Chapter Summaries

At Chloe’s birthday party, Dilos reflected on his old feud with Lois, then got revenge after she exposed his terrible singing. He later met Alec at Lex’s secret laboratory, where Alec showed how his electricity-generating ability had changed his life, and Dilos promised to help him live openly.

• Dilos realized his childish behavior had helped fuel his long-running arguments with Lois and decided he should change.
• Lois exposed Dilos’s tone-deaf singing, so he sang at Chloe’s party while she recorded him.
• Dilos retaliated by painting Lois’s face and leaving embarrassing pictures of her, prompting her to curse him the next day.
• Selene drove Dilos to Lex’s secret laboratory, where he reunited with Alec Summers.
• Alec explained that his electricity-generating ability had earned him a job with Lex and a monthly salary of one hundred thousand dollars.
• Dilos asked to test Alec’s blood and promised to help him live openly and honestly.

Dilos took control of International Genetic Technologies and prepared to become the new Grand Elder of the Undead while showing Selene the dragons bred for the Dragon Rider Plan. He awakened the black dragon and revealed that his genetic modifications had bonded it to Selene, leaving her to meet her future mount.

• Dilos used telepathy to take control of International Genetic Technologies and learned that he would become the new Grand Elder of the Undead at a ceremony in three days.
• Dilos brought Selene to the breeding chamber to see three enormous dragons, the vanguards of the Dragon Rider Plan.
• Dilos opened the black dragon's incubation pod despite Selene's protest, and the newly awakened dragon formed a mental bond with her.
• Dilos explained that Selene's dragon would obey her, could breathe both fire and ice, and would grow into a powerful mount once it matured.
• Dilos asked Selene whether she liked the dragon as her gift and first mount as a dragon rider.

Dilos showed Selene the dragons he had created, then gave Lex a powerful young dragon named Nobo and discussed why he should remain hidden from S.H.I.E.L.D. Lex revealed his fears about a Kryptonian conspiracy, prompting Dilos to stay in Smallville while they planned; meanwhile, Kryptonian artifacts lit up and several young people briefly lost consciousness.

• Dilos explained that he had created four dragons using genetic materials from Lex and Michael, and that he could control them through a connection established with his blood and Michael's.
• Dilos returned to Smallville with Selene and gave Lex a young dragon that Lex named Nobo.
• Lex told Dilos to wait before revealing himself to S.H.I.E.L.D., explaining that his power and position were not yet stable and that Chloe should have a happy high school life.
• Dilos asked why Lex was withholding information, and Lex admitted he feared a Kryptonian conspiracy might be monitoring and interfering with them.
• Dilos agreed to remain in Smallville until they could address the Kryptonian threat and plan countermeasures.
• The diamond-shaped metal underground and Kryptonian writing in the Kawatche cave lit up, while several young people in Smallville briefly lost consciousness.

Dilos learned about the young superpowered people Lex had gathered in his laboratory and agreed to help manage them. As they discussed one young man's suppressed rage toward Alicia, a new visitor arrived in Smallville and vowed to claim the town.

• Dilos reviewed Lex's reports on the young superpowered people and learned that Alicia Baker could teleport, but had nearly caused someone's death through jealousy.
• Lex explained that he had brought Alicia to the laboratory for psychological treatment and used hypnosis to alter witnesses' memories.
• Dilos agreed to get to know the young people and help manage them, then sensed that one brown-haired young man harbored intense suppressed rage toward Alicia.
• A well-dressed man arrived in Smallville and declared that he would soon make the town his own.

Alec and Alicia sought Dilos’s help after the sheriff suspected Alicia of attacking someone in a sealed room, and Dilos identified the real culprit as Tim Wescott. Meanwhile, Bob Rickman used mind control to make Jonathan Kent sign away the Kent farm.

• Alec denied the sheriff’s accusation and called Alicia to take her to Dilos for help.
• Dilos revealed that Tim Wescott could turn his body into sand and was responsible for the sealed-room attack.
• Dilos told Alec and Alicia to devise a plan to clear Alicia’s name themselves.
• Bob Rickman tried to buy the Kent farm, but Jonathan refused to sell it.
• Bob used a green glow and mind control on Jonathan, who signed the farm contract while dazed.

