Chapter Summaries

Damian pursued Lazarus at the Lazarus Pit, where the entity swallowed Ra's al Ghul and then emerged in his body. Robet, Clark, and their allies confronted the two Hell Lords in a Mirror Dimension, and Lazarus separated himself from Damian, accusing him of bringing the conflict upon himself.

• Damian's approach caused the Lazarus Pit to surge, and it swallowed Ra's al Ghul as he tried to escape.
• Damian demanded that Lazarus emerge, and Lazarus drained the Pit before revealing himself in Ra's al Ghul's body.
• Lazarus mocked Damian's claim that Hell Lords once roamed freely on Earth and threatened to settle the score over Damian's interference.
• Lazarus revealed that Robet and the others had followed Damian, and they arrived as Baron Mordo's group enclosed the cavern in a Mirror Dimension.
• Lazarus told Robet and Clark that he had no conflict with them, then defended taking Ra's al Ghul's cloned body and accused Damian of having a blood debt.

Damian and Lazarus fought after Damian tried to force Lazarus to join his battle against Robet and the others. Lazarus destroyed Damian’s Hell Dimension incarnation, severing his route back, and Damian challenged Robet as another figure appeared behind him.

• Damian attacked Lazarus after accusing him of cowardice, and the two Hell Lords fought while Robet and the others watched.
• Damian’s reincarnated power gave him the advantage over Lazarus’s Human Vessel, and he blew Lazarus’s body apart.
• Lazarus revealed that his original body was attacking Damian’s territory in the Hell Dimension and warned that killing Damian’s incarnation there would leave Damian stranded on Earth.
• Lazarus’s original body destroyed Damian’s incarnation, and Damian’s connection to the Hell Dimension was severed.
• Damian challenged Robet to a fight, Robet rushed in to meet him, and another figure appeared behind Robet.

Robet foiled Damian and Lazarus's ambush, then attacked the injured Lazarus while explaining his history and desire for revenge on Earth. Damian and Lazarus joined forces against Robet, who fought them in an increasingly savage battle without giving ground.

• Damian and Lazarus sprang their coordinated attack on Robet, but Robet counterattacked Lazarus from behind and exposed that he had never trusted him.
• Damian had persuaded Lazarus to cooperate by appealing to his long-held desire to take revenge on Earth, rooted in the persecution Lazarus suffered after his resurrection.
• Robet pressed his attack on the injured Lazarus, intending to eliminate him and then focus on Damian, while declaring that he wanted to fight both Hell Lords himself.
• Lazarus paid the Earth Dimension Consciousness a seventy-percent fee to restore his strength, then joined Damian in attacking Robet as Clark and Diana watched.
• Robet fought Damian and Lazarus for more than a hundred exchanges, using Berserker Fist and growing more excited as he was wounded.
• Lazarus asked Damian to force Robet back so he could recover, but Damian replied that Robet had not retreated since the fight began.

Damian and Lazarus’s alliance collapsed when Damian devoured the blood of Lazarus’s Human Vessel, prompting Lazarus to attack Damian and seize his territory in the Hell Dimension. Damian then devoured the Human Vessel himself and revealed his dark power, but his attempt to transform still failed, leaving Robet to suspect he was a double agent connected to the Masks.

• Robet struck Lazarus while Lazarus was distracted, and Damian absorbed Lazarus’s spilled blood to strengthen himself.
• Lazarus attacked Damian’s incarnation in the Hell Dimension and began destroying Damian’s territory and its inhabitants.
• Damian accused Lazarus of exploiting their losing battle to take his territory, while Lazarus insisted Damian’s violation of his taboo had provoked the betrayal.
• Damian overwhelmed Lazarus’s Human Vessel, devoured it completely, and revealed that his power was saturated with a dark aura.
• Damian’s attempt to change his appearance and establish himself on Earth failed, and Robet asked him to lead the way to the remaining Masks.

