"Erik, keep an eye on him. Go help Charles!"
After dodging the Black King's attack, Rorschach spoke gravely to Erik beside him.
After the earlier setback, Erik had become much more rational.
He understood that Charles was their only chance to kill the Black King.
Attacks like the ones he had launched before would do nothing but get in the way.
"Rorschach, I'll leave this to you!"
After giving the Black King a long look, Erik called out to Rorschach, then quickly turned and left.
Even though Magneto was still only in his early stage, Erik's strength already placed him among the experts of mutantkind.
His presence would undoubtedly be an enormous help to Charles and the others.
Yet the Black King simply watched Erik leave without trying to stop him.
Of course, with Rorschach there, he could not have stopped Erik anyway.
Besides, to the Black King, everyone else was irrelevant now, even that absurdly powerful telepath.
The only one he truly cared about was the person standing before him.
His body seemed to be made of steel. He possessed strength and speed far beyond ordinary people, and he could even fire laser beams from his eyes.
This was the most perfect mutant the Black King had ever seen.
Defense, offense, strength, speed, close combat, long-range attacks...
He had no weaknesses at all.
The Black King often said that mutants were humanity's future, the direction of human evolution.
But this young man before him was the direction in which mutants themselves needed to evolve.
A perfect being without a single flaw.
Even the Black King, despite appearing powerful, had a fatal weakness: his offensive power was far too lacking.
If his enemy did not feed him energy, the Black King was nothing more than an ordinary person.
That was