Recaps

Chen Mo telekinetically lifted the Hamburg Mining Area, including its underground base and the mountain above it, and transported it to the Hellfire Club estate. The chapter ended with the mountain descending onto the estate’s training ground as Chen Mo told Emma to accept the club’s new workplace.

• Chen Mo asked Emma to clear the Hellfire Club’s abandoned training ground and assemble people to maintain order.
• Emma halted her meeting and ordered club members to clear the training ground and keep away from it.
• Chen Mo lifted the Hamburg Mining Area intact and carried it through the sky toward the Hellfire Club estate.
• Escaped test subjects witnessed the mining area rise and believed tentacled beings had been sent by God to save them.
• Emma realized Chen Mo could destroy the estate effortlessly and ordered everyone to retreat as the mountain descended.
• The mountain struck the estate’s wall, and Chen Mo pointed out the mining area and told Emma to sign for her new workplace.

Chen Mo moved a mountain-sized mining complex into the Hellfire Club’s manor, took control of its researchers and operations, and crushed resistance to Emma’s new authority. The chapter ended with Emma reporting German advances across Europe and admitting that the club still had no trace of Sebastian Shaw.

• Chen Mo used telekinesis to install the mining complex beside the manor, destroying much of the training ground and walls.
• Chen Mo gave Emma the researchers, equipment, and data, ordered her to resume the black-stone research, and told her to search for Sebastian Shaw.
• Emma led Chen Mo into the meeting hall and knelt beside him as he reviewed the club’s records; the members followed her example.
• Azazel killed two club members who remained standing, and Chen Mo warned that disloyal members could be replaced with duplicates.
• Emma presented the latest battle report, describing German advances across Europe and the club’s failure to locate Sebastian Shaw.

Chen Mo traced the Supreme Class Project to Berlin and went there to find Shaw, leaving Emma Frost to restart the estate’s experiments. In a hidden bunker beneath the Chancellery, he discovered a surgically altered Führer surrounded by suspicious guards and quietly entered the meeting room.

• Chen Mo dismissed Emma Frost’s concerns about the war and focused on reports that researchers had been moved to Berlin while Hitler had disappeared from public view.
• Chen Mo ordered Emma Frost to resume the experiments and research, then declared that he would take Germany and left for Berlin.
• Chen Mo surveyed Berlin from above and used his telekinesis to locate a fortified bunker beneath the Chancellery.
• Chen Mo discovered that the apparent Führer had undergone surgery and that two of his Mutant guards were secretly aiming their guns at him.
• Chen Mo concealed himself, followed an officer into the bunker’s conference room, listened to the officers argue, and closed the door behind him.

Chen Mo uncovered that Sebastian Shaw had killed Hitler, taken control of Germany, and hidden his Supreme Class Project beneath an Arctic iceberg. Chen Mo reached Shaw’s research base just as Shaw prepared to become a god, and threatened to devour him.

• Chen Mo entered the underground bunker, exposed the false Führer, and learned from his memories that Shaw had killed the real Hitler and secretly controlled Germany.
• Chen Mo devoured officers and Shaw’s Mutant guards, discovering records that led him to the Arctic research site.
• Chen Mo used convoy records and route clues to identify Shaw’s hidden base and declared that he had come to take over Germany.
• At the Arctic base, Shaw prepared to use a heart suspended in red liquid to become a god, but an alarm reported that Berlin had gone silent.
• Chen Mo emerged from dark red smoke in Shaw’s laboratory and asked whether a god would taste better than an ordinary enhanced human.

Chen Mo fought Shaw in the laboratory, allowing him to absorb energy while protecting the incubation chamber with telekinetic force. As Shaw unleashed his accumulated power, Chen Mo transported them above a vast icy sea, where their battle continued.

• Shaw attacked Chen Mo, who caught his punch and discovered that Shaw absorbed energy from their collisions.
• Shaw repeatedly forced close-quarters clashes, absorbing some of Chen Mo’s power while the fight damaged the laboratory.
• Chen Mo shielded the incubation chamber with telekinetic force and invited Shaw to keep absorbing energy.
• Shaw drained his accumulated energy into a powerful punch, plunging the laboratory into darkness as the base shook and the chamber’s reserves began leaking.
• Chen Mo raised his hand and transported himself and Shaw above an icy sea just before Shaw’s punch landed.

