Chapter Summaries

Andrew recruited Wade and Van Helsing to his side by offering Wade the identity and whereabouts of the woman he loved, then sent them to end the fighting at the White House. Van Helsing battled Kane while Wade and Samuel attacked the de-aged Homelander and Soldier Boy, as Chthon realized Andrew was occupied with something else.

• Andrew told Wade that Chthon had lied about the woman who played checkers with him and offered to reveal her identity and whereabouts if Wade switched sides.
• Wade accepted Andrew's offer of a manor and farm, and Andrew sent Wade and Van Helsing to the White House to defeat the remaining enemies.
• Wade and Van Helsing arrived at the White House ruins; Wade attacked De-aged Homelander while Van Helsing challenged Kane Perry.
• Kane fused with the five temporary Skyfathers and fought Van Helsing with his Devouring Rule, but Van Helsing's angelic attacks drove him onto the defensive.
• Old Sera and Samuel joined Wade's fight against De-aged Homelander and De-aged Soldier Boy, while Andrew prepared to teleport Peter elsewhere.
• Chthon divined that Andrew was very busy, though he could not learn what Andrew was doing.

Vought Pharmaceutical Company used Compound No. 6 to turn the tide against the Skyfathers, but Wade’s immunity foiled their plan and left Composite Homelander badly wounded. Thanos sought an alliance with Andrew’s side, and the chapter ended as Andrew prepared to speak with the First Elder.

• Chthon urged Thanos to keep the Mechanical Demon King occupied while their forces harvested souls and prepared to seize Vought Pharmaceutical Company.
• Thanos convinced the First Elder to use Compound No. 6, and Lady Blood poisoned a temporary Skyfather while attacking him.
• Composite Soldier Boy and Composite Homelander injected Wade with Compound No. 6, but Wade neutralized the poison and severely injured Composite Homelander.
• Thanos contacted the Speaker to propose cooperation, and Andrew instructed the Speaker to demand a direct conversation with the First Elder.
• Andrew teased Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Orochimaru while negotiations continued, until the Speaker told him the First Elder was connected.

Andrew's warning turned Thanos's attempt to take over the Core Base into a battle against the Five Great Elders and their forces. As Andrew prepared the Konoha Sannin and manipulated events on the battlefield, the First Elder ordered the King of Abilities to return with the Werewolf Legion.

• Andrew told the Speaker to expose the Fifth Elder as the Demon King of Hell, prompting Thanos to attack the elders before they could detain him.
• Thanos killed the Second Elder and Third Elder, but the First and Fourth Elders survived, and the Elite Ability Groups and Monster Legion surrounded him.
• Thanos turned the Monster Legion against the Elite Ability Groups and contacted Chthon, who urged him to defeat the elders and teleport the Core Base to Hell.
• Andrew prepared Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Jiraiya for battle, then used Fate Magic to sense the unfolding events.
• On the battlefield, Andrew maintained his cover as the King of Abilities while Starlight Annie and the two temporary Skyfathers plotted against him.
• The First Elder ordered the King of Abilities to return with the Werewolf Legion, as Andrew had anticipated.

Andrew helped the Werewolf Legion escape as the battle shifted across several fronts. Kane recalled all the temporary Skyfathers to strengthen himself against Van Helsing, leaving the Pentagon and military bases vulnerable to the attacking legions.

• Andrew used Chaos Backlash and Swords of Space against two temporary Skyfathers, while Starlight Annie defended them and suppressed his attacks.
• Andrew aided the First Elder’s teleportation team, then warned Director Newman not to stop the Werewolf Legion as it vanished.
• A temporary Skyfather revealed that the organization had become the Third Division of the Otherworld Construction Group under Director of S.W.O.R.D., then Kane recalled the temporary Skyfathers as Black Hole Marks.
• Kane absorbed the recalled Marks and attacked Van Helsing with black lightning, while Van Helsing defended himself and the Wolverine Clone prepared a sneak attack.
• At the Pentagon, Lady Blood’s opponent disappeared, and she joined the Death Legion in overwhelming the defenders; the Demon Legion also gained the upper hand at a military base.

