Chapter Summaries

Richard tested his newly maximized Great Freeze and Great Fire, fused Hellfire with the Eternal Flame to create and detonate Buddha's Wrathful Fire Lotus, then completed the One-Winged Angel (III) mission by defeating and killing Laufey and Surtur. He returned with Surtur's crown and Twilight Sword, which he examined before storing, and continued preparing for what lay ahead.

• Richard froze the Atlantic Ocean across a thousand-kilometer area with Great Freeze, then melted the ice with Great Fire.
• Richard fused Hellfire and a cluster of Eternal Flame into Buddha's Wrathful Fire Lotus and tested its explosive power in Outer Space.
• Richard used the Tesseract to travel to Jotunheim and Muspelheim to complete the One-Winged Angel (III) mission.
• Richard defeated and killed Frost Giant King Laufey and Fire Giant Surtur, completing the mission and receiving a 10% increase to his Sephiroth Template Fusion Degree.
• Richard stored Surtur's crown and Twilight Sword and discovered that Twilight Sword could not fuse with a Summoned Sword.

Richard spent three quiet months after killing Laufey and Surtur, then discovered a World Dungeon challenge and entered The Boys universe. The challenge required him to become its most popular “superhero” within six months, and he realized the title did not require him to do good deeds.

• Richard told Thor that he had killed Rogers, and Thor chose not to interfere before flying to Washington D.C. with Loki.
• Three months later, Richard checked his system panel and found that he had gained one World Dungeon challenge attempt.
• Richard activated the World Dungeon and was transported to a street in The Boys universe.
• Richard witnessed a speedster smash a young woman to pieces and recognized the universe.
• The system tasked Richard with becoming the most popular “superhero” in six months and offered a 10% increase to his Superboy-Prime Template Fusion Degree.

Richard killed The Deep to create a vacancy in The Seven, then threatened Vought president Edgar into arranging his membership. He brought Edgar to a forest to demonstrate his powers, leaving the result of the demonstration unknown.

• Richard decided to join The Seven by killing one of its members and chose The Deep to protect Starlight from him.
• Richard teleported into The Deep's room and killed him with Hellfire, which burned him to ashes.
• Richard appeared in Vought president Edgar's office and demanded to join The Seven, threatening to kill Edgar if he refused.
• Richard told Edgar he had Homelander's powers and many others, then teleported with him to a forest hundreds of kilometers away.
• Richard told Edgar to watch as he prepared to demonstrate his abilities.

Richard used his overwhelming power to make Edgar accept his place in The Seven, then Vought introduced him to the public as Silver Angel and covered up The Deep’s death as a retirement. As Richard’s promotional shoot began, Madelyn brought Homelander to the studio to test him and assert her influence.

• Richard demonstrated his abilities to Edgar, who agreed to let him join The Seven and later called Head-Popper Neuman.
• Richard checked into a luxury hotel and spent the following week working with Edgar, Madelyn, Ashley, and Vought staff on his introduction to the company.
• Richard chose the name Silver Angel, rejected Vought’s costume, and transformed his clothes into a black windbreaker with silver shoulder armor using magic power.
• Vought announced that The Deep was leaving The Seven to focus on ocean pollution, concealing his death from the public and the other members.
• Madelyn brought Homelander to Richard’s promotional shoot, hoping to use him to intimidate Richard and protect her ambitions within Vought.

Richard prepared to join The Seven while clashing with Homelander and drawing Vought executives’ attention to his confidence and power. At the shareholders’ meeting, Starlight and Richard arrived as new members, and A-Train appeared onstage to address the audience.

• Richard challenged Homelander during a promotional shoot, and Madelyn stopped Homelander from attacking him.
• Over the next three days, Richard took part in Vought’s promotional activities while his public approval remained very low.
• Starlight arrived at Seven Tower to cheers from her fans, while Richard received little attention when he arrived afterward.
• Ashley introduced Richard to Starlight as Silver Angel and led them backstage, where Richard refused a makeup touch-up.
• Madelyn announced A-Train at the shareholders’ meeting, and he began speaking about Lamplighter and The Deep retiring from The Seven.

Richard and Starlight joined The Seven, where Homelander threatened Richard over his place on the team. Richard challenged Homelander and defeated him so thoroughly that he lost consciousness in less than half a minute.

