Arc 12Chapters 276–289

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Ch. 276Chapter 434 / Chapter 435

Su Chen ordered the Utopia Alliance to attack Darkseid's Planet after its legions had recovered and the Fourth Legion had begun bringing Universe 1 under their control. The alliance used Steppenwolf's blood to activate the Mother Boxes and prepare a Boom Tube, while Su Chen set out the invasion's three echelons and planned to join the fighting.

  • Su Chen reviewed reports of the Fourth Legion's decisive expansion across Universe 1 and received word that the other legions were ready to fight.
  • Su Chen ordered the alliance to assemble, then told its members they would punish the enemy who had attacked Earth and inflicted losses on them.
  • The alliance displayed the tortured Steppenwolf and brought out the three Mother Boxes; a Sentinel killed Steppenwolf, splashing his blood across the boxes and strengthening their energy.
  • A research institute member told Su Chen that the Mother Boxes had located Darkseid's Planet and could transport all three legions through a Boom Tube.
  • Su Chen ordered the First Legion to establish a front line, senior members of the Second and Third Legions to set up a command center, and the rest of the Third Legion to follow in a third echelon.

Ch. 277Chapter 277

Su Chen led the Utopia Alliance’s forces through the Boom Tubes to Darkseid’s Planet, where they faced Darkseid and his Parademon legions. Darkseid recognized that Steppenwolf had failed and prepared to unleash dormant forces as he approached Su Chen’s army.

  • Su Chen ordered the three Mother Boxes to open Boom Tubes, and soldiers and Sentinels entered the passages in successive waves.
  • Su Chen and the second echelon arrived on Darkseid’s Planet, where they found the world crowded with Parademons.
  • Darkseid waited for Steppenwolf’s signal, then sensed a passage opening and realized Steppenwolf had failed.
  • Millions of Sentinels and fighters arrived through the Boom Tubes, and Su Chen sensed that Darkseid’s Planet lay at the junction of several universes.
  • Darkseid ordered a Parademon to release dormant forces, then floated toward Su Chen’s army.
  • Emma Frost remarked that Darkseid looked like Thanos.

Ch. 278Chapter 439 / Chapter 440

Su Chen and the First and Third Legions confronted Darkseid on his planet, where Darkseid sent two Superman-like fighters to test Su Chen’s strength. Su Chen survived their combined attack without harm, while the battle between the legions began.

  • Darkseid learned Su Chen had conquered multiple universes and demanded that he prove his strength, then ordered the Parademons to kill the intruders.
  • Su Chen ordered the First and Third Legions to attack the Parademons while he intercepted two bolts of lightning sent toward him.
  • Su Chen’s collision with the two attackers produced a shockwave that turned nearby Parademons to powder, and the attackers were revealed as two Superman-like beings.
  • One attacker pressed a glowing green stone to his chest, and both fighters fired heat and freezing beams at Su Chen.
  • Su Chen used a Green Lantern construct to neutralize both beams and explained that opposing energies annihilated each other before their destructive force could build.

Ch. 279Chapter 441 / Chapter 442

Su Chen defeated Bizarro and severely damaged Cyborg Superman while the Utopia Alliance's legions held their line against the Parademons. He then restrained Cyborg Superman and tore out his head and part of his spine, leaving the battle's outcome against Darkseid unresolved.

  • Su Chen used energy mirrors to counter Cyborg Superman and Bizarro's opposing beams, then charged through their breath attacks and seized them.
  • Su Chen battered the two Kryptonians into the ground, killed Bizarro, and left Cyborg Superman badly damaged before he escaped.
  • The Utopia Alliance's First and Third Legions formed a coordinated defensive line and steadily killed the charging Parademons.
  • Su Chen examined Cyborg Superman's mixture of Kryptonian flesh and mechanical enhancements, then decided to pursue Darkseid at his palace.
  • Cyborg Superman tried to attack Su Chen again, so Su Chen bound him with green chains and tore out his head and part of his spine.

Ch. 280Chapter 280

Su Chen confronted Darkseid in his palace after defeating Cyborg Superman and Bizarro, while the Utopia Alliance fought the Parademons outside. Darkseid’s psychic tactics briefly endangered the Alliance, but Su Chen struck him down and their clash unleashed a devastating shockwave across the battlefield.

