Chapter Summaries

Thanoseid killed Yuga Khan on Duva’s orders, ending the old God of Origin’s reign and leaving the gods wary of seizing his Origin Power. Duva rescued Loki from the Convergence Zone, then restrained him and promised to reveal the God of Stories’ next form.

• Prime Universe Superman prepared to enter the Convergence Zone, but the battle’s final stage began before he could act.
• Thanoseid overwhelmed Yuga Khan as Duva arrived and the other gods blocked Yuga Khan’s escape.
• Duva ordered Thanoseid to kill Yuga Khan and extract his Origin Power instead of turning him into a Xenomorph.
• Duva pulled Loki from the Convergence Zone, relieving his pain as Loki rapidly grew stronger from the stories surrounding him.
• Thanoseid destroyed Yuga Khan, and the gods hesitated to seize the emerging Origin Power while Duva watched them.
• Duva restrained Loki and said he would explain the further form of the God of Stories.

Duva took Loki and the Origin Power, then set out to find Monitor. In the Sixth Dimension, Monitor revealed that the world beyond the Wall was another Omniverse, leaving the Monitor Brothers stunned and increasingly wary of Duva.

• Duva praised Thanoseid for resisting the urge to seize the Origin Power, put the power away, and told Loki they would seek Monitor.
• World Forger and Anti-Monitor discussed the danger Duva posed to the Sixth Dimension and welcomed Monitor's return.
• Monitor explained that he had killed himself to return to the Sixth Dimension before Duva could find him.
• Monitor revealed that the Monitor Race's research suggested the world beyond the Wall was another Omniverse.
• World Forger and Anti-Monitor struggled to accept the discovery and questioned how Duva could make the two Omniverses intersect.
• World Forger picked up his hammer and prepared to bring Prime Universe Superman into the Sixth Dimension.

The Anti-Monitor feared Duva’s reach into a newly revealed Omniverse, so the World Forger went to seize Prime Universe Superman. Meanwhile, the Justice League debated how to resist the Xenomorphs as the Kryptonian gods returned to the New 52 Universe, where Barbatos’s invasion plunged the heroes into chaos and Superman arrived.

• The Anti-Monitor, Monitor, and World Forger learned that the Sixth Dimension was exposed and feared that Duva could draw power from an Omniverse, so the World Forger opened a gate to capture Prime Universe Superman.
• Prime Universe Superman and the Justice League searched for a way to close the Convergence Zone, while Batman proposed connecting Justice Leagues across the Multiverse and Hal warned that their numbers would not counter Duva’s Xenomorphs.
• Batman accused Lex Luthor of preparing to defect to the Xenomorphs, but Lex said he would stay with the Justice League until defeat was certain and pointed to the Kryptonian gods’ return to the New 52 Universe.
• The Kryptonian gods sacrificed the God of Beauty to escape Barbatos, and Sun God Rao killed New 52 Batman as the Justice League tried to stop them.
• Barbatos reached into the New 52 Universe, where Cyborg Superman attacked The Batman Who Laughs, and Prime Universe Superman arrived as the chaos escalated.

The World Forger returned to the New 52 Universe, effortlessly defeated Cyborg Superman, and severed Barbatos’s invasion route. He then sought out Prime Universe Superman and asked him to come along, but Superman insisted he first stop the Kryptonian Main Gods.

• Prime Universe Superman arrived and fought Cyborg Superman, who overwhelmed him and New 52 Superman while their battle threatened to destroy Earth.
• Wonder Woman bound The Batman Who Laughs and learned he had helped free Yuga Khan by having Cyborg Superman attack the Source Wall with Creation Metal.
• The World Forger appeared, crushed Cyborg Superman with his warhammer, and revealed that Barbatos had killed him in the First Generation.
• The World Forger struck the Space Rift and cut off Barbatos’s access to the New 52 Universe.
• The World Forger introduced himself to Prime Universe Superman and asked for his help, but Superman refused to leave while the Kryptonian Main Gods remained a threat.
• The World Forger raised his hammer and aimed it at the Kryptonian Main Gods.

