Chapter Summaries

Arabelle, a broke exorcist in Los Angeles, rescued a middle-aged man from a demon and charged him for the service. She left with money for dinner and handed him business cards for her Exorcism Service.

• Arabelle noticed a demon attacking a man in an alley and blasted it into ash with Hell Magic.
• Arabelle questioned the shaken man and told him demons had been appearing around the city.
• Arabelle asked the man for payment, took his thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents, and called it a discounted rate.
• Arabelle gave the man several business cards and left in a better mood, planning to buy dinner.

Su Ming and Diana visited Arabelle, a Mage who resembled Constantine, and hired her to investigate mysterious deaths in the Magic World. Arabelle accepted the job, and Su Ming planned to look into Justice League Dark before searching for Dream.

• Arabelle returned to her office with fried noodles and liquor and mistook Su Ming and Diana for clients seeking help with a divorce.
• Su Ming and Arabelle discussed Heaven, and Arabelle joked about angels while Diana disapproved of her remarks.
• Su Ming offered Arabelle money to investigate the recent mysterious deaths among sorcerers.
• Arabelle checked the deposit, accepted the job, and set out with Su Ming and Diana.

Su Ming and Diana hired Albera to investigate a magical crisis, while Zatanna went to Winters Manor despite Constantine’s warning. Constantine’s history with Zatanna came between them, and he left after Baron Winters sent his panther to drive him away.

• Albera questioned Su Ming and Diana about their identities and agreed to help investigate the crisis.
• Diana revealed herself to Albera, who propositioned her and then mistook Su Ming for Batwoman before he revealed he was Deathstroke.
• Zatanna arrived at Winters Manor and found Witch Boy and Morgan had already been welcomed inside.
• Constantine warned Zatanna not to enter, and she rejected him after confronting him over her father’s death.
• Baron Winters sent his panther Merlin to chase Constantine away, and Constantine left without fighting it because he had another task from Batwoman.

Su Ming, Diana, and Arabelle traveled through Hell and chose Oblivion Bar as their next stop to gather intelligence. They arrived to find Bobo and Tracy there, with the bar quiet and its previous owner, Master Night, dead.

• Arabelle's Teleportation Array brought Su Ming and Diana to Hell, where she used her connection to Lucifer to keep demons at bay.
• Su Ming examined the Gate of Horn and the Gate of Ivory, and he struggled to suppress a sudden hunger after eating a strange fruit.
• Su Ming chose Oblivion Bar as their destination, and Arabelle led the group through a magical portal in Hell.
• Su Ming, Diana, and Arabelle entered Oblivion Bar and found Bobo drinking while Tracy read a Dark Magic book.

Diana questioned Detective Chimp about why the Magic World had shut her out, while Albera and Su Ming drank and Deathstroke sang with a mage. Detective Chimp suggested that the Justice League’s decision to blow up the moon without asking sorcerers for help had contributed to the mages’ exclusion, and he and Diana ended the conversation by ordering beers.

• Diana left Albera and Deathstroke waiting while she approached Bobo at the bar, and Albera ordered two bottles of whisky for herself and Su Ming.
• Diana asked Bobo why the mages who had once trusted him were leaving, and he admitted that he too had been excluded from the Magic World.
• Diana said the Magic World might reject her because she was not a spellcaster, despite her Amazon heritage and familiarity with magic.
• Bobo proposed that magical backlash might explain the crisis and pointed out that the Justice League had blown up the moon without asking sorcerers for help.
• Diana ordered a pint of draft beer, and Bobo ordered one as well.

Detective Chimp mourned Jim and accepted the burden of protecting Maya, then agreed to help Wonder Woman and Deathstroke investigate the wizard corpses and the magic that had gone wrong. He reluctantly joined the team with Albera as their spellcaster and followed them toward Justice League Dark headquarters.

