The sudden arrival of the Sentry had already made Storm and the others lose their will to fight to the death, and they could only silently watch the enemy retreat.
Chen Xiao also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Just as Magneto feared his terrifying strength and lightning speed, he was equally wary of the Phoenix Force lurking within Jean Grey.
Qin is currently in a stable emotional state, so there's no need to trigger her trump card, much less force her to awaken or risk a desperate fight.
Two kilometers away, on a high slope on the opposite shore, Nick and Trask held up high-definition binoculars, their faces grave.
Trask gritted his teeth and growled, "These X-Men are outrageous! Leaving those lunatics to swagger away like that? I'm reporting this to my superiors right now!"
Nick said calmly, "It seems the X-Men without Charles are no longer the same as before."
"Hmph! It's not that it's changed, it's that it hasn't changed at all; they've always been in cahoots."
Every word he uttered revealed his deep-seated hostility towards Mutants.
"No, we can't just let it go like this!"
A fierce glint flashed in Trask's eyes as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a remote control.
Nick paused. " Trask, what are you planning to do?"
Trask grinned maliciously. "What for? To give them a generous parting gift, of course. This thing was originally prepared specifically for Erik."
Before he could finish speaking, he pressed the button heavily with his thumb.
On Alcatraz, Magneto led his men in a slow retreat, reuniting with Jean Grey, who stood motionless like a sculpture on the Golden Gate Bridge.
The surviving Mutants followed in silence.
At this very moment,
Not far away, inside the remains of the silver Sentry, destroyed by John and the Nightcrawler, with only half its torso remaining,
A soft "beep" sounded.
Everyone was taken aback.
The next instant, a blinding red light suddenly shone from the Sentry's chest, and the energy fluctuations surged Berserk, sending chills down one's spine.
boom!!!
A blinding flash of light erupted, and in the blink of an eye, it expanded into a blazing white fireball tens of meters in diameter, its power comparable to the detonation of an intercontinental ball.
A devastating Havok, accompanied by raging flames, instantly engulfed Magneto and his group.
"Careful!"
"Scatter!"
Caught off guard, Storm and the others instinctively rushed towards cover.
Wolverine and Colossus, who were closer, were thrown several meters and crashed heavily to the ground.
The entire Alcatraz trembled, and rubble tumbled down.
On the shore, Nick stared at the blinding light tearing through the night sky on the opposite bank, his pupils shrinking slightly. "You took an intercontinental ballistic missile with you?"
"Ridiculous! The missile was already locked in place by Magneto's magnetic field."
Trask sneered, "Inside that anti-metal-controlled Sentry was a specially made compressed bomb, its outer shell made of plastic and carbon fiber, completely non-magnetic."
"It is filled with 100 kilograms of high-density solid explosives, equivalent to 50,000 tons of TNT."
"It was originally designed to prevent the Sentry from killing Erik during the battle, so we could catch him off guard and blow him to smithereens with this thing."
The America. government has become increasingly wary of this leading figure in the Mutants resistance in recent years and is determined to eliminate him.
However, firstly, his whereabouts are unpredictable, and secondly, modern weapons are basically ineffective against him; even missiles are helpless against him.
Therefore, researchers specially developed this kind of explosive with a completely non-metallic structure.
"This time they have no chance of survival."
Trask stared at the blinding fireball that engulfed a hundred-meter radius in the distance, a cold, triumphant smile playing on his lips.
But before he could finish speaking, the blazing fire suddenly froze, as if it had been choked by an invisible giant hand.
Immediately afterwards, from the center of the surging flames, a chilling pressure exploded out, causing the heavens and earth to tremble, the sea to roar, and waves to surge skyward like collapsing mountains.
"Wha... what happened?!"
The sudden change startled Trask and Nick, sending a chill down their spines.
The flames on the opposite bank were visibly collapsing and Oblivion, as if being swallowed whole by some being.
At the edge of the deep pit, a figure wreathed in crimson light slowly emerged, its body exuding a suffocating aura of destruction.
It was Jean Grey.
But at this moment, she was no longer the silent girl who had stood there before.
She exuded an indescribable sense of oppression, as if the air had been sucked away, making even breathing difficult.
Behind her, the Juggernaut stood with its arms crossed in front, like a red-hot iron wall;
On the left and right sides, layers of semi-molten metal blocks were stacked, forming a simple yet sturdy fortress;
Further on, Magneto, Pyro, Nightcrawler, and Psylocke were all bleeding from their seven orifices, barely clinging to life from the Havok of the explosion.
They were already closely following Magneto's actions; at the moment of the explosion, Juggernaut instinctively rushed forward to block the first wave of flames.
Magneto managed to quickly gather and surround the remaining metal shield pieces, thus narrowly escaping death.
Ultimately, it was thanks to his consistent caution; at the last moment, he still had some metal shields surrounding him, along with the Juggernaut's steel-like body.
Despite the terrifying explosion, the two men were only covered with a charred shell and did not die on the spot.
But as soon as he caught his breath, Magneto looked up and saw the ever-present crimson aura emanating from Jeanne's body, and his eyelids twitched involuntarily.
"Qin... can you keep yourself steady?"
His voice was strained as he tentatively called out.
Jean slowly turned her face to the side, her expression calm, but her pupils churned with an icy ferocity—a look Magneto had only seen once before, in the most dangerous moment.
