Chapter Summaries

Zarathos endured life as a laborer in the God Kingdom and took a cesspit-cleaning job for the points he needed to survive. At the worksite, he recognized Dormammu, who had also been reduced to menial labor, and Dormammu finally admitted who he was.

• Zarathos continued working construction despite his humiliation, hunger, and cold, and Old Stone assigned him to clean a septic tank for extra points.
• Zarathos arrived at the cesspit site, received his protective gear and tools from the mechanical worker, and began cleaning the fifth tank.
• Zarathos spotted a worker pushing a cart of feces buckets and recognized the aura of a Dimension Demon God.
• Zarathos caught the worker, who claimed his name was Du Mamu and insisted he was not Dormammu.
• Du Mamu pointed out a worker who looked like Thanos, but Zarathos maintained that he recognized Dormammu’s aura.
• Dormammu stopped denying his identity and admitted to Zarathos that he was Dormammu.

Dormammu told Zarathos how Ian had taken his Dark Dimension and reduced him to an powerless E-Class citizen who had to work for food. After a conflict with A-Class citizens led to imprisonment, Dormammu began recovering memories of his former human life, and he left Zarathos with uncertainty about what that change meant.

• Zarathos recognized Dormammu while they shoveled manure, and Dormammu explained that Ian had devoured his dimension and made him work for points.
• Dormammu recounted refusing the system's instructions until hunger forced him to register, borrow points, and eat a relief meal.
• After an Angel and another A-Class Citizen mocked him, Dormammu trespassed into the latter's residence and was arrested by Scott and the Law Enforcement Team.
• Dormammu described enduring three months in prison, where isolation and physical hardship made him question his identity.
• Dormammu remembered being a human mage who discovered the Dark Dimension and said that human feelings had returned alongside his hunger, pain, and exhaustion.

Dormammu told Zarathos how prison and hard labor had changed him, and the two former demon gods bonded over their shared misfortune under Ian. They became friends and returned to work together, shoveling waste in the God Kingdom.

• Dormammu recounted his three-month imprisonment, his release, and his struggle to earn points as an E-Class Citizen named Du Mamu.
• Zarathos and Dormammu realized they had both been captured by Ian through bad luck, then broke down and cried over their lost power and humiliating lives.
• Zarathos told Dormammu that Galacta had been living in Ian’s palm, and the two speculated that Ian kept them working because he was a pervert.
• When foreman Old Ma called them back to work, Zarathos offered to help Dormammu finish his quota.
• Zarathos and Dormammu worked together and became friends, sharing their labor and relief meals.

Zarathos and Dormammu adjusted to life as E-Class Citizens, sharing a room and taking part in the God Kingdom’s low-cost welfare schemes while recognizing how those schemes kept workers compliant. As they considered the prospect of rising through the ranks, Ian watched their growing closeness and could no longer contain his reaction.

• Zarathos proposed that he and Dormammu share a room to save points, and the system approved their co-renting application.
• While moving into their new dorm, Zarathos saw Ian’s portraits, propaganda, and subsidized offers throughout the streets, and agreed to queue for discounted fried chicken next time.
• During Citizen Care Day, Zarathos and Dormammu waited hours for free breakfasts, and Zarathos was deeply moved by the boiled egg even as Dormammu explained how the welfare program bought their gratitude.
• At the construction site, Zarathos learned about the better lives of higher-class citizens and asked Dormammu whether reaching D-Class was worthwhile.
• Dormammu described the comforts of D-Class living, especially not having to dig out manure, and Zarathos decided he wanted to rise to D-Class.
• Ian secretly observed Zarathos and Dormammu’s developing closeness and exclaimed that they were overflowing with bromance.

After earning D-Class status, Zarathos and Dormammu moved to a more comfortable district and settled into a peaceful routine. Three months later, their shared habits and quiet companionship had turned their former enmity into a bond neither could quite name, while Ian filmed their growing closeness.

• Zarathos and Dormammu earned enough points for D-Class promotion, received new privileges, and moved from District E to District D.
• Zarathos and Dormammu explored their new home, enjoyed better food and living conditions, and wondered whether life in the God Kingdom counted as a utopia or a trap.
• Zarathos began bringing Dormammu breakfast, shopping with him, and walking with him, while both grew accustomed to their daily companionship.
• Dormammu asked Zarathos what their relationship had become, and both admitted they did not know.
• Zarathos thanked Dormammu for keeping him company, Dormammu thanked him in return, and Ian filmed their moment from outside the dimension.

