Chapter Summaries

Andrew Wang became emperor of Pleasure Space and promised Earth’s people access to the Life Healing Device in exchange for their allegiance, while preparing for the coming fight with Chthon. The chapter ended with Chthon watching events unfold and insisting he would not lose to the Mechanical Demon King again.

• The president credited Andrew Wang with saving him, angering Homelander, who followed Madelyn’s advice and flew to the Empire State Building to reclaim credit for opening the portal.
• Soldier Boy altered the otherworlders’ memories so they could not reveal the Life Healing Device, and Andrew arranged for him and several Ability Users to help prepare against Chthon.
• Andrew told Dracut he would solve Pleasure Space’s energy shortage by drawing power directly from the sun, then announced that Earth’s residents could receive treatment if they pledged allegiance to him.
• Frey pledged allegiance to Andrew so her sick child could be treated, and Andrew selected the first thousand patients to travel to Pleasure Space aboard spacecraft commanded by Max.
• Max brought Frey and her child to Pleasure Space for treatment, while Andrew went to the moon to continue setting up the array.
• Chthon watched the events on a screen and declared that he would not lose to the Mechanical Demon King.

Andrew trapped Chthon in a Magic Cage on the moon of the Pleasure Space World, revealing that Chthon's Magic Ring and Technology Magic were part of his scheme. With Chthon's allies uncertain whether to help, Andrew's forces began attacking him while his Main Body sought aid from other Multiversal Entities.

• Chthon used his Magic Ring to cultivate Technology Magic, but Andrew and Hoggoth ambushed him and teleported him into a prepared Magic Cage.
• Andrew revealed that he had tampered with the Magic Ring and Technology Magic to lure Chthon into the trap, while Chthon's Main Body secretly asked Set, Death, Shuma, and Cyttorak for help.
• Chthon tried to turn Hoggoth against Andrew, but Hoggoth rejected his provocation and joined Ganahta in attacking him.
• Andrew's allies began their assault as Hoggoth transformed into a giant tiger and Ganahta struck with the Fist of Galactus.
• Peter used his copied Power Bank ability to amplify Soldier Boy, who then froze Chthon's time with Time Stop.

Andrew, Hoggoth, and Ganahta pressed Chthon in the magical prison while Andrew used a Black Hole to trap her. Chthon tried to escape by exploiting the array’s controllers, but Veronica stopped Balthazar and Maxim from breaking the array, and Andrew renewed the attack.

• Andrew froze Chthon’s time, but she sacrificed hundreds of thousands of souls to break the spell and escape the killing blow, then re-formed from black mist.
• Andrew used Peter and Soldier Boy’s Red Lightning to strengthen his Black Hole, while Hoggoth slowed Chthon and Ganahta blocked her escape; Chthon briefly shielded Ganahta from her contract, but Ganahta attacked even more fiercely.
• Chthon attempted to turn Ganahta against Andrew and later sow discord between them, but neither took the bait, and Hoggoth countered her escape attempts.
• Chthon’s scream brought out the darkness in Balthazar, Veronica, and Maxim, and she tried to use their attacks to open a flaw in the Magic Array and escape with her Origin Essence.
• Veronica’s unborn baby’s fluctuations woke her from Chthon’s influence, and she stopped Balthazar and Maxim before they could damage the array.
• Andrew had Soldier Boy and Peter empower him again and continued trapping Chthon in the Black Hole as Hoggoth and Ganahta attacked.

Chthon split his soul into Time-Space Nether Butterflies and nearly escaped Andrew’s assault with help from Shuma-Gorath and Death. Death sacrificed more than a hundred thousand people in India to save the last butterfly, while Andrew stopped the poison and destroyed Chthon’s altar; Chthon’s final fate remained uncertain.

