Chapter Summaries

Fifteen-year-old Dilos Sullivan reflected on surviving Smallville’s meteor shower and planned to strengthen himself through Guoshu training and scientific study in a world filled with Marvel and DC heroes. At school, he warned his cousin Chloe about getting close to Clark Kent, then recognized Clark using super-speed to reach the school.

• Dilos recalled his transmigration, his survival of the meteor shower, and his plan to gain strength through training and scientific knowledge.
• Chloe called Dilos downstairs for breakfast, and they hurried to school together after his uncle had left for work.
• Dilos teased Chloe about her crush on Clark and warned her that Clark’s future troubles could put her at risk.
• Dilos spotted Clark arriving at school and realized he had kept pace with the school bus using super-speed.

Dilos used blue Kryptonite and a homemade anesthetic to secretly draw blood from Clark, hoping to obtain valuable Kryptonian blood. He escaped detection, and Clark’s powers returned after Dilos moved away from the meteorite’s radiation.

• Chloe questioned Clark about how he had gotten to school, and Dilos interrupted and led her away.
• Dilos told Chloe he wanted to pursue an internship at Osborn Corp, while Chloe admitted she still loved Clark and would not ask Pete to the homecoming dance.
• Dilos followed Clark after school and learned from his conversation that Clark was upset about Lana.
• Dilos secretly used blue Kryptonite, anesthetic, and pressure-point techniques to make Clark numb, then drew a syringe of his blood.
• Dilos moved out of the Kryptonite’s range, allowing Clark’s powers to return and the anesthetic to wear off.

Dilos dodged a car that crashed into a lake, rescued its driver, and discovered the man was Lex Luthor. Clark watched from nearby, puzzled by his sudden blackout, while Chloe arrived furious about the reckless driver.

• Dilos and Clark shoved each other as a speeding car bore down on them, and Dilos hurled Clark away before leaping clear of the crash.
• Dilos dove into the lake, pulled the unconscious driver from the wrecked Porsche, and revived him on shore.
• The driver introduced himself as Lex Luthor, and Dilos recognized him as Superman's future arch-enemy.
• Clark watched Dilos and wondered why the shove had knocked him unconscious.
• The police arrived, and Chloe spotted the soaked Dilos and shouted angrily about the reckless driver.

After saving Lex Luthor in a car accident, Dilos turned down a reward and left with his cousin Chloe, whose family feared he had been hurt. Back home, Uncle Gabe fussed over Dilos, and Dilos later returned to his room to examine the blood he had drawn from Clark.

• Lex apologized to Dilos for the accident and offered to repay him, but Dilos declined a reward and exchanged business cards with him.
• Chloe drove Dilos home and warned him that Uncle Gabe was already on his way after hearing about the accident.
• Uncle Gabe checked on Dilos repeatedly for more than two hours, showing how worried he and Chloe had been.
• Chloe angrily complained about Lex, and Dilos reminded her that Uncle Gabe still managed the Luthor Fertilizer Plant.
• Dilos returned to his room to examine the blood he had drawn from Clark.

Clark told Jonathan and Martha that Dilos had stronger powers than he did, prompting them to consider whether Clark should learn the truth about his origins. Meanwhile, Dilos studied Kryptonian blood, struggled to get more from Clark, and received an extravagant car from Lex Luthor.

• Clark told Jonathan and Martha that Dilos had knocked him unconscious and seemed more powerful than he was, and Jonathan and Martha discussed whether to tell Clark the truth about his origins.
• Dilos examined Kryptonian blood and discovered that it absorbed many forms of energy and contained unusually large mitochondria that suggested a very long lifespan.
• Dilos considered taking more blood from Clark but held back because Clark kept watching him.
• Chloe confronted Clark about staring at Dilos, and Clark admitted he wondered whether Dilos might be related to him by blood.
• Gabe gave Dilos a letter from Lex Luthor along with a gold Lamborghini, and Dilos asked whether he should return it.