Zarathos and Dormammu grew closer, advanced to C-Class, and found inspiration in Belial and Tiga’s accounts of their labor reform under Ian. Meanwhile, Ian sought Strange’s help in attracting more Dimension Demon Gods so he could meet his next class-change requirement.

• Zarathos and Dormammu shared a quiet moment under the stars and wished each other good night before continuing their work together.
• After saving thirty thousand points each, Zarathos and Dormammu advanced to C-Class and explored Area B, where they watched a film about Ian.
• At a café, Zarathos and Dormammu saw Belial and Tiga describe how planting cotton had taught them humility and gratitude toward Ian.
• Zarathos told Dormammu that they could rise like Belial and Tiga, and the two agreed to climb together.
• Ian saw that he needed to enslave one hundred Dimension Demon Gods and asked Strange to help find them.
• Ian proposed that Strange lure Dimension Demon Gods with a conspicuous magic ritual, leaving Strange appalled at being used as bait.

Doctor Strange refused to help Ian lure Dimension Demon Gods, but Ian beat him until he admitted he simply did not want to help. The Female Ancient One took over the plan, using her aura to draw in old enemies for Ian to defeat, until a powerful Dimension Demon God no weaker than Dormammu appeared.

• Doctor Strange refused Ian's request to help entrap Dimension Demon Gods, so Ian punched him until he confessed he did not want to help.
• The Female Ancient One offered to set the trap in exchange for visiting Ian's God Kingdom, and she returned three days later to prepare it.
• The Female Ancient One drew Dimension Demon Gods to the Sanctum with her aura, and Ian destroyed them as Strange counted their number.
• After Ian defeated twenty Dimension Demon Gods in an hour, the Female Ancient One warned that a more powerful enemy was coming.
• A massive eye appeared beyond the shattered sky over New York, and Ian recognized the arriving Dimension Demon God as no weaker than Dormammu.

Ian entered Shuma-Gorath’s dimension and defeated the ancient demon god by fighting it with Holy Light and consuming its dimension with his own. He returned to Earth and announced that Shuma-Gorath was the ninety-seventh.

• Shuma-Gorath appeared through cracks in the sky above New York, and the Ancient One identified it as an ancient demon god.
• Ian charged into Shuma-Gorath’s dimension while Strange and the Ancient One waited on Earth.
• Ian battled Shuma-Gorath with Holy Light, injuring it and resisting its attempt to expel him.
• Ian unfolded his own dimension and devoured Shuma-Gorath’s dimension, defeating the demon god.
• Ian emerged through a golden rift and told the Ancient One and Strange, "The ninety-seventh."

Ian absorbed the final three demon gods and completed his class change into a Primordial Demon God. The newly absorbed demon gods appeared in the God Kingdom, where Zarathos and Dormammu watched them discover they were trapped.

• Ancient One summoned the World Burner, the Demon of a Thousand Tentacles, and the Lord of Shadows, and Ian absorbed all three.
• Ian’s system confirmed that he had absorbed 100 Dimension Demon Gods and changed his class to Primordial Demon God.
• Ian told Ancient One he could visit the God Kingdom, then left the Sanctum as Strange contemplated the demon gods he had swallowed.
• Zarathos and Dormammu saw the three demon gods and many others appear in District D, where an invisible barrier kept them confined.
• Zarathos remembered how he had once arrived in the God Kingdom and recognized that the newly trapped demon gods would have to adapt to its work-and-points system.

World Burner, Demon of a Thousand Tentacles, Lord of Shadows, and the other captured Dimension Demon Gods arrived in Ian's Divine Kingdom as powerless E-Class Citizens and struggled against their new lives. By the fifth day, several rebels had been punished, while the rest faced work, hunger, and the kingdom's strict rules.

• Dormammu and Zarathos left the newly arrived demon gods behind, predicting that hunger and work would eventually make them accept life in the Divine Kingdom.
• World Burner, Demon of a Thousand Tentacles, and Lord of Shadows woke in weak humanoid bodies, learned they owed Lord Ian a debt, and found themselves trapped behind an invisible barrier.
• Over the next three days, more than ninety demon gods were moved into District E, where they received relief meals and were assigned tasks; World Burner refused to cooperate, while Demon of a Thousand Tentacles tried and failed to escape past Scott.
• Lord of Shadows attempted to regain power by devouring a rotting animal's soul, but Mystique caught him and sent him to the Labor Reform Camp.
• On the fifth day, Thunder Emperor assaulted a citizen and led several demon gods toward District E's gates, but Scott's X-Men squad stopped them and arrested him for inciting a riot.

