Peak Wargod, the White Queen Hunted Down

The entire process lasted more than two hours.

As the rate of enhancement came to a stop, Xu Mo slowly opened his eyes.

A layer of dark brown impurities clung to the surface of his skin.

After washing them away, he returned to the training room feeling refreshed all over.

He opened his status panel.

[Name: Xu Mo]

[Age: 20]

[Strength: 93,560 kg]

[Speed: 386 m/s]

[Telekinesis: 387,600 kg]

[Special Ability: None]

[Points: 6,160]

Excitement shone in Xu Mo's eyes.

His physical force had reached ninety-three tons, while his telekinetic force had reached three hundred eighty-seven tons.

Compared to before, they had increased by more than sixfold.

Moreover, the Millennium Willow Heart had another major effect: it enhanced the body's recovery ability.

With that thought, he took out a throwing knife and lightly drew it across his arm.

A dull sound like a blunt blade scraping hide rang out. Where the Adamantium Throwing Knife had passed, only a faint white mark appeared on his arm.

Xu Mo froze at the sight, letting out a startled cry.

"Holy shit!"

Although he knew the so-called bodily enhancement was an all-around improvement,

he had never expected his defense to reach such a terrifying level.

Even though he had only made a light cut, it had still been backed by more than ninety tons of strength.

Though he had deliberately held back, the force behind it was still no less than several hundred kilograms.

Let alone an ordinary person—even steel would probably be sliced apart like tofu by that force, yet it had only left a faint white mark on his skin.

Judging by this level of defense,

even a sniper rifle probably could not hurt him in the slightest.

After calming his excitement, Xu Mo gradually increased the force behind the throwing knife.

Only when he used nearly two tons of force did he finally cut a long, narrow bloody mark into his skin.

Yet before any blood could flow from the wound, the skin on both sides rapidly closed up before his eyes.

"This recovery ability..."

Xu Mo's eyes shifted.

Its recovery speed was far greater than Sabretooth's healing ability he had seen before.

"That's insane!"

It could be said that a single Millennium Willow Heart had increased his combat strength by more than tenfold.

A moment later.

A figure shot out of the villa at tremendous speed.

Xu Mo's current flight speed exceeded Mach 2.

That was roughly seven hundred meters per second, or around 2,500 kilometers per hour.

In less than three minutes, he arrived at a mountain range in New Jersey, more than a hundred kilometers from the villa.

Less than half a minute after Xu Mo took off,

at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters,

in Nick Fury's office,

Coulson hurried inside.

"Director, we have a major crisis!"

Nick Fury's expression changed at those words. The last time he had heard them was when Tony, wearing Powered Armor, had fought Iron Monger in the skies over New York.

Coulson handed him the tablet in his hand.

"An unidentified flying object traveling at high speed has been detected over New York!"

Nick Fury looked at the data on the tablet.

"Mach 2? Tony Stark?"

"No. We just received word that Tony is at his seaside villa."

Ever since Tony's identity as Iron Man had been exposed, he had naturally become a key subject of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s surveillance. They tracked his location almost twenty-four hours a day, which was why Coulson immediately knew the flying figure was not Tony.

Nick Fury swiped across the tablet and studied the flight path of the unidentified object.

"Wait. This location... could it be him?"

The unidentified object's starting point was extremely close to Xu Mo's villa by the Hudson River.

He was almost certain.

There was an eighty percent chance that this unidentified object was connected to Xu Mo.

However, he had no intention of making Xu Mo's information public.

Over the past few years, he had noticed that certain forces had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. It was better to keep some information confidential; who knew when it might become a trump card that could save his life.

With that thought, he handed the tablet back to Coulson.

"Delete this from the records. Treat it as if it never happened!"

Coulson looked slightly surprised at the answer, but his training as an agent kept him from questioning the director's order. He nodded and left the room.

Nick Fury looked at the closed door and silently sighed to himself.

"Looks like I need to reassess his strength!"

Wearing Powered Armor, Xu Mo floated before a cliff face in the mountain range.

