The Savage Land’s Three Kingdoms

After showing off his new ability, Alex brought the conversation back around. "Where are they now? Sebastian Shaw and those mutants?"

Alex planned to deal with these troubles personally. If possible, he even wanted to kill them and eliminate future problems once and for all. Back then, considering that they were all mutants, Alex had merely imprisoned Sebastian Shaw and the others. But after seeing what they had done over the past decade, Alex wished he had wiped them all out long ago, so they would not continue harming mutants everywhere.

After escaping the Floating Giant Island, Sebastian Shaw had led the Hellfire Club mutants into AIM. The two sides had joined forces to continuously strike at the Floating Giant Island. During that period, the Floating Giant Island was attacked almost every day, and people died every few days. Sebastian Shaw and his people did not care in the slightest about the safety of the mutants on the island.

Fortunately, Emma had been prepared. With the help of the undercover agent Tessa, she successfully drove a wedge between Sebastian Shaw and Strucker. Sebastian Shaw then led the Hellfire Club mutants out of AIM and formed the Brotherhood of Mutants. From then on, the two sides became sworn enemies.

The struggle between two dominant powers had now become a Savage Land Three Kingdoms. Sebastian Shaw and Strucker divided the vast plains between them, while Emma led the mutants in stubbornly defending the forest border, firmly holding the Floating Giant Island, the primeval forest, and the swamps.

As for Red Skull, who had escaped alongside Sebastian Shaw, Strucker had sent him out of the Savage Land to fight the fake Red Skull.

Sebastian Shaw’s evil deeds were not limited to the Savage Land. In the outside world, he led his mutants in causing trouble everywhere, completely ruining the favorable impression of mutants that X-Film Company had worked so hard to build. This was also an important reason why Alex had decided to kill him.

Emma naturally saw the killing intent in Alex’s eyes. After hesitating for a while, she led everyone out of the room and toward the main hall of the Floating Temple, where the holographic control console was located.

Ever since Sebastian Shaw had damaged the Floating Temple last time, the holographic control console had been destroyed as well. The console now placed in the Floating Temple’s main hall was merely a simplified device developed by Howard afterward. It could only monitor the entire Savage Land in real time, excluding the plains, and could no longer control the Savage Land’s climate, terrain, and so on.

As he listened to Emma’s explanation, Alex leaned forward to examine the holographic control console before him, which had been reduced several times in size. At the border between the forest and the plains, he saw an endlessly stretching, enormous wall, taller than any ancient city wall Alex remembered. Small cities had been built one after another within the forest beside the wall, and many mutants were stationed inside them. As far as the eye could see, they packed the area densely.

Looking at the ant-like crowds beside the towering wall, Alex stared at Emma in astonishment. "We have this many mutants?" Alex remembered that the Floating Giant Island had only five hundred thousand mutants, but the mutants gathered beside this wall surrounding the entire forest seemed to number far more than that.

"Over the past decade, mutants have continuously joined us." Emma chuckled and turned to Howard, her eyes filled with gratitude. "We have Howard and Nick and the others to thank for that. Without their help, these mutants would not have been able to find this place."

Hearing that, Alex also looked at Howard and casually said, "When we have time, I’ll drink with you!" Between brothers, there was no need for many words. A cup of wine was enough.

Emma shook her head with a smile, then pointed to a spot near the center of the plains. "Sebastian Shaw’s Brotherhood of Mutants is here. But according to information Tessa sent back, Sebastian Shaw has been missing for a long time. No one knows where he went!"

"Missing?" Alex frowned at once and looked at Emma in confusion.

Meeting Alex’s gaze, Emma shrugged helplessly. "Yes, missing. There is no trace of him in the Savage Land, and no news of him outside either."

"Nick has been looking for him for days, but there hasn’t been any news." Howard joined in, his expression serious. Sebastian Shaw was absolutely a menace, not only to mutants but to all of human society. His sudden disappearance had naturally drawn a great deal of attention.

Alex was somewhat disappointed, but then he turned his gaze back to the holographic control console. His eyes swept across the plains, and he quickly found a location by the sea marked AIM. "Is this AIM’s headquarters? Is Strucker there?" With Sebastian Shaw missing, Alex could only settle for the next best thing and deal with Strucker first.

"Alex, you can’t cause trouble for AIM." The moment Alex spoke, Emma’s face hardened, and she warned him sternly.

"Why?" Alex’s expression did not change, but his tone turned slightly colder.

The bitterness on Emma’s face deepened. She turned to look at Howard again, signaling for him to explain.

"Those lunatics at AIM cracked the alien technology left behind in the Savage Land." Howard spoke angrily, though a trace of envy and jealousy occasionally slipped into his words. "They don’t have a holographic control console, but they can destroy the Savage Land’s ecosystem…" The more he spoke, the softer his voice became, and the more helpless and unwilling his expression grew.

The reason the Savage Land possessed an ecology, geography, and climate so different from the outside world—even dinosaurs extinct for tens of thousands of years existed here—was its unique ecosystem. Without that ecosystem’s control, the Savage Land could be destroyed in no time.

Alex understood this clearly. Hearing Howard’s explanation, he froze. Only after a moment did he ask, "Is there no other way?" Alex had never liked being threatened. Faced with an AIM like this, the only thing he wanted was to wipe them out completely!

Seeing Howard shake his head like a rattle drum, Alex grew even more frustrated. "So even if I want to make a move, there’s nowhere for me to use my strength, right?"

Emma and Howard exchanged a glance and nodded.

"Little Dad, you can train us." Little Logan suddenly cut in, his face full of longing. "Little Dad is amazing at fighting. Lots of people want to learn from Little Dad!"

After Alex left, Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters had been left without anyone capable of teaching combat classes. In the end, Nick Fury found time to teach some fighting techniques. Together with instruction from the first students who had trained under Alex, combat training managed to continue at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters. But compared to Alex, those people’s abilities were obviously far inferior.

Emma’s eyes immediately lit up. She turned to Alex and nodded eagerly. "Alex, the position of combat instructor at Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters has always been kept for you!"