Recaps

Su Chen launched an assault on Attilan to punish the Inhumans for their past crimes against Mutants, defeating their escape plan and ordering the survivors enslaved and tracked. One month later, Su Chen was at the Caesar Building when someone called out to him.

• Su Chen rejected Hela's desire to kill every Frost Giant, explaining that the survivors would be forced to work as Jotunheim was developed.
• Earth used resources from Jotunheim and Asgardian Rune Magic to advance its technology and begin interstellar colonization.
• Su Chen decided to deal with the Inhumans on the moon himself and ordered Hela to remain in charge of Asgard and the other realms.
• Su Chen stopped Lockjaw from teleporting Queen Medusa and the others, banished Lockjaw into the void, and used the Mind Stone Scepter to control Medusa.
• Su Chen ordered the Sentinels to destroy the Terrigen Crystals and implant an Inhuman gene segment in their control chips to track and control the Inhumans.
• One month later, Su Chen was at the Caesar Building when someone called, "Brother!"

Su Chen returned to Manhattan while Hydra’s Baron Strucker used spatial jumps to find Hive, Hydra’s ancient leader. Hive reached Attilan, learned that Su Chen had taken control of the city, and began infecting its Inhumans as he learned what had happened there.

• Su Shan and Hit-Girl stood beside Su Chen, and the chapter described their growing magical skills and Hit-Girl’s newly awakened invisibility ability.
• After returning from Asgard and Attilan, Su Chen went home to Manhattan while Hydra members worried about Earth’s technological growth and Utopia’s advances against them.
• Baron Strucker ordered a sixth spatial jump, retrieved a transformed agent, and recognized the monstrous figure as Hive.
• Hive dismissed Hydra and appeared above Attilan, where he saw Su Chen’s Sentinels and released spores that infected the Inhumans.
• Hive learned from his victims’ memories that Queen Medusa had been controlled and that Mutants intended to enslave his people, then erupted in anger.

Hive took control of Queen Medusa and led the infected Inhumans in attacking the Sentinels, prompting Su Chen to return to Attilan. After Hive’s attacks failed and Su Chen blasted him apart, Hive scattered into parasites and tried to infect Su Chen as Cosmic Energy flared from his body.

• Hive infected Queen Medusa, took control of her body, and ordered the infected Inhumans to attack the remaining Sentinels.
• The Sentinels sent a warning signal before Hive and his clones smashed them to pieces, and Su Chen arrived in Attilan.
• Hive attacked Su Chen with sound, gravity, petrification, mental force, and other abilities, but Su Chen remained unharmed.
• Su Chen crossed the battlefield and struck Hive, blasting his body into powder and damaging the ground beneath him.
• Hive dispersed himself into parasites to avoid the blow and drifted toward Su Chen to infect him, while Su Chen released the Cosmic Energy stored in his cells.

Su Chen defeated Hive by summoning Utopia’s psychics to identify and eliminate his hosts, then destroyed Hive when he tried to surrender. With Attilan damaged, Su Chen ordered it moved to Earth for repairs and designated the captured Inhumans as his Slave Legion, while S.H.I.E.L.D. still had unfinished business.

• Hive used parasites to control the people of Attilan and send them charging at Su Chen, who cleared the battlefield with an energy blast.
• Su Chen summoned Emma Frost, Scarlet Witch Wanda, and Utopia’s psychics, who identified Hive’s hosts and destroyed the parasites and their hosts.
• Hive offered to lead the Inhumans in exchange for his life, but Su Chen told him to kneel and then destroyed him before he could reach the ground.
• Su Chen ordered the damaged Attilan base moved to Earth for repairs and assigned captured Inhumans to form his Slave Legion.
• Su Chen noted that S.H.I.E.L.D. still had unfinished business after Hydra’s disturbance was settled.

S.H.I.E.L.D. gave Bob Reynolds its Sentry serum, and his power surged beyond the Sun’s energy as he flew into the atmosphere. Captain Marvel fought him in Binary Mode, but Sentry regenerated from being torn apart and eventually overpowered her.

• Bob Reynolds drank the Sentry serum and transformed as golden energy flooded his body.
• S.W.O.R.D. detected the rapidly rising energy and alerted Captain Marvel and the Supreme.
• Sentry flew into the sky, where Captain Marvel met him and entered Binary Mode.
• Captain Marvel used Sentry’s energy against him, tearing his body apart, but he regenerated.
• Sentry adapted to their clashes and sent Captain Marvel flying, leaving her badly shaken.