Alicia found Tim Wescott searching her room and confronted him about framing her, recording his confession before he attacked her in his yellow-sand form. She escaped and Dilos knocked Tim unconscious, leaving him for the police as Alicia headed to the station.

• Alicia returned home, found Tim Wescott rummaging through her wardrobe, and recognized him as the person who framed her.
• Alicia recorded Tim admitting he had framed her and demanding that he turn himself in.
• Tim transformed into yellow sand and rushed at Alicia, but she teleported away before he could catch her.
• Tim raced toward the police station, but Dilos struck him down and he returned to his human form unconscious.
• Dilos confirmed Tim would not wake soon and hid nearby to prevent his escape while Alicia went to the police station.

Jonathan had been tricked into signing away the Kent farm for only ten thousand dollars, and Clark suspected Bob Rickman had controlled his mind. Meanwhile, Dilos and Lex discussed their investigation before Bob approached Lex, who angrily rejected him.

• Martha confronted Jonathan after discovering he had signed a contract to sell the farm to Bob Rickman for ten thousand dollars.
• Clark suspected Bob had used mind control, but the Kents hesitated to seek help from Dilos or Lex because they feared putting them in danger.
• Dilos planted mental suggestions in Tim to keep him from escaping and make him confess, then met Lex at a café to discuss the investigation.
• Dilos told Lex he wanted to meet Kyla Willowbrook and learn more about her dangerous, unknown ability, while Lex warned him to be cautious.
• Bob Rickman approached Lex at the café, and Lex refused to shake his hand and ordered him to leave.

Lex confronted Bob Rickman over the damage his factories had done to the local environment, then realized Bob might be a superpowered individual. Dilos secretly subdued Bob, searched his memories, and discovered Bob had planned to use his ability to control Lex and had already controlled Mr. Jonathan.

• Lex mocked Bob Rickman and guessed that he was a Mutant after Bob insisted Lex could not make him leave the café.
• Bob concealed his alarm when Lex's guess touched on his secret power to control people through skin contact.
• Lex activated his watch's mental shielding device and silently asked Dilos for help.
• Dilos used telepathy to control Bob, then searched his memories and learned Bob had planned to control Lex and had controlled Mr. Jonathan into selling the farm.
• Dilos realized Bob's unusual power might be useful and considered studying it.

Chloe told Clark and his family that Bob Rickman had died and Rickman Enterprises had collapsed, voiding the farm contract. Meanwhile, Dilos studied Bob’s mind-control ability, then accidentally transformed his vital energy into a dangerous vortex; just as he neared death, he gained control of it and stopped it from draining his energy.

• Chloe visited Clark and his family at Kent Farm and told them Bob Rickman had supposedly died by suicide.
• Chloe explained that Rickman Enterprises had collapsed under attacks from LuthorCorp and other companies, and Lex’s lawyers had voided the contract.
• Dilos figured out how Bob’s skin-contact mind-control ability worked and tested it on a lab worker, finding that it bypassed psychic-blocking devices.
• Inspired by Bob’s ability, Dilos experimented with different energy frequencies and accidentally created a vortex that consumed his vital energy and began draining his blood and qi.
• Dilos gorged on food to stay alive, but as he prepared for death, his connection to the vortex returned and he used his mind to stop its energy extraction.

Dilos’s vital-energy vortex transformed his body, and he combined it with Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound to reach Gang Jin and complete a full cleansing of his meridians and marrow. After stabilizing his new power, he became confident he could take on even Freedom Gundam.

• Dilos’s vortex condensed into a radiant core that released vital energy and steadily strengthened his body.
• After waking covered in black grime, Dilos discovered his appearance had changed and tests showed his strength and lifespan had greatly increased.
• Dilos handed Bob over to Lex and trained with the vortex and Tiger-Leopard Thunder Sound, beginning the cleansing associated with Gang Jin.
• Over the following month, Dilos completed the cleansing, recuperated, and stabilized his realm as his strength and physical abilities surged.
• Dilos learned he could break the sound barrier with ease and withstand extreme speeds and conventional weapons, then declared he could dismantle Freedom Gundam.