Chen Mo fought Sebastian Shaw over the Arctic Ocean, overwhelming him despite Shaw absorbing and returning the energy of his attacks. Chen Mo drove Shaw into the sky and struck him with enough force to overload his absorption, leaving the outcome of the final blow unresolved.

• Chen Mo caught Shaw's punch and revealed that he had acquired Azazel's teleportation ability, prompting Shaw to wonder what had happened to Azazel and the Hellfire Club.
• Chen Mo punched Shaw, and Shaw absorbed the kinetic energy before blasting it back at him.
• Chen Mo seized Shaw and slammed him into the seabed, where they exchanged powerful blows as Shaw absorbed more energy and healed from his injuries.
• Shaw claimed that Chen Mo's attacks would become the power that killed him, but Chen Mo kept escalating the fight and carried him high above the Arctic Ocean.
• Chen Mo armored his arms and struck Shaw as the energy in Shaw's body became unstable and overwhelmed his ability to absorb it.

Chen Mo overwhelmed Shaw in a brutal battle across the Arctic ice and sea, pushing Shaw’s absorption and healing abilities past their limits. After tearing off Shaw’s shoulder and half his arm, Chen Mo faced Shaw’s desperate decision to unleash all his stored energy.

• Chen Mo’s punch broke through Shaw’s golden defense and sent him crashing through the ice into the seabed.
• Shaw released stored energy in a golden blast, but Chen Mo split it and struck him back into the seabed.
• Chen Mo battered Shaw across the sea and sky, while Shaw’s healing slowed and the golden lines beneath his skin began to fail.
• Chen Mo concluded that Shaw’s energy absorption had a limit and drove him into the deep sea.
• Chen Mo tore off Shaw’s shoulder and half his arm, and Shaw erupted with all the energy he had stored.

Shaw used his stored energy to heal himself and fought Chen Mo beneath the Arctic Ocean. Chen Mo acquired Shaw’s energy-absorption ability and drained his attacks, leaving Shaw terrified and powerless.

• Shaw unleashed his stored energy, regenerated his body, and charged at Chen Mo.
• Shaw battered Chen Mo while Chen Mo’s tendrils absorbed Shaw’s severed arm and the Blacklight Virus acquired Energy Absorption.
• Chen Mo absorbed the force of Shaw’s punches and taunted him to attack harder.
• Shaw fired a golden energy blast at Chen Mo, but Chen Mo absorbed it without taking damage.
• Shaw realized Chen Mo had drained his attack, while Chen Mo asked him to keep fighting.

Chen Mo copied Shaw’s energy-absorption ability and overwhelmed Shaw after he tried to survive by defending instead of attacking. The chapter ends with Chen Mo tearing out Shaw’s heart and preparing to consume it as Shaw begins to regenerate.

• Chen Mo revealed that he had copied Shaw’s ability by analyzing the arm he had torn off, leaving Shaw convinced he could neither defeat nor escape him.
• Shaw stopped attacking and absorbed Chen Mo’s blows into a layered golden defense, hoping to stall until Chen Mo made an opening.
• Chen Mo compressed his stored energy into a powerful punch that shattered Shaw’s defenses and broke his arms and chest.
• Chen Mo reached into Shaw’s chest and ripped out his heart, but Shaw’s body began growing a new one.
• Chen Mo pierced the removed heart with black-and-red tendrils and said he would take more bites.

Chen Mo absorbed Shaw and learned the truth about the Supreme Class Project before rescuing the Arctic base and sending clones to test Shaw’s energy absorption system near the sun. He asked Emma Frost to prepare a large, sturdy new site for the base.

• Shaw triggered a massive explosion, but Chen Mo absorbed its energy through his tendrils and devoured Shaw’s remains.
• Chen Mo discovered that the gold-patterned heart was the core of the Supreme Class Project and stored it with the cultivation equipment.
• Chen Mo used telekinesis to haul the sinking Arctic base above the sea and decided to preserve its equipment and data.
• Chen Mo created two Blacklight Clones and sent them toward the sun to test their energy absorption limits.
• Chen Mo contacted Emma Frost and asked her to prepare a large, sturdy site for the base.

