Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Cindy agreed to help Bliss for payment and traveled with her and Barry to the Batcave, where they discussed how to fight Barbatos. Su Ming explained that they needed Tenth Metal from the World Forge in the Dark Multiverse, leaving Barry with a new lead.

• Bliss agreed to pay Su Ming and Cindy thirty million each in cash or gold for their help.
• Bliss, Barry, Su Ming, and Cindy rode together to the Batcave in the Batmobile’s rear compartment.
• At the Batcave, Bliss said she needed to review Gotham’s surveillance footage and news reports from the past month.
• Barry explained that he and the Hawks had searched the pyramids for Nth Metal because Hawkman and Hawkgirl had once been an Egyptian Pharaoh and Queen.
• Su Ming said Nth Metal and Promethium could not defeat Barbatos and identified Tenth Metal in the World Forge as what they needed.

Su Ming explained Barbatos’s plan to destroy the Multiverse and persuaded Bliss to join him in traveling to Egypt to disrupt the Court of Owls’ connection to Barbatos. Barry transported them there, while Cindy prepared to pursue her own mission with Alfred as her driver and overseer.

• Su Ming explained that Barbatos had killed the World Forger and intended to drag fifty-two worlds into darkness, which would destroy the Multiverse.
• Su Ming proposed cutting off the Court of Owls’ connection to Barbatos, and he told Bliss that the Chi Hu Priest’s headquarters was at the Temple of Set in Egypt.
• Bliss agreed to leave for Egypt after dinner, and Alfred served a fresh meal in the Batcave.
• After eating, Su Ming, Bliss, and Barry suited up, and Barry used the Speed Force to take them to Egypt.
• Cindy prepared her weapons and accepted Alfred’s offer to drive her, while he made clear he would supervise her work.

Su Ming, Barry, and Bliss traveled to Egypt to raid the Court of Owls’ base and find weapons capable of killing its Chi Hu Priests. They reached the Valley of the Kings and began searching for the secluded Temple of Set.

• Barry carried Su Ming and Bliss across the Atlantic and through North Africa while explaining how flight worked.
• Su Ming decided to exterminate the Chi Hu Priests and loot their temple for Bat-Metal, since ordinary attacks could not reliably kill them.
• Barry ran with Su Ming and Bliss through the desert to Cairo and then south along the Nile toward the Valley of the Kings.
• Su Ming identified the Temple of Set as the Court of Owls’ main base and discussed Set’s connection to darkness with Barry and Bliss.
• Bliss and Su Ming reasoned that Set’s temple would lie in a shaded place, and the group looked toward a bend in the gorge beneath steep cliffs.

Su Ming, Bliss, and Barry found the Chi Hu Priests’ hidden temple beneath the Temple of Set and prepared to fight their way through its guarded ritual chamber. They left off with Barry moving them into the crowd while Bliss searched for Bat-Metal and Su Ming readied to take down the priests.

• Su Ming, Bliss, and Barry entered the Temple of Set after Bliss knocked out the guard at the entrance.
• Bliss used a rolling metal bead to locate a hollow beneath the temple floor, then blasted it open with Bat-Shaped Explosive.
• Bliss detected movement in the underground passage, and Barry carried the group toward it at super speed.
• Su Ming, Bliss, and Barry discovered more than a dozen Chi Hu Priests chanting around a black well.
• Su Ming told Barry to use lightning to separate and disable the priests while Bliss searched the chamber for a brick-sized piece of glowing red Bat-Metal.
• Bliss agreed to the plan and told Barry to take them into the crowd.

Su Ming and Barry attacked the Chi Hu Priests while Bliss searched their altar for Bat-Metal. After Bliss found the ore, Su Ming used it to kill the remaining priests, leaving the group with the material they needed to proceed.

• Su Ming tackled a Chi Hu Priest as Barry formed a whirlwind to extinguish the torches and keep the other priests from acting.
• Su Ming killed the priest with repeated blows to its death points, then instructed Barry to throw him another.
• Barry hurled another priest to Su Ming, who silenced it by tearing out its tongue before killing it.
• Bliss searched the altar, discovered an owl stuffed around a fist-sized piece of Bat-Metal, and cut it down with a Batarang.
• Bliss threw the Bat-Metal to Su Ming, who used it to smash the priests Barry pushed toward him.

