Chapter Summaries

Li Qi returned to Stark Tower, reviewed the company’s progress, and ordered JARVIS to accelerate the search for Paradise Island. After spotting intern Gwen Stacy on the lobby surveillance feed, he called her to his office and waited for her arrival.

• Li Qi heard Tony Stark’s report on Stark Industries’ restructuring and kept Pepper Potts behind after dismissing Tony.
• Li Qi asked JARVIS about the search for Paradise Island and ordered a worldwide bounty for information on its location.
• Li Qi and Pepper Potts shared dinner and spent the night in the tower’s private quarters.
• The next day, Li Qi spotted Gwen Stacy on the lobby surveillance feed and had JARVIS look up her information.
• Li Qi learned that Gwen was an intern and instructed human resources to send her to his office.

Li Qi used mind control to make Stark Industries intern Gwen Stacy absolutely loyal to him, then learned about her admiration for Dr. Connors and considered recruiting the Oscorp scientist. He left the chapter planning how to acquire Oscorp and expand Stark Industries.

• Li Qi summoned Gwen Stacy to his office and discovered through her memories that she had known Peter Parker for less than a week and had excelled in her Stark Industries internship.
• Li Qi used his mind-control ability to make Gwen absolutely loyal to him.
• Li Qi discussed Gwen's work and career plans with her, and she spoke enthusiastically about the internship program run by Dr. Connors.
• Li Qi learned from JARVIS that Dr. Connors was Oscorp's chief scientist and considered recruiting him while preventing dangers to Gwen's father.
• Li Qi arranged to meet Gwen at noon, then examined Oscorp's information and planned to acquire the company.

Li Qi spent the night with Gwen Stacy before preparing for his search for Paradise Island and Diana. He ordered the company’s weapons design and manufacturing departments moved secretly to Ta Lo Village while JARVIS continued narrowing down Paradise Island’s location.

• Li Qi set aside plans to take control of Oscorp and spent the evening with Gwen Stacy while JARVIS searched for Paradise Island.
• Li Qi checked the Iron Man suit production and found six suits completed, then Gwen Stacy made him breakfast the next morning.
• Li Qi asked Tony Stark to assess whether Dr. Connors could be recruited and learned from JARVIS that the search for Paradise Island was close to identifying its location.
• Li Qi decided to travel to Paradise Island without security personnel and continue preparing to find Diana.
• Li Qi ordered Tony Stark to secretly relocate the company’s weapons design and manufacturing departments to the space containing Ta Lo Village.

Li Qi traveled from New York to the North Sea in search of Paradise Island, where he encountered an armed squad attacking the island. After defeating them, he learned the War God Security Company was reinforcing its assault and flew toward the battle.

• Li Qi used JARVIS’s satellite search to locate clues pointing to Paradise Island in the North Sea and traveled by private jet to Amsterdam.
• Li Qi boarded a Stark Industries yacht and sailed toward the southwestern North Sea, protected by eight suits of armor.
• After a day and a half, Li Qi’s yacht emerged from thick mist and encountered an armed squad approaching in speedboats.
• Li Qi and his armor defeated the squad, leaving its captain alive for interrogation.
• Li Qi learned the squad served the War God Security Company and was reinforcing an attack on Paradise Island, then threw the captain into the sea and flew toward the rendezvous point.

Li Qi reached Paradise Island and joined Diana and the Amazons in repelling an armed invasion with the help of his eight suits of armor. After the invaders were defeated, Antiope thanked him for saving the Amazons.

• Li Qi used JARVIS and the squad leader’s coordinates to find Paradise Island and flew there with eight suits of armor.
• Li Qi spotted Diana and an Amazon general fighting an invading force that was overwhelming the Amazons.
• JARVIS’s seven suits attacked the enemy vessels, and Li Qi landed beside Diana to protect her and strike the invaders.
• Hippolyta arrived with elite Amazon cavalry, and the Amazons and armor suits routed the remaining invaders.
• The Amazons tended to the wounded and recovered their fallen, while Diana went to see Hippolyta and Antiope thanked Li Qi for his aid.

Li Qi helped defend Paradise Island and revealed that he had come to find Diana, prompting Queen Hippolyta to order his arrest. Diana and Antiope tried to protect him, but Li Qi refused Antiope’s offer to escort him away and insisted he would leave only with Diana.