• A-Train introduced Richard and Starlight as the new members of The Seven, then showed them the meeting room.
• Richard and Starlight spoke briefly before Homelander and Queen Maeve arrived to welcome them.
• Homelander sent Queen Maeve to show Starlight around and warned Richard that he would remove him if he damaged The Seven's reputation.
• Richard rejected Homelander's threat, claimed Homelander could not hurt him, and teleported them both to a forest.
• Richard attacked Homelander with hotter Heat Vision and a series of blows, then held him in place and knocked him unconscious.

After forcing Homelander to become his subordinate and ordering him to kill Madelyn, Richard began his own brutal crime-fighting campaign in the Bronx. He killed three hundred criminals in one night, and as videos of the killings spread online, he told Vought International's Network Department not to suppress them.

• Richard defeated Homelander, gave him the choice of serving or dying, and ordered him to kill Madelyn within three days.
• Richard inspected his new residence in Seven Tower, then went to the Bronx to fight crime without following Vought International's staged-heroics plans.
• Richard killed street thugs robbing a store with wind blades and urged a Shop Assistant to call the police.
• Richard used his powers to kill criminals across the Bronx, setting a target of three hundred and stopping after he reached it.
• Videos of Richard's killings spread online as Vought International's Network Department tried to remove them.
• Richard teleported to the Network Department and told the employees to go home instead of deleting videos or comments.

Richard stopped Vought International from suppressing footage of his killings, then used his power over The Seven to seize the captain’s seat and demand a larger share of the team’s revenue. He chose Death Administrator as his new Hero Alias and went back out to hunt criminals, leaving the night’s patrol continuing in Queens.

• Richard drove the Network Department employees away and melted the department’s fiber optic cables, allowing videos of his killings to spread online.
• At The Seven’s meeting, Richard ordered Homelander to give up the captain’s seat, and Homelander obeyed.
• Richard demanded forty percent of The Seven’s pooled revenue and threatened to kill the others unless they agreed; Homelander, Queen Maeve, A-Train, Translucent, Black Noir, and Starlight accepted.
• Richard chose Death Administrator as his new Hero Alias after asking The Seven for suggestions and selecting one of the nicknames at random.
• Richard returned to the Bronx at nine that night, killed more than thirty criminals, then teleported to Queens when criminal activity slowed.

Richard killed hundreds of criminals in Queens, marked their heads with his new alias, and used his growing notoriety to pursue a plan involving Victoria Neuman and the Superhuman Restriction Act. A week later, crime in New York had fallen sharply, while Madelyn had died in a fire secretly caused by Homelander.

• Richard killed three hundred criminals in Queens and carved “Death Administrator” onto their remaining heads.
• Richard told Starlight to have her uniform redesigned, then visited Victoria Neuman and threatened her into intensifying her condemnation of him and pushing for a vote on the Superhuman Restriction Act.
• Richard warned Victoria Neuman not to inject her daughter with Compound V before teleporting back to Seven Tower.
• Over the following week, Richard killed nearly three thousand criminals, and New York’s crime rate dropped by more than ninety percent.
• Madelyn died in a fire at her residence, which Edgar and Victoria Neuman knew Homelander had deliberately caused.

Richard became The Seven’s new captain while planning to use the role to build his public profile, and he considered whether Soldier Boy could later be framed as a supervillain. He brought Starlight to stop a group of robbers, leaving her to fight crime on her own terms.

• Richard learned that Butcher had recruited Hughie, Frenchie, and Mother's Milk into The Boys, while A-Train publicly apologized and Richard warned Translucent to stop spying on women.
• Danerys Ayala became Vought International’s Vice President, and Richard filmed a promotional handover with Homelander that presented Richard as The Seven’s new captain.
• Richard reviewed Vought and military files on Soldier Boy, learned they did not know where he was imprisoned, and decided to wait before pursuing him.
• Richard visited Starlight, who had been persuaded to stay in The Seven and hoped to transform it into a genuine superhero team.
• Richard teleported Starlight to a Brooklyn warehouse and told her to stop the robbers inside in her own way.

Starlight and Richard captured a group of jewelry-store robbers, but Starlight was shot after trusting a false surrender, and Richard killed the robber before she could attack again. After the police arrived, Vought Vice President Danerys Ayala brought a filming crew to the warehouse and asked Richard to speak with her privately.

