To Save on Workload (Extra Chapter 11/12 for Alliance Leader Ye Shang Kong Ming)

Chapter 137 To Save on Workload (Extra Chapter 1112 for Alliance Leader Ye Shang Kong Ming)

Zhan Liu had misread the situation!

He had waited in the sky for a full day, but Magneto still hadn’t come!

He had gathered his strength and adjusted himself to peak condition, waiting for Magneto to come over so they could have another great battle.

But the result… Magneto hadn’t come!

Zhan Liu floated in the sky for an entire day before finally determining that Magneto wasn’t going to fight him anymore!

With a dark expression, he descended to Earth.

The moment he entered the gravitational field, he noticed something was wrong. The planet beneath his feet… had become heavier!

He himself specialized in magnetic fields and was extremely familiar with a planet’s magnetic field, so he easily sensed that this newborn Earth was different from the original Earth.

Had Magneto done something while reshaping Earth?

Or had Ancient One secretly stuffed something into it?

What exactly was that old woman Ancient One plotting?

When he landed and returned to the Martial Arts School, a large group of people was already waiting there.

Magneto had only reversed time to before Stryker planned to exterminate the Mutants, so the Martial Arts School still looked as though it had been ravaged.

Aside from the busy construction workers rebuilding the Martial Arts School, a large group of politicians was waiting there as well.

They knew nothing about the time reversal. They only knew that Zhan Liu and Magneto had fought in the sky for more than a day without a victor.

Then Stryker had spoken out, only to be killed instantly by Magneto, after which Professor X had dumped all the blame on Stryker.

After that, Magneto hadn’t continued slaughtering cities. Instead, after sending Professor Charles back to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, he had returned to the Brotherhood of Mutants.

Furthermore, after returning, he had begun restraining the Brotherhood of Mutants and had stopped carrying out such things as attacking cities and massacring people.

In the eyes of those bigshots, this clearly meant he had chickened out!

Zhan Liu was the savior!

What did politicians like most?

Of course, playing both sides against each other!

Zhan Liu could check Magneto, and conversely, Magneto could check Zhan Liu!

Wonderful!

While Zhan Liu had stood foolishly in the sky for a day, those politicians had waited at the Martial Arts School for a day.

Not one of them had shown any impatience.

The moment Zhan Liu returned, they swarmed him, showering him with flattery as though it cost them nothing, determined to push him into the position of savior.

Zhan Liu himself hadn’t figured out what was going on, but he was certain Magneto had stopped not because of him. He simply didn’t know what kind of underhanded trick Ancient One had secretly pulled.

An ordinary person might have gone along with it and pretended to be a savior, but he didn’t care in the slightest whether he was a savior or not!

Without saying a word, he waved his hand and threw the entire group out of the Martial Arts School.

Only after the female secretary Natasha saw that the room had become quiet did she come over and give him a brief report.

Only then did Zhan Liu understand why those people had acted as though they had taken the wrong medicine.

It was because Magneto planned to establish a country!

Although the news had not spread yet, all the higher-ups already knew about it.

In the past, if Mutants had planned to establish a country, it would have been tantamount to suicide. Every nation would have made sure they understood the consequences.

But now, who would dare provoke Magneto?

A few people with defective brains had even planned to use the matter of the Mutants establishing a country as a bargaining chip, making Magneto atone for the slaughter of tens of millions of people. Even a symbolic public apology or a few days in prison would have been acceptable. As a result, the leaders of the other nations, already frightened out of their wits, had shot them down.

They not only dared not provoke Magneto, they had to pinch their noses and cooperate.

All the media were now publicizing Stryker’s crimes and dumping all the blame on the dead Stryker.

The footage and photographs of the live experiments that the military had previously tried to conceal had also been voluntarily released. They wanted to establish as fact the "truth" Professor Charles had spoken of before—all evil had been committed by Stryker!

Under these circumstances, Zhan Liu, the only person capable of "counterbalancing" Magneto, had become a hot commodity, enjoying treatment as a "hero who saved the world."

After getting a general understanding of the situation, Zhan Liu ignored it. What he needed to figure out now was what role Ancient One had played in this incident and what deal she had made with Magneto.

After dismissing Natasha, he rose and flew toward the New York Sanctum. He intended to ask Ancient One face-to-face and get a clear answer.

Wong had been waiting here for quite some time. When he saw Zhan Liu enter, he said nothing, merely smiling as he drew a circle and opened a portal. On the other side, Ancient One was sitting behind a tea table with a smile.

Zhan Liu snorted coldly and walked through unhappily.

"Have a seat. Try this Mingqian Longjing. Its flavor is wonderfully authentic."

Zhan Liu accepted the teacup, drained it in one gulp, then slammed the cup onto the table and glared at Ancient One without saying a word.

"Magneto is going to die!" Ancient One clearly knew why Zhan Liu had come. With the Time Stone, she could be this shameless and never had to worry about saying the wrong thing.

Zhan Liu was startled. Magneto had already reached the Ninety-Seven Heavens of Magnetic Field Rotation. Under normal circumstances, he could live for three to five hundred years without a problem. Moreover, the Mutants had all been resurrected, so he still had a chance to reach the Ultimate. By then, he could have an endless lifespan and an undying Primordial Spirit.

Besides, the laws of the Marvel world differed from those of the Martial God World.

In the Martial God World, no matter how powerful a person was, their lifespan was often limited if they failed to reach the Ultimate realm. Those capable of Cellular Reconstruction could not extend their lifespans. Those capable of altering DNA could not achieve immortality.

That made no scientific sense!

But the Marvel world had an abundance of long-lived races. Leaving aside the Celestials and the Celestial Race, even naturally born life forms such as the Asgardian God Race and the Eternals could live for hundreds of thousands of years.

Even among ordinary people, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Deadpool, and Hulk were all beings capable of living forever.

Then would Magneto’s lifespan still be limited now that he possessed Magnetic Field Rotation? Even Zhan Liu himself couldn’t figure it out.

"Is it because of the Time Stone?" Zhan Liu could think of no other reason.

"Correct. I activate the Time Stone through magic, and I can also use time magic. But Magneto has neither of those things. He can only activate the Time Stone through his life force, supplemented by his ability to manipulate time through Magnetic Field Rotation."

Ancient One poured more tea, still looking calm and unruffled.

"But he is far too unfamiliar with manipulating time, and the period he needed to reverse was also rather long. Therefore, he paid a somewhat heavy price in life force."

The length of the time reversal was also controlled by you, you old hag, wasn’t it?

Zhan Liu looked at Ancient One askance. "You had already calculated all this, hadn’t you?"

"I merely fixed one of the many possible outcomes." Ancient One did not deny it.

"What exactly are you planning?"

"This method can save me a great deal of work."

"What do you mean?"

"I observed many possible futures. This future is the one in which Earth is shattered the fewest times."

Zhan Liu carefully mulled over her words and more or less understood what she meant.

Previously, Zhan Liu had fought Magneto without restraint, recklessly mocking and provoking him without worrying that he would shatter Earth. His confidence came from knowing that Ancient One would never permit such a thing to happen and would reverse time when it mattered.

But after this incident, if he caused trouble again, he would have to consider what might happen if the future Ancient One chose did not suit him.

With this precedent before him, Zhan Liu would act with far more scruples. Naturally, the number of times Earth was shattered would drop drastically.

Damn your mother!

You’re guarding against me, you old hag!