Chapter Summaries

Dilos lost control and unleashed a roar that sent crowds into panic, while Ororo captured Magneto and Charles helped Jean recover. At S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury argued that Dilos was too powerful to control but should be approached as a potential ally in the Avengers Initiative.

• Ororo caught the falling Magneto with wind and sealed him inside an anti-magnetic sphere.
• Charles stopped the psychic turmoil tormenting Jean, confirmed that Magneto had been captured, and arranged support for Scott and the others.
• Dilos regained his reason, discovered that his shrinking equipment was broken, and decided to wait before returning to the school.
• Nick Fury told the Security Council that Dilos had defeated Magneto and warned them not to provoke him.
• Nick Fury proposed working with Dilos through the Avengers Initiative rather than trying to control him.

After reaching Hua Jin, Dilos assessed how much his body and abilities had improved and worried about the violent state that had come over him while fighting Magneto. At the school, he continued training Logan, Qin Jiayin, and Piotr, while negotiating how much blood Logan would provide in return.

• Dilos reflected on his tougher body, accelerated healing, metabolism control, increased strength, and improved senses and qi after entering Hua Jin.
• Dilos recalled his rage during the fight with Magneto and dismissed Charles's warning that buried anger could erupt.
• Dilos caught Logan with an electrified web when he fell, and Logan complained that Dilos should use telekinesis instead.
• Dilos explained that his new telekinesis was weak and bargained with Logan over weekly blood vials, settling on five.
• Logan recalled joining Dilos's training after Charles asked him to keep busy, and how the students had each knocked him out before qi training won him over.

Magneto threatened Charles from inside Dilos's specially built prison, while Charles remained determined to stop his old friend. In the underground lab, Dilos realized the Venom Suit could help his allies gain powers and decided to look for it by visiting Peter and Dr. Connors.

• Magneto told Charles that he would escape, kill him, and kill the student who imprisoned him, but Charles insisted Magneto had already lost and would remain confined unless he changed.
• Dilos studied Mystique's genes and serum combinations, concluding that his body could safely accept at most two more treatments.
• Dilos remembered the Venom Suit's ability to copy and enhance a host's powers, and considered ways to protect users' memories and mass-produce symbiotes.
• Dilos recalled meeting Peter in Queens and wondered whether he had become Spider-Man yet.
• Dilos decided to visit Peter and Dr. Connors after Qin Jiayin and Piotr completed their basic training, while Logan continued struggling with Guoshu.

Dilos returned to Midtown High School, restored Dr. Connors's sealed memories, and confirmed that Connors still wanted to join him. Connors then revealed a living black substance he had found after a meteor shower, which Dilos recognized as the Venom Suit.

• Dilos ran to Dr. Connors's laboratory at Midtown High School and used telepathy to get past the guards.
• Dilos's appearance restored Connors's hidden memories, and the two greeted each other warmly.
• Dilos asked Connors to reaffirm his decision to join him, and Connors agreed, explaining that his aims had changed after recent tragedies.
• Connors showed Dilos a living black liquid he had discovered during a meteor shower three months earlier.
• Dilos sensed the liquid's mental signature and identified it as the Venom Suit.

Dilos and Dr. Connors discussed the alien symbiote and agreed to study ways to breed it and develop a healing drug. Dr. Connors accepted Dilos’s plan to obtain restricted materials by whatever means necessary, and Dilos gave him access to their new lab.

• Dilos questioned Dr. Connors about whether the symbiote had possessed anyone, and Connors explained that he had collected it as soon as it emerged from its egg.
• Dr. Connors described how the symbiote had grown on nutrient solution before stopping, and Dilos proposed a project to help breed it and restore or accelerate healing.
• Dilos told Dr. Connors that he needed Nano-Medical Tissue and Wakanda’s Heart-Shaped Herb, and Connors recognized the Nano-Medical Tissue as part of a shelved Banner and Ross project.
• Dr. Connors hesitated over Dilos’s plan to steal the materials but agreed after Dilos argued that the research could protect people and benefit humanity.
• Dilos gave Dr. Connors a high-tech watch that served as a pass to their new laboratory.

Dilos brought Dr. Connors to his underground base on Isla Sorna and revealed plans for a mobile fortress powered by shrinking technology. After Connors mastered Dilos’s serum research, they began developing a healing drug, and Connors proposed consulting Otto Octavius about a safer energy source.

