Chapter Summaries

Lucian trained Hulk and rewarded Simona with a power-granting serum for her work managing Vought International. Tony Stark arrived on the island with a case for Lucian, but Wanda attacked him with a rock before he could finish speaking.

• Lucian corrected Hulk’s fighting form after ten days of training and confirmed that his Copy progress was complete.
• Lucian offered Simona a choice between a physical-strength serum and a riskier serum that granted an unknown superpower, and Simona chose the latter.
• Simona endured the serum’s effects without suppressing her body’s reactions, then promised Lucian she would not let him down.
• Tony Stark arrived in his red-and-gold armor and asked Lucian where Dr. Banner was, mistaking Hulk for Banner.
• Tony presented Lucian with a metal case, but Wanda hurled a rock wrapped in scarlet energy at his head.

Wanda and Pietro attacked Tony on the island because they blamed him for the weapons that had killed their parents, while Lucian let them confront him. Tony escaped Wanda’s restraints and fought back from the air, but the battle continued as Hulk arrived and asked Lucian why they were fighting.

• Wanda hurled rocks at Tony while Pietro pulled him from the air and struck his armor.
• Wanda restrained Tony’s armor with crimson energy as Pietro tried to pry it open, forcing Tony to break free and fly skyward.
• Tony asked Wanda and Pietro why they hated him, and Wanda said his weapons had hurt their family and killed their parents.
• Wanda and Tony exchanged Energy Blasts and repulsor fire above the island while Lucian watched without intervening.
• Hulk came over to Lucian, saw the fight, and asked why they were fighting.

Lucian stopped Wanda and Pietro from attacking Tony and made them consider who was truly responsible for the missile that killed their parents. Wanda spared Tony, but was left asking who she should hate, and Lucian promised to help her find her real enemies.

• Lucian used a magnetic field to bring Tony down and pulled Pietro away when he tried to strike him.
• Lucian asked Wanda and Pietro whether they hated the missile, the arms dealer who sold it, or the warlord who launched it.
• Lucian explained that Obadiah Stane had secretly run Stark Industries' weapons trade and sold weapons illegally when Tony did not know about it.
• Tony admitted that the Stark name was on the missile and offered to answer for that responsibility.
• Wanda fired past Tony into the sand, then broke down and asked who she should go after.
• Lucian wiped Wanda's tears and promised to help her make her real enemies pay.

Wanda and Pietro took revenge on the Sokovian warlord who had ordered the missile strike that killed their parents, while Tony offered to fund Sokovia’s reconstruction. Lucian then declared that Vought International would take over the country and ordered a purge to end the fighting.

• Tony offered Wanda and Pietro money and technology to help rebuild Sokovia, and Wanda thanked him on behalf of its people without forgiving him.
• Lucian used the Mind Stone Scepter to search Sokovians’ memories, identify the warlord responsible for the missile strike, and show Wanda and Pietro what he had done.
• Pietro and Wanda attacked the warlord’s base and killed him, then felt uncertain after their long-awaited revenge was complete.
• Lucian told Wanda and Pietro not to live as tools and announced that Vought International would take over Sokovia.
• Lucian carried the siblings away from the ruined base and declared that the first step was a thorough purge.

Lucian used the Mind Stone Scepter to threaten Sokovia’s armed forces with surrender or death, then destroyed those who resisted with targeted lightning. He declared that Vought International would take control of Sokovia as the storm clouds cleared.

• Lucian sent every Sokovian a ten-minute ultimatum and darkened the sky with storm clouds.
• Most soldiers surrendered, while several warlords and commanders ordered their forces to resist or flee.
• After the deadline, Lucian identified the holdouts’ plans and unleashed lightning that killed the armed leaders and others who resisted.
• Lucian announced that Vought International would control Sokovia and threatened death for anyone who plundered, harmed civilians, or rebuilt the warlords’ forces.
• The storm clouds dispersed, and sunlight returned to Sokovia.

Lucian began organizing relief and reconstruction in Sokovia, while Wanda accepted a new purpose helping her people. Tony Stark arrived and confronted Lucian, asking who was in charge.