Su Chen arrived to find Sentry had defeated Captain Marvel, then overpowered him with precise control of space and energy. When Sentry’s dark persona, Void, awakened, Su Chen erased Sentry’s existence from reality and traced the incident back to S.H.I.E.L.D.

• Sentry knocked Captain Marvel out of her Binary state and boasted that he might be invincible.
• Su Chen arrived and redirected Sentry’s punch by altering space, then struck him and shattered half his body.
• Sentry reconstructed himself, but Su Chen’s attack drove him into a frenzy and awakened Void.
• Captain Marvel warned Su Chen that Sentry’s energy was rising, and Void took control and threatened Utopia.
• Su Chen unleashed overwhelming white energy that blasted Sentry apart and used a reality-altering ripple to erase his existence across time.
• Su Chen sensed that Sentry’s connection to reality led back to S.H.I.E.L.D. and decided he could no longer ignore them.

Su Chen left Captain Marvel to deal with S.H.I.E.L.D. while Attilan’s arrival helped spark the spread of starships on Earth. In Asgard, Hela sent soldiers to Nidavellir, discovered they had been killed, and arrived to find Corvus Glaive forcing the dwarf king to make the Infinity Gauntlet.

• Su Chen mocked Sentry and left Captain Marvel, who ordered S.W.O.R.D. to hunt down S.H.I.E.L.D. remnants after learning of its involvement.
• Attilan’s arrival on Earth inspired the development and spread of starships, while Hela considered extending Asgard’s rule to Nidavellir.
• Hela lost contact with the undead soldiers she had sent to Nidavellir and prepared the Legion of the Dead for battle.
• Corvus Glaive revealed that Thanos’s forces had captured the dwarf king and demanded that he build the Infinity Gauntlet.
• Hela arrived at Nidavellir with Fenris and the Legion of the Dead, challenged Corvus Glaive, and faced his threat to take her stones.

Hela struggled against Corvus Glaive, whose soul inhabited a nearly unbreakable blade, until Su Chen arrived and quickly disarmed him. The chapter left Corvus Glaive charging in panic as Su Chen examined his weapon and prepared to destroy it.

• Hela fought Corvus Glaive, but his blade broke her manifested swords and wounded her while her healing was weakened away from Asgard.
• Su Chen appeared among the Legion of the Dead and learned from Hela that Corvus Glaive's blade could cut through her weapons.
• Corvus Glaive attacked Su Chen, but Su Chen threw Hela's broken sword and severed Corvus Glaive's arm.
• Su Chen picked up Corvus Glaive's soul-bearing blade and recognized that its power came with a mental intimidation effect.
• Corvus Glaive cried out and charged toward Su Chen as Su Chen examined the blade and called its soul filthy.

Su Chen defeated Corvus Glaive, secured the dwarf king’s allegiance, and sent the dwarves to develop stronger weapons for Utopia. The chapter ended with upgraded Sentinels combining Uru metal, Vibranium, and Rune Magic, while Thanos redirected his forces after learning Gamora knew about the Soul Stone.

• Su Chen shattered Corvus Glaive and let Hela lead the Legion of the Dead in defeating his remaining forces.
• Su Chen explained the danger facing Nidavellir, and the dwarf king swore allegiance to him.
• The dwarf king planned a new divine weapon using Uru metal and World Tree material after learning Su Chen had destroyed the Spear of Eternity.
• Thanos learned that Gamora had information about the Soul Stone and ordered the Sanctuary II launched, postponing an attack on the dwarf kingdom.
• Dwarf experts improved Utopia’s Sentinel production line with a Uru metal and Vibranium alloy that let the robots wield Rune Magic.

S.W.O.R.D. detected Malekith and the Dark Elves approaching Earth to reclaim the Aether as the nine celestial bodies aligned. Captain Marvel prepared the fleets and activated Binary Mode, but Su Chen arrived as the battle was about to begin.

• The White Queen learned the upgraded Sentinels could fight in space, and the production director suggested testing their limits in battle.
• Erik Selvig prepared to observe the nine celestial bodies aligning, while an enormous Dark Elf mothership and its smaller ships emerged from a region of darkness nearby.
• Malekith awakened after 5,000 years of slumber, sensed the Aether on Midgard, and ordered the mothership toward Earth.
• S.W.O.R.D. detected the approaching ship and estimated it would reach Earth in 26 minutes, while Captain Marvel ordered the fleets to prepare for battle.
• Captain Marvel activated Binary Mode and flew out to confront the ship, but Su Chen arrived and asked who warranted such a grand reception.

