Legion

On the battlefield, Apocalypse and Black Phoenix were both shocked and furious when they saw Jason and Black King die. Those two might not have been Omega-level, but they were definitely no pushovers. Yet they had been killed so easily by their opponents.

In just three months, these mutants had undergone a complete transformation.

"Legion, what are you waiting for? Why aren’t you attacking already?"

As Black Phoenix increased her power and blasted Wade and Cyclops away, she turned and shouted angrily at Legion.

"Shut up. Women shouldn’t talk to me. I hate women."

Legion cursed with an unhappy expression. Professor smiled and said, "His name is Iger. He was hurt by a woman before, so he hates women very much."

Black Phoenix felt like cursing. Too lazy to bother with Legion, she transformed a large amount of fire into long whips and viciously lashed them at Wade and Cyclops.

Wade gave a strange laugh, teleported in front of Black Phoenix, and slashed down at her with his sword. Black Phoenix’s eyes sharpened as she activated her disintegration ability. Wade instantly turned into a skeleton.

That was not all. Under Black Phoenix’s immense power, even Wade’s Adamantium began to disintegrate. Before long, he would die completely.

Just then, a Time Magic array appeared above Wade. Then time reversed, and Wade suddenly returned to normal. He whistled, and his sword continued chopping toward Black Phoenix.

"Franklin."

Black Phoenix cursed, detonating the flames around her body and blasting Wade away. At that moment, an enormous laser beam shot toward her. Cyclops had destroyed the whips and launched another attack on Black Phoenix.

Just as Black Phoenix was about to intercept the laser, her vision blurred. She suddenly appeared on a barren planet. Franklin had created a planet and imprisoned her inside it.

"You think you can trap me? Disappear!"

Black Phoenix roared and unleashed her full power. The planet rapidly disintegrated. Franklin snorted and tossed the planet, now in the form of a blue bead, to Iceman.

"Absolute Freeze."

Iceman poured icy energy into the bead, and the planet rapidly froze. Seeing this, Black Phoenix suddenly manifested a phantom Black Phoenix behind her. Then blazing flames burned fiercely across the planet. Both the planet itself and the ice vanished at an astonishing rate.

"You think you can freeze me?"

Black Phoenix was utterly disdainful. Iceman had improved rapidly, but he was still not Omega-level.

"He’s enough."

Franklin chuckled and placed a hand on Iceman, activating his time ability. Iceman’s appearance rapidly matured. In the blink of an eye, he became a middle-aged version of Iceman.

It was worth mentioning that Iceman had not grown older. Rather, the future Iceman had been summoned into this era. That was right—the future Iceman, the true Omega-level Iceman.

The middle-aged Iceman looked at Franklin and laughed. "Franklin, you were cuter as a child. After you grew up, everyone hated you. Mister Fantastic nearly got angered to death by you several times."

Franklin cursed with a dark expression, "Shut up. There’s a problem with my existence. I can’t hold on for long. Hurry up and freeze Black Phoenix."

"No problem."

The middle-aged Iceman smiled and breathed a stream of icy air at the blue bead. Both the black flames and Black Phoenix were frozen within the ice.

However, Black Phoenix’s consciousness was not frozen. She controlled the black flames and crazily assaulted the surrounding ice.

"Black Phoenix is about as strong as I am. I can only freeze her for a few minutes. Whatever you want to do, do it quickly."

The middle-aged Iceman spoke, and Franklin nodded. "A few minutes are enough, because I can’t even last that long. Cyclops, Wade."

"I’m here. Cyclops, I’ll use Dream Walking to send you into Black Phoenix’s Mind Space."

Wade said to Cyclops, "Be careful. If something goes wrong, you might become a vegetable."

Cyclops nodded. "For Jean, I’m willing to take the risk."

Wade did not waste any more words. He used his ability to send Cyclops into Jean’s Mind Space, then moved the unconscious Cyclops beside Franklin and held two swords as he protected the three of them.

Leaving aside Cyclops and Jean for the moment, Professor and Legion, this father-son pair, finally came face-to-face.

Legion stood before Professor and said, "Old man, several hundred personalities want to kill you. The Celestial Group amplified those personalities. We can’t hold them back."

Professor sighed. "Having too much power is not necessarily a good thing. Unfortunately, even if you were injected with Leech, you still couldn’t return to being an ordinary person."

"Even without powers, I’d still have thousands of personalities."

