Chapter Summaries

Oshtur traveled to Cimmeria, where she tried to improve the Cimmerians’ lives and discovered that a clash with Crom’s pantheon had freed the Old One Shuma-Gorath. She established the Cloud City of Akamat and created Bird-Men to watch over and guide the people below.

• Oshtur journeyed beyond the multiverse to Cimmeria and secretly investigated the bloodthirsty Cimmerians and their god, Crom.
• Using the alias Ma'at, Oshtur taught the Cimmerians practical skills and helped them advance from the Stone Age into the iron age.
• Crom and his sons confronted Oshtur, and she defeated their pantheon before learning they had guarded a seal beneath the Black Mountains.
• The battle weakened the seal and freed Shuma-Gorath, who escaped while Oshtur and the native gods were occupied.
• Oshtur took control of the region, built the Cloud City of Akamat, and created Bird-Men to guard the city and guide the Cimmerians.

Oshtur left Cimmeria after preparing Conan to become its future defender, then returned to Earth and helped humanity resist the Celestials. After hearing about the bird-people who served as her messengers, Yggdrasil copied their likeness to create a race of angels.

• Oshtur delayed her departure from Cimmeria after Conan was born, arranged for Star Iron to reach his father, and left the boy to grow into the world's defender.
• After Oshtur departed, the Old Ones corrupted Cimmeria, and Conan set out with the village's finest sword before eventually becoming a famed slayer of their incarnations.
• Oshtur returned to Earth with Hoggoth, made Agamotto from her tear, and sent him to teach humanity magic and fight the Celestials.
• Yggdrasil allied with Oshtur, sent Odin to help Agamotto form the Ancient Avengers, and joined the struggle against the Celestials.
• Yggdrasil heard Oshtur's story about bird-people serving as angels and worked with Angerboda to create a similar race as a tribute.

Su Ming explained the history of Yggdrasil’s counterfeit angels and negotiated with Oshtur for command of the birdfolk to deal with them. Oshtur agreed that the angels threatened her reputation and asked Su Ming to explain his plan, which began with Hevenheim’s justice-minded general.

• Su Ming recounted how Yggdrasil exiled the thieving angels and how Hevenheim had since developed in the void.
• A messenger bird told Deathstroke that Oshtur wanted to know why he needed the birdfolk and what he would offer in return.
• Su Ming warned that the angels’ crimes could damage Oshtur’s reputation and threatened to leave and work for Cyttorak instead.
• Oshtur appeared, sent the messenger bird away with a bag of seeds, and asked Su Ming how he planned to handle the angels.
• Su Ming pointed out Hevenheim’s justice-minded general, and Oshtur told him to explain what he meant.

Su Ming negotiated with Oshtur over the angels and the technology that could push dimensions through the void. Oshtur agreed to lend him manpower on the condition that Hevenheim be returned to Yggdrasil, and Su Ming asked to choose his helpers.

• Su Ming joked that Finandel might be a bird person and questioned whether Oshtur's defenses could detect angels disguised as bird people.
• Oshtur dismissed his concerns and asked him to explain his plan, saying the Octessence could not be left unwatched.
• Su Ming proposed eliminating some angels and controlling others, then told Oshtur he wanted Hevenheim's dimensional technology rather than the dimension itself.
• Oshtur agreed to lend Su Ming manpower but required him to return Hevenheim to Yggdrasil.
• Su Ming agreed and asked whether he could choose the people who would help him.

Su Ming planned to overthrow Hevenheim’s militarist rulers and install Angela as a puppet queen, using Oshtur’s followers to disguise the takeover as an angelic rebellion. He asked Oshtur to lend him Shamhat Saraswati, a former Sorcerer Supreme, to command the operation.

• Su Ming outlined a plan to kill the Angel Queen and Malekith, then place Angela on Hevenheim’s throne and control the realm through Aesir connections and economic aid.
• Su Ming chose Finandel to lead a staged angelic rebellion and planned for Angela to inherit the throne after the Queen’s death.
• Su Ming asked Oshtur to lend him a capable general from among her followers rather than a minor officer.
• Su Ming named Shamhat Saraswati, the former second Sorcerer Supreme and Oshtur’s High Priest, as his preferred commander.
• Oshtur was surprised that Su Ming knew of Saraswati, whose long service had included battling powerful Old Ones.