Su Chen and Captain Marvel led Earth’s forces against Malekith’s Dark Elves, but Malekith reached the Aether and used its power to devastate Earth’s fleet. Su Chen arrived above the British Isles and recognized the Aether as a form of the Reality Stone, leaving Malekith facing him.

• Captain Marvel and Su Chen attacked the Dark Elf fleet as Earth’s ships and improved Sentinels joined the battle.
• Malekith ordered small spacecraft to reach the Aether’s hiding place, and some escaped Earth’s defenses and vanished into a spatial fluctuation above the British Isles.
• Malekith emerged with the Aether and destroyed Earth’s ships and Sentinels with a dark red torrent.
• Su Chen appeared before Malekith and recognized the Aether as a special form of the Reality Stone.

Su Chen survived Malekith’s Aether-powered attack and took control of part of the Aether, then ripped the complete Reality Stone from Malekith. The Reality Stone fused with Su Chen, leaving his reality-altering power greatly enhanced.

• Malekith sensed the Aether yearning for Su Chen and attacked him with an illusion and a torrent of energy.
• Su Chen emerged unharmed, absorbed part of the Aether, and dismissed Malekith’s use of its power.
• Su Chen seized Malekith from a distance and tore the complete Aether out of his body.
• The Aether, identified as the Reality Stone, entered Su Chen and fused with him more smoothly than his previous stones.

Su Chen erased Malekith, Algrim, and the remaining Dark Elves, then gave their wreckage to the Utopia Alliance. Afterward, the Dwarf king delivered a newly forged Infinity Gauntlet, and Su Chen began placing the Infinity Stones into it.

• Su Chen reached maximum reality manipulation, extracted the Reality Stone from Malekith, and watched Malekith vanish.
• Su Chen erased the Dark Elf formation and stripped the Aether fragment from Algrim, wiping out the remaining Dark Elves.
• Su Chen offered the Dark Elf spacecraft wreckage to the Utopia Alliance as spoils of war.
• Earth's forces salvaged Dark Elf technology and began using its powerful Implosion Grenades, while researchers tested the limits of the Sentinels.
• The Dwarf king brought Su Chen the newly forged Infinity Gauntlet, and Su Chen set the Mind Stone and Space Stone into it.
• Su Chen manifested the Reality Stone in his hand as the onlookers watched.

After Thanos acquired the Soul Stone by sacrificing Gamora, Ego rescued the unconscious Star-Lord from the Guardians of the Galaxy’s captors. Ebony Maw recognized Ego as a living planet but could only speculate about why he had taken Star-Lord.

• Su Chen placed the third stone on his gauntlet, sending powerful Infinity Stone fluctuations across the universe and alerting Thanos.
• Thanos forced Gamora to reveal that the Soul Stone was on Vormir, then took her there with the Guardians of the Galaxy held captive aboard his ship.
• The keeper of the Soul Stone told Thanos that he had to sacrifice the person he loved most, and Thanos killed Gamora to obtain the stone.
• Thanos ordered his forces to leave the Guardians of the Galaxy behind, but Ego arrived, incapacitated Proxima Midnight, and carried the unconscious Star-Lord away.
• Ebony Maw identified Ego as a living planet and wondered why he had taken Star-Lord, then dismissed the possibility that Star-Lord would survive.

Ego used Star-Lord’s Celestial bloodline to power his plan to assimilate the planets he had seeded, while Su Chen stopped the growth on Earth. Ego continued the plan through his connections to other planets as the Collector and Grandmaster sensed the growing crisis.

• Ego revealed that Star-Lord was his son and shared his power with him, then secretly drew power back from Star-Lord’s bloodline.
• Ego’s plants spread across countless planets, replacing their original consciousness with his own.
• Su Chen arrived at the outbreak on Earth and burned away the spreading gray-blue matter before it could grow beyond a few hundred meters.
• Ego sensed that Earth’s connection had been erased, but set aside his concern and extended his consciousness to the planets already assimilated.
• The Collector moved his collection to safety, while the Grandmaster sensed Ego’s plan and worried over the universe’s growing unrest.

