Chapter Summaries

Dane returned to Earth, reassured Clark about Lois’s information exchange, and promised to help Clark’s child in the future. He then reunited with Madame Web and gave her a powerful crystal ball, while Blitz’s team spotted Fizzarolli and sensed a powerful magical presence in the Greed Ring.

• Dane returned to Justice Hall, where Clark complained that his absence had delayed his and Lois’s wedding.
• Dane promised to help Clark’s child whenever the child needed him, and Clark made him swear to remember the promise.
• Dane visited Madame Web in New York and gave her a magical crystal ball that could amplify magic and interfere with precognition.
• Blitz brought Loona along to search for Fizzarolli in Mammon’s grand theater, and Loona tracked his distinctive scent.
• Loona sensed powerful magical energy near the theater, and Blitz warned the others to stay hidden because someone important was approaching.

Blitz and the IMP crew were caught leaking photos of Fizz and Asmodeus, then Mammon and Asmodeus confronted them. Fizz stopped Asmodeus from killing Blitz, and Asmodeus let the crew go; afterward, Moxxie questioned how many famous people Blitz knew.

• Mammon and Asmodeus met with Fizz, while Blitz secretly photographed them and Loona posted the pictures online, making the affair a public scandal.
• Mammon traced the photos to the IMP crew and captured Blitz, Moxxie, Millie, and Loona as they tried to escape.
• Fizz recognized Blitz and the two exchanged insults, with Blitz bringing up Fizz's missing limbs and horns.
• Asmodeus prepared to kill Blitz, but Fizz asked him to let the crew go because he did not want to waste another second on Blitz.
• Asmodeus told Mammon to release the crew, and Moxxie later complained that Blitz seemed to know many famous people.

Blitz's team escaped Mammon and discussed the curse threatening Blitz, while Loona learned how much she cared about him. Dane opened the Dream Exchange in Pentagram City, and its first customer learned that a dream would cost him part of his soul.

• Blitz, Moxxie, Millie, and Loona escaped Mammon through a Portal, and Mammon let them go after realizing the grimoire might have been lent to them by a noble.
• Back at the office, Loona overheard Blitz and his employees discussing the curse and realized she cared about Blitz more than she had thought.
• Dane ordered Faora and Sinestro to establish a business in the Pride Ring and opened the Dream Exchange in Pentagram City.
• Vox broadcast an advertisement for the Dream Exchange, which offered customers realistic dreams in exchange for something important to them.
• A Sin Demon agreed to buy a dream, and a female attendant told him that part of his soul would serve as payment after he signed the contract.

A demon bought a dream at Dane’s Dream Exchange and spent nearly a century imagining a life of limitless pleasure and success, then returned to buy VIP access. Dane told Charley that satisfying demons’ desires might eventually make them seek Heaven, but privately admitted he did not believe they would ever adapt to its rules.

• A female demon receptionist forced a newcomer to sign a soul contract, and the dream magic gave him a century of wealth, lovers, and power before he awoke.
• The demon mistook the receptionist for one of his dream lovers, so she split him in half; after recovering, he returned and became the Dream Exchange’s first VIP customer.
• Rumors about the Dream Exchange spread through the Pride Ring, and more demons began visiting to experience its dreams.
• Charley questioned whether Dane’s shop merely encouraged corruption, and Dane claimed that indulging every desire might eventually make demons seek redemption.
• Dane privately recognized that his explanation was a deception, since demons accustomed to a fallen life would struggle to live under Heaven’s rules.

Dane explained how his Dream Exchange would let him dominate demons’ minds and bodies, then confronted Lucifer over his plans for Charley and struck him with Hell’s power. Afterward, Dane questioned Blitz about leaked photos of Oz and Fizzarolli, but Blitz’s strange outburst left Dane considering whether to kill him.

• Dane revealed that demons who accepted their dreams as reality would leave their bodies and consciousness under his control.
• Dane deduced that Lucifer and Lilith had raised Charley to inherit the Pride Ring, but rejected Lucifer’s suggestion that he pursue Charley to gain influence over it.
• Dane slashed Lucifer with a blade formed from Hell’s authority, forcing Lucifer to retreat and recover away from him.
• Dane confronted Blitz about photos of Oz and Fizzarolli that had spread online, and Blitz admitted he had sent them after taking them.
• Dane used his voice to compel Blitz to kneel, but Blitz regained control and blurted out that he would never perform oral sex on Dane again.