• Dilos showed Dr. Connors the vast underground base and used shrinking technology to demonstrate how it could become a mobile fortress.
• Dr. Connors was impressed by Dilos’s plans and mastered his serum knowledge within a few days.
• Dilos and Dr. Connors developed a green serum by exploiting a loophole in the human immune system.
• Dr. Connors identified Logan’s Healing Factor and discussed combining it with Nano-Medical Tissue and the Heart-Shaped Herb to make a healing drug.
• Dr. Connors suggested replacing Logan’s Healing Factor with an energy source developed by his friend Otto Octavius, and Dilos asked whether Otto would join them.

Dilos and Dr. Connors completed the first stage of producing life and regeneration serums and discussed cultivating Heart-Shaped Herb for future experiments. Dr. Connors then proposed using their research and Dilos's blood samples to create a virus that could induce true immortality, leaving Dilos startled by the idea.

• Dilos decided to postpone recruiting Otto Octavius because he distrusted the physicist's arrogance.
• Dilos infiltrated Wakanda's treasury and Betty Ross's bedroom to obtain Heart-Shaped Herbs and Nano-Medical Tissue manufacturing data.
• Dilos and Dr. Connors completed the first stage of synthesizing the life and regeneration serums in one week.
• Dilos and Dr. Connors discussed mass-cultivating Heart-Shaped Herb and using serum research to develop mutant dinosaur troops.
• Dr. Connors proposed controlling telomerase to achieve true immortality and suggested creating a new lethal virus with Dilos's blood samples.

Dilos and Dr. Connors spent three weeks creating and testing viruses before Dilos shifted the work to a custom simulation machine. On a flight to London, Dilos learned that Lex had eliminated Alec’s internal energy and uncovered clues about Wade Wilson and Smallville, then Lex asked whether Dilos had really been born on Earth.

• Dilos and Dr. Connors created a rapidly expanding tumor virus, which Dilos shrank and incinerated before it escaped the laboratory.
• After hundreds of millions of experiments, Dilos proposed moving future virus research into a customized machine and combining its simulations with Michael’s blood-fusion analysis.
• Dilos left for London with Emma, while Juggernaut guarded the underground base and Dr. Connors took over the dinosaur and Venom Suit experiments.
• Lex told Dilos that Alec’s internal energy had been removed and that the planned experiment could give Alec superpowers.
• Lex reported that Wade Wilson had been missing for nearly three months and that he had found two interesting things in Smallville.
• Lex asked Dilos whether he had really been born on Earth.

Lex told Dilos about alien artifacts and a prophecy he uncovered in Smallville, then revealed that he had found a spaceship in Clark’s family barn and believed Clark was one of the prophesied Visitors from Beyond. The chapter left Lex fearing that another alien might be on Earth and that the visitors could threaten humanity.

• Lex apologized to Dilos for suspecting he was an alien and explained that his unusual accomplishments had made him suspicious.
• Lex told Dilos that a metal object found in Smallville contained materials not found on Earth and had arrived during the meteor shower fourteen years earlier.
• Lex described a cave with matching symbols and a prophecy about two equally powerful Visitors from Beyond who would become enemies, with only one surviving.
• Dilos acknowledged why the prophecy might make Lex suspicious but dismissed it as an unreliable legend.
• Lex revealed that his people had found a spaceship in Clark’s family barn and said he believed Clark was the alien from the prophecy.
• Lex worried that the second alien might also be on Earth and that the visitors could have come to invade.

Dilos reassured Lex about Clark’s identity while agreeing that Lex should investigate the prophecy and the cave carefully. In London, Selene remained wary of a threat to the vampires, and Dilos arrived at a hotel ready to confront them.

• Dilos blocked Emma’s senses and told Lex that Clark was harmless, urging him to keep Clark’s identity secret and avoid using Kryptonite against him.
• Lex said he suspected the prophecy might be linked to an alien and planned to investigate the other alien and the cave; Dilos warned him not to put the diamond-shaped metal into its groove.
• Selene warned Kahn that someone had read and altered a vampire’s memories, but Kahn believed the vampires were safe and did not raise the alert.
• Selene went out to patrol alone, while Kahn stayed behind, constrained by her higher rank and status as Viktor’s adopted daughter.
• Dilos arrived at a London hotel with Emma disguised as Adam Jones and anticipated surprising the vampires.

