The Assassination Plan That Couldn't Keep Up with the Changes

Professor X led everyone to the tank room where Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike had been transformed with Adamantium skeletons.

Professor X pointed at an area that had clearly been damaged, with uneven marks left on the floor. He looked meaningfully at the two fellow Mutants with metal skeletons.

"According to the officers at the base, there used to be an Adamantium heating tank here, used to store the alloy in liquid form. It's gone now, so it was probably taken by the intruder."

A large number of X-rays were still clipped to the lamp-covered wall. But aside from Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike, no one knew what this room was about, so naturally they felt nothing in particular.

However, the two people involved were far less at ease than the others. Both seemed to have fallen into old memories.

Lady Deathstrike's memories of this place were much more recent than Wolverine's. Yet after being controlled for so long, she had always been muddle-headed. Now that she suddenly saw this familiar scene, the pain from back then seemed to return to her body, making her tremble unconsciously.

Perhaps Adamantium was simply too rare, and ordinary people had no idea of its value. Or perhaps Mutants were indifferent to things beyond their own abilities. Either way, most people were not especially moved by Professor X's words.

Only Magneto, the leader of the Brotherhood of Mutants, felt differently from everyone else. He had personally handled every practical matter of running the organization, and he had witnessed Genosha Island's management and collapse firsthand.

So when he heard that the Adamantium had been stolen and saw the damage on the floor, he immediately realized that a substantial quantity of alloy had been taken—and that it was worth a great deal.

"So what was that Boar Man's