Chapter Summaries

Ian and the others toured Titan, where Thanos revealed that his civilization spread fertility products across the universe, before giving them a spaceship and directions to Odin. A black hole pulled their ship apart, sending Ian to DC Hell with All-Black the Necrosword and triggering a dramatic rise in his writer experience as hidden things began to manifest in Marvel.

• Ian accepted Thanos's invitation to tour Titan, and Thanos showed the group his city and pharmaceutical factory.
• Thanos promoted Titan's fertility products, while Thor revealed that the Titans had secretly drugged Asgardian well water and caused men to become pregnant.
• Ian welcomed Thanos's products and took a case of samples, while Captain America signed up for a fertility-potion contract.
• Thanos gave the group a spaceship and star-map coordinates to Odin, then ordered Corvus Glaive to send surviving Death Cultists to the Pain Laboratory for testing.
• A black hole seized the spaceship near the Frost Giants' old homeland and scattered Ian, Thor, Gwen, and Captain America through spatial rifts.
• Ian found All-Black the Necrosword in a strange void and was transported to DC Hell, where his writer profession reached level 10 and the new skill [Pen Draws the World] began loading.

Gwen and Steve escaped the void into the Reality Gap World, while Thor found Odin and Loki as ancient beings broke free from their prison. Back in the DC Universe, Ian gained the Pen Draws the World skill and met a mysterious woman who claimed to be Lucifer’s aunt.

• Gwen woke Steve in the void, and they followed a guiding arrow through floating seeds that showed glimpses of possible lives and destinies.
• Gwen and Steve emerged into a ruined city, where Gwen recognized the Reality Gap World and saw a young girl attack zombies from a war chariot.
• Thor found Odin and Loki unconscious in the void, then watched as the void’s seal shattered and released Mephisto, Dormammu, Kang the Conqueror, Shuma-Gorath, Chthon, Cyttorak, and other beings.
• Ian’s writer profession rose to level thirteen, granting him Pen Draws the World, a skill that let him use writing to affect reality and alter definitions or states.
• As Ian prepared to use his new skill in Hell, a mysterious woman appeared and revealed that Lucifer might call her aunt.

Ian met Amara, the Great Darkness, who asked him to free her true body from the basement of Kent Manor, but he left her request undecided. Afterward, Thomas Wayne told Ian that his new demon attendant had conned a King of Hell into defecting to him.

• Ian tried to claim kinship with Amara, joking that she might be his aunt or even his mother, while she failed to confirm his origins.
• Amara offered Ian a powerful pen in exchange for freeing her true body, revealing that she was trapped in Kent Manor's basement and that Ian's power could serve as a master key.
• Ian delayed giving Amara an answer, and her projection vanished before he could decide whether to help her.
• Thomas Wayne arrived and told Ian he had found him a demon attendant, but the attendant had already conned a King of Hell into coming to defect to Ian.

Ian traveled through Hell to retrieve Hannibal Lecter, encountered Lucifer’s Mother in a confessional room, and escaped with Hannibal, Hellcat, and Belial. After Ian returned to the human world, New New Home exploded, and Lucifer’s Mother escaped her confinement and began searching for him.

• Thomas Wayne told Ian that Baal had convinced Belial that Ian was Hell’s future, and Ian welcomed Belial’s interest in his New Land of Light plan.
• Thomas Wayne brought Ian to Room Zero, where Ian found Hannibal Lecter counseling Lucifer’s Mother, the Goddess of Creation.
• Ian tried to calm the Goddess of Creation with a parenting guide, but she misunderstood his advice, expelled him from the room, and raged after Hannibal was taken away.
• Ian fled Hell with Hannibal and Hellcat, recruited Belial with a labor contract, and returned to the human world, where he found New New Home had exploded and Superman confronted him.
• Lucifer’s Mother escaped her confessional room, possessed a dying old man and then other bodies while searching for Ian, and found Constantine in a Los Angeles bar.

