Chapter Summaries

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.

Su Chen defeated Thanos, took the Power Stone and Soul Stone, and gathered all six Infinity Stones in his own gauntlet. After learning Thanos planned to sacrifice half the universe to the Goddess of Death, Su Chen snapped his fingers, leaving Thanos and the Outriders Legion facing an unknown fate.

• Su Chen killed Ebony Maw after Supergiant sacrificed herself to save Thanos, leaving Thanos without any surviving subordinates.
• Thanos's damaged gauntlet shattered, and Su Chen took the Power Stone and Soul Stone before Thanos could reach them.
• Su Chen placed the stones into his gauntlet, and the Ancient One brought him the Time Stone to complete the set of six.
• The six Infinity Stones spread Su Chen's consciousness across the universe and strengthened his body, soul, and mental power.
• Su Chen learned Thanos intended to offer half the universe's lives to the Goddess of Death, then snapped his fingers as Thanos sat down in despair.

After Thanos and the Outriders Legion vanished, Earth celebrated its victory while Ego expanded his assimilation across the universe and set his sights on Earth and its Infinity Stones. Ego traveled there in a humanoid body, where S.W.O.R.D.’s defenses detected and attacked him, but he remained unharmed as the next defensive line activated.

• Thanos and the Outriders Legion disintegrated, leaving Su Chen as the only person able to remember Thanos.
• Earth celebrated Thanos’s defeat, with Utopia and its forces standing as a new defense against threats from space.
• Ego expanded his assimilation across Earth-616 and decided to travel to Earth for its Infinity Stones before assimilating the planet.
• Ego created a humanoid body and headed toward Earth, noticing that the villain’s aura had vanished along the way.
• S.W.O.R.D. detected Ego near Earth and fired on him, but he neutralized the attack as the orbital satellites opened their weapon bays.

Ego’s avatar invaded Earth, but Su Chen destroyed it and learned that Ego was preparing another expansion across the universe. Captain Marvel warned Su Chen that Ego might target surviving worlds such as Earth and Xandar, then invited him to join the Nova Corps on Xandar.

• Ego’s avatar deflected Earth’s attacks until Su Chen arrived and destroyed its energy circulation, severing its connection to Ego’s main body.
• Ego grew furious on his planet and resumed expanding, while contacting the Elders of the Universe to coordinate their plans.
• Captain Marvel told Su Chen that the Nova Corps had found Ego’s true planetary avatars and warned that Earth and Xandar might face another invasion.
• Su Chen promised to meet the threat, then answered his sisters’ questions about aliens after his call with Captain Marvel.
• Captain Marvel invited Su Chen to Xandar to stand with the Nova Corps against Ego.

Su Chen traveled to Xandar with Su Shan and Hit-Girl, where he demonstrated his strength to the Nova Corps and discussed facing a threat with Captain Marvel. As an alarm announced powerful intruders approaching the planet, Su Chen sensed that Ego had returned in a stronger, divided form.

• Su Chen took Su Shan and Hit-Girl on a weeklong spaceship journey to Xandar.
• A Nova Corps commander doubted Su Chen's strength and tried to bump into him, but Su Chen sent him crashing into a building with a casual sweep of his arm.
• Captain Marvel introduced Su Chen as the founder of the Utopia Alliance, who had wiped out the Chitauri and the Outriders Legion, and explained that he possessed a power stronger than their equipment.
• An alarm reported that intruders had destroyed Xandar's outer defense perimeter, and Su Chen sensed several powerful, repulsive auras approaching.
• The commander asked where Su Chen was as Captain Marvel recognized the attack as the worst-case scenario involving Ego.

Su Chen destroyed Ego’s planetary clones around Xandar, then learned that Ego belonged to the Elders of the Universe. With the true body still missing, Su Chen and the Nova Corps set out for Knowhere to question the Collector.

• Su Chen activated Rune Supreme state and destroyed Ego’s clones by striking their planetary cores with blue-white beams.
• Ego withdrew his true body from the star system and resolved to hide until he grew stronger.
• Captain Marvel reported that the Nova Corps had found information about the Elders of the Universe, and the commander shared it with Su Chen.
• The commander proposed finding Ego’s brothers, and Su Chen chose the Collector as his first lead.
• The Nova Corps assembled a fleet and headed for Knowhere to confront the Collector, alarming local forces connected to him.

