Chapter Summaries

Catwoman merged with the Cat Goddess and empowered cats around the world to protect their cat-loving owners, then battled the Brood Mother as the war against the Zerg and Hell reached a stalemate. The Zerg Overlord sent a Bug General to break Andrew’s Ability Domain while Chthon and Thanos plotted to free Hell’s Demon Kings and deal with Wade.

• Catwoman gained the Cat Goddess’s power and transformed the cats beside her resonant cat lovers into Cat People who fought the Bugs and protected their owners.
• Catwoman fought the Brood Mother with clones, quantum abilities, and a summoned army of cats, turning their duel into a battle between two forces.
• The Zerg Overlord acknowledged that Andrew had reversed the battle’s fortunes, then ordered a Bug General to infiltrate the battlefield and break the Ability Domain.
• Chthon told the Zerg Overlord that Xik and Thanos’s plans had mostly failed, though Darkseid, Steppenwolf, and the Joker had been arranged as assets.
• Chthon asked Thanos to return from the moon and help free Hell’s Demon Kings, then revealed that he and Death had prepared a way to let Thanos seal Wade.
• Thanos attacked Wade after Wade mocked his belief that Death trusted him most.

Thanos and Chthon trapped Wade in the Phantom Zone and arranged a clone to distract Andrew while Thanos tried to enter Constantine’s Small World. Andrew saw through their plan and told Constantine to stall Thanos, while the Bug General struggled to identify the Ability User sustaining the Ability Domain.

• Chthon sealed Wade in the Phantom Zone, where time moved so slowly that he could not escape for at least a day.
• Thanos obtained a clone from the Zerg Overlord and went to Times Square to draw Andrew away, but Andrew sent him into the Phantom Zone with Wade.
• Thanos’s clone contacted Constantine and offered benefits in exchange for entry to Earth, while Andrew warned Constantine that the request was a ploy to enter the Small World.
• Andrew told Constantine to keep Thanos negotiating and revealed that he wanted the gathered Demon Kings to become weapons against the Zerg.
• The Bug General searched the Ability Users at Times Square but could not identify who had cast the Ability Domain.

The Bug General boosted the Zerg, turning the battle against the Ability User Legion, but Alice summoned powerful game characters and held the General off. As Andrew’s forces gained the advantage, Thanos tried to tempt Constantine into entering a trap, and Andrew told Constantine to stall until the battlefield shifted further.

• The Bug General amplified the Zerg, allowing the Bug Kings to wound and kill several Ability Users.
• Alice summoned Iron Man, Thor, the Ancient One, Godzilla, and other game characters, who joined the battle and drove the Bug Kings back.
• Alice matched the Bug General’s attacks with data simulations, preventing it from joining the fight elsewhere.
• Chthon urged Thanos to tempt Constantine with the promise of a Demon Queen, and Thanos made the offer.
• Constantine resisted Thanos with difficulty and asked Andrew to provide the promised reward, but Andrew refused and told him to stall before letting Thanos enter the Small World.

Alice defeated and captured the Bug General by copying his ultimate ability, while Andrew stopped the Zerg Overlord from rescuing him. With the Zerg weakened and the humans gaining ground, the battle shifted in humanity’s favor, leaving the Zerg Overlord and his allies grimly facing the possibility of defeat.

• Alice deduced the Bug General’s abilities, copied his ultimate move, and overwhelmed him with the pure power of the virtual world.
• The Zerg Overlord tried to rescue the Bug General, but Andrew’s black hole swallowed the blood-red threads he sent through time.
• Alice captured the Bug General and began converting him into her own subordinate in the virtual world.
• Thor rallied the fighters as superheroes and the Ability User Legion drove the weakened Bug Kings back.
• Luthor and Game Luthor used their device to kill a Bug King, encouraging the human forces to press their advantage.
• Human morale surged as the Zerg fell into a disadvantage, and the Zerg Overlord, the Demon Clone, Chthon, and the others recognized that the battle might be lost.

