Magic Ring and Magic Staff

After returning to his room and taking a shower, Hawking took out his computer and began watching the news.

This was one of the things he did every day without fail.

Never underestimate the news that ordinary people could see. Many reporters in this world would truly risk their lives for exclusive stories, throwing themselves into any dangerous situation.

Sometimes, when something major happened, the news might report it before government agencies had even reacted.

Watching the news regularly also helped him understand what was happening outside the school and spot signs of major events.

"Stark Industries CEO Tony Stark left midway through last night's new product launch celebration in a car with three Hollywood actresses."

As usual, the headlines were mostly occupied by Playboy Tony Stark.

What a shame it was a few years too early. Otherwise, I could have made a killing off Iron Man's kidnapping.

He shook his head regretfully and clicked to the next page.

During the period when Tony Stark was kidnapped, Stark Industries' stock price had plummeted. After he returned and announced the shutdown of its weapons production lines, the stock price fell even further to rock bottom.

If he had bought in large quantities at that time, then waited for Tony Stark to become Iron Man and for the stock price to rebound sharply, he would definitely have made a fortune.

Unfortunately, it was only 2003. There were still six or seven years until Playboy Tony Stark was kidnapped, and he could not wait that long.

Still, he considered whether he could get in contact with him in advance. Technological products like the Gravity Chamber should be within Tony Stark's area of expertise.

"Will Exploration Aerospace's seizure of a large number of Oscorp contracts leave Norman unable to recover?"

The headline on the second page immediately caught Hawking's attention.

Oscorp... he seemed to remember that name. Was that the Green Goblin's company?

Thinking carefully, there seemed to be a villain called the Green Goblin in the Spider-Man movies, and his company appeared to be called Oscorp.

However, so far, he had not seen any news about Spider-Man.

This was Universe 838, not the Main Universe he was familiar with, so he still had no idea which Spider-Man would appear here.

After all, although every universe had a Spider-Man, the Spider-Man in each universe was not necessarily the same.

There was Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man, who could shoot webs naturally, as well as Amazing Spider-Man, Main Universe's Little Spider, Gwen Spider-Woman, Black Spider-Man, Spider-Ham, British Spider-Man, EVA Spider-Man, and many others.

The eras and even the cities where different Spider-Men originated were not necessarily the same.

If it were Main Universe's Little Spider, he was probably only two or three years old by now.

"The Green Goblin seems to be a capable scientist too. His glider was pretty impressive. I can consider getting in touch with him as well."

Oscorp mainly researched genetics and military weapons. Though it was not on the level of Stark Industries, it was still one of the top major military contractors.

As he continued browsing the news, he soon found another valuable report.

"Dr. Reed Richards, a leading figure in engineering, mathematics, physics, and numerous other fields, is about to face a bankruptcy crisis. Can he pull through?"

"Dr. Reed Richards... isn't that Mister Fantastic?"

Mister Fantastic of the Fantastic Four possessed rubber-like abilities and was hailed as The Smartest Person on Earth. However, judging by the current situation, he had not yet been mutated by Cosmic Radiation.

At least, Hawking had not heard anything about the Fantastic Four over the past two years.

"I should make a point of getting in touch with him when I have time."

After watching all the news and finding nothing else of value, Hawking shut down his computer. He picked up an ebony ring from the table beside him and slipped it onto the index finger of his right hand.

Then he pointed at his head.

"Wind Whirlwind!"

A small whirlwind immediately appeared above his head and quickly dried his hair.

That was right. The Ebony Ring was not an ordinary accessory, but something similar to a wand.

After Beast returned to the school, Hawking had handed his wand to Beast every day while using the Harry Template, allowing him to assist with the research.

After an entire month, Beast had finally managed to use a new machine of his own design to grant certain objects properties similar to a wand, helping Hawking cast magic steadily.

It was practically scientific enchanting.

Besides enchanting the Adamantium Alloy Long Staff, Hawking had also added an Ebony Ring.

He would use the Adamantium Alloy Long Staff in battle, but it was inconvenient to carry around at all times. A ring, on the other hand, could be worn on his hand and help him cast magic whenever he needed.

As for why he had chosen ebony rather than hard metal, it was mainly as a precaution against Magneto.

Just because he and Magneto seemed to be on pretty good terms now, and Magneto occasionally came to visit X-Academy, did not mean Magneto would truly stop causing trouble.

In fact, Hawking knew very well that Magneto was currently building up his strength, constantly searching for promising Mutants to join his Brotherhood of Mutants. Pyro from the school, for example, had been sweet-talked into joining the Brotherhood by Magneto.

Once Magneto believed he had a chance to wipe out humanity, he would absolutely show no mercy.

He could even kill Professor X when the time came, let alone Hawking.

Therefore, after that, even if Hawking was not using the Harry Template and no longer had a wand for casting spells, he could still cast magic smoothly with the Magic Staff and Magic Ring.

Once he worked harder in the future and practiced enough to cast wandlessly and silently, he would not need these things anymore.

"Almost time to eat."

After drying his hair, Hawking checked the time, put on his coat, and headed toward the cafeteria.

Although the students had not yet gotten out of class, Mr. Yogg in the cafeteria had probably already prepared more than enough dinner for him by this time.

It was both to keep Mr. Yogg from becoming too busy and to avoid unnecessary trouble from eating with everyone else.

He ate breakfast before the students had gotten up, while he timed lunch and dinner for their final class of the day.

By the time everyone arrived at the cafeteria to eat, he had already finished and left.

Because of this, the Mutant students at the school had given him a nickname: "Mysterious Hawking."

Even though they attended the same school, they found it difficult to run into Hawking. Every time, they could only vaguely glimpse him exercising outside through the windows during class.

It was precisely this sense of mystery that made him even more appealing in the students' eyes.

It was not that Hawking was unsociable. His mental age was what it was; asking him to chat and become friends with eleven- or twelve-year-old children was honestly asking too much.

When he spent his free time with teachers like Wolverine and Cyclops, however, they got along quite well. Every now and then, he even borrowed Cyclops' cool modified motorcycle to take a ride outside.

And indeed, in order to digest as much of the power brought by his Saiyan and Wizard Bloodline as possible, he truly did not have much time.