Chapter Summaries

Wenwu extorted ten billion dollars from Tony, then used overclocked study to rapidly advance his computer skills while Tony began planning a stronger Iron Man Armor. The chapter ended with Wenwu learning that the United States and five neighboring countries had declared against the Ten Rings.

• Tony signed Wenwu's ten-billion-dollar repayment contract and left the city, where the military picked him up.
• Wenwu ordered Ivan to master the technology in Tony's Mark IV armor, then used Spiritual Power to study computer science at an accelerated rate.
• After returning to Los Angeles, Tony confirmed Wenwu had cured him and began redesigning his armor, taking out an adamantium sample from his father Howard's safe.
• Wenwu spent the night studying and advanced to a high level in computer science, believing he could soon support the Ten Rings without Dr. Sterns or Ivan.
• Ching-Lin reported that the United States and the neighboring countries Isil, Is, Kuwait, Basen, and Kama had condemned the Ten Rings and vowed to help reclaim Salia and crack down on the group.

Wenwu prepared the Ten Rings to retaliate against an attack by ordering the production and use of Plasma Fusion Missiles. After five pro-American regimes and three U.S.-stationed bases launched missiles at the Ten Rings, his eight-missile counterstrike reached its targets, leaving the Pentagon in alarm.

• Wenwu ordered defensive preparations, threatened retaliation, and told Ching-Lin to gather intelligence on foreign military bases.
• Wenwu ordered Ivan to suspend Mark Armor research and accelerate Plasma Fusion Missile production, authorizing him to obtain scarce materials by any means.
• Hydra preserved S.H.I.E.L.D. and Alexander Pierce released evidence smearing the Ten Rings, while the truth about Hydra's infiltration was dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
• Five pro-American regimes near Salia and three bases with U.S. troops launched conventional missiles at the Ten Rings.
• Wenwu ordered Ivan to launch eight Plasma Fusion Missiles, which flew toward bases in Isil, Yisi, Kuwait, Basen, and Kamaer.
• Pentagon officials watched the missiles reach their targets and begin diving toward U.S. and allied bases.

The United States and its allies launched a saturation missile strike on Ten Rings territory, damaging four cities but failing to breach Amba City's defenses. The Ten Rings retaliated by destroying eight military bases, and the U.S. president chose containment and rearmament over a nuclear strike.

• A coalition led by the United States fired a thousand missiles at the Ten Rings' five main cities, and the defenses protected Amba City while four other cities were hit.
• The Ten Rings launched plasma fusion missiles that struck five foreign military bases and three overseas U.S. bases.
• The U.S. operations room learned that the three targeted U.S. bases had been destroyed, with over ten thousand personnel lost.
• The secretary of defense and generals demanded a nuclear strike, but the president refused because interception was uncertain and the Ten Rings could retaliate.
• The president ordered the United States to restrict the Ten Rings' resources and territorial expansion while rapidly upgrading its weapons.

After the Ten Rings destroyed eight military bases, the United States and its allies condemned them and imposed sanctions while public opinion split worldwide. Wenwu extracted vast quantities of iron and gold, then traveled with Becky to southeastern Libya to inspect a remote site for a second base.

• War correspondents reported that the Ten Rings had destroyed eight bases, killing more than twenty-five thousand military personnel.
• Hamid defended the Ten Rings' actions as self-defense, while the United States condemned them and announced comprehensive sanctions and a boycott campaign.
• Wenwu extracted over a hundred thousand tons of pig iron and several tons of gold from a mineral deposit, exhausting much of his mental power.
• Wenwu chose southeastern Libya in the Sahara Desert as the location for a secret second base and traveled there with Becky in a stealth fighter.
• Wenwu sensed a rich mineral belt beneath the mountains and ordered Becky to scan the surrounding area for human activity.

Wenwu built a vast underground base for the Ten Rings while the release of Arc Reactor technology triggered a worldwide energy race. Dr. Otto’s fusion research gained new momentum, and Norman Osborn approached him with an offer to invest.

• After Becky confirmed there were no signs of human activity nearby, Wenwu used his metal ability to excavate and construct a six-level underground base, then left Razor Fist in charge of its remaining work.
• As Arc Reactor research spread around the world, Tony refused the military’s requests for technical guidance, while Reed Richards studied miniaturizing the reactor to secure funding for his space research.
• Dr. Otto used the Arc Reactor’s principles to advance his controlled nuclear fusion project, but he still needed tritium and investors to begin experiments.
• Norman Osborn, facing the loss of military funding, visited Dr. Otto and decided to gamble on investing in his fusion project.

