Chapter Summaries

Chthon ambushed the group as God Eater pursued him, while Wanda sealed the Old One inside the Cthulhu Mythos manuscript. The group survived the ancient gods’ first clashes, but Deathstroke warned that their next collision would be even more dangerous.

• Chthon appeared in the void after the building vanished, and God Eater charged at him while Su Ming sensed that the ambush was suspicious.
• Deathstroke ordered Wanda to use the human-skin book, and Wanda turned the boiler containing the Old One into a page and sealed it inside.
• Su Ming called back the Cloak of Levitation as Strangle shielded the group from the shockwave of God Eater and Set colliding.
• The shockwave blasted the group into the counterfeit Totality and reduced New York City to dust and powder.
• Wanda and Deathstroke discussed the ancient gods’ immense power as God Eater and Chthon prepared to collide again.

God Eater and Chthon battled inside the Totality while Su Ming and the others struggled to survive in Wanda’s damaged protective shell. Su Ming suspected Chthon was holding back for a hidden plan, but the group could not determine what it was.

• Chthon used likenesses of Oshtur and Gaea to provoke God Eater, then fought him with the fake goddesses as weapons.
• Deathstroke warned that the Elder Gods’ clash would soon destroy the Totality’s shell, and Wanda revealed her makeshift shell had already cracked.
• Su Ming wondered why Chthon had not escaped and concluded that he must have a way to deal with God Eater.
• Wade suggested Chthon might have another powerful ally, but Deathstroke argued that Chthon would not have abandoned Set if he needed a three-on-three fight.
• Su Ming said he could not read Chthon’s thoughts because his Thought Bubble contained only Chaos.

Chthon trapped the Vishanti and the God Eater in a Totality while Deathstroke and his companions escaped to Earth. Chthon then unleashed a spell to turn believers in light and Order toward darkness and Chaos, and Squirrel Girl attacked Deathstroke as soon as the group arrived in Hawaii.

• Deathstroke ordered the Adjutant to evacuate, but Chthon copied Wanda’s Totality and imprisoned the Vishanti and the God Eater inside it.
• Cloak escaped with the Sorcerer Supreme, and Deathstroke’s group teleported away while Chthon taunted the trapped gods.
• Chthon declared that humans who believed in light and Order would convert to darkness and Chaos, then unleashed a wave of Chaos energy across the universe.
• The Adjutant brought Deathstroke’s group to Oahu, where Squirrel Girl suddenly bit Deathstroke’s armor and shouted that she would take his money.
• Diana struck Squirrel Girl across the back of the head with her shield, knocking her onto the beach.

Su Ming assessed the worldwide chaos caused by Chthon’s Chaos Magic, which had turned good people into villains, and confirmed that his companions remained unaffected. After contacting Batman and learning that Superman and Arthur were safe, he sought out Doom to use the Cosmic Cube against the magic.

• The Adjutant reported that Chthon had altered humanity, sparking civil wars among heroes and widespread crime across Earth.
• Su Ming checked his companions and found that his cousin, Harley, Diana, Wanda, Lorna, and Gwenpool had not become bad, while Squirrel Girl remained conflicted.
• Diana worried about Superman’s vulnerability to magic, but Su Ming contacted Batman, who confirmed that Superman and Arthur were safe and protected by Tenth Metal.
• Batman agreed to have Superman subdue the rampaging heroes, while Su Ming said he would restore the situation.
• Su Ming asked the Adjutant to connect him to Doom so he could borrow the Cosmic Cube and use technology to defeat magic.

Su Ming revealed that he had deliberately baited Chthon into trapping the Vishanti with a Totality, leaving Chthon occupied and vulnerable to a counterattack. Doctor Doom then arrived with the key to the Transcendence Dimension and the root of the Omniverse, while Su Ming demanded the Cosmic Cube so he could deal with Chthon.

• Su Ming explained that he had anticipated Chthon’s actions and arranged for Wanda to teach him about the Totality, which Chthon used to ensnare the Vishanti.
• Su Ming described how he pretended to be caught off guard while Cloak carried the group out, and Harley recognized the plan as a Batman-style bait tactic.
• Wanda blamed herself for teaching Chthon the spell, while Harley kept quiet and Deadpool continued dancing.
• Doctor Doom teleported to Su Ming and announced that his experiment had yielded the key to entering the Transcendence Dimension and the root of the Omniverse.
• Su Ming asked Doom for the Cosmic Cube so he could deal with Chthon before they discussed the Beyonders.

