Recaps

Chen Mo took Mia to a night market, where they played games and enjoyed a rare night out. Annie recognized him as the person who had saved her and invited him for coffee, while Mia reacted by clapping.

• Chen Mo returned to the safe house, brought Mia doughnuts and milk, and agreed to take her to the night market.
• Chen Mo bought Mia glowing bunny ears and treats, then won her a plush cat from a claw machine with her subtle help.
• Chen Mo won a basketball arcade prize for Mia and later put her on a carousel.
• Annie recognized Chen Mo as the person who had saved her at Vought Tower and followed them through the night market.
• Annie told Chen Mo she wanted to know who had saved her, then invited him to a nearby coffee shop.
• Chen Mo paused to look at Mia, who clapped twice in response to Annie’s invitation.

Chen Mo returned Mia to Allen, then met Annie, who warned him that Homelander had disappeared from public view. After learning that Soldier Boy was being held in Russia and that Homelander and Madelyn were investigating the first-generation members, Chen Mo prepared to fly there.

• Chen Mo took Mia home to Allen, who tucked her into bed with the vacant-looking cat.
• Chen Mo met Annie at a café, where she praised him for saving the passenger plane and warned that Homelander had been absent from Vought Tower.
• Chen Mo messaged Edgar, who reported that Soldier Boy was imprisoned at a secret Russian base and that Homelander and Madelyn were investigating the first-generation members.
• Chen Mo told Annie not to worry, then left the café and fashioned metal wings with jet ports from his Blacklight Virus abilities.
• Chen Mo used his telekinesis and wing jets to launch himself into the sky toward Russia.

Chen Mo broke into a Russian base to retrieve the cryogenically imprisoned Soldier Boy, and the commander released him in a desperate attempt to stop the intruder. Soldier Boy woke and attacked Chen Mo with an energy blast, but Chen Mo blocked it without moving.

• Chen Mo flew to the remote base, smashed through its entrance, and fought his way past the guards with telekinesis and Blacklight tendrils.
• The base commander realized Chen Mo was heading for the cryogenic chamber and released its lockdown, ordering the personnel to evacuate.
• Chen Mo reached the bottom level as Soldier Boy woke, tore free of his restraints, and stepped out of the chamber.
• Soldier Boy asked what Chen Mo was, then fired an energy blast at him; Chen Mo blocked it with his armored hand and telekinetic barrier.

Chen Mo overwhelmed Soldier Boy in the isolation zone and consumed him to evolve, gaining his memories and radiation energy. After escaping the collapsing base, Chen Mo headed to see what Madelyn and Homelander had prepared.

• Chen Mo stopped Soldier Boy's chest blast and mocked him before breaking his metal weapon and punching him into a wall.
• Chen Mo outmatched Soldier Boy in close combat, pinning him down as Soldier Boy tried to fight back and charge another blast.
• Chen Mo stabbed Soldier Boy's chest to suppress the blast, then used the Blacklight Virus to consume him completely.
• Chen Mo absorbed Soldier Boy's memories and abilities, gaining a new energy structure that combined with his existing powers.
• Chen Mo flew out of the destroyed base and set off to meet Madelyn and Homelander.

After devouring Soldier Boy, Chen Mo learned that Homelander and Madelyn were searching for Bombsight and a V1-Type Enhancer. He chose to let Homelander get stronger so he could fight him, while Edgar continued surveillance and planned precautions for Mia and Allen.

• Chen Mo received Edgar's report that Homelander and Madelyn were secretly tracking Bombsight to obtain the V1-Type Enhancer.
• Edgar explained that Madelyn had lost a child shortly after birth and might regard Homelander as her own child.
• Chen Mo rejected Edgar's offer to disrupt their search, wanting Homelander to become a more challenging opponent.
• Chen Mo told Edgar to monitor Homelander without interfering and to prepare an evacuation plan for Mia and Allen.
• Chen Mo demonstrated his increased power by blasting a hole through a mountain, then flew off eager to fight V1 Homelander.