Dilos infiltrated Zades Corporation to investigate its cloned plasma technology and the Vampire manipulating the company. He planned to kill the three Vampire elders and William Corvinus before they could threaten humanity, especially as alien conflicts weakened it.

• At midnight, Dilos shrank down, put on his battle armor, and headed to Zades Corporation headquarters to investigate its cloned plasma technology and hidden Vampire influence.
• Dilos considered how Vampires had to conceal themselves among humans, but feared that Viktor might secretly build power and eventually wage war on humanity.
• Dilos concluded that Elder Amelia would have to die after the other elders were killed, because the Vampires would pressure her into fighting humanity.
• Dilos learned that Viktor had imprisoned William Corvinus and controlled Marcus by threatening his brother, while Marcus planned to free William.
• Dilos placed Amelia, Viktor, Marcus Corvinus, and William Corvinus on his kill list as the ultimate targets of his operation.

Diloss infiltrated the Vampires’ relocated London headquarters, revived two elders, and recruited Kraven by exposing his past betrayal and promising him power. Kraven agreed to serve Diloss, who ended by asking where Elder Amelia was.

• Diloss stole Zades Corporation’s cloned plasma files, found a Vampire messenger, and traced the new headquarters through his memories.
• Diloss revived the elders in their metal coffins with nutrient-rich plasma and sent sleeping Marcus a message intended to spark a disturbance.
• Diloss abducted Kraven, the official who had invited prominent Vampires to a banquet and knew Amelia’s location.
• Diloss revealed that Kraven had betrayed Viktor and collaborated with Lucian, then offered to make him ruler of a Vampire faction in exchange for lifelong service.
• Kraven accepted Diloss’s offer, and Diloss asked him where Elder Amelia was.

Dilos captured Amelia while two Elders, Viktor and Marcus, awakened early at the new vampire headquarters. Marcus revealed that Werewolf blood had strengthened him, then challenged Viktor and sought revenge.

• Dilos reached Amelia's hotel with Kraven, killed more than twenty guards, and knocked Amelia unconscious.
• Viktor and Marcus awakened at the headquarters, and Selene and Kahn led the vampires in paying them respect.
• Viktor blamed Selene and Kahn for the early awakening and Kraven's disappearance, but Selene explained the Council's weakness and the threat from humans.
• Marcus revealed that Werewolf blood had restored and strengthened him because he was Alexander Corvinus's son.
• Marcus confronted Viktor, taunted him to run, and declared that he would take revenge.

Viktor’s fight with Marcus exposed that Viktor had killed Selene’s family and turned her into a vampire, shattering her trust in him. A man appeared beside Selene with Kraven and the unconscious Elder Amelia, offering to reveal more of Viktor’s secrets.

• Viktor and Marcus fought while their followers clashed throughout the Vampire headquarters.
• Marcus taunted Viktor by revealing that Viktor had killed Selene’s family, and Viktor admitted he had done it.
• Selene realized Viktor had deceived her and confronted him in pain and hatred.
• The fighting stopped as the Vampires heard Viktor’s confession, and an unknown man appeared beside Selene holding Kraven and the unconscious Elder Amelia.
• The man told Selene that her father had been killed because he knew Viktor’s secrets, then offered to share more stories about Viktor.

Dilos subdued Marcus and the vampires at the headquarters, then promised Selene he would explain why Viktor killed her family. Viktor grew increasingly uneasy as Dilos prepared to reveal the truth.

• Dilos appeared holding Kraven and Amelia, and Marcus confronted him about waking him with blood from a werewolf descendant.
• Marcus attacked Dilos, but Dilos flicked his arm aside and mocked his strength.
• Dilos used telepathy to force Marcus and his loyal vampires to their knees, while the others submitted to his command.
• Dilos ordered the vampires to stay in the headquarters and told Selene he would explain why Viktor had killed her family.

Dilos exposed Viktor’s role in the centuries-long war, helped Selene kill him, and killed Marcus and Amelia, then claimed to be Alexander Corvinus’s descendant and promised the vampires a transformed future. Meanwhile, Emma reached Andreas Tanis to force him to reveal Alexander Corvinus’s location, while Dilos already learned where William was imprisoned.

