Chapter Summaries

Solomon confronted Stormfront at the abandoned factory and revealed that he knew about the Original Compound V survivors. Stormfront attacked him, but Solomon vanished and struck from behind; as she raised a Lightning Barrier, he used Blood Manipulation to accelerate the blood in her body.

• Solomon dampened his hearing, adapted his clones to level 3 hearing, and taunted Stormfront to increase her electrical attack.
• Stormfront recognized that Black Noir had died and admitted Edgar had sent her to eliminate Solomon so she could return to The Seven.
• Solomon revealed his face and asked Stormfront where Bombsight, Torpedo, and Private Angel were, prompting her to attack to protect her secrets.
• Stormfront struck Solomon with concentrated purple lightning, but he disappeared and used his speed and presence suppression to sneak behind her.
• Stormfront sensed Solomon behind her and raised a Lightning Barrier as he used Blood Manipulation to accelerate the blood in her body.

Solomon defeated and permanently killed Stormfront, gaining her plasma violet lightning and biological immortality. His energy level rose above level 4, and the chapter ended with him examining his strengthened attributes and new abilities.

• Solomon's special longsword failed to pierce Stormfront's level 3 defense, so he seized her and used Memory Reading to search for information about Bombsight, Torpedo, and Private Angel.
• Solomon found no useful leads in Stormfront's memories and used Blood Manipulation to kill her, then destroyed her organs and brain to prevent her return.
• Solomon gained plasma violet lightning and biological immortality, and his energy level reached 4.002.
• Solomon inspected his updated Superpower Panel and considered how Stormfront's lightning power combined with Electricity Conversion and Control.

After reaching Level 4 Energy, Solomon decided to pursue Edgar and strengthen his mental resistance. He killed Blindspot, kept A-Train alive for his potential, and raced toward a hospital with him.

• Solomon’s Level 4 Energy convinced him that no Supe in The Boys could defeat him, though he still worried about psychic attacks and planned to target Mindstorm, Homelander, or Ryan.
• Solomon caught Blindspot fleeing the factory and killed him with Double Peaks Piercing Ears after rejecting his pleas for mercy.
• Solomon used Blood Manipulation to stabilize the unconscious A-Train, whose Super Speed still had room to develop.
• Solomon lifted A-Train, glanced at a surveillance camera, and sped toward a nearby hospital.

After learning that Black Noir had been killed in an ambush against JS, Homelander flew into a rage and went to confront Edgar at Vought Tower. He found Solomon in the CEO's office instead, taking control of Vought and appointing Ashley as CEO, while Homelander listened outside the door.

• Edgar discovered Homelander was away visiting Ryan and called him to report that JS had killed Black Noir.
• Homelander crushed a baseball in fury, reassured Ryan, and flew to the abandoned factory, where workers told him that Translucent had killed Black Noir, Stormfront, and Blindspot during the ambush Edgar ordered.
• Homelander headed for Vought Tower to confront Edgar but found Solomon in the CEO's office and learned that Edgar had fled.
• Solomon ordered Ashley to announce Edgar's betrayal and convene the board, then appointed her Vought's new CEO.
• Solomon revealed that Homelander was listening outside the office, and Ashley hurried to open the door for him.

Solomon defeated Homelander in their fight at the Vought office, leaving him unconscious and badly wounded. After gaining Homelander’s abilities, Solomon reflected on how far he had risen before a woman at the doorway asked whether Homelander was dead.

• Homelander confronted Solomon and demanded to know whether he had killed Black Noir, then attacked him with his Laser Eyes.
• Solomon overpowered Homelander’s crimson lasers with his blue beam and forced him to dodge by blasting through a load-bearing wall.
• Homelander charged Solomon, who pierced his abdomen with purple lightning and sent him crashing through two partition walls.
• Homelander tried to flee, but Solomon controlled his blood to bind and choke him until he lost consciousness.
• Solomon acquired Homelander’s abilities, and a trembling woman at the doorway asked if Homelander was dead.

Solomon defeated Homelander and ordered Ashley to conceal the fight, then examined the five abilities he had gained from Homelander. With flight, upgraded laser eyes, super vision, super hearing, and super smell, Solomon’s powers reached a new peak, though his sensitive smell also carried a weakness.