Su Chen overwhelmed the Nova Corps’ opponents on Knowhere, captured the Collector, and used the Mind Stone and Soul Stone to learn Ego’s location. Ego had already fled, so Su Chen killed the Collector and turned his attention to the Grandmaster, who learned the Collector had disappeared.

• Su Chen left the Nova Corps’ command ship and slaughtered the forces defending Knowhere, while the Nova Corps followed orders to clean up the battlefield.
• Su Chen confronted the Collector, sealed his opened cages with the Aether, and used the Mind Stone and Soul Stone to extract information from him.
• Su Chen teleported with the Collector to one of Ego’s hiding places but found that Ego had already escaped.
• Su Chen killed the Collector and declared that the Grandmaster would be his next target.
• The Nova Corps received a new target, while the Grandmaster on Sakaar was told that the Collector had disappeared.

After Xandar and Su Chen defeated Ego’s avatars and the Collector disappeared, the Elders of the Universe gathered on Sakaar and decided to confront Su Chen. Su Chen arrived and offered them a choice, but when they attacked, he turned the Gardener to stone.

• Ego hid after Su Chen and Xandar destroyed his planetary avatars, while the Collector disappeared during Xandar’s attack on Knowhere.
• The Grandmaster summoned Sakaar’s champions and gathered the Elders of the Universe, where Carina Tivan identified Su Chen as the force behind Ego’s defeat and her father’s fall.
• The Elders agreed to help Ego confront Su Chen, and Xandar’s corps commander worried about the assembled power while trusting in the Supreme.
• Su Chen arrived on Sakaar, defeated Beta Ray Bill and other fighters, then counted eleven Elders before him and offered them two choices.
• The Elders launched a coordinated attack, but Su Chen stopped the Gardener’s vines and turned him into a stone statue.

Su Chen petrified the Elders of the Universe on Sakaar, leaving Grandmaster as the only one able to move. After overpowering Grandmaster’s Cosmic Energy, Su Chen returned the energy that sustained him to the universe, ending the fight with Grandmaster’s consciousness vanishing.

• Su Chen used the Reality Stone to petrify the Elders of the Universe and trapped Runner despite his speed.
• Grandmaster survived because he was immune to aging and disease, and he attacked Su Chen with Cosmic Energy.
• Su Chen matched Grandmaster’s energy, and their clash tore through Sakaar, destroying the planet’s gravity and its wormholes.
• Su Chen overwhelmed Grandmaster with his greater supply of Cosmic Energy and passed through his body.
• Su Chen returned the Cosmic Energy that formed Grandmaster to the universe, causing Grandmaster’s consciousness to vanish.

Su Chen assembled the Six Infinity Stones and used the Infinity Gauntlet to wish for Ego and everything connected to him to be annihilated. The wish began to take effect, leaving Ego's fate unresolved.

• Su Chen watched the Grandmaster disintegrate and called for Ego to come out, but Ego stayed hidden.
• Su Chen returned to Ancient One and decided to use the Infinity Stones to destroy Ego and his clones.
• Ancient One gave Su Chen the Time Stone and secured the sanctum with golden threads.
• Su Chen placed all six Infinity Stones in the golden gauntlet, causing beings across the universe to feel his immense presence.
• Ego sensed the assembled stones and realized Su Chen had gathered them.
• Su Chen snapped his fingers and wished for Ego and everything connected to him to be utterly annihilated from the universe.

Su Chen’s damaged gauntlet tore a hole between universes, drawing the attention of another Earth’s Avengers. They sent Spider-Man, Peter Parker, through to investigate, and he began scouting while transmitting footage and receiving instructions from Avengers Tower.

• Ego’s body and extensions disintegrated as the universe rejected him, while Su Chen’s gauntlet cracked after releasing its power.
• Su Chen and the dwarf king discussed the gauntlet’s limits, and Su Chen sensed that some power had escaped.
• The tear revealed another Earth, where its Avengers gathered to study the breach and chose Spider-Man as a scout.
• Spider-Man crossed through the tear, landed in a remote area, and began recording the unfamiliar Earth.
• Spider-Man’s signal reached Avengers Tower, where the team watched his footage and told him to continue exploring.