Director Newman sent reinforcements to the Pentagon and military base after several Skyfathers disappeared, while Soldier Boy defeated Homelander on the moon despite Homelander’s weapons and poison. Soldier Boy spared Homelander, explained how he countered the attacks, and urged him to accept himself and spend time with Ryan.

• President Nathan alerted Director Newman that Skyfathers had vanished and ordered her to protect the Pentagon and military base.
• Director Newman sent Starlight Annie and The Boys to the Pentagon, then prepared to reinforce the military base with Hughie and additional forces.
• At the White House, Wade and Samuel were close to defeating two injured, stacked Skyfathers, while Soldier Boy battered Homelander on the moon.
• Homelander’s Soul impact device and Compound No. 6 failed, and Soldier Boy broke his hand and prepared to finish him before Homelander begged for mercy.
• Soldier Boy spared Homelander and explained that Director of S.W.O.R.D. had upgraded his shield and made a countermeasure, while Soldier Boy’s heat neutralized the poison.
• Soldier Boy advised Homelander to accept himself and spend more time with Ryan, then revealed that Wade’s comics had exposed details about Death.

Soldier Boy gave Homelander a Life Simulator to help restore his emotions, and Homelander began experiencing an ordinary family life inside it. Meanwhile, Andrew returned to the Vought Pharmaceutical Company Core Base, where his forces turned the battle against Thanos around.

• Soldier Boy gave Homelander a Life Simulator and told him to stay out of the battle and keep it from Death.
• Homelander hid the simulator from Death, then activated it and found himself living as an ordinary farmer's child with a family.
• Andrew observed that Homelander longed for a warm family life and planned to let him experience more simulated worlds.
• As the Elite Ability Corps neared defeat, the Fourth Elder considered risking a power-stacking attempt, but the King of Abilities returned with Andrew and the Werewolf Legion.
• Andrew attacked Thanos, and the Werewolf Legion helped the Elite Ability Legion suppress the Monster Legion.

Chthon and Death launched coordinated attacks to harvest souls, but Andrew anticipated the disasters and sent allies to stop them. With their schemes thwarted, Chthon ordered Lady Blood to help Thanos kill the King of Abilities and bring the Core Base to Hell.

• Thanos learned that Chthon had planted a Seed of Consciousness in the King of Abilities and could trigger it to disorient him for a few seconds.
• Chthon and Death sent their followers and the Death Organization to release poison gas and a destructive mist in cities around the world.
• Andrew detected the impending disasters and teleported Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Soldier Boy, Peter, Queen Maeve, Claire, and others to stop the attackers.
• Tsunade and the other heroes defeated the Death Organization and Chthon's Followers before they could harm civilians, while Orochimaru agreed to use clones for experiments.
• Chthon and Death ordered their forces to retreat after their plans failed, and Chthon told Lady Blood to bring the Death Legion to the Core Base to help Thanos eliminate the King of Abilities and activate the Magic Array.

Lady Blood returned to Vought Pharmaceutical Company's Core Base with the Death Legion and turned the battle against the First Elder and Fourth Elder. Andrew pretended to help them escape, then killed them and their confidants, leaving Vought Pharmaceutical Company’s secrets in his hands.

• Chthon used the measures he had planted in Lady Blood to send her and the Death Legion away from Starlight Annie’s battlefield, and the Boys regrouped with the surviving soldiers.
• Starlight Annie agreed to take the Ability Users to rescue America’s High-Level Executives, while President Nathan and Director Newman planned to save only those executives who supported them.
• Lady Blood arrived at Vought Pharmaceutical Company's Core Base and ordered the Death Legion to attack the Werewolf Legion and elite Ability Users, forcing the First Elder and Fourth Elder to consider escape.
• The First Elder persuaded the King of Abilities to help them flee, and he retrieved a box containing Vought Pharmaceutical Company's secrets.
• Andrew appeared to help the First Elder and Fourth Elder escape, then severed their heads and killed their confidants.

Andrew killed the First Elder and Fourth Elder, secured the case, and returned to fight Thanos and Lady Blood. After revealing the Director of S.W.O.R.D.'s ties to him and summoning the Demon Legion, Andrew countered his enemies and left Lady Blood's fate uncertain as the battle continued.