Dilos assessed how his Yuan Qi vortex had transformed his strength, speed, and endurance, then began experimenting with using electricity to create high-frequency attacks. The chapter left him testing the technique while Lex reacted to the enormous food bill Dilos had run up.

• Dilos reflected that his Yuan Qi vortex let him reach Mach 10 and unleash forty times his normal strength, though his control still depended on the vortex.
• Dilos recognized that his body had gained little from further tempering but continued training while he waited for the new serum to be completed.
• Dilos went to the laboratory testing grounds to develop attacks beyond his fists and Web Grenades.
• Dilos guided electrical energy into his palm and began increasing its vibration frequency to create high-frequency waves.
• Lex stared at the bill and complained that Dilos had eaten as much in a month as the laboratory staff would in three years.

Dilos experimented with stabilizing high-frequency current and discovered that telekinesis could keep it under control. He successfully created a stable lightning technique that sounded like ten thousand birds chirping.

• Dilos's 15,631st attempt to control high-frequency current ended in an explosion that blasted him dozens of meters away.
• Dilos realized he could use telekinesis to stabilize electromagnetic waves and formed a telekinetic shell around the current in his palm.
• Dilos raised the current above 100 kHz, producing bright lightning and a sound like ten thousand birds, but the energy destabilized when he removed the shell.
• Dilos sensed that he had combined telekinesis and electromagnetic waves incorrectly and discarded the unstable energy in a small explosion.
• Dilos released telekinesis first, merged electrical energy into it, and successfully produced stable high-frequency lightning.

Dilos Sullivan tested a powerful gold-and-blue combat state, but its extreme energy consumption limited him to five minutes even after recovery. Lex then brought Kawatche experts to examine a Kryptonian-inscribed sculpture, leaving them about to identify it.

• Dilos Sullivan demonstrated a high-speed, heavily armored state that lasted only thirty seconds before exhausting his vital energy.
• Lex urged Dilos to recover and told him his people had found a Kryptonian-inscribed sculpture in the underground cave.
• Lex met Kayla Wilbrook, her grandfather Joseph Wilbrook, and Jeremiah Hodeska at the cave.
• Jeremiah showed hostility toward Lex, who remained unfazed and asked the Kawatche experts what they thought the sculpture was.

Lex confronted the Kawatche experts about a Kryptonian-inscribed sculpture, which Jeremiel identified as “Parak” before Joseph falsely called it a cooking vessel. As Lex took the artifact and summoned Dilos for help, he realized he had been controlled, and the sculpture suddenly began shining with golden light.

• Lex showed the sculpture to Joseph, and Jeremiel blurted out that it was “Parak.”
• Joseph claimed the artifact was an ancient Kawatche cooking vessel, but Lex recognized that the experts were hiding its meaning.
• Lex snatched the sculpture and ordered his men to take it, prompting Jeremiel to protest that it was a Kawatche treasure.
• Lex called Dilos for help dealing with the Kawatche experts, then realized he had been controlled when he looked toward the diamond-shaped indentation and Kyla.
• The sculpture inside the alloy container erupted with dazzling golden light.

A Kryptonian Dagger unleashed a powerful force in the cave and caused Clark intense pain from afar, while Jeremiel absorbed its energy and attacked Lex. Dilos arrived in time to stop Jeremiel and pursued him, as Clark followed the dagger’s signal to Luthor Castle.

• The golden force field struck everyone in the cave, and the shattered statue revealed a glowing Kryptonian Dagger whose high-frequency sound tormented Clark at Smallville High.
• Clark fled class at super speed, Chloe went after him and called Jonathan and his wife, and several students’ eyes flashed green before they walked out lifelessly.
• Jeremiel took the dagger’s power, rose in golden light, and tried to stab Lex, accusing him of seeking the Kawatche treasure.
• Dilos seized Jeremiel’s dagger arm, punched him through the cave and outside, then carried the others to the surface and pursued him.
• Clark followed the piercing sound to Luthor Castle.