World Forger fought Prime Universe Superman and the Krypton Three Main Gods, while The Batman Who Laughs escaped with Cyborg Superman and took over his body. Duva brought Loki to the Monitor Race’s headquarters to claim Thought Robot Superman, and the Monitors debated whether to activate their trump card.

• World Forger attacked the Krypton Three Main Gods, but Prime Universe Superman stopped his hammer and joined the fight against him.
• New 52 Superman offered to go with World Forger, who dismissed him and continued trying to take Prime Universe Superman by force.
• The Batman Who Laughs carried Cyborg Superman away, transplanted his brain into Cyborg Superman’s head, and left his own body to die in the magma.
• Duva carried Loki through the World Inside the Wall to the Monitor Race’s headquarters, where the Monitors prepared to resist them.
• Duva demanded Thought Robot Superman, and the Monitors debated whether to activate it rather than let the God of Stories reach it.

World Forger brought Prime Universe Superman to the Sixth Dimension and tried to make him join its isolated multiverse, but Superman refused and fought back. As their battle continued, the Monitor Race awakened Thought Robot Superman to face the Xenomorph threat, while Duva urged Loki to use his story-creating ability.

• World Forger brought Prime Universe Superman into the Sixth Dimension, where Monitor and Anti-Monitor revealed that they and World Forger were Sixth Dimensional beings seeking to isolate their multiverse from the coming crisis.
• World Forger and Monitor explained Perpetua’s plan to turn the World Inside the Wall into a war factory, but Prime Universe Superman refused to abandon his world and tried to escape.
• World Forger attacked Prime Universe Superman, whose power grew rapidly as they battled across the Sixth Dimension; Anti-Monitor prepared to join the fight.
• Monitor noticed that Xenomorph God was threatening the Monitor Race, and the Monitors debated before activating Thought Robot Superman with its remaining energy.
• Thought Robot Superman scanned Duva and Loki, and Loki eagerly accepted Duva’s offer after she reminded him of the Lost Device and his ability to create stories.

Thought Robot Superman confronted Duva and Loki as outsiders, then attacked Loki, who fought back while Duva watched and weighed the approaching merger of the two Prime Universes. In the Sixth Dimension, World Forger revealed to Prime Universe Superman that Thought Robot Superman was running low on energy and could be refueled by using him and Antimatter Superman.

• Duva reminded Loki that the Lost Device had strengthened his Story Power, then urged him to choose another divine artifact to advance further.
• Thought Robot Superman identified Duva and Loki as outsiders and decided to attack Loki first because he was weaker and easier to eliminate with its limited energy.
• Loki used Story Power to evade Thought Robot Superman and damage its joints, but the weakened robot continued fighting and blasted him with Heat Vision.
• Duva warned Loki that the merging Prime Universes would soon let gods cross between worlds, while he considered the danger posed by the many gods he had offended.
• Monitor and Anti-Monitor watched the battle in the Sixth Dimension and discussed what the conflict between Thought Robot Superman and Loki could mean.
• World Forger told Prime Universe Superman that Thought Robot Superman needed energy and that refueling it would require putting him and Antimatter Superman inside its body.

Prime Universe Superman escaped the Sixth Dimension after destroying World Forger’s new Multiverse, then joined Monitor Brothers Three to rescue Thought Robot Superman. They confronted Duva and Loki, while Loki remained locked in a struggle with Thought Robot Superman.

• Prime Universe Superman overwhelmed World Forger and caused the Sixth Dimensional Multiverse to collapse, then learned that its inhabitants had died.
• Anti-Monitor urged the others to stop retreating, and Prime Universe Superman persuaded Monitor Brothers Three to help save Thought Robot Superman.
• Prime Universe Superman and Monitor Brothers Three left the Sixth Dimension together, astonishing Golden Superman, Seventh Dimension Supergirl, and the gods watching them.
• Duva warned Loki that the arriving group would target Thought Robot Superman first, while Loki struggled to pull him out of DC’s story.
• Monitor warned that Loki’s growing power could become a greater threat than Duva, and World Forger moved to keep Duva from interfering.

