Chapter Summaries

The heroes remained trapped in an endless cycle of fighting while Thor searched the tangled realities for Loki and Batman waited for a chance to force the gods to intervene. Batman shot Superman with a Green Bullet, prompting gods to breach the Convergence Zone and try to extract him, which made the pressure on Loki surge.

• The heroes fought and died repeatedly as Wanda's Chaos Magic and the other battles kept them trapped in the Convergence Zone.
• Thor rejected Superman's suspicions about Duva and continued searching the layered realities for Loki, drawing power from the Shadow Ancient Gods.
• Batman concluded that the gods would not tolerate losing Superman and waited for the Convergence Zone to reach a breaking point.
• Batman shot Superman with a Green Bullet, weakening him until several figures appeared outside the Convergence Zone to pull him out.
• The gods' intrusion increased the pressure crushing God of Stories Loki, who roared furiously at them.

The Krypton God System’s four Main Gods entered the Convergence Zone to rescue Prime Universe Superman, while Thor fought to stop them. Superman recovered, claimed Stormbreaker, and refused to leave his teammates, leaving Thor furious over losing his weapon again.

• The four Krypton Main Gods—Sun God Rao, Moon God Yuda, Beauty God Laura, and Wisdom God Taylor—attacked the Convergence Zone and tried to take Prime Universe Superman.
• Thor charged the Krypton gods with Stormbreaker, and God of Stories Loki reluctantly lent him Story Power, but Sun God Rao repelled him.
• Sun God Rao’s light helped Superman recover and expel the Kryptonite bullet, while the Krypton gods decided to take Superman and leave the others behind.
• Superman seized Stormbreaker before the Krypton gods could escape and struck Moon God Yuda, declaring that he would not abandon his comrades.
• Thor nearly attacked Superman and the Krypton gods to reclaim Stormbreaker, but the Shadow Gods restrained him, and he vowed to forge a weapon no one could take away.

Superman refused to abandon his allies as the Kryptonian Main Gods tried to rescue him, while heroes and gods split between fighting and fleeing the expanding Convergence Zone. Meanwhile, Cyborg Superman terrorized the New 52 Universe until the four Kryptonian gods arrived before him.

• Superman rejected Sun God Rao’s plan to take him away alone and urged the heroes to draw out and defeat the Xenomorph God.
• Wanda attacked the Kryptonian Main Gods to repay Duva, Thor joined the fight, and Batman organized the Justice League’s escape through the breach.
• Duva warned that sending divine avatars into the other multiverse would provoke its Creation Gods, while the Kryptonian gods’ presence strained the Convergence Zone.
• Cyborg Superman overwhelmed the New 52 Justice League and pursued New 52 Batman, while The Batman Who Laughs said the Kryptonian gods had come to visit him.
• The four Kryptonian gods appeared before Cyborg Superman, and the Moon God questioned whether they should choose him.

The Kryptonian gods recruited Prime Universe Cyborg Superman by giving him Super Genes, while The Batman Who Laughs persuaded them to join his plan against Perpetua. After the gods killed H'el to upgrade Cyborg Superman, they agreed to work with The Batman Who Laughs, who proposed exploiting Thanoseid’s rise to alter the Source Wall.

• The Kryptonian gods chose Hank Henshaw as an ally and offered him Super Genes, and The Batman Who Laughs urged Cyborg Superman to accept.
• New 52 Superman joined forces with H'el to stop Cyborg Superman, but the Moon God overwhelmed H'el and took him away.
• The Moon God delivered H'el to the Kryptonian gods, and the God of Wisdom killed him and used his Super Gene to transform Cyborg Superman.
• Cyborg Superman confirmed his allegiance to The Batman Who Laughs and said he still needed to implant the Five Metals into Batman.
• The Batman Who Laughs convinced the Kryptonian gods to support his plan to break free of Superman’s influence by joining Perpetua’s faction.
• The Batman Who Laughs proposed using Thanoseid’s attempt to replace Darkseid as an opportunity to do something to the Source Wall.