• Sithorn Main Body sacrificed a planet to send power to Chthon, but Andrew and the other multiversal entities tried to sever the transfer link.
• Chthon annihilated his body and divided his soul into ninety-nine Time-Space Nether Butterflies, while Andrew secretly marked one with his soul aura.
• Andrew, Soldier Boy, Hoggoth, and Ganahta attacked the butterflies until Shuma-Gorath broke the world’s seal and opened a rift for them to escape.
• Andrew used the power of two affiliated worlds to drive Shuma-Gorath back and destroy all but the marked butterfly, but Death sent a resentment-filled black ball that carried it away.
• Death activated Chthon’s poison trap in India, killing more than a hundred thousand people, then turned their souls into a black ball and sent it to rescue the final butterfly.
• Andrew removed the poisonous mist and destroyed Chthon’s altar as news of the mass deaths overtook Homelander’s interview.

Homelander flew to India after the Death Organization claimed responsibility for a mass killing, while Andrew and his allies assessed their victory over Chthon and Shuma-Gorath. Chthon survived as a sliver of soul and allied with Death and Set against Andrew, who prepared for further enemies.

• Reporters praised the Director of S.W.O.R.D. for saving lives in India, and Homelander flew there after Madelyn ordered him to investigate.
• The Death Organization claimed responsibility for the Indian deaths, and Death told Homelander to arrest a prepared scapegoat without revealing the full story.
• Andrew returned to the subsidiary world, sent the mages to study the Life Healing Device, and concealed a sliver of his soul inside the Time-Space Nether Butterfly as a future weapon against Chthon.
• Hoggoth and Ganahta reported that Shuma-Gorath had destroyed his avatar and escaped, while Chthon had fled with only a sliver of his soul.
• Andrew and Ganahta discussed saving their remaining trump cards, then rolled the dice before heading to the Gourmet World.
• Death and Set told the weakened Chthon that they would work with him to defeat Andrew, intending to eliminate Chthon afterward.

Andrew claimed the Pleasure Space World, restored Earth’s approval of him, and prepared to rebuild Earth while Death, Set, and Chthon secretly tampered with Chthon’s resurrection. After the president won reelection, he met Grace, Billy, and Hughie to review evidence of Vought International’s crimes.

• Chthon, Death, and Set formed an alliance against Andrew, then traveled to India to resurrect Chthon while each secretly altered the ritual.
• Andrew claimed the Pleasure Space World, treated people from Earth, and told Dracut that a new energy source would soon support Earth’s reconstruction.
• The massacre in India drew condemnation and renewed praise for the Director of S.W.O.R.D.; Homelander grew frustrated that Andrew dominated the headlines and was refused help by Vought’s executives and Death.
• The incumbent president won reelection with Nathan as vice president, then met Grace, Billy, and Hughie to discuss evidence against Vought International.
• The president read the documents Grace provided and was shocked by the crimes they revealed.

The president confronted Vought International with evidence of its human experiments and negotiated government oversight rather than destroying the company or moving against Homelander. The Boys testified against Vought, while Nathan told Andrew what was happening, and the government reached a deal that left Vought operating under new restrictions.

• Billy and Hughie presented the president with Compound Five, Lamplighter, and evidence of Vought International’s experiments, but the president decided to verify the claims before acting.
• The president told Grace Mallory to bring The Boys and Lamplighter back, then explained that the government would restrain Vought rather than attack Homelander and would offer The Boys government positions.
• Nathan informed Andrew about the meeting, and Andrew told him to learn the president’s powers because Nathan would take over the position next year.
• Grace led Billy, Hughie, Marvin, Frenchie, and Himiko to the White House, where Lamplighter gave Nathan his testimony while the president negotiated with Edgar, Homelander, and Madelyn.
• The president and Edgar agreed that Vought would face government oversight, provide the Compound Five formula and ability-user files, and cooperate with the new Superpowered Individual Administration Bureau.

The president and Vought International agreed to use the evidence to force Vought to cooperate rather than destroy it, leaving Billy and The Boys furious at Grace’s betrayal. Soldier Boy arrived with news that he knew where Becca was and that Homelander had a son, and Homelander demanded to hear more.