Homelander admitted to Madelyn that he feared Blood Angel could kill him, but learning he had a son gave him a reason to keep fighting. With Stormfront bringing him an experimental drug, Homelander injected himself and vowed to win.

• Homelander watched footage celebrating Blood Angel and grew furious at Vought's explanation for his absence.
• Homelander confessed to Madelyn that Blood Angel had nearly killed him and suggested they flee.
• Madelyn told Homelander that he had a son whose location and condition were still unknown, urging him to win so he could protect the boy.
• Stormfront brought Homelander a silver tube of experimental drug, and he chose to take it.
• Homelander cut his wrist with Heat Vision and injected the drug.

Chen Mo and Edgar finalized plans for Carnival Island and added Homelander to the invitation list, hoping to confront him after his enhancement. Homelander arrived at Vought Tower as the plan was set to begin the next morning.

• Chen Mo watched news reports about Homelander's red Heat Vision and warned Allen and Mia to stay home.
• Chen Mo reviewed Edgar's Carnival Island arrangements, including inviting 173 supes and removing the workers before the fighting began.
• Chen Mo ordered Edgar to invite Homelander, saying he wanted to eat him after he took V1 and level up.
• Edgar arranged for Madelyn to send Homelander an invitation as a core member of The Seven, with camera coverage to pressure him into attending.
• Homelander flew toward Vought Tower as crowds cheered, and Chen Mo welcomed his quick arrival.

Homelander returned to Vought Tower and publicly promised to eliminate Chen Mo, then confronted him in Edgar’s office. Chen Mo challenged him to a fight at Carnival Island the next day, leaving both men committed to the confrontation.

• Homelander made a public speech beneath Vought Tower, claiming he had completed a mission and would eliminate the monster Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo and Edgar watched Homelander’s speech, and Chen Mo joked about the script and Homelander’s promotional poster.
• Homelander entered the office and attacked Chen Mo with Heat Vision, but Chen Mo stopped and pushed back the beams with a telekinetic barrier.
• Edgar reminded Homelander that the crowd and cameras were watching, so Homelander restrained himself instead of attacking Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo proposed Carnival Island as the location for their fight, and Homelander agreed to kill him there the next day.
• Edgar confirmed Homelander’s attendance at the Carnival Island event, and Chen Mo said the feast would begin tomorrow.

Chen Mo dismissed Homelander’s online campaign and focused on Carnival Island, then reassured Allen and Mia that he could defeat the newly strengthened Homelander. The chapter ended with Edgar informing Chen Mo that Homelander had announced his engagement.

• Homelander used interviews and livestreams to portray Blood Angel as a hidden monster and promised to bring him to justice.
• Chen Mo declined to respond officially and told Edgar to keep the Carnival Island preparations on schedule for the next morning.
• Allen argued with Homelander’s fans online, and Chen Mo took over to insult them until Allen warned him about getting the account banned.
• Allen asked whether Chen Mo could beat Homelander, and Chen Mo confirmed that Homelander had grown stronger but promised he would win.
• Edgar messaged Chen Mo that Homelander had announced he was getting engaged soon.

Chen Mo rejected Edgar’s plan to exploit Homelander’s fiancée and flew to Carnival Island for their fight. He arrived to find Homelander had already massacred the island’s superhumans, and the two faced off on the blood-soaked beach.

• Edgar proposed using Vought’s intelligence network to identify and control Homelander’s fiancée, but Chen Mo refused because he wanted to fight and consume Homelander at full strength.
• Chen Mo left Allen and Mia at home, then flew toward Carnival Island.
• Chen Mo sensed blood and smoke over the island and realized Homelander had begun killing the superhumans Vought had gathered there.
• Homelander burned three fleeing superheroes with Heat Vision and stomped another superhuman to death before confronting Chen Mo.
• Homelander called Chen Mo a monster and threatened to destroy the meal Chen Mo had planned to consume.

Chen Mo and Homelander fought a destructive battle over Carnival Island, tearing the island apart and drawing alarmed attention from news crews, the military, and Allen and Mia. The island was destroyed, but Chen Mo and Homelander remained alive and faced each other across the churning water.