He intended to test just how strong he had become.

After taking a deep breath,

Xu Mo clenched his right fist and viciously smashed it into the rock wall.

With double force output, supplemented by about half of his telekinetic force,

nearly four hundred tons of force struck the rock.

A burst of air exploded.

"Boom!!"

The massive blast echoed throughout the entire mountain range.

A huge spiderweb of cracks slowly spread across the cliff face, centered on his fist.

As Xu Mo pulled back his fist, it seemed to trigger a chain reaction. Rubble came raining down from the entire cliff face, and moments later, a massive crater more than a hundred meters wide appeared in the rock wall.

Countless birds took flight from the dense forest below the mountain.

Xu Mo nodded in satisfaction.

His physical strength could now utterly crush both Hulk and Spider-Man.

After all, even Spider-Man's most glorious feat—stopping a moving train—had only required a little over fifty tons of force.

Just as he was about to try controlling throwing knives with his telekinesis, the vortex around the Astral Tower in his mind gave off a faint ripple.

At the same time, a series of gunshots came from the distant forest.

Xu Mo paused.

This was the first time the Astral Tower had reacted since he obtained it.

However, after waiting for a moment, there were no further abnormalities.

He let out a long breath.

With his current strength, he was indeed still far from being able to activate the Astral Tower.

He turned to look into the distance.

The gunshots had come from a forest a full kilometer away.

Blocked by the trees, he could not make out the situation there clearly. After hesitating for only an instant, he moved and quietly flew in that direction.

A moment later.

Xu Mo hid amid the dense branches and leaves of a tree, looking toward an open clearing not far away.

A group of robots, each seven or eight meters tall, surrounded a blonde woman dressed in white.

The woman seemed seriously injured. Her right hand covered her left shoulder, and a large patch of blood stained her clothes.

She looked up at the robots closing in around her.

Anger flashed in her eyes.

In an instant, her skin transformed into brilliant, dazzling diamond, and she charged toward the direction Xu Mo had come from, trying to break through.

"The White Queen?"

Xu Mo, hidden in the tree, showed a look of surprise at the sight.

That ability was far too distinctive.

As far as he knew, the White Queen seemed to be the only one in this world with the ability to assume Diamond Form.

As for the robots surrounding her, they were most likely the infamous Sentinel Robots.

Combined with the Astral Tower's earlier reaction,

Xu Mo quickly understood what was happening.

Besides her ability to transform her entire body into diamond, the White Queen also possessed Telepathy, just like Professor X.

The Astral Tower's earlier ripple had most likely been caused by the White Queen using her ability in his direction.

After all, the commotion he had caused earlier had not been small. It was perfectly normal for her to notice him.

As for her purpose, Xu Mo guessed that she was either calling for help or trying to control someone nearby and have them stop the Sentinel Robots for her.

The White Queen, charging toward Xu Mo, was blocked by the robots.

After a wave of motion passed over their surfaces, the robots' outer skin transformed into diamond skin just like the White Queen's.

Xu Mo was astonished by the bizarre sight.

No wonder the Mutants had ultimately been driven into a corner by these Sentinel Robots. This ability was simply too overpowered.

They could easily replicate the abilities of all kinds of Mutants.

Nearly every Mutant would be countered by a corresponding ability.

The White Queen charged left and right among the robots, but she could not break through.

Xu Mo watched the scene below from his hiding place in the tree.

Should he save her or not?

With almost no hesitation, Xu Mo made his choice.

The White Queen possessed Alpha-level Mutant abilities and was well suited to help him build a force of his own.

With her ability, he would not need to worry about betrayal from his subordinates.

Although Telepathy only cost 30,000 points in the store, Xu Mo had already asked the system about it. All abilities exchanged from the store were in the state they were in just after awakening.

In other words, after exchanging for the ability, it would only be at its initial stage.

He would still need time afterward to slowly master it.

Rather than spend that time on this, he might as well use it to cultivate the secret techniques of the Illusionist branch of Spirit Readers.

After all, that was far more powerful than Telepathy.