Soul Eater, Blood Progenitor, Dark Erosion, and Dream Demon each tried to prey on citizens in God Kingdom and were easily defeated by retired World of Warcraft heroes. Their failures discouraged the other Demon Gods, while several captured rioters were sent to work in a vast cotton field.

• Soul Eater tried to devour an old man’s soul, but the retired Paladin kicked him away and warned him to leave.
• Blood Progenitor attacked a woman for her blood, but she beat him and revealed she had fought with the Order of the Silver Hand.
• Dark Erosion tried to rob an old man delivering food, but the former Scarlet Crusader defeated him and left him with a burning Holy Light brand.
• Dream Demon escaped District E in a supply truck, reached District D, and tried to rob a shopper, who defeated him and branded him with Holy Light.
• News of the four Demon Gods’ defeats spread through District E, and the other Demon Gods stopped considering attacks on citizens.
• The Thunder Emperor, the Demon of a Thousand Tentacles, the Lord of Shadows, Dream Demon, and other captured rioters were sent to work in a cotton field at the Labor Reform Camp.

The Thunder Emperor and the Demon of a Thousand Tentacles began to believe they could leave the Labor Reform Camp after hearing how former prisoners had risen to greatness, while Ian completed his merger with one hundred Dimension Demon Gods. Ian returned to the DC Universe and began using his new power to stabilize Batman’s damaged spaceship amid the chaotic timeline.

• The Thunder Emperor and the Demon of a Thousand Tentacles continued picking cotton, then heard that Belial, Tiga, and Ultron had all advanced after serving time in the camp.
• The Thunder Emperor and the Demon of a Thousand Tentacles returned to the fields with renewed determination, while the old angel suggested the Thunder Emperor was close to graduating.
• Ian’s system confirmed that he had aggregated one hundred Demon Gods and could wield multiversal power across the dimension cluster.
• Ian went to another universe’s Sanctum Sanctorum, where Strange told him that Morgan might have founded the Time Variance Authority and placed Ian’s statue there.
• Ian returned to the DC Universe’s Batcave and told Bruce Wayne he had devoured one hundred Dimension Demon Gods.
• Ian used his power of chaos to smooth out fragments of the chaotic timeline affecting Batman’s spaceship.

Ian left Earth in a Kryptonian ship to search for a way to repair the timeline, using Tony Stark’s Black Box, OAA, to take over the ship’s systems. Bruce and Superman stayed behind to contain the growing temporal disruptions, and the chapter left Ian’s whereabouts uncertain after his first transmission reported a Golden Planet.

• Bruce finished repairing the Kryptonian ship, and Ian stabilized its engine with his time power before agreeing to leave Earth.
• Ian connected the Black Box, OAA, to the ship and launched into space; it swallowed all 4,987 of Bruce’s hidden surveillance signals.
• Superman admitted that Ian was his son, and Bruce and Superman went to handle new temporal incidents across Gotham, Metropolis, and Central City.
• Batman stopped a year-3000 aircraft, Superman persuaded a Roman legion to surrender, and the local Barry Allen defeated a parallel-universe Flash who wanted to steal the Speed Force.
• Bruce and Superman reviewed the ongoing disruptions and heard Ian’s weak signal from five light-years away, where he exclaimed that he had found a Golden Planet.

Ian mined gold from an asteroid, rescued a living dragon egg, and visited Kepler-22c, where Long Claw told him the Kepler Dragon Race had escaped Earth before the dinosaurs’ extinction. He continued toward the Weeping Angel star field, but stopped to rescue a distressed ship and discovered a Xenomorph aboard.

• Ian harvested gold from a golden asteroid and found a living blue egg embedded in it, which he brought aboard.
• Ian landed on Kepler-22c and met Long Claw, who explained that the Kepler Dragon Race had fled Earth before the dinosaurs’ extinction.
• Long Claw identified the egg as a dragon egg and told Ian it had chosen him, so Ian agreed to hatch and raise it.
• Ian left Kepler-22c and resumed his journey toward the Weeping Angel star field, where he planned to investigate the timeline chaos connected to them.
• Ian detected a damaged ship with one faint life sign, went to help, and found a Xenomorph aboard.

Ian answered the Nostromo’s distress signal and boarded the damaged ship to collect its Xenomorphs for his developing God Kingdom. He befriended a newly hatched Xenomorph and subdued an adult, then took the adult into his own dimension.

• Ian heard the Nostromo’s automated distress signal and learned that five life signs remained aboard among the Xenomorphs.
• Ian entered the ship, met the surviving crew, and told them he intended to capture Xenomorphs and raise them.
• Ian sensed four Xenomorphs aboard and found the newly hatched one, which approached him and settled on his shoulder.
• Ian confronted an adult Xenomorph in the cargo hold, stopped its attack, and calmed it with his chaotic power.
• Ian put the adult Xenomorph to sleep and took it into his dimension to live in his God Kingdom.

