Chapter 48 / Chapter 49

"When Earth's guardian, the Sorcerer Supreme Ancient One, returns to Earth, you'll face judgment. By then, we'll naturally know whether you've been corrupted by a demon god and whether you're a demon from another dimension."

The "we" Mordo spoke of, however, did not include himself.

Uh...

As his entire body completely disintegrated, a voodoo-like puppet appeared. Under the erasing power of reality, the doll fell completely apart.

Su Chen frowned.

He sensed that he had indeed killed Mordo, but his subconscious also told him that Mordo seemed to have used some kind of dark magic to make the puppet die in his place.

"Earth's guardian, the Sorcerer Supreme, beyond Earth?"

Su Chen gritted his teeth beneath his impassive expression.

He had never heard of any of those titles.

Everyone talked about superheroes, so he was quite familiar with them, but Su Chen had only learned today that magic existed in this world too.

Could their leader even roam beyond Earth, through other dimensions?

"What kind of bullshit Earth guardian is that? If someone like that really exists, why do great wars still happen in this world, with tens of millions of lives wiped out just like that..."

"If there really is an Earth guardian, is he unwilling to protect me and the other suffering Mutants, leaving us to be slaughtered by humans?"

"If you really have the power of a guardian, yet won't open your eyes and look at us, how are you any different from a demon god?"

Su Chen's mindset grew darker.

Because he truly felt the malice of the entire world directed at him.

He was clearly not the one in the wrong.

He had clearly done a good deed before, successfully avenging Mindy and Big Daddy and completely eliminating Kingpin, the underground crime lord who had exploited and enslaved who knew how many people.

Yet somehow...

He had been regarded as a vessel for an evil demon.

Had he wanted that disgusting will to descend and flood into his head?

He had clearly finished devouring it.

Why did these people keep coming after him again and again?

"This must be the world's malice."

The more Su Chen thought about it, the angrier he became, and he could feel his mindset growing darker. In the blink of an eye, a withering power rapidly spread through the secret base before him.

Chapter 48

General Stryker's secret laboratory had been built inside a mountain range.

A metal back door had been cut into the top of the waterfall ahead, and it was already covered in rust from the spray.

The earlier fight in the Mirror Dimension had not affected the outside world at all, so it had not attracted the attention of the people inside.

But...

At this very moment.

Hum!!

As Su Chen's mindset grew darker, a terrifying withering power began to take effect inside the secret base first.

"Ah!!"

A fully armed patrolman's expression suddenly changed. He abruptly discovered that his entire body was evaporating like a snowman under the scorching sun.

In the blink of an eye.

His figure withered and fell apart, turning into a cloud of gray smoke that dispersed into the air.

"No..."

One became ten, and ten became a hundred.

The people in the secret base could not even see a trace of their enemy before they were erased in an instant by the terrifying power interfering with reality.

Thud!!

Bodies of flesh and blood fell apart one after another.

Cries of panic spread throughout the base. The secret base, once used to research and dissect Mutants, became a living hell.

Crack!!!

The metal gate atop the waterfall was twisted into a mass of scrap by a force. Su Chen, wearing a black hood, walked inside without expression.

Tap!!

His footsteps echoed throughout the base.

He went tens of meters inside without any sign of anyone trying to stop him. The laboratory had not even sounded the alarm.

The control room,

as well as the break room and dormitories, were all empty.

Soon,

Su Chen arrived at a large laboratory. With a thought and a use of Telekinesis, the steam valve door, which required several procedures to open, twisted and shattered.

"Uh..."

Inside the laboratory, several researchers in white coats were suspended in midair by a force, their feet off the ground as they struggled wildly like drowning people.

"Damn it, it really is you..."

Everyone was shocked.

Only the number-one Mutant who had emerged from a nuclear explosion could silently take so many lives at once.

Su Chen glanced at them expressionlessly. He had spared their lives for the time being, but not so they could wail and plead here.

Hum!!

A strange ripple flickered in his eyes.

A mental wave spread out from his mind, surging into each researcher's head in turn.

In an instant,

Su Chen rapidly read a mass of memory fragments like a cascading stream of information.

After his battle with Professor Charles and Phoenix, Jean Grey, his mental power had soared, and his infinitely evolving genes had immediately found a direction for transformation in the realm of the mind.

As a result,

he not only had ways to counter mental powers,

but had also developed abilities such as telepathy and mind reading.

"Uh..."

The researchers in white coats rolled their eyes back and foamed at the mouth as the mental power that had forced its way in turned their minds upside down.

Having collected useful information, Su Chen raised an eyebrow. With a thought, a confidential document flew out of the archive room to the side and into his hand.

Rustle!!

He tore open the file envelope.

The documents inside recorded all kinds of information about him.

"So that's how it was."

Su Chen soon understood why he had been captured. During a previous blood test at a township hospital, someone had noticed something unusual about his blood sample. Its exceptionally vigorous cellular activity had exceeded human limits.

If they could successfully extract these cells with their astonishing self-healing ability, the Weapon X Program they had been pursuing would make a breakthrough.

And so he had been targeted, beginning his life on the run with his younger sister.

After that, Su Chen's genes had also begun to change quietly, until his arrest sent him into an uncontrollable rage, and his genes began to transform continuously.

"No!!"

The next second, the researchers, who were no longer of any use, clutched their throats. A constricting force closed in, and with a crack, it snapped their necks in the blink of an eye.

"Weapon X."

Su Chen's gaze fell on the nutrient tanks around him.

Every tank contained a body covered in tubes, which supplied nutrients while quietly altering their genes.

As many as several X-Genes could even be implanted in their bodies.

Su Chen had already witnessed how formidable they were.

Looking at these Weapon X subjects that had yet to emerge, Su Chen instinctively meant to destroy them completely, but he suddenly recalled Mindy's words.

You need more forces.

For a moment,

numerous invisible mental tendrils sprang from his mind and instantly pierced the minds of the figures in the tanks. Their consciousnesses were completely erased, and they became his mental puppets instead.

At that moment, the figures in the tanks opened their eyes.

Su Chen discovered that he could control them as easily as his own limbs.

"This is pretty good."

Chapter 49

Mental puppets!!

Puppet subordinates he could command at will, as easily as his own limbs.

Although Weapon X was hardly worth much notice to Su Chen, it would certainly be enough to intimidate others.

The Weapon X subject before him alone combined abilities such as teleportation, laser eyes, and rapid self-healing.

What sustained the whole of Weapon X was undoubtedly the healing factor inherited from Wolverine. It could be said that the beings in these nutrient tanks were all copies of Wolverine.

"Logan?"

Su Chen remembered the name mentioned in the confidential documents.

He had even heard the name back at the laboratory in the snowy plains. After all, the immortal, indestructible self-healing cells in his body had been intended to replace this Wolverine Logan's healing factor.

"Hmm..."

He frowned. For some reason, Su Chen felt a trace of revulsion toward this person who shared a similar plight.

It was entirely instinctive, something that came from the bottom of his heart.

Even his Combat Intuition gave rise to a vague sense of hostility.

Yet he had never had any contact with the man before and did not know him.

So why was his mental reaction so strong?

"Something's not right."

Su Chen trusted this vague feeling. After all, now that his mental abilities had been developed and transformed, such inexplicable instincts and illusions could not possibly be wrong.

Still somewhat puzzled, Su Chen arrived at the first basement level of the secret base.

He only had to pass through a long, dim corridor to reach the prison area.