Chapter Summaries

Andrew warned President Nathan and Director Newman that an Ability World disaster would soon turn animals into Monsters and eventually give humanity supernatural abilities, then tasked them with preparing for it. As they began organizing a response, Lord of Order and Lord of Chaos emerged from the Zerg Overlord's body.

• Tsunade took five million dollars' worth of casino chips from Andrew's staff and learned Andrew secretly owned the Las Vegas casinos.
• Andrew told President Nathan and Director Newman that animals would become Monsters within months, followed by a world where humanity and some natural entities gained abilities.
• Andrew explained the proposed countermeasures and ordered Nathan to coordinate with other countries while keeping the plans secret for the first month.
• Andrew told Nathan to station soldiers in major cities and keep the returned Fleet in place, and instructed Newman to send Hughie to his laboratory for training and prepare the superheroes.
• Lord of Order and Lord of Chaos flew out of the Zerg Overlord's body outside the Black Robe Ability Universe.

God Andrew negotiated the Lord of Order and the Lord of Chaos into joining the wager, despite their attempt to secure extra conditions. After they sent powerful clones into the Ability Universe, the Zerg Overlord urged them to cooperate with Chthon and the others until they defeated the Mechanical Demon King.

• The Lord of Order and the Lord of Chaos asked to join the wager with three conditions each, but God Andrew refused to accept any extra terms.
• Eye Demon Shuma explained that God Andrew knew the two Lords would join even without conditions, while Chthon and the Lords suspected he had learned about the Ability World.
• After negotiating for a day and night, God Andrew confronted Chthon about his secret arrangement and offered the Lords one shared condition in exchange for joining.
• The Lord of Order and the Lord of Chaos agreed to one condition, cast spells on their clones under cover of mist, signed the contract, and sent their clones into the Ability Universe.
• The Zerg Overlord warned the Lords not to scheme against Chthon and the others before defeating the Mechanical Demon King, and the Lords promised to cooperate.

The Lord of Order and the Lord of Chaos joined Demon and Chthon’s alliance to prepare for a battle against the Mechanical Demon King. As they set their plans in motion, Andrew rallied the United Nations to cooperate in surviving the coming disaster.

• The Lord of Chaos borrowed Chthon’s aura of fate and obtained demon corpses and a demon king from Demon to fuel its growth.
• The Lord of Chaos transformed into the Chaos Great Tree on Earth, while the Lord of Order explained that it would spread chaos and could eventually consume Earth and the nine Compound V Big Trees.
• The Lord of Order traveled to Demon’s homeworld to seek Heaven’s power, while Alesha warned that the Lord of Chaos intended to devour Earth.
• Chthon urged the alliance to accelerate its preparations, and Death, Alesha, and the others described their plans to worsen the coming disaster and unleash monsters.
• Several days later, Andrew addressed the United Nations representatives, who agreed to cooperate to save the world.

President Nathan coordinated international preparations for the coming disasters while Andrew pursued research and training in the Virtual World. The chapter ended with Andrew establishing plans for an Ability Academy as scientists continued working on cures and the Chaos Factor.

• President Nathan outlined measures for the animal disaster, Ability User criminals, and extraterrestrial exploration, then fielded representatives’ concerns about security and economic costs.
• Peter watched over the meeting while Andrew left President Nathan to manage the preparations and returned to the Virtual World.
• Andrew resumed Hughie’s experiments, but Hughie failed repeatedly to combine Abilities and become a Skyfather.
• Tony told Andrew that the Ability Cure could not prevent Abilities from awakening again, so Andrew funded research into a Permanent Cure and offered Skyfather samples for study.
• Alice reported progress removing Chaos Factors from Demon blood but said the method could not stop Demons from producing more, and safe removal remained unresolved.
• Andrew ordered Alice to establish an Ability Academy in Game Space to teach Ability Users control and remove Chaos Factors, and to consult psychologists about teaching them responsibility.

Andrew used the Book of Fate to establish himself as a retired, powerless King of Abilities, hoping to gain Universe's Favor and eventually control the Ability Rules. He joined his clone and Green in Minor Hell to create a Ten-Tails that could absorb Chaos Factors, then returned to his restaurant, where Tsunade argued that she no longer owed him money.

• Andrew stacked the King of Abilities' Fate with his own, then used the Book of Fate to make himself a powerless, retired superhero with a Chinese restaurant in Flushing.
• Andrew explained to Alice that he planned to recover his strength and use his new identity to attract Universe's Favor and become a protagonist.
• Alice teleported Andrew to Minor Hell, where Green reported that he could not create a monster capable of absorbing Chaos Factors.
• Andrew proposed creating and modifying the Ten-Tails with Green and his clone, and they began researching how to make it.
• Andrew returned to his restaurant and argued with Tsunade, who insisted that the money she had lost at his casino counted as repayment of her debt.