Finandel investigated a fire that killed Dark Elves at the hospital and suspected that someone in Hevenheim was targeting them to oppose The Queen’s alliance with Malekith. When The Queen ordered her to execute captured human prisoners, Finandel refused, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Finandel learned that every Angel from the hospital had survived and found that the Dark Elf victims had been killed before or during the fire.
• Finandel suspected that Angels were behind the attacks, protesting The Queen’s choices by massacring Dark Elves.
• The Queen ordered Finandel to execute a group of captured human prisoners, but Finandel argued that they were innocent and valuable.
• The Queen threatened to kill Finandel if she disobeyed, and Finandel replied that she could not obey before throwing away the communicator.

Deathstroke coordinated with Saraswati and her Bird People forces as they took over key positions in the dimension using forged orders. Saraswati warned him about the Old Ones, then used the Book of Oshtur to direct the battlefield, while Deathstroke arranged an unusual insect-juice meal for her.

• The chapter revealed that Deathstroke's supposed prisoners were the rescued captives, the golden orders were forged by the Adjutant, and the guards replacing angels were Bird People.
• Deathstroke observed how Bird People differed from angels and met Saraswati, Oshtur's former High Priest and an ancient Sorcerer Supreme.
• Saraswati warned Deathstroke that the Old Ones remained a silent threat and said many of her successors had died defending Earth.
• Saraswati opened the Book of Oshtur and used it to command the Bird People and project a battlefield map.
• Deathstroke explained drinks to Saraswati, who requested insect juice, and he ordered the Adjutant to have Mordo prepare juice from giant beetle larvae.

Deadpool proposed using Deathstroke’s shoe-throwing trick to find the hidden Dark Elves after the team failed to locate them. The boot landed pointing straight down, leaving Diana and Carol vomiting in the park’s yellow haze.

• Carol explained that the Dark Elves excelled at stealth and escaped using fast, cloaked ships.
• Diana abandoned her plan to attack the spaceport after finding it empty of Dark Elves and led the team to search elsewhere.
• Deadpool claimed he had a way to find the Dark Elves, and Diana and Carol followed him down to a park.
• Deadpool described Deathstroke’s method of throwing a shoe to ask Destiny for directions and tossed his foul-smelling boot.
• The boot landed with its toe pointing into the ground, and Diana and Carol began vomiting from Deadpool’s foot odor.

Deathstroke and Saraswati oversaw the bird people's peaceful occupation of Hevenheim while Finandel tried to rescue the human prisoners. Finandel was confronted by Tismy just as she prepared to escape with them.

• Deathstroke told the Adjutant to send angels to Finandel and disguise their orders as The Queen's, while Saraswati reported that the bird people had occupied nearly one-third of Hevenheim.
• Deathstroke urged Saraswati to locate the royal palace and find The Queen and Malekith; Saraswati planned to secretly eliminate the Queen's most loyal followers when the time came.
• Finandel reached the park, took custody of the human prisoners, and prepared to sneak away with them after the guards left.
• Tismy arrived with an armed guard and challenged Finandel for disobeying The Queen's orders.
• Finandel drew her greatsword and declared that she would protect the prisoners and fight Tismy.

Finandel fought Tismy over Hevenheim’s injustice until a massive army arrived and hailed her as the Dragon King, forcing Tismy to surrender. With Finandel’s position strengthened, Su Ming and his allies prepared to locate the Angel Queen and Malekith for a decapitation operation.

• Tismy confronted Finandel and attacked her, and the former friends clashed while arguing over the Queen’s rule and their past as attendants.
• Finandel declared that Hevenheim was not worth staying in without fairness or justice, and Tismy ordered her guards to surround and kill her and the rescued prisoners.
• A muscular, bare-chested general led tens of thousands of “Angels” to kneel before Finandel and announce the Dragon King’s return, leaving both Finandel and Tismy stunned.
• Tismy and her guards surrendered under the new army’s encirclement, while Finandel asked the birdman general what was happening.
• Su Ming told Sugar Bean that the group would soon find the Queen and Malekith’s hiding place, and Harley persuaded him to leave the Queen’s head intact for display.

