Chapter Summaries

Set struck a deal with the King of Negativity to rescue Black Dragon and the others, while negotiating extra payment to relay a demand for their souls. He offered the trapped allies protection in exchange for accepting the demand, but Poseidon, the Iron Great Tree, and Black Dragon refused to trust the King of Negativity.

• Set and the King of Negativity signed a Contract: Set would sacrifice himself to rescue Black Dragon and the others, and the King would put a strand of core authority into The Intermediary's new Scripted World, unless the rescue failed or they won.
• The King of Negativity asked Set to pass along a message, and Set negotiated a batch of Negative Commanders in the next Scripted World as extra payment.
• Set relayed the King's demand for a strand of each ally's soul in exchange for a chance to revive them if they died.
• Set warned Poseidon, the Iron Great Tree, and Black Dragon that he would not risk his life to protect them if they refused the demand.
• Poseidon, the Iron Great Tree, and Black Dragon rejected the proposal and said they did not trust the King of Negativity.

Andrew secretly contacted Poseidon, Iron Great Tree, and Black Dragon and told them to accept Set’s demand for a wisp of their souls, promising to provide fake souls. The group agreed to Set’s terms and urged him to free them so they could retreat before Chthon’s battle ended.

• Poseidon and Iron Great Tree debated whether to accept Set’s demand, worried that surrendering their souls would give the King of Negativity power over them.
• Andrew contacted them and told them to agree, promising to create fake souls to deceive the King of Negativity.
• Andrew explained that he had entered the Small World through the second Space Channel and had strengthened Kara and Barbara before locating the group.
• Iron Great Tree informed Black Dragon of Andrew’s plan, and Black Dragon felt relieved that they would be safe.
• Poseidon, Iron Great Tree, and Black Dragon pretended to hesitate before accepting Set’s terms, then demanded that he free them so they could withdraw.

Set secretly arranged for Black Dragon, Iron Great Tree, and the others to escape while Andrew watched, as Chthon sought more power to defeat Kara. Set handed Chthon control of the Beastmen’s souls, then warned his allies to prepare for Chthon’s curse to fail again.

• Set told Black Dragon to keep pretending to be trapped and promised Iron Great Tree that he would protect their escape.
• The King of Negativity was relieved that the crisis had created a chance to obtain the souls of Iron Great Tree and the others.
• Chthon decided to sacrifice his believers and demanded the Beastmen’s souls from Set so he could strengthen his attack on Kara.
• Set warned Chthon that the Mechanical Demon King had cursed him and that his Curse Techniques would fail, but Chthon refused to listen.
• Set agreed to lend Chthon control of the Beastmen’s souls, then told Black Dragon, Iron Great Tree, and Poseidon to prepare for Chthon’s curse to fail.

Set and Poseidon prepared to flee when Mephisto’s curse failed, while Mephisto sacrificed Beastmen to attack Kara with a curse. The curse disrupted Kara’s new brain, and Andrew told her to rally the humans’ goodwill to suppress it.

• Set warned Poseidon that Mephisto’s curse would fail and promised to help them escape, then arranged with Death to split a promised batch of Negative Commanders.
• Mephisto activated the Altar and sacrificed the villainous Beastmen to gather souls for his curse.
• Mephisto sent a black-energy feint at Kara, then struck her with a second attack that entered her new brain and began suppressing the love within it.
• Mephisto formed a black Skeleton head to restore his Healing Ability and prepare to erode Kara’s mind and powers.
• Kara asked Andrew how to stop her new brain from taking control, and Andrew told her to use the humans’ recognition and goodwill to suppress its evil thoughts.

Kara used the Ability Gem to turn humanity’s support into strength, cleanse the evil thoughts in her new head, and kill Chthon. Set and the remaining enemies tried to escape, leaving Kara and Barbara to stop them.

• At Andrew’s urging, Kara called on all humans to support her, and the Ability Gem broadcast her request to everyone.
• Humanity’s support and Kara’s Good Will surged through her new head, cleansing its evil thoughts and restoring her strength.
• Kara killed Chthon with her enhanced power as Set ordered the others to flee and Death froze Barbara to buy time.
• Set opened a Space Rift and sent Poseidon through; the Iron Great Tree and Black Dragon followed while Barbara broke free and attacked the Iron Great Tree.
• Kara struck the Black Dragon with Heat Vision as the Iron Great Tree sacrificed a clone to escape Barbara’s tail.
• Set sent a Venomous Snake toward the border city and attacked Kara to distract her, but Kara sealed the snake inside a Glue Sphere.

