Chapter 40 / Chapter 41

Hearing this, Su Chen merely ruffled Su Shan's hair with his right hand.

In less than a second, the next moment came.

The strange, mysterious power acted upon reality once more. The Hand ninjas, whose presence and whereabouts had all been exposed a moment earlier, completely collapsed. Their bodies turned into glass marbles that scattered across the floor, bouncing continuously in the dimly lit hall.

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Chapter 40

Click-clack!!

The sound of glass marbles rolling across the floor continued.

Only a week had passed, but Su Chen had grown increasingly adept at altering reality. Clearly, he had learned a great deal from his past battles.

Now, he could even carry out considerable reality-altering feats with ease while keeping his thoughts calm.

Ding!!

At a thought from him, the lights in the building, whose power had already been cut off, came on.

In that brief span of time, few people remained in the hall.

Rat-tat-tat...

Her eyes red, Hit-Girl Mindy immediately pulled the trigger, shooting every remaining figure in the light precisely through the head.

"That guy must be on the top floor."

Mindy gritted her teeth and spoke coldly.

At that very moment.

Inside the top-floor office of Fisk Tower.

A hulking figure like a giant bear sat on a sofa. His fleshy face was completely contorted, and the cane clutched in his hand creaked under his grip.

Beside the sofa, a subordinate lay unconscious on the floor, beaten bloody from head to toe.

The only reason was that the subordinate had reported some bad news. In a fury, Kingpin had swiftly punched him to death.

As someone whose physique was theoretically at the human limit, Kingpin could beat a tiger to death with his fists.

Even his sparring partners were all world-class boxing champions or elite special forces soldiers.

Yet none of them could last three rounds against Kingpin.

Kingpin was still deeply dissatisfied with this.

He knew that the superheroes in this world often possessed terrifying abilities. At the very least, he greatly envied the abilities of Mutants.

The sudden crisis before him had also made him realize that his own strength alone might not be enough to resolve it.

"We've lost contact with the first group of Hand members..."

"Bullseye has gone to stop them..."

"They've fought their way up here..."

One piece of dreadful news after another kept coming in.

"According to the surveillance footage, the enemy is Hit-Girl. Besides her, there's also Su Chen, the extremist Mutant who was recently wanted!!"

The news was like a thunderclap exploding beside Kingpin's ear.

In the past, Hit-Girl had been nothing more to him than an annoying little grasshopper, constantly hopping about.

But now...

With Su Chen accompanying her, he simply couldn't remain calm and composed. His powerful survival instincts kept sounding the alarm, as if the Grim Reaper were warning him that his time was up.

After all, that was a monster who had emerged unscathed from a nuclear explosion.

Damn bastard!!

"Prepare the ritual now."

Kingpin's massive figure rose to his feet, his thoroughly contorted face filled with madness.

He had ruled the underworld for who knew how many years before finally making his way into high society. Now, his criminal empire was on the verge of collapse, and naturally, Kingpin refused to surrender without a fight.

"I don't care who you are. If you want to take everything from me, the worst I can do is take you down with me."

"No one can save you..."

"Little brat, don't think you're the only special one in this world."

Boom!

As Su Chen threw a punch, the figure in front of him crashed through the wall like a cannonball.

Neither Kingpin's gangsters nor the Hand members could withstand a single move from Su Chen.

Whoosh!!

Sharp whistles rang through the air as three darts were thrown with pinpoint accuracy at vital points across Su Chen's body.

Such exquisite throwing skill was truly impressive.

Unfortunately...

Before they could get close to Su Chen, they were completely blocked by an invisible force of Telekinesis swirling several meters away. As though caught in a quagmire, the three darts couldn't advance another inch and hung suspended in midair.

"That's Bullseye. He's seriously unstable..."

Hit-Girl Mindy said warily.

In the past, this top assassin under Kingpin had given Big Daddy a great deal of trouble.

But now, before Su Chen, he was like a fish on a chopping board, at Su Chen's mercy.

"This is bad..."

Bullseye's expression changed drastically. But no matter how he struggled, an invisible pulling force carried his body straight up into the air and brought him before Su Chen.

"Ah!!"

He let out a scream as his entire body came apart. Under a terrifying force that interfered with reality, he turned into a great mass of bubbles and dispersed into the air.

Only his distinctive spinal structure remained intact and fully exposed before them.

"A spine cast from adamantium..."

Su Chen stroked his chin.

Just now, his faintly glowing eyes had seen straight through Bullseye and discovered the unusual thing inside him.

"Another product of the Weapon X Program?"

Of course, Bullseye had been modified because another master surgeon connected to him had successfully implanted it.

Hum!!

Under the immensely powerful Telekinesis Molding, the incredibly tough adamantium instantly deformed like cotton candy. In the blink of an eye, Su Chen's will had shaped it into a slender sword blade.

The next second.

The flying sword shot through the air, darting through the corridors and piercing one body after another.

No one could stop Su Chen.

Soon...

He brought Hit-Girl and Su Shan to the top floor of Fisk Tower.

Just then, an unusually evil and powerful force of darkness erupted from the rosewood door in front of them.

Su Chen frowned.

The sudden emergence of this sinister power made him feel slightly uncomfortable.

It was as if something were coveting him from the shadows. Su Chen sensed it and immediately raised his head to look at the ceiling. His black-and-white eyes seemed to see through everything, looking straight out into the night beyond the building.

At that moment.

Beneath the boundless night sky, endless dark clouds gathered, forming an eerie black passage. In that instant, a black vertical pupil appeared in the void and fixed its gaze on Su Chen.

In the next instant, a surging evil force transformed into a pillar of light and began to descend.

At that moment, the ancient evil god worshipped by the Hand, 'The Beast', the being known as Black Sky, descended through the ritual.

Surprisingly, the will that descended was originally meant for Kingpin, the ritual's inheritor. But it seemed to catch a better scent from Su Chen, and it abandoned Kingpin, descending directly toward Su Chen's body.

"No!! Why have you abandoned me?!"

Kingpin roared in unwilling fury.

Meanwhile.

A whisper, seemingly from a demon, lingered beside Su Chen's ear.

"...The injustices of this world are crushing you. Open your mind, and I will grant you the power to annihilate the world."

Chapter 41

The evil god Black Sky, the being known as 'The Beast'.

It had already made a full appearance in "Shadowland," a major Marvel event, possessing and controlling Daredevil to take down a host of superheroes. Its terrifying demonic energy had also thoroughly corrupted the hearts of those around it.

The Daredevil television series also mentioned the existence of Black Sky itself.

In any case.

The evil god Black Sky was a being from another dimension.

Other dimensions, parallel worlds, and pocket universes were all commonplace in the Marvel Universe.

And now.

The evil god Black Sky had descended from the sky through a ritual performed by the Hand.

But...

Something unexpected happened.

The descending evil god Black Sky did not choose to enter Kingpin's body.

Instead, it surged toward Su Chen's body.

"This is the most perfect host!!"

"Young man, I can sense immense rage and killing intent in you. The injustices of this world are crushing you. Open your mind, and I will grant you the power to annihilate the world."

High above the city.

Endless dark clouds gathered, and within them, an enormous black vertical pupil stared at Su Chen.

In the blink of an eye, waves of utterly evil power descended.

Like a force being poured into his crown, they kept trying to surge into Su Chen's head.

"No!!"