Chapter Summaries

Qin Wei fought Catman in the abandoned hospital, then fled when a female Mr. Freeze trapped him with extreme cold. With Oliver searching for his location and Black Arrow restoring the lights, Qin Wei faced Mr. Freeze and asked about her connection to Victor.

• Blake exchanged throwing blades with Qin Wei, then accidentally triggered a mine and his own flashbang, leaving him injured and blinded.
• Mr. Freeze attacked with extreme cold, freezing the blogger and Man-Bat and forcing Qin Wei to flee through the hospital.
• Qin Wei's traps failed against the cold, and he was cornered at a dead end as Mr. Freeze caught up with him.
• Oliver contacted Qin Wei through the Green Arrow suit and tried to pinpoint his location while Black Arrow switched on the hospital lights.
• Mr. Freeze recognized Qin Wei as the Judgment Knight and asked him to surrender; Qin Wei removed his mask and asked about her relationship with Victor.

Qin Wei talked Nora Fries into doubting the Court of Owls before Oliver’s explosive arrow helped him escape into Peaceheart Hospital’s basement. There, Qin Wei uncovered armed robots guarding the hospital’s secret as Oliver, Roy, and Malcolm attacked outside.

• Qin Wei questioned Nora Fries about why the Court made her fight, and she began to doubt that it still valued her cryogenic research.
• Oliver fired an explosive arrow through the hospital’s ventilation ducts, causing a blast that sent Qin Wei crashing into the level below.
• Oliver revealed that he suspected a device beneath Peaceheart Hospital was poisoning the slums’ groundwater, and he asked Qin Wei to investigate and livestream the truth.
• Oliver reunited with Roy and Malcolm, and the three joined forces to attack the hospital.
• Qin Wei encountered three rusted Assault Mech IV robots, which blocked his way and prepared to attack.

Uriah and Scarecrow tried to keep the intruders from reaching Dominic’s ritual, while the Star City team fought through fear toxin and Owlman arrived in pursuit of answers. As Oliver and Thomas Wayne headed back into the hospital, Qin Wei remained trapped in the basement, badly wounded by mechanical soldiers designed to defeat his suit.

• Jonathan Crane complained that Uriah had let the fake Green Arrow enter the basement, while Uriah explained that Mayor Dominic had shown him an Owl Council badge and asked him to guard the ritual.
• Scarecrow released fear toxin in the hospital corridor, and Oliver carried Roy outside while Malcolm resisted the gas with his mechanical lungs and killed Scarecrow.
• Catman approached the paralyzed Oliver and Roy, but Thomas Wayne drove him off with a throwing dart and then fought Malcolm, stopping when Oliver woke and cleared up the misunderstanding.
• Oliver told Thomas Wayne that Bruce had gone to the hospital’s lower level, and he and Thomas injected the last antidote before returning inside together.
• In the basement, three coordinated mechanical soldiers overwhelmed Qin Wei and damaged his nano Batsuit with blades carrying a nanobot-destroying virus.

Qin Wei lured the pursuing mechs into an MRI room and used its powerful magnetic field to immobilize them. Injured but victorious, he prepared to take the livestream audience to uncover the hospital’s hidden truth.

• Qin Wei dodged the mechs’ missiles, then smashed one mech’s ankle with Oliver’s compound bow and pierced another mech’s core with an arrow.
• Qin Wei fled to the MRI room while the damaged mech replaced its destroyed companion’s head and resumed the pursuit with another mech.
• Qin Wei removed his metal items, switched on the MRI machine, and waited for the mechs to enter.
• Qin Wei filmed the mechs as the MRI’s magnetic force pulled them inside and pinned them against its inner wall.
• Qin Wei stood and told his livestream audience that he would take them to see the final truth.

Uriah fought Qin Wei in the abandoned hospital, where his overwhelming scythe attacks pushed Qin Wei into a desperate search for a way to stop him. Qin Wei ignited an oxygen cylinder and blew up Uriah, leaving the fight’s outcome unresolved.

• Derek Powers offered Uriah a mission in Star City and the option to serve someone he found there instead of remaining loyal to the Court.
• Qin Wei entered the hospital basement and recognized Uriah, who immediately attacked him.
• Qin Wei used his growing combat skills to fend off Uriah, but Uriah’s spinning scythe shredded his compound bow and destroyed the basement around them.
• Qin Wei spotted oxygen cylinders and hurled them at Uriah, hoping one contained oxygen, while Uriah continued his relentless assault.
• Qin Wei threw the final cylinder, and sparks ignited the pressurized oxygen in an explosion that engulfed Uriah.

Qin Wei tried to burn the fleshy tumor beneath the hospital, but Uriah’s monstrous transformation nearly killed him until Thomas Wayne arrived and defeated Uriah with advanced gadgets. Thomas gave Qin Wei a Temporary Batsuit, then pointed him back toward the oxygen cylinders and the unfinished task.

