Vorgan Building, basement.
The heavy iron door let out a teeth-grating creak as Joshua shoved it open.
"Creak—"
Amid the piercing scrape, Charles saw his old friend lying on the cold floor: Erik Lehnsherr.
Joshua's ability was nothing short of miraculous. Erik's body had been restored without a single flaw, and he had even been changed into clean clothes. Beneath his skin, there was faintly a trace of the healthy color of the living.
But Charles knew it was only an illusion.
This was merely a perfect shell, a corpse without a soul.
Not a living person.
"..."
Charles drew a deep breath, then slowly let it out. Erik's peaceful face was reflected in his clouded eyes.
He did not move closer. He simply sat against the wall by the doorway, his aged body trembling faintly.
His psychic power spread out like a spiderweb, and he could clearly "see" that this tiny basement was filled with a violent, chaotic magnetic field.
It was the final trace Erik had left behind.
A tear slowly spilled from the corner of his wrinkled eye.
"Begin."
Outside the ruins of Vorgan Building, the battle had already reached its fiercest point!
The young X-Men were locked in a brutal fight against the endless Chimera Legion. Laser beams, frost, flames, and claws intertwined into a net of death!
"Charlotte! Can you hear me?!"
While joining forces with Madeleine's psychic power to struggle against Mr. Sinister in the sky, Miles sent an order to Charlotte nearby through Telepathy:
"Charlotte! Nathaniel is in the sky right now. We'll hold his attention. Can you get over there and deal with that military camp?!"
"We need to find a way to destroy those grenade launchers!"
"The military camp?"
Charlotte clutched the arm that had just been struck by flying