Dr. Otto ignited his artificial sun during a public demonstration, but its gravity grew beyond the magnetic confinement system’s limits and the fusion reaction went out of control. Rosie and Otto died as the artificial sun devoured the laboratory and began pulling in metal and people from the surrounding streets.

• Norman invested in Dr. Otto’s fusion project, and three days later Otto demonstrated his reactor to reporters and researchers.
• Otto activated the fusion sequence, and a glowing plasma fireball formed and expanded inside the magnetic confinement chamber.
• The artificial sun’s gravitational field surged, overwhelming the confinement system and pulling metal objects toward its core.
• Otto tried to stabilize the reactor as Norman and the crowd fled, but the magnetic confinement failed and plasma swept through the laboratory.
• Flying glass fatally wounded Rosie, and an electrical surge destroyed Otto’s inhibitor chip as he lost consciousness.
• The artificial sun consumed the collapsing laboratory, killing Otto and drawing in cars, metal buildings, and people from nearby streets.

After the artificial sun disaster led to the rise of the Green Goblin, Wenwu pursued the technology while exploiting Star Ring’s Regeneration Agents and expanding the Ten Rings’ influence. He also planned to steer Dr. Connors’s regeneration research toward controlled limb restoration, while keeping mutation and biological-weapons research secret.

• An artificial sun experiment in New York went out of control, killing more than a thousand people before the military extinguished it with solid helium and liquid nitrogen.
• Wenwu learned that Dr. Otto had died and Norman Osborn was missing, then ordered the Ten Rings to prepare to acquire Osborn while concealing Star Ring’s connection to them.
• Two days later, Wenwu learned that Norman had become the Green Goblin and that he had attacked Spider-Man, assassinated military generals, and killed Oscorp directors and their families.
• Wenwu ordered Ching-Lin to release evidence identifying Norman as the Green Goblin and to acquire Oscorp Industries, while Star Ring’s Regeneration Agents earned six billion dollars in net profit.
• Wenwu approved escorted deliveries of Regeneration Agents for surgical use and ordered super soldiers to provide security.
• Wenwu told Ching-Lin to persuade Dr. Connors to accept human experimentation, while planning to sell limb regeneration with an antidote and reserve mutation research for the Ten Rings.

After Norman Osborn was exposed as the Green Goblin and captured, Star Ring Group took control of Oscorp Industries. Six months later, Wenwu began a controlled nuclear fusion experiment in a secret underground laboratory, where the plasma was successfully contained.

• Norman Osborn attacked protesters as the Green Goblin, but Tony and Spider-Man, Peter, defeated him and the military took him into custody.
• Star Ring Group acquired more than eighty percent of Oscorp Industries after the scandal pushed the company toward collapse.
• Wenwu expanded the Ten Rings amid sanctions and refugee pressure, using hidden factories and transport aircraft to supply the territory and build up its military.
• Wenwu completed a fusion laboratory beneath the Gobi and began a controlled nuclear fusion experiment.
• The magnetic confinement chamber held the plasma fireball safely at its center without energy leakage or other instability.

Wenwu completed an artificial sun and used its power to bore a tunnel and expand the Ten Rings’ base. He reviewed the organization’s growing capabilities, including its satellite network and Ivan’s new stealth armor, before Dr. Sterns showed him a device built to interact with the Cosmic Energy cloud.

• Wenwu stabilized nuclear fusion, created an artificial sun, and decided to use it to power and expand the base.
• Wenwu assembled a giant laser cannon that bored a smooth, fifteen-kilometer tunnel through underground rock, and he ordered his men to reinforce it and connect the base to the artificial sun.
• Wenwu cultivated and strengthened his soul and mental power, increasing his metal manipulation range to 150 meters and its weight limit to a thousand tons.
• Wenwu learned from Ivan that the Ten Rings had launched eight satellites and that Ivan had completed the Ring Armor-04 Ghost, a compact stealth suit for infiltration and intelligence work.
• Wenwu visited Dr. Sterns, who revealed that he had built a device based on Wenwu’s description of the Cosmic Energy cloud.

Wenwu built a second Attraction and Convergence Device and took it into space aboard Black Bird 1, arriving near Reed’s space station before the Cosmic Energy storm. As the storm reached Reed earlier than predicted, Wenwu entered the device while Razor Fist and six super soldiers stood by.

• Wenwu studied Dr. Sterns’s files and spent ten days building his own Attraction and Convergence Device.
• Wenwu boarded Black Bird 1 with Razor Fist and several super soldiers and flew into space.
• Reed, Victor, Sue Storm, Ben, and Johnny spotted the Ten Rings craft near their space station, but it did not respond to their signal.
• Reed told the crew to make final preparations, believing the Cosmic Energy cloud would arrive in five days.
• Five days later, the energy storm struck Reed while he placed biological samples outside the station, earlier than he had calculated.
• Wenwu entered the Attraction and Convergence Device as Razor Fist and six super soldiers watched from the isolation area.