Su Ming took back the Cosmic Cube and sent Doctor Doom to Latveria with the magically affected Squirrel Girl while preparing to confront Chthon. Chthon fled with the red Totality as Oshtur and the other trapped gods kept attacking from within.

• Doctor Doom said he would return to Latveria, and Deathstroke entrusted him with Squirrel Girl until her condition improved.
• Su Ming reclaimed the Cosmic Cube, told Diana it could potentially restore everyone, and said killing Chthon came first.
• Su Ming told the others to stay out of the next confrontation and planned to take Deadpool with him.
• Chthon struggled to hold the red Totality, trapped between resisting the gods inside and releasing them to attack him.
• Oshtur urged the Octessence to break free, and Chthon flew away with the Totality while she repeatedly declared, "You're dead."

Su Ming and Angerboda watched Chthon flee into an apparently unclaimed icy dimension, where he hoped to draw energy to escape the Vishanti. Afterward, Su Ming offered Deadpool as compensation if Angerboda disliked his survival reality show, but she rejected the offer.

• Chthon searched the Splitting Domain for a dimension where he could hide from Oshtur and the others, but dismissed each possibility he considered.
• Chthon spotted an unfamiliar snowy dimension with no discernible Demon God owner and entered it to draw on its energy.
• Su Ming, Angerboda, and Deadpool revealed themselves after Chthon disappeared and discussed Su Ming’s Doomsday Survival Reality Show.
• Su Ming offered Deadpool to Angerboda as compensation, but Angerboda refused after Deadpool eagerly volunteered.

Deathstroke and Angerboda prepared Blood-Seeking Ice City as an inescapable survival-show set for Chthon, using the Cosmic Cube and Time Stone to trap him in a loop. Chthon was sent back to before he learned about the Totality and found himself facing Oshtur’s assembled forces, so he fled in confusion.

• Deathstroke brought Deadpool and Angerboda into the snowy dimension Angerboda had created and named it Blood-Seeking Ice City.
• Deathstroke used the Cosmic Cube, Time Stone, and Tenth Metal to seal the dimension against Elder Gods escaping, while Angerboda recognized his spatial and temporal loops.
• Deathstroke planned to reverse Chthon to before he learned how the Totality was constructed, then used the Cosmic Cube with Deadpool’s Plot Continuity Gem.
• Chthon suddenly found himself in the snowy dimension with his memory returned to the moment before he studied the Totality.
• Oshtur, Vishanti, the Octessence, and God Eater confronted Chthon, who fled without knowing where his allies had gone.

Su Ming and his companions turned Chthon’s chase into a hide-and-seek game by trapping him in a supernatural ice maze. Chthon fled from a lurking Old One’s Kin while Deathstroke and the others watched from the shadows, ready to spring more scares.

• Su Ming, Deathstroke, Deadpool, and Angerboda watched the Demon Gods chase Chthon through the icy valley.
• Su Ming and Deadpool used the Cosmic Cube and Continuity Gem to create Blood-Seeking Ice City, an ice maze filled with mist, traps, and strange creatures.
• Chthon flew into the newly created mist and found himself alone in the maze as the pursuers vanished.
• Chthon tried to erase the maze with Chaos Magic, but his spell failed as a distorted song played around him.
• A tentacled Old One’s Kin appeared around a corridor corner, and Chthon ran deeper into the maze while Su Ming and the others watched from the shadows.

Deathstroke trapped Chthon and Hoggoth in Blood-Seeking Ice City, using a ghostly construct to torment Chthon while he watched with Deadpool and Angerboda. Hoggoth accepted the maze as a comfortable place to nap, and Deathstroke sent him ten tons of roast duck.

• Chthon wandered the snowy maze while an unseen presence breathed on his neck and a ghostly child tormented him.
• Deadpool asked why Chthon was being outwitted, and Su Ming explained that the remaining 40K Earth had narrowed the power gap between single-universe and multiverse forces.
• Hoggoth found himself trapped in a time-loop corridor and recognized that Deathstroke had created the maze.
• Deathstroke told Hoggoth he had built Blood-Seeking Ice City to play with Chthon and offered to let Hoggoth confront him.
• Hoggoth warned that other Dimensional Demon Gods might object, but agreed to let Deathstroke use God Eater to arrange encounters in the maze.
• Deathstroke sent ten tons of roast duck raining down on Hoggoth, burying him and his reclining chair.