Ego assimilated planets across the universe while Captain Marvel responded to distress calls, and Thor agreed to become the Rune King. Thor and Heimdall reached the Well of Wisdom, where Thor sacrificed his eyes and drank from the well.

• Ego spread his consciousness across planets, turning them into parts of himself and leaving Star-Lord to become insubstantial.
• Captain Marvel told Su Chen that she had received distress signals from many planets, then left Earth to help them.
• The Nova Corps contained and removed Ego's substance from Xandar, though they lost thirty-six Nova Fighters.
• Heimdall urged Thor to become the Rune King, and Thor accepted the ritual despite its dangers.
• Thor and Heimdall traveled to the Well of Wisdom, where Thor cast his eyes into the well and drank its water.

Thor completed the death-approaching ritual at the World Tree and received the gods’ blessing, awakening as Rune King Thor with power over time, space, and lightning. He returned to Asgard, where he destroyed much of Hela’s undead army and faced her attack.

• Thor drank Mimir's spring water, then hanged himself from the World Tree as Heimdall helped him perform the ritual.
• Thor crossed the boundary of death, encountered mysterious gods, and gained a new perception of time, space, and the universe.
• Thor’s immense aura spread across Asgard, alarming Hela and giving hope to the enslaved Asgardians.
• Rune King Thor appeared above Asgard and sensed that many Asgardians had already died.
• Rune King Thor called down a storm that devastated the Legion of the Dead and left Fenris badly wounded.
• Hela confronted Rune King Thor with black spikes and spears, but he shattered the spears with a lightning whip.

Rune King Thor overwhelmed Hela and the Utopia Alliance forces, then invaded Earth's Mind Network to threaten Su Chen. Su Chen arrived on the Asgardian continent and effortlessly reversed Thor's spatial attack, leaving Thor to vanish in a burst of speed.

• Rune King Thor battered Hela with lightning while sparing her life and destroying the Legion of the Dead.
• The Sentinels attacked Rune King Thor, but he bent their beams away and vowed to punish the dwarves and other invaders.
• A mind transmitter relayed a distress signal to Earth before Rune King Thor entered the Mind Network and threatened to kill Su Chen.
• Su Chen answered Thor through the Mind Network, then used the Space Stone to reach the Asgardian continent.
• Rune King Thor attacked Su Chen by crushing the surrounding space, but Su Chen restored it and declared his mastery of space.
• Rune King Thor vanished in a burst of speed after seeing Su Chen undo his attack.

Su Chen overwhelmed Rune King Thor, then began awakening Rune Magic after Thor’s attack unexpectedly affected him. As Su Chen’s power transformed, he perceived the universe’s fate and discovered the Gods of the Gods behind Ragnarok.

• Rune King Thor’s brute-force attack missed Su Chen, who struck him and then restored three Infinity Stones to his gauntlet.
• Su Chen blasted Rune King Thor deep into Asgard, while Hela approved of Thor’s defeat despite feeling the damage to the continent.
• Su Chen sensed that Thor’s attack had triggered a new ability and let the berserk Thor return to the fight.
• Rune Magic awakened in Su Chen and spread across Asgard as runes appeared on his body and the World Tree trembled.
• Su Chen’s perception expanded across the universe, revealing the river of fate, Ragnarok’s conclusion, and the Gods of the Gods.

Su Chen destroyed the five shadowy gods who had manipulated Asgard’s Ragnarok cycles, completing his fusion with the runes and ending the Twilight of the Gods. Back on Earth, Captain Marvel told him that the disturbance in Asgard had been detected and said she wanted to discuss something with him before leaving.

• Su Chen learned that the beings calling themselves Those Who Sit Above in Shadow had treated Asgard’s gods as pawns and harvested their energy through repeated Ragnarok cycles.
• The shadowy gods offered Su Chen a place among them, but he rejected their proposal and attacked them.
• Su Chen killed the helmeted giant with a rune-powered blow, then destroyed three more and pursued the last one into the starry sky.
• Su Chen completed his fusion with the runes and killed the final giant, ending the Twilight of the Gods.
• Captain Marvel told Su Chen that S.W.O.R.D. had detected the commotion in Asgard and said she wanted to speak with him before leaving Earth.