After the battle, Set sacrificed himself to help Black Dragon escape, and Andrew revealed Barbara’s God Form, explaining that he had not favored Kara. The war ended, and Kara and Barbara began tending to the wounded and handling the survivors while Andrew left the cleanup to them.

• Set turned his body into Venomous Snakes, forcing Kara to attack them and giving Black Dragon time to escape through the Space Rift.
• Kara asked Andrew whether to pursue the fleeing enemies, but Andrew waited until the rift vanished and collected the White Eagle Statue and the tooth from Set’s remains.
• Barbara accused Andrew of favoring Kara, so Andrew revealed that Barbara could use the Mythical Gem’s God Form and explained that both women had equally powerful ultimate forms.
• Barbara apologized for accusing Andrew, then Kara and Barbara flew down to heal the wounded and help manage the surviving Beastmen and civilians.
• Andrew left Kara and Barbara to oversee the cleanup and the Fusion of the Human Race and the Beast Race.

Andrew began taking control of the Small World and planned to make it appear that he was preparing to attack Africa, hoping to drive Death toward the King of Negativity. At Death Base, the villains argued over their crushing defeat and debated whether Death should retreat or hold her ground as the King of Abilities prepared to attack.

• Andrew used the three clan treasures, Kara and Barbara, and his status as World Lord to begin taking control of the Small World.
• Death warned the King of Negativity that the King of Abilities would discover the Small World and soon attack her base with its forces.
• The King of Negativity mocked Chthon for his defeat, and Chthon argued that the King of Negativity's Evil Gene had kept the Compound V Big Trees from uniting.
• Death interrupted their quarrel and urged them to plan for the King of Abilities's coming attack, noting that Set had died and the others had suffered heavy losses.
• Chthon suggested that Death move Death Base to the King of Negativity's territory, but the King of Negativity urged her to stay and buy time for his preparations and the injured villains to recover.
• Death challenged the King of Negativity, accusing him of using her death to buy himself time.

Chthon, the King of Negativity, and Doomsday agreed that they needed time to finish their preparations before facing the Coalition Army. They planned to spread a Doomsday Gene plague to force the King of Abilities to protect the survivors, while moving Death Base and preparing for a final battle in Europe.

• The King of Negativity offered Doomsday compensation to persuade him to delay the Coalition Army, but Chthon argued that their forces were too limited to defend Death Base for long.
• Doomsday realized Kara and Barbara might grow weaker outside the Small World, and Chthon explained how their powers depended on its people and treasures.
• Chthon proposed spreading a plague made from the Doomsday Gene so the King of Abilities would have to protect the survivors instead of attacking them.
• The King of Negativity agreed to help the Compound V Big Trees recover while Chthon completed his arrangements and Doomsday moved Death Base to the King of Negativity's location.
• Chthon declared that he would win the final battle in Europe, and the others told him to shut up because his boasts tended to bring bad luck.

Chthon and the Villain Alliance prepared a plague while Death proposed turning Europe into a Land of Death to strengthen their forces against King of Abilities. Death recruited Chthon to help conceal the plan from Mechanical Demon King, but Chthon demanded the souls of everyone who died in Europe, and Death offered only those from the final wave.

• Chthon, Death, and Life Great Tree began developing a plague using the Doomsday Gene while the others recovered and prepared.
• Death explained his Land of Death plan to Black Dragon, who suggested building one in Europe and intended to report the scheme to King of Abilities for credit.
• Death and King of Negativity devised a plan to disguise the European victims as Living Dead and distract King of Abilities with apparent attacks in America.
• Death contacted Chthon for help obscuring Mechanical Demon King's perception, and Chthon demanded every soul from Europe in exchange.
• Death refused to surrender all the souls and offered Chthon the souls from the final wave instead.

Death, the King of Negativity, and Chthon agreed to unleash plagues, while the King of Negativity and the Tree of Time advanced their own Final Protocol. Andrew learned of the plans and prepared to protect survivors while continuing to pursue his larger goal of becoming the true King of Abilities.

• Death, the King of Negativity, and Chthon agreed to create plagues and make one final harvest of souls, while the King of Negativity secretly sent Negative Monsters to deal with survivors in Europe.
• The Tree of Time persuaded the King of Negativity to support Death's plan as a distraction while they prepared their own Final Protocol against the King of Abilities and the Mechanical Demon King.
• The King of Negativity obtained soul wisps from several Great Trees and asked the Tree of Time for one, but the Tree of Time made his wisp tangible only after his death.
• Zatanna encouraged the King of Negativity to suspect that the Tree of Time had noticed his intentions, widening the rift between them.
• Andrew learned that Poseidon and the others had disclosed the plans, then considered moving survivors to New York or his Small World while using the time to refine it and control Pocket Dimensions.