Dane seized Loona after discovering she had used Stolas Gethia’s spellbook, then sent Blitz to arrange an introduction to the demon noble. Blitz returned to IMP Company and contacted Stolas, who faced the choice of meeting the powerful newcomer to recover his book.

• Dane froze Blitz midair, pulled Loona to him, and took the spellbook she had hidden.
• Dane learned Blitz had stolen the book from Stolas Gethia and returned Blitz’s true name in exchange for a task: introduce him to Stolas.
• Dane teleported Blitz back to IMP Company and kept Loona with him until Blitz completed the task.
• Blitz told Moxxie and Millie that Dane had taken Loona, then called Stolas for help.
• Stolas arrived at IMP Company and learned that an unnamed, newly arrived demon wanted to meet him.
• Stolas weighed the danger of meeting Dane against the need to recover his important spellbook.

Dane discovered that angel dust underpinned Hell’s currency and planned to make demons’ souls the basis of a new monetary system. He recruited Stolas to help secure the demon nobility’s cooperation, but Stolas grew wary when Dane revealed that Lucifer would be absent for some time.

• Dane learned that angel dust was Hell’s most trusted commodity and decided to digitize demons’ souls as a universal currency.
• Dane explained that his plan required demons to voluntarily sign a magical contract and that he would need the demon nobility’s help.
• Stolas visited Dane to recover the Book of Solomon, and Dane returned it after adding his own notes.
• Dane introduced himself as Mazahs, a ruler from another Hell, and used his demonic power to convince Stolas that he could not be opposed.
• Dane told Stolas he wanted to change Hell’s monetary system, and Stolas cautioned him about the consequences.
• Stolas asked whether Lucifer had approved the plan, and Dane said Lucifer would probably not return to Hell for some time.

Dane explained to Stolas that a currency system based on souls could let demons expand their souls and potentially overcome Hell’s rigid power hierarchy. He demonstrated that souls could be transferred and that the recipient’s soul visibly grew, leaving Stolas stunned by the plan’s feasibility.

• Dane showed Stolas a soul-value system and argued that demons could use accumulated souls to increase their strength and challenge established ranks.
• Dane described Hell’s four power tiers and explained that soul accumulation could give ordinary demons and nobles a path to surpass their limits.
• Dane explained that souls stored a being’s consciousness and information, and that powerful demons had larger souls capable of holding more knowledge and authority.
• Dane transferred part of his soul value to Vicky, causing the numbers on their arms to change.
• Stolas used his demon eyes to confirm that Vicky’s soul had expanded as Dane continued transferring soul currency to her.

Dane proposed measuring souls as currency to Stolas, who brought the plan to Paimon, prompting them to call a meeting of the Noble Council. In a parallel Earth ruled by Superman, Batman was captured after a Kryptonite trade went wrong, and The Flash asked whether they could still rescue him.

• Dane explained the risks and limits of using souls as currency, and Stolas decided to present his proposal to the Noble Council.
• Stolas told Paimon about Dane’s plan, and Paimon called for the Noble Council to convene.
• Batman went to trade with the Free Army for Kryptonite, discovered it was a fake, and was captured by Parademons after fighting the ambush.
• Superman confronted Batman in prison, killed the other Rebel Army prisoners, and spared Batman to lure out his teammates.
• The Flash, Cyborg, and Deathstroke debated abandoning Batman, and The Flash asked whether they could rescue him if they found a way to fight Superman.

The Flash brought Superman to Dane’s world, where Dane’s Pandora’s Box sent Superman to the Krypton ruins. There, Ultraman attacked the weakened Superman, who escaped with the Mother Box and took Ultraman along in a Boom Tube.

• The Flash used the Speed Force to reach Dane, unaware that Superman was following him with the Mother Box.
• Dane used Pandora’s Box to send Superman through a spacetime tunnel, separating him from the Mother Box.
• Superman emerged in the Krypton ruins, where a Red Sun and Kryptonite weakened him as he searched for the Mother Box.
• Ultraman spotted Superman and attacked him, mistaking him for a Justice League counterpart.
• Superman recovered the Mother Box and activated its Boom Tube, which swallowed both him and Ultraman.

After Superman captured Ultraman, Darkseid summoned the Kryptonian to Apokolips and used the Anti-Life Equation to compel his obedience. While questioning Ultraman about a parallel-world Justice League, Darkseid discovered that the Mother Box was being eroded by an unfamiliar power linked to the Old Gods.

