Recaps

After the Battle of New York, Su Zhou dealt with the public’s belief that he was an angel while the Avengers prepared to introduce themselves at a press conference. The chapter ended with a reporter asking Su Zhou whether he had a girlfriend.

• Su Zhou recalled that the Battle of New York had ended with him being mistaken for an angel, prompting the Holy See to support the claim and the public to demand a divine revelation.
• Tony asked Pepper Potts to prepare a suit for Su Zhou, who rejected the white outfit and joked that he had met Lucifer.
• Tony gathered the Avengers for a press conference, while Alexander asked Su Zhou to serve as Hydra’s public face.
• Before the press conference, Tony warned the reporters to follow strict rules and cautioned them about Su Zhou and Banner.
• The Avengers appeared at the Stark Building press conference, and Su Zhou chose a nervous reporter to ask the first question.
• Su Zhou calmed the reporter by giving her a feather, and she asked him whether he had a girlfriend.

Su Zhou revealed that Earth’s leaders had drawn the attention of alien powers by turning cosmic energy into weapons, and warned that larger invasions could follow. He reassured the public that Earth was protected, then threatened politicians who caused disasters and tried to shift the blame.

• Su Zhou told the reporters that S.H.I.E.L.D.’s weapons research had drawn the Chitauri and Thanos to Earth and could invite stronger alien invasions.
• Eddie Brock asked how Earth would defend itself, and Su Zhou said Odin was responsible for Midgard while Asgard’s strongest son, Thor, had come to help.
• Su Zhou claimed he had secretly stopped two other alien invasions, then told Tony that one had happened in the future.
• Su Zhou assured the public that the Avengers would defend Earth and said he did not intend to rule or interfere in international affairs.
• Su Zhou warned politicians not to blame him for disasters they caused, summoned his Uru armor, and threatened them with an army of demons from Hell.

Su Zhou rejected Hydra’s attempt to use him to legitimize the organization and went to expose its crimes. After stopping Alexander’s forces from shooting him, Su Zhou took control of the base and ordered its members to document Hydra’s activities.

• Su Zhou left the press conference, insisting that the Avengers remain neutral in national disputes and independent of government control.
• Su Zhou traveled to a Hydra base that was actually a S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost and used the Mind Stone to control its Hydra members.
• Su Zhou summoned Secretary Alexander and ordered the controlled members to write down their crimes and everything they knew about Hydra.
• Alexander arrived with the Winter Soldier and Crossbones’s armed squad, recognized that Su Zhou had turned against Hydra, and ordered them to fire.
• Su Zhou stopped the bullets and grenades with the Space Stone, disarmed the squad with the Mind Stone, and told Alexander to bring every Hydra member he knew to the base.

Su Zhou freed Bucky from Hydra’s control and discovered that Bucky had failed to kill Howard and Maria Stark because Alexei Shostakov had taken them away. After stopping Bucky from attacking him, Su Zhou urged him to atone for his actions and gave him Steve’s number.

• Su Zhou freed Bucky from Hydra’s control, read his memories, and learned that Alexei Shostakov had rescued Howard and Maria Stark from Bucky’s failed assassination mission.
• Bucky tried to punch Su Zhou, who stopped him and learned that Bucky intended to face a military tribunal after saying goodbye to Steve.
• Su Zhou reassured Bucky that he could atone and compared his effort to destroy Hydra with making amends for the body’s past.
• Bucky asked Su Zhou, whom he believed to be an angel, whether he could truly atone, and Su Zhou gave him a phone with Steve’s number.

Su Zhou exposed and subdued the Hydra members at the S.H.I.E.L.D. base, then handed the evidence and cleanup to Steve, Natasha, and Hawkeye. He left to return three Asgardian heirs home, while Steve discovered Bucky had Su Zhou’s phone and could not call him back for help.

• Bucky reunited with Steve after Steve brought Natasha and Hawkeye to the base, where Hydra agents were writing confessions.
• Nick Fury arrived, and Su Zhou revealed that the base was full of Hydra members, including Secretary Alexander.
• Su Zhou gave Steve the confessions and handed Natasha and Hawkeye two USB drives containing evidence, asking the three to handle Hydra.
• Natasha restrained Su Zhou and demanded to know why he was leaving, so he explained that he needed to send three Asgardian heirs home.
• Steve accepted responsibility for the arrests and legal process, and intervened to free Su Zhou from Natasha’s hold.
• When Steve tried to call Su Zhou back for help, he found Bucky holding Su Zhou’s phone.