Andrew planned how to rescue survivors from the plague, trap Death’s true body, and refine the Small World while his clone handled outside affairs. He stayed behind and spent time with Barbara while Kara continued working.

• Andrew decided to use Space Ability and simple Teleportation Formations to move survivors, then use the Small World as a transit station once he refined it.
• Andrew planned to trap Death’s true body outside the Scripted World and sent a clone to carry out the scheme.
• Andrew remained in the Small World to refine it and control the Pocket Dimensions.
• Barbara abandoned her work to go on a date with Andrew, while Kara used the Clone Technique to keep handling her responsibilities.
• Barbara complained that their efforts to save the world left no time for dates or even meals, and Andrew defended the work of good people.

Chthon spread a poisonous black rain across the world, and people in the Small Gathering Place fell ill even after the rain stopped. Anna arrived and showed them that New York and Miami had returned to safety under the King of Abilities, leaving the survivors hopeful.

• Chthon caused poisonous black rain to fall worldwide, though his depleted Divine Power let it last only three minutes.
• A bearded survivor in a Houston cave and the eight women with him waited out the rain, but by the third day all eight women had fallen ill.
• The bearded survivor went to the Small Gathering Place for help and learned that doctors could not treat the sick, including some weak Ability Users.
• Anna appeared above the Small Gathering Place and introduced herself as the leader of the Evil Spirit Legion under the King of Abilities.
• Anna used Andrew's high-tech Ability device to show that New York and Miami had returned to normal, exciting the survivors.

Anna persuaded the Small Gathering Place to evacuate to New York, explaining the danger of the black rain and promising safe transport by a Simple Teleportation Array. The survivors agreed to prepare to reach the city center after seeing Anna’s forces clear monsters, while remaining hopeful that the King of Abilities could protect them.

• Anna blamed the black rain on the King of Negativity and told the survivors that poisoned people could recover in New York or another purification city.
• The bearded survivor and the gathering place’s manager worried that their sick and vulnerable people could not travel safely to a distant city.
• Anna promised to teleport the survivors to New York at noon the next day and said they should head to the city center.
• The manager asked Anna to prove the route was safe before the survivors set out.
• Anna showed the survivors a screen of the Evil Spirit Legion clearing monsters throughout the city.
• The survivors admired the ability users’ strength and hoped the King of Abilities would be the Savior Anna described.

Anna organized survivors in America to use the Teleportation array, while the King of Negativity and his allies plotted to delay the King of Abilities by distracting him with disasters in Africa. The Iron Great Tree proposed making Africa more dangerous than Europe so the King of Abilities would prioritize saving it.

• Anna refused to delay the evacuation, explained that each city could receive at most two days of attention, and continued visiting Gathering Places while her legion broadcast news of the Teleportation array.
• Anna cursed the King of Negativity and focused on contacting survivors, believing that those who could not teleport would die.
• The King of Negativity, Death, and Chthon discussed how their plans were delaying the King of Abilities and noted that the Great Demon God had blocked the Mechanical Demon King's senses in Europe.
• Death suggested diverting the King of Abilities toward Africa, and Chthon argued that he would likely save Europe first because of his background and habits.
• The Iron Great Tree proposed unleashing disasters in Africa, including undead invasions and a Hell of Bones, to make the King of Abilities save Africa before Europe.

Chthon, Death, and the King of Negativity accelerated their plan to turn Europe into the Land of Death while the Tree of Time prepared an ultimate sacrifice to ignite the End Times. The Tree of Time set the ultimate battle for fifteen days later and warned the King of Negativity to watch Chthon, who chose the Black Dragon to spy on him.

• Chthon directed Death and the King of Negativity to hurry their European operations before the King of Abilities noticed, and Death began slaughtering survivors and turning captives into Living Dead.
• Death urged the King of Negativity to move more Negative Monsters into Europe, while they kept forces elsewhere to distract the King of Abilities.
• The King of Negativity told the Tree of Time that the Negative Monsters could be sacrificed through their connection to him, and the Tree of Time said preparations would be complete in fifteen days.
• The Tree of Time warned the King of Negativity that Chthon was likely plotting against them, and the King of Negativity agreed to investigate him.
• The King of Negativity proposed sending the Black Dragon to spy on Chthon, reasoning that a sufficient reward would persuade the greedy Compound V Big Tree.