• Andrew killed the First Elder and Fourth Elder, opened the case, and had Alice store it in the Virtual World.
• Andrew returned to the battlefield, dismissed his clone, and offered Lady Blood a chance to surrender.
• Andrew summoned the Demon Legion, which joined the Werewolf Legion and Elite Ability Group against the Death Legion and Monster Legion.
• Thanos attacked Andrew while Lady Blood tried to disrupt the blood in his body, but Andrew made her suffer a backlash and blocked Thanos's punch.
• Andrew revealed that Nano Version of Compound No. 6 had spread through Thanos's body, but Thanos used Death's Black Mark to purge it.
• Andrew burned Lady Blood's blood spears with blue flame, then punched her body apart into droplets of blood.

Andrew defeated Thanos after Lady Blood betrayed him, then helped her subdue the Death Legion while the battle against the Monster Legion remained unresolved. In Hell, Chthon revealed that he had secretly planted Compound Five Seeds across Earth, planning to turn them into towering trees with a Great Sacrifice.

• Andrew fought Thanos, using sound, illusions, and other abilities while Lady Blood gathered her blood droplets.
• Lady Blood restrained Andrew and Thanos triggered the Seed of Consciousness, but Andrew revealed he was unharmed and immobilized Thanos with the Power of Blood.
• Andrew killed Thanos, then explained that he had removed Chthon’s safeguards from Lady Blood, who chose to serve him and accepted new safeguards he planted in her.
• Lady Blood tried to stop the Death Legion, but its soldiers remained loyal to Death, so she and Andrew subdued the troops by force.
• Death and Chthon learned that Thanos had died again, and Chthon revealed that he had secretly planted Compound Five Seeds in several locations across Earth.

Chthon sacrificed more than ten thousand soldiers to activate nine Compound Five Seeds, beginning a plan to spread Abilities across Earth and plunge it into chaos. Andrew escaped with his forces, while Chthon and Death prepared to exploit the coming Ability Torrent and its rise of new Skyfathers.

• Chthon explained to Death that the nine Compound Five Seeds would spread Ability Factors throughout the world, changing humans, animals, plants, and Earth itself.
• Chthon caused the Death Legion and Monster Legion soldiers at the Core Base to swell and self-destruct as sacrifices for the seeds.
• Andrew ordered Lady Alice to transfer the Core Base and its occupants into the Virtual World, while Lady Blood used Andrew's power to delay the soldiers' explosions.
• The soldiers exploded after the transfer, leaving a vast crater, and Chthon confirmed that the nine seeds had begun to sprout.
• Chthon told Death that the Universe Will favored the nine trees and that their Chaos Attribute would make Ability Users unruly, allowing chaos and new Skyfathers to emerge.

Chthon and Death arranged to recruit Kane Perry and bring Homelander back as they prepared for Earth’s destruction, while Andrew’s forces moved their captured people to the other world and finished the White House battle. Kane accepted Chthon’s offer and tried to escape through a Gate of Hell, but Wolverine and Van Helsing struck him as Homelander arrived, leaving Kane split in two and the twelve temporary Skyfathers swelling toward another explosion.

• Chthon and Death discussed preparing Ability Users, rescuing Mephisto, and recruiting Kane Perry, while Death summoned Homelander back to Earth.
• Homelander reflected on whether he was human or a god after completing a Life Simulator session.
• Andrew directed Lady Blood and Alice to organize the captured researchers, equipment, and legions, then sent Queen Maeve and the other Ability Users to the other world.
• Andrew’s allies subdued the White House battle, while Kane Perry fought Van Helsing after absorbing twelve temporary Skyfathers.
• Andrew offered Kane a choice between joining the organization and being destroyed, but Kane accepted Chthon’s conditions and opened a Gate of Hell to escape.
• Homelander arrived as Kane released twelve temporary Skyfathers; Wolverine impaled Kane, Van Helsing attacked, and two Lasers split Kane in half as the Skyfathers began swelling toward another explosion.

