Chapter Summaries

Diana and Dr. Hall examined the mural and concluded that its added moon symbol might point to an occult moon connected to African mythology. At the Justice League base, Joseph considered joining the League, while Deathstroke and Schiller accepted short-term contracts to help restore security as the League searched for Batman.

• Dr. Hall explained the mural to Diana, then said its added moon symbol likely referred to an occult moon that required further research.
• Diana arranged for the Halls to stay at the Justice League base and study the mural in exchange for food and lodging.
• Diana offered Joseph a path to join the Justice League and study at Metropolis University, and Joseph said he would consult his parents.
• Deathstroke and Schiller signed short-term contracts to take missions for the Justice League, which promised equipment, access to the Sky Eye System, and payment.
• Schiller invited Deathstroke to help teach Joseph to use a gun, and Deathstroke objected that he was the Weapon Master.

Schiller trained Joseph and Deathstroke in handgun use as Joseph prepared to join the Justice League. After practice, Joseph joined Schiller and Deathstroke on several cases, where his calmness and growing marksmanship showed his promise as a superhero.

• Joseph chose Justice League training over becoming Deathstroke’s apprentice, and Schiller took him to the range to learn basic handgun shooting.
• Schiller demonstrated shooting stances and explained how Joseph’s ordinary physique differed from Deathstroke’s enhanced strength.
• Deathstroke practiced with handguns and quickly hit his targets, while Joseph struggled at first but improved with practice.
• Schiller and Deathstroke began handling East Coast crime, and Schiller brought Joseph along on two relatively safe cases.
• Joseph used his power to make criminals surrender and later stopped an armored car robbery with two accurate shots.

Hall organized a ritual to investigate the Moon God’s connection to the Lantern powers, and Khonshu chose Schiller and Deathstroke. After they endured Khonshu’s badly designed trials, Schiller opened the final coffin and found Anatoly inside.

• Hall publicized the mural, exposed Khaywen’s collaborators in the Midway City Museum, and helped uncover a ritual connected to Khonshu.
• Green Lantern Hal recognized the Guardians of the Universe on the mural, while Hall identified the Moon God’s ritual procedure.
• Diana, Hal, Barry, Arthur, Schiller, and Deathstroke took part in Hall’s ritual, and moonlight selected Schiller and Deathstroke.
• Schiller and Deathstroke entered Khonshu’s realm and battled through monsters, puzzles, a lengthy history cutscene, platforming, and fetch quests.
• Schiller opened the final coffin and recognized Anatoly, who slammed the lid shut after seeing him.

Schiller and Deathstroke reached Anatoly’s coffin, but Anatoly refused to come out unless the Justice League faced him, so Schiller threatened to find Lucifer and got him to emerge. After learning the League wanted Anatoly’s help searching the multiverse for Batman, Schiller teleported the group to Egypt, leaving Deathstroke curious about Schiller and Anatoly’s history.

• Schiller and Deathstroke struggled to open Anatoly’s coffin, while Anatoly insisted that the Justice League had to fight him instead of them.
• Schiller threatened to find Lucifer, prompting Anatoly to leave the coffin and greet Schiller in Russian.
• Anatoly questioned Schiller about joining the FBI, and Schiller told him to agree to the Justice League’s request to help search for Batman across the multiverse.
• Schiller summoned Khonshu and had him teleport the group to Egypt rather than the Justice League base.
• As they walked toward Cairo, Deathstroke asked about Schiller and Anatoly, and Schiller explained that Anatoly was a former Soviet military man and KGB agent.

Schiller tracked down and killed Khaywen and Hath-Set in Cairo, then explained his past to Anatoly and Deathstroke. He revealed that Batman and other powerful figures were trapped on the Origin Wall, leaving Anatoly to help Pride find his missing student.

• Schiller questioned Lady Shiva, learned Khaywen had manipulated her, and obtained leads to his Egyptian safe houses.
• Schiller destroyed Khaywen's stash houses, killed him, and used his phone to arrange a meeting with Deputy Curator Sa'ah.
• Schiller confronted Hath-Set at the Museum, shot him, and finished him with a dagger after identifying him as a traitor to Prince Khufu.
• Schiller told Anatoly and Deathstroke that Batman's disappearance was connected to Pride's student and that Pride could explain the matter further.
• Anatoly pressed Schiller about his past as an agent and professor, and Schiller admitted his career choices had helped bring him back to Gotham.
• Schiller revealed that several Batmen, the Black Death Emperor, and multiversal Darkseid were trapped on the Origin Wall, and Anatoly reacted with alarm.

