The witch's radar, fury at an invaded territory

Scarlet chaos particles raged like boiling magma above the shattered terrace.

In mere seconds, the temperature plummeted to freezing. The heavy smell of ozone mingled with the bloody scent dripping from Wanda's palm and forced its way into Lynn's nostrils. The gale swept across his cheeks like invisible blades, leaving stinging pain.

Wanda hovered in midair, her toes three feet above the ground. Her loose house shirt snapped in the wind. Her gentle, virtuous facade was utterly torn away, replaced by a brutality that could make mortals tremble.

Scarlet had completely consumed her eyes. There were no pupils, no whites, only an endless desire for destruction.

"I'll say this one last time." Wanda's voice was no longer her usual soft murmur. It carried echoes from multiple dimensions, crashing onto the terrace like the peal of a great bell. "Take your filthy hands off my Jade."

With every word she uttered, the surrounding gravity multiplied.

The marble floor cracked under the unbearable weight. Chunks of rubble floated in midair in defiance of physics, then crumbled to dust under an invisible crushing force.

At the center of the storm, Gwen Stacy bore the most direct pressure.

The muscles beneath her Ghost-Spider suit were stretched to their limit, her bones making faint sounds of protest. Yet instead of retreating, she held Lynn even tighter. Even as her Spider-Sense screamed danger in her mind, she guarded her prey like a lone wolf defending its food.

"Your Jade?" Gwen Stacy snapped her head up. Beneath her mask, her eyes were densely bloodshot, an obsession burning in their depths that made the heart tremble.

She scoffed, her voice hoarse but filled with reckless madness. "You thief who took advantage of his vulnerability, what right do you have to claim him? To save me, he cut his own web and fell into the abyss! Our bond crossed the boundary between life and death, crossed the entire multiverse! Who the hell are you?"

"A thief?" An utterly twisted, cold laugh escaped Wanda's throat.

She tilted her head slightly, looking at the way Gwen Stacy was pressed against Lynn. The last thread of her reason snapped.

"My name is engraved even on his soul. You insect with a death wish, you not only trespassed on my territory, you dared to touch my whole world..."

The scarlet energy storm expanded in an instant, uprooting a row of thick pine trees a hundred meters away and shredding them in the night sky.

Lynn lay on the cold ground, the rubble digging painfully into his back.

Outwardly, he maintained the weak posture of someone being pinned down, but his brain was racing faster than a supercomputer.

This is a damn nightmare, Lynn cursed inwardly.

Had he known the simulator's side effects would be this outrageous, he should have shown a little restraint while farming rewards. Now look at this: a Skyfather-level chaos yandere and a superhuman-level obsessive who had chased him across universes. Two active volcanoes had collided right on top of him.

How nice would it be to sit on that rundown street corner in Hell's Kitchen right now, enjoying the evening breeze with a steaming bowl of Ichiraku Tonkotsu Ramen, or quietly grill a few plates of pork belly at BBQ Q in Queens?

Unfortunately, reality offered no what-ifs.

Lynn knew perfectly well that if he spoke up in favor of either woman now, or tried to reason with them, the other would instantly go berserk. In a yandere's logic, there was no "peaceful coexistence," only "exclusive possession" or "destruction."

"Die."

Wanda wasted no more words. She raised her bleeding right hand and slammed her five slender fingers downward.

Three scarlet tentacles as thick as buckets tore through the air, carrying terrifying heat that could annihilate everything as they shot straight at Gwen Stacy's back!

Whoosh!

Gwen Stacy's Spider-Sense reacted within a hundredth of a second. She kicked hard against the floor beside Lynn, rolling left with him in her arms in the nick of time.

Boom!

The scarlet tentacles struck the floor. There was no explosion, only pure annihilation. A pitch-black pit two meters deep formed instantly, its edges as smooth as a mirror.

"Let him go!" Wanda shouted furiously, spreading her fingers as she tried to use gravity control to wrench the two apart.