Clark broke into Luthor Castle and discovered a Kryptonian-inscribed metal object whose golden light stopped his head pain, then fled as guards approached. Meanwhile, Dilos confronted Jeremiel, learned that the Kryptonian Dagger enhanced him, and challenged him to grow stronger after defeating him again.

• Clark followed the ringing into Luthor Castle, tore through the basement doors, and found a glowing diamond-shaped object engraved with Kryptonian pictographs.
• Clark picked up the object, wondered why Lex had it, and escaped when he heard people approaching.
• Dilos recovered his energy with life potions while Jeremiel struggled to stand after being punched away.
• Dilos used telepathy to learn that the Starblade, or Kryptonian Dagger, empowered its wielder and was tied to a Kawatche prophecy.
• Jeremiel attacked Dilos with enhanced strength and speed, but Dilos dodged his dagger and knocked him flying with three punches.

Dilos defeated Jeremiel after realizing the Kryptonian Dagger had influenced his mind, then killed him when he remained committed to the prophecy and threatened Lex. As Dilos collected the dagger and turned to check on Lex, Clark appeared behind him.

• Dilos sensed the Kryptonian Dagger's psychological suggestion in Jeremiel and chose to let him grow stronger so he could punish him for nearly killing Lex.
• Jeremiel attacked Dilos with enhanced speed and strength, but Dilos evaded him and pinned him to the ground.
• Dilos broke Jeremiel's wrist, disarmed him, and used vital energy to keep him conscious despite the pain caused by the dagger's enhancements.
• Jeremiel insisted that prophecy destined him to kill Lex and that Dilos would die, so Dilos vaporized him with golden energy.
• Dilos placed the Kryptonian Dagger in a black metal sphere and decided Krypton was an enemy, then turned and saw Clark behind him.

Clark followed a ringing sound to a remote hill, where he witnessed Dilos kill a man with beams from his eyes. Dilos realized the Kryptonian machine was influencing people and rushed to protect Lex and search for Chloe and the others, while Chloe fled a swarm of bees.

• Clark tracked the ringing to a hill and saw Dilos disintegrate a man with golden-blue energy from his eyes.
• Clark confronted Dilos, but Dilos sped away after fearing the Kryptonian machine had endangered Lex and the others.
• Dilos found Lex and the group safe, explained that the machine could interfere with people's minds, and shielded their brains with psychic energy.
• Dilos left to find Chloe and the others, while Clark chased after him.
• Chloe fled through an alley as thousands of bees pursued her.

Chloe tried to leave the school but was ambushed by Alec, Alicia, and others with dangerous superpowers, then pursued by a swarm of venomous wasps. Dilos rescued her just in time and vaporized the wasps with beams from his eyes.

• Chloe tore apart the school gate’s chain and tried to leave, but Alec, Alicia, and three others blocked her way.
• Alec attacked Chloe with lightning, while a man’s piercing shriek forced her to stop and dodge another bolt.
• Chloe knocked the shrieking man unconscious with a car mirror, then incapacitated Alicia and fled from the remaining pursuers.
• Thousands of venomous wasps chased Chloe and began catching up with her.
• Dilos appeared, carried Chloe away, and destroyed the wasps with beams of golden energy from his eyes.

After rescuing Chloe, Dilos learned that meteor-infected people had attacked her and incapacitated them before going to secure Gabe. Chloe urged Clark to trust Dilos and asked him to explain his secrets, while Lex found a powerful barrier sealing the cave and concluded it was their final target to destroy.

• Dilos told Chloe that a girl at her school had likely summoned the bees and that her attackers were meteor-infected people under someone else's control.
• Dilos protected Chloe, incapacitated the attackers with telepathy, and set out to restrain them before heading to the Luthor Fertilizer Plant.
• Clark reunited with Chloe and condemned Dilos for killing someone, but Chloe asked him to consider Dilos's past actions and the strange events surrounding them.
• Chloe urged Clark to call his parents and explain why the piece of metal mattered, leaving Clark hesitant to reveal his secrets.
• Dilos found Gabe unharmed after Gabe had knocked out his ordinary attackers, then decided to take him home for safety.
• Lex tested the barrier sealing the cave entrance, saw it knock a bodyguard unconscious, and decided it was the final target they needed to destroy.