Duva fought the Monitor Brothers Three and their forces while Prime Universe Superman and Thought Robot Superman drove Loki toward defeat. As the battlefield filled with Duva’s Xenomorphs, Quantum Superman watched from afar and learned that Lucifer would not destroy Destiny.

• Duva warned World Forger that killing the God of Stories in the World Inside the Wall would not stop Loki from returning, while World Forger vowed to fight for the old order.
• World Forger, Monitor, and Anti-Monitor attacked Duva, and the brothers warned one another to resist his parasitism and avoid using their untested fusion.
• Prime Universe Superman and Thought Robot Superman overwhelmed Loki, while Monitor recognized that Superman’s place in the story could strengthen Loki.
• Duva summoned countless Xenomorphs that swarmed the Monitor Brothers Three and Monitor Race, leaving them unable to make progress against him.
• The brothers struggled to contain Duva’s army and feared Loki would die before they could uncover Duva’s plan.
• Quantum Superman finished communicating with another god and learned that Lucifer would not destroy Destiny, allowing the Omniverse greater stability.

Quantum Superman and Doctor Manhattan discussed the limits of their power and the threat posed by Destiny before noticing the Monitor Race collapsing under a Xenomorph assault. A desperate Monitor became Third Generation Mandrakk, leaving the battlefield in chaos as the surviving Monitors struggled to understand how the corruption had returned.

• Quantum Superman told Doctor Manhattan that they were trapped by the rules of the World Inside the Wall and discussed Destiny's conflict with Lucifer.
• Quantum Superman and Doctor Manhattan sensed darkness as Xenomorphs overwhelmed the Monitor Race.
• A Monitor became Third Generation Mandrakk after absorbing corrupted energy from The Bleed.
• Prime Universe Superman recognized Mandrakk, while Thought Robot Superman weighed whether to attack it or God of Stories Loki.
• Anti-Monitor, Monitor, and World Forger reacted to the new Mandrakk as surviving Monitors fled and searched for the cause of the corruption.

Third Generation Mandrakk returned and fought Thought Robot Superman while the Monitor Race struggled against Duva and the Xenomorphs. Prime Universe Superman’s multiverse-wide alliance arrived, but the Krypton Three Main Gods left the battle to approach Cyborg Superman.

• Third Generation Mandrakk emerged, gained strength from the Monitor Race, and fought Thought Robot Superman as God of Stories Loki absorbed story concepts.
• Duva denied arranging Mandrakk’s return, while the Monitor Brothers Three tried to stop Prime Universe Superman from merging with Thought Robot Superman.
• Prime Universe Batman brought hero teams from across the multiverse, and Duva answered by sending powerful Xenomorph forces into battle.
• Prime Universe Superman called for more allies, and the Krypton Three Main Gods arrived with the Krypton God System.
• The Krypton Three Main Gods ignored Monitor’s call to attack Loki and Mandrakk, then appeared beside Cyborg Superman.

The Batman Who Laughs used Cyborg Superman and the Krypton Three Main Gods to maneuver the battle, while Prime Universe Batman uncovered his role in creating Mandrakk and summoned Constantine’s allies. After Trigon Demon killed the three gods, Prime Universe Superman destroyed Cyborg Superman’s body and claimed its X-Metal, which Duva intended to use to make him shatter the Source Wall.

• The Krypton Three Main Gods sided with The Batman Who Laughs, who controlled Cyborg Superman, and charged at Prime Universe Superman while the Allied Forces struggled against Duva’s Xenomorphs.
• Prime Universe Batman deduced that The Batman Who Laughs had helped create Mandrakk to draw away Thought Robot Superman, then told Zatanna to send Constantine a magical message.
• The Constantines summoned Trigon Demon after revealing that the Kryptonian gods planned to shatter the Source Wall and release the Creation Gods, prompting Trigon to attack The Batman Who Laughs.
• Trigon Demon killed the Krypton Three Main Gods, while The Batman Who Laughs fled and Prime Universe Superman crushed Cyborg Superman’s body.
• Prime Universe Superman took the X-Metal and gained a further surge of power, and Duva urged Loki to merge stories with Superman so they could shatter the Source Wall.

