Under the night sky, beneath a bright moon.
Azazel, the red-skinned demon-like subordinate of the Black King, suddenly appeared high in the air while gripping a civilian staff member from the base. The man stared around in bewildered panic.
With a cruel smile, he activated his ability and vanished.
"Oh, no!"
The man left behind, still unable to react, screamed as he plummeted from dozens of meters above and slammed heavily into the ground, becoming a corpse in an instant.
Bang, bang!
Accompanied by strange sounds like air suddenly being squeezed apart.
People began falling sporadically from above the CIA base.
Red Devil continuously used his Teleportation ability to bring people high into the air and let them fall, wantonly slaughtering the personnel in the base.
One corpse after another crashed into the courtyard and onto the rooftops, blood splattering everywhere.
On the other side of the room, through the glass windows.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
A tornado unleashed by the mutant Riptide rushed toward a massive spherical device.
It was Cerebro, built by Hank to help Professor X locate mutants across the globe.
The base was under a terrifying attack!
Enemies were attacking from both sides.
"Ah, what do we do...?"
Mystique and the others cried out as they fearfully backed away.
Though each of them possessed superpowers, they were merely ordinary young people who had never seen bloodshed.
Panic spread through the room, except for one person.
Ron calmly watched both sides of the room, as though the terrifying howling winds and horrifying screams outside did not exist.
The others, frightened out of their wits, gathered together and retreated to his side.
"Ro... Ron, what should we do?"
Looking at the courtyard where so many people had fallen to their deaths, Raven's face went pale with fear.
She was not yet the battle-hardened Mystique of the future, the one who would even become the singular hero in the hearts of mutants.
"It must be the people Charles mentioned."
Alex, normally bold and reckless, nervously watched both sides of the windows.
"Get behind me. I can protect you."
Only Darwin, whose ability was unique and who was slightly older than the rest, swallowed and stepped forward.
Ron glanced at Raven, who was seeking his help, then shifted his gaze to the system.
Just as he had guessed, several people had touched his body in their panic, including two whose abilities he wanted.
Purchase Mutant Darwin Template, Mutant Alex Template
His body began to heat up.
Other than the heat, there were no adverse reactions or painful sensations. His genetic carrying capacity was limitless.
After only a few seconds of heat.
Ron lowered his head to look at his hands, a faint smile curling his lips as he sensed his body had changed.
Streams of weak energy continuously flowed into his body.
"Darwin's survival-of-the-fittest ability only manifests in danger, but I can already clearly sense Shockwave's ability."
Radiation, electromagnetic energy, thermal energy, and all kinds of energy in the air were being absorbed into his body.
But it was nighttime. He probably could not charge much energy in one night, so Darwin's ability was what he could use for now.
The base's guards finally reacted. Agents carrying guns rushed over one after another, while Azazel used his ability to constantly flicker behind them, slaughtering them with two simple daggers.
Rat-a-tat-tat!
"Stop him!"
At the same time, gunfire and shouts came from the front entrance.
Unlike his two subordinates, the Black King had not launched a surprise attack from the side of the base. He had chosen to push in through the front door.
A well-equipped special forces squad continuously fired at him, but only spent shell casings fell to the ground. All kinetic energy was absorbed.
Crack!
Suddenly, the room's glass window on Red Devil's side was shattered by a stray bullet, causing another wave of panic. The two women among them screamed in particular.
"Stay here, and stop making useless noise!"
Casually tossing out those words, Ron's agile body shot out like a cheetah. Sharp Talons sprang from his fingers as he leaped through the window and swiftly charged at Red Devil.
"An interesting one has arrived."
In the courtyard, Red Devil's demon-like tail was tightly wrapped around the neck of an agent on the verge of suffocation. He dragged the man around like a puppet, smiling cruelly.
The next second, his powerful tail flung the man aside. With daggers in hand, he met Ron head-on.
Ron possessed a physique like Sabretooth's, while Red Devil also had some degree of physical enhancement.
The two rapidly exchanged several rounds.
But Ron was not as bulky as Sabretooth. The muscles beneath his clothes were streamlined rather than bloated, yet explosive, combining a tiger's strength with a leopard's agility.
"Felines have always been swift-reacting, graceful, and lightning-fast hunters."
Red Devil's rapidly swinging dagger, carrying a hissing whistle through the air, was easily dodged. In Ron's vision, every movement had slowed down, and he slashed back with a claw.
Slash!
Staggering back several steps, Red Devil touched the five fresh bloody marks on his face and looked at Ron.
"A somewhat troublesome little kitty."
Though injured, he was not flustered. He merely spoke with disdain.
"I thought I was looking at a demon, but I can't smell the sulfur of hell in your blood."
Ron glanced at the blood on his Talons and spoke slowly.
"Are you simply a grotesque-looking freak?"
In the comics, Red Devil was one of the oldest mutants. He had lived for thousands of years and had been feared by humanity under different names since the era recorded in the Bible. Many demons, including Satan, had been aliases he used. He possessed Teleportation, physical enhancement, shapeshifting, immortality, mind control, and many other abilities.
But in the films, he seemed to be merely a mutant from Bear Country with a mutated appearance, left with only a little physical enhancement and Teleportation.
"I'll show you hell right away!"
Unable to stand having his appearance mocked, the enraged Red Devil prepared to send this brat to hell at once.
His boss would arrive soon. He had to settle everything before then.
Bang!