Chthon and his allies brought Joker into the battle, where he used hostages and a spacecraft to offer humanity’s fighters a chance to escape. His revelations about the executives’ planned flight shattered the Ability User Legion’s morale, leaving the superheroes struggling to keep the battle together.

• Chthon told Thanos to hurry, and Thanos prepared Joker to appear and disrupt the fight.
• Joker and Harley Quinn took control of a spacecraft carrying hostages and brought it to Times Square.
• Joker revealed the ship’s passengers and threatened to kill them if Batman or Andrew interfered.
• Joker exposed that Humanity's High-Level Executives had prepared the spacecraft to flee, angering and demoralizing the Ability User Legion.
• The Brood Mother promised not to pursue the ship and sent four Bug Kings to guard it, while Joker offered the fighters escape and a chance to bring their families.
• Batman and Cyborg urged the Ability Users to keep fighting, but some fighters and supervillains began wavering.

Joker’s offer to evacuate the wavering villains threatened the legion’s morale, so Andrew secretly prepared a counterplan and helped Harley Quinn confront the truth about Joker. Meanwhile, Thanos entered the Small World, startling Scumbag Kang and giving the Demon Kings hope.

• Deathstroke asked Joker to let him and the other villains board the spaceship, and Joker opened it to anyone who wanted to leave.
• Andrew sent the Little Match Girl into Krypton’s spaceship and helped her create a Black Hole Bomb while he showed Harley Quinn a vision of Joker betraying her.
• Andrew persuaded Harley Quinn to merge with Game Harley Quinn’s memories, and she understood that Joker wanted to kill her because her devotion made her predictable.
• Harley Quinn agreed to join Andrew’s plan and took control of the spaceship, while Andrew turned his attention to Scumbag Kang.
• Thanos entered the Small World, shocking Scumbag Kang and giving the Demon Kings hope.

Thanos’s clone entered the Small World and helped the Demon Kings capture Scumbag Kang, but Andrew used a Contract to seal Thanos in a parchment scroll and remove him. Scumbag Kang then pretended to negotiate with the Demon Kings, setting up their escape from the Small World as part of Andrew’s plan.

• Trigon and the Demon Kings protected Thanos as he used crimson threads to find and restrain Scumbag Kang.
• The Demon Kings surrounded Scumbag Kang, but he warned them that killing him could collapse the Small World and seriously injure them.
• Scumbag Kang reminded Thanos of his Contract with the Golden Demon King, and a parchment scroll sealed Thanos’s clone before Andrew retrieved it.
• The Demon Kings argued over the scroll and turned against Trigon when he threatened to risk serious injury to kill Scumbag Kang.
• Scumbag Kang told Andrew that the Demon Kings would likely take the bait and use his method to leave the Small World.
• After threats and inducements, Scumbag Kang agreed to let the Demon Kings out on one condition, while the Golden Demon King and Demon Queen joked about how brutally they would punish him.

Scumbag Kang negotiated the Demon Kings’ escape from the small world while Andrew’s plan destroyed Joker’s spaceship and killed ten Bug Kings. With the Zerg weakened and humanity’s morale restored, the battle turned sharply in the Human Alliance’s favor.

• Scumbag Kang persuaded the Demon Kings to leave through a passage together after absorbing mixed magic, while Andrew decided the timing was right.
• Joker encouraged ability users and supervillains to board his spaceship, weakening the Human Alliance’s morale until Harley Quinn warned him that Iron Man and the others had teleported aboard.
• A Time Stop caught the Bug Kings as the spaceship transformed into a black hole, which swallowed the ship, Joker, the hostages, and all ten Bug Kings.
• Iron Man, Thor, and the other heroes blocked the Zerg reinforcements, while Thor helped prevent the remaining Bug Kings from escaping the black hole.
• Andrew rallied the Human Alliance, and the traitors returned to battle as the Zerg’s position deteriorated.
• The Matchstick Girl joined Andrew after creating the Black Hole Bomb, and Harley Quinn reflected that Joker had loved himself most; the hostages were teleported to safety.