The King of Negativity negotiated with Black Dragon, who demanded the King’s anger origin power in exchange for spying on Chthon. After Zatanna encouraged the deal, the King agreed, believing Black Dragon’s soul was under his control, and required him to obey orders publicly in the Scripted World.

• The King of Negativity offered Black Dragon any reward he wanted for going undercover on Chthon’s side.
• Black Dragon demanded the King’s anger origin power, explaining that it would strengthen the Dragon of Anger and at least triple his own power.
• The King refused to give up his anger origin power and offered to channel anger into Black Dragon only when needed, but Black Dragon rejected the offer.
• Zatanna reminded the King that he held a wisp of Black Dragon’s soul and urged him to accept while imposing further conditions.
• The King agreed to give Black Dragon his anger origin power if he obeyed orders like a subordinate in the Scripted World and showed him respect in public.

Black Dragon joined Chthon as a spy and agreed to gather extreme souls in India for Chthon’s ultimate Trump Card. Andrew arranged for Black Dragon to provide ordinary souls disguised as special ones, while deciding Black Dragon would need to be kept under control.

• The King of Negativity gave Black Dragon the Anger Source of Negativity, and Black Dragon offered to join Chthon in exchange for help escaping the Scripted World and becoming the Boss of the Compound V Big Tree.
• Chthon accepted Black Dragon and told him to collect souls filled with extreme unwillingness and twisted emotions in India for his ultimate Trump Card.
• Black Dragon contacted Andrew and explained that gathering special souls would help him earn Chthon’s trust as a spy.
• Andrew told Black Dragon to gather ordinary souls for him to alter into convincing special souls, even if the deception exposed Black Dragon as a traitor.
• Black Dragon agreed to help trick Chthon, while Andrew privately decided to keep him under control because he had learned Black Dragon had proposed Death taking the Land of Death.

Andrew prepared to turn Death’s plan to transform Europe into the Land of Death into a trap, using altars and worldwide anger to draw on the consciousness of the land, Earth, and possibly the cosmos. He ordered his allies to intensify their campaign against the King of Negativity, but Betty warned that the effort lacked specific details and time.

• Black Dragon told Andrew that Death and the King of Negativity expected to transform Europe into the Land of Death within ten days, and Andrew said he already had arrangements in place.
• Andrew considered rescuing the poisoned survivors but chose to set up underground altars so their souls would merge with Land Consciousness after they died.
• Andrew planned to use Land Consciousness to stir Earth Consciousness and possibly Cosmic Consciousness, then combine that power with the Mechanical Demon King’s Heavenly Dao power to injure Death’s true body.
• Andrew ordered Betty, Mary, Harley, and Sea Goddess to make the world hate the King of Negativity so their anger could empower his plan against Death.
• Betty told Andrew that the campaign lacked concrete details about the King of Negativity and had too little time to gain focus.

Andrew secretly arranged events in Europe while directing the rescue of survivors across America and then Africa. Chthon and the others believed his attention had shifted away from Europe and prepared to launch their plan there within days.

• Andrew told Betty to use extensive publicity to build survivors’ hatred of the King of Negativity for the coming decisive battle.
• Andrew completed secret arrangements in Europe while Death, Chthon, and the others remained unaware of his involvement.
• Andrew’s forces moved most of America’s survivors to several cities, then went to Africa under the pretense of following Death and the others’ lead.
• Chthon, Death, and the King of Negativity discussed how Europe’s mist would slow Andrew’s investigation while they prepared their attack.
• Everyone told Chthon to stop speaking when his boast threatened to invite disaster.

Chthon secretly worked to corrupt Black Dragon and the other Compound V Big Trees so he could control them and seize the nine trees after the final battle. Fifteen days later, the Tree of Time gathered everyone and the factions confirmed their preparations for the coming fight.

• Chthon demanded that Black Dragon finish collecting special souls, while Black Dragon concealed how carefully he was following Andrew's warning.
• Chthon planned to use Black Dragon and the other Compound V Big Trees as puppets, prevent them from surrendering, and take the nine trees whether the war was won or lost.
• The Tree of Time called the group together about fifteen days later, and Poseidon reported that he and the Iron Great Tree had recovered their strength.
• Death announced that Europe and his army of believers were ready, while Chthon revealed a new Doomsday and claimed he had completed his strongest Trump Card with Black Dragon's help.
• The King of Negativity challenged Chthon's preparations, and Chthon secretly resolved to turn Black Dragon and the other trees into puppets after the battle's outcome was decided.