Golden Superman recruited Seventh Dimension Supergirl to help investigate the Kryptonian gods’ unexplained actions and the hidden Sixth Dimension, while World Forger prepared to seek Prime Universe Superman’s support. Meanwhile, Duva sent Thanoseid to Apokolips to complete his other half, Thanos.

• Golden Superman returned Imp and Bat-Mite to the Fifth Dimension and continued ascending, drawing the attention of World Forger and Anti-Monitor inside the concealed Sixth Dimension.
• Golden Superman found Seventh Dimension Supergirl, asked her to leave her realm and help him, and she agreed while warning that the Tenth Dimension People were only an imagined fabrication.
• World Forger and Anti-Monitor realized Supergirl could infer that the Sixth Dimension was hidden, so World Forger decided to accelerate his plans and contact Prime Universe Superman.
• Seventh Dimension Supergirl descended into the Fifth Dimension, whose damaged structure suffered further turmoil from her presence, and warned Golden Superman that Duva’s possession of the imagined Tenth Dimension People was dangerous.
• Duva judged that Thanoseid’s hunt for Darkseids could not make him strong enough to face Darkseid’s true body, then sent him to Apokolips to perfect his Thanos half.

Thanoseid challenged Darkseid for control of Apokolips, but Darkseid initially overwhelmed him. After Duva gave Thanoseid the Anti-Life and Anti-Death Equations, he drew power from Apokolips's suffering inhabitants and grew strong enough to fight Darkseid. The two began a second battle as Duva watched and studied the equations.

• Thanoseid entered the Realm of the Gods and flew toward Apokolips, drawing the attention of its gods.
• Kalibak wanted to challenge Thanoseid, but Desaad and Steppenwolf insisted that no one interfere in the battle between the two Darkseids.
• Darkseid blocked Thanoseid's opening punch, slammed him into Apokolips, and dismissed him as too weak to challenge the original.
• Thanoseid sensed Apokolips's power and attacked with Omega Rays, but Darkseid wounded him and devastated cities with the rays' scattered remnants.
• Thanoseid called on Duva, who gave him the Anti-Life Equation and Anti-Death Equation; he used them to harvest and repeatedly resurrect Apokolips's inhabitants, rapidly increasing his strength.
• Thanoseid reached Multiverse-level power and resumed fighting Darkseid, while Duva observed their battle and assessed the two equations.

Thanoseid gained the upper hand against Darkseid as the Anti-Death Equation let him grow stronger by repeatedly reviving the dead. Meanwhile, the Kryptonian gods betrayed Barbatos, invaded the Dark Multiverse, and sent Cyborg Superman to use the World Forge against the Source Wall.

• Skyfather explained that Thanoseid’s revivals came from the Anti-Death Equation as the battle’s destruction made Thanoseid increasingly powerful.
• Darkseid recognized that the Anti-Death Equation had disrupted his plans, but Thanoseid continued attacking and drove him toward defeat.
• The Batman Who Laughs persuaded the Kryptonian gods to exploit the battle and force the Five Metals into New 52 Batman, opening a path for Barbatos to enter the New 52 Universe.
• The Kryptonian gods and Cyborg Superman invaded the Dark Multiverse, where they attacked Barbatos while The Batman Who Laughs revealed his betrayal.
• The Batman Who Laughs directed Cyborg Superman to activate the World Forge and strike the Source Wall with its remaining power.

Cyborg Superman helped the Batman Who Laughs reignite the World Forge, and its creative power transformed his mechanical body into X-Metal and perfected his Super Gene. Acting on the Batman Who Laughs’s plan, he flew toward the Source Wall and launched himself at it.

• Cyborg Superman reignited the World Forge while the Krypton Four Main Gods fought Barbatos and the Batman armies battled above the forge.
• The Batman Who Laughs had Cyborg Superman absorb the World Forge’s magma, transforming his mechanical body into X-Metal and enhancing his Super Gene.
• Cyborg Superman rejected becoming a subordinate of Superman or the Krypton Main Gods and asked what to do with the remaining X-Metal.
• The Batman Who Laughs instructed Cyborg Superman to attack the Source Wall, claiming X-Metal would help him resist its pull.
• Cyborg Superman reached the Source Wall, gathered his power, and accelerated toward it as the trapped ancient gods watched in astonishment.