Anatoly agreed to investigate Batman’s disappearance and went to seek information while Schiller recruited Constantine to help protect him. Schiller’s companions arranged for an Agent to follow Anatoly, hoping to see whether he would approach Lucifer, as the chapter left them preparing for a potentially dangerous encounter.

• Anatoly left the Justice League with Wonder Woman and Hal, examined the Central Power Battery, and set out to investigate Batman’s disappearance across the multiverse.
• Schiller returned to the High Tower, where his companions speculated that Anatoly would secretly seek information about Lucifer and urged an Agent to follow him.
• The Agent reluctantly agreed to accompany Anatoly, and Greed told him to stay close, especially if Anatoly prepared to go to Heaven.
• Schiller traveled to Battleworld and met Constantine from the Movie Universe, asking him to help protect Anatoly while they searched for Batman.

Schiller and Constantine investigated Anatoly’s sudden departure by contacting Heaven and Hell, then concluded the matter was likely connected to Heaven. They prepared to protect the person who could solve the problem, and Constantine gave Schiller a necklace made from a shard of Satan’s wineglass to deter angels.

• Constantine rejected the Justice League base as insufficiently secure, so Schiller took him to a house in Gotham to establish a ritual workspace.
• Constantine contacted a seraph, who reported that an Archangel had been absent from duties and that Heaven had received no notable visitors.
• Constantine contacted a demon in Hell, who confirmed that Lucifer had not returned and that Hell had also been quiet.
• Schiller and Constantine narrowed their investigation to Heaven and agreed to protect the person who could solve the problem rather than identify the missing Archangel.
• Constantine gave Schiller the Snake Rage necklace, made from a shard of Satan’s wineglass, which would make most angels avoid him.

Schiller searched for a way to help Anatoly free the people trapped on the Origin Wall and discovered that the Outer Gods had vanished from the universes. He contacted Professor X to ask about Robert Reynolds, but the call ended with Professor X realizing Reynolds was missing.

• Schiller ruled out the Lantern powers and the Black Lantern power, then decided to seek Nyarlathotep as a possible source of higher-tier energy.
• Schiller told Constantine that Lucifer was likely Nyarlathotep’s enemy, and Constantine discovered he could no longer contact him.
• Schiller asked Evil God Batman to observe the stars, and Evil God Batman reported that the stars, ancient texts, and believers’ memories had all vanished or gone blank.
• Schiller checked with Star-Lord, Doctor Strange, and other Doctor Stranges, who confirmed that the Outer Gods and their stars had disappeared across universes.
• Schiller called Professor X to ask about Robert Reynolds, and Professor X realized Reynolds was missing and called for Erik.

Schiller had the Fire God enhance Anatoly’s Fusion Cannon, hoping to stop Anatoly from using it to shake objects off the Origin Wall. After Anatoly confronted him and reacted to a broken necklace, Schiller learned from Constantine that Lucifer’s necklace fragment came from a shattered wineglass, which Schiller recognized as stolen from the Kremlin pantry.

• Schiller and Constantine visited Apollo’s solar domain, where Schiller arranged for the Fire God to strengthen Anatoly’s Fusion Cannon.
• The Fire God enhanced the cannon, and Anatoly later confronted Schiller, angry that it had been altered and explaining he planned to shake objects off the Origin Wall.
• Schiller showed Anatoly a broken necklace, and Anatoly recognized it as his before leaving without explaining its significance.
• Constantine told Schiller that he had made the necklace from a fragment of Lucifer’s shattered wineglass after the two had gotten drunk together.
• Constantine sketched the glass’s gold rim pattern, and Schiller recognized it as matching glassware from the Kremlin pantry.

Schiller and Constantine planned to find objects connected to Lucifer that could deter an Archangel without alerting him directly. To trace Lucifer’s history in the Main Universe, they decided to seek out its Constantine, beginning by locating him through the Robins.

• Schiller recognized Constantine’s drawing as a Soviet “Civilized Cup” and reasoned that Anatoly had given it to Lucifer, who broke it and left one shard behind.
• Constantine explained that contacting Satan directly could attract both Satan and the Archangel, so they considered using objects connected to Satan to borrow his power indirectly.
• Schiller refused to contact Lucifer about Anatoly, hoping instead to pressure Anatoly into approaching Lucifer and reveal his hidden purpose.
• Schiller and Constantine decided to search the Main Universe for Lucifer’s traces and investigate his human identity, possibly starting with a bar he had opened.
• When Wonder Woman did not answer, Schiller suggested asking the Robins where Batman had taken this universe’s Constantine, and Constantine offered to handle their family conflict for a lead.