Lucifer found Charlotte Richards hosting the Goddess of Creation and learned that she wanted Lois to persuade Ian Kent to sleep with her. Meanwhile, Ian told Clark about the goddess’s pursuit, prompting Clark to seek help from Bruce before sending Ian to school, where Madison proposed a reckless plan to make amends with God.

• Mazikeen warned Lucifer that his mother might have another child, and Lucifer raced to Metropolis to find her.
• Lucifer discovered that his mother's spirit had left the hospital patient, then heard her voice and flew to Lois's office.
• Charlotte revealed that she wanted to befriend Lois so Lois would order Ian to sleep with her, and Lucifer confronted her in the restroom.
• Ian told Clark about the Goddess of Creation's interest in him, and Clark asked Bruce whether he could create a new universe for the Kent family to live in.
• Clark received an assignment to interview wild elephants in Africa, then sent Ian to school and warned him to avoid female classmates.
• Madison told Ian that a Demon was looking for him, then suggested rebelling against God by hiding glowing stone tablets in his factory.

Ian survived a visit from God by proposing a plan to reunite him with the Goddess of Creation, and God left a belt in Ian’s school locker for the scheme. Ian then skipped class, rallied the angels at his factory, and left Batman alarmed by calling himself Bruce’s uncle.

• Madison tried to persuade Ian to help overthrow the Vatican, but he repeatedly reinterpreted her plans as harmless religious ideas until the history teacher arrived.
• God froze time in the classroom, reassured Ian he would not punish him, and discussed his troubled marriage and family with him.
• Ian proposed that God pretend to lose his belt so a mortal could help him reconnect with the Goddess of Creation, and God agreed to leave the belt in Ian’s locker.
• After time resumed, Ian agreed to help Madison find the Old Stonemason, then skipped afternoon classes and inspected his New Heaven factory.
• Ian gathered five hundred angels and presented a five-year development plan for the factory.
• Batman called Ian to question his outsourced customer-service team, and Ian told Bruce to park his wheelchair because his Uncle Ian had something to say.

Bruce Wayne struggled with the news that Thomas Wayne had become sworn brothers with Ian Kent, while Ian’s company expanded its angel-run production and customer service operations. The chapter left Ian realizing that his brother Jonathan had brought God a statue, suggesting God might use it as a shortcut for something Ian had planned.

• Ian told Bruce Wayne that Thomas Wayne had made them sworn brothers and sent him a photo and video of Thomas, driving Bruce to smash his phones and rampage through Gotham in his wheelchair.
• Hugo Strange taunted Bruce Wayne about his wheelchair, so Bruce crushed Hugo’s legs again and knocked him unconscious.
• Ian rallied the angels at New Heaven Tech, praised their sales results, and directed them to develop more products while Michael launched a female-streamer persona as Mikael.
• New Heaven Tech’s low-cost appliances drew crowds, and its demon-staffed customer service impressed customers by offering unusually personal support.
• Bruce Wayne failed to trace the customer service calls and asked Ian how he had connected with Hell; Ian replied, “Wayne Tech,” leaving Bruce humiliated.
• Ian went to the church to speak with God, but saw Jonathan leave holding a statue of God and realized someone might be taking advantage of his plans.

Ian failed to stop Jonathan from taking a God Statue that unlocked God Armor, then returned to Ian Manor to prepare Hannibal’s resurrection. Shiva arrived in a weakened state and begged Ian to tell Jonathan to stop borrowing his power.

• Jonathan left the church carrying a God Statue, while traffic and a mysterious meteor-like vision prevented Ian from reaching him; Jonathan then vanished without a trace.
• Ian returned to the Hellcat and discovered he had left Hannibal and Belial locked inside, then took Hannibal to Ian Manor.
• Ian dug up corpses and assembled a body for Hannibal, while Baal and Belial praised his work and Hannibal watched bizarre news reports.
• Hannibal tactfully asked Ian to prescribe him medicine instead of resurrecting him in the grotesque body Ian had prepared.
• The Demon Butler brought Shiva to Ian, and the weakened god begged him to make Jonathan stop borrowing his power.