• Chen Mo and Homelander traded blows in the air and on the ground, smashing through a hotel and trading Heat Vision attacks.
• Chen Mo struck Homelander with a spiked punch, and the two clashed their powerful beams, splitting Carnival Island apart.
• News broadcasts and military monitors captured the battle, while Allen and Mia watched from a safe house and hoped Chen Mo would return.
• Chen Mo and Homelander continued fighting across the ruined island, wounding each other as their bodies rapidly healed.
• Chen Mo and Homelander released energy into each other's faces, destroying the last of Carnival Island and sending them flying apart.
• Chen Mo stopped himself in midair while Homelander crashed through the island's eastern remnant, and they faced each other across the central chasm.

Chen Mo overwhelmed Homelander in a brutal battle after Carnival Island was destroyed, using his strength and endless metal blades to wear him down. The chapter ended with Homelander defeated and Chen Mo dismissing him as someone he would soon forget.

• Homelander recovered from the island’s destruction and charged Chen Mo, but Chen Mo struck him into the sea.
• Chen Mo pursued Homelander across the debris and cut him with his blade while battering him with close-range attacks.
• Chen Mo released a storm of metal blades from his wings, shredding Homelander’s suit and opening wounds faster than he could heal.
• Homelander burned through the blades with his Heat Vision and attacked Chen Mo, but Chen Mo seized his wrist and crushed his chest with a punch.
• Chen Mo continued striking Homelander and sent him skimming across the sea until he could no longer defend himself.
• Chen Mo looked down at the defeated Homelander and said he would probably have forgotten him by the next day.

After defeating Homelander, Chen Mo listened as the dying supe confronted the truth about his need for love and asked Chen Mo to consume his body before Vought could claim it. Chen Mo prepared to honor the request, but a helicopter approached through the sea fog.

• Chen Mo taunted the badly wounded Homelander as V1's power faded and his injuries worsened.
• Homelander said people had lied about loving him, then admitted he knew Madelyn feared him and had lied about his son.
• Chen Mo told Homelander he treated affection and fear as tools rather than needing anyone's approval.
• Homelander asked Chen Mo to eat him so Vought could not turn his body into souvenirs, and Chen Mo agreed.
• A helicopter appeared over the water before Chen Mo could strike, and he wondered whether someone had come to collect Homelander's corpse.

Chen Mo devoured Homelander above the ruins of Carnival Island, breaking through a new limit and frightening the nearby military fleet into retreat. He flew away after telling Edgar to prepare a place for him to rest and find him more food.

• A joint military force saw drone footage of Chen Mo consuming Homelander and raised its combat readiness.
• Chen Mo absorbed Homelander's memories and body, then evolved as his armor's energy surged beyond the instruments' limits.
• Chen Mo's shockwave sent several attack helicopters crashing into the sea, and the commander ordered the fleet to withdraw while reporting Homelander dead.
• Chen Mo called Edgar, declined to launch Vought's public relations plan, and asked him to arrange a safe zone and find new ingredients.
• Chen Mo flew into the clouds, telling Edgar to prepare large set meals and something novel.

Chen Mo returned to the safe house after killing and eating Homelander, then learned that governments were treating him as a major threat and planning an investigation of Carnival Island. He went to Vought Tower, where Edgar briefed him on international pressure and nuclear threats, leaving Chen Mo baffled that anyone dared to threaten him.

• Chen Mo returned to the safe house, reassured Mia, told Allen he had killed and eaten Homelander, and warned them to stay indoors before falling asleep.
• The next morning, Chen Mo, Allen, and Mia watched news reports about a multinational investigation near Carnival Island and the search for a mysterious dark red figure.
• Chen Mo told Allen and Mia to stay home and went to Vought Tower to check on the company.
• Edgar told Chen Mo that several countries were demanding access to Vought's files and that some officials had proposed using nuclear weapons against him.
• Chen Mo ordered Edgar to fire the deputy head of public relations for proposing international cooperation, then wondered where the officials had found the courage to threaten him.

