Chapter Summaries

Dane arrived on the battlefield and rescued Constantine from Trigon’s Fire Demon, then carried him beyond Trigon’s spatial blockade. As Trigon continued harvesting souls, Green Lantern arrived to confront him while Dane searched for Doctor Fate.

• Trigon absorbed the souls of living soldiers and ordered his minions to attack the Wizards, while a transformed summoner slaughtered his former companions.
• Constantine tried to escape the Fire Demon, but Trigon’s magic array blocked spatial travel until Dane arrived and crushed the demon beneath his feet.
• Dane refused to fight Trigon, grabbed Constantine, and carried him into the sky; after Dane dropped him beyond the blockade, Constantine opened a portal to the Mystic House.
• Dane used Hal Jordan’s Lantern Ring to learn that Hal had come to protect Carol Ferris, who was commanding drones from a nearby underground base.
• Constantine watched Dane through magic, but Dane blocked the surveillance and searched unsuccessfully for Doctor Fate before Green Lantern flew toward Trigon.
• At the NATO command base, officers investigated as Trigon’s soul harvesting left nearby troops dead silent.

Trigon attacked a military base, slaughtered its personnel, and overwhelmed Green Lantern after drones failed to stop him. Dane arrived to protect Hal and met Trigon’s punch with one of his own.

• The chief of staff ordered drones to attack Trigon, but Trigon destroyed many aircraft and stormed into their base.
• Trigon killed the chief of staff, while Green Lantern tried and failed to stop him from reaching Carol.
• Trigon spared Carol and declared that he wanted her to bear his child.
• Hal rescued Carol, but Trigon destroyed the base, devoured its dead, and brutally defeated Hal.
• Dane arrived and declared Hal under his protection, then clashed fists with Trigon, whose punch sent Hal unconscious.

Dane and Trigon discovered that Ares had trapped them in a sealed battlefield to drain their power, so they joined forces against him. As the fight continued, Ares tried to recruit Trigon while Dane and Trigon kept attacking him.

• Dane and Trigon fought until they realized their magic power was recovering slowly inside a sealed area.
• Dane and Trigon combined their magic arrays to break the seal and reveal Ares as the mastermind.
• Ares attacked Trigon, but Trigon escaped his crushing palm and joined Dane in fighting back.
• Dane and Trigon overwhelmed Ares with coordinated attacks, forcing him to shrink and wield his battle axe.
• Ares fought off both attackers and began trying to tempt Trigon to join him.

Dane and Raven tricked Trigon into possessing a false body and sealed his avatar in the Soul Stone, while Ares escaped through a fake body. In Dream’s realm, Dane separated Kent Nelson and Nabu and discovered that Nabu’s Nth Metal carried a powerful dark influence, suggesting the universe had shifted dangerously close to the Dark Multiverse.

• Dane revealed Raven’s location to Trigon, then Raven used the Soul Stone and her magic to try to banish him.
• Trigon resisted the banishment and possessed a body he believed was Raven, but the fake body collapsed and the Soul Stone pulled his soul inside.
• Dane sealed Trigon’s avatar in the Wizard Staff, then destroyed Ares’s fake body and learned that Ares had been his partner in the trap.
• The real Raven arrived, and Dane explained that Trigon’s true body remained imprisoned in Hell while she had escaped his tracking Soul Stone.
• Dane found Kent Nelson and Nabu in Dream’s realm, where they could not merge into Doctor Fate because they regarded themselves as separate beings.
• Dane examined Nabu’s helmet and found unusually dense dark power in its Nth Metal, leading him to suspect that Old Barry’s timeline changes had brought the universe close to the Dark Multiverse.

Dane confronted Kent about Doctor Fate’s hidden motives and learned that Kent and Nabu had allowed Earth’s destruction to avoid drawing the Dark Multiverse’s attention, including by letting Bruce Wayne die. Dane imprisoned them, then began preparing a magical defense for Earth; Diana arrived with news that people had discovered what he had done.

• Dane accused Kent of knowingly allowing humanity to take and study a world-destroying weapon, and Kent admitted he and Nabu had acted for the greater good.
• Kent revealed that he feared Nth Metal could attract the Dark Multiverse, and Dane deduced that Kent had allowed Bruce Wayne to be shot to prevent him from becoming its gateway.
• Dane left Kent and Nabu trapped in a dreamscape, then hunted two death gods and four ferrymen on the battlefield and absorbed their power into the Staff Crystal.
• Dane returned to the Lesser Divine Realm, sent the Amazons into the world, and began planning three magical nodes to shield Earth from threats across the multiverse.
• Diana told Dane that people already knew about the things he had done.