Captain Marvel transferred command of S.W.O.R.D. to Su Chen before leaving Earth, while Thanos gathered his forces and prepared an invasion using Heimdall’s staff. A week later, S.W.O.R.D. detected an unusually large Asgardian energy fluctuation as many people appeared to be returning from Asgard.

• Captain Marvel warned Su Chen about Thanos, formally handed him command of S.W.O.R.D., and flew away from Earth.
• Thanos, enraged by the Goddess of Death’s praise of Su Chen, assembled the Outriders Legion and Black Order to attack Earth.
• Heimdall reached Thanos and gave him a staff containing the coordinates of Earth and Asgard, hoping Thanos would avenge the fallen kings.
• Thanos modified the staff to transport his entire legion and planned to deliver Su Chen to the Goddess of Death.
• A week after Captain Marvel left, S.W.O.R.D. detected an unusually intense Asgardian energy fluctuation as many people appeared to return from Asgard.

Thanos’s Outrider army attacked Yorktown City, where Utopia’s forces held them back until Su Chen arrived and struck the battlefield with overwhelming energy. The battle had begun in earnest, and Supergiant warned Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian that Su Chen had noticed them.

• S.W.O.R.D. identified the invading fleet as Thanos’s Outrider army and alerted Earth and Utopia.
• Utopia’s shield protected Yorktown City until Proxima Midnight shattered it, allowing the Outriders to surge forward.
• Utopia’s New Humans and their advanced ships assembled to fight the Outrider army as Proxima Midnight sought revenge for Corvus Glaive.
• Su Chen descended onto the battlefield and swept a beam of energy across the Outriders, vaporizing Proxima Midnight’s right arm.
• Supergiant appeared beside Proxima Midnight and Cull Obsidian and warned them that Su Chen had his eye on them.

Su Chen swiftly killed Cull Obsidian and Proxima Midnight, then countered Thanos’s attack by transforming falling satellites so they could not harm Yorktown City. Thanos arrived with the Power Stone and dismissed Su Chen’s three Infinity Stones, insisting that only he knew how to use their full power.

• Ebony Maw arrived, healed Proxima Midnight, and ordered Supergiant to tell Thanos that Su Chen had appeared.
• Su Chen killed Cull Obsidian with two punches and tore Proxima Midnight apart with spatial rifts while Ebony Maw prepared to flee.
• Thanos used the Power Stone to pull satellites from orbit toward Yorktown City, but Su Chen transformed the ones near the city to prevent damage.
• Thanos saw that Su Chen possessed three Infinity Stones and angrily confronted him from a distant forest.
• Thanos claimed that destiny had chosen him and that only he knew how to unleash the Infinity Stones’ full power.

Thanos and Su Chen prepared to lead their armies into battle, while the Ancient One arrived to face Ebony Maw. Su Chen repelled Thanos’s meteor attack and awakened his Energy Particle Body, leaving the two evenly matched in a direct clash.

• The Ancient One arrived through a portal, and Thanos assigned Ebony Maw to fight her while he confronted Su Chen.
• Thanos advanced with his army as Su Chen and the Utopia Alliance gathered to meet them.
• Su Chen ordered Utopia to attack, and Thanos summoned meteors toward Earth with the Power Stone.
• Su Chen used the Reality Stone to stop the meteors and redirect the celestial debris into orbit.
• Thanos struck Su Chen with his blade, but Su Chen remained unharmed and awakened his Energy Particle Body.
• Su Chen transformed into Rune King-Supreme and met Thanos’s charge head-on, matching his strength.

Su Chen’s power evolved during his fight with Thanos, and he unleashed his Energy Particle Body to overcome the Power Stone’s attack. After Su Chen struck Thanos down, the battlefield’s remaining enemies panicked, and Ebony Maw rushed to save his master while the Ancient One blocked him.

• Su Chen’s strength grew as he grappled with Thanos, forcing Thanos to use the Power Stone to break free.
• Su Chen transformed into his Rune King Supreme form as Thanos fully unleashed the Power Stone and tried to destroy him and Earth.
• The Soul Stone failed to drain Su Chen’s energy because the Aether shielded him, and Su Chen shattered Thanos’s black hole attack before knocking him to the ground.
• Su Chen remained airborne over the crater while Thanos lay defeated, and Legion’s forces and the Outriders recoiled in fear.
• Ebony Maw hurried toward Thanos as Su Chen gathered energy to finish him, but the Ancient One stopped Ebony Maw with golden chains.