Chapter Summaries

Ian began gathering faith by offering the world salvation through technology, creating Umbrella Corporation to provide its products and services for free. After opening the company in New York, he faced reporters at a press conference and presented its registration documents.

• Ian met Drake on a rooftop and told him he could reach Heaven if he chose to change, then left him a contact phone.
• Days later, Ian observed people across Earth reacting to the newly revealed existence of Heaven and Hell as their faith began gathering toward him.
• Ian decided to form a company that would share advanced technology for free and instructed Black Box to design its structure and products.
• Black Box created Umbrella Corporation, and Ian opened its renovated New York headquarters the next morning.
• Ian began Umbrella’s press conference, introduced himself as its founder, and answered Linda Carter’s questions by presenting the company’s legal documents.

Ian announced that Umbrella would provide free fusion reactors and use advanced technology to improve humanity and take it to the stars. After he left the press conference, his claims spread worldwide, drawing both hope and coordinated efforts to discredit him.

• Tom White questioned where Ian's technology came from, and Ian said Umbrella would prove itself by releasing free, refrigerator-sized fusion reactors for communities, factories, and hospitals.
• Ian said Umbrella operated without profit, funded by his personal assets, and declared his goal was to help humanity evolve and become powerful enough to face aliens.
• Ian promised genetic optimization, life extension, and physical enhancement for everyone, then dismissed a reporter's demand for proof and left the hall with the little xenomorph and Little Dragon.
• Linda Carter chose to believe Ian might make humanity stronger, while Tom White remained doubtful but wondered whether Ian's promises could be true.
• News of the press conference spread around the world, and Umbrella became a global trend as people debated Ian's claims and suspicious accounts tried to portray him as a fraud.

People around the world reacted with hope, disbelief, or fear to Ian’s promise of free energy and healthcare, while powerful business figures organized a campaign to discredit him. On the day Umbrella’s promise was set to begin, Asong and Miguel joined the crowd outside the company as Ian appeared and assured them it would all come true.

• Asong in Bangkok and Miguel in Mexico City watched Ian’s announcement and hoped his promises would help them and their families.
• Wealthy power brokers in Manhattan ordered a smear campaign against Ian after failing to uncover the source of his money or technology.
• Kenta dismissed Ian as a liar but kept replaying the promise and secretly held onto his phone bearing Umbrella’s logo.
• Asong waited outside Umbrella overnight, Miguel spent his savings to travel there, and Kenta stayed home to watch the livestream.
• Ian emerged from Umbrella with the little Xenomorph and Little Dragon, promised the crowd that everything would come true, and moved Asong to tears.

Ian unveiled Umbrella’s first-generation fusion reactor and promised to provide it free, sparking worldwide hope and alarm among energy magnates. As the magnates organized a media smear campaign, they also hired mercenaries to assassinate Ian.

• Ian presented Umbrella’s miniature fusion reactor, claimed it could produce fifty megawatts, and offered free installation and maintenance to communities, factories, and hospitals.
• People in New York and viewers around the world reacted with amazement and tears, while the announcement spread across global news and social media.
• A group of energy magnates learned that the reactor was genuine and feared it would make their fuel businesses and power infrastructure obsolete.
• The bald old man ordered Gold-Rimmed Glasses to arrange coordinated media reports questioning the reactor’s safety and Ian’s identity and intentions.
• The bald old man ordered an assassination attempt on Ian, and Gold-Rimmed Glasses agreed to hire mercenaries.

After Ian unveiled a free-energy reactor, the public celebrated while energy magnates secretly arranged his assassination. Ian hired Emily Walker to manage Umbrella and learned the killers would strike in three days, but he refused to stop them, certain they could not kill him.

• Asong celebrated the reactor and promised her daughter a new schoolbag, Miguel told his mother it was real, and Kenta decided to seek a proper job.
• Gold-Rimmed Glasses told the bald old man that five veteran assassins would infiltrate Umbrella as suppliers and attack Ian in three days.
• Ian hired Emily Walker as a full-time employee after she described her experience at LexCorp and Umbrella’s staffing and finances.
• Emily warned Ian that Umbrella’s security was basic and reported that journalists were waiting, but Ian declined to meet them.
• Black Box told Ian that energy magnates had hired the assassins, and Ian refused to stop them, insisting they could not kill him.

