Chapter Summaries

The Tree of Time organized a plan to move their forces into Set’s Small World and prepare for war against the King of Abilities. Andrew headed for the entrance in Africa, while the Tree of Time failed to obtain the Script from The Intermediary and was sent back to Europe.

• The Tree of Time assigned Chthon, the Iron Great Tree, and Poseidon to accompany Set into the Small World, while Death and the King of Negativity prepared the remaining forces for war and relocation.
• The Iron Great Tree, Poseidon, and Kaguya Otsutsuki reported the plan to Andrew, who created clones to continue exploring the Pocket Dimension and went to Africa.
• Andrew reasoned that he could follow Set’s group through the lingering spatial fluctuation after their Threads of Fate vanished from Earth.
• The Tree of Time learned from The Intermediary that the Small World was absent from the Script, then asked to see the Script and was refused.
• The Intermediary sent the Tree of Time back to Europe, leaving her shocked by his power and angry that he would not join their fight.

Wade and The Intermediary discussed creating a new Marvel Universe by combining superhero Movie Worlds, while The Intermediary sought proof of the Truth of the World. Meanwhile, the Villain Alliance began a plan to claim the Small World before King of Abilities could stop them, opening a Space Channel into it.

• Wade and The Intermediary agreed to consider superhero films as foundations for a new world, after Thunder struck Wade for proposing an unsuitable choice.
• The Tree of Time returned and told everyone that the Small World was not part of the Script, prompting the Villain Alliance to prepare to seize it in secret.
• Set led Chthon, the Iron Great Tree, and Poseidon to a mountain range in Africa that might be Wakanda's territory.
• Chthon concealed the group with a Magic Array, and Set explained that the White Eagle Statue had once protected a city in the Small World.
• Set activated the White Eagle Statue, opening a Space Rift, and Chthon said they would seize treasures, develop believers, build Altars, and summon the Great Demon God.

Andrew entered the Small World after Set and his allies, then discovered that Cheetah was Barbara and that Supergirl Kara was also there. While Andrew hurried to reach Barbara before Set’s group attacked, Set and his companions arrived at her military base and confronted her.

• Set, Chthon, the Iron Great Tree, and Poseidon entered the Small World through the Space Rift, planning to eliminate Cheetah and take control of the Beastman Race.
• Andrew followed their lingering Spatial Fluctuation into Set’s secret chamber and decided to find Cheetah so he could prevent Set’s group from controlling the Beastmen.
• Andrew used the internet to learn that Cheetah was Barbara and that Supergirl Kara was a powerful figure in the human camp.
• Set and his companions reached Barbara’s military base, concealed their aura with Chthon’s Magic Array, and entered the grounds.
• Barbara came onto the parade ground and challenged Set for entering without manners.

Set and Chthon tried to force Barbara and her soldiers to surrender or become puppets, but Andrew brought Barbara to Wonder Woman and Mr. Wang’s home and offered a way to help her fight back. He proposed using a newly created divine artifact to summon the Feathered Serpent God’s power.

• Set demanded that Barbara submit or be turned into a puppet, and Iron Great Tree attacked her soldiers with steel branches.
• Barbara transformed into a Cheetah and tried to summon help, but Set’s black energy intercepted her flare.
• Andrew transported Barbara to Wonder Woman and Mr. Wang’s home, where she eagerly tried to seduce him before he insisted they discuss the crisis.
• Andrew explained that Set’s companions were powerful and that he could not intervene personally, then offered Barbara a divine artifact to summon the Feathered Serpent God’s power.
• Barbara learned that Andrew planned to invent a plausible story about her obtaining the artifact so he could help her fight Set.

Andrew told Barbara to use counterfeit divine artifacts against Set and the other Multiversal Entities, then contact Kara to pursue peace between the Human Race and Beast Race. Barbara returned to her body and defied Set by revealing a golden Scale that provoked his greed and bloodline.

• Barbara questioned whether Andrew's fake divine artifacts could fool Set and the others, and Andrew confidently assured her they could.
• Barbara explained that she and Kara had secretly cooperated, but Set had blocked her bid to become Clan Leader while the Human Council manipulated Kara.
• Andrew gave Barbara something to use against Set and said he wanted the Small World, then sent her consciousness back to her body.
• Barbara refused to surrender and revealed a golden Scale, which made Set's Bloodline boil with desire to claim it.
• The Scale appeared to come from a powerful snake, possibly the Snake God, and Set believed it could strengthen his Serpentman Bloodline.