Robet fought Damian in the Mirror Dimension, using relentless, self-destructive attacks to overcome Damian’s greater strength. As the battle continued, Robet’s ferocity left Damian unable to counterattack, while Clark worried that Robet was becoming insane.

• Damian revealed his immense, chaotic power and tried to draw Clark into the fight so he could escape the Mirror Dimension, but Clark stayed back to protect it.
• Robet caught Damian distracted, cut him in half with a Ki Blade, and pressed his attack as Damian regenerated and turned the Ki Blade against Robet’s Ki Blast.
• Damian trapped Robet’s arm and unleashed energy at close range, but Robet answered with his own ki, and the explosion badly damaged them both.
• Robet charged again despite having lost most of his body, grabbed Damian, and triggered an even greater explosion that left both fighters apparently silent.
• Damian regenerated and tried to recover, but Robet grabbed him again and continued attacking, leaving Damian wary and unable to counter while Clark watched with concern.

Robet relentlessly fought Damian in the Mirror Dimension, wearing down his power until Damian tried to escape and attack Earth. Clark stopped Damian’s threat to the planet while Robet continued pursuing him.

• Robet repeatedly self-destructed to attack Damian, while Kaecilius and Baron Mordo rallied Kamar-Taj’s guardians around their duty to protect Earth.
• Damian fled after his power began clashing, but Robet tracked his weakening aura, split a Destructo Disc into smaller blades, and caught him with another explosion.
• Damian attacked Clark with a Dark Energy wave, but Clark destroyed it with Heat Vision; Damian’s exhausted body vanished as a fissure opened and his black smoke escaped.
• Robet chased Damian out of the Mirror Dimension, unleashing his aura across Earth, while Damian threatened to destroy the planet.
• Damian hurled a dark sphere toward Earth to distract Robet, but Clark intercepted and destroyed it as Robet kept pursuing Damian.

Robet and Clark drove Damian away from Earth and fought his divided body in space, preventing him from escaping or reuniting. Damian was overwhelmed by the Tri-Beam and Clark’s attacks, and his only life ended in space.

• Damian split into two bodies to evade Robet, but his attempt to counter Robet’s Ki Blast failed and Clark nearly trapped one half in the Mirror Dimension.
• Damian broke free and vanished in black smoke, while Robet told Clark to send the other half into space to protect Earth.
• Clark punched Damian’s exposed half out of Earth’s atmosphere as Damian, too weak to resist, decided to leave Earth rather than risk dying there.
• Robet used the Tri-Beam to suppress and drain the hidden half of Damian while Diana blocked Damian’s Dark Energy attack on Earth.
• In space, Damian briefly counterattacked Clark, but Clark overpowered him as Robet’s Tri-Beam drove the other half toward them.
• Clark and Robet continued attacking Damian until his remaining power was exhausted and Damian died in space.

As Clark and Robet killed Damian, deathly aura continued to vanish from the African battlefield, leaving Bast the Panther God and the Wakandan gods unsure whether another Hell power was collecting it. Meanwhile, Nick Fury, Alexander Pierce, and other anti-Avengers figures met in secret and agreed to pool resources to research ways to oppose Superman and the Avengers.

• Clark and Robet slowly ground Damian out of existence while fighting resumed on the African front, increasing the battlefield casualties.
• Bast the Panther God sensed that deathly aura was still being collected and, fearing another powerful Hell being, agreed with the other Wakandan gods to wait for Superman and his allies.
• Nick Fury, Alexander Pierce, and other opponents of the Avengers gathered in a secret meeting to discuss the cosmic battle and their fear of Superman and Robet.
• The bald man claimed the meeting room was shielded with Lead against Superman's X-Ray Vision, while Nick Fury and the bald man questioned each other's motives.
• The attendees offered technologies, genetic material, and other resources, and the bald man revealed he had residual Kryptonian genetic material.
• Nick Fury proposed that they combine funding and personnel to establish an organization for secret, integrated research.

While the Avengers began planning ways to improve their combat abilities, Robet and Clark killed Damian and returned to investigate the disappearing aura of death. They found it was still being collected during the African battlefield’s fighting, leaving Robet searching for whoever was behind it.