Diana, Carol, and Deadpool discovered that the apparent Angel army was a force of winged followers working for Angela, while Su Ming used the hostages to support a staged rescue. Finandel accepted an absurd cover story about Angela’s identity, and the chapter ended with her captives returned to Earth and the birdman commander promising a fairer Hevenheim.

• Deadpool guessed that the unarmored figures were artificial humans disguised by Su Ming, and Diana recognized their fervent expressions as evidence they were not Angels.
• Diana saw that the unconscious humans were the hostages she had previously rescued and realized Su Ming had used them as pieces in another scheme.
• The Asura Unit commander told Finandel that Angela had sent them to rescue her and, following Saraswati’s instructions, claimed Angela held a string of grandiose identities.
• Finandel believed the commander, accepted that Angela had deceived her, and asked whether the humans could be sent back to Earth.
• Su Ming had Adjutant teleport the humans away and arrange memories of a lottery prize for them, while Finandel asked the commander to spare Tismy.
• The commander assured Finandel that they shared her ideals and promised a future Hevenheim founded on fairness and justice.

Su Ming transformed into an Angel and joined Finandel on a search for the Angel Queen and Malekith, hoping to clear the way for Angela to rule Hevenheim. Finandel led him and a small group toward the palace, while Su Ming assured her that Angela would secure lasting fairness.

• Su Ming transformed into an Angel, left Harley with Saraswati, and joined Deadpool, Carol, and Diana.
• Su Ming reunited with Deadpool, who mocked his new appearance, and then gathered the group to speak with Finandel.
• Su Ming asked Finandel where the Angel Queen and Malekith might be hiding, and she offered to lead them to the palace and the Queen's usual haunts.
• Su Ming told Finandel that Angela would ensure lasting fairness, and Finandel led the group into the air toward the palace.

Su Ming, Deadpool, and Finandel approached the Angel Queen’s palace, an ordinary-looking building in Hevenheim, while Carol and Diana attacked from different entrances. After Diana killed the guards outside, the group entered the palace to investigate.

• Su Ming decided to leave Saraswati’s birdman troops behind because their fervent devotion made him uncomfortable.
• Deadpool speculated that the Angel Queen’s gold might be hidden away and accepted five hundred US Dollars from Su Ming.
• Finandel led Su Ming and Deadpool to the ordinary-looking palace, where Su Ming sent Carol in from the rooftop and Diana in from the first floor.
• Deadpool questioned Finandel about the Angel Queen and her appearance, while Su Ming told Finandel she could study Earth’s knowledge if she wanted.
• Diana killed the palace guards at the entrance, and Su Ming followed her inside with Deadpool and Finandel.

Su Ming and his companions found the Angel Queen absent from the palace and decided to search the royal tomb, where Su Ming expected to find her and Malekith. As Finandel led them there, she questioned why the Olympian Diana took orders from humans.

• Su Ming examined the palace corpses and concluded that the Angel Queen was not there, then waited for Diana and Carol to return.
• Deadpool learned from Finandel that the Queen was named Heven, and he joked that naming a dimension after herself showed her arrogance.
• Diana and Carol returned from searching the palace, but Diana reported that they had found no worthy opponents.
• Su Ming announced that they would go to Hevenheim's royal tomb, and he agreed to stay at Diana's place afterward.
• Finandel used a map to lead the group toward the royal tomb and remarked that gods were now taking orders from humans.

Su Ming's group reached a floating island in Hevenheim and identified its anti-gravity machinery as technology from the Eternals of Titan. As they searched for the tomb entrance, lurking Dark Elves ambushed them.

• Finandel guided the group through Hevenheim while Harley drew her into conversation by hugging and questioning her.
• Carol recognized the floating island's machinery as anti-gravity equipment, and Deathstroke identified it as technology used by the Eternals who left Earth for Titan.
• Deadpool blamed Thanos for the Angels' technology and talked about stealing his melons, while Deathstroke corrected him about the timeline.
• Su Ming told Wade to scout the tomb entrance first, but Dark Elves suddenly attacked the group with a barrage of weapons and energy.