Schiller and Constantine sought Satan-related items from the Main Universe Constantine, who Batman had confined to Arkham Asylum. They left with a chest of Lucifer’s old possessions to search for useful clues.

• The Robins argued over bringing Batman back until Barbara received news of Living Corpses on Gotham’s coast, and they rushed to investigate after Constantine’s trick prompted the alert.
• Constantine used a spell to find the Main Universe Constantine’s location, and he and Schiller discovered that the apparent patient in Arkham was a fake body.
• Constantine summoned the Main Universe Constantine from his sanctuary and asked him for items or leads connected to Satan.
• Schiller explained how Batman’s supervision had trapped the Main Universe Constantine in ordinary society, and offered to help persuade Batman to ease the situation.
• The Main Universe Constantine brought out a chest of old items from Lucifer and began sorting through them for anything useful.

Schiller learned the history behind the Makarov casing Lucifer had given Main Universe Constantine and considered why Lucifer had accepted Anatoly’s death. Back at the Justice League base, Anatoly planned a multiverse rescue operation, and Schiller showed him the casing, making his expression falter.

• Main Universe Constantine showed Schiller a Makarov casing he had won from Lucifer, and Schiller recognized it as the bullet that had passed through Anatoly’s brain.
• Schiller explained that the casing’s history troubled Lucifer, while Constantine and the other Constantine discussed how emotion created lasting power in blessed objects.
• On the way back, Constantine argued that Lucifer’s pride would make him reject anyone who chose death, while Schiller reasoned that Anatoly’s selfless sacrifice had left Lucifer unable to resent him.
• Schiller returned to the Justice League base and found Anatoly organizing the Justice Leagues of the multiverse for a rescue operation because the Sun Cannon could not be used.
• Schiller showed Anatoly the bullet casing, and Anatoly’s expression finally cracked.

Schiller and Constantine investigated where the missing Batmen might have gone and suspected they had escaped into Dreamscape, possibly with Joker Jack’s help. They tried to enter Dreamscape through two passages but found both sealed, leaving Schiller worried that the entire realm was in trouble.

• Schiller returned Anatoly’s pendant and discussed the Batmen’s peril with Constantine, who reasoned that Batman might have prepared an escape route outside the Real Universe.
• Schiller and Constantine concluded that Dreamscape was a likely refuge, but the Batmen had sent no word, suggesting they had encountered further trouble.
• Schiller suspected Joker Jack had been meant to contact and retrieve the Batmen in Dreamscape, and he and Constantine decided to investigate.
• Schiller led Constantine through the High Tower toward Dreamscape, but they found the passage closed and had to return to the real world.
• Constantine tried entering Dreamscape through his own subconscious, but that passage was closed too, prompting Schiller to suspect Dreamscape itself had a problem.

Schiller and Constantine uncovered that Sandman had considered Constantine as a possible successor, and Bat-Cat revealed a route into the troubled Dreamscape through the Dream of a Thousand Cats. Schiller gathered Charles and Joseph as psychic support, but Joseph reacted with terror when he saw Charles.

• Schiller guided Constantine through his subconscious, where Constantine remembered that Sandman had considered him a candidate to inherit the Dream God's position.
• Constantine recalled a dream filled with cats, and Schiller recognized it as the Dream of a Thousand Cats.
• Schiller contacted Rocket and then Bat-Cat, who confirmed that his connection to Cat City Gotham had vanished and explained how to enter the Dreamscape.
• Schiller and Bat-Cat decided to recruit Charles Xavier and Joseph Wilson as psychic support before entering the Dreamscape.
• Charles arrived with a universal psychic helmet, and Joseph visibly panicked when he saw Charles.

Schiller and his companions entered the Dreamscape, where the Black Death Emperor’s power had unleashed Living Corpses and other threats. Charles used mental power shaped like the Spirit of Existence to fight back, while Joseph’s attempt to reach the Dreamscape’s vast consciousness left him injured; Charles then contacted Jack, who was trapped.

• Charles gave Joseph a helmet to help him focus his telepathic abilities, and Bat-Cat guided the group into the Dreamscape.
• Schiller and Constantine fought a Living Corpse and a death-infected vine after discovering that the Black Death Emperor’s power had contaminated the Dreamscape.
• Schiller told Charles to use the Life Force, and Charles created a mental manifestation resembling the Spirit of Existence that burned the infected creatures to ash.
• Joseph used the helmet to connect with an immense consciousness, but he could not look directly at it without risking his own dissolution.
• Charles used the helmet to reach the Dreamscape’s sleeping master and found that Jack was trapped.