• Dilos revealed that Viktor had killed Sonja, framed the Corvinus family to hide the truth, and spared Selene because she resembled his daughter.
• Dilos immobilized Viktor and gave Selene his sword, and Selene beheaded Viktor while Dilos killed Marcus and Amelia.
• Emma and Jack’s group reached Andreas Tanis’s monastery, and Emma demanded Alexander Corvinus’s exact location under threat of force.
• Selene pointed her sword at Dilos and challenged him to kill her, but he said he had orchestrated events without wanting to destroy the vampires.
• Dilos claimed to be a direct descendant of Alexander Corvinus and promised the vampires sunlight, greater strength, human food, and the ability to have children in exchange for losing several vampiric powers.

Dilos’s allies obtained Alexander Corvinus’s blood and used it to create Perfect Blood, which could remove vampires’ weakness to sunlight. After Selene tested it and felt sunlight safely, she pledged her loyalty to Dilos.

• Dilos gained Selene and several vampires as followers, while the others planned to seek refuge with the Vampire Council in Russia, and he killed Kraven by exposing him to sunlight.
• Emma and Jack’s team restrained Alexander Corvinus, extracted blood and spinal fluid, and administered life and regeneration serums before leaving.
• Dr. Connors processed Alexander Corvinus’s blood into syringes of Perfect Blood, which Emma and Jack brought back to London.
• Dilos handed the case of Perfect Blood to Selene and explained that it could let vampires withstand sunlight and eat human food.
• Selene injected the blood and tested it in sunlight, discovering that it brought warmth rather than pain.
• Selene took Dilos’s hand and swore to fight for him as long as he did not betray her.

Dilos secured Selene and other experienced fighters for his new undead race, then brought Selene back to Smallville. On the drive, Selene questioned his leadership and pledged to help him, while Dilos persuaded her to call him by his name.

• Dilos considered how Selene, her comrades, and the vampire nobles could help him gain fighters and influence with the vampire council.
• Selene freed William Corvinus and defeated him using her enhanced abilities and Dilos's weapons.
• Dilos returned to Smallville with Selene, while two warriors stayed in London and Emma, Jack, and the others returned to Isla Sorna.
• Dilos and Selene discussed her new clothes, Kraven's betrayal, and whether Dilos could trust her.
• Selene warned Dilos that his loose control could weaken the new undead race, and Dilos agreed to establish fair rules and rights.
• Dilos teased Selene into calling him by his name, and she agreed to call him Dilos.

Dilos and Lex uncovered Lionel Luthor’s ties to Veritas, an organization formed to await and protect the Kryptonian Traveler, and suspected that hidden Kryptonian forces had manipulated events in Smallville. Lex activated a crystal and metal shard that produced a holographic map of Earth with coordinates in the southern Arctic, where Dilos recognized the likely location of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude.

• Dilos and Lex discussed Kryptonian inscriptions, meteor-rock infections, and the possibility that aliens had left traces and descendants around the world.
• Lex revealed that Virgil Swann had intercepted an alien message, founded Veritas, and believed Clark was the Traveler destined to rule Earth and bring it peace.
• Lex explained that Lionel Luthor tried to seize the Traveler for himself, but strange incidents stopped him from taking Clark.
• Lex showed Dilos a Kryptonian crystal and a metal shard that supposedly could control or destroy Skywalker, then fitted the shard into the crystal.
• The crystal projected a holographic Earth and marked coordinates in the southern Arctic, which Dilos recognized as the likely location of Superman’s Fortress of Solitude.

Dilos and Selene arrived at the Sullivan house for Chloe’s seventeenth birthday, where Dilos unexpectedly ran into Lois Lane, his cousin’s cousin and longtime childhood rival. Their reunion erupted into an argument over old grievances, leaving Chloe and Selene to wonder how the two had become so hostile.

• Dilos told Selene he had a bad feeling but refused to explain, then entered the Sullivan house ahead of her.
• Dilos stopped when he saw Lois Lane and asked why she had come, while Lois said she was attending her cousin’s birthday party.
• Dilos and Lois traded accusations about their childhood fights and embarrassing incidents until Chloe’s arrival interrupted them.
• At the birthday table, Chloe urged Dilos and Lois to get along, but they exchanged a mocking glance and turned away from each other.
• Selene remarked that she had never seen Dilos lose his temper so badly, and Chloe said the story between him and Lois was difficult to explain.