The next second, using his ability, he instantly appeared behind Ron and slashed down with his dagger. Ron easily turned around and raised his arm to block it with astonishing reaction speed.
"You seem to have forgotten about my tail."
Red Devil grinned viciously as the tail behind him wrapped around Ron's ankle.
Another bang rang out.
Teleportation activated.
The next moment, Ron and Red Devil were already several hundred meters in the air. Beneath the bright moon and above the thick clouds, the two plummeted at terrifying speed.
"Repent in hell!"
His tail released Ron, and Red Devil gave him a vicious grin before immediately returning to the ground. He slowly raised his head to the pitch-black sky, waiting for that troublesome little kitty to fall from hundreds of meters up and smash into pulp.
"Ron, no!"
Mystique and the others screamed, looking anxiously up at the sky.
Those people earlier had been smashed into pulp exactly like this.
"...Bang!"
A painfully familiar sound appeared behind him. Every time before, it had been the distinctive sound of Red Devil activating his Teleportation ability, but this time he had not used it.
Hm? Was that an illusion?
"What—are you looking at?"
A cold, magnetic voice suddenly sounded behind him. Like a hunter emerging from the shadows, sharp Talons mercilessly tore open his throat!
"You... how did you do that?"
Turning around and clutching his throat as blood gushed out like a fountain, Red Devil staggered backward, disbelief written all over his face.
The person he had thought doomed to die had suddenly appeared behind him, seemingly using his own ability.
"After thinking it over, your appearance is obviously better suited for hell than mine."
Ron ignored his question.
"I... you..."
His eyes widened as he felt his life rapidly slipping away, unable to remain standing.
"Goodbye."
"No..."
He desperately forced out one more indistinct syllable. Red Devil clutched his neck and collapsed limply onto the ground, dead, his eyes still wide open.
The Ability Points that had been completely depleted increased by several thousand once again.
In the original plot, Red Devil had not died. He would later join Magneto after Magneto broke with Professor X. But now, the man with the strongest escape ability had encountered Ron, and his life ended tonight.
"Ron, oh, you're amazing!"
Mystique, Alex, and the others stared with shining eyes and cried out in delight.
It had seemed like a long time, but in less than half a minute, Ron had dealt with that demon who had effortlessly slaughtered so many agents. He was incredible!
"I think I saw Ron use that demon's ability?"
Hank said blankly.
"Did I see it wrong?"
"I saw it too."
The slow-to-react group looked at one another.
Crash!
Suddenly, the floor-to-ceiling window on the other side shattered.
The mutant Riptide stepped inside. He had just used his ability, following the Black King's orders to completely destroy Cerebro.
Mystique and six or seven others blocked the window, and he still did not know that Red Devil was lying dead on the ground.
"Riptide..."
But Ron saw him through the gaps between the crowd.
With Teleportation, he could freely teleport anywhere he had visited or seen.
Bang!
"Have you already finished?"
Hearing the familiar voice behind him, Riptide assumed it was his companion Red Devil. He gave the frightened Mystique and the others a cold smile without turning around, asking whether everyone else in the base had been dealt with.
But in Mystique and the others' eyes, it was a different story. He looked like a clown, while Ron stood expressionlessly behind him.
"No, there's one left."
A cold voice suddenly rang out like the death knell of hell.
Crack, crack.
Before Riptide could react, his confident smile froze on his face. His fragile neck was snapped by tremendous force and twisted around, turning him into a corpse that followed Red Devil into death.
Ability Points: 42,000
His Ability Points increased again, reaching an unprecedented number.
"Powerful ability, but his body is too fragile."
Ron silently evaluated the corpse on the ground.
The mutant Riptide could create whirlwinds, tornadoes, and even hurricanes, with destructive power comparable to a small natural disaster. Unfortunately, his body was too weak.
But this was also a common mutant flaw. Very few possessed both powerful abilities and powerful bodies.
Like Magneto later on, whose power was enough to pry at Earth's magnetic field and cause a global disaster, yet if the timing was right, a tiny plastic bullet could take his life.
"You took out another one. Ron, you're like a cold and deadly assassin. You're amazing!"
Raven, her face flushed red with excitement, walked over with the others who were exclaiming in amazement.
They were the same age, yet Ron felt so much more formidable than them. He had calmly and swiftly dealt with two powerful enemies, instantly giving them an immense sense of security.
Ron ignored them and looked toward the entrance.
"The freaks you're looking for are inside. Spare me... ah!"
With a heavy thud, a pleading voice outside abruptly stopped.
"What a wonderful night, ladies and gentlemen..."
The doors opened, and Sebastian Shaw, the Black King, slowly walked into the room with relaxed steps.
Dressed in a well-tailored suit and wearing a strange, imposing helmet, he had just dealt with a fully armed squad of over a hundred agents. Though he had even been struck by an RPG, not a single strand of his hair was out of place.
His ability allowed him to remain elegant anytime, anywhere.
"Riptide, and... Red Devil."
But after entering the room, the Black King, who had been about to make an elegant speech to beguile and recruit them, saw Riptide's corpse and Red Devil's conspicuous body on the grass in the courtyard. His smile vanished.
"Interesting. It seems someone among you has given me quite a surprise!"
His face, usually calm no matter what he encountered, gradually turned cold.
The Black King looked up. His icy gaze swept over everyone, making them feel as though they had fallen into an ice cave, before finally locking onto Ron beside Riptide's corpse. Turbulent energy churned inside his body.
"Did you kill Red Devil and Riptide?"
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