Brawl (an extra chapter for the FFF Regiment Chief 12/12)

Chapter 126: Brawl (an extra chapter for the FFF Regiment Chief 1212)

Just as Captain Marvel received the message and was hurrying back through a spatial wormhole, the X-Men finally intercepted Magneto.

It really hadn’t been easy.

Although the X-Men’s aircraft weren’t slow, they were far too slow compared to Magneto’s flight speed of dozens of Mach.

Moreover, destroying a city was now basically a matter of one punch for Magneto. He didn’t stay behind to finish off any stragglers, but rushed toward the next city at top speed to continue his rampage.

This caused the X-Men tremendous trouble. They repeatedly arrived too late and found nothing but empty air.

After discussing it, the group finally decided to wait at Berlin, the largest nearby city.

Since Magneto intended to destroy all of humanity, he would definitely come to Berlin.

And things turned out exactly as they had expected. After destroying several more cities, Magneto arrived in Berlin and ran straight into the X-Men waiting there.

When Scott saw Magneto flying over from the distance, he immediately shouted angrily at him:

"Magneto! Do you know what you’re doing?"

"You’ve already killed tens of millions of people. Now the entire world regards Mutants as public enemies!"

"Stop! We’ve reached an agreement with the United States government. You and Stryker will bear all the blame, and ordinary Mutants won’t be implicated!"

Erik slowly descended from the sky, hovering a short distance in front of everyone. He looked left and right, then activated Magnetic Field Rotation to scan ten thousand miles around him. Finally, he frowned and asked:

"Where’s Charles? Why didn’t he come? Or has he finally come to his senses and started agreeing with what I’m doing?"

"Professor Charles has disappeared. After Stryker captured him, no one knows where he took him. He may already be dead." Scott’s voice was low.

The news was completely beyond Erik’s expectations. He froze, suddenly feeling dizzy and short of breath, his heart twisting with pain.

He had met Charles as a boy, and they were as close as brothers. Although they had encountered many twists and turns along the way, those were merely differences in position and ideology. Their ideal of fighting for the interests of Mutants had never changed.

He trusted Charles, and Charles trusted him.

So whenever Charles encountered trouble, the first person he thought of was Erik.

Likewise, whenever Erik was in danger, Charles was the only person he could trust with his whole heart.

But now… Charles was gone.

He knew all too well what fate awaited a Mutant who fell into Stryker’s hands.

For a moment, he hesitated. Should he pause the destruction of the world, first confirm whether his old friend Charles was alive, and rescue him?

But in the next moment, he rejected the idea.

Right now, only Charles had fallen victim. But if he paused the destruction of the world and gave humanity a chance to catch its breath, the Mutants who would suffer as a result would number far more than one or two.

Only by completely exterminating all of humanity could this world welcome a happy kingdom for Mutants.

I’m sorry, Charles!

If it were you, surely you would understand my choice!

You would certainly be willing to offer your life for the coming Mutant Nation!

Until we meet again in the next life, Charles!

Everything for the Mutants!

Magneto took a deep breath and steadied his emotions. His body rose into the air as he prepared to fly over the X-Men and continue his journey of destruction.

"Magneto, haven’t you come to your senses yet? Do you really intend to drag the Mutants completely into the abyss?" Scott roared.

Magneto lowered his head and glanced at him, shaking his head with a sigh. "You can’t stop me with just the lot of you. I don’t want to attack you. The future Mutant Nation will still need your presence. There are simply too few of us Mutants!"

"Stop him!" Seeing that his arguments were useless and that Magneto was preparing to leave, Scott gritted his teeth and gave the order to attack.

At Scott’s command, everyone surged forward and unleashed their attacks at Magneto.

Scott charged ahead of everyone else. He removed his sunglasses and put on Beast’s newly developed Amplifying Focus Glasses, aiming twin laser beams at Magneto’s eyes.

Jean wore Professor Charles’s Amplifying Helmet and gathered all her psychic power, launching a full-force assault at Magneto in an attempt to force him to land.

Ororo raised her hand toward the sky. Dark clouds rapidly gathered overhead, black as ink. Lightning flashed and thunder roared as Lightning Dragons rolled through the clouds before plunging toward Magneto.

Several tornadoes rose from the earth to the heavens, sharp as blades. They surrounded Magneto and furiously sliced at him, sending showers of sparks grinding against his protective magnetic field.

Wolverine lowered his body and slowly approached Magneto’s feet, ready to pounce at any moment.

Iceman created a flight of ice steps out of thin air, extending diagonally from the ground all the way to Magneto’s feet. A group of close-combat Mutants charged up the steps, launching a desperate assault on Magneto.

Magneto sighed, his expression darkening as he forced his heart to turn cold.

The masses are so foolish!

I can only use thunderous methods!

With a light punch, he blasted apart the tornadoes coiling around him.

As for the Lightning Dragons descending from the sky, they had no power to resist Magnetic Field Rotation. He seized one in his hand like a pet and flung it back at Iceman.

Ororo hurriedly tried to redirect the Lightning Dragon, but it was already completely out of control. It ignored her commands and continued plunging toward Iceman.

A flash of blue light appeared behind Iceman. Nightcrawler grabbed him, then teleported away in an instant.

The Lightning Dragon lost its target, turned around, and blasted the ice steps on the ground.

With a thunderous boom, the ice steps melted under the lightning’s extreme heat before vaporizing completely.

With their footholds gone, the group of close-combat Mutants fell from the air and crashed to the ground in a noisy heap.

Jean’s psychic power had already been pushed to its limit, but although Magneto was no longer wearing his original psychic-protection helmet, Jean’s current psychic power still couldn’t shake him.

As for Cyclops’s red energy beams, they couldn’t even penetrate the protective magnetic field around Magneto. They could only interfere with his vision, serving little more purpose than laser pointers.

Wolverine seized the opportunity and suddenly leaped into the air, reaching for Magneto’s legs with both claws.

As long as they could force Magneto to the ground, the X-Men could use their numerical advantage to gang up on him.

But Magneto merely glanced at him. Wolverine immediately felt immense force surge through his claws, lifting him into the air and swinging him toward Scott.

Scott hurriedly shut his eyes to dodge, but Logan still slammed into him, knocking them both to the ground, where they rolled into a tangled heap.

All their attacks had collapsed in defeat within a few short seconds, leaving the entire force utterly wiped out.

But this entire offensive had merely been bait. The true killing move had been hidden beneath the surface.

A door opened silently behind Magneto. Rogue appeared behind it and reached out to touch Magneto.