• Lucian told Simona that Vought would claim Sokovia and ordered medical and engineering teams, supplies, and personnel to be sent there.
• A young girl gave Wanda a wildflower, and Wanda accepted it as a sign of kindness amid the ruins.
• Lucian entrusted Wanda and Pietro with helping manage and rebuild Sokovia, and Wanda began organizing the crowd.
• Transport planes carrying Vought and Stark Industries personnel arrived in Sokovia, with Tony Stark, Happy Hogan, and Pepper Potts among those who disembarked.
• Tony approached Lucian and asked who was in charge; Lucian said that he was.

Lucian arranged for Vought International and Stark Industries to coordinate Sokovia’s reconstruction, appointing Simona as Vought’s CEO. Tony also gave Lucian a watch containing an AI and nanoscale suit technology, and Lucian named the AI Jade Balance.

• Tony promised Sokovia clean energy equipment, reconstruction support, and investment from Stark Industries.
• Lucian promoted Simona to CEO of Vought International, and she began coordinating reconstruction plans with Pepper Potts.
• Vought staff and Simona’s agents set up medical stations, distributed supplies, and registered missing persons.
• Tony told Lucian that Dr. Helen Cho’s biological cradle technology had transformed his suit design into adaptable living metal.
• Tony gave Lucian a watch containing an AI and nanoparticles linked to the suit, and Lucian named the AI Jade Balance.

Lucian learned Jade Balance’s capabilities before Natasha reported a massive energy surge near South America, likely caused by the Eternals concentrating their power. After briefing Tony, Wanda, and Pietro and preparing his new armor, Lucian flew ahead to scout the threat.

• Lucian tested Jade Balance, who explained her network access and combat-support functions and teased him about dating.
• Natasha alerted Tony to an escalating energy fluctuation near South America, and Lucian suspected the Eternals had concentrated their cosmic energy into one of their own.
• Lucian warned Wanda and Pietro to prioritize survival and told Tony that breaking the Eternals’ energy connection could weaken their empowered fighter.
• Lucian gave Tony enhancement serums, arranged for Pietro to receive a vibranium weapon, and used Jade Balance to locate the energy eruption.
• Lucian donned Tony’s nanovibranium armor and flew toward South America as Jade Balance reported that the target’s energy was still rising.

Tony brought the Avengers the serums Lucian had supplied and warned them about the powerful enemy, while Lucian attacked the Eternals from a distance. The Avengers began deciding whether to take the serums as Uni-Mind-Ikaris emerged from the blast and charged Lucian.

• Tony brought Steve, Natasha, Clint, Wanda, Pietro, and Hulk aboard the Quinjet and delivered Lucian’s serums and warning.
• Tony left to scout ahead, and Wanda and Pietro vanished from the Quinjet to join Lucian.
• Natasha and Clint picked up the serums, and Steve chose to take one as the Avengers prepared for the fight.
• Lucian fired a fully charged Light Cannon at the Eternals, but Ikaris’s Heat Vision stopped and dispersed the beam.
• Lucian used Reality Shift to let the Heat Vision pass through him, and Uni-Mind-Ikaris charged through the explosion toward him.

Lucian discovered that Ikaris’s Uni-Mind-enhanced Heat Vision could disrupt his intangibility, so he fled across the ocean to draw Ikaris away from the other Eternals. Ikaris relentlessly pursued him, and the chapter ended with him closing to within five hundred meters.

• Ikaris’s golden Heat Vision destabilized Lucian’s intangible body, forcing him to solidify and teleport away.
• Lucian assessed the damage with Jade Balance and realized the Uni-Mind had greatly enhanced Ikaris’s abilities.
• Lucian told Jade Balance to give Tony his direction and instruct him to attack the energy nodes, then fled toward the open ocean with Ikaris in pursuit.
• Lucian used elemental shields and his own Heat Vision against Ikaris, but Ikaris’s defenses and golden beam overwhelmed them.
• Lucian boosted his speed and fired energy blasts to slow Ikaris, but Ikaris smashed through them and closed to within five hundred meters.

Lucian fought Ikaris at close range, using his armor’s stored energy, blood swords, magnetic control, and electromagnetic interference to slow him down. As Ikaris’s Heat Vision vaporized the fog, Lucian used the Mind Stone to stun him briefly and teleported in with an energy-charged blade for a desperate surprise attack.