• Edgar and the president agreed that the government would pressure Vought International to hand over the Compound Five formula and accept oversight.
• Grace offered Billy and the others roles in the Superpowered Individual Administration Bureau, but Billy refused and vowed to release the evidence.
• Homelander broke into the room and confronted Billy, who prepared to attack him over Becca’s disappearance.
• Soldier Boy revealed that Homelander had a son and told Billy that he knew where Becca was.
• Soldier Boy offered to take Billy and the others to Becca, and Homelander stopped him to demand details about his son.

Soldier Boy took Homelander to meet Becca and Lane, revealing that Lane was Homelander’s son and that Becca had been hidden by Vought International. Billy reunited with Becca, then fought Homelander at the manor while Hughie intervened, leaving Becca unsure how to protect Lane as Soldier Boy promised to keep Billy safe.

• Homelander agreed to give Soldier Boy blood in exchange for information about his son, and Soldier Boy used a radiation-laced syringe to draw it.
• Soldier Boy revealed that Homelander’s son was Becca’s child, prompting Billy to attack Homelander before Soldier Boy led Homelander, Billy, and Hughie to Becca.
• Edgar returned to Vought International to convene a shareholders’ meeting, while Lamplighter killed himself outside the White House perimeter.
• At Becca’s manor, Homelander recognized Lane as his son and asked to meet him, while Billy reunited with Becca and vowed to take her away.
• Billy and Homelander fought, with Hughie helping Billy by throwing a stone and using Teleportation to evade Homelander.
• Soldier Boy reassured Becca that Billy would be safe, while Becca held Lane close and wondered what to do next.

Soldier Boy prevented Homelander and Billy from taking Becca and Lane, then persuaded Billy and Hughie to join the Superpowered Individual Administration Bureau. Meanwhile, Death, Set, and Chthon planned to grow stronger through dreams, and Soldier Boy recruited Madelyn to help him gain control of Vought International.

• Soldier Boy magically linked Becca and Lane's lives, preventing Homelander and Billy from separating them or taking them away by force.
• Soldier Boy persuaded Hughie that the Superpowered Individual Administration Bureau could make him a real superhero, and Billy agreed to join after giving up on forcibly taking Becca away.
• Death, Set, and Chthon discussed cooperating with Vought International and using the coming Dream Realm world's abilities to increase their strength without attracting Andrew Wang.
• Grace received five percent of Vought International's shares and became vice president, while Madelyn resigned and Homelander forgave her for her role in hiding Lane's existence.
• Soldier Boy offered Madelyn a path back to Vought International as its president in exchange for investigating Vought Pharmaceutical Company, then showed her that he had hundreds of billions in assets.

Soldier Boy recruited Madelyn to help take control of Vought International while the authorities established the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau and named The Boys its Hero Squad. In the Pleasure Space World, Andrew began installing a solar-powered Teleportation Ring system to provide unlimited energy.

• Soldier Boy gave Madelyn hundreds of billions of dollars to buy Vought shareholders' stock and promised her the presidency and a bodyguard.
• Nathan announced the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, appointed himself interim director, and introduced Hughie, Billy, Dave, and Himiko as The Boys.
• Nathan clarified Hughie's record to reporters as Hughie and Billy faced questions about their naked public encounter.
• Grace began investigating Vought Pharmaceutical Company while Edgar secretly destroyed records.
• Andrew took Dracut and others into space and sent the Teleportation Ring devices into orbit around the sun.

Andrew established a solar-powered Energon supply for Pleasure Space and began curing radiation sickness in the Wasteland World, winning the Wastelanders’ devotion as he prepared to claim the world. After assigning allies to their tasks, he painted a vision of a hotel filled with unexplained corpses as Chthon, Set, and Death gathered in anticipation of World Fusion.

• Andrew linked solar-powered instruments to produce Energon indefinitely and ordered Dracut to mass-produce Life Healing Devices, treat Earth’s population, and begin rebuilding Earth as Pleasure Space.
• Andrew demonstrated a Life Healing Device by curing a War Boy’s Radiation Sickness and tumors in under thirty seconds, prompting the Wastelanders to hail him as their god.
• Andrew tasked Queen Maeve with organizing the Wasteland World’s recovery, sent Daphne to New York to protect Madelyn, and arranged a new Disaster Countermeasures Bureau identity for Peter.
• Andrew checked in with Claire about Nathan, then returned to the Ripped Doomsday World and the Van Helsing World to build his reputation and strength.
• After a new world descended, Andrew painted a vision of a hotel full of corpses and began painting again to predict the coming disaster.
• Chthon, Set, and Death gathered quietly and waited for World Fusion to begin.