• Superman tested Ultraman's weakness to sunlight, then spared him when he offered to serve and learned that he relied on Kryptonite to maintain his powers.
• A Boom Tube brought Superman and Ultraman to the Watchtower, where Steppenwolf said Darkseid had ordered Ultraman's capture and escorted him to Apokolips.
• Darkseid used the Anti-Life Equation to subdue Ultraman and ordered him to describe his parallel world, especially its Justice League and Shazam.
• Steppenwolf explained that the Shazam he knew was a child who gained divine power through an incantation, but Ultraman insisted that the Shazam he fought had not been a child.
• Darkseid sensed an anomaly in the Mother Box, struck it with Omega Rays, and saw it struggle against the power of Pandora's Box, which he recognized as carrying the scent of the Old Gods.

Dane learned that the Flash’s time travel created new timelines rather than changing the past, then agreed to bring him before the Justice League to seek help against the Injustice Universe’s Superman. The Flash discovered Dane was in Hell, and Dane prepared to leave with him while assigning Sinestro and Faora to keep the exchange stable.

• Dane explained that the Flash’s first trip through time had created a new timeline, leaving the original destroyed world unchanged.
• The Flash described his three crossings through space-time and realized he had not saved the comrades lost in his original timeline.
• Dane agreed to discuss the Flash’s request with the Justice League and told him to come along as the representative of his world.
• The Flash learned that Dane was in Hell and saw demons through the hotel window.
• Dane instructed Sinestro and Faora to maintain the exchange, watch the nobles and Oa criminals, and deal with merchants before leading the Flash to a door.

Dane assembled the Justice League after The Flash arrived from a dying parallel world seeking help against Superman. He revealed that the Anti-Life Equation was inscribed on their Earth, and the League prepared to return home and decide how to respond.

• Dane used Cortana to contact the Justice League and brought The Flash from the Doomsday Universe before its members.
• Barry Allen met the other world's Flash, and Diana and Queen Super arrived at Demon Island.
• The Flash asked the Justice League to save his world and revealed that Superman had become its enemy after Joker and Darkseid's plot.
• Dane explained that the Anti-Life Equation could control all living beings and was inscribed on the League's Earth.
• Dane called for the League to return home and decide together, while Batman assigned Jason and Tim to watch Gotham in his absence.

Dane brought Queen Super and the alternate Flash to Justice Hall, where the Flash revealed that his world’s Superman had become a tyrant after being resurrected and losing Lois. The chapter ended with that Superman confronting Luthor in Metropolis.

• Dane returned to Justice Hall with Queen Super and two Flashes, where Cyborg introduced the newly created Grid.
• Dane introduced Queen Super and the alternate Flash to the assembled heroes, and the Flash revealed that Superman was their enemy.
• The Flash explained that his Superman had died defeating Doomsday, been resurrected through a Mother Box, and later ruled the world after killing most of the League.
• The Flash said the Joker had manipulated Superman into accidentally killing Lois, deepening the rift between Superman and Batman and the League.
• The Flash described Superman’s transformation into a ruthless ruler who killed criminals, and the chapter shifted to Metropolis, where Luthor secretly prepared a Kryptonite gun as Superman entered his office.

Superman relived the memories of killing Luthor and losing Lois, while Lois from another world entered his dream and learned what had truly happened. After Lois returned and told Clark what she had seen, the chapter revealed that the Justice League was still divided over whether to help a world threatened by the Crime Syndicate.

• Superman killed Luthor after Luthor shot at him, then heard Darkseid urge him to use his power to remake the world.
• Superman relived Joker's trap in which he killed Lois and their unborn child, and he awoke from the nightmare after destroying the ceiling with Heat Vision.
• Lois from another world entered Superman's dream, saw his memories, and briefly spoke to him before being pulled away.
• Lois returned to her Clark and told him what she had witnessed, while he warned her that entering the dreams was harming her mind.
• At a Justice League meeting, Wonder Woman and other heroes supported helping the threatened world, while Batman and his allies opposed intervening.
• Dane remained neutral and the League postponed its decision, while Superman hesitated because he was about to become a husband and father.

Superman and Dane discovered that the dead Lois from the apocalyptic world had been drawing his Lois into her world, and Dane brought her soul across. As the Justice League weighed whether to intervene against Darkseid, the worlds’ timelines began synchronizing, and an enraged Superman arrived in the apocalyptic world.