• Tony Stark and the Avengers learned from Kara that a Hell Lord was fighting Robet and Clark, then decided to develop specialized Training Rooms and improve their strength.
• Peter Parker said Venom’s evolution was already strengthening him, while Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, Lorna, Pietro, and Barry Allen requested tailored training equipment.
• Tony Stark assigned Reed Richards to continue researching the Extremis Virus and began arranging the Avengers’ training plans.
• Robet and Clark completely destroyed Damian in space, then remembered they had been investigating the disappearing aura of death.
• Robet and Clark returned to the African Continent, where Bast the Panther God reported that the battlefield’s fighting had continued and even more aura of death had disappeared.
• Clark went to prevent casualties while Robet began searching for the hidden collector of the aura of death.

Robet and Diana searched for the source of the death aura and discovered a hidden array beneath the Lazarus Pit. When Lazarus’s avatar emerged from it and targeted Constantine, Robet and Diana stood ready nearby.

• Robet and Diana went to inspect the Lazarus Pit after failing to locate the death aura elsewhere.
• Robet noticed that the supposedly dried-up pit had refilled with strange liquid, so he summoned Constantine to investigate it.
• Robet drained the pool with a Ki Blast, revealing a faint trace of death aura beneath it.
• Constantine uncovered an array that appeared to transform corpses and blood into vitality, and Robet realized it was connected to the trail they sought.
• Lazarus’s avatar appeared from the array and tried to make Constantine his next Human Vessel before noticing Robet and Diana nearby.

Constantine mocked Lazarus while Robet and Diana restrained the Hell Lord’s avatar, but Lazarus summoned the Hell Dimension’s power to destroy it. The Earth Dimension intervened and seized part of the avatar’s power, leaving Robet and Diana uneasy about its growing appetite.

• After Lazarus’s suppressive aura faded, Constantine attacked him with fire and muddy water while Robet and Diana watched.
• Robet trapped the muddy water around Lazarus with a Telekinetic Barrier, preventing him from escaping or withdrawing his avatar’s power.
• Lazarus summoned the Hell Dimension’s power to shatter Robet’s barrier and devour his avatar, but the Earth Dimension’s power also struck and claimed part of it.
• The clash collapsed the Lazarus Pit cavern and split Lazarus’s avatar power between the Earth and Hell Dimensions.
• Robet warned Constantine that the Earth Dimension had intercepted the power, and Constantine nervously insisted he did not want a reward.

Robet, Diana, and Clark discussed the Earth Dimension Consciousness’s growing interference and the danger it posed, then left the Lazarus Pit site as the cavern began to recover and an invisible change spread across Earth. America withdrew from its war with Wakanda and failed to isolate it internationally, while Thor gained power from the World Tree and Heimdall returned to Asgard.

• Clark joined Robet and Diana, and Robet explained that the Earth Dimension Consciousness had forced dimensional power onto the material plane.
• Robet warned that he and Clark could destroy Earth as a last resort if the Earth Dimension Consciousness crossed the line, and the three left the cavern.
• After they departed, the cavern slowly recovered, and an invisible change spread across Earth that gradually reduced the destructive effects of explosions.
• America withdrew its troops from the war with Wakanda and tried unsuccessfully to rally other countries against it at international conferences.
• Black Panther T'Chaka accepted support from African countries and promised them aid as Wakanda gained a stronger international position.
• Thor was expelled from the World Tree after six days and six nights with a portion of its power, while Heimdall returned to Asgard injured but alive.

Heimall’s report made All-Father Odin withdraw Asgard from Earth and the Nine Realms, while Doom became a dictator in Latveria and infiltrated Kamar-Taj to seek power. The chapter left Doom demanding the title of Sorcerer Supreme after defeating its leading sorcerers, while Baron Mordo rejected his claim.

