Chapter Summaries

Solomon showed Clark his new Kryptonian Battle Suit, then explained that Earth concealed many superpowered beings, gods, and other alien visitors. Clark was left reeling from the revelations, including Solomon’s account of a captured starfish-shaped alien held in a secret American base.

• Solomon put on his black-and-silver Kryptonian Battle Suit, and Clark praised its appearance.
• Solomon and Clark raced around Earth before landing on the Arctic ice fields.
• Clark said he wanted to wait for a time when humanity would be ready to accept him.
• Solomon told Clark that Earth had Supes and real gods, including the Olympians Zeus and Ares.
• Solomon listed hidden Amazons, Atlanteans, wizards, demons, and other aliens, then told Clark that Americans had imprisoned and experimented on a giant starfish-like alien.

Solomon proposed founding Vought to bring Supes together as public heroes, and Clark agreed to join him. After Clark flew home to tell Martha he was safe, Solomon teleported to a remote fishing village in Northern Europe to continue his plans.

• Solomon proposed that Clark join Vought as its central Supe, while Clark questioned whether the government would allow the organization to exist.
• Solomon considered his plans to find more Supes and decided to seek Aquaman and locate Atlantis.
• Solomon told Clark he did not have to join until he was ready, but Clark decided to stand with him.
• Clark admitted he knew nothing about business, and Solomon told him to go home and tell Martha he had found his biological father.
• Clark flew toward the Kansas farm, while Solomon teleported to an impoverished fishing village in Northern Europe.

Solomon confronted Arthur Curry at a remote fishing village and demanded that he take him to Atlantis. After Arthur tried to flee underwater, Solomon defeated him and repeated his demand.

• Solomon entered the village tavern, found Arthur Curry, and asked him to take him to Atlantis.
• Arthur attacked Solomon, but Solomon caught his wrist and hurled him through the tavern wall onto the snowy dock.
• Arthur denied knowing about Atlantis and dove into the sea, hoping to escape or gain the advantage underwater.
• Solomon followed Arthur into the ocean and caught up with him despite Arthur's speed and evasive maneuvers.
• Solomon beat Arthur in the depths and pinned him against an underwater cliff, demanding that he lead him to Atlantis or be crippled.

Solomon forced Arthur Curry to lead him to Atlantis, where he used his psychic power to control Arthur and reveal his royal identity to the city's guards. Chief Royal Adviser Nuidis Vulko rushed to meet them, but Orm's forces surrounded the group before he could get Arthur to leave.

• Arthur admitted defeat and led Solomon through dangerous undercurrents to Atlantis.
• Solomon arrived in the underwater city and took Arthur's control, gaining Atlantis Physiology and Marine Life Telepathy.
• Solomon told Atlantean patrol guards that Arthur was Queen Atlanna's eldest son and heir, prompting them to report the news to the royal household.
• Nuidis Vulko learned Arthur had returned, feared Orm would kill him, and hurried to the outer city gates.
• Vulko urged Arthur to leave, but dozens of armed airships and more than a hundred royal elite guards surrounded Solomon, Arthur, and Vulko.

Solomon entered Atlantis with Arthur and Vulko, killed a court official, then defeated Orm and took control of the royal guards. As he began to psychically seize the entire capital, a sudden pain in his head triggered Precognition.

• Orm ordered the guards to bring Solomon, Arthur, and Vulko to the throne hall, where he confronted Arthur and mocked him.
• A court official demanded that Solomon kneel, and Solomon killed him with a sudden explosion, gaining and upgrading Atlantis Physiology.
• Orm attacked Solomon with his trident, but Solomon’s Heat Vision melted the weapon and badly wounded Orm.
• Solomon’s psychic power stopped the charging guards and made them obedient, raising Atlantis Physiology to +19 and Water Flow Manipulation to +4.
• Solomon prepared to control Atlantis’s hundreds of thousands of residents, but an intense pain in his brain triggered Precognition.

