Chapter Summaries

Chen Mo asked the Ancient One to locate Tiamut and learned that the sleeping Celestial was intertwined with Earth’s life energy and could not be found before its emergence. The Ancient One showed him visions of Dormammu, Thanos, and Tiamut threatening Earth, then revealed futures in which Chen Mo remained standing after the planet was destroyed.

• Chen Mo asked the Ancient One to find Tiamut so he could reach it before it awakened, but the Ancient One explained that it was connected to the life energy of the entire planet and could not yet be located.
• Chen Mo agreed to honor his promise to help the Ancient One against threats, including a Celestial, while admitting that he wanted to devour one and evolve.
• The Ancient One showed Chen Mo visions of Dormammu consuming a city, Thanos amid warship wreckage, and Tiamut emerging through the Earth.
• Chen Mo asked about the threats, and the Ancient One said Dormammu was difficult to kill, Thanos had many possible futures, and Tiamut’s awakening had been altered by an outside force.
• Chen Mo saw countless futures in his teacup in which Earth was destroyed and he remained standing, and the Ancient One said he was the only person she had seen still standing after every destruction.

Chen Mo learned that Earth’s destruction in the futures he saw depended on an unknown critical choice, then opened a passage to scout another world. He arrived on a World War II battlefield and discovered that someone there had superhuman power.

• The Ancient One showed Chen Mo visions of Earth destroyed despite his surviving, and said an unknown critical choice determined the outcome.
• Chen Mo dismissed the need to seek a specific path and vowed to rely on greater strength to defeat future threats.
• Chen Mo found a stable passage through the Blacklight Network and opened it to explore another world.
• Chen Mo stepped through the rift and arrived amid a World War II battle, where he bent a soldier’s rifle with one hand.
• Chen Mo sensed an extraordinary surge of life force as a tank was hurled into the German position.

Chen Mo arrived on a World War II battlefield where Mutants and enhanced soldiers fought for Germany and the Soviet Union, and learned from a dying German soldier that Sebastian Shaw led Germany’s Mutant forces. After revealing his Blacklight Virus armor amid attacks from both sides, Chen Mo called on everyone to surrender.

• Soviet Mutants and German armored enhanced soldiers clashed with ice, flames, telekinesis, and energy attacks across the battlefield.
• Chen Mo captured a wounded German enhanced soldier and absorbed his memories, learning about Germany’s serum experiments, the classes of enhanced soldiers, and Sebastian Shaw’s alliance with Germany.
• Chen Mo devoured the enhanced soldier and concluded that the world’s history had diverged because Mutants and enhanced soldiers had changed the war.
• Chen Mo entered the center of the battle and endured the fighters’ combined attacks without injury.
• Chen Mo hovered above the battlefield and demanded that everyone surrender with their hands on their heads.

Chen Mo destroyed a German force attacking Yelena’s Soviet squad and learned that stronger enhanced soldiers were fighting nearby. A radio report then revealed that several Battleship Class enemies had entered the Soviet rear.

• Yelena ordered the exhausted Mutants to retreat while Chen Mo faced the advancing Germans.
• Ivan sensed danger and forced his teammates to stay down as Chen Mo fired golden projectiles that incapacitated twenty-two enhanced soldiers and silenced the German position.
• Chen Mo absorbed the fallen Germans’ memories and learned that larger battles involving Destroyer Class and Cruiser Class soldiers were underway nearby.
• Yelena introduced herself as commander of the Soviet Union Seventh Special Operations Squad and asked Chen Mo to help, but he demanded a price.
• A radio transmission reported that several Battleship Class enemies had entered the Soviet rear before an explosion cut off the call.

Yelena offered herself and her abilities to Chen Mo in exchange for help rescuing the troops trapped behind the second line of defense. Chen Mo carried her to the battlefield, where Yelena tried to stop a falling tank before Chen Mo destroyed it in midair.

• Yelena stopped Chen Mo and offered her body, ability, and knowledge if he rescued the troops behind the second line of defense.
• Ivan and the other squad members tried to stop Yelena, but she ordered them to stay and gather the wounded before leaving with Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo flew with Yelena toward the second line of defense as she warned him about the terrain and an anti-aircraft position.
• They reached the shattered trenches and saw a tank tumbling toward retreating soldiers.
• Yelena used her remaining ice ability against the tank, and Chen Mo blew it up in midair.

