Chapter Summaries

Ashley retreated as the Blood Puppet devoured Lisa, then the puppet carried Andrew’s trap into Chthon’s main body. Chthon was left bound by Rune Chains and blamed Demon, who admitted to sending the puppet but learned that Lisa had betrayed them during a genuine crisis.

• Ashley stepped back, and the Blood Puppet devoured Lisa before flying through the Water Mirror toward Chthon’s main body.
• Andrew sent a rune-covered Small Black Ball out of the space channel while the Lord of Order failed to stop it and resumed repairing the Space Lockdown.
• Chthon tried to escape the Blood Puppet, but it revealed the Small Black Ball, which exploded and bound his body, magic power, and soul with Rune Chains.
• Chthon teleported to Demon for help, and the two could only suppress the Rune Chains, which reduced Chthon’s strength by at least thirty percent.
• Demon and Chthon argued over the Blood Puppet until Chthon revealed that the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau had appeared while he lured Ashley and that Lisa had activated the puppet after betraying them.

Chthon was extorted by Demon and sought help removing the Rune Chain, while plotting to recruit Mephisto or create Perfect Doomsday. Ashley completed her mission and returned home, where Blair confessed that she had started a relationship with Andrew and invited Ashley to join them.

• Demon cursed his losses after Chthon forced him to pay compensation, while Chthon resolved to remove the Rune Chain before the final battle.
• Chthon learned Lord of Order had known about the Small Black Ball and secured Lord of Chaos's promise to break the Rune Chain during the final battle in exchange for his help.
• Chthon planned to recover his losses in the third Animal Disaster and considered creating Perfect Doomsday or recruiting Mephisto.
• Hughie told Ashley that the Altar was destroyed and her mission was complete, and Ashley flew home to see Andrew.
• Ashley found Blair leaving Andrew's room, and Blair admitted she had confessed to Andrew and said Ashley could become his girlfriend too.

Ashley and Blair accepted their relationship with Andrew, and he prepared them and the others for the coming third wave of Animal Disaster. The chapter ended with Tsunade told to prepare to take the field, while Andrew insisted he would be the one to save everything in the final battle.

• Ashley confronted Andrew about secretly telling Blair that Ashley had confessed, and Andrew admitted he had done it to make Blair confess before Ashley and he became a couple.
• Ashley hesitantly accepted Andrew’s proposal that the three of them stay together, and half a month later Ashley and Blair openly kissed him at breakfast.
• Andrew warned Ashley and Blair that the third wave of Animal Disaster might arrive soon and told them to stop taking missions and focus on training.
• Andrew gave Samantha a modified Blue Sapphire Necklace that could store Power of ability and told her to prepare the police department and master the super weapon he had taught her.
• Ashley and Blair learned their Blue Sapphire Bracelets were worth hundreds of millions of dollars, while Andrew teased Tsunade about her debts and told her to prepare to fight in the coming disaster.

Andrew advised Tsunade on improving her strength and helped Rat Catcher plan to turn her control of Mutant Rats into a lucrative partnership with the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau. Meanwhile, Chthon visited Mephisto in Hell and discovered that Mephisto might already be preparing to reincarnate on Earth.

• Tsunade asked Andrew to make her stronger, and he said he would use Rule Life after recovering his Skyfather strength; he also promised her jewelry.
• Andrew advised Rat Catcher to develop Mutant Rats into leaders and negotiate with the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, and she set off with her lawyer to pursue the deal.
• Andrew told Ashley and Blair to prepare for training with his three Skyfather girlfriends after the third disaster wave, but Ashley mocked his claim.
• Chthon arrived in Mephisto's territory and offered to help him reincarnate on Earth using part of his soul and Source Power.
• Chthon asked whether Mephisto had already reincarnated after noticing his strange reaction.

Chthon arranged for Mephisto to reincarnate as a powerful monster so he could help open the Gate of Hell, while both secretly outmaneuvered each other. Chthon then prepared to use Billy against Hughie, whose teleportation threatened his plans, and Billy eagerly awaited the experiment that would let him kill Homelander.

• Mephisto denied having begun a reincarnation ritual, but Chthon supplied the resources and told him to take over a powerful monster gestating in a cocoon.
• Mephisto sent a holy infant from a cult’s pregnant woman into the cocoon, devoured the monster’s soul, and merged with its body.
• Chthon believed his hidden tampering would let him control Mephisto, but Mephisto revealed to himself that he had already transferred the tampering to a substitute.
• Mephisto warned that powerful monsters could cause heavy casualties during the third wave of the disaster, then dismissed the danger as a problem for his original body and righteous avatars.
• Chthon went to the laboratory to use Billy against Hughie, whose teleportation could undermine his plan, while Billy said he was eager to kill Homelander.