Su Ming and Angerboda watched the Octessence members navigate his maze while Toshio’s prank kept Chthon distracted. Su Ming arranged a theatrical trap for Chthon, and the curtain began to open on the cow’s performance.

• Su Ming said Oshtur had likely noticed the maze and was eating preserved fruit, while Agamotto wandered through the ice corridors.
• Godslayer crawled through the maze searching for Chthon, while Toshio’s incorporeable antics kept Chthon from noticing his surroundings.
• Wade volunteered to confront Chthon, but Su Ming instead ordered the Adjutant to arrange an opera house and a cow at Chthon’s next intersection.
• Chthon entered the grand theater, where applause rang out and a loop repeatedly sent him back into the audience whenever he approached the stage.
• The theater lights went out, and the curtain began opening for the cow actor.

Su Ming trapped Chthon in a time-looping theater where endless Joker Cows performed Turandot, using Angerboda’s power to accelerate time by a million years. Chthon eventually stopped fighting and joined the performance, while Deadpool concluded that he had gone crazy.

• Chthon repeatedly destroyed the Joker Cows, but Su Ming restored them through the Time Stone and kept the performance going.
• Angerboda praised Deathstroke’s show and offered to make him her representative, but Su Ming declined and asked to borrow her energy.
• Su Ming combined Angerboda’s power with the Force of Connection and accelerated time inside the theater by one million years.
• After killing hundreds of thousands of cows, Chthon gave up and began watching and singing along with them.
• Chthon learned the opera, joined the Joker Cow onstage, and tried to turn the performance into a ballet.
• Deadpool noticed Chthon’s transformation and said that he seemed to have gone crazy.

Su Ming used the theater to make Chthon bond with Joker Cow over a million years, then introduced the God Eater, who killed the cow. Chthon attacked the God Eater in rage, turning the staged tragedy into a brutal fight.

• Su Ming and Deadpool watched Chthon’s million-year transformation in the theater and prepared to bring in the God Eater.
• Su Ming connected the God Eater’s corridor to the theater, and the demon rushed through the door after sensing its prey.
• Joker Cow shielded Chthon from the God Eater’s attack and was turned into a spray of blood, giving Chthon time to dodge.
• Chthon waited for Joker Cow to revive, but when it did not return, he became furious and accused the God Eater of killing her.
• The God Eater revealed his true form and began fighting Chthon at close range.

Chthon temporarily gained the upper hand against the God Eater while Su Ming and Angerboda kept the unstable space reinforced. Oshtur appeared and claimed Deathstroke as her agent, and after Deadpool’s joke ended in another accidental stabbing, the group agreed to continue toying with Chthon.

• Chthon briefly drove the God Eater back, while Su Ming and Angerboda reinforced the hall against the battle’s destructive shockwaves.
• Oshtur appeared between Deathstroke and Angerboda and insisted that Deathstroke was her agent.
• Su Ming asked Deadpool to tell the goddesses a joke, and Deathstroke accidentally stabbed Deadpool when the joke fell flat.
• Angerboda and Oshtur stopped arguing and agreed to continue the fight rather than kill Chthon immediately.
• Deathstroke explained that the God Eater had killed Chthon’s new friend, a Joker Cow, and said he would separate the combatants and introduce another catalyst.

Deathstroke used Oshtur’s power and the Cosmic Cube to change Chthon’s defining blue-purple cape, testing Deadpool’s theory that recognizable traits shaped identity. Chthon’s attempt to reunite with the resurrected Joker Cow ended when she mistook him for The Spectre after his cape turned green.

• Deadpool complained about Deathstroke’s cryptic talk, and Oshtur said Chthon’s true form was mostly darkness and Chaos beneath his cape.
• Deathstroke explained how Captain America’s uniform and shield let different people be recognized as Captain America, then proposed stripping Chthon of his cape’s defining identity.
• Oshtur granted Deathstroke energy, and he used the Cosmic Cube to change Chthon’s clothes.
• Chthon tried to recreate Joker Cow with Chaos Magic but could only make a soulless shell, leaving him grieving and furious.
• Joker Cow returned and began singing, but she rejected Chthon and called him The Spectre after noticing his cape had turned green.

