest of Thunder's lightning into a spear, and he and the mech unleashed their attacks simultaneously.
• Tony's lightning spear collided with the mech's enormous energy beam.

Tony defeated the armored man with his Spear of Thunder, and the Avengers all won their first-round matches before being restored and sent into the second round. The Rising Tide leader faced a berserker whose devastating punch failed to break his blue barrier.

• Tony's Spear of Thunder erased the armored man's cannon and knocked him unconscious, after which the armored man returned home and began researching.
• Steve, Natasha, Banner, Hawkeye, Thor, and Nick Fury defeated their first-round opponents, with Hawkeye befriending his rival and Nick Fury controlling his opponent into snapping his own neck.
• The Avengers considered the challenge ahead as each contender needed nine victories to qualify among the final hundred.
• Green light healed and replenished the first-round victors, and their second-round opponents appeared after the recovery period.
• The Rising Tide leader blocked a berserker's powerful punch with a blue barrier, leaving the berserker wondering if it was a purple skill.

The Berserker tried every way he could to break the Rising Tide leader’s barrier, which the leader revealed was a function of his class rather than a skill. After his most powerful charge only rippled across it, the Berserker kept attacking and launched his concentrated Spike Fist.

• The Berserker hammered the Rising Tide leader’s blue barrier for half an hour but could not crack it.
• The Rising Tide leader explained that the barrier was a class function and told the Berserker he could not hurt him through it.
• The Berserker activated his Berserker Bloodline, transformed, and charged into the barrier with a devastating punch that produced only a ripple.
• The Berserker refused to accept the barrier’s strength and continued striking it before unleashing his strongest single-point attack, Spike Fist.
• The Rising Tide leader felt an intense sense of dread as the Berserker’s concentrated punch landed with a sharp ding.

Berserker failed to break the Rising Tide leader’s barrier and demanded to know how it worked. The leader created a copy of Berserker, who immediately fought it with delight, making clear he had no intention of surrendering.

• Berserker struck the barrier with his strongest attack, but it remained intact.
• The Rising Tide leader told Berserker the barrier cost little energy to maintain and urged him to surrender.
• Berserker agreed he could not break the barrier but demanded an explanation, so the leader summoned a copy of him.
• Berserker fought the copy, whose punch matched his own, and became excited to have found a worthy opponent.

The Berserker endured a beating from four replicas until a surge of berserk energy made him powerful enough to destroy them. He challenged the Rising Tide leader to summon more, but the leader could no longer copy the Berserker’s new strength and considered using stronger creatures instead.

• The Rising Tide leader created three more Berserker replicas, leaving the Berserker outnumbered and pummeled by all four.
• The Berserker unleashed a burst of berserk energy that sent the replicas flying and greatly increased his strength.
• The Berserker appeared before one replica and destroyed it with two punches, then quickly eliminated the others.
• The Berserker asked the Rising Tide leader to summon four more replicas, but the leader realized he could no longer reproduce the Berserker’s class-defining energy.
• The Rising Tide leader considered summoning more powerful creatures to defeat the Berserker.

The Rising Tide leader explained that his unbreakable barrier was created by imposing a rule that nullified any attack caused by the Berserker. He revealed that the absolute defense had a price, but the chapter ended before he explained it.

• The Berserker struck the Rising Tide leader's barrier with his ultimate Spike Fist, but it remained completely unharmed.
• The Berserker demanded to know whether the barrier came from an item, skill, or technology, and the Rising Tide leader agreed to explain if he conceded.
• The Berserker conceded that he could not break the barrier, and the Rising Tide leader said it was his ability rather than an item or skill.
• The Berserker guessed that the barrier worked through a rule, and the Rising Tide leader confirmed that attacks caused by him could never affect it.
• The Rising Tide leader warned that the absolute defense had a flaw or required a price, leaving that cost unexplained.

The Rising Tide leader demonstrated the limits of his Materializer class and explained why his barrier could be broken by attacks from others. After the Berserker agreed to keep the weakness secret, the leader invited him to join Rising Tide, but he declined for now.

• The Rising Tide leader shattered his barrier with an ordinary wooden spear and explained that attacks from others could break it.
• The Berserker learned the leader's class was Materializer and offered to keep its weakness secret.
• The Rising Tide leader thanked the Berserker and explained that expanding a barrier's protection consumed energy exponentially.
• The Rising Tide leader invited the Berserker to join Rising Tide, but the Berserker declined because he still wanted to fight.

Berserker conceded after speaking with the leader of Rising Tide, and the third round began with Tony facing Wanda. Wanda blamed Tony’s weapons for destroying her home and killing her mother, leaving Tony silent and shaken.

• Berserker chose to concede, and the leader of Rising Tide became the last winner of the round.
• The third round began, and Tony recognized Wanda as his opponent.
• Wanda revealed her face and accused Tony of taking everything from her and her brother.
• Wanda attacked Tony with Psychic Tide and Psychic Blasts while he tried to evade and ask what he had done.
• Wanda explained that Tony’s weapons had destroyed her home and killed her mother, and Tony descended to the ground in silence.

Wanda confronted Tony over the deaths of her family, which she blamed on weapons made by Stark Industries, and beat him while struggling with her anger and grief. After viewing his memories and learning that he had shut down Stark Industries’ weapons operations as soon as he discovered the weapons leak, she reconsidered her hatred; Tony recovered and apologized to her.

• Tony learned that Wanda’s family had been killed by weapons manufactured by Stark Industries and froze in shock.
• Wanda struck Tony with a psychic blast, punched and kicked him, then cried as she continued beating him.
• Wanda reflected that she had never intended to kill Tony and that her hatred persisted despite knowing it was misplaced.
• Wanda entered Tony’s mind and saw his memories of captivity and his decision to shut down Stark Industries’ weapons operations after discovering the leak.
• Wanda withdrew from Tony’s memories, and the elements around him healed his injuries as he regained consciousness.
• Tony stood up and apologized to Wanda.