Andrew prevented the Underground Bug King from self-destructing, but the humans’ advantage collapsed when Trigon and a host of demon kings arrived to join the Zerg. The chapter ended with Andrew instantly defeating the Golden Demon King, leaving the other demon kings and Chthon stunned.

• Andrew used Word of Truth to stop the Underground Bug King from self-destructing, and Half Bug King escaped with him after absorbing his power.
• Andrew rallied the humans by promising a feast, while the Zerg Overlord and Chthon awaited the arrival of reinforcements.
• Trigon, the Golden Demon King, and dozens of other demon kings descended through a Spatial Vortex and agreed to fight alongside the Zerg in exchange for human souls and bodies.
• Trigon approached Raven, while the Golden Demon King challenged Andrew and the demon kings prepared to attack him.
• Andrew made the Golden Demon King’s magic go out of control, knocked his soul into the Virtual World, and turned his body into a golden statue.

Andrew revealed that he had cursed the Demon Kings through Constantine’s mixed magic, then used the curse and his powers to subdue their resistance and force them to surrender. With the Demon Kings under his command, he ordered them to attack the Bug Kings as the Zerg Overlord prepared to arrive.

• Andrew explained that he had hidden a fear-force curse in the mixed magic the Demon Kings absorbed, then triggered it to throw their magic into chaos.
• Chthon discussed escape plans with Death and Set while the Demon Kings struggled to expel the magic and remove the curse.
• Andrew threatened the Demon Kings, and Trigon led a small group in attacking him while others surrendered or tried to flee.
• Andrew turned the attackers’ powers against them, took some of Trigon’s mental power, and used red lines to control Trigon.
• The fleeing Demon Kings returned after the curse disrupted their escape, and the remaining Demon Kings bowed to Andrew.
• Andrew ordered the subdued Demon Kings to attack the Bug Kings.

Andrew prepared for the Zerg Overlord’s arrival as the heroes and Demon Kings routed the Zerg, while Wonder Woman killed Darkseid and The Kung Fu Master defeated a Demon Clone. The Zerg Overlord emerged in a new Perfect Doomsday body, and Andrew met him in another Timeline for their final battle.

• Andrew ordered the Demon Kings to join the fight, and the Brood Mothers called on the Zerg Overlord for help as their army collapsed.
• Andrew tasked the Ancient One with watching Chthon and his allies, while The Kung Fu Master blew apart the Demon Clone and returned to Andrew.
• Wonder Woman killed Darkseid, and Andrew sent her to help eliminate the remaining Zerg while Steppenwolf joined her.
• Chthon told General Zod and the others to find a chance to flee and rescue Thanos and Wade from the Phantom Zone.
• The Zerg Overlord absorbed his cocoon and emerged as a Humanoid Insect with a Perfect Doomsday body.
• Andrew appeared beside the Blood Pool in another Timeline, and projections of him and the Zerg Overlord appeared over the battlefield as they prepared to fight.

Andrew battled the Zerg Overlord, testing attacks against his Perfect Doomsday evolution and conceptual immortality. Andrew’s fate curse survived the Overlord’s adaptation, though it spread much more slowly, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Andrew and the Zerg Overlord exchanged blows, but the Overlord evolved enough physical resistance to withstand Andrew’s punches.
• Andrew used the Devouring Rule and then fused-rule suns against the Overlord, but the Overlord adapted to the devouring attack and returned unharmed after being vaporized.
• The Zerg Overlord revealed that he could evolve against each attack and possessed conceptual immortality, then attacked Andrew with time, space, and quantum abilities.
• Andrew countered with a fate curse made from the hatred of hundreds of millions of Earthlings, and the curse persisted despite the Overlord’s resistance.
• The Zerg Overlord claimed immunity to the curse, but Andrew showed that it had reappeared and was still spreading, albeit much more slowly.

Andrew trapped the Zerg Overlord in a dream realm and tested ways to overcome his evolving defenses while pretending the two were fighting in another timeline. After the deception was exposed, Chthon and the others learned that the apparent battle had been an illusion, and the Zerg Overlord moved to warn his avatar in the Black Robe Ability Universe.

