Chapter Summaries

Su Chen explored Asgard’s vault and collected two Sorcerer Supreme artifacts before Hela appeared and revealed herself as Odin’s daughter and successor. Hela claimed the throne and took the Eternal Flame to build an army, while Su Chen waited to see her full power.

• Su Chen identified and took the Orb of Agamotto, then examined the Eternal Flame, the Tablet of Life and Time, missing treasures, and the Warlock’s Eye.
• Su Chen sensed a powerful death aura spreading through the vault and hall, then encountered Hela, who introduced herself as Odin’s daughter and asked if he had killed her father.
• Hela described how Odin had sealed her in Hel and said she had taken the throne because he could not kill her.
• Su Chen ordered the Sentinels back into standby mode and let Hela continue speaking, hoping she would reveal her full power.
• Hela entered the vault, took the Eternal Flame, and said a king should have an army of her own.

Hela resurrected her ancient legion and Fenris with the Eternal Flame, then demanded that Su Chen submit to her. Su Chen overwhelmed her and threatened to use the Mind Stone Scepter to destroy her will, leaving Hela forced toward her knees.

• Hela poured deathly aura into the Eternal Flame, resurrecting her buried Asgardian legion and awakening Fenris.
• Hela offered Su Chen a reward for helping her and demanded that he kneel and submit.
• Su Chen repeatedly tore Hela apart, but she regenerated by drawing power from Asgard and claimed she was immortal.
• Su Chen activated the surrounding Sentinels and warned that he could destroy Asgard, though he wanted its Uru metal.
• Su Chen presented the Mind Stone Scepter and threatened to turn Hela into a puppet by destroying her mind.
• Su Chen ordered Hela to kneel and submit, and her knees began to bend despite her resistance.

After Hela submitted to Su Chen, Utopia mined Asgard’s rich resources and organized its forces into the Sentry Legion and the Legion of the Dead. During the night, the true Goddess of Death manifested through Hela and offered Su Chen power and authority in exchange for serving her.

• Hela accepted Su Chen’s gift and became his conscious, loyal slave, opening the Asgard continent to Utopia.
• Emma Frost reported that Utopia had discovered abundant resources on Asgard and established the Sentry Legion and Hela’s Legion of the Dead as its main forces.
• Su Chen rested in the palace with Hela and the White Queen, but Hela’s power suddenly surged during the night.
• The true Goddess of Death revealed herself through Hela and told Su Chen that his strength and victory over Galactus had drawn her interest.
• The Goddess of Death offered Su Chen immense power and authority if he agreed to serve her and carry out one task.

The Goddess of Death failed to persuade or defeat Su Chen and withdrew, while Thanos prepared to act personally with the Power Stone. Heimdall escaped the fallen Asgard to tell Thor the news, and Thor resolved to seek the Power of the Runes of Ruun to avenge his family.

• The Goddess of Death asked Su Chen to kill half the universe’s life, but he rejected her offer and asserted he could conquer the universe without her help.
• The Goddess of Death considered attacking Su Chen but withdrew after judging that she might not defeat him and could provoke him to develop a counter to her power.
• Thanos learned that the Chitauri Army had been wiped out and revealed that he had obtained the Power Stone, deciding to act himself.
• Heimdall awakened in Asgard, saw its destruction, and used the Bifrost to reach Thor on Xandar.
• Heimdall told Thor that Asgard, Odin, and Loki had fallen, and Thor vowed to avenge them by seeking the Power of the Runes of Ruun.

After the Frost Giants infiltrated Asgard’s treasury, Su Chen ordered Hela to prove her strength and loyalty by finishing her old war against them. Hela destroyed the Frost Giant race and returned to Asgard with Laufey’s head, while Su Chen chose to spare the other giants in Jotunheim.

• Frost Giants entered Asgard’s treasury through a secret passage seeking the Casket of Ancient Winters, but the Sentinels killed them.
• Su Chen asked Hela to prove her strength and loyalty by attacking the Frost Giants, and she rallied the Legion of the Dead.
• Hela led the Legion of the Dead through Jotunheim and wiped out the Frost Giant tribes.
• Laufey offered to surrender, but Hela killed him and declared that Su Chen wanted no enemies left alive.
• Hela returned with Laufey’s head and offered to destroy the remaining giants, but Su Chen refused, saying it would cost too many resources.

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.