Chapter Summaries

Andrew used Van Helsing’s infection with the Werewolf Virus to secure a ten-year contract for Van Helsing’s World’s Favor and the souls he killed. He froze Count Dracula with a Curse, freed Wiken from the Werewolf Virus, and waited as the Serpent God Set took over Dracula’s body and began drawing power through Dracula’s Devil contract.

• Van Helsing accepted Andrew’s contract after Andrew warned that he would soon transform and that Carl was in danger, but Andrew did not remove the Werewolf Virus.
• Andrew attacked Count Dracula with cursed silver needles, freezing his blood and slowing him down.
• Wiken captured Anna, but Andrew suppressed Wiken’s Werewolf Virus and restored him to human form.
• Andrew froze Count Dracula and secretly placed invisible auras inside his body while planning to have Wiken or Van Helsing kill him.
• The Serpent God Set took control of Count Dracula’s body and used the contract between Dracula and a Devil to draw out the Devil’s power.

Andrew used the lightning apparatus and the werewolves to kill Count Dracula, ending his vampire bloodline and Anna’s family mission. He also trapped Serpent God Set’s consciousness and struck Set’s main body with World’s Backlash, but Set escaped, leaving Andrew to collect the souls of Set’s remaining believers.

• The Devil supplied Count Dracula with more Devil Power as Set’s consciousness took control, while Andrew used the lightning apparatus to blast Dracula with Thunderbolt.
• Andrew freed Wiken from his curse and sent Van Helsing to help kill Dracula; he also restored Wiken’s werewolf transformation.
• Set’s Fear Illusion Realm incapacitated Van Helsing and Wiken, but Andrew helped Van Helsing break free, and the two werewolves attacked Dracula.
• Set’s vampire spawn blasted Van Helsing away, but Andrew used his umbrella to electrify Dracula and threw him back to Van Helsing, who bit off Dracula’s neck and killed him.
• Dracula’s death destroyed his vampire eggs and the Vampire Brides, freed the werewolves, and left Anna celebrating her family’s victory.
• Andrew used World’s Backlash to injure Set’s main body, but Set escaped; Andrew then killed more than a hundred of Set’s believers, claimed their souls, and returned to Van Helsing World.

Andrew defeated Serpent God Set, freed Anna and Wiken from Dracula’s curse, and prepared to gather more of the world’s favor and souls. After returning from Dracula’s castle, he planned to hunt evil creatures and collect souls from existing battlefields so he could conceal the space channel and make the world his private world.

• Serpent God Set fled to heal after Andrew used the world’s backlash to injure him, while Andrew resolved to use the tactic against other Multiversal Entities.
• Andrew recovered the Viper Dagger and claimed the world’s favor earned by Van Helsing’s defeat of Count Dracula, then cured Van Helsing and Wiken of their werewolf transformations.
• Andrew woke Wiken and told him and Anna that Dracula’s death had ended their family’s mission and freed them from their territory-bound curse.
• Andrew, Van Helsing, and Frankenstein’s monster stopped Igor from taking Carl hostage, then gathered Dracula’s valuables and returned to Anna’s castle.
• Andrew considered how to obtain more world’s favor and souls, deciding to use Van Helsing’s information to hunt evil creatures and to collect souls from existing wars.

Andrew prepared to gather souls and the world's favor before the space channel appeared, while Anna entered his room to express her affection. In New York, Homelander was trapped by a witch, accepted the Mysterious Entity's Token, and escaped by killing the witch and the witnesses before burning the neighborhood.

• Anna entered Andrew's room in a red gown, while Tracy saw the closed door and left; Frankenstein's monster and Van Helsing followed her without her noticing.
• Van Helsing planned to persuade Carl to write a false report so the Holy See would not target Andrew Wang.
• Madelyn welcomed the monster attacks in New York as a chance to make superheroes indispensable and ordered her secretary to double Vought's price for sending heroes to Boston.
• Homelander fought Bigfoot creatures in Brooklyn as residents cheered, but an old witch trapped him in an illusion of the laboratory where he had grown up.
• The Mysterious Entity freed Homelander after he agreed to merge the Token into his body, marking him as its own.
• Homelander killed the witch, lasered the surviving residents, and set the neighborhood ablaze before flying away.