• Andrew used death threads, Time Reversal, and a sealing rule against the Zerg Overlord, who repeatedly resurrected and adapted to the attacks.
• The Zerg Overlord believed Andrew was trying to seal him and boasted that adapting to Andrew's rules would make him invincible.
• On the Times Square battlefield, Iron Man, Catwoman, and the others discussed the apparent delay while Chthon and the Brood Mother grew suspicious.
• Sithorn Main Body contacted the Zerg Overlord main body, who revealed that he and Andrew had been fighting for over ten minutes and had destroyed New York.
• The Zerg Overlord realized Andrew had deceived him in a dream realm, and God Andrew admitted the trick before the Zerg Overlord hurried to warn his avatar in the Black Robe Ability Universe.

The Mechanical Demon King trapped the Zerg Overlord in a Time Dream, while the Overlord’s allies struggled to alert him without breaking their rules. Half Bug King sacrificed himself to send the warning, and the Zerg Overlord finally learned the truth as Andrew revealed how he had drawn him into the dream.

• Andrew blocked Chthon, Set, Death, and the others from contacting their clones, insisting they follow the Contract’s rules.
• Chthon’s clone discovered that the Zerg Overlord and the Mechanical Demon King were motionless in an Illusion Realm, and the allies decided to awaken the Overlord through a sacrifice.
• Andrew ordered Half Bug King to volunteer, promising to revive him, and Half Bug King sacrificed his body and soul to send the warning.
• The sacrifice informed the Zerg Overlord that he was trapped in an Illusion Realm, and Andrew explained that he had turned a Timeline into a Time Dream.
• Andrew shook the Contract that had sealed Thanos, revealing that its blood-red threads belonged to the Zerg Overlord.

Andrew revealed that the Zerg Overlord’s incomplete fusion of body and soul let Half Bug King parasitize him, and he prepared Half Bug King to erode the Overlord while he avoided provoking further evolution. As the battle continued, Homelander and the others remained unable to withdraw, leaving Andrew’s plans in motion but the fight unresolved.

• The Zerg Overlord escaped Andrew’s Time Dream, awoke at the Blood Pool, and attacked Andrew, who questioned whether he could tell reality from a dream.
• Andrew secretly confirmed that Half Bug King had parasitized the Zerg Overlord and explained that the Overlord’s body and soul remained fused by only 99.99 percent.
• Andrew told Half Bug King he might take over the Overlord’s body, taught him Free Magic to erode the Overlord, and asked him to wait while Andrew completed his arrangements.
• Andrew dodged the Zerg Overlord’s attacks to keep him from evolving faster, while Chthon and Death recognized that Andrew was trying to avoid a direct fight.
• Chthon urged Homelander to withdraw, but Homelander said Starlight Annie was pursuing him, while Billy and General Zod also could not escape their pursuers.

Homelander, Billy, and General Zod escaped New York while Demon Kings’ attacks disrupted the battlefield, and Andrew began clearing the field by unleashing Samuel’s full power. As Samuel and the Demon Kings overwhelmed the Zerg and Chthon’s allies, Chthon warned the Zerg Overlord that Andrew was driving everyone away, but the Overlord remained confident in its ability to evolve under attack.

• Chthon arranged for several Demon Kings to unleash attacks, allowing Homelander, Billy, and General Zod to break through the Space Barrier and escape toward the Phantom Zone.
• Andrew told Samuel to kill the Zerg and Chthon’s forces, and Samuel resonated with billions of Ability Users to rise to peak Skyfather strength.
• Samuel overwhelmed a Bug King with vibration powers, while Chthon realized Samuel had been a prepared trump card and suspected Andrew was clearing the field.
• The Demon Kings stopped holding back after Andrew promised to let them return to Hell and refrain from visiting for a year, and Samuel joined The Ancient One, Van Helsing, and Starlight Annie in attacking Chthon’s group.
• Chthon warned the Zerg Overlord that Andrew was trying to drive everyone from the battlefield, but the Overlord said it could withstand a crowd because attacks accelerated its evolution.