• Qin Wei found oxygen cylinders in the hospital and planned to use them to burn the tumor beneath it.
• Uriah transformed into a grotesque, cancerous monster and attacked Qin Wei, forcing him to abandon the cylinders and retreat.
• Thomas Wayne rescued Qin Wei and fought Uriah with a Steel Claw, Liquid Nitrogen Bombs, and other technology.
• Thomas Wayne defeated Uriah while Qin Wei changed into the Temporary Batsuit he had provided.
• Qin Wei questioned why Thomas Wayne had set a thirty-second limit, and Thomas pointed out the oxygen cylinders Qin Wei still needed to use.

Owlman and Will exposed a living sarcoma that had contaminated Star City’s water, triggering a citywide catastrophe as it erupted from underground. After being swallowed by the creature, Thomas Wayne fell through a strange vision of space and landed in a Gotham alley, where gunshots and a man’s scream jolted him awake.

• Thomas Wayne and Owlman discovered that a machine was pouring a yellowish-brown substance into Star City’s water supply, while Will recognized the machine as a hidden sarcoma.
• Owlman and Will set off an explosion that exposed the sarcoma’s true form to them and to the livestream audience.
• The sarcoma fought back, tearing through the ground and collapsing the hospital as Oliver rescued Dr. Nora and fled with Mr. Freeze.
• The sarcoma’s tendrils and the resulting tremors devastated Star City, while Roy pulled Malcolm away from falling rubble and Superman learned of the disaster.
• Owlman fell into a glowing maw, and Thomas Wayne was swallowed and transported through a vision of space before landing in a Gotham alley.
• Thomas Wayne heard two gunshots and a man’s dying scream from deeper in the alley.

Qin Wei survived Star City’s evacuation while Owlman was sent to Gotham’s past, where he saved Thomas and Martha Wayne from their fated deaths. Owlman remained stranded in the unfamiliar city and chose to follow his recovering parents after robbing a suit shop for clothes.

• Qin Wei landed safely with Star City’s residents and realized speedsters had evacuated them from the fleshy growth consuming the city.
• Owlman found a dying Thomas Wayne and Martha in Crime Alley, with young Bruce guarding them, and used future medical devices to save them.
• Owlman told Bruce to stay home until he returned, then escaped before Commissioner Gordon and the police arrived.
• Owlman discovered he was in an unfamiliar version of Gotham and followed the ambulance carrying his parents to the hospital.
• Owlman robbed a suit shop for clothes and fled after the shopkeeper sounded the alarm and fired at him.

Barry and Qin Wei entered the tumor’s portal to search for Thomas Wayne, despite the danger and Barry’s concerns about the strange dimension. They emerged in Gotham City, where a campaign ad showed Thomas Wayne running for mayor as Lincoln March.

• Clark and Green Lantern discussed how to deal with the tumor after Barry helped rescue Star City’s survivors, and Will warned them that it feared fire.
• Qin Wei asked the heroes to rescue his friend, who had been swallowed near an abandoned hospital about ten minutes earlier.
• Barry carried Qin Wei to the tumor’s portal, and Qin Wei identified the abandoned Peace Heart Hospital as the likely location.
• Barry agreed to enter the portal with Qin Wei, and Qin Wei insisted on accompanying him despite having no superpowers.
• Barry and Qin Wei crossed into a dimension where time moved at a different rate and emerged on a busy Gotham street.
• Qin Wei recognized Thomas Wayne in a mayoral campaign ad under the name Lincoln March.

Will and Barry separated in the altered Gotham, where Will set out to find Thomas Wayne. After knocking out this world’s Bruce Wayne and reaching Wayne Manor, Will collapsed, as the dormant Bruce Wayne personality inside him began to awaken.

• Barry stayed behind to investigate unusual spatial fluctuations while Will chose Wayne Manor as their rendezvous point and went to find Thomas Wayne.
• Bruce Wayne spotted Will entering an alley, confronted him, and recognized him before Will headbutted him unconscious and took his gun and wallet.
• Bruce regained consciousness and called Lincoln March to say that the person Lincoln had once predicted would come looking for him had arrived.
• Will took a taxi to Wayne Manor, examined Bruce’s wallet, and collapsed at the gate, where Alfred found him.
• While Will lay unconscious, the Bruce Wayne secondary personality inside him began to awaken.

Bruce awoke in the Wayne household and reunited emotionally with Thomas and Martha, while Will witnessed a sinister encounter in the Dark Multiverse. The Batman Who Laughs noticed Will and warned that they would meet again, leaving Will facing the possibility of becoming a target or a Dark Knight.