Andrew made Tsunade work at his Chinese restaurant to repay her debt and barred her from gambling, while promising to train her toward Skyfather level. As they lounged in the empty restaurant, the United Nations began preparing for an undisclosed disaster, leaving the public to speculate about the reason for the mobilization.

• Andrew told Tsunade she could not gamble until she repaid her debt, and an old curse made her left hand slap her whenever she tried to place a bet.
• After failing to gamble through another person, Tsunade returned to the restaurant and agreed to work as Andrew's waitress for one hundred thousand dollars a day in exchange for training.
• Andrew said Jiraiya was working as a Hollywood director and Orochimaru was at the Research Institute, then explained that he would delay resurrecting Nawaki until Tsunade had made enough contributions.
• Tsunade ate Andrew's food and asked about his restaurant, while they both lounged in the empty dining room instead of trying to attract customers.
• The United Nations began moving rural residents into cities and recalling retired veterans, prompting widespread speculation about an approaching disaster.

Chthon and Demon prepared their organizations for the coming All-people Ability disaster while Andrew and Tsunade spent a quiet, rainy day at their restaurant in Flushing. Ashley and Blair took shelter there, but a shootout outside ended with Tsunade throwing two armed men back into the street.

• Chthon told Demon that Mechanical Demon King had begun preparing for the All-people Ability disaster, and they planned to exploit the public panic by encouraging civilians to summon demons.
• Chthon reported that the demon Ability User experiment was progressing well and that Kane Perry was training a new group of temporary Skyfathers.
• Two months later, Andrew and Tsunade complained about their empty restaurant as Ashley and Blair came in seeking shelter from the rain.
• Ashley and Blair introduced themselves, drank Tsunade’s tea, and ordered food while Andrew explained that Flushing had become dangerous amid gang violence and population transfers.
• After gunfire erupted outside, two men rushed into the restaurant, one wounded and the other threatening everyone with a gun, and Tsunade threw them back outside before shutting the door.

Andrew hosted Ashley and Blair at his restaurant, where they discussed Director of S.W.O.R.D. and the worsening disorder in the cities. After they left, Andrew continued working to restore his Ability and pursue Universe's Favor, while Ashley returned home and saw a televised battle against giant spiders.

• Andrew reassured Ashley and Blair that Tsunade could protect him, then listened as Blair praised Director of S.W.O.R.D. and Tsunade accused him of improper relationships with women.
• Andrew joked about the dangers of traveling home, frightened Ashley and Blair, and then let them leave without paying for their meal.
• After Tsunade mocked him for hiding in the restaurant, Andrew analyzed his Ability and reflected on his progress and need for more Universe's Favor.
• Blair rode home with a young Indian driver, who gave her his business card after she arrived.
• Ashley returned home and found her brother Mike feeding spiders before turning on the television to watch Ability Users battle giant spiders.

Ashley and Mike watched an alien-monster expedition broadcast while an intelligent Black Spider plotted against humans. At Andrew’s restaurant, Tsunade began intense training to reach Skyfather, with Andrew planning to use the Eight Inner Gates as a dangerous shortcut.

• Ashley watched Explosion Jazz kill spiders on a live broadcast while Mike wondered why anyone would buy the monsters.
• The intelligent Black Spider decided it needed to contact more companions before attacking Ashley and Mike.
• Sheriff Samantha warned Ashley to return home before dark, and Ashley startled her family with a grisly joke about the Southeast Asian Gang.
• Andrew took Tsunade to train under intense gravity and explained that understanding Life Energy could lead her to Skyfather.
• Andrew proposed creating the Eight Inner Gates technique to speed Tsunade’s breakthrough, despite the risk that opening the final gate could kill her.
• After Tsunade collapsed from training, Andrew left her a medicinal bath and nutrient potion, and she felt touched despite her irritation with him.

Samantha went undercover at Andrew's restaurant to investigate why local gangs used it for negotiations, only to find that her daughter Ashley and Tsunade were already there. She learned the gangs came because Tsunade could overpower them, while Andrew charged both sides for using the restaurant, and the chapter left Samantha wondering whether her assignment still qualified for meal reimbursement.

• Samantha's superior sent her undercover at Andrew's Chinese restaurant to investigate gangs negotiating there and granted her a daily meal allowance.
• Samantha entered the restaurant and found Ashley and Blair talking with Andrew, who recognized her as Sheriff Samantha.
• Ashley explained that Andrew charged both gangs ten thousand dollars each to negotiate, while Tsunade kept the restaurant safe by breaking the limbs of anyone who tried to cheat.
• Samantha learned that Tsunade's violence had made the restaurant a popular negotiation venue, and Tsunade demanded a share of Andrew's earnings.
• Andrew offered Tsunade half her share as repayment for her debt, prompting Ashley, Blair, and Samantha to imagine she was being forced to work there.