Ian planned to let an assassination attempt unfold publicly so that people would witness his wounds heal and trust his promises. As Emily prepared to help the attackers enter Umbrella in three days, people around the world began placing their hopes in Ian.

• Ian explained to Black Box that he needed a public assassination attempt to turn people’s cautious belief into trust, and planned to let bullets draw blood before healing himself.
• Ian told Black Box that he needed humanity’s faith to escape and return to the DC universe, where he hoped to repair the chaotic timelines.
• Emily told an unidentified man that she had joined Ian’s company and agreed to leave her office door open when the suppliers attacked in three days.
• Emily suspected Ian might be using her, while Ian told Black Box that he knew about the planned attack and would let the attackers come.
• Kenta headed to an interview, Miguel considered applying to Umbrella, and Asong rode home with a new schoolbag for her daughter, each hoping Ian’s promises would improve their lives.
• Ian stood before the window and called for all living beings to gather their will for him.

Ian signed energy reactor agreements with European countries and prepared to launch Umbrella’s low-cost medicines, while pharmaceutical companies began plotting to assassinate him. He stood onstage at a public speech, aware a sniper was aiming at him, and announced that Umbrella’s fusion reactors would bring free electricity to seventeen countries within three months.

• Mercer reported that France, Germany, and Italy had signed letters of intent for fusion reactors, and Ian signed their agreements.
• Mercer told Ian that negotiations were underway across Asia and Africa and that Umbrella’s new medicines would cost one percent of comparable market prices.
• Mercer reported that pharmaceutical companies were questioning the drugs’ safety after their stock prices fell, while the FDA had approved the medicines.
• Black Box warned Ian that pharmaceutical companies had hired a career sniper to kill him during his planned public speech, but Ian chose not to take preventive action.
• Ian addressed tens of thousands of people in the plaza below Umbrella’s headquarters while a sniper aimed at the stage from a nearby rooftop.
• Ian announced that Umbrella’s energy plan had launched in seventeen countries and that their electricity bills would drop to zero when the first reactors entered service within three months.

Ian announced Umbrella’s low-cost medicines at a public event, then staged surviving an assassination attempt to rally support. After returning to the company, he added artificial blood to maintain the appearance of his injuries and faced the waiting reporters.

• Ian announced that Umbrella’s new medicines for cancer, rare diseases, and diabetes would cost one percent of market prices.
• A sniper fired at Ian, who let the bullet shatter against his body and pretended to collapse with a shoulder wound.
• Umbrella’s security captured and killed the sniper while Ian raised his fist and shouted, “I will not yield,” before the crowd.
• In the car, Ian used artificial plasma to make his healed shoulder and clothes look bloodied again.
• Ian emerged before reporters, supported by security guards, still acting as though his strength was fading.

After Ian survived an assassination attempt, the media and the public began treating him as someone protected by God, and the resulting faith strengthened his plan. As Ian recognized that the energy giants would try again, a disguised team entered Umbrella Corporation to attack him.

• Ian watched news coverage of the shooting as a commentator suggested God had caught the bullet, and crowds outside Umbrella continued to gather and sing in his honor.
• Ian told Black Box that public willingness to believe in him was not enough; he needed people to trust him for who he was, and Black Box reported that the power of faith had increased.
• Emily told Ian that reporters wanted a public statement, and Ian predicted that the energy giants would send another assassin; he also knew Emily was hiding something and that someone was photographing his office.
• Ian sensed five people in forged Umbrella uniforms entering the building and moving toward his floor, then told Mercer to leave as he prepared for the new assassination attempt.

Ian survived an assassination attempt at Umbrella Corporation, then staged a public miracle by stopping his fall with Holy Light and appearing to rise above the crowd. His display drew worship from people around the world and left his would-be attackers and corporate opponents questioning whether he was human.

• Ian let five armed assassins shoot him, proved their bullets could not harm him, and sent them back to report that he was invincible.
• A crowd gathered below Umbrella Corporation, cheering Ian as he appeared at the top-floor window and felt their faith growing.
• A rocket struck the window and sent Ian falling, but he summoned Holy Light to halt his descent and rise before the watching crowd.
• Thousands knelt as Ian's light spread through the square and reached people watching broadcasts in cities around the world.
• The drone operator abandoned his attack, and the rocket gunman fled after seeing Ian's radiance.
• The bald old man and Gold-Rimmed Glasses watched the broadcast, and Gold-Rimmed Glasses wondered whether Ian had been chosen by God.