Barbara summoned the Feathered Serpent God's Phantom Image with a scale Andrew had made, turning Set's attack into a battle against the powerful apparition. As the Feathered Serpent God kept Iron Great Tree and Poseidon occupied, Chthon prepared to target Barbara instead.

• Set demanded that Barbara leave and compensate him, but Barbara summoned the Feathered Serpent God from the golden scale.
• The Feathered Serpent God's Bloodline Suppression weakened Set, while its golden beam blasted Poseidon into the Magic Array.
• Iron Great Tree attacked with his Annihilation Cannon, but the Feathered Serpent God teleported past it and knocked him away with its tail.
• The Feathered Serpent God fought Iron Great Tree and Poseidon at once, using near-instant Teleportation to hold them off.
• Barbara recognized the scale's power as Andrew's work, which drew on God Blood and his Rule Abilities to create a Phantom Image that could grow stronger through belief.
• Set urged Chthon to help defeat the Feathered Serpent God and take the scale, but Chthon chose to attack the unaware Cheetah instead.

Chthon and Set tried to capture Barbara, but she evaded Chthon’s attacks and helped expose their hidden Magic Array. With the Beastman guards and Council of Elders rushing to investigate, Set and his allies had to decide how to respond.

• Set urged Chthon to attack Barbara but warned him not to damage the Scale, while Chthon secretly prepared an ambush beneath her.
• Chthon’s chains struck an illusion of Barbara, and the real Barbara attacked him, forcing him to split into five clouds of black mist and overwhelm her with magic.
• Barbara pointed out that the golden light in the sky remained, and it shattered Chthon’s hastily made Magic Array.
• The broken Magic Array alerted the city’s guards and Council of Elders, who rushed to the scene.
• Chthon asked Set whether he could fight the approaching forces if Chthon restored his strength, but Set refused to battle his own people to the death.

Set and Barbara agreed to a truce after discussing the elders, Barbara’s Scale, and plans to attack the Human Race. The fighting forces withdrew, but Set still intended to seize the Scale.

• Set rejected Chthon’s plan to use an accusation against Barbara, explaining that the Council of Elders would protect both of them under the rules.
• Chthon warned that Barbara’s Scale might come from the Feathered Serpent God, suggesting that a powerful god could be connected to the Small World.
• Set proposed ending the war and deceiving the elders, then offered to keep Barbara safe in the Black Palace while she prepared to lead an attack on the Human Race.
• Andrew told Barbara to accept Set’s proposal so she would not break character, and Barbara pretended to agree after asking for Set’s guarantee.
• Set and Barbara recalled their forces, and Barbara dismissed the Feathered Serpent God’s Mirage.
• Set admitted his greed for Barbara’s Scale and sent Iron Great Tree and the others away before the elders arrived.

Set and Barbara conceal their battle’s true cause, then Set announces plans to destroy the Human Race. Barbara learns that Andrew’s newly made Scale can become real if people believe in it, and she plans to publicize it as Set prepares to attack.

• Set claims the destruction around Barbara’s courtyard came from their sparring, and Barbara backs up his story when the elders question them.
• Set tells the elders he intends to destroy the Human Race and promises to demonstrate the chance of success at the next meeting.
• After the elders leave, Barbara orders the soldiers to keep the incident secret and tells Andrew that Set failed to recognize the Scale as a fake.
• Andrew explains that the Scale can gradually become real through belief and tells Barbara to use it publicly so its fame will grow.
• Barbara describes how the three races share the internet because the Doomsday disaster left them unable to build separate networks.

Andrew planned to help Kara unite humanity while Barbara learned to use the Scale's power, but first he chose to investigate Chthon and the others' plans. Set and Chthon suspected Barbara and Kara were DC Universe figures, leading Set to question whether their earlier actions had been a deception.

• Andrew told Barbara that war between the beastmen, humans, and zombies was inevitable, advised her to strengthen herself with the Scale, and planned to help Kara rule humanity.
• Andrew left to learn what Chthon and the others intended, while deciding not to contact Set yet because his undercover agents could report important developments.
• Set rejoined Chthon's group, and Chthon suspected that Barbara was Barbara the Cheetah from the DC Universe.
• Set realized Kara might be Supergirl and questioned whether Barbara would truly have attacked humanity or agreed to Set's supposed compromise.
• Set began to suspect that Barbara's earlier actions and peace agreement had been part of a deception.