Andrew warned Ashley, Blair, and Samantha that danger was coming to Flushing and gave them protective charms. The next day, Blair’s newly awakened ability-user driver abducted her after the chaos factor fueled his violent obsession.

• Andrew gave Ashley, Blair, and Samantha protective charms, warning that something might happen in Flushing.
• Andrew told Tsunade that Flushing might soon fall into chaos and considered how to use the coming events to gain the universe’s favor.
• Blair got into her usual driver’s car, and he told her he had awakened an ability and planned to explore Monster Planet.
• The driver took his hands off the wheel while driving, then asked Blair out; after she refused, his thoughts turned violent.
• The driver changed course toward a remote area, stole Blair’s bag with his long tongue when she tried to call for help, and kept driving despite her pleas.

Andrew rescued Blair from an Indian Ability User who tried to abduct her, first using a talisman decoy and then arriving himself to defeat the attacker. The man launched one final ambush, but Andrew killed him, and Blair asked how Andrew had known he was still alive.

• The Indian man dragged Blair toward a deserted factory, but Andrew’s talisman struck him and gave Blair time to escape in the car.
• The Indian man chased Blair, punctured a tire with his tongue, and cornered her after the car crashed; Andrew’s decoy distracted him while Blair fled.
• Andrew arrived on a motorcycle and shot the Indian man with two Beretta M93R pistols, leaving him wounded on the ground.
• Andrew warned Blair that the Indian man was pretending to be dead and was hiding Venom in his mouth.
• The Indian man attacked Andrew with Venom, but Andrew dodged and shot him in the forehead, killing him.
• Blair collapsed into Andrew’s arms and asked how he had known the Indian man was still alive.

Andrew rescued Blair and sent her toward the police while he headed to save Ashley, whose family was attacked by giant spiders and rats. Ashley, Samantha, and Mike escaped the spiders with help from Andrew’s talisman, but they reached a police station surrounded by corpses and filled with screams.

• Andrew told Blair that Ashley was in even greater danger, then took Blair toward a police station before continuing to Ashley’s home.
• An Unmanned Armor arrived beside the unconscious Indian man, whom Andrew had kept alive as an experimental subject for studying Chaos Factor.
• A giant Black Spider and several enlarged pet spiders attacked Ashley, Samantha, and Mike, binding them in Spider Silk.
• Andrew’s talisman freed Ashley and Samantha, and its flames drove back the spiders long enough for the family to escape.
• Ashley, Samantha, and Mike fled through streets overrun by giant spiders and rats, then found the police station surrounded by police corpses as screams came from inside.

Tsunade rescued Samantha, Ashley, and Mike from the monsters and helped the police station shelter nearby civilians. Samantha awakened her Weaponization Ability during the defense, but as she grew increasingly bloodthirsty, Andrew warned Tsunade that Chaos Factor was controlling her and told her to suppress it.

• Samantha fought off giant spiders until Tsunade arrived, killed them, and agreed to help rescue the officers and protect civilians.
• Tsunade cleared the police station of monsters, and Samantha persuaded the chief to arm the officers and establish the station as a shelter.
• As monsters attacked civilians approaching the station, Samantha awakened Weaponization and transformed her arms into cannons and machine guns to kill them.
• Ashley learned that monster disasters were happening across New York and other cities, keeping superheroes occupied elsewhere.
• Andrew told Tsunade that Chaos Factor was controlling Samantha and instructed her to use her Ability to suppress it.

Andrew brought Blair to the police station where Tsunade, Samantha, Ashley, and the officers were defending against Monsters. Meanwhile, Chthon and the other Demon Kings planned to force a merger between Earth and the Van Helsing World to draw away the Skyfathers and the Mechanical Demon King's forces, while Andrew warned that intelligent spiders were assembling nearby.

• Tsunade linked herself to Samantha with Chakra Threads, helping her regain control and focus her attacks on the Monsters.
• Chthon, Lord of Chaos, Demon, Alesha, and Lord of Order agreed to use a forced World Fusion to distract the Skyfathers and the Mechanical Demon King; Lord of Order revealed that he had taken over Heaven in the Van Helsing World.
• Lord of Order planned to draw the Skyfathers into the Space Channel while the Demon Kings started a war in Hell and sent allies to the Van Helsing World.
• Andrew brought Blair to the police station, where Ashley embraced her and revealed her relief that her friend was safe.
• Andrew told the chief that his drones had spotted intelligent spiders gathering in nearby underground parking lots and warned that they were preparing to attack the station in force.