Dane learned that Zeus had ways to control or kill him, while Thomas recovered Barry Allen's memories and resolved to reset the timeline. After elderly Barry escaped the Lonely Fortress, Grail offered to help him recover the Speed Force in exchange for help leaving the universe.

• Diana told Dane that Zeus had revealed the Tree of Life could restrain him and the gods could reclaim his divine power, potentially killing him.
• Dane considered creating a new body and explored the possibility of using demon-experiment techniques to make a vessel suited to him.
• Thomas realized his visions were Barry Allen's memories and learned that Barry had merged with him to save him during the war at sea.
• Thomas decided to obtain elderly Barry's Speed Force and alter the timeline, but found the prison room empty and learned Barry had escaped.
• Elderly Barry appeared on a Canadian highway with Grail, who offered to help him reclaim the Speed Force if he helped her leave the universe.

Artemis and her Amazon warriors returned to Bana-Mighdall but were ambushed by elders empowered by Isis, who turned the battle against them. After Artemis sent a distress signal, Dane arrived and saw her trapped in a supernatural sandstorm.

• Grail stirred Old Barry's Speed Force to intimidate him, then secured his agreement to cooperate and help reclaim it.
• Artemis confronted the elders of Bana-Mighdall, who accused her of betraying Isis and attacked her forces.
• Artemis defeated the leading elder in single combat, but the elders lured the younger Amazons into an ambush and slaughtered many of them.
• Isis's supernatural sandstorm trapped Artemis and wounded her as she tried to protect her sisters.
• Circe received Artemis's distress signal, and Dane went to Bana-Mighdall, where he saw Artemis struggling inside the sandstorm.

Dane defeated Isis and claimed her power and the Eye of Ra after Artemis won the battle against the older Amazons. Back in the Lesser Divine Realm, Dane discussed using the Eye of Ra and Kryptonian traits to create a new body, while Isis remained stripped of her divine power.

• Dane revealed Isis with a lightning spear, then agreed with her to take their fight away from the battlefield and ordered Artemis to command the troops.
• Isis attacked Dane with the Eye of Ra's solar power, but he regenerated from the wound, and she surrendered the artifact and herself.
• Artemis turned the battle around after Isis's surrender, and Dane ordered the defeated white-haired Amazons imprisoned and made them help build the magic array.
• Dane took Isis back to the Lesser Divine Realm, where he used the staff of the Wizards of The Rock of Eternity to strip away her divine power.
• Dane showed Circe the Eye of Ra and proposed combining its solar power with Kryptonian blood to create a new body, explaining Kryptonite's effect on Kryptonians' biological force fields.

Dane, Circe, and Isis created a refined Kryptonian gene sequence incorporating Doomsday’s adaptive potential, and Dane transferred his consciousness into a growing embryo nourished by solar energy. While the embryo matured for twenty years inside the protected Lesser Divine Realm, Isis attempted to escape but was stopped by Diana and returned to Circe’s custody.

• Dane enlisted Circe and Isis to combine Kryptonian genes with Doomsday’s adaptability while preserving intelligence and a stable body.
• After three months of work, Dane confirmed the gene sequence and placed Isis’s divine eye into the incubation device to nourish the embryo with solar energy.
• Dane and Cortana enclosed the Lesser Divine Realm in a time-protecting barrier, and Dane moved his consciousness into the embryo before it could develop its own awareness.
• Circe guarded Dane’s abandoned body and the laboratory while Isis discovered that her divine power was gone and began seeking a way out.
• Isis befriended Anthea and found the door to the Rock of Eternity, but Diana struck and severely injured her before demon soldiers returned her to Circe.
• Twenty years passed in the Lesser Divine Realm as the embryo matured, and Isis stopped trying to escape after realizing Circe had watched and allowed her attempt.

After waking from a twenty-year incubation, Dane subdued the goddesses who had conspired against him and learned that Atlantis’s dimensional protection array had stalled. Meanwhile, Grail ruled the Sunken Fortress and planned with old Barry to permanently eliminate the native gods hunting her.

• Dane awoke, reunited with Circe and Diana, and lifted the dreamscape barrier over the Lesser Divine Realm.
• Dane exposed Isis’s scheme, captured Hespera and Calypso, and forced them to submit and sign contracts of servitude.
• Dane learned that Atlantis’s magic array had encountered obstacles, while Grail’s raids on minor gods made her notorious in the New God Realm.
• Grail seized Sunken Fortress and used its underwater environment to limit old Barry’s speed.
• Old Barry demanded Grail help him reclaim the Speed Force, and Grail agreed to eliminate the native gods pursuing her.
• Orm worked to increase his divine power as hundreds of ocean deities awakened in the Atlantic.