Dilos returned the flashy Lamborghini to the Luthor Mansion, then helped Chloe and Pete investigate a series of electrocutions linked to former Smallville High football players. They identified the likely culprit as Jeremy Quick, a former freshman who had been comatose for twelve years after a football hazing prank, and Dilos warned that the homecoming dance could turn dangerous.

• Dilos found no one at the Luthor Mansion to answer the door, so he drove the Lamborghini home and later saw a man being loaded into an ambulance after an electrocution.
• Chloe and Pete told Dilos that three former Smallville High football players had been electrocuted in three days, then took him to Chloe's Wall of Weird to investigate.
• Pete found a twelve-year-old yearbook photo of Jeremy Quick, and Chloe confirmed that Jeremy was an only child who had been comatose since the meteor shower.
• Pete explained that Jeremy had been stripped and tied up as a scarecrow in a football hazing prank, while Chloe and Pete suspected he had gained electrical powers.
• Dilos urged Chloe and Pete to notify the police and Jeremy's parents, stop investigating, and stay away from the homecoming dance, where the football players might face Jeremy.

Dilos found Clark tied up and weakened by Green Kryptonite in a cornfield near LuthorCorp, but Jeremy Quick arrived before they could leave. Jeremy attacked Dilos with lightning, and Clark was struck while trying to protect him.

• Dilos learned that Whitney had tied Clark up as the school’s Scarecrow and drove to the cornfield near LuthorCorp.
• Dilos found Clark tied to a wooden cross with a Green Kryptonite necklace around his neck, then freed him and removed the necklace.
• Jeremy Quick emerged from the cornfield and confronted Clark, accusing people of continuing to hurt others despite punishment.
• Jeremy turned toward Dilos and fired a bolt of lightning; Clark rushed to shield him and slammed into the bolt.

Dilos rescued Clark from Jeremy’s lightning attack and escaped the Green Kryptonite, while Clark used his powers to extinguish a fire in the cornfield. Jeremy then found and attacked Dilos, leaving him convulsing as he approached.

• Jeremy attacked Dilos with lightning, but Dilos dodged while Clark confirmed that Dilos had rescued him.
• Jeremy’s attack set the cornfield ablaze, and he fled as Dilos carried the weakened Clark away from the Green Kryptonite.
• After Clark recovered, Dilos hinted that he could use powerful breath to put out the fire, and Clark extinguished the flames.
• Dilos waited near LuthorCorp, but Jeremy ambushed him with electricity and approached as Dilos felt murderous intent.

Dilos learned Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound while recovering from Jeremy’s lightning attack, then used Spirit Snake Wild Dance and Mad Python Dragon Tail to kill him. Dilos treated his life-threatening injuries until he collapsed, just as a bald man seemed to call his name.

• Dilos’s vital energy and vibrating muscles produced Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound, easing his pain and allowing him to escape Jeremy’s attack.
• Jeremy hurled lightning at Dilos, who used Spirit Snake Wild Dance to weave through the bolts and close the distance.
• Dilos struck Jeremy with Mad Python Dragon Tail, shattering his ribs and pulverizing his internal organs.
• Dilos used Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound to keep his own injuries from becoming fatal, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• As Dilos lost consciousness, he thought he saw a bald man calling his name.

Dilos woke in the hospital after being unconscious for three days and learned that Jeremy had died and he had been cleared of charges. He reassured Chloe, then decided to hide his ability to heal himself and wait until he could return home.

• Dilos woke in a hospital room, found Chloe asleep beside him, and learned she had watched over him with Lex and her father while he was unconscious.
• Chloe told Dilos that Jeremy had died, Lex had prevented the police from arresting him, and Clark's statement helped clear him of charges.
• Dilos admitted to Chloe that he had killed Jeremy in self-defense and explained what had happened, leaving out Clark's powers.
• Chloe blamed herself for Dilos's injuries, but Dilos reassured her that his Guoshu training would help him recover; she remained unconvinced and contacted Lex about finding doctors.
• Dilos tried to use Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound to heal himself, but the pain and rumbling made him decide to wait until he was home.