Su Zhou brought Thor, Loki, and Sylvie to Asgard to hand over the Space Stone and attend Loki’s trial. The gathering began with Frigga embracing Sylvie, leaving Loki wondering whether he had lost his mother’s affection too.

• Su Zhou took Thor and the two Lokis through a portal to Asgard, where Heimdall told them Odin was waiting for Loki’s trial.
• Heimdall escorted them to Odin’s hall, then left Odin, Frigga, Su Zhou, and the three heirs alone.
• Su Zhou put on his armor and prepared to fight, mistaking the tense atmosphere for an ambush.
• Frigga pushed Loki aside and hugged Sylvie, praising her appearance and saying she had been raised by witches.
• Loki watched Frigga embrace Sylvie and worried that his place in the family had fallen further.

Su Zhou negotiated Loki’s punishment with Odin, agreeing that Loki could live if he atoned on Earth. After handing Odin the Space Stone to repair the Bifrost, Su Zhou abruptly fled when Odin proposed marrying him to Hela.

• Odin apologized to Su Zhou and asked what punishment Loki should receive.
• Su Zhou proposed that Loki live as a mortal on Midgard until he understood his responsibilities, earned his victims’ forgiveness, and saved Earth from a crisis.
• Odin agreed to banish Loki to Midgard after the family dinner and accepted Su Zhou’s warning to change Loki’s face.
• Su Zhou gave Odin the Space Stone to repair the Bifrost, asking him to return it afterward.
• Odin proposed a marriage alliance between Su Zhou and Hela, and Su Zhou opened a portal and left.

Su Zhou rejected Odin’s matchmaking attempts and told him how Asgard would fall in the future. Odin sought help with the divine power overwhelming his body, and Su Zhou revealed a possible solution with magic.

• At the feast, Odin announced that Loki would be exiled to Earth, while Frigga tried unsuccessfully to set up Su Zhou and Sylvie.
• Odin privately questioned Su Zhou about his armor and Infinity Gauntlet, and Su Zhou admitted he had come from the future.
• Su Zhou told Odin that Hela, Surtur, and Thanos would bring about Asgard’s destruction and the deaths of Loki and Heimdall.
• Odin offered Su Zhou a marriage to both Hela and Sylvie in exchange for help, but Su Zhou rejected the offer and described three ways to address Odin’s condition.
• Odin concluded that strengthening his body was the only viable option, and Su Zhou produced holy energy, saying Odin did not understand magic.

Su Zhou used divine energy from his Stigmata to help Odin regulate his unruly divine power, then visited Asgard’s barracks and used telepathy to force Sif and several warriors into push-ups. He left Thor counting their repetitions as Asgard prepared to put down a rebellion.

• Su Zhou explained the Divine Dimension and offered to use divine energy to strengthen Odin, with the Mind Stone supplying his mental power.
• Odin suggested that Su Zhou create his own dimension using the Infinity Stones, but Su Zhou decided the danger made that plan unwise.
• Su Zhou used his limited divine energy to help Odin control the divine power in his body, and Odin became more determined to arrange his marriage to Su Zhou.
• Su Zhou visited Asgard’s library, glanced at the catalog, and went to the barracks instead.
• Sif insulted Su Zhou’s appearance, so he used telepathy to make her do push-ups; when the other warriors attacked, he made them do push-ups too.
• Su Zhou ordered Thor to count for the warriors and keep them down until they had completed a thousand push-ups.

Su Zhou used the Mind Stone to train in Asgard while waiting for the celebrations to end and the Dark Elves to appear. When Thor brought Jane Foster back to Asgard, Su Zhou blocked Odin from forcing them apart and declared that Thor should be free to love her.

• Thor returned from suppressing rebellions across the Nine Realms, and Asgard held another celebration.
• Su Zhou found that the Mind Stone could restore his mental power but could not permanently expand his Stigmata's holy-energy capacity.
• Heimdall showed Su Zhou that Thor had brought Jane Foster to Asgard, where the Aether was inside her.
• Su Zhou stopped Odin outside the medical room as Odin prepared to break up Thor and Jane.
• Su Zhou defended Thor's freedom to love Jane, put on the Infinity Gauntlet, and vowed not to yield against arranged marriage.