• Detective Chimp told Diana that Jim had died protecting them and that he had inherited Nightblade, the bar, and responsibility for Maya.
• Diana said the wizard corpses had been sent to Justice League Dark headquarters, and Bobo agreed to investigate them.
• Bobo discovered that Arabelle was with Deathstroke and objected to bringing the demon along.
• Su Ming said they needed Albera's magic expertise to investigate the spell, and Bobo agreed on the condition that she stay at least two meters away.
• Su Ming, Albera, and Bobo headed through the portal toward Justice League Dark headquarters.

Diana brought Bobo and Albera to the Justice League Dark headquarters, where Man-Bat had been examining a collection of grotesque corpses. The group began investigating the bodies for clues about the strange energy found inside them.

• Bobo toured the underground headquarters with Diana and learned that most Justice League Dark members were absent or unavailable.
• Diana introduced Kirk, who was working as Man-Bat and studying the bodies discovered earlier.
• Man-Bat led Diana, Bobo, Albera, and Su Ming to the morgue, where dozens of distorted corpses lay on tables.
• Albera began casting a spell over one of the corpses after Su Ming urged her to investigate it.

Su Ming and the others investigated the magical corruption in a morgue, where the dead wizards suddenly reanimated and attacked. After he destroyed them, the group decided to consult Doctor Fate about the rot spreading through magic.

• Albera examined the corpses and concluded that their flesh was adapting to energy from an Alternate Dimension, while Su Ming and Albera suspected the corruption was feeding on magic.
• The corpses abruptly came alive and attacked the group, but Su Ming cut them down with Nightfall before Man-Bat could use his serum.
• The severed heads repeated warnings that the Deviants were coming, and Su Ming smashed them before ordering the remains burned.
• Diana reported that Man-Bat had lost control after taking his serum and called the Blackhawk Squad to handle the aftermath.
• Albera and Detective Chimp agreed that magic was rotting at its source, and Albera offered to take the group to Doctor Fate.

Su Ming and Diana went to Doctor Fate’s Mage Tower in Salem Town to learn who was behind the magical crisis and what the Deviants were. Doctor Fate agreed to take Diana alone to meet Nabu, while Su Ming prepared for the possibility of a fight.

• Diana learned that Kent V. Nelson had returned as Doctor Fate, and Su Ming made preparations before joining the others.
• Su Ming, Diana, Albera, and Bobo traveled through Oblivion Bar to Salem Town and found the Mage Tower near the glowing Miracle Tree.
• Diana called for Kent, and Doctor Fate opened a door in the tower and let the group inside.
• Doctor Fate said that magic had been stolen from its owner and that magic itself was their enemy, but he could not safely show them the answer.
• Diana demanded to speak with Nabu, and Doctor Fate agreed to take her alone into the tower’s complex space.
• Su Ming draped the Cloak of Levitation over Diana’s shoulders and prepared to intervene if anything went wrong.

Doctor Fate separated Diana from her companions and explained the origins of magic before warning that the multiverse might already be dying. Meanwhile, Albera found a person trapped inside an antique vase, leaving the group to confront Doctor Fate’s disturbing act.

• Doctor Fate brought Diana to a ruined floating temple and explained that ancient Prometheus stole sorcery from beyond the Source Wall, then bound their souls into artifacts.
• Diana demanded a way to save the world, but Doctor Fate warned that the shattered Source Wall and returning magic might already have doomed the multiverse.
• Su Ming, Albera, and Bobo examined the strange reflected world while Albera picked up an antique vase and used it to hold cigarette ash.
• Bobo noticed a person struggling inside the vase, and Albera’s amusement turned to concern when she saw the trapped figure.

Su Ming, Bobo, and Albera freed Khalid Nassour from a clay jar, but Nabu’s spell turned him back into ceramic before he could explain what had happened. Meanwhile, Diana confronted Nabu, who controlled Kent’s body and opened a gate to something emerging from Beyond the Source.