• Heimall reported the Earth Dimension Consciousness and Earth’s increased resilience, prompting All-Father Odin to warn him against watching Earth and to keep Asgard away from its dangers.
• All-Father Odin reduced Asgard’s involvement in the Nine Realms and focused on preparing Thor to inherit the throne, leaving Dwarf King Eitri exposed to Thanos’s threat.
• After returning to Latveria, Doom mastered magic from his mother Cynthia’s books, discovered Mephisto had trapped her soul, and seized control of the country to seek more magical knowledge.
• Doom found Kamar-Taj and used magic to influence its students after the organization initially rejected him, then rapidly learned its spells and defeated Chow, Kaecilius, and Baron Mordo.
• Doom demanded to become Sorcerer Supreme, but Baron Mordo rejected him for his ambition and the deceit he had used to enter Kamar-Taj, and Doom challenged the grounds for denying him.

Doom joined Kamar-Taj’s defense when the Darkness Dimension descended on Earth, and Robet and Clark arrived to help. As the Earth Dimensional Array struggled to hold back the attack, Robet rejected Doom’s suggestion to sacrifice those targeted by the Darkness Dimension.

• Wong told Doom that only Ancient One could grant the Sorcerer Supreme title, and Doom realized he had no easy path to advance his power at Kamar-Taj.
• Baron Mordo sensed the Darkness Dimension descending and rallied Kamar-Taj’s sorcerers to activate the Earth Dimensional Array.
• Doom hesitated over whether to help, then joined the sorcerers as the Darkness Dimension enveloped Earth and the collision shook the planet.
• Robet recognized the threat, warned Clark, and told Diana to gather the Avengers and protect Morbius, Blade, and the altered Vampires and Werewolves.
• Robet and Clark reached Kamar-Taj, where Baron Mordo explained that the array could not fully block the Darkness Dimension while the Earth Dimension’s gap remained.
• Doom proposed sacrificing the people targeted by the Darkness Dimension, but Robet warned that giving it what it wanted could invite further attacks from it and other dimensions.

As the Darkness Dimension invaded, Robet realized the Earth Dimension was barely resisting and threatened to destroy Earth, forcing it to fight back. The two dimensions then reached an agreement to let their champions clash on Earth, where Robet attacked the Darkness Dimension’s descending forces.

• Doom accepted Robet’s argument that Earth had to resist the Darkness Dimension, while Tony Stark prepared the Avengers for a possible invasion.
• Diana warned the Avengers that the Darkness Dimension’s champions could arrive with their home-field advantage, and Tony ordered more armor built.
• Robet threatened to destroy Earth with a planet-shattering Ki Blast, prompting the Earth Dimension to commit its power against the Darkness Dimension.
• The Darkness Lord proposed that both dimensions withdraw their direct power and let their champions fight, and the Earth Dimension agreed.
• An Eternal Full Moon carried Darkness Dimension fighters through the Earth Dimension’s defenses, and Robet struck them with his Ki Blast as they descended.

Robet’s Ki Blast killed several Darkness Dimension invaders, but the Darkness Lord pressured the Earth Dimension into opening a passage and allowing the invasion to resume. Earth’s defenders assembled for a full-scale battle, and Robet charged the incoming enemies alone, transforming into his light attribute as the fight began.

• Robet’s Ki Blast devastated the Darkness Dimension powerhouses and shook Earth, prompting the Darkness Lord to accuse the Earth Dimension of setting him up.
• The Earth Dimension granted the Darkness Lord limited authority and joined him in stabilizing space, while the Darkness Lord ordered more powerhouses to invade through the moonlight passage.
• Robet called the Kamar-Taj students to prepare their reserves, and Kaecilius explained to Doom that the Earth Dimension had developed a consciousness and allowed the invaders in.
• Clark arranged for Earth’s allies to gather through Portals and moved the Kents and the Danvers into the Kryptonian Ship for safety.
• Robet bombarded the passage as the Avengers and other allies assembled, then charged the Darkness Dimension powerhouses before Tony Stark could give him their prepared equipment.
• Robet struck a Darkness Dimension powerhouse and transformed into his light attribute, catching the enemy off guard.