• Lucian teleported around Ikaris and landed several attacks, but Ikaris caught one punch and knocked him thousands of meters away with an elbow strike.
• Lucian redirected the armor’s stored kinetic energy into a punch that forced Ikaris backward, then formed three Blood Swords from his blood and struck Ikaris with them.
• Lucian raised three massive walls of seawater and used electromagnetic pulses to disrupt Ikaris’s neurons, briefly slowing his advance.
• Ikaris adapted to the interference and evaporated the water walls with Heat Vision, so Lucian filled the resulting fog with electrical currents to obscure his position.
• Ikaris retreated and swept the fog with broad beams of Heat Vision, while Lucian used the Mind Stone to stun him and teleported in with an energy-charged blade.

Lucian fought Ikaris after the Uni-Mind had strengthened him, managing to wound him with a carefully timed combination of transformation, teleportation, and energy attacks. Ikaris quickly healed, leaving Lucian to focus on stalling until Tony and the others could sever the Uni-Mind link.

• Lucian’s Mind Stone attack suppressed Ikaris for less than a second, so he transformed into Sprite to evade Ikaris’s punch and countered with his Magic Metal blade and the scepter.
• Ikaris knocked the scepter aside, but the blade pierced his abdomen and unleashed fire, lightning, radiation, and telekinetic force inside him.
• Ikaris vaporized Lucian’s blood swords with Heat Vision, and Lucian escaped by teleporting over ten thousand meters away.
• Ikaris purged the attack’s effects and healed his wound, while Lucian realized he could not defeat him and needed to stall until Tony and the others severed the Uni-Mind link.
• Lucian raised his hands to continue fighting, and Ikaris charged at him again.

Tony, Wanda, and Pietro attacked the Eternals’ energy transmission device to disrupt the Uni-Mind and weaken Ikaris, but Kingo, Makkari, and Thena stopped their assault. With the connection weakened, Ikaris tried to return, but Lucian blocked his way to keep him pinned down.

• Wanda and Pietro rushed the energy transmission device, and Tony followed as they began attacking the Eternals.
• Kingo withdrew from the Uni-Mind and fought Wanda, while Makkari knocked Pietro away from the device.
• Thena split Tony’s energy cannon beam and engaged him, stopping the Avengers’ surprise attack.
• Lucian sensed that the disrupted transmission had weakened Ikaris, who turned back toward the others.
• Lucian intercepted Ikaris and continued fighting to keep him from returning.

Tony, Wanda, and Pietro tried to stop the Eternals' synchronization ritual while Lucian fought Ikaris in the distance. With Lucian at a disadvantage, Tony launched an area-wide attack, but Makkari continued to block Pietro from reaching the device.

• Pietro was badly hurt after Makkari struck him, while Kingo demanded that the team return Ajak, Sersi, and Sprite in exchange for ending the synchronization.
• A distant blast revealed that Lucian was fighting Ikaris, and JARVIS reported that Lucian had the disadvantage.
• Tony ordered JARVIS to deploy every weapon and sent missiles and energy beams toward the Eternals and their device.
• Wanda blocked Kingo's golden bolts while Thena shot cosmic arrows at Tony, forcing him back with his shield.
• Pietro charged toward the device again, but Makkari intercepted him and knocked him into the ground.

The Avengers intervened as the Eternals overwhelmed Wanda, Pietro, and Tony while protecting the transport device. Steve, Hulk, Natasha, Hawkeye, and Tony joined the fight, leaving both sides facing off on the battlefield.

• Phastos shielded the transport device from the missile barrage while Druig unleashed a Psychic Blast that incapacitated Tony and weakened Pietro and Wanda.
• Wanda resisted Druig's psychic attack, but Thena aimed an energy arrow at the helpless Pietro.
• Hawkeye's arrow deflected Thena's shot, and Steve threw his shield at Druig, breaking his concentration.
• Hulk attacked Druig and Phastos, while Natasha ambushed Kingo with her Widow's Bite.
• Steve, Hawkeye, Tony, and Hulk regrouped on the battlefield as the Avengers assembled against the Eternals.

Lucian’s rage-powered strength let him match Ikaris and interrupt his flight toward the Avengers’ battlefield. As Lucian pursued him into the sea, the Avengers engaged the remaining Eternals in the rainforest.