Su Zhou extracted the Reality Stone from Jane Foster and helped Rocket and Thor obtain it during their time heist. He then brought Rocket to watch Frigga comfort the guilt-ridden future Thor, who proved himself worthy of Mjolnir.

• Odin failed to break through Su Zhou’s defenses and left, after which Su Zhou extracted the Reality Stone from Jane Foster with a reusable device.
• Su Zhou reassured Jane that she was unlikely to suffer lasting harm and encountered Frigga in the corridor.
• Rocket discovered that Su Zhou had already removed the Reality Stone from Jane and accused Thor of misremembering events.
• Thor collided with Frigga, and Su Zhou handed Rocket the Reality Stone while preventing him from leaving immediately.
• Su Zhou told Rocket that Frigga needed to help Thor and revealed that he knew Rocket’s future secrets, including the High Evolutionary.
• Frigga recognized Thor’s origins and comforted him until Mjolnir flew into his hand, though Thor ended up hanging from it.

Su Zhou separated Thin Thor and Fat Thor over Mjolnir, erased their memories of the encounter, and sent Fat Thor and Rocket back to the future with the Reality Stone and hammer. Thin Thor later realized Mjolnir was missing, while Su Zhou urged him to check on Jane instead.

• Mjolnir carried Thin Thor across Asgard, where he and Fat Thor each grabbed the hammer and refused to let go.
• Su Zhou used Telepathy and Bullet Time to take Mjolnir from the two Thors, then used the Mind Stone to alter their memories.
• Su Zhou warned Rocket that he would erase their memories to avoid changing the timeline, then activated the Quantum Tunnel and sent Fat Thor and Rocket back with Mjolnir and the Reality Stone.
• After the others disappeared, Thin Thor came to his senses in the great hall and realized he could not summon Mjolnir.
• Su Zhou told Thin Thor that Jane was crying by the lake, but Thor insisted that Su Zhou help him find his hammer.

Su Zhou learned that his intervention had split the future Avengers into factions during a brutal conflict over the Skrulls. Black Widow returned Mjolnir and the Reality Stone, while Su Zhou resolved to prepare for the Skrulls in his own world.

• Su Zhou sent Thor away after promising to recover Mjolnir, then opened a portal using the hammer's aura.
• Black Widow came through the portal and handed Su Zhou Mjolnir and the Reality Stone.
• Black Widow explained that Steve and Tony's investigation had uncovered Skrulls impersonating political leaders, who killed the leaders they had replaced after the Snap's victims returned.
• Tony led a faction that killed confirmed Skrulls, while Captain Marvel led a faction that tried to spare them; Wanda, Black Panther, Doc Green, Captain America, Winter Soldier, and Falcon joined the Avengers' retaliation for personal losses.
• Captain Marvel defeated seventeen Avengers, then took the Skrulls and Nick Fury away from Earth; Steve was left with more than a hundred broken bones.
• The system awarded Su Zhou 200 Justice Points for resolving the future Secret Invasion crisis, and he decided to prepare to judge the Skrulls in his own world.

After the Dark Elves attacked Asgard, Su Zhou joined the defense and realized their enhanced warrior Kurse was powered by energy from the Reality Stone. He reached Frigga before her fated confrontation with Kurse and blocked her from fighting him.

• Black Widow vanished to return the Infinity Stones, leaving Su Zhou with the Reality Stone.
• The Dark Elves attacked Asgard, and Thor flew to confront their cross-shaped ship.
• Su Zhou killed three Dark Elves, then used a portal to reach Frigga before Kurse could kill her.
• Su Zhou recognized the Reality Stone's energy in Kurse and blocked Frigga, teasing her about being a half-baked expert.

Su Zhou fought Kurse to protect Frigga and killed him after exploiting his vulnerability with a holy-energy-infused strike. Frigga realized the fate she had feared could be changed.

• Kurse charged Su Zhou, shattered the Shield of the Seraphim, and reached for Frigga.
• Su Zhou severed Kurse’s hand and then dodged his next attack with Bullet Time.
• Su Zhou stabbed Kurse in the crotch with his blade, combining holy energy with the Reality Stone’s power to incapacitate him.
• Su Zhou sliced Kurse in half and received 200 Justice Points for killing the Dark Elves’ strongest warrior.
• Frigga felt the weight lift from her and heard Su Zhou tell her that fate could be changed.

