Chapter Summaries

Solomon defeated the Krypton Warriors surrounding Clark and Diana, then stopped General Zod from attacking the human forces. Zod ordered the Black Zero to bombard the battlefield, forcing Solomon to choose between protecting the civilians and surviving the barrage.

• Solomon knocked out the three Krypton Warriors fighting Clark and gained enough of their abilities to raise his Kryptonian Physiology to +4.
• Solomon defeated the four Krypton Warriors surrounding Diana, increasing his copied Kryptonian Physiology to +7 and his attributes to level 6.7.
• General Zod saw his eight elite soldiers defeated and decided to attack the Earth Army and reporters as a desperate way to gain leverage over Solomon.
• Solomon intercepted Zod above the human air defenses and punched him away before he could reach the troops.
• As Zod was hurled back, he ordered the Black Zero to open fire, and its cannons targeted Solomon and the civilians across the Blackstone Desert.

Solomon survived the Black Zero’s energy cannons unscathed and defeated General Zod, then insisted that Zod and his people would belong to him under their wager. He promised to rebuild Krypton but rejected Zod’s demand to leave with the Codex, and produced a special lead box.

• Solomon charged into the Black Zero’s energy cannon blasts and emerged unharmed, prompting cheers from soldiers and viewers worldwide.
• Clark and Diana recognized Solomon’s overwhelming strength, while Zod realized that using the mothership’s main cannon would destroy Earth and thwart Krypton’s revival.
• Zod accepted defeat and asked Solomon to keep his promise to rebuild Krypton.
• Solomon promised to rebuild Krypton but told Zod that Earth was not a viable location and that other powerful beings lived there.
• Solomon refused to let Zod and his people leave, declaring that their lives belonged to him under their wager and that Zod would govern the rebuilt Krypton.
• Solomon took a specially made lead box from his Personal Space.

Solomon used kryptonite to defeat General Zod, who then swore allegiance and accepted Solomon as Krypton's supreme military commander. With the Kryptonian forces withdrawn and Earth celebrating its victory, Solomon prepared to announce Vought International’s superheroes, while Diana declined to join and left.

• Solomon exposed Zod to kryptonite, suppressed his mind, and revealed that he had held back the weapon to defeat him fairly.
• Zod admitted that Solomon was a leader stronger and more worthy than himself, then swore loyalty to him as Krypton's supreme military commander.
• The commander and people around the world celebrated as Zod ordered his soldiers aboard Black Zero and sent the ship into orbit.
• Solomon reunited with Clark and Diana, then invited them to join him in announcing Vought International’s superheroes to the world.
• Diana told Solomon she had not agreed to join Vought International and left instead of appearing before the media.

Diana agreed to join Vought after Solomon warned that Ares might return, then Solomon discovered that Major General Calvin Swanwick possessed extraordinary abilities. The chapter ended with Calvin effortlessly catching Solomon’s punch, revealing that he was no ordinary human.

• Solomon told Diana that the Sea God had overwhelmed him and argued that Ares might still be alive, prompting Diana to reconsider how she had defeated Ares.
• Diana agreed to join Vought, and Solomon, Clark, and Wonder Woman flew toward the welcoming American forces.
• Major General Calvin Swanwick introduced himself as the commander of the extraterrestrial contact incident, and Solomon’s Energy Vision revealed his remarkable abilities.
• Suspecting Calvin might be Ares in disguise, Solomon attacked him, but Calvin caught the punch with one hand.

Solomon exposed Calvin Swanwick as a green-skinned alien who claimed to have secretly protected humanity for decades. When Solomon attacked, Calvin turned intangible, but Solomon disrupted his ability with a mental attack and blasted him away with Heat Vision.

• Diana drew the Godkiller Sword when she suspected Calvin was connected to Ares, and Calvin asked Solomon how he had seen through his disguises.
• Calvin revealed his alien form and said he had always been Calvin Swanwick, using the name as an alias rather than replacing anyone.
• The soldiers and reporters panicked at the revelation, while Diana lowered her sword after sensing that Calvin was not Ares.
• Solomon accused Calvin of infiltrating the military and attacked, but his fist passed through Calvin's intangible body.
• Solomon struck Calvin's mind with psychic power, disrupted his intangibility, and hit him with Heat Vision, sending him crashing through two sand dunes.