• Albera identified the figures on the vase as evidence of ancient soul-binding magic, and Su Ming and Bobo discussed how to free the trapped person.
• Su Ming dropped the jar and released Khalid Nassour, who said Nabu had trapped him and brought the Deviants there.
• Nabu’s magic sealed Khalid’s mouth and transformed him into ceramic fragments that reformed into the jar.
• Albera joked that Su Ming had killed a Doctor Fate, and Su Ming reminded her that she was his accomplice.
• Nabu told Diana he had opened a gate to welcome magic back from Beyond the Source, and Diana recognized him controlling Kent’s body.
• Diana drew the Lasso of Truth and prepared to pull Nabu down and demand that he return her friend.

Nabu escaped after refusing to defend magic, and the Upside-Down Man emerged through a portal. Diana remembered Hecate's mark and her childhood encounter with the witches, but the monster overpowered her and began draining her divine power.

• Nabu evaded Diana's Lasso of Truth, declared that magic would perish, and vanished through a portal.
• The Upside-Down Man emerged from another dimension and asked Diana where Nabu was.
• Diana remembered how Hecate had branded her during a childhood ritual and erased the memory from Paradise Island.
• The Upside-Down Man accused humanity of stealing magic from him and sent regenerating tentacles after Diana.
• The Upside-Down Man seized Diana by the throat, drained her divine power, and prepared to eat her.

Su Ming and Diana fought the Upside-Down Man, whose conceptual nature made it impossible to kill with physical attacks. Su Ming realized they might need to force it back through the rift and called for help, leaving the battle poised to turn with the arrival of a red figure.

• The Upside-Down Man pinned Diana with its tentacles and prepared to eat her artifacts until Su Ming arrived and severed its arm and the tentacles with his greatsword.
• Diana recovered her strength while Su Ming attacked the Upside-Down Man, but it regenerated instantly from his blows.
• Su Ming recognized that the Upside-Down Man could not be killed and suspected the rift was a doorway back to the place where it had been sealed.
• Su Ming called Deathstroke using his phone, and a red figure streaked with golden lightning appeared beside him and Diana.

Barry joined Su Ming and Diana against The Upside-Down Man, the dark side of magic that had come to collect an ancient debt. The chapter left them trapped in Barry’s Speed Force Storm as Su Ming and Diana used Tenth Metal to resist its effects, while The Upside-Down Man watched with interest.

• Barry reached Su Ming and Diana after using the Speed Force to find them in the chaotic magical space.
• Su Ming explained that The Upside-Down Man was owed a debt by the sorcerers and everything in the world, and Barry agreed to help stop its planned massacre.
• Su Ming told Barry to create a small Speed Force Storm to confine The Upside-Down Man while he and Diana sought a way to expel it.
• Barry trapped Su Ming, Diana, and The Upside-Down Man inside a red storm that began draining their time and life.
• Su Ming and Diana used Tenth Metal to restore themselves as the storm withered the tentacles, while The Upside-Down Man watched their efforts with curiosity.

Su Ming and Wonder Woman fought the Upside-Down Man to drive it back through the doorway before it could take magic from the world. The creature’s attacks failed to stop their advance, and Diana held her ground as her protective power drew its curiosity.

• Su Ming rejected the Upside-Down Man’s demand and struck its head with the Tenth Metal-enhanced Nightfall Greatsword, knocking it backward.
• The Upside-Down Man retaliated with powerful Dark Magic that began corroding the greatsword, so Su Ming used Tenth Metal to patch the damage.
• Su Ming called for Diana to use the Swan Formation, and Wonder Woman moved beside him with her shield to block counterattacks.
• Su Ming and Diana charged together, with Diana clearing the way while Su Ming struck the Upside-Down Man closer to the doorway.
• Wonder Woman blocked another magical blast without giving ground, and the Upside-Down Man asked what she was after sensing her protective power.

Su Ming and his allies drove off The Upside-Down Man and learned that it was reclaiming magic stolen from Hecate. After looting Nabu’s Mage Tower, Su Ming decided they needed to find Hecate, beginning by returning to an old witch with flowers.

