Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo identified more than two thousand Hydra agents inside S.H.I.E.L.D. and killed them all at once. With the headquarters secured, he asked Fury to take him to his reward.

• Chen Mo sensed the people in the Triskelion and revealed that 2,137 of its 2,764 residents were Hydra agents.
• Chen Mo explained that he could identify people through their heartbeats, breathing, emotions, and memories.
• Chen Mo clenched his hand, and Hydra agents across the building collapsed and died simultaneously.
• Tony confirmed through JARVIS that more than two thousand life signs had suddenly ceased, while Hill reported that all hostile forces were dead.
• Chen Mo told Fury he had finished the job and asked to be taken to his reward.

After Chen Mo demanded payment for helping S.H.I.E.L.D., Fury led him, Natasha, and Tony to a secret facility containing a nearly four-meter-long corpse. Chen Mo recognized the remains as a Deviant and accepted them as payment, while Fury asked how he knew what they were.

• Tony landed in the hangar, where his banter with JARVIS and Clint eased the tension after Hill reported the deaths of 2,137 people.
• Chen Mo demanded payment, and Fury ordered Clint to secure the armory, communications center, and entrances while Natasha helped him toward the elevator.
• Tony joined Chen Mo, Fury, and Natasha as they crossed the body-filled corridor, where JARVIS reported that the victims' brains had been destroyed in the same millisecond.
• Fury used multiple security checks to lead the group into a concealed facility containing a nearly four-meter-long set of remains kept under observation.
• Chen Mo recognized the corpse as a Deviant, stirred its dormant cells through the force-field shield, and declared himself satisfied with the remains as payment.
• Fury asked Chen Mo how he knew what the creature was.

Chen Mo identified the remains as a Deviant and absorbed them, gaining fragments of memories that pointed toward a Deviant nest in Alaska. He left to hunt the remaining Deviants, while Fury and Tony stayed behind to deal with the aftermath.

• Chen Mo told Fury and Tony that the remains were a Deviant, but refused to explain who created it or whether others remained on Earth.
• Tony tried to bargain for information about the advanced race, while Fury questioned Chen Mo about the danger he might pose to Earth.
• Chen Mo absorbed the Deviant remains and gained memories of an ice field, an underground cave, and a nest somewhere in Alaska.
• Chen Mo announced that he would clear out the remaining Deviants and walked away despite Fury and Tony calling after him.

After leaving Tony and Fury, Chen Mo followed the Deviant gene's pull to a nest in northern Alaska and devoured all seventy-three Deviants inside. Memories from the creatures showed him several people who had hunted Deviants in the past, and he decided to seek them out next.

• Tony asked JARVIS to track Chen Mo's spatial fluctuations, while Natasha urged Fury to get his wound treated.
• Chen Mo arrived in northern Alaska and followed the pull of the Deviant genes to a fissure leading into an underground nest.
• Chen Mo used tendrils to capture and devour the Deviants that attacked him, including a giant that had evolved by consuming others.
• Chen Mo sensed all seventy-three Deviants in the nest and devoured every one that tried to flee.
• Chen Mo received fragments of the Deviants' memories, memorized the faces of their past hunters, and chose them as his next targets.

Chen Mo destroyed the Deviant nest beneath the mountain, then returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. and obtained the recovered star-map data from Fury. The data revealed several faces linked to ancient golden energy, and Chen Mo asked S.H.I.E.L.D. and Tony to find them, promising to explain who the Eternals were.

• Chen Mo devoured more than seventy living Deviants and the frozen specimens, then blasted through the mountain and caused the nest to collapse.
• Chen Mo returned to the S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where Fury was being treated and Tony had found no trace of the remains.
• Chen Mo took the recovered storage device from Natasha and used the star-map data to identify several faces associated with golden energy across thousands of years.
• Fury resisted helping until Chen Mo explained the faces' connection to the Deviants, while Tony agreed to run a global search through JARVIS.
• Chen Mo pointed out one of the faces and promised to explain what the Eternals were once they found them.