Solomon and Calvin escalated their fight after Calvin’s powers proved able to counter Solomon’s Heat Vision and psychic attacks. As Calvin’s shifting abilities briefly forced Solomon onto the defensive, General Zod watched from orbit and reconsidered the danger of trying to conquer Earth.

• Solomon attacked Calvin with Heat Vision, but Calvin blocked his punch with telekinesis and answered with his own beams.
• Solomon’s stronger Heat Vision overwhelmed Calvin’s, but Calvin turned intangible to escape and used his mental defenses to repel Solomon’s psychic assault.
• Calvin launched a coordinated close-range assault using shapeshifting, density control, telekinesis, and psychic interference, forcing Solomon to retreat and defend himself.
• Soldiers and reporters watched in shock as Major General Calvin revealed himself to be a powerful green-skinned alien who could fight Solomon.
• Aboard the Black Zero in Low Earth Orbit, General Zod watched the footage and realized Earth held dangers beyond what he had imagined.

Solomon defeated Calvin Swanwick by exploiting his fear of fire, then took control of him and acquired Martian Physiology. The new power pushed Solomon’s energy and mental attributes above level 7, leaving him to wonder whether more Martians remained in the universe.

• Solomon overwhelmed Calvin’s defenses with his superior physical attributes, but Calvin turned intangible and strengthened his mental defenses.
• Solomon hid his flaming fist from the spectators and cameras, triggering Calvin’s terror of fire and knocking him out of his intangible state.
• Solomon punched Calvin hundreds of meters underground and engulfed him in flames, leaving him unable to resist.
• Solomon used Mind Control to conquer Calvin’s consciousness and acquired Martian Physiology.
• Solomon examined the Martian abilities and saw his energy and mental attributes rise above level 7.

Solomon’s attributes broke through to level 7, and he gained restricted Kryptonian physiology and immunity to Kryptonite. After defeating Calvin, he announced Vought International’s ultimatum and invited law-abiding Supes and alien survivors to join it, then left with Clark, Diana, and the captive Martian Manhunter.

• Solomon’s mental attribute reached level 7 after merging with Calvin’s attributes, and his other physical attributes neared level 7.
• Solomon examined the limited Kryptonian physiology gained from General Zod and his group and planned to use the Codex and Genesis Chamber to produce Kryptonians.
• Solomon emerged from the crater carrying Calvin, whose mind and powers had been broken by Solomon’s flames.
• Solomon told the global media that Calvin would be taken to Vought International and warned hidden extraterrestrials, mutants, and powered criminals to abandon their schemes.
• Solomon invited law-abiding Supes and alien survivors to join Vought, and Lois Lane asked for the names of the three heroes.
• Solomon named Clark and Diana Superman and Wonder Woman, then flew away with them and the captive Calvin.

Solomon brought the surviving Kryptonians aboard Black Zero and encountered Martian Manhunter, J'onn J'onzz, who revealed that he was the last Martian. After J'onn objected to Solomon’s plan to settle Mars, Solomon abandoned the idea and said he would find the Kryptonians another planet.

• General Zod and the other Kryptonian warriors saluted Solomon, who told them to call him Boss and left Zod in command.
• Solomon told the apparently unconscious Calvin to get up, and Calvin revealed that he was Martian Manhunter, J'onn J'onzz.
• J'onn said he had become stranded on Earth and was probably the last Martian because his people and their civilization had been wiped out.
• Solomon proposed moving the Kryptonians to Mars, but J'onn fiercely opposed anyone disturbing his home and the resting place of his people.
• Solomon let go of the plan to settle Mars and said he would find the Kryptonians another suitable planet.

Solomon recruited Martian Manhunter and questioned General Zod and Jor-El about rebuilding Krypton and cultivating a new population. After learning the two ships could produce 200 newborns, Solomon ordered both Genesis Chambers activated, but Jor-El warned that raising them on Earth under a yellow sun could unleash disaster.

• J'onn J'onzz asked to join Vought International, and Solomon accepted him on the condition that his account was true.
• General Zod explained that the World Engine needed a planet with strong ecological resources and said the Black Zero's Genesis Chamber could cultivate 100 newborns in ten months.
• Solomon sent Clark to retrieve the scout ship, whose Genesis Chamber Jor-El confirmed could also cultivate 100 people.
• Solomon ordered both Genesis Chambers activated to cultivate 200 Kryptonian newborns.
• Jor-El objected, warning Solomon that cultivating Kryptonians on Earth under a yellow sun risked catastrophe and that New Krypton needed a planet under a red sun.