Ian learned that Jonathan’s transformations were draining Shiva’s divine power because Jonathan answered prayers in Shiva’s name, and he promised to help Shiva in exchange for teaching dancers. After Sam Lane confronted Ian about buying chemicals, he mistook Ian’s plans for preparations to overthrow the government and offered military support, leaving Ian stunned by his grandfather’s ambitions.

• Ian heard Shiva explain that Jonathan’s transformations and answered prayers were draining his power, then blamed the curry-rice theft on a powerful, petty god without naming him.
• Ian promised to help Shiva and arranged for him to teach a group of streamers to dance, while Belial and Baal proposed deceptive and violent ways to solve Shiva’s problem.
• Ian tried to find Hannibal a suitable corpse, but Hannibal questioned whether the dead should return to the living.
• Sam Lane called Ian about his chemical purchases and warned that officials considered him a potential national threat.
• Sam mistook Ian’s business plans for preparations to lead a revolution and offered to gather a hundred thousand soldiers, leaving Ian to realize his grandfather wanted to become a marshal.

Ian listened as Sam Lane urged him to become a Savior by using his company to provide public benefits and reshape America, then hung up before the plan could tempt him further. Meanwhile, Sam recovered the Orange Cat from a secret military lab, where the Weeping Angel and a resurrected Imhotep unleashed chaos; Ian later learned Lois had welcomed Lucifer and the Goddess of Creation into the family home, while Jordan was busy filming as Homelander.

• Sam Lane condemned America's debt, inequality, healthcare, housing, and education systems, and urged Ian to become a powerful leader who would win public support by improving daily life.
• Ian called Lois to report Sam's ambitions, but Lois told him that a friend had renovated the family home and brought along his enthusiastic mother; Ian suspected Lucifer and the Goddess of Creation were involved.
• Sam entered a secret military laboratory and took the Kryptonite-exposed Orange Cat from the director, warning him to stop his illegal experiments.
• After Sam left, the Weeping Angel broke free and trapped the director, while a mummy consumed the Mysterious Light Core, transformed into Imhotep, and escaped as the lab's other specimens began stirring.
• Lois told Ian that Jonathan had come home with roses, and Ian called Jordan to warn him; Jordan ended the call because he was filming as Homelander for a Queen Industries production.

Jordan filmed Homelander’s milk-drinking scene while Ian tried to hide from the Goddess of Creation, but Clark carried him home and left him to face God and Charlotte Richards. As Charlotte pursued Ian and a mysterious power erased a catastrophic blast, Clark investigated a military disaster, found a veiled woman in Egypt, and was drawn into her misty domain, where she revealed herself as Paradox.

• Jordan celebrated his endorsement payment, then performed Homelander’s milk-drinking scene while ignoring Ian’s calls.
• Ian buried himself beneath Demon Manor to hide from the Goddess of Creation, but Clark dug him up and flew him back to the Kent house.
• Clark left Ian at home, where God was using Jonathan’s body to entertain Charlotte Richards, who searched Ian’s room and talked about pursuing him.
• An enormous explosion erupted outside the house, but God silently erased it; Lucifer told Ian that someone was trying to steal Genesis.
• Clark and Lois reached Sam Lane’s ruined military base and watched footage of a veiled woman who had absorbed the escaped monsters.
• Clark located the veiled woman in Egypt, but she pulled him into a gray mist, called herself Paradox, and touched his forehead, sending his memories and surroundings backward.

After a mysterious woman exiled Clark’s consciousness, he discovered that a military general was selling nuclear weapons and left feeling powerless. While searching for the woman, Clark found that he could withstand Kryptonite and enlisted Bruce Wayne to help investigate the dimensional anomaly, where they saw the woman visiting Lady Death as she watched Ian prepare an enormous gift for God.