Chen Mo returned to the Marvel Universe after delivering Shaw’s Arctic base to Hellfire Manor and assigning Emma Frost to manage its research facilities. At Stark Tower, Tony Stark showed Chen Mo his newly upgraded armor, which assembled instantly around him.

• Chen Mo dropped Shaw’s Arctic base onto Hellfire Manor, gave Emma Frost the research data and researchers, and instructed her to recreate the cultivation environment and recruit more staff.
• Emma Frost agreed to manage the base, while Chen Mo told his clones to absorb solar energy and watch over the area before opening a dimensional rift.
• Chen Mo returned to Stark Tower, where Tony Stark complained about his disappearance and explained that he had spent forty-eight hours working on a technological upgrade.
• Tony demonstrated his new armor, which assembled from tiny metal particles and featured automatic damage repair, energy weapons, and propulsion systems.

Chen Mo returned from a trip through a place where time flowed differently and reunited with Tony, who agreed to build him custom armor. Tony told him about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s ongoing fight against Hydra, while Pepper ordered the exhausted Tony to sleep; JARVIS then revealed that Chen Mo had already registered the hotel's top floor in his own name.

• Chen Mo admired Tony's armor and persuaded him to make a sturdy black-and-red suit, joking that enemies would be frightened when they broke through it and found Chen Mo underneath.
• Tony asked where Chen Mo had been, and Chen Mo said he had gone to a time-distorted buffet and brought back a new god and a restaurant as a package deal.
• Tony told Chen Mo that S.H.I.E.L.D. had uncovered Hydra bases across several continents and that Nick Fury had sought his help dealing with modified prisoners.
• Pepper Potts found Tony awake after forty-eight hours and insisted that he go to sleep, while Tony arranged a hotel room for Chen Mo and promised to discuss the armor the next day.
• JARVIS told Chen Mo that he had registered the hotel's top floor in his own name three months earlier.

Chen Mo arrived at Tony Stark’s hotel suite and chose to shower and sleep despite not needing either, explaining that the habits reminded him he was still a person. Tony invited him to Stark Industries’ technology expo that evening, and the chapter ended with Coulson arriving to say that Director Fury had been waiting for Chen Mo.

• Chen Mo explored the luxurious penthouse suite, then showered and went to sleep without using his powers to guard himself.
• After waking, Chen Mo ate breakfast with Tony, who asked about his ordinary habits and accepted that they helped him feel human.
• Tony invited Chen Mo to Stark Industries’ technology expo to watch his new armor demonstration and act as backup if anything went wrong.
• Coulson entered the suite and told Chen Mo that Director Fury had been waiting for him.

Chen Mo refused Nick Fury’s request to join forces against Hydra, warning that he would destroy any Hydra members who approached him. He then went with Tony Stark and Coulson to Stark Industries’ technology expo, where Ivan Vanko prepared to act.

• Coulson visited Chen Mo and Tony, and Chen Mo crushed the hidden communicator in Coulson’s tie clip, bringing Fury into the conversation by hologram.
• Fury revealed that S.H.I.E.L.D. had uncovered Hydra members throughout its ranks, including former director Alexander Pierce, and asked whether Chen Mo would work with Hydra.
• Chen Mo refused to join Hydra but warned Fury he could not promise to leave its members intact if they came after him; Fury asked him to give notice and avoid populated areas.
• Fury assigned Coulson to accompany Chen Mo and Tony to the technology expo, and the three traveled there with Happy driving.
• As the expo began, Ivan Vanko entered through a maintenance corridor with metal whips hidden in his toolbox and watched Tony on the giant screen.

Tony Stark unveiled Stark Industries’ new energy technology at an expo, but Ivan attacked him with electric whips over a debt owed by Tony’s father. Chen Mo evacuated the crowd with telekinesis as Tony armored up and fought Ivan, leaving their battle underway.

• Tony arrived at the Stark Industries expo and told reporters the company would redefine energy, medicine, and technology.
• Ivan broke into the venue, revealed a crude chest reactor, and attacked Tony with electric whips.
• Chen Mo used telekinesis to guide the crowd safely out of the venue and stopped debris from hitting staff.
• Tony activated his Iron Man armor after confirming that no civilians remained inside.
• Tony and Ivan exchanged attacks, and Tony dodged Ivan’s whips before targeting him with miniature missiles.