Wenwu’s transformation in the Attraction and Convergence Device greatly enhanced his physical, mental, and metal abilities, while changing the ten rings. After discovering that the rings had begun transmitting an untraceable signal through dimensions, he set out to study their structure and find a way to stop it.

• Wenwu endured the energy storm as his genes and Spiritual Power transformed, and the ten rings absorbed energy and sent a signal into space.
• Razor Fist brought Wenwu back to Ten Rings headquarters, where Wenwu collapsed into a deep sleep.
• Wenwu woke with new spider abilities and stronger powers, including fifty-ton strength, enhanced Spiritual Power, a golden soul, and Level 4 control over metal.
• Wenwu discovered he could transform his body into metals such as Vibranium and Adamantium, and found that the ten rings could expand to a meter in diameter.
• Wenwu examined the ten rings and learned they were transmitting a signal that crossed dimensions and could not be blocked with his current technology.
• Wenwu began studying the rings’ internal structure to find a way to shut off the signal.

Wenwu decided to let the Ten Rings’ signal attract whoever created them while he strengthened his base and expanded his weapons research. After learning Vibranium could greatly amplify missiles, he set out with Ulysses Klaue for Wakanda.

• Wenwu learned that S.H.I.E.L.D. had disbanded, S.W.O.R.D. had formed under Nick Fury, and Tony Stark and Spider-Man had joined the Avengers.
• Ching-Lin warned Wenwu that former S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had vanished, and Wenwu ordered regular checks for Hydra and other infiltrators.
• Wenwu decided to let the Ten Rings’ signal draw its creator or another powerful being to Earth.
• Wenwu spent half a month building an artificial sun reactor and training before Ivan reported that Vibranium could nearly double missile power.
• Wenwu gave Ivan his remaining Vibranium, then contacted Ulysses Klaue and ordered him to take Wenwu to Wakanda.
• Wenwu and Klaue arrived on Africa’s Atlantic coast aboard two Giant Spirit transports.

Wenwu secretly entered Wakanda, stole a thousand tons of vibranium, and then infiltrated the royal research base to copy its technological archives. The royal defense system detected him as old T'Chaka arrived to confront him.

• Wenwu bypassed Wakanda's energy barrier by drilling underground and disabled monitoring devices in the vibranium mines.
• Wenwu extracted a thousand tons of pure vibranium and loaded it onto two Giant Spirit transport aircraft.
• Wakanda's mine alarm exposed the theft, and Okoye reported the breach to T'Chaka and Ramonda.
• Wenwu ordered Klaue and the aircraft crews to flee, then used Wakanda's ensuing chaos to infiltrate the royal research base.
• Wenwu hacked the core server and copied Wakanda's research and technology onto a USB drive.
• Wakanda's royal defense system detected Wenwu, and T'Chaka flew toward him in his Black Panther suit.

Wenwu stole a thousand tons of Vibranium from Wakanda, escaped its forces, and returned to the Ten Rings exhausted. After recovering, he reproduced Wakandan plasma shield and optical invisibility technology and ordered the Ten Rings to prepare to establish a nation in Salia.

• Wenwu defeated T'Chaka and Wakanda's guards, then escaped T'Challa's sonic cannon by burrowing deep underground with his Vibranium armor.
• T'Chaka learned that a thousand tons of Vibranium had been stolen and ordered Wakanda to investigate Japanese Mutant forces, while T'Challa vowed to make Wenwu pay.
• Wenwu brought the stolen Vibranium to the Ten Rings' headquarters, where Ivan saw the enormous haul, and Wenwu recovered by the following evening.
• Wenwu mastered Wakandan technology and built a working plasma shield, then told Ivan to oversee shield-generator construction before the Ten Rings founded a nation in Salia.
• Wenwu reproduced Wakanda's optical invisibility technology and had his scientists equip the Ten Rings' forces with it.

Odin stripped Thor of his power and banished him to Earth, enchanting Mjolnir so only the worthy could lift it. Wenwu traveled to New Mexico, took Thor’s blood, and failed to move the hammer before deciding to leave.

• Odin punished Thor for starting a fight with the Frost Giants, stripped him of his powers, and banished him to Midgard.
• Odin enchanted Mjolnir so that only someone worthy could lift it, then cast it down to Earth.
• After hearing about the hammer’s arrival in New Mexico, Wenwu took Ching-Lin, Razor Fist, and Becky there aboard the Wandering Dragon.
• Wenwu found Thor in a hospital, hypnotized the doctors, and drew a thousand milliliters of blood from him.
• Wenwu and his companions followed Thor to Mjolnir’s exclusion zone, where Wenwu sensed the hammer but could not move it with his metal ability.
• Wenwu explained that Odin’s enchantment prevented him from lifting Mjolnir and told his companions to leave.