Chen Mo defended Yelena and the Soviet soldiers from an imperial force of Mutants, defeating their attackers and overpowering their strongest enhanced human. He pinned the leader in the mud and asked how much his life was worth.

• Chen Mo landed with Yelena in front of the evacuation corridor as imperial soldiers arrived and demanded that she be handed over.
• Chen Mo refused the empire's offer to switch sides and insulted the leader and his organization.
• The enemy Mutants attacked Chen Mo with metal fragments, steam, and a mental assault, but Chen Mo resisted and defeated several of them.
• The Battleship Class enhanced human struck Chen Mo, but Chen Mo endured the blow and drove him into the ground.
• Chen Mo pinned the injured leader beneath his foot and asked how much his life was worth.

Chen Mo killed the Battleship Class enhanced human Williams, absorbed his energy and memories, and learned of the Glory Class and Supreme Class projects. He headed for the eastern main battlefield, where a powerful pillar of light revealed several formidable life signals.

• Chen Mo held Williams down as the enhanced human powered up, but stomped him back into the ground and crushed his head.
• Chen Mo absorbed Williams and learned that the empire had Glory Class and Supreme Class projects, including a Glory Class fighter named Siegfried on the eastern main battlefield.
• Chen Mo learned that German forces were preparing a blitzkrieg and left for the main battlefield, while Yelena asked him to save their soldiers.
• Yelena and Ivan watched Chen Mo depart, then a pillar of light erupted over the eastern battlefield.
• Chen Mo sensed three life fluctuations beyond Battleship Class and accelerated toward the main battlefield.

Siegfried overwhelmed the Soviet defenders until Erik and Charles joined forces to resist him, but Charles could not penetrate his psychic-blocking helmet. As Erik prepared a massive metal spear, Chen Mo arrived on the battlefield, and Charles recoiled after sensing the vast darkness within him.

• Siegfried killed a Soviet Battleship Class enhanced human and mocked the defenders, claiming Katyusha had been intercepted and would arrive too late.
• Erik used his magnetic power to hurl tanks and artillery at Siegfried, while Charles tried and failed to breach Siegfried's helmet with psychic attacks.
• Erik began compressing battlefield wreckage into a giant metal spear and asked Charles to buy him time.
• Chen Mo tore through the clouds and appeared above the battlefield as Erik prepared to attack.
• Charles's psychic power touched Chen Mo and plunged into a vast, chaotic darkness, prompting him to ask whether the Empire had completed a Supreme Class.

Charles and Erik mistook Chen Mo for a German Supreme Class weapon as Siegfried manipulated both sides into attacking him. The chapter left Chen Mo stopping Erik’s metal spear and Siegfried’s charged punch at the same time.

• Charles failed to enter Chen Mo’s mind and warned Erik that Chen Mo might be a German Supreme Class enhanced human.
• Erik prepared a massive metal spear while Charles ordered the Soviet troops to retreat.
• Siegfried falsely announced that a German Supreme Class weapon had arrived and urged the German enhanced humans to attack.
• Charles sensed Siegfried’s deception, but Erik still launched the spear as Siegfried charged Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo stopped the spear with his left hand and met Siegfried’s fist with his right.

Chen Mo stopped Erik’s spear and Siegfried’s punch, then defeated Siegfried and forced both armies to halt. As Erik, Charles, and Siegfried prepared to fight him again, Chen Mo summoned blood threads and announced he would collect his business trip allowance.

• Chen Mo caught Erik’s metal spear with one hand and stopped Siegfried’s powerful punch with the other.
• Erik pushed himself to his limit trying to drive the spear through Chen Mo, but Charles warned that Erik might collapse first.
• Chen Mo threw the spear back toward Erik and kicked Siegfried away, while Charles pulled Erik to safety with telekinesis.
• Chen Mo broke Siegfried’s energy barrier and sent him crashing through German troops and into a bunker.
• Both armies stopped fighting and watched Chen Mo, who asked why they had all stopped and challenged Erik and Siegfried to continue.
• Erik, Charles, and Siegfried readied themselves to fight again as Chen Mo summoned black-and-red blood threads and said he would collect his business trip allowance.