Solomon’s Precognition showed him being repeatedly killed by an overwhelming power after he tried to control Atlantis’s inhabitants. He escaped, suspected Poseidon had attacked to protect his followers, and returned to Kent Farm to recover.

• Solomon foresaw a mysterious power killing his Clones and Main Body, even after his Biological Immortality revived him twice.
• Solomon teleported away from Atlantis before an ancient psychic power swept through the city and oceans.
• Solomon escaped to space, destroyed his exposed Clone, and waited until he believed the threat had passed.
• Solomon suspected Poseidon had attacked because he tried to control hundreds of thousands of Atlanteans, and decided to avoid Atlantis and Themyscira for now.
• Solomon returned to Kent Farm, where Clark greeted him and invited him to dinner.

After surviving a brush with a powerful sea god, Solomon found comfort at Kent Farm and agreed with Clark to stop taking reckless risks. A month of quiet farm life ended when a massive black spaceship entered orbit around the Moon and began hacking Earth’s satellites.

• Martha welcomed Solomon with dinner and comforted him when she noticed his exhaustion.
• Solomon told Clark that he had found Atlantis and encountered a real god, nearly dying in the deep sea.
• Clark urged Solomon to avoid acting alone until they were strong enough to face the ancient beings, and Solomon agreed.
• Solomon spent the next month working at Kent Farm and occasionally visiting Diana in Metropolis.
• A gigantic black spaceship entered synchronous lunar orbit and breached humanity’s satellite defenses to collect data.

General Zod announced that Earth had twenty-four hours to surrender Kal-El or face destruction. Clark and Solomon investigated how Zod had found Earth, and Jor-El revealed that the scout ship had broadcast a distress signal when Clark reactivated it.

• Zod and Faora searched Earth’s networks for Kal-El, then Zod ordered an ultimatum broadcast to humanity.
• Zod appeared on screens worldwide and demanded that Kal-El surrender within twenty-four hours.
• At Kent Farm, Clark asked Solomon how Zod had survived, and Solomon explained that Zod had been imprisoned in the Phantom Zone.
• Clark suspected the scout ship had led Zod to Earth, so he and Solomon flew to it and activated Jor-El’s hologram.
• Jor-El examined the ship’s logs and explained that Clark’s reactivation had broadcast its long-dormant distress signal, allowing Zod to track it to Earth.

Solomon rejected Clark’s plan to surrender to General Zod and arranged a trap at a remote location, with the battle to be broadcast worldwide. Lex Luthor began promoting the event, telling reporters that Earth was not near its end.

• Jor-El explained that Zod and his followers had survived Krypton’s destruction in the Phantom Zone and warned Clark and Solomon that Earth’s survival depended on them.
• Clark proposed surrendering to Zod to protect humanity, but Solomon slapped him and insisted they would fight instead.
• Solomon told Clark to return to the farm to comfort Martha, then teleported to Vought International to meet Lex Luthor.
• Solomon ordered Lex to announce that Kal-El would appear at a remote location the next day and to arrange a worldwide live broadcast of the battle.
• Lex held a press briefing, telling reporters to put away their farewell letters because Earth was nowhere near its end.

Lex Luthor announced that Vought International would present Kal-El and its Supes in Nevada’s Blackstone Desert to confront General Zod’s threat. When the military tried to arrest him, he used the danger of derailing the plan to force Washington to accept it, leaving the desert under military control and the Supes’ performance set for a live broadcast.

• Lex Luthor told the press that Vought’s Supes would bring Kal-El to Blackstone Desert the next day and defeat the alien invaders live.
• A Department of Defense general arrived with special forces to arrest Lex Luthor for contacting hostile extraterrestrials and acting beyond his authority.
• Lex Luthor warned the general that arresting him could make the military responsible if the aliens attacked Earth after the plan failed.
• The general ordered his troops to lower their weapons and consulted the Department of Defense’s highest command center.
• Washington agreed to support Lex Luthor’s plan, while the general placed Blackstone Desert under military control and threatened to destroy the site if the Supes failed.
• Lex Luthor accepted the military’s presence as security and left the press conference passage without being arrested.