Su Ming, Bliss, and Barry destroyed the Chi Hu Priests’ underground stronghold and escaped, though Barry was injured by their self-destruction spell. By the Nile, Su Ming turned to planning how to address the conflict between Paradise Island and Atlantis.

• The surviving Chi Hu Priests blew themselves up, wounding Barry and forcing Su Ming to shield Bliss with his Promethium armor.
• Su Ming bandaged Barry’s leg, then searched the caves, discarded the monsters’ bodies into the black well, and collapsed it with grenades.
• Bliss disabled the attraction’s alarm while Su Ming searched the underground passages, burned the Court of Owls members and their records, and led the group to the surface.
• As they rested by the Nile, Su Ming said the Court of Owls had lost its means of contacting Barbatos and discussed who might fund their next efforts.
• Su Ming proposed addressing the military standoff between Paradise Island and Atlantis, but Barry pointed out that their war was about control of the world.

Su Ming planned to end the struggle between Wonder Man and Aquawoman by capturing them and taking them to Dinosaur Island. Back in Gotham, he learned that Cindy had defeated Talon Zero and decided to seek Circe’s help in stripping the demigods of their powers.

• Su Ming, Bliss, and Barry returned to Gotham and saw the Bowles Grand Hotel burning.
• Alfred treated Cindy’s wounds after she fought Talon Zero, whose poisoned weapons had pierced her armor.
• Su Ming recognized the enemy’s weapons as Promethium daggers and gave one to Cindy while keeping the other.
• Su Ming proposed kidnapping Wonder Man and Aquawoman and leaving them on Dinosaur Island after suppressing their powers.
• Su Ming chose Circe as a possible source of magic and explained that Moly, which could be bought as snowdrops, would protect them from her witchcraft.

Su Ming, Barry, and Bliss searched Gotham for a plant that could counter Circe’s witchcraft, then visited Poison Ivy to obtain her charm venom. They left with both ingredients and prepared to continue their mission.

• Su Ming and Barry took Bliss to Gotham’s flower market and found snowdrops, which Su Ming said could counter witchcraft from Olympus Mythology.
• Su Ming told Barry they needed Poison Ivy’s venom and brought him to the Joker Gang’s territory while Bliss waited outside.
• Su Ming asked Poison Ivy for her Charm Venom, persuading her by claiming it could help save Earth’s plant life from the flood.
• Poison Ivy gave Su Ming venom in his canteen and warned that it could make its victims fall madly in love with whoever was in front of them.
• Barry recovered from the venom’s effect, and he and Su Ming left while Poison Ivy returned to Harley.

Su Ming planned to use Scarecrow's Fear Toxin against Aquawoman, while Dean remained confined on Paradise Island after his past crimes. Su Ming and his allies ambushed Dean in the royal garden, subdued him with his own Lasso of Truth and magical bracelets, and escaped after leaving a message for the Court of Owls.

• Su Ming explained that he needed Scarecrow's Fear Toxin and a special needle to make Aquawoman afraid of water.
• Dean tended the royal garden and admired his reflection, unaware that the Queen's confinement was mostly for show.
• A masked figure confronted Dean, redirected his sword strike, and stole his Lasso of Truth while Barry prepared to act.
• Barry and the masked figure bound Dean with the lasso and replaced his Bracelets of Submission with enchanted bracelets that drained his divine power.
• Su Ming knocked Dean unconscious, took his weapons, marked a pillar with a message for the Court of Owls and Barbatos, and vanished with his allies.

Su Ming, Barry, and Bliss captured Dean by using Circe’s Venom and planned to hold him on Dinosaur Island while they targeted Aquawoman. Su Ming and Barry reached Mercy Harbor, where Su Ming prepared to lure Aquawoman ashore by staging a scene near her father’s grave.

• Su Ming explained how Barry had taken Dean’s lasso and replaced his Bracelets of Submission with Circe’s Venom bracelets, leaving him powerless.
• Bliss hid Dean in a cabin on Dinosaur Island while Su Ming and Barry set off to capture Aquawoman.
• Su Ming and Barry traveled to Mercy Harbor, Aquawoman’s hometown, intending to lure her away from the water and use Fear Toxin and the bracelets against her.
• Su Ming examined the abandoned lighthouse and nearby grave of Aquawoman’s father, deciding to use the grave to stage a deception rather than disturb it.