Chen Mo defeated Siegfried and consumed him with the Blacklight Virus, absorbing his energy structure and memories. He then called out to the retreating Charles and Erik about their unpaid subsidies.

• Charles tried to communicate with Chen Mo but recoiled from the chaotic consciousnesses in his mind, while Erik warned him and led them backward.
• Siegfried transformed and charged Chen Mo, but Chen Mo caught his attacks and overwhelmed him in a brutal fight.
• Siegfried gathered his remaining energy to self-destruct, but Chen Mo tore the energy from his chest and engulfed him in a flesh cocoon.
• The cocoon collapsed into Chen Mo, who absorbed Siegfried's energy structure and memories.
• Chen Mo spotted Charles and Erik retreating and called after them about their unpaid subsidies.

Chen Mo fought off the Hellfire Club reinforcements while Erik and Charles escaped toward the Soviet positions. After the Hellfire Club found Siegfried’s energy signature inside Chen Mo, he prepared to attack them next.

• Erik carried Charles away while Chen Mo remained on the battlefield, and Azazel and Emma Frost arrived with Hellfire Club soldiers.
• Emma Frost probed Chen Mo’s mind and recoiled in pain, while Charles warned the newcomers to stay away from him.
• Azazel ordered his group to capture Chen Mo as he went to search for Siegfried, and Chen Mo let Erik and Charles retreat while he assessed the reinforcements.
• A silver-eyed soldier detected Siegfried’s energy inside Chen Mo, who revealed the energy in his hand and said the Hellfire Club soldiers would be eaten next.

Chen Mo fought Azazel, Emma Frost, and a squad of enhanced soldiers on the battlefield, overwhelming them despite their combined attacks. He caught Azazel and Emma as they tried to escape, leaving them at his mercy.

• Azazel escaped with Emma Frost in a cloud of smoke as six enhanced soldiers attacked Chen Mo.
• Erik carried Charles away while Charles asked whether they should warn the soldiers, and Erik said they would not listen.
• Chen Mo resisted the soldiers' attacks, killed the silver-eyed woman with a mental counterattack, and smashed through the others' assault.
• The remaining soldiers fled, but Chen Mo impaled them with spikes that burst from the ground.
• Azazel and Emma regrouped at a distance, where Emma's diamond arm was badly cracked, and Chen Mo absorbed corpses before approaching them.
• Chen Mo appeared beside Azazel and Emma, stopped Azazel from teleporting away, and threatened them with a bad review.

Chen Mo defeated Azazel and Emma Frost, killed Azazel, and absorbed his memories and teleportation ability. As the Soviet forces retreated, Chen Mo kept Emma alive as a possible subordinate and sent her to find the Black King.

• Chen Mo forced Azazel and Emma Frost to surrender, then killed Azazel and absorbed his memories and teleportation ability.
• Erik and Charles reached the Soviet lines, where they told Katyusha that Siegfried was dead and described the stranger who had defeated him.
• Katyusha ordered the remaining Soviet troops to abandon the city and retreat, taking Erik and Charles with her.
• Chen Mo learned the Black King's location from Azazel's memories and decided to keep Emma alive after she offered to take over the Hellfire Club.
• Chen Mo released Emma and ordered her to find the Black King's address and prove her worth.

Chen Mo revived the dead Hellfire Club members and sent Emma Frost to take control of the club’s resources. As the Soviet army evacuated the city, Yelena arrived to fulfill her deal with Chen Mo, but Katyusha approached before they could settle it.

• Emma Frost agreed to prove her worth to Chen Mo and explained she needed help returning to the club and securing her position.
• Chen Mo resurrected Azazel and the others, then ordered Emma to seize the club’s money, contacts, and laboratories and gather the Germans’ modified humans and Mutants.
• Azazel took Emma and the resurrected figures away as Chen Mo watched the Soviet army evacuate the city.
• Yelena found Chen Mo, confirmed Siegfried was dead, and said she had come to fulfill their deal.
• Yelena moved to kiss Chen Mo, but he stopped her and looked toward Katyusha as she approached through the crowd.