"Run!"
He gritted his teeth, propped himself up, grabbed Juggernaut and the others, and turned to run wildly toward the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Just as they stepped onto the hundred-meter-long bridge, a powerful and despair-inducing wave suddenly spread out from the center of Qin.
In an instant, thick clouds churned and coalesced into a massive vortex, completely enveloping Alcatraz; the entire island trembled violently, as if it were about to sink into the sea at any moment.
The sea was even more turbulent, with waves crashing against the shore. Millions of tons of seawater broke free from the constraints of gravity and, pulled by an invisible force, rose into the air, transforming into a massive curtain of water that blotted out the sky.
On the opposite shore, Nick and Trask were deathly pale, cold sweat soaking the back of their necks, a chill running down their spines to the top of their heads.
What kind of being did they offend?
On the island, Storm, Hank, and Iceman were already ashen-faced from the lingering effects of the Phoenix Force.
Even Magneto and his group, who had already run far away, were pinned to the spot by that world-destroying aura, their bodies stiff and cold.
Compared to today's scene, the outburst in the villa earlier seemed like child's play.
At this moment, only Chen Xiao remained calm. He had been prepared and was unharmed in the explosion.
But his mind sank completely, his killing intent surging, almost uncontrollable.
He had already exercised extreme restraint: to prevent the zither from going out of control, he didn't even manage to kill the Pyro and the others with a single punch when they were right next to him;
Just as the situation was about to end peacefully, the Sentry suddenly detonated a bomb, and the shockwave ignited the dormant flames of destruction within Qin's body.
Or rather, it was precisely in the moment she forcefully mobilized her power that the dam of reason was torn open once again.
Are you a bomb or a fuse? How come every time you make a move, it explodes?!
Looking at the zither, which was radiating crimson light and causing everything in its path to crumble, Chen Xiao felt a throbbing pain in his temples.
In X-Men: The Last Stand, she only intervened a few times, but each time it caused disaster.
This precisely explains why she remained silent – not because she was unwilling, but because she was unable.
Once the power exceeds the critical point, consciousness can no longer control it.
Rumble!!
Centered on the zither, streaks of crimson mental energy swept across the heavens and earth like Blade, causing buildings to collapse and rubble to rise into the air. Survivors didn't even have time to scream before they turned into wisps of smoke and vanished without a trace.
Before the Phoenix Force, matter crumbles and the laws of nature break down. The suspended, illogical seawater is clear evidence that reality is crumbling.
This scene was utterly horrifying.
Everyone looked up at the scene that resembled the end of the world, with only one thought in their minds:
It turns out that the professor's efforts to suppress the dark personality within Jean were not in vain.
If she is allowed to completely spiral out of control, it could truly destroy the entire world.
According to the original plan, if Jean went berserk, Scott would have to be immediately taken out of the life pod and his consciousness would be awakened by emotional stimulation.
But just then, Wolverine stared at the crimson inferno, a flicker of pain in his eyes, and charged forward, roaring, "Jean! Stop!!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already rushed out, relying on his superhuman healing ability to try and force his way closer.
However, just as he was less than ten meters away from Qin, Qin, who was in a frenzy, gave him a cold glance.
boom!
A destructive psychic force suddenly erupted.
Wolverine was sent flying backwards like a kite with a broken string;
As a person is suspended in mid-air, large pieces of flesh begin to peel off and disintegrate;
It had barely begun to heal before it was immediately torn apart again;
Healing, disintegration, re-healing, re-disintegration...
This recurring, excruciating pain caused even Wolverine to let out a heart-wrenching howl before finally crashing heavily to the ground a hundred meters away.
With his combat prowess, facing the out-of-control Qin, let alone retaliating, even getting within ten meters of her was a pipe dream.
Witnessing this, Chen Xiao frowned and shouted, "Teacher Ororo, quickly lead everyone to retreat! You can't withstand that force!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a thought flickered in his mind, and he quietly activated another long-dormant power within his body.
boom!
In an instant, as if a nuclear explosion had suddenly occurred, the dormant energy within Chen Xiao's body exploded, transforming into a surging golden stream of energy that burst forth, and his aura instantly increased dozens of times.
Compared to seven days ago, Chen Xiao's strength has increased by nearly fifteen times.
After entering the Second Awakening, the increase in power became even more astonishing.
Starting from a five-fold increase in the First Stage, a further twentyfold increase would amount to a full hundredfold, and this increase continues to climb as he continues to burn.
More importantly, this energy is as solid as metal and explodes like thunder. With these combined effects, his actual combat power has increased by hundreds of times.
Such terrifying power directly distorted the space within a radius of more than ten meters: the rubble broke free from the ground and slowly floated into the air; the air was violently compressed and torn apart, and rings of snow-white Quake rippled outwards, creating an awe-inspiring effect.
At this moment, Chen Xiao was like a god descending from the heavens, his eyes gleaming with gold, his hair dyed with flames, and his entire body exuding a suffocating sense of oppression, his aura so fierce that it chilled people to the bone.
Magneto and the others, who had already run far away, suddenly sensed this Berserk aura, stopped abruptly and looked back, their eyes fixed on the figure radiating golden light.
"How is this possible? How could his power have increased to such an extent!"