• Bruce remembered choosing to sacrifice his frail body so his successor could save Gotham, then woke in the Wayne household and embraced Martha.
• Thomas welcomed Bruce home and arranged a family dinner, inviting Mr. Lincoln March.
• Will observed a black-clad figure swear allegiance to the Batman Who Laughs and heard their plan to corrupt and slaughter superheroes.
• The Batman Who Laughs explained that a visitor from another universe could not change the Dark Multiverse's present and declared there was no redemption there.
• The Batman Who Laughs looked directly at Will, revealed that he had killed 132,565 Batmen, and asked whether Will would join his death list or become one of the Dark Knights.

Will learned that the Batman Who Laughs expected his world to collapse, and Barry Allen confirmed that the altered universe was disintegrating. As Barry carried Will and Owlman back across universes, Thomas Wayne stayed behind and sent Bruce away with his final letter, which Barry memorized as it was torn apart.

• The Batman Who Laughs warned Will that his world was nearing destruction and sent him back to see it one last time.
• Will reunited with Alfred, then confronted Owlman at Wayne Castle and told him the world might be ending.
• Barry Allen arrived and confirmed that the universe's spatial structure was unstable, while Owlman insisted he wanted to stay with Thomas and Martha.
• Will and Barry drugged Owlman during dinner, and the universe began collapsing as Thomas asked Will to take Bruce with him.
• Thomas gave Will a letter written for Bruce, then stayed behind with Martha as Barry carried Will and Owlman away through the collapsing city.
• Barry found Bruce evacuating civilians and used the Speed Force to escape the collapsing universe, memorizing Thomas's letter as it was destroyed.

Barry returned to Star City with the people he had rescued, then collapsed as Superman and Hal began fighting the enormous mass of flesh. Superman’s defense of the city left Will reflecting on human cruelty and on another family killed in the Middle East.

• Barry reappeared in Star City with the rescued people, then fainted, and Hal conjured a mattress beneath them.
• Clark and Hal discussed ways to use Clark’s heat vision against the mass of flesh before Clark asked Hal to direct mirrors at the creature.
• The mass of flesh swung a skyscraper-sized tendril at Clark, who broke it in two and sent green fluid raining over Star City.
• The creature continued attacking Clark as survivors watched and trembled amid the thunderous impacts.
• Will watched Superman fight and thought of a family killed by a shell in the Middle East, where a child wept beside the father’s corpse.

After Star City’s destruction, Will urged Oliver to lead its recovery and explained to the heroes that their world might be part of the Dark Multiverse, where peace could cause reality to collapse. As the heroes considered an alliance, Superman wrestled with his inability to help civilians amid political conflict, and Will offered to help him.

• Oliver rallied Star City’s refugees after the heroes captured Mayor Dominic, while Will realized Gotham needed political and economic leadership and considered making Owlman mayor.
• Will asked Owlman to run for mayor, but Owlman was too shattered to respond, so Will considered choosing someone else.
• Will told Superman, Green Arrow, Flash, and Green Lantern that their world might be a nightmare-shaped part of the Dark Multiverse and recounted his experiences in Gotham and another universe.
• Flash added his account of the unstable parallel universe, and Superman concluded that their own reality might collapse if conflict ended.
• Oliver suggested the heroes exchange contact information and work together, while Superman remained distracted by his confrontation with an Israeli commander over a bus of Palestinian civilians.
• Will noticed Superman’s distress and offered to help him deal with it.

Qin Wei exchanged contact details with Superman and Flash while Gotham’s power brokers confronted the return of the Order of St. Dumas. The chapter left Superman weighing whether to help Lois expose the Israeli Army’s actions, still torn between his conscience and the risks of intervening.

• Superman exchanged contact details with Qin Wei, who privately saved his contact as “ClarkKnt” and uncovered Flash’s identity as Barry.
• Royce spoke with Falcone, who offered to hand over his title and forces before warning that the Order of St. Dumas was returning to Gotham.
• Jean-Paul told Oswald Cobblepot that he wanted to become Gotham’s mayor and promised to put the Order above the gangs; Oswald rejected the proposal and feared Jean-Paul had left a bomb in a wine bottle.
• Royce called Oswald to ask whether he had heard of the Order of St. Dumas, just as Oswald’s bodyguards approached the suspicious wine bottle with blastproof umbrellas.
• Lois asked Clark for a way to move around independently and gather evidence at the Israeli Army base, while Superman hesitated to intervene because he feared the consequences for people close to him.

Qin Wei returned to Gotham with the unconscious Bruce and reunited with Selina, only for Bruce’s arrival to cause a chaotic misunderstanding with Oswald and Dick. After restoring order, Qin Wei learned that the Order of St. Dumas was moving into Gotham and considered the troubling history of the cities where it had operated.