Grail stole Atlantis’s Mother Box, killed Orm, and used its power to unleash a growing Parademon army across the Atlantic and into West Africa. Horus discovered the invasion and began seeking allied gods to stop it.

• Grail broke into Atlantis’s forbidden zone, claimed the Mother Box, and sent Parademons to attack the royal city.
• Grail defeated Orm, killed him, and ordered her army to slaughter everyone in Atlantis’s new royal city.
• Grail’s Parademons devastated the Atlantic islands, then invaded West Africa to gather biomass and expand their ranks.
• Horus, secretly ruling Cairo through the Eye of Horus, saw evidence of the Parademon invasion and wondered whether Darkseid was behind it.
• Horus considered whether his missing mother, Isis, had been taken by superhumans and decided to seek allied gods before the Parademons became unstoppable.

Horus sought Set’s help against the advancing Parademon army, but Anubis vanished after agreeing to carry his message. As the Parademons reached Cairo, Horus fought Grail, who destroyed his sky-borne attack and wounded him before he seized her and used her as a battering ram against her own forces.

• Horus summoned Anubis by sacrificing a priest and asked him to arrange a meeting with Set, explaining that he needed help against the Parademons.
• Anubis agreed to act as messenger, but Dane ambushed him in the Underworld and pinned him to the ground.
• After Anubis failed to return for three days, Horus watched the Parademon army advance into Egypt and unleash a devastating attack on Cairo.
• Grail used the Mother Box to destroy Horus’s giant eye, then fought him and wounded his golden body with the Vulcan Sword.
• Horus seized Grail and flew upward before diving into the pursuing Parademons, using her as a shield to smash through their ranks.

Grail weakened Horus in Cairo while Orm’s Parademon army swept through southern Africa, leaving Amanda and A.R.G.U.S. struggling to understand the invasion and prepare a response. In Atlantis, Dane discovered that an intruder from beyond the dimensions had shattered one of the crystals sustaining his protective array, and realized the being was at least as powerful as Trigon.

• Grail used a Boom Tube and swarms of Parademons to exhaust and injure Horus, then escaped while he struggled to clear the remaining attackers.
• Orm led the Parademon army into Zambia, and Amanda questioned why A.R.G.U.S., the CIA, Mossad, and the Ministry of Magic had failed to detect the invasion.
• Amanda noted that Doctor Fate, Batman, and Kal-El were missing, while Orm’s rising sea levels had already submerged Metropolis and Gotham.
• Amanda chose Cyborg for a small mission to investigate the enemy and transmit intelligence back to A.R.G.U.S.
• Dane examined the damaged formation platform in Atlantis and found that one magical crystal had shattered after a violent dimensional invasion.
• Dane concluded that a powerful being from beyond the dimensions had evaded detection and entered the world, with strength likely comparable to Trigon.

Horus and Set allied against Grail’s Parademon army, suspecting she was Darkseid’s descendant and coveting her weakened Omega Effect. They planned to gather enough forces to confront her, while Set privately reconsidered Isis’s role in Egypt’s past.

• Horus and Set learned that Anubis had vanished and could no longer be contacted.
• Set suggested Grail’s forces came from Apokolips, and Horus suspected Grail could be Darkseid’s descendant because she wielded a weakened Omega Effect.
• Horus and Set agreed to cooperate and acquire Grail’s power for themselves.
• Set told Horus that Osiris had descended but was confined to the Underworld, then privately wondered whether Isis had orchestrated Set’s murder of Osiris.
• Horus warned that they needed an army matching the Parademons in number before they could challenge Grail.

Horus learned that Set had an undead army to fight the Parademons, while Circe kept Isis imprisoned and recruited her to help with magical research. At the Sunken Fortress, Thomas and Kal-El captured Old Barry, and Dane found the Parademon factory and confronted its Mother Box.

• Set told Horus that he had trained the souls of people who died in deserts and sandstorms into an undead army.
• Isis realized Circe had stolen her divine power through her true name and offered to help with Circe’s research in exchange for staying at Mount Atlas.
• Thomas and Kal-El found Old Barry at the Sunken Fortress, where Thomas captured him and shot his foot to prevent his escape.
• Kal-El carried Thomas and Old Barry away as Parademons pursued them, leaving Dane to infiltrate the fortress alone.
• Dane killed the elite Parademons guarding the factory and broke through its wall, discovering a Mother Box powering the production of Parademons.
• The Mother Box rapidly matured the incubating Parademons, but Dane killed the attackers as they rushed him.