Schiller, Charles, and their companions fought through a succession of death-contaminated dream bubbles to reach Jack’s nightmare, a ruined version of Gotham. They found Jack wounded and cornered in the unfinished building where the nightmare’s source awaited them.

• Charles explained that the team had to destroy the corpse carrying the strongest concentration of the Power of Death in each dream bubble to move on.
• Schiller, Constantine, and Joseph cleared the way through the contaminated dreams, while Bat-Cat helped the group escape a zombie whale and defeat other dream cores.
• The team entered Jack’s nightmare and found a ruined, bankrupt Gotham that Schiller recognized as the result of Bruce’s failed transformation of the city.
• Schiller led the group to Living Hell in the East End, where they found Jack with his abdomen slashed and his wounds healing slowly.

Schiller and his allies rescued Jack from a nightmare and learned that the Batmen had gone to seek refuge with Professor X in the merged universe. After a difficult journey across the Dreamscape, they reached Professor X’s mental world, where the mutants stared at the young Charles.

• Schiller, Charles, and the others rescued Jack from Bruce’s monstrous nightmare form, and Jack explained that the Power of Death was overwhelming the Dreamscape.
• Jack told Schiller that the Batmen had taken his car toward the Main Universe, but Bat-Cat said they would avoid bringing the Power of Death there.
• Charles traced faint signs of the Outer God, and the group found Jerome besieged by Living Corpses in his dream.
• Jerome told Schiller that the Batmen had left to find a powerful psychic in the Merged Universe, leading Schiller to identify their destination as Earth-1.
• Charles located Professor X’s mental world, and the group crossed more than a hundred dream bubbles to reach it.
• The group arrived among Professor X and the mutants, who froze when the young Charles appeared.

Schiller gathered a rescue team and traveled to Marvel to find the Batmen, who had crossed universes and ended up in Legion’s mind. After hearing Schiller explain the conflict among Anatoly, Lucifer, and the First Lantern, Batman became intrigued by the First Lantern.

• Professor X said he could not wake the Dream God, and Scarlet Witch explained that the Batmen had gone to Marvel with Eternity.
• Schiller received a call from Strange, who said the Batmen were in Legion’s mind and could not safely enter the damaged Dreamscape Dimension.
• Schiller, Constantine, Charles, and Bat-Cat traveled to Marvel and met Strange at the Interstellar Council’s new capital.
• Charles led the group into Legion’s mind, where Schiller found Main Universe Batman and Arkham Batman together.
• Main Universe Batman and Arkham Batman asked Schiller to explain the events behind their predicament, and Schiller recounted the conflict between Anatoly, Lucifer, and the First Lantern.
• Main Universe Batman praised the story and said he wanted to meet the First Lantern after hearing how he had saved Gotham.

Schiller organized a response to the Dreamscape crisis while Batman and the others explained how their plans had repeatedly gone awry. He began gathering people to wake Sandman and contain the contamination, while considering how to safely bring down the entities hanging on the Origin Wall.

• Schiller told the Batmen he would recruit help to wake Sandman and clean up the Dreamscape, and said the First Lantern would handle the entities on the Origin Wall.
• Schiller warned that freeing the Black Death Emperor before containing the Dreamscape could spread its contamination across the multiverse and turn everyone into Living Corpses.
• Schiller asked Strange to help gather capable people, and Strange called Constantine in to discuss how to wake Sandman.
• Charles agreed the mutants should help and proposed sending Erik and Lorna, whose command of fundamental universal forces should remain compatible.
• Charles suggested consulting scientists, but Schiller replied that none of the scientists on his side could be considered reliable.

Schiller consulted Stark about the Batmen trapped in Apocalypse’s Domain, and Stark deduced that Bruce had used them as bait to lure Barbatos into a trap. Schiller then sought Reed’s help and discovered that the M’Kraan Crystal had left him with severe bad luck.

• Stark analyzed the Batmen’s data and concluded that Bruce had used the Dark Domain to set a trap for Barbatos.
• Stark said Bruce likely intended to trap Barbatos as well, leaving Bruce free to use the Dark Domain without restraint.
• Schiller went to Reed, who revealed that he had helped Doctor Shostakov collect Tears of the Sun using the M’Kraan Crystal.
• Reed told Schiller that using the M’Kraan Crystal caused extreme bad luck, and Schiller realized this might explain Mediocrity’s misfortune.