The Earth Exploded Again (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader Ye Shang Kong Ming 7/12)

Magneto’s eyes streamed blood tears, but after the tears dissipated, the red marks on his cheeks did not disappear.

That was… a battle pattern!

Battle patterns were the marks of the strong. Different martial arts produced different battle patterns. The Bai Junlang Clan was born with the Sea Tiger Battle Pattern, and by using techniques from other martial arts, one could also obtain the corresponding battle patterns.

Battle patterns changed with different periods or different realizations.

Not everyone possessed a battle pattern. It was a mark that appeared only on chosen experts.

Previously, although Magneto had already reached the Magnetic Field Rotation Seventy-Five Heavens, no battle pattern had appeared. But now, he had one.

The Blood Tear Battle Pattern!

Come to think of it, weren’t these things supposed to be animal types? Things like whales and sharks… Blood tears? This thing was awful!

Zhan Liu thought jealously.

His nerves were extremely tense now. Magneto merely standing there had already stimulated him into entering the Fiftieth Heaven Magnetic Field Rotation realm. But even so, the sense of impending death in his heart had not disappeared.

Fuck!

I went too far!

Zhan Liu’s mind turned ice-cold. He withdrew from that frenzied battle state and became much more clear-headed.

The current Magneto merely had to stand in the void without moving or doing anything to stimulate a stabbing pain in Zhan Liu’s mind. The War God’s instincts told him that the Magneto before him was a sun on the verge of exploding—whoever touched him would die.

Zhan Liu stared intently at the sight of Earth’s destruction. He desperately increased his comprehension of the magnetic-field changes that occurred when a planet was destroyed while carefully keeping watch, waiting for Ancient One to emerge and use Time Reversal.

But… Ancient One did not come out!

Not only did Ancient One fail to appear, but after the entire Earth had turned into chunks of varying sizes, Zhan Liu also failed to see the Celestial baby that should have existed inside Earth.

Fuck!

Ancient One tricked me again!

There was no Celestial baby at all!

What the hell was that woman Ancient One doing?

What was she planning?

This made no sense!

Namor’s existence had already proven that this was indeed the world of a movie or television series, but why was there no Celestial baby?

Or was this another parallel universe, one unrelated to the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

But regardless of which world it was, Ancient One should not have simply watched Earth be destroyed!

Or had she seen something else in the river of time?

Zhan Liu frowned as he carefully watched Earth before him break apart into smaller and smaller fragments. Sooner or later, it would become a pile of cosmic debris, yet Ancient One still did not appear.

Tsk!

Whatever that old schemer Ancient One was plotting was no longer important. Let her do as she pleased!

The universe was vast. If this place had no room for him, there would surely be somewhere else that did.

At worst, he could switch to another planet and continue wreaking havoc!

Right now, the most important thing was to preserve his life first!

It looked like he would have to fight the second half of the battle with Magneto soon.

The Fiftieth Heaven Magnetic Field Rotation realm had already reached the limit of Ultimate Limit Qigong. That was not enough to fight the current Magneto.

He would have to put more effort into the Complete State!

Magneto stood there in a daze, completely wasting this excellent opportunity to observe a planet’s destruction and improve his Complete State.

The life-filled planet that had once teemed with vitality was now shattered, reduced to a cold corpse.

During the planet’s death, its magnetic field fluctuated and changed violently. Its complexity was such that even the astonishingly intelligent brain of a magnetic-field martial artist could not fully comprehend it. They could only carefully sense and study it as much as possible, hoping to understand more.

This kind of targeted study could rapidly improve a magnetic-field martial artist’s ability to understand magnetic fields and greatly increase their Complete State.

Earth was now thoroughly dead. The boiling magma deep within its core was forcibly cooled and solidified the instant it encountered the void, eventually becoming dark-brown chunks of stone.

Various fragments of land, frozen oceans, scraps of skyscrapers, human and animal corpses, and countless other things drifted everywhere through the void.

No one could continue surviving after a planet was destroyed, except… Tony Stark.

In the end, he had relied on his own "Cash Power" and the military’s assistance to gather ten kilograms of Vibranium from every corner of the world.

With this Vibranium, he had finally created the new Strong Magnetic Armor 5.0, whose enhancement effect had also raised his Magnetic Field Rotation realm to the Thirtieth Heaven.

But just after completing his test flight, before he could put it into use, Magneto attacked New York. With a single punch, Stark Tower was caught in the blast and collapsed with a roar.

Pepper was caught in the collapse, but fortunately, she had also reached the Current Drive Realm. She had been far enough away that the falling building could not kill her, though she had suffered serious injuries.

Tony hurriedly took Pepper aboard a plane and evacuated New York, heading to Washington for medical treatment and refuge.

The human body of someone in the Current Drive Realm did not possess recovery abilities as exaggerated as those of Magnetic Field Rotation, but they still far surpassed those of ordinary people.

After confirming that Pepper was safe and sound, Tony had just breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the battle in the sky had continued for more than a day without a victor. He thought Zhan Liu would be able to deal with Magneto.

But who could have known that Colonel Stryker would suddenly appear and wipe out all the Mutants?

Tony did not care whether the Mutants were wiped out or not. There had been plenty of races exterminated by humanity, and one more made no difference.

But only moments later, the sky collapsed and the earth split apart. The ground opened a pitch-black maw and swallowed the skyscrapers, while magma surged upward like a fountain, turning everything into ashes.

Tony hurriedly put on his armor and took Pepper away from the ground.

Everyone else thought this scene was merely an earthquake, but Tony had seen it before in his "dream." It was the sign of a planet’s destruction.

Earth… was gone.

Tony himself was in the Magnetic Field Rotation realm, and with his Strong Magnetic Armor, he could survive in outer space after the armor’s enhancement. Facing this apocalyptic disaster of planetary destruction, he could survive safely.

But Pepper could not.

He had escaped the collapsing buildings with Pepper and fled the erupting magma, but he could not escape the disappearance of the atmosphere or the sudden drop in temperature.

He tried to transfer the armor to Pepper, but Pepper was only in the Current Drive Realm and could not be amplified by the armor. Wearing it would be useless.

In the end, all he could do was watch helplessly as Pepper suffocated in his arms, then became a sleeping beauty frozen by the cold of space.

"Tony, I love you!"

That was Pepper’s final sentence before her death, but she died before hearing Tony’s reply, departing into eternal sleep with pain and regret.

Tony could only watch her die before his eyes, powerless to do anything.

"Pepper…"

Tony looked through tear-blurred eyes at Pepper in his arms, then at the destroyed planet around him, and his heart shattered along with it.

The magnetic field inside his body began spinning wildly as well.