The Impossible Accomplishment

Alex drove the Tesseract to its limit. Frenzied energy, like floodwaters released from a dam, poured recklessly into his body. As the clashing energy tore at his mind, his flesh endured pain beyond anything ordinary people could imagine, as though ten thousand ants were gnawing at him.

Just as Alex hovered between consciousness and unconsciousness, the Floating Giant Island, which had remained still all this time, finally began to move slowly. Move one part, and the whole body followed—the Floating Giant Island was the core of the Savage Land. As it moved, the already disastrous Savage Land plunged completely into the abyss.

Huge sections of the dome began to fall away. Fine cracks spread densely across the ground, while the churning seawater battered the land as though it intended to drown the entire continent.

Heaven and earth were undergoing drastic changes, and the Floating Giant Island faced a tremendous crisis as well.

For some unknown reason, the lightning filling the sky was drawn toward the Floating Giant Island. In an instant, the Force Field surrounding it shattered. Rampaging lightning surged into the Floating Giant Island like a sea of thunder descending upon the island’s inhabitants.

The suddenly descending sea of thunder caused severe Electromagnetic Interference, interrupting Alex’s nearly completed Teleportation! The Floating Giant Island, which had only just begun to move, suddenly dropped with a whoosh, making the panicked people amid the lightning scream even more desperately.

In midair, Alex suffered a backlash as well. He spat out a mouthful of blood, his face as pale as paper without the slightest trace of color. His eyes were dim and lifeless, utterly devoid of vitality.

Yet in the next instant, the cries for help rising one after another from the Floating Giant Island jolted Alex awake. An unhealthy flush appeared on his face, and focus gradually returned to his unfocused eyes. He swept his gaze over the panicked crowd below, gave a soft snort, and activated the Tesseract once more.

Alex did not know much about the Tesseract. The only two things he knew were its formidable spatial abilities and its inexhaustible energy. Even after being drained by Red Skull and Sebastian Shaw, the Tesseract’s power did not seem to have diminished in the slightest. Now, under Alex’s control, it erupted with energy far beyond anyone’s imagination.

Under Alex’s control, the vast energy formed a thick, pale-blue oval barrier that wrapped tightly around the Floating Giant Island before the second wave of thunder descended. Ferocious lightning crackled as it slammed into the barrier. Like the sea beyond the Savage Land at that moment, the pale-blue barrier rippled violently, as though it would break apart at any second.

However, under Alex’s control and replenished by the immense energy, the barrier soon stabilized again.

Seeing the danger pass, everyone on the Floating Giant Island erupted into cheers. Those who had just been gravely wounded by the sea of thunder and nearly died were so excited that they danced with joy. They looked at Alex as though they were looking at God.

But while everyone else was celebrating, Tessa beside Emma could not help frowning. She secretly communicated with Emma through Mind Telepathy. "This is dangerous!" Few people had seen Alex vomit blood and suffer serious injuries just now, and Tessa happened to be one of them. With her sharp eyes, she had even caught the flash of despair in Alex’s gaze.

Emma nodded sadly without speaking. Her eyes gazed tenderly at Alex in the sky, while her lightly pressed lips moved faintly. If one listened carefully, one could just barely hear that she was praying.

After protecting the Floating Giant Island, Alex’s expression gradually softened. He spotted Emma amid the crowd and silently mouthed, "Believe me!"

"What is he saying?" Tessa was the first to notice Alex’s movements. Unable to hear him and unable to read lips, she immediately turned to Emma. In Tessa’s eyes, Alex had to be speaking to Emma, and Emma surely knew what he meant.

Tears welled in Emma’s eyes. She gently shook her head but did not say anything.

Alex withdrew his gaze from Emma and turned to look at the lightning raging outside the barrier. A trace of worry crossed his gentle face. The sea of thunder was growing denser and showed no sign of dispersing anytime soon. Teleportation was severely disrupted and could not be used. If they wanted to leave the increasingly dangerous Savage Land, it seemed they could only find another way.

At that moment, Alex suddenly sensed something strange above his head. Looking up, he saw a dome fragment the size of a basketball court whistling down toward him. Driven by enormous momentum, it actually pierced the energy barrier in one blow and crashed straight at Alex.

Alex’s heart skipped a beat. Just as he was about to dodge, he suddenly realized that if he moved aside, the people below would never escape. They were packed together so tightly that even if they wanted to run, they probably could not move.

With that thought, Alex stopped. The Red Impact Beam transformed into an enormous, dense net of light and flew out, wrapping around the dome fragment at just the right moment. In an instant, the basketball-court-sized fragment was reduced completely to ash and vanished.

Without pausing, Alex shot toward the breach torn open by the dome fragment. Opening his mouth wide, he forcefully absorbed every bolt of lightning that had passed through the gap and surged inside.

As Alex absorbed the lightning, the gap in the energy barrier was sealed again by him.

From the moment the dome fragment broke through the barrier to the moment Alex restored it, only a few dozen seconds had passed. Yet everyone on the Floating Giant Island saw it all. Alex’s decisiveness and sense of responsibility filled everyone with admiration. The mutants’ gazes toward him became even more devout, and even the savages and the Descendants of Atlantis unconsciously showed a few more traces of respect on their panicked faces.

Alex might have appeared relaxed and at ease, but his condition was anything but good. It could even be called horrendous. Because he had overused his energy, the toxins that he and Joshua had previously joined forces to drive out of his cells flared up again and had already deeply invaded the cells. Unless Alex stopped now and accepted being frozen, even if he escaped this time by luck, he would not have long to live.

But Alex clearly would not give up like this. He even intended to make one final struggle. If he succeeded, the Floating Giant Island would survive. If he failed, everyone would perish together.

"Crystal!" Alex swept his gaze over the dome at the edge of the sky above. A sharp gleam flickered in his gray eyes. "Bring some people up here!"

Below, Emma and the others were slightly stunned when they heard Alex shout. They all turned to look at Crystal. Crystal was equally bewildered. She looked up at Alex and was just about to ask what he meant when she discovered that she and several people behind her had all begun to rise into the air, flying involuntarily toward Alex.

"I know what he wants to do!" Tessa looked up at Alex. Her gaze flicked toward the black frozen earth exposed through the broken dome, and a bright smile appeared on her face. She said confidently, "This time, we really can escape!"