Chapter 38

The attacks converging from all around vanished in an instant.

A moment earlier, Storm had been hovering in the air, summoning wind and rain and commanding thunder, striking Su Chen and Su Shan again and again with mighty bolts of lightning.

But the next moment, blood suddenly streamed from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. Her consciousness dimmed abruptly, and an invisible wave wiped out her mind completely.

"Ugh..."

She let out a mournful cry and crashed to the ground from dozens of meters up.

"No..."

Colossus roared and spread his arms, only to find his steel-cast limbs gradually liquefying like molten metal. The cells throughout his body began to burn at inexplicably high temperatures, and in an instant, billowing clouds of white vapor rose from him.

"I don't want to die..."

Colossus reached out with his right hand, but his entire right arm turned into a pool of molten iron and spilled onto the ground. Its terrifying heat even burned through the surface of the earth.

In moments, his entire body had melted. The indestructible physique he took such pride in had been reduced to a pool of molten steel.

"Children..."

Professor Charles's expression changed drastically.

At that moment.

He looked at Su Chen as though he were looking at a demon, his eyes wide and bloodshot, while he felt his body growing weaker and weaker.

His eyelids slowly closed...

His mind grew increasingly hazy...

His memories descended into chaos.

He tried to pull himself together, but found he couldn't lift a finger. Even the consciousness in his head was fading, until he couldn't remember who he was.

His time had come.

Professor Charles realized at once that his consciousness had utterly withered. Under the influence of a terrifying reality-altering force, he had first developed dementia, then gradually declined into brain death.

And so the world's most valuable brain met its end.

"Hmm..."

As the main attacker, Phoenix, Jean Grey, was enduring a force no weaker than the others faced.

Compared with the others, her tenacious vitality drew even more interference from the power of reality.

"You don't have to do this..."

A trace of fear showed on Phoenix's refined, dignified face. She looked at Su Chen with complicated feelings; that cold, merciless face, full of killing intent, was like a reflection of herself when she was young.

But she had already moved past it.

Why did he have to keep persisting?

Things shouldn't have become this terrible.

"No..."

"You never moved past it at all. That old man Professor Charles sealed away all your negative emotions."

A voice rang out in Jean Grey's mind.

Deep in her mind, shrouded in endless mist and submerged in boundless darkness, was the figure of a woman locked in a prison.

It was herself.

It was Jean Grey's other personality.

Unlike the dignified and composed Jean Grey, the identical figure in the prison wore an enchanting expression.

"Dark Phoenix!"

When Jean Grey was young, Professor Charles had already noticed how terrifying her volatile, uncontrollable powers were. They were a terrifying force capable of overturning a planet and even threatening the universe.

So, to help Jean Grey control herself and become a good person who posed no harm to the world, Professor Charles locked all her negative emotions, as well as her unpleasant memories, in a prison within a mental realm.

And Su Chen's power to interfere with reality destroyed that prison like a ray of dawn.

Fragment after fragment of memories awakened in Jean Grey's mind.

"I killed my parents..."

Jean Grey immediately recalled the worst moment: because of a childish tantrum, she had caused the car her parents were driving to crash, killing them both.

"When I was seventeen, I also killed several innocent Mutant students..."

"When I was nineteen, I nearly lost control and completely evaporated the lake at the school..."

"..."

One by one, fragments of the past that had been Professor Charles emerged.

"This is who I really am!"

Dark Phoenix's voice grew clearer.

Jean Grey clutched her head with both hands. In an instant, a surging wave of killing intent burst from her body, and a force powerful enough to disintegrate everything began annihilating even the molecules in the air.

Soon, an invisible storm of annihilation erupted from within her.

The ground began to disintegrate.

Even the manor buildings before her began collapsing into clouds of gray dust.

Everything returned to its simplest molecules and atoms.

"No, stop!"

Jean Grey roared.

The change unfolding before them was utterly beyond anyone's expectations.

"What is this now!?"

Su Chen's expression changed.

