Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.