• Solomon used crimson blood ribbons to lift the unconscious Homelander onto a sofa, then ordered Ashley to enforce secrecy and destroy the floor’s surveillance footage.
• Ashley hurried away to carry out Solomon’s orders, shaken by the fight and her sudden move from vice president to CEO.
• Solomon checked his power panel and confirmed that he had gained five abilities from Homelander.
• Solomon assessed his new flight, upgraded laser eyes, super vision, and super hearing, noting their increased range and capabilities.
• Solomon recognized that super smell could help him identify and track targets but could also leave him vulnerable to overpowering stenches.

After defeating Homelander and absorbing his abilities, Solomon became stronger than anyone in the world and immune to psychic powers. He spared Homelander and reassured him that his public position would remain intact, but had not yet decided what to do with him.

• Solomon absorbed Homelander's abilities and attributes, surpassing him across the board and gaining immunity to psychic interference.
• Homelander woke in Solomon's office and tried to flee, but Solomon stopped him and reminded him that Vought Tower was his only home.
• Solomon told Homelander that Ashley would handle the aftermath and that the defeat would remain secret, leaving him as captain of The Seven and the world's top Supe in public.
• Homelander begged Solomon to spare him and offered his position, fame, fans, and resources, while Solomon insisted he did not want those things.
• Homelander asked what Solomon wanted him to do, and Solomon paused, realizing he had not planned what to do with his defeated rival.

Solomon questioned Homelander about Becca and used his enhanced Memory Reading to uncover that Homelander had not physically forced her, though she later regretted their encounter. After Solomon sent him away, Homelander made sure the office surveillance footage was destroyed and returned to his penthouse, shaken by his defeat and near-death.

• Solomon told Homelander to keep things as they were until Solomon secured his position at Vought, then bring Becca and Ryan to live with him.
• Solomon challenged Homelander about whether he had raped Becca, and Homelander insisted that he had not forced himself on her.
• Solomon used his newly enhanced Memory Reading to catch fragments confirming Homelander had not used physical coercion, while learning that Becca had regretted the encounter afterward.
• Solomon told Homelander to handle his relationship with Becca himself and said Ashley would arrange his attendance at upcoming board meetings.
• Homelander demanded that the surveillance staff check the footage, then learned Ashley had deleted the eighty-second-floor recordings and destroyed the backups.
• Homelander returned to his penthouse and relived the fear and helplessness of being defeated and nearly killed by Solomon.

Solomon adapted to his greatly increased powers while ordering Ashley to have Homelander convene an emergency board meeting. Edgar escaped to his secret bunker and resolved to investigate the unknown Supe JS.

• Homelander curled up alone, overwhelmed by fear and humiliation after Solomon defeated him, and thought about fleeing with Ryan.
• Solomon struggled to control his heightened senses and seven-hundred-ton strength as he adjusted to his new power.
• Ashley told Solomon that the board had rejected her request for an emergency meeting and that the directors were trying to contact Edgar.
• Solomon ordered Ashley to have Homelander convene the meeting, and Ashley hurried off despite fearing Homelander.
• Edgar reached his hidden zinc bunker, reflected on his preparations for Homelander, and decided that JS had to be investigated.

Edgar secretly ordered an investigation into JS and Vought’s Supes while staying hidden from the company. At Vought’s emergency board meeting, Solomon took the head seat as Homelander accepted a subordinate position, then tried to rally the directors behind replacing Edgar as CEO.

• Edgar called an associate, ordered her to investigate JS and Supes with Translucent’s or A-Train’s abilities, and told her to wait for his next call before destroying the SIM card.
• Solomon, Homelander, and Ashley arrived at the emergency board meeting, where Solomon took the central seat and Homelander sat beside him without objecting.
• The directors introduced themselves respectfully to Solomon and Homelander, while Homelander struggled with the humiliation of his subordinate position.
• Homelander declared that Edgar had betrayed Vought and that the company needed a new CEO, but the directors stayed silent.
• Homelander’s anger rose as he demanded to know whether the directors disagreed with him.