Chen Mo identified Phastos and Kingo among the Eternals and insisted on killing Phastos first, despite objections from Tony and Fury. After explaining that the Eternals were created by the Celestials to eliminate Deviants, he kept their larger mission secret for a price and teleported toward Phastos’s Chicago home.

• JARVIS identified Phastos as an architectural consultant in Chicago and Kingo as a Bollywood actor in Mumbai, with records showing both had maintained changing identities for decades.
• Chen Mo marked Phastos as his first target, prompting Tony and Fury to challenge his plan because Phastos lived with his husband and adopted children.
• Chen Mo explained that the Celestials created the Eternals to eliminate Deviants on Earth, while withholding their other mission until S.H.I.E.L.D. paid him.
• Fury asked Chen Mo to spare Phastos’s family, and Chen Mo promised they were not his targets.
• Chen Mo teleported toward Phastos’s address before Fury could arrange an evacuation, while Tony ordered JARVIS to track him.

Chen Mo confronted Phastos at his home, then transported him to a wasteland and killed him with the Blacklight Virus. Phastos sent a warning to the other Eternals before he died, and Chen Mo waited for them to come.

• Phastos sensed danger at dinner and sent Ben and the children upstairs as Chen Mo appeared in the living room.
• Chen Mo identified Phastos as his target and moved them both to a wasteland several kilometers away.
• Phastos attacked Chen Mo with golden mechanical restraints, but Chen Mo broke them and pinned him down.
• Phastos sent a warning to the Eternals, and Chen Mo let the message go through.
• Chen Mo consumed Phastos with the Blacklight Virus and invited the other Eternals to come.

After Phastos’s death warning reached the Eternals, several of them headed toward Chicago while Makkari raced to the crater where Chen Mo stood. Makkari attacked Chen Mo but failed to hurt him, and Ikaris arrived to confront him.

• Sersi and Sprite received Phastos’s warning in London, and Sersi left with Sprite to investigate.
• Kingo abandoned his filming in Mumbai and said he was going to Chicago, while Thena formed weapons in Australia before Gilgamesh calmed her.
• Ikaris left a bar in South America, Ajak remained by her cabin, and Druig left his village after receiving Phastos’s message.
• Makkari raced from the Domo to the crater and recognized Phastos’s Cosmic Energy in Chen Mo.
• Makkari attacked Chen Mo, but her blows failed to damage his armor and the impact injured her fingers.
• Chen Mo told Makkari that the person she had been waiting for had arrived, and Ikaris descended from the sky firing beams at Chen Mo.

Chen Mo defeated Ikaris and Makkari, revealing that he had absorbed Phastos’s powers. He deliberately let Makkari escape to gather the other Eternals, while Ikaris prepared to hold him off and Tony observed from hiding.

• Chen Mo absorbed Ikaris’s golden energy beams with mechanical patterns that revealed he had taken Phastos’s ability.
• Makkari and Ikaris attacked Chen Mo together, but he hurled Makkari away with telekinetic force and struck Ikaris into a trench.
• Tony watched from behind a ridge and asked JARVIS to analyze Chen Mo’s powers and develop a model for countering them.
• Ikaris asked why Chen Mo had killed Phastos, and Chen Mo blamed Arishem for arranging the incident that led to Phastos’s death.
• Ikaris silently told Makkari to find the other Eternals, and Chen Mo let her flee so she could gather them.
• Ikaris unleashed his full Cosmic Energy to buy time while Chen Mo said he was waiting for the Eternals and wanted a buffet.

Chen Mo overwhelmed Ikaris, absorbed his devastating eye beams, and left him unable to fight. As the other Eternals arrived and learned that Phastos was dead, Chen Mo prepared to face them.

• Ikaris attacked Chen Mo with punches, eye beams, and tendrils, but Chen Mo repeatedly countered and slammed him into the ground.
• Ikaris unleashed his remaining Cosmic Energy as a powerful eye beam, but Chen Mo's armor diverted the energy into itself while Tony studied the technology.
• Chen Mo struck Ikaris into the rubble after the beam faded, leaving him unable to fight.
• Sersi, Sprite, and Kingo arrived and found Ikaris defeated, while Makkari returned and signed that Phastos was dead and Chen Mo had taken his ability.
• Chen Mo faced the four Eternals and remarked that Ikaris would have missed the meal if they had arrived any later.