Chthon recruited Billy to help turn Hughie, a newly ascended Skyfather, but Andrew assured Billy that Hughie would not fall easily. Meanwhile, Hughie and the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau prepared a powerful Magic Array that could back up and enhance his teleportation, leaving him central to a plan to protect cities from disasters.

• Chthon told Billy that Hughie had become a Skyfather and proposed turning him or killing him, using his grief over his girlfriend's death as leverage.
• Billy warned Andrew about Chthon's plan, and Andrew said he had made arrangements to protect every Skyfather.
• Billy insisted Hughie could not defeat him and decided to test how much his former friend had grown.
• At the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, Dave set up a Magic Array while Hughie and the others discussed its purpose.
• Dave explained that the array could temporarily replace Hughie's teleportation and eventually combine with his ability and the Monster Detector to transport monsters to designated attack zones.

Hughie’s recurring nightmares, secretly inflicted by Chthon, drove him closer to attacking A-Train, while Andrew looked for a way to resolve their conflict without sacrificing his subordinate. When Hughie confronted A-Train, A-Train admitted he had expected him and explained why he had chosen to keep fighting as a hero.

• Hughie helped Dave complete a global Space Magic Array, then dreamed again of A-Train killing his girlfriend and his family.
• Chthon intensified Hughie’s nightmares, hoping Hughie would attack A-Train and Fall; Andrew recognized the Nightmare Curse and began considering how to prevent it.
• Andrew joked with Ashley and Tsunade at the restaurant, then decided he needed to act before Hughie turned evil.
• Hughie teleported near A-Train with murderous intent, and A-Train confronted him rather than running away.
• A-Train admitted he was afraid of death and had considered surrendering to the Demon, but he valued his reputation, family, and friends.
• A-Train described growing up poor and how his family invested everything in training his Ability.

Hughie overcame his hatred after speaking with his deceased girlfriend in a Time Node, and Andrew revealed that Chthon had been causing Hughie's nightmares. Hughie agreed to spare A-Train and make him atone, then brought him to India to test whether he would save people.

• A-Train explained that he had stayed loyal to humanity to protect his family and offered to die if Hughie would care for them.
• Hughie relived his girlfriend's death in a Time Node, where she urged him to let go of hatred and make A-Train atone by saving lives.
• Andrew told Hughie that Chthon had caused his nightmares, and Hughie agreed to spare A-Train while holding him accountable.
• Andrew promised Hughie that his girlfriend could be revived if Hughie did good deeds and saved people.
• Hughie brought A-Train to railway tracks in India, where a train derailed nearby.

Hughie spared A-Train on the condition that he save one million people and donate his wealth over the next three years. A-Train sought help becoming a Skyfather, and Tony Stark and Orochimaru began preparing to experiment on him.

• A-Train rescued civilians, and Hughie agreed to spare him if he saved one million people, donated his money, and considered their past grievances settled.
• A-Train contacted Andrew and asked to become a Skyfather so he could meet Hughie's demands.
• Andrew asked Tony Stark to modify A-Train, explaining that A-Train already had Tony's Arc Reactor implanted as his heart.
• Tony recruited Orochimaru to help develop a technological path to creating a Skyfather.
• A-Train ran back to America and agreed to undergo Tony and Orochimaru's experiments to become a Skyfather.

Tony and Orochimaru began a human enhancement experiment with A-Train while Chthon planned to exploit the coming third wave of Animal Disaster. Pepper gained the ability to summon powerful superhero projections, and Andrew gave her counterfeit souls to use against the Star God, leaving her to deceive him while guarding herself against the Rules.

• Tony and Orochimaru began the human enhancement experiment with A-Train, frustrating Chthon when Hughie refused to develop enough hatred to kill him.
• Chthon decided to wait for the third wave of Animal Disaster and use Billy, whom he believed Hughie cared about, to kill Hughie.
• Pepper demonstrated that she could summon powerful starlight projections after the Star God helped her comprehend the Rules, and she asked to lead an elite squad to collect souls.
• The Star God ordered Pepper to kill humans and harvest their souls, while she privately judged his plan and reported his instructions to Andrew.
• Andrew explained that he had created counterfeit souls from monster soul particles and contaminated souls; they would curse the Star God when he consumed them.
• Pepper agreed to stage offerings of the counterfeit souls to gain the Star God’s trust and further power, while Andrew warned her not to lose herself to the Rules.

The third wave of the Animal Disaster began, with mutated cockroaches overwhelming cities while Chthon tried to keep Hughie from helping the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau. Andrew’s allies and the authorities fought back as Mephisto warned that powerful Monsters were about to be born.