Loki and the DC Editorial Department shaped Prime Universe Superman’s actions, but his attack on the God of Stories struck the Source Wall instead and shattered it. As the gods learned the wall had been sealing away a being called Mother, Prime Universe Superman realized his punch might have endangered the world.

• Loki joined the DC Editorial Department in using Story Power to guide Prime Universe Superman toward a favorable outcome.
• Prime Universe Superman attacked Loki with a punch empowered by X-Metal, nearly destroying him before the blow veered toward the Source Wall.
• The punch tore through the Source Wall, and cracks spread as golden streams of light swept across the World Inside the Wall.
• The gods reacted with alarm and debated whether the shattered wall offered escape or exposed them to unknown dangers.
• Monitor Brothers Three revealed that the Source Wall had been protecting the world by sealing away their Mother.
• Prime Universe Superman regretted ignoring Batman’s warning and wondered whether he had destroyed the world.

After Duva shattered the Source Wall, the gods prepared for the emergence of Perpetua and the Monitor Brothers Three merged into a single being to face her. Ares, having secretly devoured Metron, allied with Chthon and Set to pursue their own power amid the coming conflict.

• Prime Universe Superman sensed a strange connection between the X-Metal and an entity beyond the shattered Source Wall as the Multiverse Allied Forces gathered around him.
• Duva explained that breaking the Source Wall had completed the World Inside the Wall, while the Monitor Brothers Three prepared to confront their mother, Perpetua.
• The Monitor Brothers Three fused into a new god, and Zeus told Ares that the merged being could rival the Ultra-Universe.
• Ares agreed to help Zeus fight the Creation God while secretly plotting to devour Zeus and other God-Kings.
• Chthon contacted Ares, revealed that he and Set also grew stronger by devouring gods, and proposed an alliance that Ares accepted.

Perpetua emerged from the Source Wall and began devouring the gods imprisoned there, while the merged New Universe became accessible to gods from different worlds. As Ares attacked the New Gods and newcomers entered the New Universe, the possibility of a clash between Creation Gods loomed.

• Perpetua studied the altered World Inside the Wall, the Xenomorph God, and the unfamiliar Multiverse fused with her creation.
• Monitor ships sent a distress signal through a breach in the Source Wall, but Perpetua crushed one ship and read its crew member's memories.
• Perpetua emerged from the Source Wall, devoured the gods trapped on it, and shattered the barrier as she reclaimed her strength.
• Zeus called for the gods to unite against Perpetua, while Ares attacked Big Barda and the other New Gods under Chthon's encouragement.
• Chthon announced that the New Universe had finished merging, and unfamiliar gods began entering it as Ares wondered what would happen when the Creation Gods met.

Steel Lantern and Duva prepared for the growing danger as Perpetua’s escape threw the DC Multiverse into chaos. Prime Universe Superman’s forces fled toward the New Universe, while the World Forger gave Prime Universe Batman a virtual armor simulated by the Sixth Dimension Central Control Room.

• Steel Lantern confronted Ares, warned him about the power of Duva and the Emotional Spectrum, and left Orion behind after Ares wounded Mister Miracle.
• Steel Lantern urged Duva to prepare for the gods who might target him, and Duva opened the Emotional Spectrum to Steel Lantern while keeping Volthoom imprisoned.
• The God of Stories Loki recovered his strength from newly revealed stories and joined Mandrakk in attacking Thought Robot Superman.
• Trigon Demon blamed Prime Universe Superman for releasing Perpetua, while Prime Universe Batman convinced Superman and the surviving heroes to retreat to the New Universe.
• The World Forger opened a gate to the Sixth Dimension and gave Prime Universe Batman the virtual Godslayer armor, which Batman began to analyze.