Solomon outlined his plan to defeat General Zod’s Kryptonian soldiers and bring them under control, with kryptonite as a fallback. The next day, Zod’s ship landed in Nevada, and Faora-Ul emerged before the assembled military and media.

• Solomon told Clark that Lex Luthor now worked for him and that he planned to confront Zod’s group.
• Solomon proposed letting the Kryptonians absorb solar radiation before defeating them in a fair fight, while keeping kryptonite as a backup.
• Clark agreed to follow Solomon’s plan and felt reassured by the kryptonite.
• The next day, military forces and global media gathered in Nevada’s Blackstone Desert as they waited for Kal-El.
• Zod’s landing ship descended before the military positions, and Faora-Ul stepped out in Kryptonian armor.

Clark Kent arrived in the desert to face Faora, refusing to surrender or leave Earth with her. Though Faora initially outmatched him with her combat skill, Clark endured her attacks and struck her into the ground with overwhelming strength.

• Faora threatened to kill everyone in the desert unless they handed over Kal-El, then Clark descended and landed before her.
• Faora introduced herself as Zod's deputy and invited Clark to the mothership, but Clark refused and demanded that Zod come down to speak with him.
• Faora revealed her plan to take Clark away so the Kryptonians could attack Earth freely, then launched a forceful assault when he refused to cooperate.
• Faora's superior fighting technique let her dodge Clark's punches and batter him, but her strikes left him unharmed.
• Clark took Faora's airborne punch without flinching, grabbed his opening, and punched her into the ground at supersonic speed.

Clark was overwhelmed by Faora and two Krypton Warriors until Solomon intervened. Solomon defeated all three Kryptonians, leaving them unconscious while Clark was saved from the coordinated assault.

• A Krypton Warrior struck Clark from behind, and two others joined Faora to trap and batter him with coordinated tactics.
• Solomon watched Clark struggle, recognizing that Clark was holding back and failing to use the combat techniques he had taught him.
• Solomon put on his nanotech combat suit and descended into the fight at overwhelming speed.
• Solomon punched Faora into a distant dune, then smashed the other two Krypton Warriors’ breathing masks together.
• The three Kryptonian elites lost consciousness from sensory overload after their masks shattered.

Solomon forced the Kryptonians to retreat and challenged Zod to meet him, while Zod learned that Earth’s yellow sun empowered Kryptonians. Zod chose to make his soldiers adapt to Earth and brought the mothership down into the atmosphere.

• Solomon defeated three Kryptonian soldiers, returned them to their landing ship, and sent Zod a challenge to meet him in person.
• Lex Luthor recognized Solomon as the alien mastermind behind Vought and watched him reunite with Clark.
• Zod learned from the Chief Scientist that Earth’s yellow sun might explain Solomon and Clark’s strength, and Faora confirmed that Earth’s atmosphere and sunlight had overwhelmed her senses while filling her with power.
• Zod set aside his convictions about Kryptonian purity and ordered his combat personnel to enter isolation chambers and adapt to Earth’s atmosphere and radiation.
• Zod brought the Kryptonian Mothership down through Earth’s clouds and entered an isolation chamber as Earth’s atmosphere and sunlight flooded inside.

Zod and eight Kryptonian warriors removed their life-support masks and endured the sensory overload as Yellow Sun radiation transformed them into powerful superhumans. They descended toward Earth to retrieve the Codex and punish the traitors, while Solomon and Clark watched from the Blackstone Desert.

• Zod removed his life-support mask, endured Earth’s overwhelming sensory input, and began absorbing Yellow Sun energy.
• Faora and seven other Kryptonian warriors entered isolation chambers, endured the pain, and transformed under the Yellow Sun radiation.
• Zod and the eight warriors emerged with immense strength and flew toward Earth to retrieve the Codex and crush anyone who resisted.
• Solomon and Clark watched the Kryptonians descend over the Blackstone Desert, and Clark worried about facing their enhanced strength.
• Solomon saw that Zod’s attributes had risen to level 5.9 and the other warriors’ to around level 5.5.