Solomon secured the board’s unanimous approval for Ashley to become Vought’s new CEO, then ordered her to gather information on Supes, pursue research into Original Compound V, and search for three long-lost test subjects. Ashley questioned whether Private Angel, Bombsight, and Torpedo could still be alive after eighty years.

• Homelander announced that Ashley, not himself, would become Vought’s new CEO, and Ashley promised to prioritize the company’s forty-billion-dollar Department of Defense contract.
• The directors unanimously approved Ashley’s appointment, while Solomon reflected that he had been prepared to replace them with Clones if they resisted.
• After the board meeting, Solomon instructed Ashley to compile a complete list of surviving Supes and their abilities and locations.
• Solomon ordered Ashley to continue Compound V research, reconstruct the Original Compound V formula, and search for Private Angel, Bombsight, and Torpedo.
• Ashley asked Homelander whether the three test subjects could still be alive after more than eighty years.

Homelander learned that Original Compound V could halt aging and ordered Ashley to investigate it, while Solomon trained until he mastered his enhanced abilities. Ashley revealed Harmony Castle as the likely hiding place of the last original serum and gave Solomon files on surviving Supes, leaving him poised to pursue both leads.

• Solomon told Homelander and Ashley that Stormfront was a hundred years old and had stopped aging after receiving Original Compound V.
• Homelander ordered Ashley to investigate the original formula, and she hurried away to mobilize Vought’s resources.
• Solomon spent three days training with his clones until he could precisely control his enhanced strength and senses.
• Ashley told Solomon that Harmony Castle was Vought’s original Compound V laboratory and the likely location of the last vial of pure serum.
• Ashley assured Solomon that she had kept the Harmony Castle lead from Homelander and handed him an encrypted drive containing files on Supes who survived Compound V injections.

Solomon identified Sister Sage as the key to advancing Compound V research and flew to Detroit to meet her. Sage deduced that he had replaced the real Translucent and began guessing why he had sought her out.

• Solomon reviewed Vought's files and found only one thousand Supes, then searched for Sister Sage, whose intelligence could help him improve Compound V and recreate the original formula.
• Solomon resolved to pursue the original Compound V chiefly for its tenfold boost to Supes' combat power, since he already possessed biological immortality.
• Solomon found Sage's address and flew at Mach 8 from Vought Tower to her home in Detroit.
• Sage opened her door to Solomon's invisible, clothes-wearing form and let him inside after he asked permission.
• Sage deduced that Solomon was not the real Translucent, citing his disappearance from public events and the lack of a commercial reason for Vought to suppress him.
• Solomon asked why she thought he had come, and Sage guessed he wanted an identity and resources or that Homelander had sent him to recruit her.

Solomon killed Sage, burned her body to prevent her from regenerating, and acquired her super brain. After discovering that the ability enhanced his intelligence, senses, combat planning, and brain healing, he sent a clone to study Sage’s books and headed for Harmony Castle.

• Sage explained that she could deduce answers from clues but could not know everything, and Solomon killed her with his laser eyes.
• Solomon burned Sage’s body to ashes to ensure her powerful brain regeneration could not revive her.
• Solomon acquired super brain, which gave him rapid parallel thinking, perfect memory retrieval, and indefinite brain regeneration.
• Solomon used his enhanced mind to process his senses, recall details from The Boys, and develop new ways to use his abilities.
• Solomon sent a clone to read Sage’s books and left the apartment, heading toward Harmony Castle.

Solomon reached Harmony Castle to search for Original Compound V records and the first-generation Supe Quinn, whose emotional spores had turned the surrounding area into a death zone. After his laser attack failed to register Quinn as defeated, Solomon realized Quinn’s mutated body had no blood or conventional organs and began to investigate the vines around him for the key to killing him.

• Solomon flew to Harmony Castle at high speed and found the wasteland and forest filled with the remains of animals and humans.
• He scanned the vine-covered castle for Original Compound V records, stock solution, and Quinn, the source of the deadly spores.
• Solomon followed the vines to an underground chamber, where he found Quinn fused into a wall and promised to free him from his torment.
• Solomon struck Quinn’s eyes with laser beams, but received no defeat notification and found that Quinn had not revived.
• Solomon examined Quinn and discovered that his body had no living blood or intact organs, then connected the vines to how Soldier Boy had killed him in the original story.