Robet’s light-attribute power stopped the Dark Dimension army until the Darkness Lord killed the hesitant attackers and forced the rest to advance. The battle then erupted across Earth, where prepared armor and Earth’s fighters weakened the invaders while Robet held others at bay.

• Robet killed a Dark Dimension powerhouse with his light-attribute aura, making the surrounding invaders hesitate to attack.
• Tony Stark took heart from Robet’s stand as Earth’s fighters gathered, and Clark concealed his strength for a later surprise attack.
• The Darkness Lord destroyed several hesitant Dark Dimension powerhouses and ordered the survivors to attack Robet and seize Morbius and the others.
• Steve directed Earth’s fighters to call Constantine for help with severe injuries as the Dark Dimension army charged into battle.
• Specially designed armor weakened the invaders, allowing Clark, Diana, Kara, Martian Manhunter, Peter Parker, Lana Lang, and Kong to strike them while Robet trapped and attacked enemies in the sky.

The Darkness Dimension’s forces targeted Morbius and managed to abduct him after destroying his countermeasure equipment. Clark intervened before they could take him, completely suppressing the attackers and freeing Morbius, while the Darkness Lord recognized that Earth’s countering powers threatened his forces.

• The Darkness Dimension’s forces identified Morbius as their primary target and redirected the battle to isolate him, while Clark watched their movements.
• The attackers overwhelmed Morbius and shattered his specially made equipment, then began dragging him toward the Moonlight Path.
• The Darkness Lord realized Clark was missing from the battlefield and warned that something was wrong.
• Clark appeared beside Morbius and unleashed power that severely weakened the Darkness Dimension’s forces, stopping the abduction.
• Clark killed one attacker and trapped the first-echelon fighters, while Morbius escaped, changed equipment with Tony Stark, and returned to battle.
• The Darkness Dimension’s fighters and the Darkness Lord grew frustrated as they recognized Morbius’s perfected form and Clark’s overwhelming suppression.

As the Darkness Dimension’s invasion faltered, the Earth Dimension Consciousness harvested the dead powerhouses’ energy while deciding not to risk removing Earth’s defenses. The Avengers and Kamar-Taj survived the battle, but the Darkness Lord finally lost patience and prepared to act.

• The Earth Dimension Consciousness considered abolishing its rule restrictions to gain more energy, then decided the risk of leaving Earth defenseless was too great and continued absorbing the power released by the dead invaders.
• Steve and the Avengers struggled against the resilient Darkness Dimension powerhouses, while Constantine rescued exhausted Kamar-Taj students and earned Baron Mordo’s goodwill and a possible path to learning their magic.
• Tony Stark worried that Earth could not withstand future dimensional invasions and that the Earth Dimension Consciousness threatened the planet, while Constantine sought greater strength as insurance against a dangerous Earth.
• Clark and Robet continued killing the trapped Darkness Dimension powerhouses, knowing the Darkness Lord still watched from outside Earth.
• The Darkness Lord abandoned his patience as he saw his forces die and the Earth Dimension grow stronger from their deaths.

The Darkness Lord pulled the battlefield out of the Earth Dimension and tried to seize Morbius, Blade, the Vampires, and the Werewolves, but Robet and Clark fused into Rolark and turned the battle against him. Rolark destroyed the Darkness Dimension’s forces and launched a Ki Blast at the Darkness Dimension, forcing the Darkness Lord to defend it.

• The Darkness Lord used the intertwined powers of the two dimensions to transport the battlefield beyond the Earth Dimension and tried to abduct Morbius and the others.
• Robet called for Clark to use the fusion technique, and they performed the dance that combined them into Rolark.
• Rolark’s light-attribute flames burned away the Darkness Dimension powerhouses across the battlefield.
• Rolark told the Earth Dimension Consciousness to return the others safely, then confronted the Darkness Lord outside the battlefield.
• Rolark fired a Ki Blast at the Darkness Dimension, and the Darkness Lord sent repeated spheres of dark energy to stop it.