• Lois woke Clark after he had been unconscious for half an hour, and he realized the mysterious woman had disappeared.
• Clark found Sam Lane confronting a five-star general who was overseeing the sale of 186 nuclear weapons, but he refused to use force to stop the deal.
• Clark and Lois learned about the media’s silence and Jordan’s bizarre Superman merchandise, then Clark drank while holding Kryptonite and contemplated destroying the world’s nuclear arsenal.
• Clark spotted a vanished building and a blue telephone booth in London, then used his new ability to find Bruce’s hidden safehouse and discovered he could withstand Kryptonite.
• Bruce showed Clark a device that revealed the building between dimensions, where the woman entered Lady Death’s workshop and Lady Death discussed Ian’s plan to send God a gift package of 88,000 babies.

Ian used Lucifer’s Divine Blood as ink to write a story that would make Charlotte Richards drink a pregnancy potion, but God countered it and the plan failed. As Ian escaped underground, Lady Paradox confronted Lady Death and demanded that she withdraw her protection so Ian could meet his destined death.

• Ian punched Lucifer until his nose bled, then collected Lucifer’s Divine Blood to use as ink for his Magic Book.
• Ian wrote a story in which Charlotte Richards drank his pregnancy potion, but God secretly changed the story so the potion became an ordinary drink.
• Charlotte Richards left to find her friend, while God and Lucifer argued over Lucifer’s grievances and the drugged dinner.
• God ended his agreement to use Jonathan’s body and went offline, while Ian escaped by digging underground.
• Lady Paradox visited Lady Death and demanded that she cancel her protection over Ian Kent so he could meet his destined death.

Lady Paradox escaped with Lady Death after insisting she would give Ian Kent a destined death, while Bruce Wayne uncovered a suspicious clue about her umbrella. Ian emerged in the Batcave, then entered the Marvel Universe in his sleep, where Mephisto approached him and was bitten.

• Lady Death tested Lady Paradox’s umbrella and rejected her request to arrange Ian Kent’s death, but Lady Paradox used the TARDIS to take them both away.
• Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne failed to track the women, and Bruce used a memory-reading machine to study Clark’s vision, spotting something suspicious about Lady Paradox’s umbrella.
• Ian Kent tunneled into the Batcave, drank Bruce’s drinks, and misunderstood the scene with Lois, but Clark explained what had happened.
• Ian asked Bruce to make him an invincible iron crotch guard, then fell asleep in an intangible reality bubble beneath Lois’s bed.
• Injustice Superman appeared on the Batcave screens as alarms sounded, while Ian arrived in the Marvel Universe and encountered Mephisto in the rain.
• Mephisto revealed his demonic face and approached Ian, who recognized him and bit his palm.

Ian devoured Mephisto’s avatar, gaining levels and a new skill before the illusion of a rainy street shattered and revealed that they had been trapped together in the void. The ruined spaceship and a floating spear remained nearby as Ian considered testing his new ability.

• Ian bit off Mephisto’s fingers and hand, gaining experience and increasing his world recognition.
• Mephisto revealed his demonic form and unleashed a hellish sea of blood, which Ian swallowed whole.
• Ian chased Mephisto through the illusion’s streets, overpowered his summoned demons, and devoured him completely.
• The system reported that Ian had consumed Mephisto’s avatar, raised Ian to level 16, and granted him the Whisper skill.
• The rainy street illusion shattered, revealing Ian in the void beside the ruined spaceship and a floating spear.

Mephisto’s avatar was destroyed, so he recruited Johnny Blaze to awaken Ghost Rider and hunt Ian Kent. Meanwhile, Ian rode Odin’s Eternal Spear through the Void toward Thor, unaware that Ghost Rider was pursuing him.

• At the Starlight Diner, Mephisto tried to tempt Wanda Maximoff with a deal, but his anger over losing his avatar triggered her Chaos Magic and sent him fleeing.
• Mephisto visited Johnny Blaze, promised to reunite him with his first love, and awakened the Spirit of Vengeance inside him.
• Ghost Rider transformed Johnny Blaze’s motorcycle into a burning Hell Cycle and set out to capture Ian Kent.
• Ian found Odin’s Eternal Spear, used [Whisper] to make it seek Thor, and rode it through the Void.
• After hours of flight, Ian spotted Thor’s Indigo in the distance.