Prime Universe Batman received a virtual Ultimate Armor and set out to find a way to make it real, while the World Forger, Monitor, and Anti-Monitor fused into the Ultra-Universe Level Ultimate Monitor. The Ultimate Monitor destroyed Thought Robot Superman and clashed with Thanoseid as Perpetua turned her attention toward the World Inside the Wall.

• Prime Universe Batman learned that the Ultimate Armor was virtual outside the Sixth Dimension and left with his allies to establish a base in the New Universe and investigate how to make it real.
• The World Forger merged with Monitor and Anti-Monitor, creating the Ultra-Universe Level Ultimate Monitor to fight Perpetua.
• Loki and Mandrakk tore Thought Robot Superman apart, and the Ultimate Monitor destroyed the remains Mandrakk held while Loki absorbed the other portion.
• The Ultimate Monitor moved to kill Loki, but Thanoseid blocked its hammer and attacked it.
• Perpetua stopped devouring the gods on the Source Wall and turned her gaze toward the World Inside the Wall.

Perpetua battled Ultimate Monitor while Duva watched and explained how Perpetua could grow stronger by prolonging the conflict. Steel Lantern then attacked the Monitor Race to inspect and steal its technology, leaving the surviving Monitors fighting his constructs.

• Ultimate Monitor and the surviving gods attacked Perpetua, but she overwhelmed them and fought her fused son to a standstill.
• Duva told Thanoseid that Perpetua was secretly gaining strength from Destruction and Crisis Power, while unrest also stirred in the Seventh Multiverse.
• Steel Lantern intercepted the Monitor Race’s surviving members and demanded access to their ships so he could inspect their technology.
• Dozens of Monitors from outside the Source Wall entered to aid their kin, and Steel Lantern attacked them with constructs powered by the Emotional Spectrum.
• Steel Lantern created over a thousand armored Iron Men, analyzed the Monitors’ ships during the battle, and declared that he wanted to explore the Omniverse as they did.

Steel Lantern overwhelmed the Monitors and captured the Lantern Beasts while Perpetua defeated the Ultimate Monitor and began building an army of Apex Predators. As Perpetua reached toward the New Universe, Ultron sent the Dark Celestials to intervene and seize alien technology.

• Steel Lantern adapted to Monitor technology, broke through their forces, and returned to the World Inside the Wall to capture Lantern Beasts.
• Iron Man and the Avengers watched Steel Lantern’s campaign as Marvel’s gods debated whether to intervene, while Annihilus and Infinity chose to let the DC Multiverse’s conflicts weaken its gods.
• Perpetua absorbed Crisis Power, transformed the Ultimate Monitor into the Anti-Ultimate Monitor, and resolved to reclaim more Creation Power.
• Perpetua recruited villains and turned Earthlings and Martians into Apex Predators, then began creating more from the New Universe’s inhabitants.
• Ultron sent the Dark Celestials into the New Universe, declaring that he wanted to obtain technology from another world.

Prime Universe Ultron used a war between its Dark Celestials and Perpetua’s Apex Predators to exploit the New Universe’s stabilization and uncover the Aspirants’ Godslayer Armor. As Ultron began taking control of the armor, Duva noted that DC First Armor had also become real through Prime Universe Batman’s efforts.

• Prime Universe Ultron sent its Dark Celestials into the New Universe, where they fought Perpetua’s Apex Predators as gods from both worlds watched.
• Ultron deployed a stiff-moving Arishem, whose core program it had invaded, to attack the Apex Predators while Perpetua kept the Anti-Ultimate Monitor out of the fight.
• Duva wondered why Ultron had risked drawing attention and suspected it was pursuing the Godslayer Armor as the New Universe approached separation.
• When the New Universe stabilized, Ultron used Arishem to shake the world and pull the Aspirants’ Godslayer Armor from a buried past reality.
• Ultron launched a program invasion to take control of the armor, shocking the gathered gods, while Duva observed that DC First Armor had also become real through Prime Universe Batman’s efforts.