Failure Man ×3

Queensboro Bridge, Queens, New York.

Lin Xu watched the octopus fighting the Iron Spider not far away. He was completely out of ideas!

He had transmigrated less than an hour ago, and now he had transmigrated again?

"Fine, fine, fine. Just because I know Spider-Man is Peter Parker, and just because Spider-Man saw me kill Harry Osborn, that makes me the villain, huh?"

With that, Lin Xu seemed to make up his mind. He turned and walked away without a moment's hesitation!

The main problem was that Spider-Man and Strange were both far too unreliable. Lin Xu had all this divine power but could only use the mystic arts to open a portal. Everything else depended on brute force, making it easy for him to get screwed over!

Finding the Sorcerer Supreme was a safer bet.

"Oh! Dear Wong, here I come!"

The Amazing Spider-Man universe

Peter struggled to come to terms with Harry's death for a long time. Although Gwen Stacy used her police connections to uncover the whole truth, that did nothing to lessen Peter's grief. The friendships of childhood were always hard to forget.

Gwen Stacy went to Oxford, and Peter planned to go to the United Kingdom after settling Aunt May in. But as he neared the airport, a building caught fire.

He broke his promise!

He was not just Peter, but also Spider-Man, New York City's friendly neighborhood hero.

At the same time, he turned down an offer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and chose to study law and crime in Columbia University's law department instead! (American high schools don't divide students into science and humanities tracks.)

Four years later, Gwen Stacy came back. Peter went to the airport, and they smiled at each other before embracing tightly!

Three more years passed, and the two started a new family with lemon bass as their witness. Gwen Stacy was responsible for earning money, supporting the family, and looking beautiful, while Peter was responsible for street fights and staying out all night.

They both had bright futures!

One day, twenty-seven-year-old Peter dragged his exhausted body home through the window.

"Shit, Peter! How many times have I told you? Use the door, the door!" Gwen Stacy, also twenty-seven but starting to put on a little weight, stood in the doorway wearing an apron and glared at him.

"Uh, sorry. I won't do it next time..."

"Don't make promises you can't keep so casually, Mr. Parker!"

The familiar words left them both stunned, and then they smiled at each other. (See the ending of The Amazing Spider-Man.)

"All right, don't just stand there. I have something nice to show you."

"What?"

Gwen Stacy pulled Peter into the living room. A red-and-blue gift box sat on the table, and she looked at him expectantly. "Open it!"

"Okay!"

Peter slowly opened the box. The suit inside was still mainly red and blue, with the same black pattern, but the solid black spider logo on the chest had turned dark gold.

"What's this?"

"It's a polymer material that can contract and expand. I developed it at the beginning of the year. Normally it just looks good, but when it takes a hit, it rapidly expands and absorbs some of the kinetic energy, providing excellent cushioning. Come on, try it on!"

As Peter listened to Gwen Stacy's explanation, he gently traced the spider logo with his fingers, his eyes gradually growing moist. He quickly stripped off the suit he was wearing and put on the new spider suit.

"I'm sorry..." For making you worry all the time!

Gwen Stacy was still absorbed in admiring the cool new suit (Gwen Stacy: I made it!!). When she heard him, she slowly looked up, her face full of confusion, as if asking why he was suddenly apologizing.

"Oh, and there's this too: thermal imaging goggles. When your vision's blocked, relying on your hearing alone is exhausting. Oh, right, see this button on the wrist? Retractable underarm wings. Remember when you ran out of webbing last time and fell from over thirty meters up? You were sore for days. With these, you can glide for a while even if you run out of webbing..."

Before Gwen Stacy could finish, Peter pulled her into his arms.

"Gwen! I'm sorry for making you worry!" This time, Peter said it out loud!

At those words, Gwen Stacy went limp and rested quietly against Peter's chest.

"I understand. Ever since that day on my balcony, when I learned who you were, I understood that you didn't belong to me alone. You might even disappear from my world one day..."

Just then, a flash of red light invisible to the naked eye passed by, and Peter vanished on the spot. With nothing left to support her, Gwen Stacy flailed and fell to the floor!

"Ow! Shit! Is this some kind of joke...? Peter! Peter!!!"

Kamar-Taj (Three-Spider universe)

Lin Xu stood in the training ground, facing a group of Kamar-Taj sorcerers led by Wong, all ready for battle.

"Hey, don't be like that, Wong. We've even exchanged rings!"

As soon as he said that, every sorcerer present shifted their gaze from Lin Xu to Wong!

Are we supposed to be hearing this?

But Wong, now the Sorcerer Supreme, was in no mood for jokes. His expression was stern. "You're wearing the standard robes of Kamar-Taj, but you don't have the slightest aura a sorcerer should have. And I've never seen you before. Who exactly are you, and what are you trying to accomplish by sneaking into Kamar-Taj?"

Lin Xu was a little puzzled. He lifted a sleeve and sniffed it. "A sorcerer's aura? You mean the sour stink from training and meditating without bathing for ten days or half a month? I definitely don't have that. I've been wearing these clothes for less than a day..."

Seeing how slippery he was, Wong lost patience. His hands rapidly formed seals, opening a basketball-sized crimson portal. Four equally crimson whips shot out of it and bound Lin Xu's limbs at tremendous speed.

Crimson Bands of Cyttorak (In Avengers: Infinity War, Doctor Strange once tried to use this move to pull Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet off.)

Seeing that he was under attack, Lin Xu felt helpless. Since he had no other moves, he could only draw divine power from a sub-dimension and overcome technique with brute force!

His divine power surged, and the four bands exploded. The force was so great that Wong had to quickly conjure the Shield of the Seraphim. (In Avengers: Endgame, it blocked cannon fire from Thanos's ship.)

Even so, some of the sorcerers were knocked to the ground by the aftershock.

"Is that Asgardian Power? You're an Asgardian!"

Wong recognized it instantly after sensing the fluctuation of power.

"Asgardian, giving your people a place to settle on Earth was the limit of Kamar-Taj's tolerance. Don't push your luck!"

Lin Xu: "..."

So power really does have an aura. That's damn impressive. Is this the authority of a librarian?

If he can recognize the aura, that makes things easy!

Without another word, Lin Xu took off his Sling Ring and tossed it to Wong.

"Catch. Smell this thing and see what it smells like!"

Smack~

Hearing the ambiguous remark, Wong couldn't help frowning, but he caught the Sling Ring anyway.

One look, and something was wrong!

A second look! How was this possible?!

Because—

On the inside of one of the Sling Ring's bands was a clearly engraved Sanskrit character: हमीर‌

Hamir!

He took off his own Sling Ring and compared the two. In the same spot was the very same character!

He clearly remembered where this Sling Ring had come from.

His father had once been a sorcerer too, and had sacrificed himself while fighting the Hell Dimension. Hamir had raised Wong afterward.

Later, Hamir lost an arm, and the Ancient One engraved the Sling Ring on his severed arm, leaving the ring itself as nothing more than an ornament. So when Wong became a sorcerer, he inherited Hamir's Sling Ring and had used it ever since! (In Doctor Strange, when Hamir used magic, he wore no Sling Ring on his remaining hand, so this is the only way to explain it.)

It was a legacy.

And now, another ring had suddenly been added to that legacy!

Wong abruptly looked up at Lin Xu's Asian face, a somewhat strange expression appearing on his own.