Watching Luo Xia enter the Mirror Dimension, Tony grew tense. He knew Luo Xia better than anyone and feared his second personality might bring Luo Fei along—or send in one of his robot subordinates. If that happened, Luo Xia's chances of winning would be slim.
But, to everyone's surprise, Luo Xia came back out of the Mirror Dimension less than five minutes later. He looked perfectly fine, as if nothing had happened.
Norman Osborn had crawled out of there looking half dead, yet Luo Xia seemed as relaxed as if he'd just gone for a stroll. The contrast was staggering.
"What happened? Luo Xia, you didn't kill your other personality?" Tony asked in surprise.
"No, I did," Luo Xia replied calmly.
"So quickly?! How?" Tony asked curiously.
Tony wasn't the only one wondering. Everyone else stared at Luo Xia in astonishment, too.
"I guess I got lucky. My other personality can't use mutant abilities," Luo Xia said with a smile.
"Isn't that cheating? Mutant powers can work like that?!" Tony protested indignantly.
Luo Xia chuckled and didn't bother explaining.
In fact, even before it began, Luo Xia had known he would win easily. Unlike Tony and the others, his greatest trump card was AllSpark energy. He had discussed with Belcher whether the energy behind his cheat ability could be divided or copied.
Belcher had answered, "Commander, you're the only AllSpark Overlord in the world. Forget some negative personality that suddenly appeared. Even if someone made a perfect clone using your genes, the AllSpark's power would still be indivisible and unique."
So when the battle of souls began, Luo Xia faced nothing more than a negative personality capable of using Kamar-Taj spells.
But Luo Xia could embed an Energy Matrix into his spells and greatly amplify their power. The disparity was