Legion shrugged. At that moment, his expression suddenly became incomparably vicious. Violent electricity erupted from his body as he roared, "Old bastard, either kill me or die."

Professor said, "I truly can’t beat you, but fortunately, Iron Man gave me a way to kill you."

Legion said mournfully, "A way to kill me? There is no way on Earth to kill me."

Professor said, "There is. You kill yourself."

"Suicide? I’ve tried it countless times, but every time I failed, because not all my personalities want to die."

Legion said, "Enough nonsense. Die, old man."

Following Legion’s words, a massive amount of violent electricity blasted toward Professor, piercing even the void.

"You’re still as impatient as ever."

Professor used magnetic fields to erase the electricity. Then he raised his hand, and the void split open. Countless nutrient pods flew out and landed on the ground. Inside every pod was a Legion.

Soon, thousands of nutrient pods spread throughout the Lost City, creating an immensely spectacular sight.

Legion froze, then adjusted glasses that did not exist and asked, "Old man, you want to use my clones to kill me? That’s impossible. My clones probably don’t even have a tenth of my strength."

"I know. These clones have no consciousness. They are merely empty shells."

Professor nodded and said, "Legion, next, I will transfer your consciousness into these cloned bodies. One consciousness, one clone."

"One consciousness, one clone?"

Legion was stunned. Then his eyes lit up. "You mean each of us can have our own body?"

"That’s right. When the time comes, you can do whatever you want, such as committing suicide or killing one another."

Professor nodded again. "Only Legion can kill Legion."

Legion smiled, a smile as pure as a child’s. "Good idea, old man. I’ll cooperate with you. We’ll transfer the consciousness together."

"Good."

Next, Professor and Legion joined forces to transfer Legion’s thousands of consciousnesses into thousands of cloned bodies.

Because Legion cooperated willingly, the entire process went very smoothly. Before long, the Legions opened their pod doors one after another and walked out, every face filled with excitement.

One Legion said, "Before, thousands of people were crammed into one house. Now there’s only me. This feels incredible."

The other Legions all nodded in agreement. Professor asked, "Have you completely separated?"

"No. We still have close connections with one another."

Legion shook his head. "But if someone kills us, we’ll truly die. The personality and power will both die."

Another Legion said, "In other words, we can finally commit suicide."

One Legion who did not want to die shouted, "If you want to die, that’s your business. Don’t drag us into it."

"That won’t do. If we die, we die together. I don’t want to suddenly come back to life one day."

One Legion shouted, and quite a few Legions nodded. They were highly decisive, directly attacking the other Legions. Soon, a chaotic battle between the Legions erupted.

There was no need to describe the details, because it was simply too chaotic. Thousands of Legions fighting one another was a sight too beautiful to look at.

One Legion shouted at Professor, "Old man, help us stop the Legions trying to run away. This time, we have to die."

"I’ll grant you complete release."

Professor nodded and used magnetism to slaughter the Legions who did not want to die.

"Someone is actually crazier than me."

Even Wade felt his scalp tingle as he watched thousands of Legions slaughter one another.

If even Wade felt that way, there was no need to mention everyone else. Everyone instinctively stayed far away from that group of Legions.

On a tall building, the Celestial Group exclaimed, "Space Lord, your wisdom is truly astounding. You actually came up with such a method.

Legion is the strongest mutant on our side, stronger than both Black Phoenix and Apocalypse. Yet you dealt with him so easily using thousands of clones."

"He is merely a patient. A patient with schizophrenia."

Wang Bert said indifferently. He had carefully studied Legion’s condition before and understood his weakness very well.

"He is not a patient. He is a perfect masterpiece. If he can control all of his personalities, he will transcend Omega-level and become a Creator God."

The Celestial Group said, "Aside from Black Phoenix, whose origin is special, he is the only mutant capable of breaking through to become a Creator God."

"You think highly of him. Unfortunately, he no longer has that chance."

Wang Bert said. Light flashed in the Celestial Group’s eyes as it said, "Not necessarily. Once I win, I will revive him. I can use Time Rewind as well."

"Provided you can defeat me."

Wang Bert smiled. The Celestial Group was so confident that it must have another trump card, but it did not matter. He had already won this war.

On the battlefield, Apocalypse’s expression became somewhat grave as he watched the Legions slaughter one another—Original Sin, Jason, and Black King had fallen, Legion was killing itself, and Black Phoenix was trapped. In other words, only he remained on the Celestial Group’s side.