  • Cyborg Superman’s still-functioning mechanical eye transmitted footage of Su Chen’s battle to his creator, who decided to investigate.
  • Su Chen reached Darkseid’s palace, destroyed its gates, and faced Darkseid on his throne.
  • Darkseid used his psychic power to coordinate the Parademons, allowing them to overwhelm parts of the Utopia Alliance’s defenses until Su Chen interrupted him with a punch.
  • Darkseid rose in anger and charged Su Chen, and the two began fighting in the palace.
  • A tremendous impact sent waves through the ground, sweeping up Parademons and leaving the battlefield strewn with their remains.

Ch. 281Chapter 446 / Chapter 447

Su Chen faced Darkseid in space and discovered that the Omega Beams could send their targets through parallel universes. As the beams carried him across those universes, Su Chen’s resistance to the Omega Effect rapidly increased.

  • Su Chen and Darkseid moved their fight into space to keep their battle from destroying Darkseid’s planet.
  • Darkseid erased Su Chen’s cosmic energy with a strange ray and announced that he would use his Omega Beams.
  • Darkseid’s Omega Beams warped space and time, destroyed Su Chen’s shield, and struck him when he charged forward.
  • The Omega Beams sent Su Chen hurtling through countless parallel universes, while his resistance to the Omega Effect increased with each exposure.

Ch. 282Chapter 448 / Chapter 449

Su Chen survived Darkseid’s Omega Beams and was cast into a zombie-infested parallel universe, but he used the path of the souls he had destroyed to return through the Goddess of Death’s Realm. He then recovered the Infinity Stones and jumped back to Apocalypse Star to resume his fight with Darkseid.

  • Su Chen realized his resistance had not reached its limit, then used the Supreme Ring’s faint connection to Universe 1 to find a way home.
  • Su Chen discovered he had landed in a zombie-ravaged New York and prepared to fight the zombie inhabitants and superheroes.
  • Darkseid returned to the battlefield, praised his Parademons, and prepared to order them to wipe out the Utopia Alliance.
  • Su Chen suddenly appeared and punched Darkseid into space, then urged the Utopia Alliance to eliminate the remaining Parademons.
  • Su Chen followed the souls of his defeated enemies through the Goddess of Death’s Realm and returned to Universe 1.
  • Su Chen gathered the six Infinity Stones, jumped back to Apocalypse Star, and left the Goddess of Death wondering what opponent had excited him so much.

Ch. 283Chapter 450 / Chapter 451

Su Chen used Darkseid’s Omega Beams to take them both into parallel universes, where he unleashed his power and destroyed worlds without restraint. As their battle shattered a universe, Su Chen’s resistance to the Omega Effect reached its maximum, leaving Darkseid unable to escape him.

  • Su Chen challenged Darkseid to fire the Omega Beams again and charged into their full force.
  • Su Chen grabbed Darkseid and let the beams carry them to a deserted Earth in another universe.
  • Su Chen destroyed Earth and the approaching planet, then continued unleashing waves of power that tore through the universe.
  • The Goddess of Death watched an enormous new flood of souls enter her realm and wondered if Su Chen was destroying parallel universes.
  • Su Chen drove Darkseid into retreat as their battle collapsed the universe around them.
  • Darkseid’s Omega Beams failed to affect Su Chen, whose resistance reached MAX.

Ch. 284Chapter 284

Su Chen pursued Darkseid through collapsing parallel universes, stripped him of the Omega Effect, and stopped his attempt to unleash Doomsday as revenge. Using the Supreme Rings and his newly acquired Omega Effect, Su Chen prepared to return directly to Universe 1.

  • Su Chen destroyed one parallel universe after another while chasing Darkseid and gradually extracted the Omega Effect from him.
  • Darkseid lost the ability to use the Omega Effect, which drifted away from him and gathered around Su Chen.
  • Su Chen offered Darkseid a choice of death, but Darkseid ripped out his own heart and revealed that his death would release Doomsday from a black hole near Apocalypse Star.
  • Su Chen used green light to keep Darkseid alive long enough to promise he would deal with Doomsday himself.
  • Su Chen combined the Omega Effect with the seven Supreme Rings to point toward Universe 1 and prepare a direct return.

Ch. 285Chapter 455 / Chapter 456

Su Chen crushed Darkseid’s forces on Apocalypse Star and carried the defeated ruler toward the super black hole to release Doomsday. There he encountered Brainiac, who recognized the danger posed by the Omega Effect.