Chen Mo captured Katyusha and teleported with her away from the evacuation, despite her unleashing her energy to escape. They appeared above Tokyo, where her blast devastated the city.

• Katyusha thanked Chen Mo for helping people survive the war, but Chen Mo said he wanted her body and abilities.
• Chen Mo rejected Katyusha’s attempt to delay him until the evacuation was complete and offered to fight her in an uninhabited zone.
• Katyusha attacked Chen Mo, but he appeared behind her, seized her, and activated his teleportation ability.
• Katyusha unleashed a powerful energy blast as they vanished, leaving Yelena and the Soviet soldiers behind.
• Chen Mo and Katyusha appeared above Tokyo, where her golden blast reduced much of the city to rubble.

Chen Mo teleported Katyusha from Kyiv to Tokyo, where her explosive arrival devastated much of the city and led to a battle between them. As Japan’s forces sent Yamato to intervene, he saw the scale of the fight and fled, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Katyusha’s attack devastated central Tokyo, and Chen Mo revealed that he had teleported her there from Kyiv.
• Katyusha recognized Japan and prepared to fight Chen Mo, who struck her down before she could unleash her full power.
• Japan’s command centers lost contact with Tokyo and ordered Yamato, their strongest available modified human, to respond.
• Yamato reached Tokyo, saw the battle’s destructive scale, and claimed he would circle around to attack from behind.
• Yamato shut off his communicator and fled into the distance.

Chen Mo fought Katyusha across the ruins of Tokyo, studying her attacks and adapting his own energy to match them. When Katyusha gathered her remaining strength for a final close-range strike, Chen Mo copied her move and obliterated the right half of her body, leaving the city beneath them as a crater.

• The general ordered Yamato to support Tokyo, but a technician reported that Yamato had turned off his communicator.
• Chen Mo endured Katyusha's golden attacks, observed how her energy worked, and copied her beam technique to destroy her net of light.
• Chen Mo and Katyusha exchanged blows across towns, mountains, and cities as Katyusha's energy weakened while Chen Mo's power continued to grow.
• Katyusha condensed her remaining energy into a close-range attack and charged Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo revealed that he had copied the move, and his strike obliterated the right half of Katyusha's body and blasted a crater into the city below.

After defeating Katyusha, Chen Mo extracted and copied her power, then restored enough of her body to keep her alive and ordered her to gather survivors, research data, and useful modified humans in Japan. He left her with conditions and a living weapon, while Japan’s devastation and the danger to the Soviet evacuation group remained.

• Chen Mo found Katyusha dying in a crater, extracted her genes and energy structures, and learned she had fought to protect fleeing people.
• Chen Mo used a golden space-based attack to erase Osaka and carve a vast chasm through Japan, then healed Katyusha with Blacklight tissue.
• Chen Mo ordered Katyusha to find survivors, research data, weapons, and modified humans while forbidding her from using civilians as experimental material.
• Katyusha agreed to stay so the Soviet evacuation group would not come looking for Chen Mo, and secured his promise not to kill them unless they attacked first.
• Chen Mo gave Katyusha a flesh cocoon as insurance, told her to prioritize Glory Class research, and left after promising to tell the Soviets she was alive.

Chen Mo returned to Kyiv and told Yelena and the Soviet soldiers that Katyusha was alive, easing their fears without revealing what had happened to her. He told Yelena to evacuate with the convoy for now and said he would collect on her debt later, as he turned his attention to the Black King and the German laboratories.

• In Japan's ruins, Katyusha inspected the repaired but strangely marked hand Chen Mo had left her with and called it ugly.
• In Kyiv, Yelena held off seven Soviet soldiers who wanted to confront Chen Mo over Katyusha, while the evacuation continued around them.
• Chen Mo returned, told the veteran that Katyusha was alive and had been sent away to work, and the soldiers lowered their weapons and left.
• Yelena asked Chen Mo whether Katyusha was truly alive, and he confirmed that she was.
• Yelena reminded Chen Mo of their deal, and he told her to leave with the convoy until he finished dealing with the Black King and other matters.