Chthon planned to capture the elders and kill Barbara before she could contact the Mechanical Demon King, while Andrew’s undercover agents informed him of the scheme. Andrew warned Barbara but refused to intervene directly, leaving them to find a way to respond without exposing Set.

• Chthon suspected Barbara was using the Scale to delay them and possibly contact the Mechanical Demon King, so Set agreed they should move against her quickly.
• Chthon ordered Set to capture the elders one by one, Poseidon to monitor Barbara, and the Iron Great Tree to prepare a superweapon for an ambush.
• The Iron Great Tree and Poseidon secretly reported Chthon’s plan to Andrew, who told them to follow the instructions; Set then took Chthon to begin capturing the elders.
• Andrew told Barbara about the plot, but rejected her suggestion to expose Set and rally the Beastmen Clan because it would reveal his undercover agent.
• Barbara agreed that the undercover agent should not be exposed and asked Andrew how they could respond without simply doing nothing.

Andrew explained to Barbara how he planned to unite humans and beastmen against Set, Chthon, and their allies, then wipe out the Corpse-man Race and end the war. He went to find Kara and left a clone to interfere with Set and Chthon’s plan, while Kara remained occupied fighting criminals and the Resistance Organization.

• Barbara warned that Set would seize control of the Beast Race and turn it against her, and Andrew said they would rescue elders and help her lead troops out of the Royal City.
• Andrew proposed using Set, Chthon, and their allies as a shared enemy to make humans and beastmen cooperate, and Barbara agreed the plan could work.
• Andrew rejected peaceful coexistence with the Corpse-man Race and said he intended to destroy it, including its non-cannibal members, while ending the world’s war.
• Andrew left a clone to disrupt Set and Chthon’s plan and traveled to a human city to help Kara become the humans’ leader.
• The chapter described how the human Council kept powerful ability users in check and kept Kara busy fighting criminals and the Resistance Organization.

Andrew met Kara on a skyscraper, won her over, and asked her to prepare to take control of humanity’s military and Ability Users before the coming war. Kara agreed to trust him with persuading the senators, though she worried about his methods and ended the meeting expecting him to handle the work.

• Kara complained about being used by the authorities while eating a hamburger on a skyscraper.
• Andrew appeared as the Mechanical Demon King, shared Kara’s hamburger, and began courting her.
• Andrew explained the Beastman situation and told Kara to gain control of humanity’s military and Ability Users.
• Kara said she lacked the influence and governing experience to control humanity, but could rally Ability Users.
• Kara warned Andrew not to use illegal or coercive methods on the senators, and Andrew promised he would not.
• Andrew teased Kara with a floating hamburger, and Kara decided to leave the preparations to him.

The Speaker planned to have Heroes killed for executing a Council member, but a Mental Ability changed his and his subordinate’s minds. They resolved to make Kara humanity’s supreme leader and reconcile with the Devil Gang to prepare for an impending crisis.

• The Speaker cursed the Heroes for killing a Council member and ordered his subordinate to arrange an ambush by alerting the Devil Gang to their attack.
• The Speaker’s mind was altered, and he declared that he regretted his past actions and canceled the order against the Heroes.
• The subordinate tried to raise the alarm but was also mentally changed and agreed that they needed to atone for their wrongs.
• The Speaker decided to make Supergirl Kara humanity’s supreme leader and reconcile with the Devil Gang to unite humanity against a coming crisis.

The Speaker resolved to name Kara the supreme leader, and Kara asked Andrew whether he had changed the Speaker’s behavior. Andrew admitted he had temporarily amplified the Speaker’s good will and guilt, leaving Kara uncertain about whether his action counted as control.

• The Speaker ordered a council meeting and press conference to confirm Kara as supreme leader, and threatened to purge councilors who opposed him.
• Kara sent the Speaker’s confidant back and summoned Andrew to ask whether he had controlled the Speaker and the others.
• Andrew denied controlling the Speaker, and Kara explained how amplifying someone’s evil thoughts had once helped a criminal manipulate a councilor.
• Andrew revealed that he had used a one-time Ability to amplify the Speaker’s good will and guilt, and said its effects could fade over time.
• Kara questioned whether the Ability still amounted to control, and Andrew argued that superheroes should capture anyone who used an Ability to make the councilors tyrannical.