Chthon, Death, and Serpent God Set exploited the strengthened Dream Realm to launch a plan across Europe, while Andrew used his precognition to discover the threat and traced it to Cobb's dream-infiltration team in London. Andrew took over Saito's hiring arrangement and approached the team, but Cobb remained unsure whether they could help him.

• Chthon tested a Dream Infiltration Ability User and learned that the merged world's Dream Realm had greatly strengthened dream abilities.
• Chthon, Death, and Serpent God Set used thirteen believers and an altar to spread a Dream World across Europe, intending to increase their strength.
• Andrew amplified his precognition with Peter's Red Lightning and saw people asleep on an airplane, leading him to suspect that a Multiversal Entity planned to attack through dreams.
• Andrew identified Cobb from the vision and teleported to London, where Cobb and his companions were planning a dream-infiltration job for Saito.
• Andrew dismissed Saito and secretly ensured he would not reveal their meeting, then offered to hire Cobb's team.
• Adrian asked Andrew how much he would pay, but Cobb warned that Andrew's situation was too important for them to handle.

Andrew recruited Cobb and his team to help him enter the Dream Realm and stop a deadly crisis spreading across Europe. After disguising himself as Fischer, Andrew joined their planned dream operation, where the team began acting out a staged robbery in a taxi.

• Andrew promised Cobb and his team five million dollars each to help him enter the Dream Realm and stop the disaster.
• Cobb, Arthur, Adrian, Eames, and Yusuf agreed to join the mission after learning that people across Europe were trapped in a Dream Realm.
• Andrew summoned Peter, explained the crisis, and told him to guard their bodies while they entered the Dream Realm.
• Andrew disguised himself as Fischer and asked Cobb's team to follow their original plan to plant an idea in the heir's mind.
• Andrew entered the Dream Realm with the team, and Peter placed invisible monitoring spheres around their bodies.
• Eames and Yusuf staged a taxi robbery against Andrew, while Andrew warned the team through their mental group chat to stay in character.

Andrew and Cobb’s group discovered that a supernatural attack in the Dream Realm was keeping civilians alive through unbearable injuries, part of a plan by Serpent God Set, Death, and Chthon to gain power. After reaching safety, Adrian identified the dream’s heavy rain as a clue to the Dream Host, and the group prepared to follow it.

• Andrew explained that the dream’s victims were real people and recognized the giant Serpents and Serpentmen as part of a plan to empower Serpent God Set, Death, and Chthon.
• Cobb and Adrian found that civilians who suffered fatal injuries could not die or wake, while Andrew reasoned that their torment could make them choose death upon waking.
• Andrew told Cobb’s group to reach their deserted interrogation warehouse, and the group escaped through the ruined streets after a giant Serpent shot down the superhero Star Gazer.
• At the warehouse, Cobb reasoned that subconscious projections must be hidden among things present in huge quantities, and Adrian identified the heavy rain as the projections because it fell against the wind.
• The group confirmed that the rain’s direction pointed toward the Dream Host, and Andrew said they would follow it after staging a convincing reason to leave.

Andrew gave Cobb and the others dream-related abilities and led them through the chaotic Dream World to find the Dream Host. After they battled the Serpents at a clock tower, Chthon and Death realized they were protagonists of the newly fused Dream World and ordered an investigation.

• Andrew granted Cobb, Eames, Adrian, Yusuf, and Arthur dream abilities, then persuaded Cobb’s group to pretend to join Fischer’s side and help him escape the dream.
• Andrew used Angela’s precognition, but the chaotic Dream World blocked his visions, so the group drove through the ruined city toward the Dream Host.
• Yusuf drove the group to a clock tower, where Adrian split the building and crushed many Serpents while the others prepared to fight.
• Adrian, Eames, Yusuf, Arthur, and Cobb used their abilities to defeat the Serpents and Basilisks guarding the clock tower, while Fischer watched with a shotgun and cigar.
• Serpent God Set alerted Chthon and Death to the group, and Chthon identified them as protagonists of the Dream World before Death ordered him to investigate them through Vought International.