After Senator Scott was killed, Director Newman and Starlight Annie dealt with the Ability Users while Homelander questioned why people hated him. Andrew and Wade froze twelve temporary Skyfathers, and Homelander was dragged back to the ground as hostage-takers panicked.

• Director Newman accused the kidnappers of killing Senator Scott, and Starlight Annie killed the Ability Users with an electric current.
• Homelander recalled his farmer father’s criticism that he only took from others and wondered whether he had done such a terrible job.
• Wade surrounded the area with black mist and taunted his opponents that no one would come to save them.
• Andrew froze twelve temporary Skyfathers, and Wade joined him, leaving twelve ice sculptures among the ruins.
• Homelander tried to fly away, but a powerful gravity pulled him back down and slammed him into the ground.
• One of the Ability Users holding Senator Scott hostage panicked and insisted he had done nothing.

Andrew learned that the nine Compound V Big Trees could not be found and that the Ability World’s arrival was inevitable, so he sought a way to establish order among future Ability Users. He recruited Batman Bruce Wayne and Iron Man Tony to help plan for the Main Universe, which faced a potentially world-ending crisis.

• Set told Andrew that the Universe Will was protecting the nine Compound V Big Trees, and Andrew explained that humanity’s desires had helped bring them into being.
• Andrew decided that he could not prevent the Ability World’s arrival and would instead try to balance its chaos by giving humanity orderly traits and building a new order for Ability Users.
• After receiving messages about the Ability World from Alesha, Hera, and Mephisto, Andrew traveled to Flash’s Parallel Universe to seek Batman Bruce Wayne’s help.
• Andrew told Bruce and Talia that Strange’s spell to hide Bruce’s identity had nearly caused a catastrophe, then asked Bruce to plan for the Main Universe’s coming crisis.
• Bruce agreed to help Andrew despite Talia’s pregnancy, and Andrew brought Iron Man Tony to join them in planning for the Ability Users.

Andrew recruited Iron Man and Batman to help prevent the coming Ability World from plunging Earth into chaos, while Hell’s rulers prepared to exploit it. Chthon’s allies planned to spread Demonic Energy through demons sent to Earth, and Mephisto asked for support to descend there through his Ghost Riders.

• Tony refused to help Andrew until Andrew reminded him of his failed attempt to develop All-people Ability, and Tony agreed to work while objecting to being called Kidnapping Hero.
• Andrew explained the Ability World threat to Batman and Iron Man: animals would also gain abilities, and the Chaos Trait in the Ability Factors could drive people into violence and disorder.
• Batman agreed to help Andrew and requested details about his strength, while Andrew offered to reveal only what Chthon and the others already knew.
• In Hell, Demon and Chthon planned to prepare believers and send demons carrying Demonic Energy to Earth, where it would merge with the Compound V Big Tree and intensify the chaos.
• Death volunteered to oversee the demons’ deaths and extract Divine Power, while Chthon’s group told Mephisto to help send demons to Earth.
• Mephisto revealed that he might enter Earth through his Ghost Riders and asked the others to provide the resources needed for the plan.

Chthon and Mephisto planned to use Hell’s resources to enter Earth and pursue their goals, while Kane recovered and agreed to help create temporary Skyfathers. On Earth, Andrew reversed time around the twelve controlled Skyfathers to remove their Black Hole Marks, though the marks resisted.

• Mephisto persuaded Chthon and Demon to support his plan to descend on Earth and promised to help the other Demon Kings follow.
• Chthon visited Kane, learned that Kane could still create temporary Skyfathers, and urged him to return to Earth once recovered to exploit the Great Era of Abilities.
• Chthon reviewed Billy’s preparations to become Perfect Doomsday, learned the experiment had at most a thirty percent chance of success, and ordered a Compound Five project for demons on Earth.
• Andrew brought twelve temporary Skyfathers to Minor Hell, but Green explained that removing Kane’s soul-linked marks would kill them or leave them vulnerable to Kane’s control.
• Andrew used a green Magic Array to reverse time around the twelve Skyfathers, restoring their bodies and making their Black Hole Marks begin to disappear.

