The Rational Magic Great Ape Appears

"The Goku Template's time is up. Once I transform again, my combat power won't be this high."

Hawking felt his body rapidly shrinking as his rationality returned, and his heart immediately sank.

Although his true body also possessed Saiyan Bloodline and could become a Great Ape even without loading the Goku Template, his own combat power would not be very high even after increasing tenfold.

Not to mention the aftereffects when the template ended. He might pass out before he even had time to transform again.

The final outcome went without saying. All the X-Men would be taken away and imprisoned by S.H.I.E.L.D., and what followed would definitely not be pleasant.

At that moment, he also realized that while the loaded Protagonist Template was powerful, it was ultimately external power. Once that external power disappeared, he would become useless again.

He could borrow external power, but he still had to make himself stronger.

That way, even if his miraculous protagonist-loading panel disappeared one day, he would remain powerful.

After this was over, he needed to focus on training his true body.

Only when his true body reached the level of Thirteen Years Old Goku could he be considered to have gained even a little ability to protect himself.

At that point, loading the Goku Template would merely give him an extra Power Pole. Once the loading ended, the Power Pole would disappear at most, with almost no effect on his strength.

"Fortunately, the Justice Points I earned by killing Mastermind and stopping Professor X from exterminating the mutants are enough to unlock the next template!"

Even though the Goku Template could no longer be used, he could still draw a new template. What that new template would be, however, depended on luck.

If he drew Ultraman, this crisis would be resolved immediately.

Relying on his powerful will, he forcefully endured the dizziness caused by the Protagonist Template ending and quickly opened the panel.

Justice Point progress bar full. One Protagonist Template draw available. Draw now?

"Draw!"

He chose to draw without hesitation.

No matter who the next Protagonist Template was, as long as he loaded it immediately after drawing it, he might be able to exploit a bug and cancel the recovery lag caused by the previous loaded template, preventing himself from falling unconscious.

Drawing... Drawing complete. The Protagonist Template drawn is fourteen-year-old Harry Potter from Harry Potter World. Load it?

Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter meant he was in his fourth year, during Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

"Load!"

Of course he was disappointed. It was not that the Harry Potter template was bad. Although its various spells lacked offensive power, their magical effects could provide tremendous assistance in his future life.

For example, the Unlocking Charm that could open any lock, the Transfiguration Charm that temporarily changed an object's properties, the Mending Charm that repaired objects, and so on.

But those spells could only provide support. They were nowhere near enough to deal with Captain Marvel.

As the Harry Potter Protagonist Template loaded successfully, Hawking, who had just returned to normal, changed once again.

His X-Men combat suit became long black Wizard Robes. His hair turned messy and fluffy, glasses appeared on his face, and a lightning-bolt mark appeared on his forehead.

In his left hand were a Firebolt Flying Broomstick and a large cloak, while his right hand held a Holly Wand.

"The Firebolt and the Invisibility Cloak too?"

The wand was within his expectations. After all, the Sun Goku Template had come with the Power Pole. But the Flying Broomstick and Invisibility Cloak were beyond his expectations.

Still, after thinking about it, the Firebolt's top speed was around 240 kilometers per hour. Even if he mounted it and fled now, he could never outrun a monster like Captain Marvel, who could travel through the universe.

The Invisibility Cloak, however, might allow him to escape if he found a chance to put it on by surprise.

In Harry Potter World, the Invisibility Cloak was one of the three Deathly Hallows and possessed a permanent invisibility effect. Legend had it that even Death himself could not find someone wearing it.

Surely it would not be so easily exposed by high-tech equipment.

But if he fled, Professor X and the others would certainly not survive.

Without Professor X, there would naturally be no Mutant School to attend. Wanda, Pietro, Oleg, Elena, and he himself would all be in trouble.

"I'll transform first. Maybe I can bluff her."

Setting aside his distracting thoughts, Hawking looked up at the large moon in the sky.

"Thump, thump. Thump-thump-thump-thump."

The familiar racing heartbeat struck again.

"Just as I thought. These bloodlines aren't replacing each other—they're stacking."

He had long guessed that loading a Protagonist Template did not simply turn him into that protagonist. Rather, it stacked onto his existing foundation.

Originally, he had just been an ordinary person, so there had been no obvious change when he stacked the Goku Template.

Now that his true body was already Saiyan, loading Harry Potter's bloodline turned him into a Harry Potter with a Saiyan body.

Of course, his true body was currently only somewhat stronger than an ordinary person. Stacking the two did not seem likely to produce any major changes, at most making him tougher than a normal young wizard.

But if things continued like this, and his strength reached the Goku Template's level before he loaded the Harry Potter template again, he would become a Saiyan who could use magic.

If he also added the Goku Template, he would become a Goku with double the strength, reaching a combat power of 280.

That was not even the most important part. As more Protagonist Templates were unlocked in the future, and more bloodlines and abilities stacked together, he would become increasingly versatile and nearly free of weaknesses.

"Roar!"

With a roar, the Wizard Robes burst apart on the spot as Hawking once again transformed into a terrifying Great Ape fourteen or fifteen meters tall.

But this time, he clearly sensed a difference.

It was not merely that his combat power had dropped drastically—that was certain. His current Great Ape form looked no different from before, but its combat power was worlds apart.

Previously, it had been a Great Ape transformed from Goku, who had 140 combat power, giving it a combat power as high as 1,400. Now, however, it was a Great Ape transformed from his true body, which only had 10 combat power, giving it a combat power of no more than 100—not even higher than Goku's combat power before transforming.

But it was still more than intimidating enough. As long as he did not attack, the others would absolutely believe his strength was still as terrifying as before.

What truly surprised him was that after transforming into a Great Ape, he could clearly feel that the urge for rage and destruction could actually be suppressed.

He could now control the Great Ape form with complete rationality, just like an elite Saiyan warrior such as Vegeta.

Moreover, he vaguely felt that, if he wished, he could completely suppress that rage and destructive urge, allowing the Great Ape form to end and return him to normal.

Even under a full moon, he could freely control his transformation and switch forms.

After Harry Potter's Wizard Bloodline stacked with his own Saiyan Bloodline, it perfectly resolved the flaw of lower-class Saiyan warriors losing their rationality after undergoing Great Ape Transformation, and also solved the problem of being unable to control the transformation during a full moon.