Chen Mo fought Kingo, Sprite, Sersi, and Makkari as they tried to rescue Ikaris, using their attacks to disrupt their teamwork. After breaking through their illusions and countering their escape attempts, he appeared behind Makkari as she set Ikaris down and reached for her neck.

• Kingo attacked Chen Mo with a barrage of golden energy bolts, but Chen Mo deflected them and mocked his curved shot.
• Kingo blasted the ground to create dust while Sprite filled the battlefield with illusions, allowing Makkari to race toward Ikaris.
• Sersi raised a rock wall to sever Chen Mo's tendrils from Ikaris, but blood threads emerged from Ikaris and dragged Makkari to a stop.
• Chen Mo sent mechanical rings through the rock wall to bind Sersi, forcing Kingo to abandon his attack on the tendrils and rescue her.
• Chen Mo used the opening in the group's coordination to pass through Sprite's illusions and appear behind Makkari as she set Ikaris down.

Chen Mo killed Makkari by absorbing her body, Cosmic Energy, and super-speed ability, then turned toward the remaining Eternals. Kingo tried to hold him back so Sersi could escape with Sprite and Ikaris, but Chen Mo appeared behind him.

• Chen Mo pinned Makkari down and used the Blacklight Virus to consume her body and powers while Kingo, Sersi, and Sprite failed to stop him.
• Makkari silently told Sprite to run before she was absorbed, leaving the Eternals devastated.
• Tony and JARVIS confirmed that Chen Mo had copied Makkari's high-speed energy channel.
• Kingo ordered Sersi to flee with Sprite and the injured Ikaris, then attacked Chen Mo to buy them time.
• Chen Mo dodged Kingo's blast and placed an armored hand on his shoulder from behind.

Chen Mo defeated Kingo and pursued Sersi, Sprite, and the gravely injured Ikaris after they tried to escape. He caught up with them in a gully and reached for Sersi’s forehead, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Kingo tried to sacrifice himself by detonating his Cosmic Energy, but Chen Mo severed its circuits, drained his energy, and consumed his body.
• Sersi and Sprite used dust and illusions to help themselves and Ikaris flee, while Kingo’s last shout urged them to go.
• Chen Mo shattered the illusions with a shockwave and caught the fleeing trio in their escape route.
• Chen Mo admitted that he had lured the Eternals there and killed Phastos, Makkari, and Kingo; Sersi prepared to alter the terrain as Sprite shielded Ikaris.
• Chen Mo vanished in a flash of lightning and reached past Sprite toward Sersi’s forehead.

Chen Mo killed the Eternals at the ravine and absorbed their abilities, including Sersi’s matter transmutation and Sprite’s illusions. After Tony witnessed the massacre and tried to leave, Chen Mo appeared in front of his armor.

• Sersi transmuted part of Chen Mo’s armor into stone, but his shifting components overcame her ability and the Blacklight Virus consumed her.
• Sprite used illusions to support the surviving Eternals, but Chen Mo shot her knees and exposed that he had known where she was hiding.
• As the tendrils dragged Sprite away, she confessed her love to Ikaris before Chen Mo consumed her and gained her illusion ability.
• Ikaris attacked Chen Mo after the other Eternals died, but Chen Mo defeated him and absorbed his Cosmic Energy and memories.
• Tony watched the Eternals’ life signs vanish, raised Chen Mo’s threat level, and tried to evacuate quietly.
• Chen Mo appeared less than ten centimeters from Tony’s faceplate and asked why he had not left.

Tony confronted Chen Mo after the battle, received the promised Eternals technology, and agreed to deliver a copy to Fury. Watching the battlefield’s aftermath, Tony set aside his jokes and asked Chen Mo why he had killed the Eternals.