Cyborg Superman battered the Source Wall, allowing Yuga Khan to break free and leave while the trapped gods watched. After Cyborg Superman exhausted himself and was absorbed by the wall, the story shifted to Apokolips, where Thanoseid had defeated Darkseid and noticed something rushing toward him.

• The trapped gods watched Cyborg Superman strike the Source Wall, and his X-Metal-enhanced body made it tremble.
• Cyborg Superman’s repeated attacks let Yuga Khan wrench himself free from the wall and regain his freedom.
• Yuga Khan dismissed Cyborg Superman’s warnings about the Xenomorph God, vowed to destroy the Source Wall, and left after crushing a god who mocked him.
• Cyborg Superman wondered whether Yuga Khan’s escape was part of Bruce’s plan, then spent his remaining strength and was drawn onto the Source Wall.
• On Apokolips, Thanoseid defeated Darkseid after a brutal battle and looked toward something rushing their way.

Thanoseid devoured Darkseid’s true body as Yuga Khan returned from the Source Wall and confronted him on the collapsing Apokolips. Thanoseid drew on Apokolips’s energy to prepare for battle, while Duva watched and chose not to intervene.

• Thanoseid brutally tortured Darkseid as gods across the Realm of the Gods sensed Yuga Khan’s return.
• Skyfather recognized Yuga Khan’s Origin Power, warned New Genesis to prepare for an attack, and resolved to remain behind.
• Thanoseid finished absorbing Darkseid’s true body just as Yuga Khan arrived on Apokolips and caused the planet to quake and break apart.
• Yuga Khan recognized Thanoseid as a fusion of Darkseid, a similar being, and a Xenomorph, then challenged him.
• Thanoseid reassembled Apokolips with his divine power and drained its energy to strengthen himself before facing Yuga Khan.
• Duva ignored the gods’ requests for help and reflected on the butterfly effect caused by Cyborg Superman.

Thanoseid fought Yuga Khan but was badly outmatched by the God of Origin’s superior power and combat skill. As Thanoseid admitted he could not win without Duva’s intervention, Duva revealed that Thanoseid had only completed the Darkseid half of himself and hinted at a way forward.

• Duva assessed Yuga Khan’s return while Ares secretly killed and devoured Metron, provoking Zeus’s anger.
• Thanoseid challenged Yuga Khan after raising his power, but Yuga Khan caught his punch and explained that only the Anti-Death Equation surprised him.
• Yuga Khan repeatedly battered Thanoseid, overpowering his attacks and scattering his divine power with Origin Power.
• Thanoseid told Duva that he could not defeat Yuga Khan unless Duva entered the fight.
• Duva told Thanoseid that he had only basically completed the Darkseid part within himself and that his other half remained incomplete.

Thanoseid struggled against Yuga Khan while Duva prepared a weapon and decided to strengthen the false Tenth Dimension People by raising it through higher dimensions. The chapter ended with Duva taking it toward the Sixth Dimension, while Seventh Dimension Supergirl prepared to join the battle if Thanoseid fell.

• Duva told Thanoseid that he could not defeat Yuga Khan yet and urged him to return to the Seventh Multiverse to complete the Thanos within him.
• Yuga Khan repeatedly battered Thanoseid, who escaped one grip at the cost of nearly half his head and asked Duva for help.
• Duva revealed that his weapon was only just beginning, then chose to enhance the false Tenth Dimension People rather than fight Yuga Khan himself.
• Duva carried the Tenth Dimension People into the Fifth Dimension, where Seventh Dimension Supergirl and Golden Superman debated whether to stop him.
• Golden Superman persuaded Seventh Dimension Supergirl that Duva's plan might prevent Yuga Khan from gaining Thanoseid's power, so she let Duva pass while preparing to act if Thanoseid died.
• Duva ascended toward the Sixth Dimension with the Tenth Dimension People, though Seventh Dimension Supergirl doubted he could find its entrance or gain entry.

Duva forced World Forger to open the Sixth Dimension so he could complete the Tenth Dimension People's structure, then carried them onward while preparing them to fight Yuga Khan. As Yuga Khan prepared to kill Thanoseid, a powerful lifeform descended into the Realm of the Gods.