• Starlight blasted open the warehouse door and entered with Richard, where the robbers opened fire on her.
• Starlight blinded the robbers, knocked down three men, and approached the woman who claimed to surrender.
• The female robber shot Starlight six times, but Richard killed her with golden Heat Vision before she could continue attacking.
• Starlight called 911 and Ashley, then tied up the three male robbers while waiting for the police and Vought's filming crew.
• Danerys Ayala arrived with the crew, and after arranging for them to record the scene, asked Richard to speak with her privately.

Richard warned Danielle that he would keep the captaincy of The Seven until he left, then focused on building his fame after a month passed without completing the World Challenge. He decided to make Soldier Boy a supervillain foil and headed to Russia to locate him.

• Richard told Danielle that Starlight was the only person who could replace him as captain and warned her not to use her psychic abilities on him or Starlight.
• Richard returned with Starlight to her suite, and later considered killing Vought’s superheroes and other potential obstacles before deciding he would not kill Starlight.
• Over the next month, Richard gained public attention as captain of The Seven, but the system did not declare his World Challenge complete because his fame had not spread far enough.
• Richard decided Soldier Boy would make a suitable supervillain to boost his fame, since Homelander and the unknown Stormfront were not suitable candidates.
• Richard chose to travel to Russia and use his Telepathic Sense to find Soldier Boy before passing information to Butcher, Hughie, and the others.

Richard arranged to turn Soldier Boy into a public supervillain, monitored The Boys, and assigned A-Train and Translucent new tasks. Homelander demanded work and visibility, but Richard silenced him with a threat.

• Richard asked Edgar to have Soldier Boy's history promoted so he could later present him as a supervillain, and offered Edgar a future opening in The Seven after removing Translucent.
• Richard read surveillance reports showing that Butcher's team was targeting him and that government agencies considered him a major superhuman threat; he ordered the monitoring to continue.
• Richard told A-Train to resume delivering Compound V to terrorists and ordered Translucent to keep Billy Butcher under constant surveillance.
• Homelander asked Richard for assignments to maintain his public exposure and complained that Richard could not sideline him.
• Richard grabbed Homelander by the throat, threatened to kill him if he tried to tell Richard how to act, and then released him.

Richard maintained control over Homelander and arranged for Stormfront to join The Seven after Edgar tried to maneuver Supersonic into the position. The chapter ended with Homelander intercepting a smuggling truck and discovering people inside its container, including three newborn superhumans.

• Homelander left Richard’s meeting room, while Translucent began monitoring Butcher and A-Train retrieved Compound V from Vought’s laboratory.
• Richard confirmed Soldier Boy’s location in Russia and learned that the Russian Military had tortured him and developed its own version of Compound V from his blood.
• At the filming location, Richard ordered more scenes for Homelander, then agreed with Edgar’s proposal to make Stormfront the new member of The Seven instead of Supersonic.
• Edgar contacted Stormfront and told her that she could join The Seven, while his public relations staff prepared to announce Translucent’s death.
• Homelander stopped a truck leaving a Queens dock and used Super Vision to spot twenty or thirty people inside its shipping container, including three newly born superhumans.

Homelander’s mission to stop a smuggling operation ended in a bloody disaster, and Richard blamed him for losing control. The next day, Stormfront joined The Seven, and Richard immediately crushed her to the floor with intensified gravity.

• Homelander confronted the truck carrying illegal immigrants, but three newly empowered superhumans attacked him after the container doors burst open.
• Homelander killed two of the attackers, while the third caused an explosion that killed the people inside the container.
• Homelander admitted his carelessness to Richard, who decided he would kill Homelander before returning to the Marvel Universe.
• Richard told Starlight that the illegal immigrants had died and informed her that Stormfront would join The Seven the next day.
• Ashley brought Stormfront to meet The Seven, and Richard used Gravity Manipulation to pin her to the floor when she ignored his instruction to sit down.

Richard disciplined Stormfront, prepared Starlight to take over as captain of The Seven, and spent the next week preparing for his departure while dealing with the fallout surrounding Soldier Boy. When Soldier Boy lost control outside Seven Tower, Richard moved to face him, but Butcher and the others joined the clash.