Dilos discovered that he could sense other people’s emotions and learned to block them out while exploring his ability in a strange darkness filled with colored orbs. After waking, he thanked Lex Luthor for helping him and recognized that he needed to judge people by their actions rather than by what he knew from his previous life.

• After Chloe left, Dilos struggled with restlessness and began to suspect he could read the emotions of people around him.
• Dilos tried to control his new mental ability, but grew exhausted and fell asleep.
• In a dark space surrounded by colored orbs, Dilos identified them as emotions and successfully blocked their fluctuations from reaching him.
• Dilos woke to find Gabe and Lex Luthor at his bedside and confirmed that he could shut out the emotions he sensed.
• Lex told Dilos he had arranged for the best doctors to treat him and wanted to be his friend, and Dilos sensed that Lex was sincere.

Dilos returned home and used Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound to speed the healing of his broken bones and other injuries. After Chloe and Gabe witnessed his rapid recovery, they believed in Guoshu but remained skeptical of his story about learning it from an old man in China.

• Dilos insisted on leaving the hospital, and Chloe and Gabe helped him return home.
• Alone in his room, Dilos used Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound at low intensity and rapidly healed his fractures, sprains, and bruises.
• Lex's doctor examined Dilos the next day and found his injuries far milder than expected.
• Dilos demonstrated Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound to Chloe and Gabe, and his injuries improved further as they watched.
• Chloe and Gabe accepted that Dilos's recovery was real but questioned his story about learning Guoshu from a Chinese old man, leaving the matter unresolved.

Dilos trained his psychic ability while recovering, improving his control over spiders and deciding to earn money by writing the Harry Potter books. As his follow-up examination approached, he worried that the doctor would reveal his recovery and ability to Lex and Lionel, and considered using telepathy to influence people.

• Dilos trained his psychic powers for two weeks but found no abilities beyond sensing small animals and controlling their behavior.
• Dilos focused on controlling spiders, and after a month his mental strength, memory, reflexes, and appetite had improved.
• Dilos decided he would write and publish the Harry Potter series to make money.
• Dilos continued pretending to be injured when Lex visited because he feared the doctor would tell Lex about his full recovery.
• Dilos recalled Lionel Luthor's cruelty and considered whether he could use telepathy to control or hypnotize people.

Dilos hypnotized the doctor into concealing his condition, then told Chloe and Gabe about his mental ability and reassured them, strengthening their trust. After rewriting the first three Harry Potter books, he planned to experiment with Clark's blood to develop glasses that could reproduce Superman's X-ray vision and Heat Vision.

• Dilos used his mental ability to gradually hypnotize the doctor into believing he had examined Dilos, prescribed medication, and scheduled a follow-up for two months later.
• Dilos told Chloe and Gabe about his ability and promised not to use it on them or on others unless absolutely necessary.
• Chloe and Gabe apologized for their suspicions, and Dilos reassured them that their trust and family bond mattered to him.
• Dilos spent half a month rewriting the first three Harry Potter books, leaving his hands painfully sore.
• Dilos decided to test whether Clark's blood could help him create glasses that used radiation to provide X-ray vision and Heat Vision.

Dilos Sullivan developed thick-rimmed glasses that used Kryptonian blood to provide safe X-Ray Vision and Heat Vision. As Dilos rested after completing them, Clark accidentally destroyed a tractor when he sneezed and resolved to be more careful.

• Dilos experimented with combining a hydraulic device, electric current, and semiconductor metal, discovering radiation that revealed the interiors of objects.
• Dilos spent nearly two weeks making the radiation safe and fitting X-Ray Vision and Heat Vision into a pair of glasses.
• Dilos tested the glasses, which could see through objects and could produce powerful Heat Vision, and arranged for their Kryptonian blood supply to recharge in sunlight.
• Dilos considered getting more blood from Clark, who sneezed and sent a tractor flying across the field.
• Clark repaired the tractor in his barn and decided to cover his mouth whenever he sneezed, while Dilos slept at home.