If Apocalypse had not been a puppet, he would probably have started cursing at his pig-like teammates already.

The situation is extremely unfavorable. To break this deadlock, I have to rescue Black Phoenix.

Apocalypse’s thoughts stirred. He controlled the yellow sand to form a sandstorm that swept Wolverine and the others away. Then he used telekinesis to tear open space and suddenly appeared beside Franklin and the middle-aged Iceman.

Apocalypse did not waste any words. He directly reached for the blue bead in the middle-aged Iceman’s hand. Franklin and the middle-aged Iceman could not stop him because they were suppressing Black Phoenix, but fortunately, Wade was beside them.

"Apocalypse, taking someone else’s things without saying hello is robbery. Officer Wade sentences you to dance with me."

Wade stepped back, performing an incomprehensible dance as he shouted at Apocalypse.

Something astonishing happened. Apocalypse first took an uncontrollable step backward, then began dancing with Wade.

Mutant ability, Synchronization.

Watching Apocalypse make a heart gesture, Wolverine complained, "That really burns my eyes."

Everyone deeply agreed. Fortunately, Apocalypse was currently a puppet without emotions. Otherwise, he would definitely have been angered into vomiting blood. He let out a low roar, and dazzling Light Flame shone from his body. His dance movements immediately slowed.

At that moment, Shadowcat appeared behind Apocalypse with Leech. Then Leech placed a hand on Apocalypse’s shoulder, forcibly weakening his power.

Apocalypse hurriedly controlled the yellow sand into a giant hand and swatted it toward the two. Shadowcat snorted and vanished with Leech.

After his strength was weakened, Wade’s Synchronization took effect once again. Apocalypse followed Wade in doing a full split. Everyone looked disgusted, though that did not stop them from attacking Apocalypse.

Although Apocalypse was controlled, he could still use his superpowers. He shattered space with telekinesis, intending to use it to sever his synchronization with Wade while also preventing the others from attacking him.

Unfortunately, Wade’s synchronization continued. Wade chuckled. "Don’t waste your effort. Forget space—even if you transcend time, you’ll still have to synchronize with me. This is the top-tier ability the BOSS found for me."

At the same time, Wolverine and Yuriko charged fearlessly into the shattered space and attacked Apocalypse while enduring the Space Storm. Left with no choice, Apocalypse used Light Flame to protect himself and block Wolverine and Yuriko’s attacks.

Wolverine and Yuriko attacked the Light Flame with all their strength, making it tremble continuously. Seeing this, Apocalypse hurriedly summoned the Earth Giants to help. Unfortunately, all the Earth Giants approaching the battlefield were taken out by Quicksilver and Psylocke.

As she observed the battlefield, Psylocke said, "Apocalypse’s defense is too strong. He won’t be easy to kill. Logan, Yuriko, conserve your strength. Once Black Phoenix turns back into Jean, we’ll kill Apocalypse by force."

"No problem."

Wolverine and Yuriko both nodded. The key now was whether Cyclops could handle Black Phoenix. If he could, they had this battle in the bag. If not, they still had a hard fight ahead.

Black Phoenix and Apocalypse were not easy opponents, especially since this was their home ground.

Inside Black Phoenix’s Mind Space, Cyclops shouted into the darkness, "Jean, Jean…"

"Quit shouting. Your Jean has been sealed in the deepest part of my consciousness. She can’t sense anything."

Light suddenly returned to the surroundings. Then a massive Black Sun appeared in the sky. It was Black Phoenix. She sneered, "Your plan is utterly foolish. So what if you entered my mind? Iron Man and Professor have both entered it before, but they still returned empty-handed.

Do you think you’re stronger than Iron Man and Professor?"

Cyclops said firmly, "Of course I’m not as strong as Iron Man and Professor, but I believe Jean and I can defeat you. Our love is the greatest weapon in the Mind World."

It was worth mentioning that a halo protected Cyclops. Black Phoenix could not easily expel him. That halo had been formed from Wang Bert and Professor’s Mind Power.

"Love?"

Black Phoenix burst into laughter. With a thought, many scenes appeared around them—scenes of Jean being with Wolverine. Although the two had not done anything intimate, it was obvious that Jean was happy, and she had always been in an excited state with her heart racing.

In other words, Jean had feelings for Wolverine.