Dane captured a Mother Box, met Lois Lane from a universe destroyed by the Anti-Monitor, and learned that she might have been used to locate another universe. He brought Lois and Grail to the Lesser Divine Realm, where Grail agreed to share her knowledge and help control the Mother Box.

• Dane seized the Mother Box before it could escape and sent it to Circe for research.
• Dane tracked a sound to Lois Lane and Grail, recognized Lois as a visitor from another universe, and learned her universe had been destroyed by the Anti-Monitor.
• Dane suggested the Anti-Monitor might have used Lois as a die to find universes, and Lois feared her arrival would bring the same disaster to this world.
• Dane told Lois that he had traveled between parallel worlds and that this world had guardians, then revealed that he had come to stop Grail.
• Grail agreed to give Dane her knowledge of Parademons and help control the Mother Box after he promised to spare her and ordered her forces to hide in Egypt.
• Dane took Grail and Lois to the Lesser Divine Realm, where Circe greeted them with surprise.

Dane sent Grail to another world with the Supreme Power Ring to divert the Anti-Monitor, then took control of the Parademons and used them to defeat Horus and Set. He waited for the two gods at the Gate of the Afterlife.

• Dane stopped Diana from attacking Lois, explained that Lois came from another world, and learned from Circe that Raven was in the United States with Anthea.
• Dane transferred Lois's Anti-Monitor beacon to the Supreme Power Ring and gave it to Grail, sending her to another world; after Grail grew arrogant, he struck her down and made her submit.
• Dane used the Mother Box to control the Parademons and discovered the souls of their former human hosts remained trapped inside them.
• Dane ordered Orm and the Parademon army to attack Cairo, and after three days they overwhelmed Horus and Set.
• Horus and Set traveled to the Gate of the Afterlife, where Dane waited for them in armor formed from the Mother Box.

Dane defeated Horus and Set in the Underworld, and the Afterlife destroyed its own entrance rather than face him. Meanwhile, Raven worried that her recurring vision of the universe ending might be prophetic, and Cyborg reported to Amanda that Parademons had overrun the Black Continent and Atlantis appeared abandoned; the New Gods finally began taking the crisis seriously.

• Dane overpowered Horus and Set, killed Osiris when he emerged from the Afterlife portal, and watched the gateway collapse before carrying away the defeated gods and Osiris's head.
• Raven told Anthea that she had dreamed again of the world shattering and the universe collapsing, and Anthea suggested they tell Mr. Dane.
• Cyborg reported to Amanda that identical Parademons had spread across the Black Continent, and he suspected they had been made from the missing human population.
• Cyborg explained that he survived because the Parademons seemed less hostile toward him, while his teammates died and a psychic teammate went insane trying to read a Parademon's mind.
• Cyborg told Amanda that Atlantis's Royal City was empty and showed signs of war.
• The gods of the New God Realm began taking the repeated troubles among the descending gods seriously.

Zeus persuaded the assembled gods to plan another World Destruction, using humanity’s God Hunting campaign as justification. As the gods discussed flooding the world, Isis, Hespera, and Calypso suddenly froze in Circe’s laboratory, and Cortana was repelled when she tried to enter their minds.

• Zeus showed the gods footage of humanity’s technology and its hunts and experiments on gods, then urged them to unite against humans.
• Zeus won support for World Destruction by claiming humanity had already begun a war against the gods through its God Hunting plan.
• Amaterasu asked how the gods could destroy the world while their faith and power were weak, and Zeus gave the floor to Poseidon.
• Poseidon explained that Atlanteans’ widespread use of Orichalcum was accelerating glacial melt and raising sea levels, though the gods planned to hasten the process.
• Isis, Hespera, and Calypso abruptly stopped moving in Circe’s laboratory, and Cortana failed to enter their minds because a mysterious force repelled her.

Madame Web explained that Anthea’s consciousness had been summoned to the God Realm and sought information about a looming crisis among the gods. After Raven realized that an unknown figure—not Madame Web—had watched them at the mall, the two sensed danger just as a missile struck the divination parlor.

• Cortana detected a torrent of divine power from the God Realm, and Circe sealed and imprisoned three motionless goddesses.
• Anthea became motionless at the mall, so Raven carried her home while an unknown hooded figure watched them.
• The figure appeared at Raven’s home, and Raven’s attack destroyed the house; Madame Web introduced herself and said Anthea was at her divination parlor.
• Madame Web told Raven that Anthea’s consciousness had gone to the God Realm and that she had received a summons, while Raven agreed to accompany her.
• Raven learned Madame Web had not watched them at the mall, and both women sensed danger as a Maverick missile exploded over the divination parlor.