Recaps

Andrew prepared allies and secretly worked to counter the King of Negativity and Chthon as they maneuvered to capture the Compound V Big Trees. The Star God escaped the Pocket Dimension and fought Chthon, while Death and the others joined the pursuit and Andrew’s next move remained unknown.

• Andrew moved the Sea Fortress to Miami, assigned Anna and the Sea Goddess to manage the city, and sent Iron Great Tree and Poseidon into brutal Special Training.
• Andrew contacted Star God, who rejected the King of Negativity’s offer after learning of his plan to ambush the escaping Compound V Big Trees.
• Andrew passed the Twelve Palaces challenge, gave Star God the Star Stone, and prepared the twelve Constellation Legions for immortality.
• The King of Negativity and Tree of Time arranged to summon the Compound V Big Trees, while Chthon secretly cursed Tree of Time and Kaguya Otsutsuki.
• Andrew branded Tree of Time’s transmitted thought and warned Kaguya Otsutsuki about Chthon’s curse as Iron Great Tree and Poseidon negotiated with the King of Negativity.
• Poseidon and Andrew turned Black Dragon and Zeus into undercover allies, while the King of Negativity equipped Black Dragon with an explosive headband.
• Star God entered a Space Rift and trapped Chthon in Star World, where the twelve constellations attacked as Death arrived to help him.
• Star God escaped the collapsing Star World, leaving Chthon severely weakened, and Death joined the King of Negativity, Iron Great Tree, and Poseidon in pursuit.

Andrew led Star God, Hades, and their forces against Chthon and the Compound V Great Trees in Los Angeles. He thwarted their Destiny Divine Ability and brought Death down, but the battle continued as he fought the Great Demon God and the King of Negativity.

• The King of Negativity and Poseidon tried to delay Star God, but Star God escaped with her Twelve Constellation Giants after revealing she had used a clone to distract them.
• Andrew gathered Star God, Hades, and the Death Puppet Legion to attack Chthon’s forces in Los Angeles, while the Tree of Time restored Kaguya Otsutsuki, Black Dragon, and Zeus.
• Chthon turned more than thirty thousand fanatics into Doomsdays, and Andrew’s allies fought them as Andrew challenged Chthon and the King of Negativity.
• Andrew used a Live and Die Together Thread to target the Tree of Time, then summoned her past self and fused the two versions using a Destiny Divine Ability.
• The Tree of Time and Death tried to lure Andrew into a counterattack, but Andrew used Ability Interference Power to prevent the Compound V Great Trees from activating their Destiny Divine Ability.
• Andrew trapped Chthon’s forces in chaotic space, killed Death’s avatar, and used Immortal Kang to make the fanatics explode into Blood Mist as his Black Hole devoured Death’s remains.
• Chthon summoned the Great Demon God with Los Angeles’s Resentment Energy, while Andrew fought it with a Steel Giant and a Devouring Skeleton that continued spreading across its body.
• Andrew trapped the King of Negativity and countered the Great Demon God’s shadow projections, but the Great Demon God began drawing the Skeleton Pattern into a curse-countering Magic Array.

Andrew outmaneuvered the villains’ plans in the Small World while preparing Barbara and Kara to unite the beastmen and humans against them. The arc ended with Kara questioning Andrew after he used an Ability to strengthen the Speaker’s goodwill and guilt, leading him to argue that superheroes should stop those who used Abilities to make councilors tyrannical.

• Andrew trapped the Great Demon God with the Cage Formation, then let several villains retreat while keeping Zeus and beginning his dangerous Special Training.
• Andrew entered Zeus’s Otherworld, restored Mjolnir, and learned that the King of Abilities had restricted the Destiny Divine Abilities of the Iron Great Tree and Poseidon.
• Set led Chthon, the Iron Great Tree, and Poseidon into the Small World, where Andrew followed and helped Barbara resist their attempt to control the Beastmen.
• Barbara summoned Andrew’s Feathered Serpent God Mirage to fight Set’s allies, then pretended to accept Set’s proposal while Andrew encouraged her to build the Scale’s power through belief.
• Chthon and Set planned to seize the elders and move against Barbara, but Andrew arranged to disrupt their plot and helped Barbara plan to unite humans and beastmen against them.
• Andrew courted Kara and urged her to rally humanity’s Ability Users, then used an Ability to amplify the Speaker’s goodwill and guilt until he backed Kara as supreme leader.
• Kara confronted Andrew about whether his Ability counted as control, and Andrew argued that superheroes should capture anyone who used an Ability to make councilors tyrannical.

Kara united humanity and Barbara rallied the Beastmen as Andrew prepared both women for war against Chthon and Set. While the enemy forces moved to trap them and seize the Corpse Race, the King of Negativity’s allies prepared a risky backup plan and secretly headed for the Small World.

• Kara became humanity’s supreme leader, gathered its elite forces, and brought the Resistance Organization into the fold while Andrew went to recruit the prison’s ability users.
• Barbara exposed Set and Chthon’s control of the Beastman elders, then escaped the Royal City with her allies and confronted the Evil Gods in a deserted town.
• Barbara used the Animal Gods’ power to fight Set and Chthon, and the elders turned on Set with Divine Power before Chthon agreed to withdraw and let Barbara go.
• Andrew explained how Barbara could use her Mythical Gem to command the Animal Gods and rally the Beastmen, then empowered Kara with a Gem that absorbed and amplified Ability Energy.
• Barbara seized a border city and urged Beastmen to flee there as Kara prepared humanity for war, while Set and Chthon began building Altars and Chthon took control of the Corpse Race’s city.
• Chthon planned to use the Beastman forces to draw Kara into a trap, while Set secretly contacted Death and arranged reinforcements with Black Dragon and the Negative Commanders.
• The King of Negativity and his allies planned to use Set’s Small World to reach a future version of the King, with sacrificing the Negative Monsters as a dangerous fallback.
• Zatanna devised a plan to preserve the Big Trees’ Origin Essences and souls, and The Intermediary agreed to place them in a new Scripted World as the King of Negativity’s forces secretly traveled toward the Small World.