Homelander became infatuated with the Mysterious Entity, while Peter copied a nuclear-explosion ability and escaped detonating with help from The Deep. In the Van Helsing World, Andrew transformed Anna into his thrall and brought Van Helsing and Carl to New York to show them the danger posed by the merging worlds and recruit them to stop it.

• The Mysterious Entity warned Homelander that a survivor had a phone, and Homelander killed the survivor before becoming fixated on her.
• Peter copied Bomb Man's Nuclear Explosion ability, and The Deep suppressed the dangerous energy before it could detonate.
• Andrew told Anna he could not travel with her, transformed her into his thrall, and gave her Super Speed and high-speed reaction nerves.
• After Count Dracula's death, Andrew asked Van Helsing for information on evil creatures, then transported Van Helsing, Carl, and Tracy to New York.
• Andrew showed Van Helsing and Carl the worlds merging and the Main World's military power, persuading Van Helsing to help kill evil creatures and Carl to share her knowledge and study new technology.

Andrew gave Van Helsing a controllable Werewolf form and discussed Tracy’s possible future as the first female president. He then removed a dangerous man’s explosive ability, sent Peter to practice controlling his nuclear explosions, and postponed plans to confront the Ability User organization while asking Banner and The Deep to investigate reports of Werewolves in New York.

• Andrew injected Van Helsing with Perfect Compound Five, giving him enhanced strength and speed plus a Werewolf form that Holy Water could not harm and that he could retract at will.
• Andrew let Tracy choose whether to stay in New York or return to the past and pursue becoming the first female president, and Tracy asked for a few days to decide.
• Peter told Andrew about a despondent man whose explosive ability had killed his wife, and Andrew used his Mechanical Spider to absorb the man’s ability.
• Andrew instructed The Deep to erase the man’s memories and take him somewhere safe, then agreed to help The Deep deal with his warlord brother.
• Andrew sent Peter to the Wasteland World to practice controlling his Nuclear Explosion Ability and told Banner and The Deep to wait before confronting the Ability User organization.
• Andrew asked Banner and The Deep to investigate whether Werewolves had appeared in New York City.

Andrew bought Matt Parker’s Mind Reading ability for ten million dollars, then agreed to help Tracy awaken her power and pursue the presidency of another world. In the Van Helsing World, Van Helsing and Carl fought Gorgons and were immediately teleported onward, while Andrew and Tracy battled Cyclops.

• Andrew offered Matt Parker ten million dollars after tax for his Mind Reading ability, and Parker accepted.
• Andrew absorbed Parker’s power, and Parker later received the money and went home to tell his wife.
• Tracy told Andrew she wanted to become a female president, and Andrew showed her a video of her lookalike Nicky and agreed to help her awaken her superpower.
• The Mechanical Parrot teleported Van Helsing and Carl into a Gorgon-filled cave, where Van Helsing defeated the creatures before they were sent to their next location.
• Andrew and Tracy fought Cyclops at a gathering place, with Andrew striking one Cyclops with his umbrella and Tracy freezing another.

Andrew trained Tracy to control her freezing ability while clearing monsters and preparing her to gain power in America, then sent Anna off to pursue her dream of traveling the world. As a space channel prepared to open between worlds, Homelander waited in Vought Tower under Death’s direction, unaware that Andrew had prepared a surprise.