• Tony tried to hide that he had been watching Chen Mo fight, but Chen Mo called out his excuses.
• Chen Mo gave Tony a USB drive containing the Eternals’ mechanical and energy technology and data from Phastos.
• Chen Mo told Tony to give Fury a copy, and Tony agreed to deliver it while keeping a copy for study.
• Chen Mo sensed that some Eternals were still missing and said he would go find them himself.
• Tony opened his faceplate and asked Chen Mo why he had killed the Eternals, saying he had not thought Chen Mo killed for fun.

Chen Mo told Tony that Tiamut was a Celestial embryo inside Earth and defended killing the Eternals as a way to protect humanity and gain their abilities. Tony contacted Fury with the news, while Chen Mo headed to find the remaining Eternals himself.

• Chen Mo explained that Tiamut was feeding on humanity and would destroy Earth when he emerged.
• Tony questioned whether the Eternals knew about the Emergence and challenged Chen Mo for killing them without first investigating.
• Chen Mo defended his choice, admitting that he had killed the Eternals for their useful abilities and because they could threaten Earth.
• Tony warned Chen Mo that devouring people was making him treat them as resources, but neither man changed his position.
• Chen Mo left, and Tony told JARVIS to contact Fury and report good and bad news.
• Chen Mo headed to find the remaining Eternals, who were still on Earth.

Chen Mo flew to Australia to confront Gilgamesh and Thena, having absorbed the powers and memories of several Eternals. After he revealed that he had killed their companions, Gilgamesh and Thena attacked him.

• Chen Mo detected the remaining Eternals across Earth and flew toward the stable Cosmic Energy signals in Australia.
• Gilgamesh and Thena noticed Chen Mo arriving at their camp, and Thena's memories reacted to the powers fused into his armor.
• Chen Mo told Gilgamesh and Thena that he had killed Phastos, Makkari, Kingo, Sersi, Sprite, and Ikaris.
• Gilgamesh charged Chen Mo with a golden fist as Thena followed with a spear of light.

Chen Mo defeated and devoured Gilgamesh and Thena in their camp, absorbing their powers and memories. As he prepared to seek another target, an unfamiliar voice spoke to him inside his mind.

• Chen Mo overpowered Gilgamesh and Thena, breaking through their attacks and injuring them.
• Chen Mo sealed the valley exit, and Gilgamesh and Thena chose to face him together.
• Chen Mo pierced Thena and Gilgamesh with black-and-red tendrils and began devouring them.
• Thena and Gilgamesh vanished as Chen Mo absorbed their powers, memories, and Cosmic Energy.
• Chen Mo tested his new abilities, then heard an unfamiliar voice in his mind asking to talk.

Chen Mo ignored a warning about the Celestials and hunted Druig in the Amazon, where he absorbed the Eternal and gained his mind-control ability. Ajak still could not reach Arishem, while the Ancient One intercepted another attempt to contact him.

• Chen Mo dismissed the warning about the Celestials and noted that Arishem might be unreachable.
• Ajak failed to contact Arishem through three methods, and her golden projection of him shattered.
• The Ancient One intercepted and destroyed golden threads sent toward the temple, then looked toward Australia.
• Chen Mo flew to the Amazon and confronted Druig, who tried to control him and threatened the villagers.
• Chen Mo absorbed Druig and his abilities, then released the villagers from Druig's mental control.

Chen Mo killed Ajak after revealing the Eternals’ role in preparing planets for Celestial births, then created clones of the dead Eternals to keep up appearances. The Ancient One summoned him to Kamar-Taj to discuss the Celestial inside Earth.

• Chen Mo freed the villagers from Druig’s psychic influence and used Druig’s memories to locate Ajak in South Dakota.
• Ajak confirmed that the other Eternals were dead and pleaded for Chen Mo to spare Sersi, Sprite, and Kingo, but he refused.
• Chen Mo showed Ajak memories of civilizations destroyed by Celestial births, exposing the Eternals’ true role as caretakers of planetary hatcheries.
• Ajak attacked Chen Mo, but he stopped her energy blast, impaled her, and absorbed her memories and abilities.
• Chen Mo recreated the dead Eternals as clones and sent them away to maintain their usual lives and deceive Arishem.
• The Ancient One opened a portal to Kamar-Taj and invited Chen Mo to discuss the being inside Earth.