• Duva failed to find the Sixth Dimension and parasitized the Tenth Dimension People, weakening their resistance and bringing their dimensional power under his control.
• Duva threatened to parasitize Prime Universe Superman unless the Sixth Dimension was opened, forcing World Forger and Anti-Monitor to reveal it.
• The Tenth Dimension People used the Sixth Dimension's structure to grow stronger, and Duva dragged them into the Seventh Dimension while ignoring Anti-Monitor.
• Golden Superman and Seventh Dimension Supergirl were astonished that Duva had found the Sixth Dimension, while Duva worried the higher dimensions would overwhelm the Tenth Dimension People.
• Yuga Khan prepared to erase the defeated Thanoseid, dismissed Kalibak's plea for mercy, and declared that he no longer needed an heir.
• Thanoseid warned Yuga Khan that he had no chance, and Yuga Khan looked up as a lifeform descended into the Realm of the Gods.

Yuga Khan battled Duva’s unstable Tenth Dimension People, overpowering it with Origin Power while the gods watched and discussed the approaching merger of two Prime Universes. Duva rescued Thanoseid through a golden gateway, leaving the Tenth Dimension People to collapse under Yuga Khan’s attacks.

• Yuga Khan attacked the Tenth Dimension People, which manipulated higher dimensions to resist him but could not match his strength.
• The gods recognized that Duva had transformed the dimensional life-form into a weapon with near Ultra-Universe power, while Duva assessed its limits and instability.
• As the gods anticipated leaving the World Inside the Wall through the merging Prime Universes, Duva seized the wounded Thanoseid instead of attacking Yuga Khan.
• Duva told Thanoseid that he would complete the other half of his transformation, then sent him through a golden gateway to another multiverse.
• Yuga Khan continued battering the Tenth Dimension People until its dimensional structure began collapsing, while Duva insisted it could still be perfected.

Thanoseid returned from the DC world gravely weakened and warned the Xenomorph heroes that the converging worlds would bring conflict. As Marvel Death prepared Thanos to fight her counterpart, Thanoseid began devouring Thanos variants across the Multiverse.

• Thanoseid returned to Universe No. 9602 injured and explained to Doctor Strange Fate that he could barely maintain Multiverse-level power without Apokolips and his native world.
• Black Claw and the other Xenomorph heroes gathered, while Speed Demon reported that the Avengers and Justice League had fought until the Kryptonian Main Gods intervened.
• Doctor Strange Fate warned that the worlds’ convergence would bring conflict between their gods, but Steel Lantern reminded him that the Xenomorphs followed Duva’s orders.
• Marvel Death, fearing that the other Death would dominate her once the worlds fully merged, summoned Thanoses across countless universes and chose Prime Universe Thanos as her weapon.
• Prime Universe Thanos questioned Death about her impending defeat, then agreed to become her strongest weapon against the other Death.
• Thanoseid began traveling between universes, instantly locating and devouring Thanos variants as he witnessed Death’s encounters with them.

Thanoseid slaughtered Thanos variants across the multiverse while Death confronted him, and Prime Universe Thanos sought a way to grow stronger beyond the Infinity Stones. Thanos arrived with dozens of Cosmic Cubes fused into a Cosmic Egg and fought Thanoseid, while Duva noticed the artifacts had appeared from unknown sources.

• Thanoseid devoured Thanos variants across the multiverse and erased a Death avatar that tried to stop him.
• Death’s true body confronted Thanoseid, who attacked it and argued that stopping him would leave the multiverse vulnerable to Yuga Khan.
• Prime Universe Thanos seized Earth’s Cosmic Cube and used its power to keep the Avengers and X-Men away while seeking a greater source of strength.
• Thanos arrived with dozens of Cosmic Cubes gathered into a Cosmic Egg and declared that he would replace Thanoseid.
• Thanoseid struck the Cosmic Egg, then wrestled Thanos over its shell as their power reshaped laws across the Seventh Multiverse.
• Duva examined the Cosmic Cubes and realized they had appeared from unknown sources as the Seventh Multiverse neared Secret Wars.