After staging a miraculous rescue to turn humanity’s faith into power, Ian began merging his God Kingdom with the DC Universe so he could return and repair its timelines. As the universe’s laws and outer galaxies started blending into the God Kingdom, people on Earth waited for Ian’s promised future.

• A bald old man failed to convince Gold-Rimmed Glasses to dismiss Ian’s appearance as a staged effect, while a white-haired man learned that Ian’s energy signature was unlike the Jupiter Family’s.
• Ian admitted to Black Box that he had staged the beam of light and used humanity’s faith, but promised to fulfill his pledges of free energy, medicine, and human advancement.
• Ian said he was using his power to return to the DC Universe, then began expanding the God Kingdom toward the universe’s boundary.
• As people around the world waited for Ian, the God Kingdom and the DC Universe began fusing, and nearby galaxies started settling into the God Kingdom without disrupting their orbits.

Ian returned to the DC Universe, where Captain Jack confronted him over the Phantom Zone’s collapse and ordered him to the Land of Light for investigation. When Ian refused, the Ultramen attacked, and he revealed his Galactus-like form, leaving Jack determined to keep fighting despite the power gap.

• Ian returned to the DC Universe and encountered Captain Jack and the Space Garrison of the Land of Light.
• Jack accused Ian of breaking open Krypton’s Phantom Zone and releasing its prisoners, and ordered him to come to the Land of Light for investigation.
• Ian refused to go, so two Ultramen attacked him; he easily withstood their strikes and dodged their stronger assault.
• Jack and the other Ultramen enlarged themselves, but Ian transformed into a giant Galactus-like being.
• Ian shattered Jack’s golden shield, fought off the other Ultramen, and urged them to let him leave without further harm.
• Jack refused to stand down, insisting that the Phantom Zone incident required an investigation.

Ian defeated Jack and four other Ultramen in the void, but Jack returned alone to test a final sword strike. When Jack's broken weapon drew blood from his eye, Ian realized the supposed Ultramen were flesh-and-blood beings.

• Jack and Ian fought, but Ian dodged Jack's attacks and easily endured the blows from the other four Ultramen.
• Jack and the four Ultramen joined their powers in an Ultra Cross, which only scorched Ian's shirt and left a fading red mark.
• Jack conceded defeat and allowed Ian to leave, while warning that the Land of Light would return over the Phantom Zone.
• Ian explained that he had not deliberately broken the Phantom Zone or released its prisoners, and Jack said he would remember his claim.
• Jack returned alone and stabbed Ian's chest with a golden lightsaber, but Ian trapped and shattered the blade.
• Ian saw Jack's bloodshot eyes bleed red and realized that the Ultramen were flesh-and-blood beings.

Ian discovered that Jack and the other Ultraman could bleed and suspected that the Land of Light was hiding a serious problem before sending Little Xenomorph and Little Dragon to the God Kingdom. He returned to an Earth torn apart by timeline disturbances and saw the God of Speed overpower the Justice League and declare that the world belonged to him.

• Jack admitted that he and the other Ultraman were warriors unlike the light beings Ian described, warned that the Land of Light might hunt Ian, and flew away with the others.
• Ian sent Little Xenomorph and Little Dragon through a Chaos Power vortex to the God Kingdom for their safety.
• Ian returned to Earth and saw cities burning, fissures splitting continents, and places across the world disrupted by people, machines, and structures from different eras.
• The Justice League tried to stop the God of Speed as he raced through Metropolis, but he evaded their attacks and proved faster than Superman and Flash.
• The God of Speed caught Flash, knocked Superman aside, stopped Wonder Woman's sword, and declared that the world belonged to him.

Ian defeated the God of Speed after rescuing Flash, then said he would repair the badly disrupted timeline by sending things that did not belong back to their proper places. He vanished as black lightning, leaving the injured heroes to discuss his return and the universe he claimed to have refined.

• The God of Speed taunted the injured heroes while standing on Flash, and Ian arrived and ordered him to move.
• Ian rescued Flash and handed him to Batman, then caught the God of Speed’s attacks and said he was the master of the Speed Force.
• The God of Speed powered up and unleashed hundreds of punches, but Ian remained unharmed, struck him through a building, and pressed him into a crater.
• Ian told Batman he had gone to another universe, refined it, and returned, then announced he would fix the timeline and flew away as black lightning.
• Batman checked Flash as Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, and Aquaman recovered; Wonder Woman reacted to Ian’s claim, and Batman reviewed footage of the fight.