Su Zhou used the Reality Stone to lure the Dark Elves into attacking him, then drank Asgard’s sacred lake and blasted their flagship with the water. As Malekith fixated on the Reality Stone, Thor’s hammer struck him in the face.

• Su Zhou opened the Aether jar, used the Reality Stone to draw fire from the Dark Elves, and transformed their attacks into feathers.
• Su Zhou used a Water Brother trial card to suck the sacred lake dry and spray its water into the Dark Elves’ cross-shaped ship, sinking it.
• Malekith recognized the Reality Stone on Su Zhou’s gauntlet and became consumed by greed.
• Thor’s hammer flew in and smashed Malekith in the face as Thor declared his challenge.

Su Zhou persuaded Odin to let him take the surviving Dark Elves and their spaceship, then used the Mind Stone to make them loyal. He repaired the ship and left for Knowhere to earn Justice Points and money.

• Thor and the Asgardians defeated the Dark Elves, and Odin emerged from the Odinsleep to find Frigga safe.
• Su Zhou proposed selling the captured Dark Elves to the Collector to compensate Asgard, then offered to take them and their spaceship as spoils instead.
• Odin agreed to let Su Zhou take the Dark Elves and the cross-shaped spaceship.
• Su Zhou used the Mind Stone and Telepathy to make the Dark Elves loyal, then repaired their spaceship with the Reality Stone.
• Su Zhou left Asgard with Malekith and ordered him to set a course for Knowhere.

Su Zhou and Malekith arrived at Knowhere, where Malekith explained the Collector’s rules and his own history of selling Dark Elves. After Su Zhou’s ship was destroyed on arrival, he led the Dark Elves toward the Collector to sell themselves.

• Su Zhou maintained the spaceship with the Reality Stone as it carried him and the Dark Elves through repeated wormholes before switching to warp drive.
• Malekith told Su Zhou that the Collector followed strict rules and recalled selling one of his people to him years earlier.
• Su Zhou saw Knowhere’s enormous Celestial skull and the miners and merchants harvesting its valuable remains.
• Su Zhou’s ship was wrecked by a flash of red light as he stepped onto Knowhere.
• Su Zhou told the Dark Elves to sell themselves first.

Su Zhou traveled with Malekith to Knowhere to conduct business, but Yondu tore his suit and tried to intimidate him. Su Zhou caught Yondu’s Yaka Arrow, beat him down, and left him at his mercy.

• Su Zhou stored the Infinity Gauntlet in his spatial ring and followed Malekith toward Tivan’s territory in Knowhere.
• Yondu Udonta collided with Su Zhou, tore his suit pocket, and threatened him with the Yaka Arrow.
• Su Zhou demanded payment for his suit, but Yondu laughed and ordered him to apologize and leave.
• Yondu whistled the Yaka Arrow toward Su Zhou, who used Bullet Time and Super Vision to catch and bend it.
• Su Zhou held the arrowhead to Yondu’s forehead, slapped him to the ground, and kicked him while cursing.

Su Zhou defeated Yondu, seized the Yaka Arrow and brainwave amplifier, and subdued the Ravagers who tried to turn on him. After ordering his Dark Elves to collect the bounty hunters and their weapons, he learned that their ship had blown up.

• Su Zhou broke Yondu’s leg, took his brainwave amplifier, and stored the Yaka Arrow in his spatial ring.
• Yondu’s Ravagers aimed their weapons at Su Zhou, and Su Zhou used Yondu as a shield while putting on the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Su Zhou used the Reality Stone to turn the Ravagers into immobile strips of toilet paper, and an accidentally fired gun hit a bystander.
• Su Zhou ordered the Dark Elves to gather the weapons, bind the Ravagers, and check them for bounties.
• When Su Zhou told the Dark Elves to take the prisoners to their ship, they told him it had just blown up.

Su Zhou seized Yondu’s ship, controlled its crew, and assigned Malekith to sort the Ravagers for punishment and imprisonment. After learning Star-Lord was pursuing the Orb while Ronan hunted him, Su Zhou bet Yondu that Star-Lord would reach Knowhere, wagering Yondu’s freedom against lifelong service for him and his son.