Tony defeated Ivan Vanko at the technology expo and handed him over to S.H.I.E.L.D. Meanwhile, Chen Mo learned that his Blacklight clones had successfully begun absorbing energy from stars, leaving him considering a visit to Kamar-Taj to learn about powerful threats in the multiverse.

• Tony used separating Quake missiles and a powerful punch to defeat Ivan, whose crude chest reactor overloaded and went dark.
• Ivan accused the Stark family of stealing his father's Arc Reactor technology, but Tony demanded evidence and pressed him for the story behind their fathers.
• Coulson received Nick Fury's order to take Ivan into custody, and Tony handed Ivan over to S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
• Tony returned to the stage as reporters rushed in to photograph him, while Chen Mo watched the renewed publicity.
• Chen Mo received word that his Blacklight clones had survived the stellar absorption test and were multiplying to harvest energy from more stars.
• Chen Mo considered seeking advice from the Sorcerer Supreme at Kamar-Taj about powerful hidden figures in the multiverse.

After the Ancient One warned Chen Mo that his clones’ star-harvesting was disturbing the universe’s balance, Odin arrived at the New York Sanctum to meet him. Odin said he had come to see the being who had caused the Ancient One to change their agreement.

• Tony joked with reporters about Ivan’s attack before arguing with Coulson over Ivan’s arrest and the damage to his expo.
• Chen Mo told Tony to finish his custom armor, then opened a portal and left to meet an important old man.
• Chen Mo arrived at the New York Sanctum, where the Ancient One had prepared tea and was waiting for him.
• The Ancient One said Chen Mo’s clones were leaving the Solar System and urged him to stop harvesting stars in this universe for the time being.
• Odin appeared in the Sanctum and told Chen Mo he wanted to see the being who had made the Ancient One alter their agreement.

Chen Mo faced down Odin at the New York Sanctum while the Ancient One stopped their clash from damaging the building. After Odin left, Chen Mo asked the Ancient One to list the beings in the universe who could threaten him, and she agreed he was powerful enough to know.

• Odin tested Chen Mo's power, but Chen Mo matched his divine force with energy from the Million-Star Network.
• The Ancient One contained the collision with Mandala Magic Circles and persuaded Odin and Chen Mo to stop before the Sanctum's defenses failed.
• Odin explained that he would strip Thor of his divine power and banish him to Earth for a trial, asking Chen Mo not to interfere.
• Chen Mo agreed to leave Thor alone if he behaved, but warned Odin that he would defend himself if Thor attacked him.
• Odin departed the New York Sanctum, and Chen Mo asked the Ancient One which beings in the universe could threaten him; she said he was qualified to know.

The Ancient One showed Chen Mo the multiverse’s most powerful beings and warned him about the dangers they posed. Chen Mo fixated on the energy he could take from them and demanded coordinates to their dimensions, while the Ancient One warned that they could track him back to Earth.

• The Ancient One projected the multiverse and introduced Chen Mo to the Living Tribunal and the cosmic embodiments Eternity, Infinity, Death, and Oblivion.
• The Ancient One showed Chen Mo Galactus, but Chen Mo saw him as a mobile power bank and considered studying his energy-devouring abilities.
• The Ancient One revealed the Celestials and warned Chen Mo that provoking one could bring the entire race down on him.
• The Ancient One showed Chen Mo the dimensional demon gods Cyttorak and Shuma-Gorath and warned him never to enter their domains.
• Chen Mo asked for coordinates to the demon gods’ dimensions so his clones could scout and steal energy, but the Ancient One warned they could track him to Earth.

Chen Mo returned from Kamar-Taj and found Tony struggling to obtain enough Vibranium for his custom armor. Chen Mo used his matter-transmutation ability to create a huge supply of pure Vibranium, leaving Tony to reconsider his composite-material plans and build the suit.

• Chen Mo told Tony that the Ancient One had sent him out of Kamar-Taj after he asked for dimensional demon-god coordinates and help obtaining goods from another world.
• Tony showed Chen Mo the armor model and explained that the suit was mostly complete but needed Vibranium, which was difficult to obtain.
• Chen Mo crushed Tony's only Vibranium sample, then revealed he could reproduce the metal using matter transmutation and his vast supply of energy.
• Chen Mo generated so much Vibranium that it piled up to the laboratory ceiling and fused into a person-sized ingot.
• Tony tested the newly made Vibranium and found its properties surpassed the original sample, while Chen Mo told him to get on with making the armor.