His Telekinesis barrier shattered the instant the wisps of wind struck it. He felt the fluctuations of its power with his right hand, only to find that within seconds, wounds had appeared once more on his repeatedly tempered body.

Pfft!!

Drops of blood fell from his wounds, only to be drawn back by an invisible field. As though time were reversing, the drops returned to his wounds, which rapidly healed.

His undying, indestructible physique naturally came into play at that moment.

Su Chen frowned. This woman, whose personality had suddenly split, seemed to have lost control completely after he stimulated her.

Compared with the Master of Disintegration he had faced before, Phoenix's power utterly overwhelmed his.

"Brother..."

Su Shan screamed and wrapped both hands tightly around Su Chen's arm. Under Phoenix's uncontrollable power, not only was the air around them breaking down, but the thoughts of every living being nearby were also beginning to suffer mental anguish.

Su Shan's little face went deathly pale, all color draining from it. She had clearly been affected.

"Let's go."

Su Chen watched as the magnificent manor began to crumble, while Mutant students screamed in terror and fled in every direction.

The power of space sent ripples through the air. No longer caring whether these people lived or died, Su Chen took the suffering Su Shan and left this troubled place.

Chapter 38

"Damn bastard..."

A red sedan sped along the highway, heading toward the capital.

Hit-Girl's petite figure was practically standing in the driver's seat as she raced along, drawing who knew how many complaints on the way.

For Hit-Girl, Mindy, everything that had happened today was simply too shocking, a veritable nightmare.

The death of her father, Big Daddy.

And even...

Her new friend Su Chen had actually done something so earth-shattering in the capital in a fit of rage.

When she thought of the words she had said in anger, she feared they had hurt him deeply.

Hit-Girl felt a little embarrassed.

No matter what, she had to find him.

Unfortunately...

The communications from the capital reported that he had long since disappeared after knocking out Hulk.

"Damn it!"

That left Hit-Girl, Mindy, somewhat at a loss.

The red sedan wandered aimlessly along the highway.

Meanwhile...

Just as she was at a loss, two figures suddenly appeared out of thin air amid ripples in space on the road ahead.

"Oh my god..."

Hit-Girl was scared stiff. She hurriedly yanked the steering wheel to the side, and the red sedan crashed into a tree stump beside the road.

Just as she began to curse, her head cleared and she realized that one of the figures, dressed in a black hoodie, was none other than Su Chen.

That day.

For the vast majority of people, it was anything but ordinary.

No one had expected a nuclear explosion to ring out over the capital, causing the magnificent building known as the Vault, which had yet to enter service, to collapse.

The greatest slap in the face was that a military representative had just announced that the young Mutant was wanted worldwide, only for the military representatives to be killed by him before they could even hold a press conference.

The name of the thirteen-year-old boy, Su Chen, resounded across the world that day.

He had accomplished what even extremist Mutants in the past had failed to achieve.

Even Magneto, Erik, could only concede defeat.

Many Mutants regarded him as an idol.

They even called him the "number one Mutant!"

Of course.

Few people knew that the Mutant idol they looked up to had also attacked Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters that same day.

Several X-Men, including Professor X, had died on the spot.

More shocking still, Phoenix, Jean Grey, had completely lost control. Her other personality, Dark Phoenix, had begun fighting the primary personality for control of their body. More than half of the magnificent villa estate had collapsed, and the Mutant students had fled in panic.

More than ten minutes after the incident.

The wave capable of disintegrating everything vanished, and Dark Phoenix disappeared along with it.

No one knew where this being, said to be capable of overturning the Earth, had gone.

Perhaps she was hiding in the shadows, still fighting for control of the body.

The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. who learned of the news all reacted with shock.

"Classify it as a level-nine clearance incident immediately. No agent below level nine may access the relevant files."

Director Nick Fury knew just how terrifying the power hidden within Phoenix was.

Deep down, he even feared that if that woman truly lost control, not even Su Chen, the newly crowned number one Mutant, could stand against her.

"What troubled times."