• Mutated roaches attacked a Hell’s Kitchen restaurant, and the Cockroach Army emerged as the third wave’s main threat across human settlements.
• Chthon sent Billy to lure Hughie away from the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, but Hughie teleported to meet him and prepared to fight.
• Ashley and Blair returned to Andrew’s restaurant, then went outside to save civilians by turning Monsters against one another and purifying roaches with Holy Light.
• Andrew sensed that Mephisto’s reincarnated body would soon be born, and Mephisto warned him that other rule-bearing Monsters would appear.
• Police, soldiers, and Ability Users mobilized to fight the Monsters, while Samantha directed armored officers to protect civilians evacuating.

Director Newman deployed superheroes and Ability Users to contain the monster outbreak across America while Andrew sent Tsunade to Milan and waited for Chthon to act. A massive earthquake struck Los Angeles, where Lucifer appeared to help civilians before the Lord of Chaos pulled him into a strange space to face a black-winged version of himself.

• Director Newman sent Rat Catcher to Detroit and Betty to Chicago, dispatched Superhero Game Characters to other cities, and kept forces in reserve against the Sacrifice Superpowered Individuals.
• Andrew sent Tsunade to Milan City after she demanded two hundred million dollars to fight the Roach Army.
• Chthon watched Los Angeles and said that something was about to be born as a massive earthquake split streets and toppled buildings across the city.
• Ray ran through the destruction to find his ex-wife and demanded reinforcements while Roaches continued attacking civilians.
• Lucifer appeared over Los Angeles and promised to save the civilians, but the Lord of Chaos transported him to a strange space.
• The Lord of Chaos summoned a black-winged Lucifer from another timeline, and the two Lucifers questioned why the other served the Lord of Chaos.

The Lord of Chaos used a Chaos Node to intercept Andrew’s Skyfathers while an unnatural earthquake devastated Los Angeles. Andrew sent Lady Blood, De-aged Soldier Boy, Uchiha Madara, Green, and Young Flash to fight the node’s interference and evacuate civilians, leaving the rescue effort underway.

• The Lord of Chaos pulled Lucifer into a Chaos Node to keep him occupied, and Andrew learned that the node could summon fighters from other timelines.
• Andrew sent Lady Blood and De-aged Soldier Boy to Los Angeles, but the Lord of Chaos dragged them into the node, where a past version of Lady Blood confronted them with a Cross bearing Jesus’s blood.
• Director Newman dispatched flying superheroes and Minato Namikaze to rescue Los Angeles residents as the earthquake intensified and buildings collapsed.
• Andrew ordered Uchiha Madara to save people and sent Green to create a defensive Floating Island for civilians to shelter on.
• Andrew summoned Young Flash and instructed him to carry civilians to the Floating Island while moving faster than lightspeed to evade the Lord of Chaos.

As Los Angeles was devastated by an earthquake and giant waves, Flash, Minato Namikaze, and others rescued civilians while Uchiha Madara fought Cain. Andrew gathered Ashley, Blair, and Samantha and teleported them to Los Angeles, where a capsizing cruise ship was about to crash into the pier.

• Uchiha Madara prepared to rescue people, but Cain challenged him and they fought in the sky.
• Flash and Minato Namikaze moved civilians to Green's growing Floating Island while Chthon sent the Cockroach Army to attack the Ninja.
• Andrew recalled Ashley and Blair, then summoned Samantha to join them in a rescue mission to Los Angeles.
• Andrew teleported the group to the coast, where the earthquake continued and a wave-driven cruise ship hurtled toward the pier.

Andrew saved a cruise ship from a tsunami, then took Ashley, Blair, and Samantha to confront the Earth Turtle causing the Los Angeles earthquake. After revealing that the creature came from myths becoming reality, he began testing its strength while Ashley went to gather cockroaches.

• Andrew teleported a cruise ship away from the waves and showed Blair her father, Ray, arguing with her mother's current boyfriend after rescuing them.
• Andrew led Ashley, Blair, and Samantha to an artificial lake in Los Angeles and fought back against the Earth Turtle's water attacks with steel.
• The Earth Turtle emerged from the dried lake, and Andrew explained that it had caused the earthquake and was a mythological creature brought into reality.
• Andrew warned that the Earth Turtle could use earth, water, and possibly shockwave abilities, then sent Ashley to gather the Cockroach Army as cannon fodder.
• Andrew cut apart the Earth Turtle's mud hands with laser beams and asked Blair and Samantha to test its defenses; Blair attacked with a giant spear of Holy Light.

Andrew entered the Earth Turtle’s consciousness to bypass its earth-linked defenses, while Blair, Samantha, and Ashley guarded his motionless body. Chthon exposed Andrew’s damaged soul to the Earth Turtle, but Andrew began fighting it in the Consciousness World.