  • Su Chen returned to Universe 1 with Darkseid and ordered the Utopia Alliance to wipe out all life on Apocalypse Star.
  • The Utopia Alliance’s First and Third Legions launched a final assault, routing the remaining Parademons.
  • Su Chen mocked Darkseid’s soldiers and revealed his intention to release Doomsday from the super black hole.
  • Su Chen spotted a green-skinned being near the black hole and used the Omega Effect to appear behind him.
  • The being was identified as Brainiac, who had helped Darkseid seal Doomsday after the monster resisted the Omega Effect.
  • Brainiac had been heading to Darkseid’s Planet after learning of the battle through Cyborg Superman’s mechanical eyes.

Ch. 286Chapter 457 / Chapter 458

Su Chen confronted Brainiac after defeating Darkseid and declared that he intended to release Doomsday from the supermassive black hole. Brainiac unleashed his enormous fleet against him, but Su Chen advanced unharmed and passed Brainiac without even treating him as an opponent.

  • Brainiac found Su Chen carrying the nearly defeated Darkseid and confirmed that Doomsday remained trapped inside the black hole.
  • Su Chen said he wanted to release Doomsday and find out whether the monster could destroy the multiverse or whether he could defeat it.
  • Brainiac secretly summoned his vast fleet of advanced warships and combat units to stop Su Chen from destroying the black hole.
  • Su Chen protected himself with the Omega Effect and the Emotional Spectrum, reflecting the fleet's attacks and causing its forces to destroy one another.
  • Su Chen advanced through Brainiac's army, reached Brainiac, and walked past him without engaging.

Ch. 287Chapter 287

Brainiac warned Su Chen that Doomsday was connected to the Great Beast, a cosmic force of destruction, but Su Chen entered the black hole and destroyed Doomsday with the Power of Creation. The Great Beast emerged across the universe and challenged Su Chen, who welcomed the fight.

  • Brainiac told Su Chen that Doomsday's ultimate origin was the Great Beast and warned that releasing him could bring destruction to all life.
  • Su Chen ignored Brainiac's warning and rushed toward the supermassive black hole with Darkseid in hand.
  • Brainiac fled aboard a spaceship as darkness spread through the universe, engulfing him, Darkseid's planet, and the Utopia Alliance.
  • Su Chen found Doomsday lounging inside the black hole and destroyed him with the Power of Creation.
  • The Great Beast's darkness flooded the universe, and it offered to spare Su Chen if he became its pet.
  • Su Chen rejected the offer and challenged the Great Beast to fight.

Ch. 288Chapter 462 / Chapter 463

After the Great Beast’s darkness engulfed universes, Su Chen fought to survive as his Power of Creation and Supreme Rings weakened. He stopped his body from developing darkness resistance, deciding that he needed to become completely unresistant to darkness instead.

  • The Great Beast’s darkness spread across Darkseid’s Planet and Universe 1, forcing Emma to regroup the Utopia Alliance and return to Earth 1, which was also engulfed.
  • The Goddess of Death recognized the darkness as the Great Beast’s power and feared that Su Chen had provoked him.
  • Su Chen attacked the Great Beast inside the supermassive black hole, but his Power of Creation barely damaged the darkness, and the seven Supreme Rings began to lose energy.
  • The Great Beast squeezed Su Chen’s protective space down to the area around his body and threatened to absorb him into the darkness.
  • Su Chen’s system began increasing his resistance to darkness, but he suppressed the instinct and decided that he needed no resistance to darkness at all.

Ch. 289Chapter 289

Su Chen endured the primordial darkness while keeping his will intact and eventually wrested control of it from the Great Beast. He returned to Emma and the Utopia Legion, declaring that darkness throughout the multiverse now belonged to the Utopia Alliance.

  • The darkness engulfed Su Chen and ground down his body as he fought to stay conscious and suppress his instincts.
  • The Great Beast expected to assimilate Su Chen, but a struggle between their wills began within the darkness.
  • The Great Beast panicked and begged Su Chen to leave its body, then fell silent.
  • The darkness receded from all living beings, and Su Chen appeared before Emma and the Utopia Legion dressed in black.
  • Su Chen praised the Legion and said darkness throughout the multiverse now belonged to the Utopia Alliance.
Arc 12 of 12
Arc 12 of 12