Thor regained Mjolnir and his divine power after sacrificing himself to protect Puente Antiguo, then defeated Loki’s Destroyer. After Thor returned to Asgard, Wenwu gathered the Destroyer’s Uru Divine Steel fragments and formed them into two rings.

• Thor failed to lift Mjolnir, and Loki tricked him into believing Odin had died and he had been permanently exiled.
• Loki sent the Destroyer to Puente Antiguo, where it defeated Sif and the Warriors Three and attacked the town.
• Thor offered his life to spare the townspeople, and Odin’s recognition restored Thor’s divine power and returned Mjolnir to him.
• Thor destroyed the Destroyer with Mjolnir and returned to Asgard with the four gods.
• Wenwu used his metal ability to gather the Destroyer’s Uru Divine Steel fragments and shape them into two rings.

Wenwu and his companions claimed the Destroyer Armor fragments, and Razor Fist fought off S.W.O.R.D. agents before battling Tony Stark. The fight left Razor Fist injured, while he narrowly dodged Tony’s laser attack.

• Coulson confronted Wenwu’s group over the Destroyer Armor fragments, but Wenwu stopped the agents’ bullets and Razor Fist attacked them.
• Razor Fist overwhelmed Coulson, Barton, and the other agents without killing them, prompting Nick Fury to call Tony Stark for help.
• Tony arrived in his Iron Man armor and traded repulsor blasts with Razor Fist, gradually gaining the upper hand.
• Tony fired miniature missiles that injured Razor Fist, then attacked him with a laser concealed in his fist.
• Razor Fist ducked just in time to evade Tony’s laser beam.

Tony fought Razor Fist and Becky but was defeated and injured before Wenwu and his team escaped aboard the Wandering Dragon. Back at headquarters, Wenwu studied Thor’s altered blood and planned to use genetic research to make himself stronger.

• Tony cut Razor Fist’s Vibranium mechanical arm with his secondary Adamantium sword, then fought him with weapons and palm blasts until he sent Razor Fist flying.
• Becky attacked Tony with powerful sonic waves, blasted him into a pizza shop, and later knocked him from the sky into a civilian house after their aerial battle.
• Wenwu ordered Becky to attack, then led his team onto the Wandering Dragon as fighter jets arrived; the craft cloaked itself and flew away.
• Tony emerged from the rubble, resolved to build a large aircraft and anti-Ten Rings armor, while Fury angrily received Coulson’s report.
• Wenwu examined Thor’s electrically charged blood and planned to study Thor’s and Hulk’s genes, while considering Mystique’s or Skrull genes for future experiments.

Wenwu discovered that his Uru Divine Steel body greatly amplified his Spiritual Power and cultivation, then developed secondary adamantium for his Iron Legion. After failing to meet the Ancient One in Nepal and New York, he learned that she had deliberately avoided him because she feared what he might do if he learned magic.

• Wenwu transformed into a body of Uru Divine Steel, which doubled his Spiritual Power and let him absorb natural energy at a greatly increased rate.
• Wenwu refined his cultivation, kept his bones in their Uru state, and completed a formula for secondary adamantium to equip elite Iron Legion troops.
• Wenwu saw that Victor von Doom had lost control of his company and decided he no longer needed Victor's powers.
• Wenwu traveled to Nepal and New York seeking the Ancient One but could not find her or the Sanctum.
• Mordo asked why the Ancient One had refused to meet Wenwu, and she said that letting him learn magic would endanger the world.

Wenwu used the Star Ring Group’s smartphone launch as cover while expanding his plans, then copied Victor’s metallic body and powers during the Fantastic Four’s battle. As Wenwu prepared to kill Victor and claim his body, Spider-Man arrived on the rooftop.

• Wenwu attended the Star Ring Group’s successful smartphone launch, then left and spotted Johnny fleeing a heat-seeking missile.
• Reed Richards’s attempt to use the reversal machine failed, so Victor charged it himself and restored Ben to human form before attacking him.
• Victor absorbed the simulated cosmic storm, gained a fully metallic body and stronger powers, but a mysterious armored figure briefly immobilized him and tapped his neck.
• Wenwu copied Victor’s metal body and electrical and electromagnetic abilities while watching him fight Reed, Sue, and Ben.
• Wenwu planned to kill Victor and take his metal body, but Spider-Man landed silently on the rooftop.