• Blair and Samantha attacked the Earth Turtle, but its defenses redirected their blows into earthquakes that split the ground.
• Andrew explained that the Skyfathers had been intercepted and decided to challenge the Earth Turtle mentally while Blair, Samantha, and Ashley protected his body.
• Andrew entered the Earth Turtle’s consciousness, where Chthon revealed that Andrew was severely injured and helped the Turtle see cracks in his consciousness.
• The Earth Turtle attacked Andrew in the Consciousness World, but Andrew shrank to evade its tail and then created nine versions of himself.

Andrew infiltrated the Earth Turtle’s shell and spread a mysterious Brand across its body while his clones kept its summoned turtles occupied. With Chthon helping the Earth Turtle resist the Brand, the battle escalated outside as Blair, Ashley, and Samantha defended the Steel Disc from its attacks.

• Andrew used nine Physical Clones to repel the sandstorm and battle the Earth Turtle’s immortal Mud Earth Turtles while his true body slipped inside the shell.
• Andrew placed a Brand on the Earth Turtle and used awakened Yellow Light to block its Shockwave, then kept spreading the Brand as he fought off its little turtles.
• Chthon advised the Earth Turtle to resist the Brand with its own power and suggested either killing Andrew with a hidden attack or destroying his body in the Reality World.
• The Earth Turtle bombarded the Steel Disc, but Blair summoned an Angel Army, Ashley attacked with her Cockroach Army and Fire Giant form, and Samantha fired her Sonic Cannons to protect the group.
• The Earth Turtle summoned twelve Earth Giants, and Ashley wrapped their arms in fiery whips and broke them apart.

Ashley, Blair, and Samantha escaped Earth Turtle’s sandstorm, but Earth Turtle resumed its earthquakes while Andrew fought its consciousness. With Los Angeles in danger and Andrew’s battle unresolved, Ashley and Blair debated whether to approach Earth Turtle and risk his safety.

• Blair protected Ashley, Samantha, and Andrew from Earth Turtle’s sandstorm with her Archangel’s Protection Rule Ability.
• Samantha transformed the Steel Disc into a Steel Glider and flew everyone away from Earth Turtle, while Blair warned that they could not go too far from Andrew.
• After Chthon urged it to keep causing earthquakes, Earth Turtle restarted the Los Angeles quake, and Young Flash teleported survivors to the Floating Island.
• Uchiha Madara trapped Cain in a forest Small Space and attacked him with Wood Humans and Susanoo, clearing the way for Young Flash and other rescuers.
• Director Newman asked Ashley and Blair to stop Earth Turtle, but Ashley feared approaching it would endanger Andrew, while Blair worried that delaying would cost more lives.

Ashley and Blair attacked Earth Turtle after DL arrived to protect Ashley's uncle, using Ashley's Magic Chain and Hellfire to distract Earth Turtle while Andrew fought it in its consciousness. Earth Turtle realized too late that Ashley's provocation had made it neglect Andrew, whose Brand and clones were overwhelming it.

• Director Newman arranged for DL to protect Ashley's uncle, and Dave teleported him to Los Angeles.
• Samantha piloted the Steel Glider toward Earth Turtle as Ashley prepared to draw its attention.
• Ashley enraged Earth Turtle, evaded its Shockwave, and used the Magic Chain to reach its tail while Blair protected her from earthen spears.
• Ashley ignited Hellfire on the chain, distracting Earth Turtle as Andrew's Brand spread through its consciousness and his nine Physical Clones froze the mud turtles.
• Chthon explained that Ashley had deliberately drawn Earth Turtle's attention away from Andrew, but Earth Turtle grew enraged and was influenced by her again.

Andrew and the others survived Earth Turtle’s surprise attack, but Chthon then sent tens of thousands of Sacrifice Superpowered Individuals to Los Angeles to overwhelm them. With Blair, Ashley, and Samantha trapped in Illusion Realms and DL incapacitated, Andrew faced the incoming assault while continuing his Battle of Consciousness against Earth Turtle.

• Earth Turtle pretended to remain under Ashley’s Wrathful Fire control, then fired Earth Roar Wave at the Steel Glider after Blair used Archangel Phantom.
• Chthon’s Mental Power attack disabled DL, but Andrew made Blair, Samantha, DL, and himself intangible and pulled them out of the beam’s path.
• Andrew pretended to collapse from his injuries while Blair, Ashley, and Samantha resumed fighting Earth Turtle’s attacks.
• Chthon ordered the Teleportation Ability User to bring tens of thousands of Sacrifice Superpowered Individuals to Los Angeles, where they attacked the Steel Glider and trapped the women in Illusion Realms.
• Director Newman ordered her elites to teleport to Los Angeles, while Earth Turtle mocked Andrew and Andrew taunted Earth Turtle in their Battle of Consciousness.