• Andrew used the Mechanical Spider’s Nuclear Particle Beam to kill charging Cyclopes, then took Tracy to fight skeleton monsters and improve her control of her freezing ability.
• Andrew and his allies cleared evil creatures and gathered souls while the territory celebrated Count Dracula’s death; he later watched the sunrise with Anna, who kissed him goodbye and set off to travel the world.
• Andrew gave Tracy an implanted identity as the illegitimate daughter of a powerful American family and told her to secure pledges that would let him claim souls through pacts.
• Half a month later, Homelander assembled the Seven at Vought Tower while Starlight Annie worried that monsters in New York were going unanswered.
• Death revealed to Homelander that the space channel would open for about five minutes, instructed him to stop Andrew from concealing it, and planned to gain power from the deaths caused by a war between the worlds.

Homelander and the Seven rushed to a spatial vortex over the ocean, where Andrew’s allies ambushed them. Homelander was trapped in a mental projection and knocked unconscious, while Tracy fought Stormfront as Andrew worked to finish dealing with the vortex.

• Madelyn introduced Stormfront as the newest member of the Seven, angering Homelander and drawing Stormfront’s insults toward A-Train.
• A spatial vortex appeared over New York, and Homelander led the Seven to confront it.
• A mechanical spider trapped Homelander in a false laboratory, where Death explained that an enemy had created a projection from his mind and was absorbing his powers.
• Andrew’s mechanical spider knocked Homelander unconscious, but A-Train entered the ocean to rescue him.
• Tracy froze Homelander and A-Train in the ocean, then fought Stormfront while Andrew told her the operation had been delayed because someone had tampered with it.

Andrew and his allies tried to keep the Seven away from the Space Channel while Death intervened through Homelander. The Mechanical Spider struck Death with a Nuclear Energy Beam, leaving her and Homelander badly injured as she tried to enter the vortex.

• Peter shot down the helicopter and fought Starlight Annie while Black Noir and Translucent tried to reach the Space Channel.
• Van Helsing emerged from the Spatial Vortex, detected the invisible Translucent, and battled him and Black Noir.
• Death empowered Homelander, who destroyed the Homelander Clone and escaped the ice while the Mechanical Spider fled.
• Andrew used the Curse Dagger to possess A-Train, whose enhanced speed kept Homelander occupied.
• Death took control of Homelander, killed The Deep's summoned fish, and pursued A-Train before the Mechanical Spider blasted her with a Nuclear Energy Beam.

Andrew defeated Death’s attempt to keep the Space Channel open, secured the Van Helsing World, and brought Tracy to America to pursue a political career. In the Main World, Homelander failed to replace most of The Seven, but Death proposed that he build a team of his own.

• Andrew used the Curse Dagger to absorb Death’s black mist, took control of the Space Channel, and teleported Van Helsing, Tracy, Peter, and the dagger back to the Van Helsing World.
• Death returned control of Homelander’s body, and Homelander agreed to become stronger while demanding that Death not control him again without permission.
• Annie revived A-Train after his heart nearly stopped, while Homelander decided The Seven needed to be reorganized and flew to Vought Tower.
• Andrew celebrated securing both worlds, sent Tracy to the Rockefeller estate in America, and reviewed the souls, allies, materials, and Viper Dagger he had gained.
• Madelyn refused Homelander’s request to replace most of The Seven but agreed to arrange A-Train’s retirement and let Homelander choose his replacement.
• Death suggested that Homelander use his fame and money to build a team that answered only to him, and Homelander considered the idea.

Andrew recruited A-Train after he lost his powers and was set to retire, transforming his heart into a powerful mechanical furnace and promising to help him stand against Homelander. A-Train tested his new speed and received videos of Homelander killing civilians, giving him leverage against the Supe.

• Death told Homelander to strengthen himself after another person had stopped him with a dagger, and Homelander vowed to take revenge.
• A-Train learned that his heart damage had ended his super-speed and that Vought planned to retire him.
• Andrew revealed that his dagger had caused A-Train’s downfall and offered to heal and strengthen him in exchange for his service; A-Train accepted.
• Andrew transformed A-Train’s heart into a mechanical furnace, and A-Train discovered that its basic mode made him faster than ever.
• Andrew explained that the furnace’s ultimate mode could unleash a nuclear explosion, then gave A-Train videos of Homelander murdering civilians.