Ian used the Weeping Angel’s time power to remove objects and people displaced from other eras, returning them to their proper timelines. After repairing temporal disruptions across several cities, he continued toward the many remaining incidents.

• Ian erased a future pyramid from Manhattan and ignored an FBI agent who tried to question him.
• Ian returned a damaged whale-shaped spaceship and Victorian soldiers to their proper places in time above London.
• Ian removed future war robots and a medieval castle with a cloaked wizard from Tokyo.
• Ian sent an ancient Greek temple and the monk who wanted to remain beside the pyramids back to their era in Cairo.
• Ian restored a damaged space freighter near Sydney and returned a herd of triceratops from a Rio favela after rescuing a boy.
• Ian sent a Napoleonic-era French army away from the Kremlin and continued repairing temporal disruptions around the world.

Ian sent several ancient beings displaced by temporal chaos back to their eras and repaired the destruction they had caused. Back at Justice League headquarters, he explained that restoring the timeline would require everyone involved, including the League, to forget the crisis, leaving the decision to Batman and the others.

• Ian persuaded the ancient guardian of King Minos to return to his era, then restored the burning city of Heraklion.
• Ian sent a displaced cavalry force back to its steppe after telling its leader that his people were doing well.
• Ian returned a giant hunter in Alaska and Feathered Serpent's brother in the Rocky Mountains to their eras, preserving the giant's bone flute as a cultural relic.
• Ian returned to Metropolis and told Batman that the remaining temporal anomalies could destabilize Earth unless everyone who knew about the crisis forgot it.
• Batman summoned Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg to hear Ian's explanation, and they gathered around the holographic map in silence.

Ian asked the Justice League to make the world forget the timeline anomalies while he repaired the timeline’s damaged levee. After mending most of its cracks, he returned to Metropolis and saw that people’s memories were already causing new rifts to form.

• Ian explained that Earth had to remain free of temporal chaos while he repaired the timeline, and the Justice League planned ways to erase the public’s memories.
• Batman assigned Cyborg, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Superman, and Flash roles in the memory-erasure operation while he oversaw it.
• Ian flew into orbit and used the Speed Force and time power to repair cracks across the Earth, including those in Antarctica, the Pacific, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
• Ian stopped to rest after repairing most of the timeline’s cracks, then landed in Metropolis and watched a news report about the anomalies.
• A breakfast-shop owner told Ian about meeting a Roman soldier named Marcus, as new timeline rifts began forming around people’s memories.

Ian helped the Justice League send Damian, Jordan, and Jonathan to the future, then reinforced the damaged timeline with their global memory spell and electronic pulse. He traveled to the future expecting a better world, but arrived in a barren wasteland instead.

• Ian left the diner, checked into the Stardust Hotel, and answered Batman's call to return to Justice League headquarters.
• Cyborg, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and Green Lantern Hal Jordan reported their plans to spread the electronic pulse and memory spell across Earth, while Ian agreed to send away those who needed to leave and reinforce the timeline.
• Ian used Time Exile to send Damian, Jordan, and Jonathan away in a Stasis Pod, assuring Batman and Superman that they would wake safely without remembering the intervening period.
• The Justice League completed its global coverage, and Ian spread golden light around Earth to stabilize the timeline as Batman reported that it was ninety-seven percent stable.
• Ian traveled through time to the future but arrived in a cold, lifeless wasteland and realized that repairing the timeline had not prevented a ruined future.

Ian investigated the ruined timeline and learned that Superman had become a dictator after Lois died. Batman recognized Ian through a restored memory backup and explained how Superman seized control, leaving Ian to confront a world that no longer remembered him.

• Ian searched ruined Metropolis for answers, but the frightened residents refused to discuss who ruled the city.
• Ian found Jonathan, who did not recognize him and warned him not to say Superman’s name.
• Ian realized his uniqueness had erased every trace of him from the overwritten timeline, then followed Jonathan to Batman’s bunker.
• Batman used a memory backup to remember Ian and explained that Lois had died in a battle with Doomsday.
• Batman and Joker told Ian that Superman had killed those he blamed for Lois’s death, taken power by force, and called himself the Savior.