The Zerg Overlord ordered the Bug Kings to sacrifice themselves and tried to send a fragment of their soul away, but Andrew and The Kung Fu Master had anticipated the plan. Andrew sealed the Zerg Overlord while The Kung Fu Master stole the soul fragment, leaving Chthon and the others overwhelmed as the chapter ended.

• The Zerg Overlord ordered the Bug Kings to sacrifice themselves and create an escape route for a fragment of their soul.
• The Bug Kings' sacrifice formed a Time Seal that trapped the human side while Chthon and two allies fled with the soul fragment.
• Andrew froze time, but the Zerg Overlord broke free and attacked him as The Kung Fu Master confronted Chthon and the others in another Timeline.
• The Kung Fu Master stole the soul fragment, but Chthon used Time Reversal to retrieve it while the Zerg Overlord shattered Andrew's temporal lock.
• Andrew transferred a Curse and Brick House from the Dream Realm, sealing the Zerg Overlord, while The Kung Fu Master multiplied and overwhelmed Chthon and the others.
• One of The Kung Fu Master's eighty-one copies used Never Miss a Thief to steal the Zerg Overlord's soul fragment from Chthon again.

Andrew captured a fragment of the Zerg Overlord’s soul and used it to give the Half Bug King a foothold inside the Overlord. As Andrew and the Kung Fu Master struck the sealed Overlord, his soul was finally knocked out of his body.

• The Kung Fu Master prevented the Zerg Overlord from destroying his soul fragment, delivered it to Andrew, and drove Chthon and the others to annihilate themselves.
• Andrew infused the soul fragment with the Half Bug King’s consciousness and returned it to the Zerg Overlord, who lost awareness of it as the Half Bug King gained a genuine claim on his body.
• Andrew and the Kung Fu Master prepared to finish the fight while allies watched, and Chthon failed to persuade the Crimson Demon God Cyttorak to help.
• Andrew and the Kung Fu Master repeatedly struck the sealed Zerg Overlord with magic and qi while using Time Acceleration, giving the Half Bug King time to encroach on the Overlord’s body.
• After twenty-nine seconds of blows, the Zerg Overlord saw his own back and realized his soul had been knocked out of his body.

Andrew and The Kung Fu Master defeated the Zerg Overlord and began turning his soul into a puppet, leaving him desperate to bargain for his life. Andrew rejected the offers and kept the Rebirth Gem, while Half Bug King feared what would happen to him if the Zerg Overlord survived.

• Half Bug King revealed himself inside the Zerg Overlord’s body, and Andrew and The Kung Fu Master subdued the Overlord’s soul.
• The Kung Fu Master used green light and the resentment of Earth’s billions to overwhelm the Zerg Overlord, then stopped him from activating the Rebirth Gem.
• Andrew took the Rebirth Gem and explained that the Overlord could be rendered effectively dead by erasing his identity and memories.
• The Zerg Overlord offered to help Andrew defeat Chthon and the others, but Half Bug King insisted he was more powerful and loyal.
• The Zerg Overlord offered to become Andrew’s dog and invoked Crimson Demon God Cyttorak, while Andrew mocked him and The Kung Fu Master continued transforming his soul.

Andrew rejected the Zerg Overlord’s surrender and eliminated him, securing victory in the wager and gaining control of his soul. After restoring the true Timeline and saving humanity, Andrew sent the Kung Fu Master to capture dragons.

• Andrew refused to trust the Zerg Overlord and dismissed his threats to use a Curse, while Chthon explained that Andrew could resist it.
• The Contract overwhelmed the Zerg Overlord, whose soul became the Kung Fu Master’s puppet and whose defeat gave Andrew ownership of his possessions.
• Chthon, Death, Set, Hoggoth, and Eye Demon Shuma discussed the Zerg Overlord’s defeat and the possibility that he would seek help from another Multiversal Entity.
• Andrew refused Half Bug King’s request to absorb the Zerg Overlord’s soul, saying he had other uses for it, and ordered Half Bug King to merge with Doomsday’s body.
• Andrew used Time-Space Correction to restore the past Timeline, then told the Kung Fu Master to capture dragons as the people celebrated humanity’s survival.