Andrew defeated the twelve Black Hole Marks, recruited the former temporary Skyfathers, and asked Green to help bring his many Rules to life. Meanwhile, Chthon invited the Zerg Overlord and two Multiversal Entities to join a gamble involving the Ability World, then sought Shuma-Gorath’s help to spread chaos.

• Andrew erased the twelve Black Hole Marks and offered the former temporary Skyfathers a choice between serving him and supporting the construction of another world; Priest and the others chose to serve him.
• Andrew told Green to activate his Rules, and the temporary Skyfathers found Rule Marks suited to their abilities among his many Rules.
• The Zerg Overlord and the Multiversal Entity discussed their past gamble and considered whether to join Chthon’s Ability World plan.
• Chthon explained the opportunity to the Zerg Overlord and the two Multiversal Entities, who agreed to think it over before deciding.
• Chthon asked Shuma-Gorath for ways to intensify chaos, and Shuma-Gorath suggested consulting the Multiversal Entity inside the Zerg Overlord.

Andrew established a new laboratory beneath Vought International, forcing its scientists to abandon inhumane human experimentation while offering substitutes such as Time Rewind, replicants, magic, and AI. He secured their cooperation and reviewed his expanded control and resources, while Shuma-Gorath and Chthon considered how Lord of Chaos and Lord of Order might affect the wider conflict.

• Chthon decided to wait before approaching Lord of Chaos, while Shuma-Gorath lamented that the Mechanical Demon King would not let him join the game.
• Andrew ordered Vought’s scientists to stop inhumane research and transformed one scientist who defended racist human experimentation before sending him to Hell’s Kitchen.
• Doctor Sophia raised concerns about research slowing without human experimentation, and Andrew demonstrated Time Rewind and provided a limited Ability User to help the scientists.
• Andrew promised the researchers replicants, magical assistance, and AI support, then tasked Alice with monitoring their experiments and stopping dangerous or rule-breaking work.
• Alice reported that Vought Pharmaceutical Company had collapsed, Homelander had returned to Vought International under Madelyn’s supervision, and its superhero company had been acquired.
• Andrew reviewed his gains, including control of America, temporary Skyfathers, thousands of Ability Users, top research teams, the King of Abilities clone, Green, and Lady Blood.

Andrew, Iron Man, and Batman debated how to manage the growing number of Ability Users, weighing punishment and automated armor against sending people into space. They left with Batman’s expansion plan as a possible way to reduce conflict, while the immediate danger of the first wave remained.

• Andrew returned to his seaside villa and asked Iron Man and Batman for plans to address the Ability User crisis.
• Iron Man proposed an Ability antidote for criminals and fleets of unmanned armor, while Batman warned that the antidote could spread and the armor could be controlled by an Ability User.
• Iron Man argued that Alice could manage the armor and that it could self-destruct if compromised, but Batman rejected widespread deployment and proposed recruiting combat-capable Ability Users as police.
• Batman estimated that Earth could produce more than a billion combat-capable Ability Users and suggested giving them an outlet through space exploration and expansion.
• Andrew confirmed that S.W.O.R.D. could locate planets and open an Eternity portal, and Iron Man agreed that expansion could help humanity survive the first wave of conflict.

Andrew, Batman, and Iron Man discussed plans to contain the coming Ability crisis, while Andrew assigned them research and preparations and pursued a way to absorb the Chaos Factor. Batman and Iron Man departed on their tasks, and Andrew turned his attention to the remaining preparations as Tsunade lost money gambling in Las Vegas.

• Andrew, Batman, and Iron Man agreed to suppress dangerous Animal Ability Users, while Andrew suggested recruiting intelligent ones or sending them to another planet.
• Andrew paused the Unmanned Armor Project, assigned Tony Stark to develop a cure for Ability, and sent Batman to investigate suitable planets with King Ghidorah.
• Andrew planned to coordinate with the United Nations and test whether he could use Green's ability to create a monster that fed on the Chaos Factor.
• Batman left for a monster-filled planet on Ghidorah, and Andrew teleported Iron Man to his laboratory to begin developing the cure.
• Andrew reviewed the plans and spotted Tsunade gambling in Las Vegas, where she lost again and left without money.