• Richard used amplified gravity to punish Stormfront for disrupting The Seven's meeting, then assigned Homelander and Queen Maeve to attend Translucent's funeral and ordered Homelander to give a scripted interview.
• Richard told Starlight he planned to leave in a week or two and would pass the captaincy to her, along with safeguards to help her keep the position.
• Edgar contained the public backlash over Soldier Boy, while Richard signed an agreement with the United States government and personally handled most of the superhuman arrests, leaving some for Starlight.
• Butcher and his team found Soldier Boy through Nina and brought him back to New York, though Mother's Milk left the group; Richard secretly redirected Soldier Boy's hatred toward himself.
• Soldier Boy exploded a neighboring building after finding the statue outside Seven Tower removed, and Richard learned the cause by entering his mind.
• Homelander and Stormfront attacked Soldier Boy, but Richard flung them aside; Butcher then charged at Homelander while Richard prepared to face Soldier Boy.

Richard battled Soldier Boy in public while Butcher and Hughie fought Homelander and Stormfront. After cutting apart Soldier Boy’s energy blast with Octaslash, Richard killed him with a second Octaslash, leaving Soldier Boy dismembered in the street.

• Butcher used Temporary Five-enhanced speed and Heat Vision to attack Homelander, then fought him in close quarters.
• Richard blocked Soldier Boy’s shield strikes and sent him crashing through a building while holding back to prolong their fight.
• Stormfront joined Homelander against Butcher, but Hughie teleported behind her and punched her away, allowing Butcher to attack Homelander.
• Richard pursued Soldier Boy, struck his shield, and let him unleash his orange-red energy blast.
• Richard cut apart Soldier Boy’s energy blast with Octaslash, teleported to him, and dismembered him with a second Octaslash.

Richard completed the World Challenge after killing Soldier Boy, Frenchie, and Butcher, but chose to remain in the world for a few more days. He modified Starlight so she could store electrical energy for extended periods and prepared to leave her in charge of The Seven.

• Richard killed Frenchie in Seven Tower’s laboratory, then killed Butcher after Hughie tried to teleport him away, but let Hughie escape.
• Richard returned to his apartment, and the next day the System awarded him the Superboy-Prime template and offered him the chance to return to the original universe; he chose to stay.
• Richard told Starlight he would leave in a few days, help her deal with Homelander and Stormfront, and prepare her to lead The Seven, then revealed that Stormfront was a Nazi who had once operated as Liberty.
• Richard explained that he would modify Starlight to let her store electrical energy, and she agreed to cooperate with his experiments.
• After three days in Seven Tower’s laboratory, Richard successfully implanted an Artificial Magic Source and compatible organs in Starlight, allowing her to store enough electrical energy to last at least a month.

After completing his plans in The Boys Universe, Richard handed The Seven's captaincy to Starlight and returned to the Marvel Universe. Back at Silver Manor, he checked his items and template fusion levels, then sensed White Queen, Clarice, and the others.

• Richard finished organizing Starlight's modification data, rested, and planned preliminary modifications for Sharon Carter and Black Widow Natasha.
• Richard met Ryan and Hughie, then killed the superpowered terrorists and Homelander, Stormfront, Head-Popper, Edgar, and the others.
• Richard destroyed Compound V and Temporary Five supplies and records, and erased the manufacturing knowledge from everyone else's minds.
• Richard told Starlight he would leave and hand The Seven's captaincy to her, then announced the transfer at his final meeting with Queen Maeve, A-Train, and Black Noir.
• Richard used the system to return to the Marvel Universe, where he took out Compound V and Temporary Five, checked his template fusion levels, and sensed White Queen, Clarice, and the others.

Richard returned to Silver Manor and found the White Queen, Clarice, and the women from the Zombie Universe attending a Fantastic Four charity dinner. After learning about a new charitable foundation and the women’s decision to adopt new first names, he brought them home and accepted their choices.

• Richard called the White Queen and learned that she, Clarice, and the others were attending a charity dinner at the Baxter Building.
• Richard arrived at the dinner, where Human Torch announced that the Wesley and Storm Charitable Foundation had been established with Richard and Invisible Woman as co-presidents.
• Human Torch told Richard that Reed had gone to Africa to find metal for the parallel-universe device and that his sister had stayed behind.
• Richard brought the group back to Silver Manor, where the White Queen explained that Natasha and the others had decided to start new lives with new first names.
• Natasha Romanoff became Scarlett Natasha Romanoff, Sharon Carter became Ashley Sharon Carter, and Susan Storm became Jessica Susan Storm; the White Queen had already arranged their driver's licenses.