Chapter 42

In his office, Kingpin roared in fury.

His eyes widened.

His face was full of anger, but disbelief was mixed in as well. He had never imagined that the evil god Black Sky would abandon him and choose someone else as his host.

Damn it!!

What had that guy done to deserve the evil god's favor?

"Aren't you going to do something?"

Kingpin was furious.

Opening the dimensional tunnel had involved enormous risks. He had gathered who knew how many resources from elsewhere, and he might even have had to become the vessel himself one day.

But now, Black Sky, summoned by these members of the Hand, had abandoned him and gone over to the young man who was fighting his way toward him.

"What the hell is this?"

Kingpin was beside himself with rage.

Yet the Hand's red-clad ninjas all dropped to their knees and bowed their heads to the ground in utter reverence.

They could feel the will of the evil god Black Sky manifesting in the world more and more clearly.

"Huh..."

"Something's wrong!!"

At that moment, Black Sky's will let out a roar.

Something was terribly wrong!!

He could feel the power of his will that had descended into the other's body constantly fading, while a steady stream of dark power flowed out of his own body.

"Impossible! How can you steal my power!!"

Black Sky's roar sounded like nothing more than impotent rage.

He had no idea that, after Su Chen had fought Professor Charles, the master of the mind, and Phoenix, his use of energy had undergone a further awakening, reaching the level of the mind.

In other words, even if powers of the mind, spirit, or will tried to pour into Su Chen's head, he would absorb them with all his might.

Just like that, the energy of the evil god Black Sky's will became pure spiritual power that nourished Su Chen.

"There's such a good thing?"

Su Chen hadn't expected to receive such a big gift package the moment he arrived.

"Is this the power you gave me to sweep the world flat?"

"Ridiculous!"

"With this little power, you dare bark at me nonstop?"

"You weren't wrong about sensing boundless rage and killing intent from me, but this time, I'm sensing frustration and humiliated anger from you."

Su Chen sneered.

His words enraged the will of Black Sky that had poured in from the dimension.

He came from beyond the dimension and had no way to descend fully in his true form. He could only inhabit a vessel and slowly build up his strength.

"Damn bastard..."

Fuming, Black Sky desperately withdrew his will from Su Chen.

To get revenge on him, his will finally deigned to enter Kingpin's body.

"You've finally come."

"You're here..."

"I can finally feel the power."

In the office.

Kingpin burst into wild laughter. At that moment, he finally felt endless dark power spreading throughout his body. The physical strength he had spent decades painstakingly honing was utterly beneath it by comparison.

"This is power."

At that moment, Kingpin felt as though he could knock down a small mountain.

But the next second.

"No!!"

His face grew increasingly savage and twisted. The evil god Black Sky couldn't be bothered with the self-pitying Kingpin. Once his will had fully poured into Kingpin's mind, he completely took over his consciousness.

The pitiful emperor of the underworld had now been reduced to a vessel for an evil god's will.

"Brat, I'll kill you!!"

A wisp of Black Sky's will took control of Kingpin's body and charged forward.

Bang!!

But unexpectedly, Su Chen charged in from outside the door first. His peerless body, tempered by a nuclear blast and driven to evolve by Hulk, smashed through the pearwood doors and sent Kingpin's body flying with a headlong collision.

"I hear you're an evil god?"

Su Chen took a step, his figure flying forward. Before his opponent could get up from the ground, he seized his head and slammed it into the floor.

Bang!!

The entire floor shattered, revealing a massive crater.

Kingpin's body was planted headfirst in the ground like an upside-down scallion.

"A god?"

"This is a god?"

"There are gods this weak in the world?"

Su Chen laughed wildly.

He grabbed Kingpin's arm and swung him up, then put strength into his arm and slammed him against the floor on the other side.

Still unsatisfied, Su Chen swung his arm again, waving it up and down from side to side and ruthlessly slamming Kingpin's body, which Black Sky inhabited, against the floor on both sides.

Boom!!

The ground shattered.

The wisp of Black Sky's will that had descended was so angry it nearly spat blood.

When had he ever suffered such humiliation?

But the pain from the weak body tormented him. He was covered in blood now, unable to move an inch.

"A god as weak as you has the nerve to say he'll grant me the power to sweep everything away?"

Under the influence of the evil god's power he had devoured, Su Chen's handsome face took on a faintly sinister air. His long black hair floated gently around him, and strange black energy even surged around his body.

"I'm embarrassed for you!"

Su Chen sneered, giving him no further chance to speak. Looking at Kingpin's body lying on the ground, he drove his foot into its head.

Crack!!!

The enormous head broke apart.

Kingpin died a humiliating death then and there.

The incarnation of the evil god Black Sky's wisp of will perished along with him.

And at that moment.

"We welcome our new master!"

The Hand ninjas, who had remained kneeling on the ground, called out to Su Chen with reverent expressions.

Chapter 42

"We welcome our new master."

The devout members of the Hand knelt on the ground and pledged their allegiance to Su Chen in unison.

Su Chen was somewhat puzzled.

"The Hand serves the strong. You defeated Kingpin and conquered Black Sky, so these people will follow you from now on..."

Hit-Girl Mindy understood it perfectly well.

Seemingly noticing the hesitation on Su Chen's face, Mindy added, "Anyway, if you don't ask them for anything, these guys will be practically invisible. They definitely won't get in your way."

"And you need more forces."

Hearing this.

Su Chen said little, seemingly accepting it.

Everything was over.

After glancing at Kingpin's blood-covered corpse on the ground, Hit-Girl Mindy sighed for no apparent reason.

Soon.

They left Fisk Tower.

Over the past week.

Su Chen, caught in the eye of the storm, had nearly become the enemy of the entire world.

To take care of his dispirited younger sister, he had kept a very low profile and disappeared completely from public view.

In the eyes of many, even most Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the most-wanted mutant had surely slipped away to some remote place to live in seclusion.

But no one could have imagined that Su Chen and his sister had moved into a luxury apartment in the most magnificent building in the Manhattan District.

Yorktown City, Manhattan District.

A skyscraper hundreds of meters tall rose straight into the clouds. In its uppermost floors were luxury apartments worth over a hundred million dollars.

Not long ago, Su Chen had inexplicably traveled to this city while out of control, because his childhood dream had been to own the most luxurious apartment in this bustling city, drive the finest luxury car, and move his family there from their hometown.

Now, he had easily fulfilled his childhood dream.

The reason they had been able to move in without any trouble was that the highly worldly Hit-Girl had used dirty money to move them directly into the magnificent high-rise apartment.

On top of that, Su Chen had already developed mind-based abilities and had brainwashed several building managers, including the butler, so there was no trouble afterward.

Su Chen stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows.

From over a hundred meters up, he could take in the entire neon-lit city at night through the windows. The people coming and going looked like ants.

For some reason, he felt as though the entire city lay beneath his feet.

No wonder rich people liked to build their offices on the top floors of buildings.

Looking down, they could see everyone in the city at a glance. It gave them the exhilarating feeling of ruling the world.

"Is this ambition?"

For a moment, Su Chen sensed a different feeling in his heart.

"Brother, if Mom were still here, she'd be proud of you."

His younger sister Su Shan walked over in a pink dress, a doll in her arms.

"Really?"

Su Chen smiled and rubbed her hair.

With that habitual gesture, he noticed that he had grown quite a bit taller. In just a few days, seemingly after his fight with Hulk, his thirteen-year-old body had shot up considerably. He was perhaps over 1.7 meters tall.