Andrew recruited A-Train to openly oppose Homelander, then sent The Boys to investigate Compound Five and Soldier Boy's murder. The Boys discovered that Vought had helped terrorists create Himiko, while A-Train returned to The Seven after being kicked out.

• Andrew warned A-Train that releasing Homelander's hidden videos could drive Homelander insane, and threatened to detonate A-Train's mechanical heart if he refused to cooperate.
• Andrew visited The Boys, who reported that Compound Five had turned a woman into an Ability User, and he restored her speech and English; she introduced herself as Himiko and revealed that terrorists had injected her to use her against America.
• Andrew ordered The Boys to investigate Soldier Boy's supposed murder and transferred them another three million dollars, while Billy admitted that he had contacted his former lover in the CIA without telling Andrew.
• Frenchie, Marvin, and Hughie agreed to keep working with Billy and welcomed Himiko into their investigation, while Billy chose to trust the government more than Andrew.
• Homelander warned the remaining members of The Seven to improve their strength, and A-Train returned to the meeting after being kicked out, claiming he had fired his assistant.

A-Train defied Homelander and used incriminating videos to stay in The Seven, while Homelander decided to build his own team. Banner, Peter, and The Deep captured a tracking-system stronghold with Capable and the War Boys, and Andrew gained Molly and the organization’s files before setting out to find Stephen Canfield.

• A-Train dodged Homelander’s attacks, fought back, and threatened to release videos that could ruin him, forcing Madelyn to let A-Train remain in The Seven.
• Madelyn persuaded Homelander to accept A-Train’s return, and Homelander decided to form his own team with help from Death, who identified an immigrant with Tears of Death and Sylar as candidates.
• Banner led Peter and The Deep to attack the organization’s tracking-system stronghold, where Capable and the War Boys joined them and helped capture the site.
• The group discovered that the tracking system was a girl named Molly, and Andrew had Banner and Claire adopt her after Molly could only sense darkness when asked to locate Soldier Boy.
• Andrew absorbed abilities from the organization’s six captured Ability Users, reviewed its files, and chose Stephen Canfield as his next target.

Andrew gave Van Helsing a controllable werewolf form and asked Carl to document evil creatures while he helped stop the worlds from merging. Back in New York, Andrew removed a dangerous man’s explosive ability, sent Peter away to train, and learned the organization tracking ability users would be difficult to attack.

• Andrew injected Van Helsing with perfect compound five, awakening a controllable werewolf transformation that holy water could not harm.
• Andrew offered Tracy the choice of returning to New York or staying in the past and pursuing a path to becoming president, and she asked for time to decide.
• Peter brought Andrew a dispirited man whose explosive ability emitted nuclear radiation, and Andrew used the Mechanical Spider to remove it.
• Andrew had The Deep erase the man’s memories and take him somewhere safe, then agreed to help The Deep deal with his warlord brother.
• Andrew sent Peter to the Wasteland World to practice controlling his nuclear explosion ability and told Banner and The Deep to pause their operations.
• Banner explained that the organization used a system to locate ability users, and Andrew asked The Deep to check for werewolves in New York City.

Andrew transformed Annie into his follower and upgraded her electric abilities. After a new world merged with the Ability Universe, he acquired Isaac’s future-painting ability and saw a coming crisis involving Ganahta, then sent a Shadow Clone to find her.

• Andrew made Annie his follower and modified her body so she could store electricity within herself, promising further upgrades.
• Two months later, a modern world fused directly with the Ability Universe, and Andrew asked Isaac to sell his ability to paint the future.
• Andrew showed Isaac visions of his girlfriend’s possible betrayal and death, persuaded him to sell his ability for ten million dollars, and arranged new identities and safety for Isaac and his girlfriend in Australia.
• Andrew used Isaac’s ability to paint a vision of a purple-haired girl throwing dice at a chessboard-like object and recognized Ganahta.
• Andrew learned that Ganahta was at a luxurious buffet restaurant in New York and sent a Shadow Clone to find her.