Andrew and his allies entered the Dream Host’s dream, but a magic array made him immune to their attacks, so they devised a Second Layer Dream to learn where their enemies were in the real world. The new dream began with John at a bar, where Adrian’s attempt to approach him failed, leaving Cobb to take over.

• Serpent God Set sent giant snakes and Serpentmen toward the clock tower, while Adrian raised the ground a thousand meters to delay them.
• Eames copied Adrian’s ability and separated the snakes with walls, allowing Andrew and Cobb to reach the Dream Host inside the clock tower.
• Cobb defeated a Golden Snake and burned the venomous snakes attacking them, but his stolen abilities could not harm the Dream Host because a magic array redirected attacks elsewhere in the Dream Realm.
• Andrew proposed entering the Dream Host’s dream again to find his real-world location, and Adrian prepared a Second Layer Dream.
• Cobb used the Dream Entry equipment to put himself, Andrew, Adrian, and the Dream Host to sleep, while Serpent God Set sent a Dream Infiltration Ability user after them.
• In the Second Layer Dream, Adrian approached John at a bar, but he rejected her and said he hated women, so Andrew told Cobb to try instead.

Cobb and his allies tried to infiltrate John’s cult in the second-layer dream, but a dream infiltrator exposed their plan and attacked them. As Adrian and Cobb held off the cultists, Andrew disappeared and then knocked out the infiltrator from hiding.

• Cobb changed into his handsome younger self and used John’s interest in him to question him about the cult and its god, while Adrian agreed to work for S.W.O.R.D. in exchange for an ability.
• The dream infiltrator burst into the bar and revealed to John that he was dreaming, so Cobb knocked John unconscious as the infiltrator’s group opened fire.
• Cobb shielded the group with ice and fled with Andrew, Adrian, and John, while Adrian split the bar and Cobb attacked the infiltrator’s giant transparent snake.
• The infiltrator sent translucent snakes after them, and Adrian protected John while searching for Andrew, who had vanished.
• Andrew sprang from behind a coat rack and struck the dream infiltrator unconscious with a club.

Andrew led Cobb, Adrian, John, and the captured Dream Infiltration Ability user away while Cobb stayed behind to fight Mel. Andrew entered the captive’s Dream Realm and lured Serpent God Set into the Lost Realm, where he confronted her and offered to talk.

• Cobb used sound waves to knock out the Dream Infiltration Ability user’s subordinates, then left with Andrew, Adrian, and John as Mel attacked them.
• Cobb stayed behind to stop Mel while Andrew and Adrian escaped with John, the captive, and the Dream Entry toolbox.
• Adrian helped Andrew enter the captive’s Dream Realm, and Andrew planned to draw Serpent God Set inside.
• Set entered the third dream layer and found Andrew waiting; he pulled her into the Lost Realm and sealed it.
• Andrew told Set she could either be beaten before they talked or talk with him immediately.

Andrew trapped Serpent God Set in the Lost Realm and used his powers, a curse, and a seal to defeat her. Set admitted defeat but threatened to revive, and Andrew said he had never intended to kill her and wanted to talk.

• Andrew used the Lost Realm to prevent Set from creating anything and attacked her with space warships, black holes, and nuclear bombs.
• Set escaped a nuclear blast with the Shedding Technique, but Andrew cursed her with a Seven-headed Serpent mark that returned even after she shed her skin.
• Andrew sealed Set with the Wasteland World and countered her attack with Substitute Transfer and a device that mimicked a Cosmic Storm.
• Set admitted defeat and threatened to revive, while Andrew warned that he could transfer the curse to her revived body.
• Andrew told Set he had wanted to talk with her, explaining that she had chosen to be beaten up first.