While rolling, Gwen Stacy used her momentum to shove Lynn hard toward the shadows of a relatively safe corner, flipping her wrists at the same time.

Thwip! Thwip!

Two strands of high-strength webbing shot out, sticking to two enormous pieces of concrete debris suspended in midair. Gwen Stacy yanked hard, sending the debris hurtling at Wanda like cannonballs.

But that was only a feint.

Gwen Stacy bent her knees slightly and became a streak of white lightning. Rather than putting distance between them, she charged straight at Wanda!

"Useless tricks." Without even looking, Wanda automatically conjured a scarlet shield in front of herself, instantly blasting the concrete debris into powder.

The instant the powder filled the air and obscured her vision, Gwen Stacy slammed the overload button on her web-shooters in midair.

An enormous web more than ten meters across swept down over Wanda.

Wanda snorted coldly. Her chaos magic turned into flames, instantly setting the web ablaze.

The moment the web turned to ash, Gwen Stacy's true killing move arrived!

That enormous web had been nothing but a feint, a "substitution technique" meant to obscure perception! Gwen Stacy had already swung on her webbing to a spot directly above Wanda's blind spot.

She dropped from the sky like a hunting leopardess, sharp barbs springing from her fingertips as she went straight for Wanda's throat!

"I'm not even afraid to die for Lynn! You think I'd be scared of a crazy bitch like you?!" Gwen Stacy roared.

"You have a death wish." A trace of cruelty flashed in Wanda's eyes as the chaos shield instantly closed over her.

Clang!

Gwen Stacy's barbs scraped against the scarlet shield with an ear-piercing screech of metal, sending sparks flying.

The tremendous recoil forced a muffled groan from Gwen Stacy. Blood seeped from the corner of her mouth beneath her mask, and all her internal organs churned violently. Yet the obsession in her eyes only burned hotter. Instead of retreating, she spread her arms and tried to force her body through a gap in the shield.

Wanda's killing intent boiled over completely. Her hands began forming complex magical signs. The surrounding space twisted violently as a chaos ray powerful enough to erase Gwen Stacy along with the entire block took shape in her palms.

I can't wait any longer.

Leaning in the corner, Lynn drew a deep breath of cold, dust-laden air.

If they kept fighting, Gwen Stacy would absolutely be blasted to pieces, and Wanda would trigger a dimensional rift by overdrawing her magic.

I have to use the most extreme method to forcibly cut off their killing intent!

Without hesitation, Lynn activated the chaos magic affinity physique he had just integrated, deliberately bypassing its defensive mechanisms and forcibly reversing his magical circuits.

He deliberately detonated a trace of residual chaos energy he had absorbed earlier.

Just as Wanda was about to fire her destructive ray and Gwen Stacy prepared for a fight to the death-

"Pfft-!"

Lynn's face turned as white as paper, and he violently coughed up a large mouthful of blood. Scarlet blood splattered against the pale gray wall, a shocking sight.

As though drained of every ounce of strength, his body collapsed heavily into the rubble. He curled up in pain, stifled groans escaping his throat.

The sudden turn struck the hearts of the two frenzied women like a heavy hammer.

In midair, the world-destroying chaos ray in Wanda's palms instantly dissipated. The scarlet faded from her eyes, replaced by utter panic and helplessness.

"Lynn!" Gwen Stacy paid no heed to the agonizing backlash, dropping from midair like a madwoman and stumbling toward the corner.

Before slipping into semiconsciousness, Lynn's lips curved into an almost imperceptible, cold smile.

He had correctly calculated that a severe injury would interrupt their fight to the death. What he had never anticipated was that the mouthful of blood he spat out, containing chaos magic and spider genes, would produce an extremely bizarre resonance with the two women's uncontrolled energy the instant it touched the air, tearing open a pitch-black rift to an unknown dimension right in the center of the terrace!