After a coach nearly killed Chloe, Dilos began driving her to school and learned that several recent Metahuman crimes were likely connected to Kryptonite. On the way home, he stopped a bank robber who looked like Lex Luthor and watched the man transform into someone else.

• Dilos learned that Gary Alkin had kidnapped Lana Lang and that a Metahuman coach had nearly burned Chloe alive before dying in a confrontation with police.
• Dilos confronted Chloe for hiding the danger from him and began driving her to and from school.
• Dilos and Chloe spotted a man who looked like Lex Luthor fleeing a bank with a gun and a backpack.
• Dilos sensed the robber was not Lex, struck him unconscious with a self-defense pen, and watched him transform into a pale-faced person in a suit.

Dilos asked Lex to help him build a power base so he could protect innocent Metahumans and challenge the corruption threatening their town. He ended by appealing to Lex for support, promising to prove that backing him was the right choice.

• Dilos explained that he wanted to keep the captured woman because she was useful, was not a Mutant, and could help him understand Metahuman abilities.
• Dilos told Lex that many Metahumans lived in town and that groups could use the recent crimes as an excuse to hunt them.
• Dilos revealed that he wanted to build his own power base and protect people rather than remain insignificant and powerless.
• Dilos explained that Chloe's brush with death had made him realize he could not avoid the town's dangers.
• Dilos asked Lex to help him and promised to prove that Lex had made the right decision.

After persuading Lex to secretly monitor events and help if Dilos proved himself, Dilos took Tina Gray to an abandoned factory and pressured her to cooperate with his research. He left her terrified and demanded secrecy while offering to pay for a blood sample.

• Dilos recalled erasing the onlookers’ memories after Tina robbed a bank using Chloe’s appearance, then taking Tina to the police and asking Lex to intervene.
• Lex agreed to keep watch in secret and help Dilos if he proved his worth.
• Dilos brought Tina, who had been released without charge, to an abandoned factory in Smallville.
• Dilos confronted Tina over the robbery and used flames to frighten her into submission.
• Dilos asked Tina to let him draw her blood for research, offered to pay her, and warned her to keep their arrangement secret.

After secretly investigating Tina and Clark, Dilos became famous when Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone became a massive bestseller and won major awards. His new wealth and public attention delighted him, while Chloe was irritated that the press had dragged her and Gabe into his fame.

• Dilos reflected on how he had used hypnotic suggestions and enhanced Heat Vision to intimidate Tina, while Lex began collecting meteor rocks for his private laboratory.
• Dilos secretly took more blood from Clark and concluded that Clark had developed nearly all his other abilities, so he spent less time with him.
• Lex promoted Dilos's novel, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone sold over ten million copies in two months and won several awards.
• Dilos agreed to make his identity public, earned twenty million dollars, and became famous across Europe and America as his name spread into Asia.
• Dilos enjoyed the attention at school, then boasted to Chloe at the Torch Newspaper Office; after reporters had also publicized her and Gabe, he offered to buy Chloe a BMW X6M.

After the attention surrounding his novel faded, Dilos returned to his hectic routine and struggled to break through from An Jin to Hua Jin. He learned Chloe planned to volunteer because Clark would be there, and she resolved to try telling him how she felt.

• Dilos spent his earnings on cars, computers, and clothes for himself, Chloe, and Uncle Gabe, while Lex secretly bought meteorites from local families.
• Dilos concluded that he lacked both the bone-marrow training and martial-arts understanding needed to reach Hua Jin, and decided to keep training patiently.
• Dilos asked Chloe why she had taken up volunteering, and she admitted she wanted to do more good.
• Dilos pointed out that Chloe was volunteering because Clark would be there, and she admitted she still wanted to pursue him.
• Chloe said she thought she could tell Clark how she felt this time, while Dilos wondered whether he should help her win Clark over.