Duva parasitized Prime Universe Thanos, enabling Thanoseid to absorb him and seize the Cosmic Egg. Thanoseid then armed himself with power from across the Multiverse and charged into the Realm of the Gods to face Yuga Khan, while Duva prepared to pull the God of Stories out of the newly fused world.

• Duva identified the Cosmic Egg as a likely product of outside interference, then attacked it and parasitized Prime Universe Thanos.
• Duva restrained Death and its allies as Thanoseid entered the Cosmic Egg, absorbed Thanos, and took control of the Cosmic Egg.
• Thanoseid used the Cosmic Cubes to slaughter Thanos variants across the Multiverse, absorbing their power as Death fled to save some of them.
• Thanoseid entered the Convergence Zone, recovered his DC powers, and equipped himself with the Infinity Stones, Infinity Gauntlet, and Infinity Sword.
• Thanoseid charged into the Realm of the Gods to fight Yuga Khan, while Duva announced that he would pull the God of Stories out of the new world after the battle.

Death recruited Old Thanos from Universe 666 while Thanoseid and Yuga Khan resumed their battle in the Realm of the Gods. As the fight ravaged the surrounding worlds, Death approached the Source Wall to investigate her own existence.

• Death told Old Thanos that his Prime Universe counterpart had been devoured by Thanoseid, and Old Thanos agreed to help her one last time before seeking freedom from her influence.
• Yuga Khan praised Thanoseid for reaching Ultra-Universe Level, while Desire questioned Death about attacking the other Death and Dream lamented the chaos caused by the worlds' fusion.
• Death said she would not attack the other Death while the worlds were destined to separate, then began considering the limits of her own power.
• Thanoseid fought Yuga Khan with the Infinity Three-Piece Set, and their clashes unleashed destructive God Waves across the Realm of the Gods.
• The Tenth Dimension People tried to flee, but Duva restrained him and declared that he would keep him as a weapon.
• Death approached the Source Wall, where Cyborg Superman saw her as she studied the barrier.

Death freed Cyborg Superman from the Source Wall, then passed through it and grew into an Omniverse-level god before meeting Lucifer and Destiny. As Lucifer and Destiny clashed, Cyborg Superman headed for the Dark Multiverse, where The Batman Who Laughs claimed his return was part of the plan.

• Death ignored the trapped gods’ pleas, pulled Cyborg Superman off the Source Wall, and told him that even the wall’s collapse would not kill him.
• Death passed through the Source Wall and entered the void beyond it, where her power surged as she connected with the deaths of countless multiverses.
• Lucifer met Death, explained her unusual rise toward omnipotence, and said she might grow further by spreading her concept into another Omniverse.
• Destiny appeared and challenged Lucifer, who attacked him before both vanished to fight across the Omniverse.
• Duva sensed a deeper change as Cyborg Superman left the Source Wall and charged toward the Dark Multiverse, shouting about Batman.
• The God of Wisdom accused The Batman Who Laughs of planning Cyborg Superman’s return, and The Batman Who Laughs claimed that Henshaw shaking the Source Wall had been part of his plan.

The Kryptonian gods fled the Dark Multiverse as Cyborg Superman killed the God of Beauty, while the Batman Who Laughs pushed Rao’s group toward a plan to break the Source Wall. In the Convergence Zone, Thanoseid gained the upper hand over Yuga Khan and battered him near defeat, as Duva declared that the time had come.

• The Kryptonian gods escaped Barbatos with the Batman Who Laughs, but Cyborg Superman caught up and killed the God of Beauty in a rage.
• The Batman Who Laughs convinced Rao and the remaining gods that Cyborg Superman could help them break free from Superman and that they needed to breach the Source Wall to free Perpetua.
• Thanoseid abandoned his fight with Yuga Khan and lured him into the Prime Universe, where the Convergence Zone strengthened his weapons and powers.
• Thanoseid overwhelmed Yuga Khan with the combined powers of the Infinity Stones, the Cosmic Egg, and his other artifacts, devastating planets and lives around them.
• Thanoseid drove the Infinity Sword through Yuga Khan’s chest, then pummeled him with his fists until Duva said it was time.