Solomon ordered the Kryptonians to begin rebuilding their population under a yellow sun, despite Jor-El's warnings, and had Clark's Codex extracted to activate two hundred embryos. He planned to obtain a suitable planet through Hal Jordan and take Kryptonian technology and the Genesis Chamber back to The Boys world.

• Solomon rejected Jor-El's proposal to wait for New Krypton's geological transformation and ordered General Zod to proceed with the Genesis Chamber.
• Solomon told Clark to have the Codex extracted from his cells, and Jor-El revealed that he had embedded it in Clark before Krypton's destruction.
• Clark trusted Solomon and went to the Medical Bay, while Solomon decided to seek a habitable planet by finding Hal Jordan, a Green Lantern.
• The Chief Scientist reported that the Codex had been extracted and all two hundred embryo sequences had begun cell division.
• Solomon ordered copies of Krypton's technological data and the Codex, intending to take the Codex and Genesis Chamber to The Boys world.

Solomon perfected Compound V to awaken powers in anyone without side effects and instructed Lex Luthor to prepare for mass production. He reviewed intelligence on powerful figures and Supes, including a tattooed ex-gang leader held at Belle Reve, while planning his next targets.

• Solomon perfected Compound V, giving it a 100% awakening rate and allowing further injections of the original formula to raise attributes up to level 5.
• Solomon met with Lex Luthor, who reported Vought’s rising stock, the public’s search for Solomon’s identity, and the failure to locate Hal Jordan.
• Solomon decided to copy Diana’s attributes and pursue Black Adam and the Crown of Sabbac in Kahndaq, while avoiding Atlantis and Themyscira for now.
• Solomon told Lex to arrange mass production, publicity, and human trials for Perfected Compound V, and asked him to continue expanding Vought’s intelligence network.
• Lex gave Solomon a file on Supes, and Solomon read about Chato Santana, the former gang leader known as Vengeance Demon, who was imprisoned at Belle Reve.

Solomon reviewed files on several supes and dismissed the authorities’ plans for a super team. After Solomon left, Lex Luthor secretly warned Martian Manhunter that he suspected Solomon was not a Kryptonian and might have staged General Zod’s arrival, then asked him to investigate.

• Solomon read files on June Moone, Hawkman, Doctor Fate, and Cyclotron, then said he did not care what super team the authorities formed.
• After Solomon left, J'onn entered Lex Luthor’s office to discuss a planned public relations interview.
• J'onn sensed Lex probing his mind, but Lex secretly told him to sit down and play along rather than establish two-way telepathic communication.
• Lex told J'onn that Solomon could wield kryptonite without weakening and possessed telepathy and spatial teleportation, which led Lex to doubt that Solomon was a Kryptonian.
• Lex claimed Solomon had predicted General Zod’s arrival a month in advance and suspected he had orchestrated the crisis to advance his plans.
• Lex asked J'onn to review his memories, investigate Solomon, and erase their mental exchange afterward.

Solomon used his psychic powers to control Diana and acquired demigod physiology, raising his strength and defense to level 7. He challenged Diana to a sparring match to test her strength and win her trust, while the invisible Martian Manhunter watched.

• Martian Manhunter read Lex Luthor's memories, erased evidence of their conversation, and followed Solomon invisibly.
• Solomon met Diana at a restaurant and secretly overpowered her mental defenses with his psychic powers.
• Solomon acquired Diana's demigod physiology, learned that divine power could wield rule power, and reached level 7 in strength and defense.
• Martian Manhunter sensed Solomon's psychic attack on Diana but hesitated to intervene when she appeared unaffected.
• Solomon challenged Diana to a sparring match, and Diana accepted.

Solomon and Diana battled on an uninhabited island, where his superior physical strength initially overwhelmed her. After Diana unleashed her divine power, her artifacts gained law-based abilities that pierced his defenses and restrained him, leaving the two facing off with neither able to dominate through brute force alone.