Andrew met Galacta at a New York seafood buffet and learned that she was livestreaming for free meals rather than scheming against the other multiversal entities. He offered to feed her for seven days under a contract, hoping to draw Death out, while Death began testing whether Andrew was present in person.

• Galacta gorged herself on lobster during a livestream until Andrew sat down and took some of her food.
• Andrew identified himself, questioned Galacta about Death’s plans, and learned that she had refused to devour ability users and was appearing publicly to earn food and money.
• Galacta explained that she had accepted the risks of being noticed because she wanted to eat well and believed she could escape if necessary.
• Andrew offered to pay for Galacta’s meals for seven days to lure Death out, and they signed a contract barring him from attacking her unless she attacked first.
• Death learned that Andrew had approached Galacta and decided to test whether he was using his true body; he also found Homelander pursuing Sylar—Skullcrusher Sera with a team of ability users.

Andrew and Ganahta discovered that an old board game called Brave New World Game was linked to the next disaster and could summon monsters or reverse time. Death joined them to play, but the game required four players.

• Homelander pursued Sylar through New York while Sylar stayed to gather abilities and hoped to kill him.
• Andrew and Ganahta spent three days eating across New York before two children sold Ganahta an old iron box that stirred ominous war drums in both of them.
• Andrew used History Perception on the box, and Ganahta tore it open to reveal the Brave New World Game board.
• Andrew learned that the game could summon monsters and reverse time, then used sacrificed souls to uncover a god's clue about how to possess the board.
• Death arrived through Maya's body and joined Andrew and Ganahta, who realized they still needed a fourth player.

Andrew, Death, Galacta, and Claire began the Chessboard Game, whose supernatural challenges unleashed deadly creatures across New York. As Galacta fought a magic dragon and Andrew promised to revive the dead after the game, the city mobilized against the demonic invasion in Times Square.

• Andrew summoned Claire, removed the mark Death had placed on her, and invited her to join the Chessboard Game.
• Galacta rolled eleven, triggering a swarm of spiked insects that attacked the players and people across New York; Death killed the insects inside the apartment.
• Andrew rolled three, causing a gate to Hell to open in Times Square and release demons that attacked civilians.
• A magic dragon attacked Galacta's apartment, and Galacta fought it in the sky before accidentally crashing it into a skyscraper and killing people inside.
• Andrew said he had collected the dead people's souls and would handle their resurrection after the game, while Galacta returned to fighting the dragon.
• New York sent out warnings and mobilized its forces as Homelander and A-Train joined the battle against the demons and rescued civilians.

The Chessboard Game punished Death for cheating and transformed New York into a dangerous primeval forest, while Andrew, Claire, and Ganahta continued playing. After Ganahta defeated a Magic Dragon and rolled again, the four were transported into a magical world, where they encountered four unfamiliar figures.

• Homelander resented A-Train for winning public praise, while superheroes and the military responded to the demon invasion in Times Square.
• Death rolled two sixes by controlling the dice, but the game punished her by turning her into a parrot and sealing her Ability.
• Claire rolled a four and a five, triggering the transformation of New York into a primeval forest filled with dangerous animals and a growing Demon Tree.
• Homelander and A-Train entered the city to rescue people, but Madelyn ordered Homelander to stop killing animals after animal-rights groups complained.
• Ganahta killed the Magic Dragon and captured it for food before rolling a one and a four, causing Andrew, Death, Claire, and Ganahta to be drawn into a magical world.
• Andrew and the others landed in a forest beside four unfamiliar figures, including a bald, muscular man who resembled Dwayne Johnson.