Solomon killed Quinn and gained plant manipulation, emotion manipulation, and upgraded biological immortality, which removed his need to eat, sleep, or breathe. He discovered Bombsight had taken the original Compound V stock solution and decided to capture Little Headliner to draw Bombsight out.

• Solomon burned Quinn and the vines throughout the underground chamber until every trace of life was destroyed, earning Quinn’s abilities and upgrading biological immortality to +1.
• Solomon realized Quinn’s original powers had been plant and emotion manipulation, and that Quinn’s collapsed body had warped their use into passive effects.
• Solomon learned his new immortality eliminated his need for food, sleep, and oxygen, and saw that his mind attribute had increased.
• Solomon searched Harmony Castle’s laboratory with super vision and found only a bag of heroin, concluding Bombsight had taken the original Compound V stock solution.
• Solomon decided to capture Little Headliner to force Bombsight to reveal himself and hand over the stock solution.

Solomon left Harmony Castle after confirming it contained no remaining original Compound V research, then traveled to Sage Grove Center, Vought’s secret facility for experimenting on adults. He met the center’s research supervisor Carlton and its acting director Lamplighter, and identified Lamplighter as a former member of The Seven.

• Solomon used Super Vision to search Harmony Castle, found no original Compound V materials, and left.
• Solomon decided to wait for Ashley to find Bombsight’s phone number before going to the retirement home, and planned to use the wait to harvest more superpowers.
• Solomon instructed Ashley to prepare a laboratory, investigate secret Russian facilities, locate Mind Stone Stormfront, and notify Sage Grove Center of his arrival.
• Ashley told Solomon that Lamplighter was temporarily running Sage Grove Center after Stormfront’s death, and Solomon flew to the remote facility in Pennsylvania.
• Carlton and Lamplighter greeted Solomon at Sage Grove Center, and Solomon told Lamplighter that Starlight had taken his place in The Seven.

Solomon inspected Vought’s imprisoned test subjects and used Blood Manipulation to defeat them, acquiring their abilities. He gained Telekinesis from Tim and Sausage Growth from Sausage Bro, then continued through the facility’s cells.

• Solomon read the test-subject dossier and recognized Cindy as a powerful telekinetic.
• Carlton led Solomon and Lamplighter to the holding area and explained how the cells and drugs suppressed the prisoners.
• Solomon used Blood Manipulation to make Tim pass out and acquired Telekinesis.
• Solomon moved through the cells, defeating the test subjects one by one with his ability.
• Solomon questioned why Vought kept Sausage Bro for research, then defeated him and acquired Sausage Growth.

Solomon harvested all thirty test subjects at Sage Grove, gaining Cindy’s telekinesis and several other abilities, including phasing. He then defeated Lamplighter, acquired and improved his flame manipulation, and told Dr. Carlton to look after him before leaving.

• Solomon harvested the remaining Sage Grove test subjects and gained Cindy’s telekinesis.
• Solomon reviewed his new abilities, focusing on phasing and its offensive and defensive uses.
• Solomon incapacitated Lamplighter and acquired his flame manipulation ability.
• Solomon fused Spark with flame manipulation, enabling himself to summon and control flames.
• Solomon told Dr. Carlton to take Lamplighter away to rest and announced that he was leaving.

Solomon harvested abilities from the Supe test subjects at Sage Grove and left with a slightly stronger body and a much larger ability pool. Meanwhile, Edgar pieced together Solomon’s identity and ability, then realized that Homelander may have created a rival powerful enough to threaten Vought.

• Solomon knocked out the Supe test subjects at Sage Grove, harvested their abilities and Lamplighter’s, then flew away.
• Solomon checked his stats and found that the thirty test subjects had only slightly boosted his attributes, though his ability pool had grown to sixty-seven.
• Edgar studied Solomon’s dossier and connected him to Translucent’s death, Shockwave’s injuries, and several other incidents involving Supes.
• Edgar concluded that Solomon could copy abilities by knocking Supes unconscious and had likely collected more than a dozen powers.
• Edgar found no record that Solomon had received Compound V and suspected that Homelander’s secret leak had accidentally created him.
• Edgar recalled that Solomon had already been no weaker than Homelander during their fight at Vought Tower.