Su Ming used Mercy Harbor to lure Aquawoman by wounding fish and killing sharks, then roasted them by her father’s grave. He waited with Barry for Aquawoman to arrive.

• Su Ming ordered Barry to build a bonfire beside the gravestone and prepared to lure Aquawoman.
• Su Ming wounded fish underwater to attract sharks, choosing Mercy Harbor because Aquawoman was unlikely to bring an army there.
• Su Ming killed two sharks and dragged them ashore while Barry finished preparing the fire.
• Su Ming skewered the sharks and roasted them beside the grave, using smoke and the smell of cooking meat to draw Aquawoman out.
• Su Ming told Barry to hide and watched the sea as he waited for Aquawoman.

Aquawoman Arthur considered how to defeat the Amazons and surface dwellers, whom she blamed for harming the ocean and its inhabitants. When sharks near Mercy Harbor called for help, she rushed there alone to seek justice.

• Aquawoman Arthur pondered how to use Atlantis’s strengths to conquer the world without destroying her own people.
• Aquawoman Arthur heard sharks she favored cry out that someone was killing them near Mercy Harbor.
• Aquawoman Arthur grabbed Neptune’s Trident and hurried toward Mercy Harbor without her royal guard.
• Aquawoman Arthur set out to confront the shark hunters, expecting ordinary fishermen and planning to revisit her old home.

Aquawoman tracked the people who killed two sharks to the lighthouse where her father was buried and found Su Ming roasting them there. Enraged, she attacked him, but Su Ming dodged her blows and called for Barry as the fight continued.

• Aquawoman followed bloodstains and the smell of grilled seafood from the shore toward the lighthouse.
• She saw Su Ming roasting two sharks beside her father's grave and decided to kill him and destroy Mercy Harbor.
• Su Ming deliberately taunted Aquawoman by salting the sharks to provoke her into attacking him on land.
• Aquawoman threw her trident at Su Ming, then pursued him with punches and thrusts that he evaded.
• Su Ming slipped past Aquawoman and called out to Barry, asking whether he still planned to eat fish.

Su Ming captured Aquawoman and Wonder Man, then stripped them of their gear while deciding how to use the prisoners to prevent a war. He sent Barry to bury most of their equipment in Antarctica and kept the Circlet of Power for Bliss.

• Su Ming used the Lasso of Truth to restrain Aquawoman, while Barry injected her with Fear Toxin and fastened the Medusa Bracelet onto her.
• Su Ming, Barry, and Bliss ate grilled shark while the unconscious Aquawoman and Wonder Man lay in a shack.
• Su Ming put on his Court of Owls hood and stripped Dean and Aquawoman down to their underwear, removing all their equipment.
• Su Ming set aside the Circlet of Power for Bliss and sent Barry to bury the remaining items at the South Pole.

Su Ming kept the Sword of Hephaestus and decided to lend the Lasso of Truth to Barry, then used a fabricated plan to frighten the captured Wonder Man and Aquawoman into believing their world was about to be plunged into war. He left them convinced that a God of Darkness would descend after the destruction began.

• Su Ming decided the Lasso of Truth suited Barry better than his own fighting style and kept the Sword of Hephaestus for himself.
• Wonder Man woke, discovered he had lost his powers, and hurt his hand punching Su Ming.
• Su Ming woke Aquawoman by throwing Wonder Man into her, then threatened the pair while pretending to be Talon.
• Su Ming claimed impostors would replace Wonder Man and Aquawoman and provoke war between the Amazons and Atlantis.
• Su Ming told the captives that their master was the God of Darkness, who would descend after enough people died.

Su Ming used the Black Light Battery to fake the return of a terrifying master and convince Aquawoman and Wonder Man that they needed to unite against a common enemy. He then revealed to Bliss and Barry that he planned to use Poison Ivy’s Charm Venom to make the two demigods fall in love and unite Atlantis and the Amazons.

• Su Ming revived a small dinosaur as a Zombie Dragon to demonstrate the supposed master’s power to Aquawoman and Wonder Man.
• Aquawoman and Wonder Man refused to kneel, but Su Ming knocked them down and left them imprisoned in the hut.
• Su Ming met Bliss and Barry at their hidden base, where Bliss reported that she had set up surveillance and found a nearby cave.
• Su Ming explained that he planned to use Poison Ivy’s Charm Venom to make Aquawoman and Wonder Man fall in love and bring their peoples together.
• Su Ming said he needed to act quickly before the Atlanteans and Amazons began searching for them.