Kara became humanity’s unanimous supreme leader and began preparing the human forces for war against the beastmen while Andrew headed to the offshore prison to recruit ability users. Meanwhile, Set and Chthon’s takeover of the beastman elders faltered when they discovered the remaining elders had fled toward Barbara’s base.

• Andrew told Kara to unite humanity, take command, and prepare an army for war against the beastmen.
• Kara won a unanimous vote to become supreme leader, brought the Resistance Organization into the fold, and gathered humanity’s elite forces.
• Andrew headed to the offshore prison to bring its ability users under his command.
• Set and Chthon took control of over seventy percent of the beastman elders, but found the remaining elders had left the Black Palace.
• Chthon discovered the elders were fleeing toward Barbara’s base, and Set ordered their controlled allies to seize the city’s legions and pursue them.

Set and Chthon tried to discredit Barbara after she exposed their takeover of the Beast Race, but the soldiers became uncertain when she showed evidence. The confrontation continued as Set claimed the footage was fabricated, leaving the soldiers caught between the accusations.

• Chthon ordered the forces to surround Barbara and the fleeing elders, while he and the Iron Great Tree prepared for battle.
• Set accused Barbara of plotting a rebellion when she met the fleeing elders in a square, and Barbara countered that Set and his allies had enslaved the Beast Race's leaders.
• Set asked the Great Elder to deny being a puppet, prompting the soldiers to side with him and aim their weapons at Barbara.
• Barbara displayed footage of Set and Chthon taking control of a council member, shaking the soldiers' confidence in Set's accusations.
• Set called the footage fabricated, and Barbara and the uncontrolled elders denounced him for twisting the truth.

Barbara confronted Set over his treachery, but his soldiers sided with him until her Feathered Serpent God power suppressed him and she seized the Great Elder and several elders. Set secretly ordered Chthon to make the hostages self-destruct while Barbara demanded safe passage from the Royal City.

• Set accused Barbara of stirring up trouble and ordered his soldiers to prepare for battle, while Barbara refused to submit and raised her weapons against him.
• Barbara's Feathered Serpent God power forced Set to the ground, but he altered his Serpent Bloodline with Chthon's help and escaped the suppression at the cost of some strength.
• Barbara used her power to capture the Great Elder and several elders, then revealed that her earlier conversation with Set had only been a way to delay him.
• Set worried that killing the hostages would turn the Beastmen against him and secretly told Chthon to make the elders self-destruct.
• Barbara demanded that Set let her leave the Royal City so she could organize resistance, while Set urged her to release the hostages and surrender.

Set and Chthon failed to turn the soldiers against Barbara, who demanded that they let her group leave with the captured elders. Chthon urged Set to accept, and Set considered using private armies and Beastmen from the Dungeon as sacrifices if they later fought Barbara.

• Barbara's puppets could neither speak nor self-destruct, and she demanded that Set let her group leave.
• Chthon's Negative Aura briefly enraged the soldiers, but Barbara dispelled it before they could attack.
• Set asked Iron Great Tree and Poseidon for ideas, but they suggested killing the captives outright.
• Chthon advised Set to let Barbara leave, then deal with her away from the Royal City while protecting his prestige.
• Chthon proposed sacrificing private armies if the fight went badly, and Set added that Beastmen in the Dungeon, including slaves, could also be sacrificed.

Barbara led her supporters out of the Royal City while Set and Chthon prepared to sacrifice people and eliminate her. Andrew told Barbara to separate from the main group and take the Great Elder and the others to an uninhabited place, where he would teach her how to use them in the coming fight.

• Set pretended to compromise with Barbara, and Barbara arranged for soldiers, their families, and supportive civilians to evacuate the Royal City.
• Barbara led the group out after several hours, while Set secretly sent the Iron Great Tree and Poseidon to follow them.
• Set and Chthon planned to build concealed Altars and discussed sacrificing other cities while preserving their authority over the Beastman Race.
• Barbara asked Andrew how to prepare for Set and Chthon's attack, and Andrew told her to separate from the main group with the Great Elder and the others.
• Andrew said he would teach Barbara a method that would let the Great Elder and the others play a major role, but he could not undo Chthon's control over them.