• Su Ming struck The Upside-Down Man back through the door, and Barry used the Still Force to seal the rift as it vanished.
• Su Ming sent the Cloak of Levitation to gather magic items from Nabu’s Mage Tower while Barry went home to rest.
• Diana told Su Ming about her childhood encounter with Hecate, and Su Ming pieced together how Hecate’s stolen magic had spread through the world.
• Su Ming concluded that Hecate could explain the crisis, but Diana said she did not know where Hecate lived and doubted they could get answers from Hades.
• Su Ming decided to seek out an old witch and said he needed to buy flowers first.

Su Ming looted magical artifacts from the Mage Tower, including Silver Beetle Amulets and the Eye of Ra, while Diana accepted the theft as a way to weaken Nabu. After the group escaped the tower, Su Ming asked Albera to destroy it, and she agreed despite the possible consequences.

• Su Ming sorted the Mage Tower’s treasures, setting aside magical tools Albera could use and storing the Silver Beetle Amulets for a later visit to Death.
• Su Ming claimed the Eye of Ra, planning to have Vulcan reforge it into his helmet for long-range surveillance.
• The Cloak of Levitation brought Su Ming and Diana to Albera and Detective Chimp, who waited with a jar containing a person.
• Albera blasted a hole through the tower wall, and the group escaped to the mountaintop outside town.
• Su Ming told Albera to destroy the Pillar of Magic, and she agreed after warning that she could not predict what would happen.

Albera destroyed the Mage Tower with a massive Hellfire spell, and Su Ming tried to recruit her to help find Dream. When they returned to the Oblivion Bar, they found a gathering of young witches and Bobo spotted a dangerous man in the corner.

• Albera unleashed an Ancient Magic spell that erased the Mage Tower and the hill, leaving a crater filled with lava.
• As the group flew back, Su Ming told Albera that Dream had disappeared, and she agreed to think about helping him search.
• Su Ming, Albera, Diana, and Bobo returned to the Oblivion Bar and found the Sisterhood of the Helping Hand partying there.
• Bobo searched the gathering for villains, then noticed a dangerous man smoking and drinking in a corner.

Su Ming questioned Constantine at the Oblivion Bar about the Upside-Down Man and Hecate, then learned that Circe was the best person to ask. The group left to seek Circe and obtain Molu, while Constantine sensed that the bar’s magical aura was expanding.

• Constantine claimed he had come to the Oblivion Bar only for a drink, and Su Ming asked him what he knew about the Upside-Down Man and Hecate.
• Albera attacked Constantine with a fireball after he flirted with her, then revealed that she had once impersonated him to swindle money back from Zatanna.
• Su Ming threatened Constantine with a finger-chopping game, and Constantine admitted that Circe was Hecate’s witch and follower.
• Constantine advised Su Ming to use unicorn blood against Circe’s magic, but Su Ming rejected the idea because it could bring a curse from The Red.
• Su Ming and the others left through a door to find Circe and obtain Molu, while Constantine sensed the bar’s magical aura expanding.
• Tracy celebrated the boss’s departure by spraying champagne over the bar.

Su Ming and Diana traveled to Circe’s island to seek her help, and Circe recognized the mark on Diana as a sign that the Hour of Witchcraft had arrived. She welcomed the group into her cave, but Diana remained troubled while Su Ming and Albera relaxed over food and drink.

• Su Ming’s group bought onion-like plants in Gotham to resist Circe’s transformation magic, then traveled to her island.
• Circe confronted the group in a storm, but changed her demeanor after seeing the mark on Diana’s forehead and said the Hour of Witchcraft had arrived.
• Circe embraced Diana and warned her that everything would become terrible, then invited the group into her cave.
• Circe served the group a lavish meal and California wine, while Diana urged her to discuss the urgent matter.
• Circe pointed out that Albera and Su Ming were drinking and joking instead of treating the situation as an emergency.