• Barry caught a beer bottle thrown by a driver and used electrical tape to silence the swearing woman before taking Qin Wei to Gotham.
• Qin Wei brought the unconscious Bruce to The Roman's Encampment, where Selina realized he had returned and joked that he had cloned himself.
• Qin Wei considered retiring from hero work, but Oswald arrived with intelligence about the Order of St. Dumas and woke the confused Bruce.
• Bruce attacked Oswald, Dick joined the fight, and Oswald accidentally struck Qin Wei with an ashtray before realizing what had happened.
• Oswald told Qin Wei that Jean-Paul wanted to become mayor and that the Order had been stationed in Berlin, Paris, and Jerusalem.

Qin Wei considered Oswald’s bid for mayor while preparing to investigate a monster sighting at a cosmetics factory. There, Basil Carlo’s transformation into a sludge-like creature began after a mysterious attacker killed the soldiers around him, leaving Judgment Knight heading toward the danger.

• Qin Wei persuaded Oswald to consider becoming mayor and planned a work-relief rebuilding program and crime crackdown with him and Royce.
• Qin Wei checked on the unconscious Bruce and consulted Thomas Elliot, who said Bruce might recover from his shock at any time—or never.
• Tim alerted Qin Wei to soldiers disappearing at a cosmetics factory, and footage showed a Batman-like figure and a huge eye inside the building.
• Qin Wei armored up and agreed to investigate with Tim, promising to teach him combat while also trying to send him back to school.
• Basil Carlo recounted how experimental cosmetic cream transformed his appearance and career, then began using it again when Gotham’s unrest disrupted his supply.
• A black-clad attacker killed the soldiers with a beam bomb, and melting cream soaked into Basil’s body as the attacker anticipated Judgment Knight’s arrival.

Jean-Paul used the mutated Baso and a staged rescue plan to build public support for his bid to become Gotham’s mayor, but Qin Wei interrupted him before he could finish. Their fight ended with Jean-Paul disarmed and Qin Wei demanding an explanation.

• Jean-Paul steered Baso toward the Underground Amusement Park by controlling his escape routes with explosives, intending to kill the monster publicly and gain Gotham’s admiration.
• Jean-Paul planned to pose as the Judgment Knight, get arrested, and use public protests demanding his release to launch his political career.
• Jean-Paul revealed the Dark Knights’ influence and described their centuries of covert manipulation, including their role in creating Baso’s transformation cream.
• Qin Wei surprised Jean-Paul with a spinning kick, then pulled him back with a Magnetic Grappling Hook after knocking him from the roof.
• Jean-Paul melted the grappling line and struck Qin Wei with a Two-Stage Inch Punch, injuring Qin Wei’s palm.
• Qin Wei reached for an Electromagnetic Interference Grenade and demanded that Jean-Paul explain himself.

Qin Wei and Jean-Paul fought as Baso rampaged through Gotham, and both turned toward the burning buildings to respond. Qin Wei rescued residents inside an apartment block before encountering an unknown machine that identified him as a person who was not trapped in the fire.

• Qin Wei revealed that he had deduced Jean-Paul’s identity and mocked him, while Jean-Paul tried to distract him so he could retrieve the bomb remote.
• Will disabled the remote with an electromagnetic interference grenade, and Jean-Paul attacked Qin Wei with the steel claws on his mechanical gloves.
• Baso crashed into an apartment building as soldiers attacked him, setting the surrounding buildings ablaze and leaving civilians in danger.
• Jean-Paul took flight on his Nth metal wings and ordered the soldiers to disperse, while Baso began moving down the street.
• Qin Wei entered the burning apartment building, rescued several households, and struggled to find a way through the smoke on the top floor.
• A red beam pierced the smoke and a mechanical voice identified Qin Wei as a human male who was not trapped in the fire.

Qin Wei rescued civilians from a burning building with help from Frostbite, then clashed with Alfred’s cyborg, who claimed to be Batman. After disabling the cyborg, Qin Wei challenged Alfred to a contest to uncover Jean-Paul and the Order of St. Dumas’s plans.

• Qin Wei followed a mechanical voice to rescue a woman, a child, and a dog from a burning building, where he encountered Frostbite, who had escaped prison and was searching for her missing husband, Derek Powers.
• Qin Wei told Frostbite to return to her place and promised to find her after handling his other problems.
• A Mass-Produced Cyborg dragged Qin Wei into an alley and declared that it was Batman, ordering him to leave Gotham.
• Qin Wei confronted the cyborg over Gotham’s suffering and argued that killing could save the city from its criminals.
• Qin Wei used an Electromagnetic Interference Grenade to paralyze the cyborg, then challenged Alfred to see who could expose Jean-Paul’s scheme and the Order of St. Dumas’s plans first.