• Su Zhou used the Mind Stone to empower the Dark Elves, who carried the Ravagers and weapons to Yondu’s ship and took it over.
• Su Zhou accessed Yondu’s bounty terminal, ordered Malekith to send high-bounty criminals to prison and put petty thieves to hard labor, and healed Yondu’s broken leg.
• Su Zhou ordered Yondu to recruit more crew members and learned that Star-Lord planned to find the Orb despite Ronan’s interest in it.
• Yondu explained that Star-Lord could sell the Orb to Tivan, the Collector of Knowhere, and worried about his son’s safety.
• Su Zhou bet Yondu that Star-Lord would reach Knowhere, promising to free Yondu if he failed and demanding that Yondu and Star-Lord serve him for life if he succeeded.

Su Zhou visited the Collector, Tivan, and used the Mind Stone and his telepathy to take control of him. He left Tivan pretending to resist again while secretly making him Su Zhou’s subordinate.

• A red-haired attendant showed Su Zhou, Yondu, and Malekith around Tivan’s collection, where Su Zhou lingered by Cosmo’s enclosure.
• Tivan received the three and was surprised to learn that Su Zhou was their leader.
• Su Zhou revealed his Infinity Gauntlet and two Infinity Stones, prompting Tivan to offer to buy it and boast that his collectibles were expensive.
• Su Zhou kept probing Tivan’s thoughts with [Telepathy] and used the Mind Stone to control him.
• Su Zhou ordered Tivan to return to his earlier defiant attitude, and Tivan obeyed.

Su Zhou took Cosmo and Carina into his service and settled his group in Knowhere, where he promised Tivan he would protect the settlement. When Yondu reported that Star-Lord had been arrested, Su Zhou refused to let him intervene and ordered him to recruit wanted criminals instead.

• Su Zhou learned how Tivan's immortality and limited foresight had helped him make Knowhere a respected neutral hub, and promised to punish anyone who caused trouble there.
• Tivan agreed to let Cosmo and Carina leave with Su Zhou, and Su Zhou made Carina his personal secretary.
• Su Zhou's group settled into a villa provided by Tivan, where Yondu reported that Star-Lord had been arrested and was headed to Kyln High-Security Prison.
• Su Zhou dismissed Yondu's worries and ordered him to recruit high-bounty criminals, permitting ruthless tactics against criminals but not innocent people.
• Su Zhou kicked Yondu out with his Yaka Arrow and brainwave amplifier, then told Carina to run a bath.

Su Zhou arranged clothes for Carina and Cosmo while planning to recruit criminals on Knowhere and farm justice points. Malekith then summoned him to deal with a blond Kree woman who had arrived amid a chaotic attack.

• Carina washed Cosmo in the bath while Su Zhou searched Knowhere's markets and reflected on the criminals and scientists Yondu was recruiting.
• Su Zhou ordered Carina to dry Cosmo and get new clothes, so Yondu delivered two boxes gifted by Tivan.
• The system awarded Su Zhou 1,000 justice points for HYDRA's destruction, and he planned to reach the SSS-rank skill pity guarantee on Knowhere.
• Su Zhou reviewed his character trial cards and the progress of Master of Disguise before Malekith called him over.
• Malekith reported that a blond Kree woman had flown through space without a spacesuit, and he shouted for everyone to surrender before she wrecked his warship.

Su Zhou confronted a blonde woman who had attacked his Ravagers and demanded his Infinity Stones and gauntlet. After she overwhelmed him, he used Oboi’s martial arts to strengthen his defense and counterattack, leaving their fight underway.

• Su Zhou left Carina with Cosmo and teleported to Malekith near the starport, where he found the Ravagers surrendered and their ship undamaged.
• Su Zhou challenged the masked blonde woman, but she charged at him before he could learn her name.
• The blonde shattered Su Zhou’s Shields of the Seraphim with one punch and knocked Malekith unconscious with the shock wave.
• The blonde demanded Su Zhou surrender his Infinity Stones and Infinity Gauntlet, threatening to take them by force.
• Su Zhou used a character trial card for Oboi and strengthened his defenses with the Stigmata and Mind Stone.
• The blonde struck Su Zhou with a knee, but he endured it and knocked her away with a punch from the Infinity Gauntlet.