Su Ming, Barry, and Bliss hid in a cave and watched Aquawoman and Wonder Man struggle without their divine power, hoping their shared weakness would push them toward cooperation. Su Ming gave Bliss the Circlet of Power as a backup plan while keeping their efforts within the Olympian gods’ tolerance.

• Su Ming explained that Aquawoman and Wonder Man had to remain in power to keep their armies under control and avoid provoking the Olympian Pantheon.
• Bliss led Su Ming and Barry to a prepared cave, where they watched Aquawoman and Wonder Man recover from Su Ming’s punch.
• Aquawoman and Wonder Man blamed each other for the war and traded insults about their peoples’ origins.
• Aquawoman and Wonder Man began grappling, but their weakness left them unable to hurt each other.
• Su Ming gave Bliss Wonder Man’s Circlet of Power and suggested she could become a world leader, but Bliss showed no interest.

Su Ming and Bliss watched Aquawoman and Wonder Man escape their shack only to find that Aquawoman’s Fear Toxin made the sea unbearable and left them stranded on Dinosaur Island. After they returned and ate fruit supplied by the Court of Owls, Su Ming’s Charm Venom began taking effect, setting the next stage of his plan in motion.

• Aquawoman and Wonder Man stopped fighting, escaped their shack, and went to the shore.
• Wonder Man urged Aquawoman to swim away, but Fear Toxin made her see the ocean as a mass of filth and corpses, so she fled back inside.
• Aquawoman told Wonder Man that she had been injected with a liquid that made her unable to look at the ocean, and they despaired over being trapped.
• The owl-dressed captor delivered fruit and told them the Court of Owls would not let them die yet.
• Aquawoman persuaded Wonder Man to eat the fruit to conserve their strength, and the two ate it all.
• Su Ming and Bliss watched Charm Venom injected into the fruit take effect, beginning to make Aquawoman and Wonder Man act suggestively.

Su Ming, Barry, and Bliss returned to Wayne Manor after the Fear Toxin made Wonder Man and Aquawoman fall for each other, leaving Earth -11 safer from Barbatos’s plans. Su Ming and Barry prepared to return to the Main World for their final battle, while Bliss and Cindy stayed behind.

• Fear Toxin made Wonder Man and Aquawoman reinterpret their past conflicts as misunderstandings and become attracted to each other.
• Bliss stopped watching the pair, and Su Ming, Barry, and Bliss left Dinosaur Island after the toxin’s effects began to wear off.
• Su Ming destroyed his costume and owl hood with the Sword of Hephaestus, then Barry took the group back to Wayne Manor.
• At lunch, Su Ming explained that their actions had delayed Barbatos’s plans and improved the chances of Earth -11’s survival; Bliss agreed to keep watch over the world.
• Su Ming and Barry borrowed Bliss’s Batmobile and Cosmic Treadmill to return to the Main World, while Cindy offered help and Su Ming declined.

Su Ming and Barry left Gotham in the Batmobile, and Cindy stayed behind as their allies departed and the island’s political crisis resolved into a new Olympian union. The crossing brought Su Ming and Barry to Central City at the moment Red Death returned, with the Batmobile racing to escape a Speed Force Storm.

• Su Ming gave Cindy the Divine Power Silver Bracelet, said farewell to her and the others, and left with Barry in the Batmobile using the Speed Force.
• Cindy stayed in Gotham, while Bliss arranged her payment and Alfred prepared to take her to the harbor; Cindy planned to continue working as a mercenary.
• After the Fear Toxin wore off, Aquawoman and Wonder Man returned to Paradise Island and helped unite the Amazons and Atlanteans as the Olympians, who began hunting the Court of Owls.
• Cindy used her awards to release the documentary series “Deathstroke on the Blade's Edge,” which boosted her mercenary business and drew attention to Gotham’s public safety problems.
• Su Ming and Barry arrived in a quicksand vortex underground near Central City, where Barry explained they had returned to the same time point as Red Death.
• Red Death and a group of vehicles appeared behind the Batmobile as Su Ming raced toward an exit.