Andrew and the Skyfathers held back the Lord of Order’s attempt to fuse Van Helsing World with Earth, but their battle drew most Skyfathers away and worsened the crises on the ground. The space-channel confrontation stalled, leaving Earth short of defenders as its local threats continued.

• Mike identified the black spider summoning the others as his pet, and Samantha proposed killing it while Andrew warned that the spiders would retaliate.
• The director called for support, but the descending projection of another world forced Director of S.W.O.R.D. and the Skyfathers to hold the space channel apart.
• Andrew’s avatar and the Kung Fu Master faced the Lord of Order, the Lord of Chaos, and a controlled God while their allies fought inside the space channel.
• Van Helsing recognized his homeland on the other side and charged at the Lord of Order, while Kane and Peter fought again.
• Andrew used the Virtual World’s power to block the fusion, and the two sides reached a stalemate as the Hell War escalated.
• The sky projection disappeared, but with most Skyfathers away, the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau could not send a Superhero to support a police station.

Andrew and Samantha prepared to stop Black Spider’s attack on the police station by sniping it. Samantha’s shot missed when Black Spider sensed the danger and dodged, leaving Andrew’s own shot as the next chance to kill it.

• Andrew warned that the spider army was about to attack and told Tsunade not to reveal her full strength.
• Samantha volunteered to lure the spiders away, but Andrew joined her and assigned Grand Champion to organize the survivors’ evacuation.
• Andrew and Samantha left the police station on his motorcycle and climbed to a rooftop overlooking Black Spider.
• Samantha aimed with her arm transformed into a sniper rifle while Andrew secretly set up a Barrett as backup.
• Black Spider stopped singing to begin its attack, then dodged Samantha’s Energy Bullet after sensing the danger.

Andrew and Samantha escaped Black Spider’s spider army by luring it into a gas station and blowing it up, then Andrew explained why he had prepared a second shot. After the remaining spiders were defeated, the chief asked whether the tactic could be used against all the Monsters, and Andrew said they would need a way to draw them together.

• Andrew shot and killed Black Spider, then helped Samantha escape the charging spider army on his motorcycle.
• Andrew and Samantha rode through a gas station coated in gasoline, where Samantha fired missiles and triggered a massive explosion that burned many spiders.
• Andrew and Samantha joked as they fled, and Samantha questioned why he had prepared a second shot against Black Spider.
• Andrew led the surviving spiders through the streets while Tsunade helped wipe them out, and Samantha reflected on her years away from motorcycle riding.
• The chief asked Andrew if the gas station tactic could work against all the Monsters, and Andrew said they needed something that could attract and gather them.

The director asked Samantha to work with the Rat Controller to lure mutated rats into explosive traps, while promising to recommend Samantha for his position if she succeeded. Andrew gave Blair a protective charm before meeting the reluctant Rat Controller, whom he tried to persuade by boasting about his motorcycle.

• The director explained that the Rat Controller could control ordinary rats but that her Ability enraged mutated rats, and he assigned her to help Samantha lure the rats into traps around Flushing.
• Samantha questioned whether she should join the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau instead of remaining in the police department, while Andrew reflected on how Abilities would reshape society.
• Andrew returned to the police station with Samantha, where the staff cheered them for surviving the spider attack, and the Rat Controller arrived by helicopter.
• Blair told Andrew she planned to return to Los Angeles after the disaster, and Andrew gave her a protective charm before she left.
• Samantha introduced the Rat Controller, who refused to risk her life on the mission, so Andrew teased her about her cheap clothes and showed off his modified Harley motorcycle.
• The Rat Controller became fascinated by Andrew's motorcycle and asked who had modified it.

Andrew, Samantha, and Rat Controller set out to lure the Mutant Rats away from the Market District, where a superhero and civilians were close to being overwhelmed. Rat Controller successfully drew the rats after their motorcycle, and the group raced away as Samantha fought off their attacks.

• Andrew persuaded Rat Controller to help lure the Mutant Rats by promising her a legal way to earn more than twenty thousand dollars a month.
• The director used a 3D map to locate the rat swarm in the Market District, where a superhero was struggling to protect civilians.
• Andrew, Samantha, and Rat Controller arrived and saw the rats surrounding the Market District while the defenders held the second floor.
• Rat Controller used her Ability to provoke the Mutant Rats, then shut her eyes and sang as Andrew sped away on the motorcycle.
• Mutant Rats chased the motorcycle and fired Rat-Fur Needles, which Samantha blocked with a steel shield while shooting at the swarm.