Solomon faced General Zod and eight Krypton Soldiers while Clark rejected Zod’s plan to destroy Earth to rebuild Krypton. As human forces prepared to attack, Solomon challenged Zod and his warriors to fight him, offering the Codex and Earth’s fate if they won.

• Solomon revealed his strength advantage as General Zod and eight Krypton Soldiers landed in the Blackstone Desert.
• General Zod questioned Solomon’s House of El armor, then demanded that Clark hand over the Codex so Krypton could be rebuilt.
• Clark asked what would happen to Earth and its people, and refused to help destroy the planet after Zod said sacrifices were necessary.
• General Zod argued that humans would always fear Clark, while the U.S. military ordered its forces to combat readiness and prepared missiles.
• Clark vowed to stop Zod, who prepared to activate the World Engine, but Solomon interrupted and challenged Zod and all eight warriors to fight him.

Solomon defeated Faora in a one-sided aerial fight after Clark agreed to let him speak for the Codex. Zod then set aside his pride and ordered the remaining Kryptonians to attack Solomon together.

• Clark trusted Solomon to speak for him and agreed to hand over the Codex if they lost.
• Faora attacked Solomon, but he evaded her strikes and defeated her with a single punch that sent her crashing into the desert unconscious.
• Solomon challenged Zod and the others after his victory over Faora.
• Zod ordered the remaining Kryptonians to attack Solomon, and he and seven Krypton Elites charged at him.

Diana Prince joined the battle against General Zod and the Kryptonian Warriors, rescuing Clark and disrupting their attack on Solomon. As three warriors descended on her, Diana raised her Bracelets of Submission to meet their assault.

• Clark rushed to help Solomon, but two Kryptonian Warriors intercepted him and pinned him down in the Blackstone Desert.
• General Zod and five other Kryptonian Warriors surrounded Solomon, who held back while Clark endured their allies’ beating.
• Diana Prince used the Lasso of Truth to drag two warriors away from Clark and two more away from Solomon.
• Solomon forced General Zod back, then landed beside Diana, who explained she would not let the Kryptonians gang up on anyone.
• Three Kryptonian Warriors charged Diana as another went after Clark, and Diana crossed her Bracelets of Submission to unleash a golden shock wave.

Solomon overwhelmed General Zod until Zod's desperate resolve drove his stats to level 6 and sparked a devastating midair clash. As the battle kept the other Kryptonians at bay, Clark used Solomon's training to fight back against three attackers.

• Clark rose from the sand pit, dodged a Krypton Warrior's punch, and launched him into the clouds with an uppercut.
• Solomon attacked Zod, broke his armor, and drove him into a crater with a series of powerful blows.
• Zod's stats suddenly rose to level 6 across the board, and he charged Solomon with enhanced Heat Vision, beginning an earthshaking clash.
• Shock waves from Solomon and Zod's battle forced the remaining Krypton Warriors away, so they targeted Clark and Diana instead.
• Clark caught one attacker's calf and swung him into another Krypton Warrior, knocking the two together.

Clark and Diana gained the upper hand against the Krypton Elites while Solomon overwhelmed General Zod. Watching the battle, Lex Luthor injected Compound V despite its deadly risk, and Solomon began turning the fight toward its end.

• Clark fought off three Krypton Warriors, while Diana held her own against four with her shield, Godkiller Sword, and Lasso of Truth.
• At the military defensive line, the commander refused to launch missiles, and Lex Luthor decided he could not wait to use Compound V.
• Lex Luthor injected himself with Compound V and convulsed in agony as he declared that he would become a god.
• Solomon unleashed his full level 6.2 power, struck Zod out of the sky, and smashed him into the desert.
• After sending Zod away from the battlefield, Solomon appeared behind a Krypton Warrior and struck him into the ground.