Chen Mo and Edgar confronted Vought directors and government representatives who planned to seize the company’s assets and remove Edgar. Chen Mo disguised himself as an assistant to enter their meeting, then revealed himself as the room’s leaders recognized him and fell to their knees.

• Edgar showed Chen Mo reports revealing the joint investigation team’s plans to seal the abyss, investigate Homelander’s death, and take control of Vought’s Compound V data.
• Ashley reported that Vought’s board had called an emergency meeting and intended to remove Edgar in favor of a leader who would cooperate with the investigation team.
• Edgar displayed evidence of the directors’ and representatives’ misconduct, while the board members proposed suspending his authority and taking control of Vought.
• Chen Mo disguised himself as an assistant and accompanied Edgar into the boardroom, where he served coffee as Edgar challenged the directors’ demands.
• Chen Mo’s disguise faded, causing two government representatives and several directors to recognize him and drop to their knees; Chen Mo then unleashed a wave of energy from his fingertip.

Chen Mo took control of Vought’s board meeting, using Edgar’s evidence to expose a scheme to sell company data and proposing to turn government investigators into part of Vought’s supply chain. After binding the surviving directors and securing Edgar’s position, Chen Mo sent the young representative to identify the people stirring up trouble.

• Chen Mo killed several directors who supported challenging Vought’s leadership, leaving the rest terrified as Edgar resumed the meeting.
• Edgar revealed a network of directors, officials, and companies planning to transfer Compound V data and residual V1 samples before a joint review.
• Edgar proposed controlling key government officials and turning outside pressure into a global supply chain, and Chen Mo approved the plan.
• Chen Mo used tendrils to bind the surviving directors, who unanimously signed documents keeping Edgar in his position.
• Chen Mo bound the two representatives and ordered the young representative to find out who was stirring up trouble.

Chen Mo took control of Air and Space One, subdued the president, and brought him to Vought Tower, where the president proposed using vulnerable people and children as experimental subjects. Chen Mo killed him and ordered Edgar to become president, leaving the country under Chen Mo’s control and Edgar set to lead its government.

• With government communications collapsing, the president and his advisers considered launching a nuclear strike against Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo appeared aboard Air and Space One, stopped the president from pressing the nuclear button, and made him submit.
• Chen Mo brought the president to Vought Tower, where Edgar reported that the administrative network and most of the military were under control.
• Chen Mo ordered the president and Edgar to find criminals for experiments, but the president also proposed taking homeless people, missing persons, and children.
• Chen Mo killed the president and ordered Edgar to become president.

Chen Mo devoured criminals on an island for a week, then discovered he could perceive and travel between worlds. After scouting several worlds, he returned to Vought Tower and prepared to explore the newly opened “gacha pool.”

• Chen Mo used mind reading and his tendrils to kill criminals on the island, including a boy he left for the other inmates to torment.
• For a week, Edgar supplied convicted criminals for Chen Mo to expose to Temp V and devour, expanding his abilities.
• After eating a fraudster who could conjure coins, Chen Mo gained the ability to perceive worlds and sent clones to scout them.
• Chen Mo's clones found outer space, a seemingly endless ocean, and a world inhabited by dinosaurs.
• The next morning, Ashley fainted when she saw a velociraptor at Chen Mo's desk, while Edgar calmly greeted Chen Mo after he changed back into human form.
• Chen Mo told Edgar he could now cross worlds, though he had yet to find anything useful, and said the gacha pool was open.

Chen Mo struggled through a string of useless world explorations before arriving in a city under attack by Abomination. After Abomination punched him through a convenience store, Chen Mo returned unharmed and stopped the monster’s next attack with one finger, leaving the soldiers, agents, and reporters stunned.

• Chen Mo complained to Ashley and Edgar about repeatedly landing in empty or hostile worlds, and Edgar began classifying exploration sites as cross-world assets.
• Chen Mo sent a clone through the passage and found himself on a ruined city street, where Abomination punched him through a convenience store.
• Chen Mo took control of the clone, recognized Abomination and the surrounding agents, and identified the lead agent as Hawkeye.
• Chen Mo taunted Abomination, who charged at him in a rage while the nearby soldiers and reporters watched.
• Chen Mo stopped Abomination’s fist with one finger while holding a bottle of cola, stunning everyone at the scene.

