You Want to Defeat Me? Give It a Try

Ke Chen had not expected that he had barely sent off one ticking time bomb when another group of uninvited guests arrived.

Standing in the courtyard, he watched the newcomers with his arms folded.

Their arrival caused no disturbance because Professor X had directly made the people nearby ignore everything. This was also one way to use psychic abilities.

Ancient One had done the same thing before, except she had used magic.

But in Ke Chen's eyes, whether it was magic or mutant abilities, they were essentially manifestations of energy.

They were merely called different things.

Some universes called it the Force, while others called it magic, but in the end, it was all the application of energy.

Mutant abilities were actually the same, except they had an upper limit.

"Professor Charles, isn't it a little inappropriate to use your abilities the moment you meet someone?"

Ke Chen looked at Professor X and spoke directly.

He had sensed Professor X's psychic power and blocked it immediately.

"I was reckless."

Professor X promptly apologized. He looked kind and benevolent.

Yet Ke Chen remained wary of him. Using psychic powers the moment he appeared—what kind of good person could he be?

His methods were certainly not as simple as they appeared.

"You came for Jean, didn't you?"

Ke Chen looked at them as he spoke.

They had brought quite an impressive lineup.

Behind him stood only Peggy Carter and Lorna, while Professor X had an entire group at his side.

There was Mystique, whom he had met before, throwing him a flirtatious wink, as well as Cyclops wearing a pair of glasses, the dark-skinned beauty Storm, Beast, and the others.

"Where is Jean?"

Cyclops immediately asked, looking extremely anxious.

At this point, Jean did not have much to do with him. They were merely somewhat close.

Because Cyclops was the only one willing to be Jean's friend, she naturally grew close to him.

Thinking of himself as Jean's friend, he appeared deeply concerned.

"She has already left."

Ke Chen did not look at him, instead looking at Professor X as he spoke.

"Where did she go?"

Professor X naturally knew that Jean had left. He merely wanted to know where she had gone.

Jean's departure this time had been strange. Even after using the machine, he could not find where she had gone.

It was as if she had vanished into thin air.

"That is not something you need to know. That person does not wish for me to tell too many people."

Ke Chen said with a smile, directly borrowing Ancient One's authority.

"What if we insist on knowing?"

The X-Men all appeared somewhat angry.

After all, Jean was their friend and Professor X's student. They could not possibly be dismissed by a single sentence from him.

"Sorry, this is not something you are allowed to know."

Ke Chen shook his head.

If he kept casually talking about Kamar-Taj, Ancient One might get angry.

Clearly, the anger of the X-Men before him was not as frightening as Ancient One's anger...

You had to pick on the soft ones!

Everyone said Professor X was a complicated person. Many believed he was a good man, fighting for the survival of Mutants.

But in Ke Chen's eyes, his methods were still lacking.

Of course, that was because his perspective was limited, and Professor X was not some hopelessly soft-hearted fool.

Just like now, he smiled at Ke Chen and said, "If we defeat you, can we know the answer?"

Clearly, he was unwilling to leave just like that.

Jean's issue was too serious. He feared it would create even greater danger, so he had to get an answer from Ke Chen.

"Want to defeat me? Go ahead and try."

Ke Chen replied disdainfully.

Professor X's psychic abilities had no effect on him, and he could protect Peggy Carter and Lorna as well.

As for everyone else's abilities, there was even less to discuss. How could they compare to him?

"Let me say this first: I'm out."

Seeing the situation, Mystique spoke up immediately.

She was the only one among the X-Men who had witnessed Ke Chen's strength. He was far more terrifying than Cyclops, and she did not want to be dragged into this mess.

The others had no objections. After all, she and Professor X had already fallen out.

Seeing that, Ke Chen glanced at Peggy Carter and Lorna.

Both women nodded, showing their support for Ke Chen.

Ke Chen then pressed his palms together.

Since things had reached this point, he also wanted to teach the X-Men a lesson.

He would let them know that the age of Mutants had already passed before it had even arrived.

Mutants might be powerful when dealing with ordinary people, but true powerhouses had yet to appear!

With that thought in mind, Ke Chen's palms turned golden.

[Mirror Dimension]!

As his hands spread apart, the world seemed to turn over between his palms. The surrounding buildings immediately tilted and twisted like a distorted realm, while the earth rolled like a dragon turning over. Cyclops lost his footing and fell straight to the ground, while Professor X's wheelchair nearly slid away to one side.

To everyone's eyes, the world seemed to become countless mirrors. The world they saw was unreal, all of it illusory.

Everything within the Mirror Dimension gleamed like mirrors!

It was Ke Chen's first time using this magic, yet it came to him with effortless familiarity.

He remained calm on the surface, but inwardly, he could not help sighing in admiration.

Handsome!

At that moment, the way the X-Men looked at him had completely changed.

Their eyes carried shock, awe, and respect!

Ke Chen immediately felt that using up a Stealing Card for the Mirror Dimension was absolutely worth it. Where else could he find an ability that was both this cool and this powerful?

Something like this was not precious to Ke Chen at all. Who knew whether he might sign in and obtain it again in the future?

Even if he could not get it through sign-ins again, he did not think much of it, because he had never worried about being too weak.

Doing whatever he wanted—that was Ke Chen's mindset.

Of course, he could have kept it like a family heirloom and used it only when he encountered those cosmic gods, but what would be the point?

Not only the X-Men, but even Peggy Carter and Lorna stared at Ke Chen in surprise.

They felt that Ke Chen was like a mystery.

Whenever they thought they had already seen through him, a new mist would always appear, making them continue exploring.

At times like this, they would feel that Ke Chen was unfamiliar and that they needed to get to know him all over again.

"Parallel Worlds?"

Professor X steadied the shock in his heart and asked.

"No, this is the Mirror Dimension. No matter what destruction you cause within the Mirror Dimension, it will not affect the real world!"

Ke Chen spoke in a remarkably composed manner.

Hearing those words, the humiliated and enraged Cyclops could no longer hold himself back.

Everyone else had remained standing steadily, yet he was the one who had fallen. Was it because he could not stand properly?

No, it was simply because Ke Chen did not like the look of him!

Having figured it all out, Cyclops was the first to attack.

He had long found Ke Chen unpleasant to look at. Ke Chen was so handsome and had two beautiful women following him, unlike himself, a loser whom even Jean Grey was not very willing to acknowledge. He could only pester her relentlessly.

He immediately took off his glasses, firing a ruby-red beam of light toward Ke Chen.

Cyclops's energy was concussive force, primarily impact force that could shatter objects.

Rumor had it that the energy fired from his eyes could pierce through a mountain.

That level of power was already quite impressive among Mutants. Otherwise, he would not have become one of the X-Men.

But before Ke Chen, it was completely insignificant.