Ian subdued three Xenomorphs aboard a damaged ship, rescued its crew, and set out to find the Weeping Angel. He found a cavern filled with sleeping Angels and began moving one’s hands away from its face.

• Ian subdued the adult Xenomorph near the power system and the sub-adult in the ventilation ducts, then stored them in his dimension.
• Ian returned to the cafeteria and told the four survivors he had sent the three large Xenomorphs away; he gave them coordinates for a nearby trading station before leaving.
• Ian put the little Xenomorph in his cargo hold, dismissed Black Box’s warning about keeping the creatures, and headed toward the Weeping Angel’s last known location.
• Ian landed on a barren gray planet and followed Black Box’s directions to a cave entrance, bringing the little Xenomorph along.
• Ian entered an underground cavern filled with motionless Weeping Angels and learned from Black Box that they turned to stone when observed.
• Ian gripped one Angel’s wrist and began trying to move its hands away from its face.

Ian tried to awaken a Weeping Angel, but the angels attacked him, so he devoured the entire nest and absorbed their powers. After gaining new abilities involving time and quantum states, he returned to his spaceship and ordered Black Box to take him back to Earth, confident he could restore everything.

• Ian tried to pry open a Weeping Angel’s hands and discovered that the angels were awakening throughout the cave.
• The Weeping Angels attacked Ian and tried to send him into the past, but his powerful existence resisted their time-exile ability.
• Ian bound the angels with golden chains and devoured every Weeping Angel in the cavern as it collapsed around them.
• Ian absorbed the complete Weeping Angel race and gained Time Exile, Quantum Lock, and Time Perception.
• Ian left the cave, returned to his spaceship, and told Black Box to take him back to Earth so he could end the farce and restore everything.

Ian stopped at a vast trade station to buy supplies and encountered J'onn J'onzz, who was tracking a criminal and warned him about activity in the region. After dealing with three robbers who targeted his valuable crystal, Ian left the station and headed back to Earth.

• Ian docked at the trade station, left the little Xenomorph aboard, and went looking for supplies.
• Ian traded a Kepler Energy Core for universal credits after a shopkeeper offered him ten thousand credits for it.
• Three robbers followed Ian into a side passage and tried to steal the crystal, but their weapons could not harm him, and he made them hand over their money.
• Ian met J'onn J'onzz, who said he was tracking a criminal from a past spacetime and warned that the Green Lantern Corps was patrolling nearby.
• Ian bought a Sun Sword, returned to his ship, and took off for Earth with the little Xenomorph and its increasingly cracked egg.

Ian’s ship was caught in a battle between the Green Lantern Corps and an unknown black entity, and the Lanterns accidentally destroyed it. Surrounded and attacked after demanding a replacement ship, Ian remained unharmed and faced the Corps as their assault failed.

• Ian watched the blue egg near hatching as his ship approached a battle between the Green Lantern Corps and an unknown black entity.
• The black entity engulfed Ian’s ship, and Green Lantern attacks damaged it before the entity’s blast disintegrated the vessel; Ian protected himself, the little Xenomorph, and the egg.
• The Green Lanterns surrounded Ian and accused him of helping the entity escape, while Ian said he had been passing through and demanded a new ship to return to Earth.
• Ian warned the Green Lantern captain that the Corps would die if they refused, but the captain summoned more Lanterns and ordered them to attack.
• The Green Lanterns’ energy beams and constructs vanished or shattered against Ian, and their combined maximum-power blast faded to reveal him still standing unharmed.

Ian endured the Green Lantern Corps' attacks, then overwhelmed them and seized or destroyed their Power Rings. He spared the battered Corps and flew toward Earth, prompting a distress call warning the Justice League that he was more terrifying than Darkseid.

• Ian sent his blue egg and little Xenomorph to the God Kingdom as more than a hundred Green Lanterns surrounded him.
• The Green Lanterns attacked Ian repeatedly with their Power Rings, but he remained unharmed and asked if they had finished.
• Ian struck back, defeating Green Lanterns with his strength and speed while rejecting their comparison of him to Darkseid.
• Ian tore off and crushed a Green Lantern's Power Ring, then took more rings from the defeated Corps.
• Ian said he would not kill the Green Lanterns, declared that he was going to Earth, and flew toward the planet.
• The injured Green Lanterns sent a distress signal warning that Ian was heading for Earth and was more terrifying than Darkseid.