Su Ming and his companions defeated the Dark Elf ambushers and learned the imperial tomb’s layout from their memories. He used the Cosmic Cube to split the Floating Island open, exposing Malekith and the Angel Queen and leaving them trapped by the heroes.

• Wade was killed by the Dark Elves’ laser fire, while Deathstroke reflected their shots and Su Ming used a corpse to smash the remaining ambushers.
• Strangle consumed the Dark Elves and gave Su Ming the tomb’s blueprint and the locations of Malekith and the Angel Queen.
• Su Ming used the Cosmic Cube to tear the Floating Island in half, spilling gold and exposing the tomb’s occupants.
• Malekith tried to flee, but a woman in a red-and-blue uniform blocked him, while Harley and Cloak helped Diana intercept the Angel Queen.
• Deathstroke confronted Malekith and the Angel Queen and announced a game called “Chop You.”

Carol and Diana fought Malekith and the Angel Queen while Su Ming observed and exploited the queen’s greed to give Diana an opening. Malekith was badly beaten, and the Angel Queen was wounded, but both battles remained ongoing.

• Carol attacked Malekith and his Cursed Warriors, blaming him for the planets he had plundered and for the deaths caused by his invasion of Earth.
• Malekith insulted Carol, and she answered with another barrage of punches that left him badly injured.
• Su Ming distracted the Angel Queen by pretending she had dropped gold, allowing Diana to stab her with Vulcan's Sword.
• The Angel Queen’s attendants formed a battle line that stopped Diana from pressing her advantage, while Su Ming and Harley discussed exploiting the queen’s greed again.

Su Ming and Harley distracted the Angel Queen with coins while Diana continued attacking her. The Queen was left bleeding heavily, and the group treated the fight as an opportunity to drain her before sending her body to Contraxia.

• Harley and Su Ming discussed greed and argued that wealth mattered most when it could be turned into strength.
• Diana broke the Angel Queen’s attendants’ formation and resumed fighting the Queen herself.
• Su Ming flicked a Copper Coin behind the Queen, distracting her long enough for Diana to stab her shoulder.
• Harley told Deathstroke about her friendship with Catwoman and suggested Catwoman loved Batwoman rather than Bruce.
• Su Ming gave Harley gold coins, and she distracted the Angel Queen with one as Diana wounded her again.
• Su Ming and Harley concluded that the Queen’s blood loss would help preserve her corpse for display in Contraxia.

Diana fought and killed the Angel Queen while Su Ming and Harley discussed their plan to lure Darkseid back to Multiverse 1. After her victory, Diana turned her attention toward Carol’s ongoing fight with Malekith.

• The wounded Angel Queen demanded to know who Diana was and whether she wanted her wealth, but Diana answered only with attacks.
• Su Ming told Harley that Diana was too quiet with her enemies, and Harley said she liked Diana that way.
• Harley asked whether drawing Darkseid toward Earth-0 would work, and Su Ming said they could only try while waiting to see how Barry’s preparations went.
• Diana knocked the Angel Queen into the tomb, pursued her, and drove Vulcan's Sword into her heart to make sure she was dead.
• Diana smiled at Carol as she continued fighting Malekith and his subordinates, pleased that she had won her battle faster this time.

Su Ming sent Deadpool to help Carol pursue Malekith through the Dark Elf tomb, where Deadpool’s disgusting tactics overwhelmed the defenders. Carol defeated Malekith, who died after falling from the floating island and taking her punches.

• Carol struggled to chase Malekith because she kept knocking out Swamp Tigers and had to deal with Cursed Warriors’ surprise attacks.
• Su Ming called Deadpool away from collecting gold and ordered him to help Carol, while explaining why he would not use the Ultimate Nullifier.
• Deadpool drew attacks from the Dark Elves and countered them, causing many of them and the Swamp Tigers to vomit and clearing the way for Carol.
• Carol punched Malekith while gagging, and the Dark Elf king vomited and fell from the floating island.
• Carol pinned Malekith to the ground and punched him more than a dozen times, killing him.