• Antiope praised Li Qi for helping defend Paradise Island, and he explained that he had come to see Princess Diana.
• Hippolyta arrived with her guards, suspected Li Qi’s motives, and ordered them to seize him.
• Diana pleaded with Hippolyta to welcome Li Qi as a guest, while Antiope also spoke in his defense.
• Hippolyta refused to trust Li Qi and ordered her guards to take him into the island, so Diana urged him to escape in his war machines.
• Antiope offered to take Li Qi away from Paradise Island, but he refused and declared that he would take Diana with him.

Li Qi refused to leave Paradise Island and was escorted inland while Diana pleaded for his safety. After the queen summoned the council to discuss the invasion, Diana arranged for Li Qi to stay at the Water Curtain Sanctuary until her mother calmed down.

• Li Qi insisted that he had come to take Diana away, angering Antiope, who ordered guards to escort him inland.
• Diana begged Li Qi to leave, but he reassured her and ordered JARVIS to patrol Paradise Island and summon additional armor from Los Angeles.
• Li Qi was escorted to the palace complex as Queen Hippolyta summoned the council to discuss the invasion.
• Antiope persuaded Diana not to defy her mother, and Diana arranged for Li Qi to stay at the Water Curtain Sanctuary instead of a dungeon.
• The guards escorted Li Qi to the sanctuary, while Diana and Antiope went to the council meeting.

Li Qi rested in Paradise Island’s hot springs while the Amazons confirmed Ares controlled the War God Security Company and prepared to defend the island. Diana urged Hippolyta to bring out the Godkiller Sword, unaware that Hippolyta believed Diana herself was Zeus’s true god-slaying weapon.

• Li Qi entered the hot spring sanctuary, considered his plans to conquer Paradise Island and face Ares, and fell asleep under the watch of two mechs.
• The council used the Lasso of Truth on surviving War God Security Company personnel and confirmed the company had been created and controlled by Ares.
• Queen Hippolyta ordered the Amazons to mobilize, conduct defensive drills, and prepare to trap Ares.
• Hippolyta recalled Ares’s slaughter of the Olympian gods and remained uneasy as Diana tried to reassure her with the Godkiller Sword.
• Diana repeatedly asked Hippolyta to let her use the sword, and Hippolyta finally agreed to take her to the treasury.

Diana received the War God Armor, Divine Shield, Godkiller, and Silver Bracelets of Protection from Hippolyta as she prepared to face Ares. She reunited with Li Qi at the hot spring palace and agreed to let him stay on Paradise Island, though she forbade him from joining the battle directly.

• Hippolyta gave Diana the War God Armor and Divine Shield, then allowed her to take the Godkiller from the vault.
• Hippolyta gave Diana the Silver Bracelets of Protection, and Diana accepted them after initially refusing.
• Diana remembered that she had forgotten Li Qi and went to find him at the hot spring palace.
• Diana urged Li Qi to leave Paradise Island, but Li Qi persuaded her that he could help defeat Ares.
• Diana agreed to let Li Qi stay on the island but forbade him from charging directly into battle, while Li Qi secretly intended to help.
• Li Qi told Diana about modern cities and human life, strengthening her resolve to visit the outside world after defeating Ares.

Li Qi and Diana discussed the outside world and Paradise Island’s defenses before Diana bathed in a hot spring while continuing their conversation. Antiope interrupted and rebuked Li Qi for witnessing Diana bathing, then helped her dress and prepared to take him to Hippolyta.

• Diana eagerly asked Li Qi to take her to see the world after the crisis, and he agreed while planning to win over Hippolyta before Diana.
• Li Qi asked Diana about Paradise Island’s defenses and explained that JARVIS was monitoring the surrounding waters and Ares’s forces.
• Diana removed her armor and bathed in the hot spring while Li Qi described modern cities and technology.
• Antiope arrived to summon Li Qi to meet Hippolyta and found him speaking with the bathing Diana.
• Antiope angrily scolded Li Qi for disregarding propriety, while Diana said they had only discussed intelligence.
• Antiope stood between Diana and Li Qi, helped Diana put her clothes and armor back on, and glared at Li Qi.