Ian and Thor escaped the void through Gungnir and arrived in a Zombie Universe, where Ian used a new power to turn attacking zombies into helpless babies. They reunited with Captain America and Gwen, then a girl stepped off a flying war chariot and recognized Ian as her uncle.

• Ian and Thor found a mysterious gate in the void, but Ian refused to release the powerful being claiming to be an angel trapped behind it.
• Ian used Whisper to make Gungnir seek Captain America, and he and Thor rode the spear through a crack in space while the gate’s occupant revealed she was the Multiverse.
• Ian and Thor landed in a grim universe overrun by zombies, and Ian used his Reverse Evolution Ray to regress the zombies into babies.
• Ian and Thor found Captain America injured by Gungnir and Gwen trying to remove the spear, so Ian treated Captain America and paid him injury compensation.
• A girl arrived in a flying war chariot, saw Ian, and called him “Uncle Ian.”

Morgan Stark recognized Ian and revealed an unexplained familiarity with him, while Ian defeated the Zombie Avengers and devoured their remains. Morgan’s stories suggested she knew Ian from a past he could not remember, and an unseen observer reported that Ian had contacted the “Anchor Point” and ordered Phase Two prepared.

• Morgan Stark hugged Ian and used [Networking Entanglement], while Ian insisted he had never met her and tried to distract her with a Batman doll.
• Zombie Captain America, Zombie Iron Man, Zombie Spider-Man, Zombie Thor, and Zombie Hulk emerged, and Morgan discovered that they were not supposed to be in Tony Stark’s testing ground.
• Ian stopped Morgan from fighting and destroyed the Zombie Avengers, then ate Zombie Captain America’s vibranium shield, pieces of Mjolnir, and Zombie Iron Man’s armor.
• Morgan told Gwen that Ian had long been familiar to her and recounted how he met Tony, including the claim that Ian had stolen Tony’s underwear to extract and sell its “future generations.”
• Ian denied Morgan’s stories and suggested Tony had implanted false memories in her, while an unseen observer reported that Ian had contacted the “Anchor Point” and ordered Phase Two prepared.

Ian confronted Morgan over her memories of their past, but her stories and Gwen’s conflicting recollections left him questioning what had happened before the universe reboot. Loki then took Odin’s body hostage, was savagely beaten by Ian, and summoned the Frost Giants with the Casket of Ancient Winters, freezing the battlefield as the chapter ended.

• Morgan showed Ian a bizarre Batman figurine and described his past livestreaming himself begging for food, while Gwen insisted she had no memory of those events.
• Morgan and Gwen argued over their contradictory memories, and Ian pondered whether they came from different timelines before Loki, inhabiting Odin’s body, seized him at knifepoint.
• Ian bit through Loki’s wrist and overwhelmed him, smashing him across the ground, planets, and stars before asking how to remove Loki’s soul from Odin’s body.
• Loki recovered, summoned the Frost Giants through Bifrost, and claimed the Casket of Ancient Winters from their leader.
• Loki wielded the Casket to unleash a devastating cold wave that froze the ground, lightning, and surrounding battlefield as Thor, Morgan, Gwen, and Captain America struggled to resist.

Loki used Odin’s body and the Casket of Ancient Winters to freeze Earth and the surrounding miniature universe, but Ian escaped the absolute cold and defeated him. After Thor woke, Ian revealed that his power had de-aged Odin into a baby, then tried to flee before Thor could react.

• Loki unleashed the Casket of Ancient Winters and ordered the Frost Giants to attack Ian, but Ian killed them with Heat Vision and tried to devour their souls.
• Loki froze Earth and pursued Ian through space, eventually freezing the entire miniature universe, but Ian escaped in spirit form and overwhelmed him with golden light.
• Thor awoke to find Ian tending a fire beside ice sculptures of Captain America and Gwen, then discovered Loki trapped inside a thermos and farted into it.
• Thor asked where Odin’s body was, and Ian pointed him toward a tent before explaining that his Atavism Force had turned Odin into a baby.
• Thor found baby Odin and lunged at Ian as Ian prepared to flee with his gains.