• Lucian’s infinite rage surged, allowing him to meet Ikaris’s punch with an even clash.
• Ikaris fled toward South America, but Lucian chased him and used teleportation and telekinesis to slam him into the sea.
• The Eternals’ mental synchronization weakened after five withdrew, leaving Gilgamesh maintaining the connection.
• Tony received JARVIS’s tactical analysis and urged the Avengers to split up and attack before the Eternals could reconnect.
• Steve targeted Thena, Wanda confronted Druig, Natasha and Barton went after Kingo, Pietro charged Makkari, and Hulk attacked Phastos as Tony prepared to provide support.

Steve and the Avengers fought the Eternals while trying to destroy a device, using their awakened abilities to hold off Thena, Phastos, and Kingo. Steve kept Thena occupied, Hulk drove Phastos into retreat, and Natasha and Barton immobilized Kingo as Barton prepared another volley.

• Steve activated Alliance Ring, weakening Thena and sharing her drained strength among his teammates.
• Steve abandoned offense and used his Vibranium Shield to keep Thena occupied as she attacked with rapidly changing golden weapons.
• Hulk smashed through Phastos's shields and chased him as the Eternal fled Hulk's attacks.
• Natasha ambushed Kingo while Barton fired arrows, then used Shadow Traversal to kick Kingo's wrist and redirect his Energy Blast.
• Barton enchanted two arrows with lightning, which struck and paralyzed Kingo after Natasha's intervention.
• Barton aimed five differently enchanted arrows at the immobilized Kingo.

Wanda, Pietro, and Tony worked together to sever the Eternals’ energy transmission device, ending the Uni-Mind and depriving Ikaris of his companions’ power. Though Lucian’s own energy was spent, his rage intensified as he chased Ikaris toward the surface and seized his ankle.

• Wanda resisted Druig’s psychic assault and tore apart his psychic field, while Makkari rescued him from her attack.
• Pietro grabbed Makkari’s leg after she knocked him down, holding her back as Wanda and the others stopped Thena and Kingo from intervening.
• Tony cut through Phastos’s energy shield, but Gilgamesh struck him away from the device; Tony reported that its connection had been severed.
• Gilgamesh’s withdrawal broke the Uni-Mind, and Lucian used a massive underwater shock wave to batter Ikaris as his rage continued to grow.
• Ikaris fled toward the surface, but Lucian launched after him and grabbed his ankle as he emerged from the water.

Lucian overwhelmed Ikaris in the sea while the Avengers’ fight against the Eternals turned against them in the South American rainforest. The chapter ended with the Avengers’ defensive line shattered and several of them badly hurt or incapacitated.

• Lucian smashed through Ikaris’s Heat Vision and repeatedly punched him underwater as Ikaris struggled to defend himself.
• After the Avengers disrupted the energy device, Gilgamesh overpowered Hulk while Tony assessed his damaged armor and low reserves.
• Thena ordered the Eternals to switch opponents, leaving Gilgamesh to fight Hulk, Phastos to attack Tony, and Kingo to pin down Steve.
• Makkari struck Clint unconscious, and Natasha’s ambush failed when Makkari dodged her attack and kicked her away.
• Druig trapped Pietro in mental agony as Thena pressured Wanda, leaving the Avengers on the defensive.

Lucian and Ikaris fought brutally beneath the sea as Infinite Rage made Lucian stronger despite Ikaris’s attempts to restrain and injure him. When JARVIS and Jade Balance reported the rainforest battlefield’s collapse and Wanda’s and Pietro’s failing vital signs, Lucian left the wounded Ikaris alive and raced to support them.

• Lucian overwhelmed Ikaris with relentless attacks, but Ikaris escaped behind him and pierced Lucian’s neck with compressed Heat Vision.
• Lucian’s rage intensified, letting him break free, burst Ikaris’s eardrums with a double-handed strike, and seize his throat.
• Ikaris severed Lucian’s hands with Heat Vision and retreated while Lucian’s healing restored them behind his Nano Vibranium Shield.
• JARVIS reported that the rainforest defensive line had collapsed, and Jade Balance warned that Wanda’s and Pietro’s vital signs were in severe danger.
• Lucian abandoned his pursuit of Ikaris and shot toward the surface to reach the rainforest battlefield.