Chapter 66

The more Su Chen sensed the changes brought about by the alteration of reality, the more shaken he became.

He had never expected the impact of his momentary loss of emotional control to be so terrifying. Granted, the blow of his mother's early death had been too much for him.

If he tried it now, he could never overturn reality on such a terrifying scale.

After all, fully unleashing his ability to alter reality depended heavily on losing control of his emotions. It would probably take Su Chen some time to wield such a mysterious power over reality at will.

"King!!"

"King of the Mutants!"

"Cheer for the birth of the king of the Mutants!"

At that moment, a jubilant roar erupted outside the crater.

The Mutants who had come to lend their support gathered around the crater, raising their arms and shouting to express their respect for Su Chen!

They had no idea what had just happened.

Nor did they know why more than half the S.H.I.E.L.D. Rapid Response Force they had been facing had disappeared.

Some of the Mutants sensed that something was wrong.

But when the cheers suddenly erupted, they were swept up in the shared excitement. They put aside their confusion and began cheering for the king of the Mutants before them.

As people on the margins of society, they had endured torment and discrimination, and even faced the terrifying risk of dissection and research.

They had lived every moment of their lives in fear.

And now, someone had finally stood up to show the world that their dignity was not to be trampled on either!

So...

Their cries for their king now came from the heart.

Like travelers stranded in the desert who had finally found a pool of water, they gazed at Su Chen with longing and reverence.

He was their guarantee of survival!!

"The X-Men are like clowns performing for humans. All they know is how to save humans and curry favor with them, but they can't put an end to our suffering."

"The Brotherhood of Mutants is too pathetic. They're too weak, and they lose every battle they fight. Magneto has grown old too."

"Only Number One Mutants, standing before us, is our hope of salvation!"

The crowd shouted.

The inflammatory words sent the cheering to even greater heights.

"He broke the shackles on our hands and crushed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s schemes. Only he can grant us a new life!"

"We don't need to be enslaved. All we need is a fair chance to live!"

"Only our king, the king of the Mutants, can grant us all of that!"

These increasingly inflammatory words came from a familiar face.

It was Multiple Man.

He had actually come to the scene.

Beside him were the Mutants who had been rescued back then.

Juggernaut's immensely muscular figure was there too, roaring at the top of his lungs. He had gone from being Magneto's trusted lieutenant to a loyal follower of Su Chen.

"King of the Mutants!"

To Su Chen's even greater surprise, that silly girl from his own home, his little sister Su Shan, had actually brought Hit-Girl here with her.

Damn...

Hadn't I told her to stay at home?

Su Shan met Su Chen's gaze, her eyes sparkling with mischief, an indescribable smile and endless anticipation hidden within them.

Clearly, she was genuinely happy with her brother's performance and hoped he would go along with the wishes of the crowd.

Whew!!

Su Chen let out a rare sigh of relief.

As the crowd around him shouted, the youth in the black hoodie slowly rose from the ground. He spread his arms and went along with the cheers, accepting the crown.

For a moment,

The cheers grew even louder.

"He accepted it!"

"Let us cheer once more for the birth of the king of the Mutants!"

From that moment on,

A brand-new Mutant dynasty was born.

Well...

One terrifying fact was that their so-called king of the Mutants did not rely on the X-Gene at all, and his powers had little to do with it. In theory, he was not a Mutant in the strictest sense.

But if it made his sister happy, what did that matter?

Besides, the ambition hidden in Su Chen's heart had long been growing stronger in secret. Perhaps, in all this, the thirteen-year-old boy was also beginning to satisfy his own ambition.

He had come to know the world and understand it.

And then, one step further...

He began to master the world!

"Take down S.H.I.E.L.D.!"

That was the first order he issued.

As though they had received an imperial decree, a great crowd of Mutants immediately set off for S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, the Triskelion, also located in the capital.

S.H.I.E.L.D., the Triskelion.

It had already fallen into chaos when reality was altered earlier.

At least half the staff had been wiped from existence by the inexplicable interference with reality. Agent Hill had managed to observe the changes as the timeline shifted.

She panicked, but quickly calmed down.

When she learned through satellite equipment that a wave of Mutants was about to descend on them, she gritted her teeth and immediately got up to leave. The situation was hopeless. She would head for the West Coast and lie low according to the plan Nick Fury had left behind.

But what she hadn't expected was...

"What? We've lost contact with the two carriers in the field? They're outright refusing to communicate with headquarters?"

Hill was bewildered.

Naturally, she didn't know that the Hydra agents embedded within S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters had launched a rebellion, taking advantage of the chaos to gradually swallow up the vast forces S.H.I.E.L.D. had left behind.

Damn it!!

At that moment, the world seemed to have plunged into chaos.

Chapter 66

S.H.I.E.L.D.

Its full name was the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division.

It was an agency directly subordinate to the World Security Council. The previous Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. had become a member of the council immediately upon retirement.

As a supernatural agency that handled all manner of bizarre incidents around the world and guarded against major threats, it possessed plenty of advanced black technology.

One example was the Quinjet, a super fighter capable of both stealth and supersonic cruising.

And...

An aircraft carrier that rose into the air on four antigravity engines: a Helicarrier in the truest sense.

"A Helicarrier is getting away."

At that moment,

The approaching army of Mutants had already invaded the Triskelion.

But now, an enormous island-shaped structure was rising through the water from an isolated lake.

No one had expected an underwater base to be hidden beneath a lake outside the Triskelion.

"Brother, don't let him get away."

Su Shan was extremely excited.

As the product of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s black technology, the Helicarrier's four antigravity engines poured out boundless, surging power, propelling the island-like carrier structure rapidly into the sky.

"Trying to run?"

Su Chen sneered.

Standing by a floor-to-ceiling window on the sixth floor of the Triskelion, he released a terrifying wave of Telekinesis through the window.

Crack!!

The entire carrier immediately seemed to sink into an invisible mire in the sky, as though the higher it rose, the stronger the force pulling it down became.

In the blink of an eye, in less than a few seconds, it was pinned in midair. Even when the antigravity engines sped up, they could not break through the wave of Telekinesis surrounding it.

"Damn it!"

"Bastard, just how outrageous is that guy's power?"

A succession of panicked voices rang out from inside the Helicarrier.

They could finally grasp just how outrageous the enemy's Telekinesis was: it had completely pinned down the Helicarrier against the immense thrust of its four antigravity engines.

Now they were in real trouble.

Crash!!

With the sound of shattering glass,

Quite a few Mutants smashed straight through the floor-to-ceiling windows and leaped from the upper floors, hurtling toward the Helicarrier, which had only risen a few dozen meters above the ground.

At the front was, of course, the hot-tempered Juggernaut.

Now and then, others who excelled at flying or traversing space also rushed toward the carrier's deck.

"King..."

"One of our people is a Mutant nicknamed 'Electron.' He can control all electronic devices. I guarantee we can get this carrier running once we've taken it."

Multiple Man was quite the lackey, immediately bringing the good news.

"That's great."

Su Shan was thrilled.

"This will be our base from now on."

With her little-witch personality, she was only too happy to see the world in chaos.

At that moment,

A series of laser-like gun barrels suddenly extended from the underside of the Helicarrier. They adjusted their aim, pointing at the Triskelion before them.

It looked as though they would rather destroy the former S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters completely than give the building to the Mutants.

"Nice try."

Su Chen extended his right hand slightly, then abruptly clenched it.

Bang!!

His extraordinarily keen hearing immediately relayed the unmistakable sounds of several operators' hearts bursting inside the carrier to his ears.

War and gunfire were a man's romance.