Tony used Chen Mo’s matter transformation ability to duplicate rare materials and redesign his armor, then a burly bearded man crashed through Stark Tower’s ceiling into the lab. The man’s hammer landed at Chen Mo’s feet as Tony joked that his father could cover the damage.

• Tony gathered rare experimental alloys and asked Chen Mo to copy them.
• Chen Mo duplicated the materials until the laboratory and underground storage were filled with metal ingots.
• Tony redesigned his armor with vibranium plating, heat-resistant alloy, and energy-buffering structures, then tested the virtual model successfully.
• Chen Mo warned Tony not to assume the armor could withstand every threat in the universe.
• A burly, heavily bearded man smashed through Stark Tower’s ceiling and crashed into the lab, while his hammer rolled to Chen Mo’s feet.

Thor fell from Asgard into Tony's laboratory, where Chen Mo and Tony found him beside Mjolnir. After waking, Thor discovered he could no longer lift his hammer and learned he had become an ordinary man on Earth.

• Thor crashed through the laboratory ceiling and landed unconscious in a crater beside Mjolnir.
• Tony tried and failed to lift Mjolnir while JARVIS could not scan it.
• Odin banished Thor from Asgard and sent Mjolnir to Midgard, while Loki watched from the palace.
• Thor woke, challenged Chen Mo and Tony, and tried to lift Mjolnir.
• Thor failed to move the hammer, broke a fingernail, and realized he had lost his powers.
• Tony welcomed Thor to Earth and told him he would pay for the ceiling repairs.

Thor attacked Tony and Chen Mo after losing his divine power, but Tony restrained him before Chen Mo could eat him. Tony then tried to teach Thor about money and demanded $136 million in compensation, leaving Thor still refusing to understand the bill.

• Thor failed to lift Mjolnir, attacked Tony, and could not land a punch against his armor.
• Thor charged at Chen Mo, whose black-and-red tentacles frightened him into stopping.
• Tony used mechanical arms to restrain Thor and lock him in the security room.
• Tony calculated $136 million in damages and tried to explain dollars to Thor, who rejected the lesson.
• Tony told Chen Mo he would find Thor's father and settle the bill before allowing Chen Mo to eat Thor.

Tony and Chen Mo kept Thor and Mjolnir at Stark Tower while Nick Fury sent Coulson to assess the situation. Coulson arrived to find Tony failing to cut the hammer and Thor being forced to study loan formulas, then Thor mistook Coulson's receding hairline for a deliberate torture tactic.

• Tony ignored Fury's calls, and Chen Mo answered when Fury demanded that S.H.I.E.L.D. take custody of Thor and Mjolnir.
• Tony refused to surrender Mjolnir until Thor's debt was paid, while Chen Mo said S.H.I.E.L.D. could take Thor but must return his body.
• Fury sent Coulson to Stark Tower to assess the alien and the weapon, despite Coulson's reluctance to leave Ivan's interrogation.
• Coulson found Tony's plasma cutters smoking as he tried to cut Mjolnir, while Chen Mo discussed cooking Thor and Thor endured a loan lesson in the secure room.
• Thor saw Coulson's receding hairline and roared that S.H.I.E.L.D. had plucked a man's head bald to break the crown prince of Asgard's will.

Chen Mo explained Thor’s Asgardian identity and banishment to Coulson and Tony, who learned that Odin ruled the Nine Realms. Thor left the security room convinced his status would earn him respect, while Tony and Coulson saw an opportunity to charge the wealthy royal for the damage and services.

• Coulson asked Chen Mo about the alien in the security room after Thor kept insulting him and Tony’s equipment was destroyed during attempts to cut Mjolnir.
• Chen Mo identified the prisoner as Thor Odinson, crown prince of Asgard, and explained that Odin had stripped him of his powers and sent him to Earth to learn humility and responsibility.
• Chen Mo told Coulson that Earth was called Midgard and that Thor could regain his powers by earning Mjolnir’s approval.
• Tony learned Odin might be rich enough to make a whole Earth out of gold and opened the security room.
• Thor declared himself the Son of Odin and heir to Asgard, while Tony and Coulson recognized him as a potential source of payment.