• Clark told Lois about the Flash’s request for help, and Lois urged him to aid the other world despite the danger.
• Dane traced Lois’s astral projections to the dead Lois Lane, used an Nth Metal thread to bring her soul across, and revealed that a death goddess had helped her linger.
• The dead Lois asked Superman to save the apocalyptic Clark, but Dane warned that a meeting could worsen his fall and said the Justice League needed time to decide.
• Dane warned Clark that the worlds’ timelines were about to synchronize, leaving the Justice League little time to choose whether to intervene.
• In the apocalyptic world, Cyborg and Deathstroke realized the Flash had not returned, then saw Superman racing toward them as Joker laughed at the sight.

Superman captured Cyborg after killing Joker and Deathstroke, then revealed that he knew about Batman and Barry’s parallel-world plan and wanted to use it. Batman and Cyborg escaped their prison with the help of a hidden Green Lantern ring, and Batman set out to learn what had happened to Barry.

• Superman tore off Cyborg’s arms, spared him, and took him to the dungeon where Batman was imprisoned.
• Superman told Batman he knew about the parallel-world theory and intended to use it, then left after threatening him.
• Cyborg told Batman that Barry had gone to another world for help, and Batman realized they needed to escape and find out what happened.
• Batman recited the Green Lantern oath, summoned the hidden ring from Cyborg’s chest, and used its power to free them.
• Batman subdued the human guards, and he and Cyborg escaped the military base in a vehicle before Batman concealed them inside a manifested fighter jet.

Superman sought allies while Batman and Cyborg gained refuge in Atlantis with Mera’s help. As the Justice League learned their worlds’ timelines were intertwining, Superman admitted he had hesitated because Lois was about to have their child.

• Superman decided he needed Ultraman and Steppenwolf to help him face a restored Justice League, but Desaad refused to lend him a Mother Box and sent Ultraman instead.
• Mera swept Batman and Cyborg through Atlantis’s magical barrier, agreeing to help them for Arthur’s sake.
• Big Barda asked Desaad to send her to Earth, but Granny Goodness rejected her request; Big Barda secretly began planning to escape her arranged marriage.
• Dane warned the Justice League that the worlds’ timelines might become synchronized or pass at drastically different rates, alarming The Flash from the other world.
• Superman addressed the Justice League and admitted he had hesitated to act because Lois was about to have their child.

The Justice League agreed to join the campaign to save a parallel world and began planning how to defeat Darkseid. Dane explained the Omega Effect and proposed destroying Apokolips, but the League rejected the plan over the innocent lives there; as they discussed the battlefield and Darkseid’s powers, the Doomsday-world Flash wondered why no one was preparing to fight Superman.

• Superman argued that he would not let fear for his family stop him from doing what was right, and Dane declared that the Justice League would join the expedition against Darkseid.
• Dane explained that the Omega Effect was difficult to counter and said destroying Apokolips would weaken it, but Wonder Woman objected because the planet held innocent people and other New Gods.
• Superwoman supported destroying Apokolips and suggested killing Darkseid, while Diana challenged her and Dane redirected the meeting toward the Anti-Life Equation.
• Dane proposed fighting on Apokolips to limit damage to Earth and make full use of his Demonic God Power.
• The Flash from the Doomsday world asked why the League had not discussed fighting Superman, and another Flash told him that Dane had enough Kryptonite to arm an entire army.

Dane prepared the Justice League to face Darkseid, designed a device to help the Flash travel between universes, and visited Morpheus to ask about the Anti-Life Equation. He left the Dreamlands after revealing that Nada was in Hell and offering Morpheus a chance to see her.

• Dane told Diana he could likely drive Darkseid away and discussed how Apokolips’s rebellions and limited forces could make Darkseid negotiate.
• Dane asked Batman and Cyborg to help build a Cosmic Treadmill that would let Barry Allen use the Speed Force to reach another universe.
• Dane told the Justice League he would handle Darkseid and decided to consult Morpheus about the Anti-Life Equation.
• Dane traveled to the Dreamlands, mocked Morpheus’s taste, and asked him about the Anti-Life Equation.
• Dane reminded Morpheus that Hell was under his jurisdiction and asked whether he wanted to see Nada, prompting Morpheus to ask if she was well.