At that moment, it was not only the Avengers who had just escaped death who were shocked. Everyone watching was struck speechless.
Orchis Forge was not on the scale of any factory on Earth. It could be understood entirely as a planet made up of factory equipment, with a volume and mass no smaller than Mercury's, and it even had an extremely complete gravitational traction system, enough to resist the sun's gravity at such close range. And yet this factory planet had just been hurled toward the sun.
No one knew how Magneto had done it.
Even the Mutants were stunned—more precisely, every Mutant except Professor X and Apocalypse. Because the two of them both knew that a physical body was not a necessity for Magneto. On the contrary, a material body was his shackle. Without a body, Magneto, existing purely in the form of a magnetic field, was the true master of magnetism.
Those perfect spatial anchoring devices had not lasted even half a second in his hands. The entire factory had been yanked down from space itself, then thrown toward the sun like a baseball.
Wait. If Magneto had abandoned his body in exchange for such terrifying power, did that mean he was already dead?
Before anyone could even begin to rejoice over Magneto's death, in that instant, a Mind Storm swept across the entire Earth. From Professor X's brainwaves, everyone read only one meaning—"Magneto is dead. I no longer care to tell right from wrong!"
For that one minute, everyone's thoughts came to a complete standstill. Humanity had an entire minute stolen from it, a marvel unseen since God created the world.
What broke the deadlock was not the last of Professor X's reason, but the brilliant light that erupted after the entire factory was pushed into