Deathstroke used the Cosmic Cube and Time Stone to torment Chthon with an immortal impostor and Joker Cow, while Wade and Oshtur watched. Chthon eventually stopped fighting after killing the impostor a million times, only to watch it romance the cow.

• Deathstroke revealed that he had placed the Cloak in a time loop, making it turn green again whenever Chthon tried to change it.
• Deathstroke created a Chthon-like impostor who protected Joker Cow, and Chthon destroyed it in a jealous rage when the cow embraced it.
• Deadpool explained that cows were color-blind, while Oshtur dismissed him and threatened to kick him.
• The impostor revived after Chthon destroyed it, and Deathstroke used the Time Stone to fast-forward ten million years in the theater.
• Chthon repeatedly killed the immortal impostor and tried to reclaim Joker Cow, but gave up after about a million attempts and watched the pair flirt.

Su Ming enhanced the spectacle tormenting Chthon with music, then summoned an army of fanatical Uruk-hai from Mordor for his next move. He ordered Efferal to pressure Gandalf into joining the Council of the Sky, despite Harley Quinn having stolen the One Ring.

• Su Ming had the Adjutant play “Unforgivable,” pleasing Angerboda, Oshtur, and Deadpool as Chthon’s bizarre love-triangle ordeal continued.
• Su Ming contacted Efferal, who showed him her army of loyal Uruk-hai in occupied Mordor.
• Efferal reported that she had defeated Sauron and his Ringwraiths and asked how to handle peace talks with Gandalf.
• Efferal revealed that Harley Quinn had taken the One Ring from Frodo, preventing Gandalf from negotiating.
• Su Ming ordered Efferal to tell Gandalf that he must join the Council of the Sky or face death and Exterminatus for Middle-earth.

Su Ming and the goddesses finished preparing the maze and connected it to a sitcom template, where The Spectre found himself cast as a heartbroken man whose girlfriend had chosen Chthon. The Spectre went to work feeling worthless, and an Orcs shopkeeper gave him a magical fish head and instructions for making a wish.

• Angerboda declined Su Ming's offer to travel beyond the Multiverse, and Oshtur promised to help revive Yggdrasil.
• Adjutant reported that the maze was ready, so Su Ming ordered the cameras positioned and connected the setup to the sitcom template.
• The Spectre awoke in a sitcom reality and saw Chthon with Joker Cow, who had chosen Chthon over him.
• The Spectre left for work and told an Orcs shopkeeper that Chthon had stolen his girlfriend and that he blamed himself for the breakup.
• The Orcs shopkeeper secretly gave The Spectre a Magic Fish Head and explained how to use it to make a wish.

Su Ming and the Goddesses watched Chthon’s staged life as The Spectre, while Su Ming explained why he used living creatures to populate the illusion. The Spectre went to work at a vending-machine factory, where Agamotto appeared as his foreman, prompting Oshtur to question Su Ming about his role.

• Su Ming told Oshtur that living creatures were needed to fool Chthon, and Oshtur cautioned him not to treat the Uruk-hai as humans.
• The Spectre rode a crowded subway, ate bread, and kept the fish head he had received at the market.
• The Spectre listened to a song that reminded him of his ex-girlfriend and roommate, then left the subway to go to work.
• The Spectre arrived late at the vending-machine factory, where the bald foreman waited for him.
• Oshtur recognized the foreman as Agamotto and asked Su Ming whether he had altered Agamotto’s memories; Su Ming said Agamotto had volunteered to act.

Su Ming sent the Octessence to pursue Chthon, who had been deceived into believing he was the Spectre and forced to work in a factory. The demon gods staged a violent attack that drove Chthon into the alleys with the Magic Fish Head, and they continued the hunt.

• Oshtur watched Agamotto berate Chthon and dock his pay while Chthon believed he was the Spectre.
• Su Ming fast-forwarded to the end of Chthon's shift and ordered the Adjutant to send the Octessence after him without supernatural powers.
• The Octessence entered the factory in human disguises and confronted Chthon in the locker room, demanding the Magic Fish Head.
• Uruk-hai coworkers helped Chthon escape as Valto and the others pretended to shoot them.
• Valto questioned the Uruk-hai before Watoomb reminded the demon gods to continue hunting Chthon, who had fled into an alley.