Chen Mo overwhelmed Abomination in front of reporters, soldiers, and Bruce Banner, but before he could finish dealing with him, Tony Stark arrived in his armor and confronted Chen Mo. The battle paused with Tony demanding that Chen Mo let Abomination go.

• Chen Mo blocked Abomination’s punches with ease while reporters filmed, and Thaddeus Ross ordered his troops to withdraw and investigate the stranger.
• Hawkeye reported that Chen Mo needed a threat level beyond the existing charts, while Bruce Banner decided he did not need to jump into the fight.
• Chen Mo launched Abomination into the air, kicked him down, and smashed him against the street before pinning him to the ground.
• Chen Mo revealed blood tendrils and considered Abomination potential food as reporters and soldiers watched.
• Tony Stark landed beside Chen Mo and Abomination, aimed his palm cannons at Chen Mo, and told him to take his hand off Abomination.

Chen Mo overpowered Abomination, took him from the confrontation with Iron Man, and vanished using a spatial trick. He left Abomination in an abandoned warehouse and prepared to make him his first meal in a new world.

• Tony Stark confronted Chen Mo and demanded that he release Abomination, while S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hawkeye monitored the scene.
• Chen Mo explained that he wanted to eat Abomination and noted the gamma energy in his body.
• Abomination lunged at Chen Mo, who caught him and slammed him into the rubble before lifting him by his back spurs.
• Chen Mo used a spatial trick to vanish with Abomination, leaving Tony and the onlookers behind.
• Nick Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to classify Chen Mo as a high-priority unknown teleporter and investigate.
• Chen Mo tossed Abomination onto the floor of an abandoned warehouse and prepared to eat him.

Chen Mo devoured Abomination and gained new strength and resistance, while Tony and Fury investigated his sudden appearance. The Ancient One confronted Chen Mo in the warehouse, and Chen Mo prepared to leave rather than wait for answers.

• Chen Mo devoured Abomination, absorbed his memories and gamma energy, and developed stronger abilities.
• Tony reviewed footage of Chen Mo and told JARVIS to prioritize the Anti-Mysterious-Asshole Armor.
• Fury ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to investigate Chen Mo’s disappearance and the evidence he left behind.
• The Ancient One appeared in the warehouse and said he had come to trace a disturbance in the threads of fate.
• Chen Mo told the Ancient One he would find answers himself, and the Ancient One raised a finger without explaining what he meant.

Chen Mo negotiated a deal with the Ancient One to protect Earth when necessary in exchange for her body and part of her legacy after her death. They agreed on limits to his obligations, and Chen Mo left the story committed to the bargain.

• The Ancient One told Chen Mo that his arrival had clouded the future she once saw clearly and asked him to protect Earth when necessary.
• Chen Mo asked for a reward, and the Ancient One offered him her physical body and the legacy she chose to leave behind after her death, excluding her soul.
• Chen Mo set terms that he would not accept guilt trips or be summoned at will, and that he could deal with anyone who provoked him as long as Earth was not endangered.
• The Ancient One accepted Chen Mo's terms and clasped his hand to seal the deal.

After making a deal with the Ancient One, Chen Mo explored New York, where he crossed paths with Daredevil and headed to Stark Tower. Tony’s surveillance detected him as he prepared to take a tourist photo.

• After the Ancient One left, Chen Mo erased the warehouse traces and changed into tourist clothes.
• Chen Mo bought a hot dog and watched news coverage of the Harlem incident, where his face had been poorly blurred.
• Matt Murdock tripped a purse snatcher and sensed Chen Mo’s overwhelming presence; Chen Mo greeted him before moving on.
• Chen Mo walked to Stark Tower, took a stolen phone to photograph himself, and noticed the tower’s hidden cameras scanning him.