• Solomon and Diana left Vought Tower and began fighting on a remote island while Martian Manhunter secretly watched.
• Solomon used his level 7 strength and durability to overpower Diana in hand-to-hand combat and repel her attacks with her divine artifacts.
• Diana unleashed her divine power, allowing the Sword of Hephaestus to breach Solomon's defense and her bracelets to blast him into a mountain.
• Solomon's Heat Vision failed to penetrate Diana's divine shield, and the Lasso of Truth restrained his arm and stopped his attack.
• Solomon blocked Diana's sword with the lasso and kicked at her, but she released the rope and retreated before he could hit her.
• Diana retrieved the Lasso of Truth and told Solomon that brute strength alone could not overcome the gods' power.

Solomon used divine power to defeat Diana in a direct fight, then revealed a distinct Rule Power born from his level 7 strength. Diana recognized that his new power belonged to the realm of rules, and Solomon concluded that any attribute reaching level 7 might produce its own Rule Power.

• Solomon activated the divine power he had acquired and overpowered Diana, knocking away her shield and sword before pinning her to the sand.
• Diana conceded, and Solomon helped her up before explaining that he was evolving toward godhood.
• Diana sensed that Solomon’s golden divine power shared its origin with the Olympian Pantheon.
• Solomon revealed a separate power he called Rule Power, which Diana sensed as pure dominance with a connection to rules.
• Solomon explained that he had distilled the Rule of Strength from his level 7 strength attribute and suspected other level 7 attributes could also produce Rule Power.

Solomon explained how breaking past level 7 awakened rule power, then reassured Diana that her divine blood was part of her. After joking about his sunbathing-powered growth, he invited her to stand beside him and use her strength freely through Vought International.

• Solomon told Diana that pushing physical attributes beyond level 7 produced divine rule power, and he demonstrated how his strength, energy, spirit, and defense each manifested it.
• Diana doubted that she could increase her strength tenfold and worried that her divine power came from inherited blood, but Solomon reassured her that it was inseparable from her.
• When Diana asked how he had become so powerful, Solomon claimed he had done it by sunbathing, making her laugh and punch his unmarked chest.
• Solomon flew with Diana to a cliff on a deserted island, where they shared whiskey as she confided that her long life and power had made her lonely.
• Solomon told Diana that Vought International could give them a place to protect humanity and urged her to stay with him and fight without hiding her strength.

Solomon and Diana began a relationship after bonding over his ideals, then Solomon traveled to Kahndaq with the Martian Manhunter following him. There, Solomon tracked down Ishmael Gregor, who was secretly seeking the Crown of Sabbac and the power of the six demons.

• Diana accepted Solomon’s ideals, and the two kissed behind his golden barrier as J’onn watched in embarrassment.
• Solomon and Diana spent the following week together at Vought Tower while J’onn waited outside.
• Solomon left Vought Tower and flew to Kahndaq, with J’onn following invisibly.
• Solomon searched Kahndaq with his psychic power and located Ishmael Gregor.
• Ishmael studied an ancient book about the Crown of Sabbac, which he hoped to find and use to restore his ancestor’s dynasty.

After hearing that a collapse had exposed ancient ruins believed to belong to King Ahk-Ton, Ismael rushed to the western mountains with his Intergang squad. He found another Intergang unit blocking the entrance and confronted its leader, Hassan.

• Ismael heard miners say a collapse had uncovered an underground palace filled with ancient inscriptions, murals, and statues.
• Ismael seized a miner and forced him to reveal that the ruins lay near the old Devil's Rock mining area.
• Ismael ordered his men to gather weapons and explosives, then led them in five armed vehicles toward the ruins.
• Ismael's convoy found the entrance blocked by armed Intergang mercenaries and armored vehicles.
• Hassan confronted Ismael and demanded to know why he had entered the western mountain sector.

Ishmael negotiated a share of the newly uncovered ruins with Hassan and entered the collapsed mine with his men. He recognized the site as part of King Ahk-Ton's palace and waited for the blocked passage to be cleared, hoping to reach the Crown of Sabbac.

• Ishmael confronted Hassan over access to the ruins, and the two sides nearly drew their weapons.
• Ishmael warned Hassan that other Intergang district captains would come for the ruins, and Hassan agreed to give him twenty percent in exchange for help keeping them out.
• Hassan ordered the barricade removed, and Ishmael's squad joined his men as they entered the mountain ruins.
• Ishmael recognized ancient Kahndaq inscriptions describing King Ahk-Ton and realized the passage belonged to the king's palace.
• Ishmael saw mercenaries drilling through collapsed rock and learned that archaeologist Kasim Tomaz and his wife, Adrianna Tomaz, were assessing the ruins.