25. Silent Farewell

"It's not your fault, Jean."

In the world of despair, Merlin walked into Qin's last hiding place.

The darkness in that room was like a real living thing. It twisted an indescribable body. The moment Merlin stepped into it, the cold darkness wrapped Merlin around.

It's like a greedy python has found its prey.

"this is not your fault."

Merlin didn't care about the cold darkness.

Although in the soul state, many abilities cannot be used, but he is a great wizard after all, the top spell caster in the real world, and his soul is more unique than ordinary people.

Even in the soul state, he is not without the power to protect himself.

Those forces originating from the darkness intertwined and entwined on Merlin's body, but they were still unable to penetrate into the spirit body.

It's like water wrapped around steel, it can't penetrate inward at all.

He knelt down and looked at the painful Qin in front of him. He reached out and stroked Qin's messy hair. He said:

"It was my fault."

"I promised you that I would protect Summers, but I didn't... I failed to keep my promise, and my failure has cost you all your hard work, and it's all my fault."

"Don't blame yourself too much."

Merlin sighed and said:

"I thought I could protect everyone, but it turns out, I can't..."

"I overestimated my strength, I underestimated the difficulty of this matter, so the world punished me in this way, in fact, I felt that I was the source of the disaster."

"Without me, you and Summers would never have experienced this."

"You're a really good man, Mr. Merlin."

Qin raised her head and looked at Merlin in front of her. A difficult smile appeared on her pale and bloodless face. She said:

"And just like Liana said, you always like to take all the mistakes on yourself..."

"This obviously has nothing to do with you, it's obviously just because I'm too cowardly."

"I'm so weak that I need a pillar to keep going. I'm so weak that I need support from others to live my own life."

Qin lowered her head, and she let out a long sigh:

"I should have killed myself in the first place. If I had died, Summers would not have been involved in this matter again... You don't need to fight her again."

"I was too weak, and I hurt him."

Qin's eyes seemed to be filled with tears, and she reached out and wiped her eyes.

She raised her head, tried her best to smile at Merlin, and said:

"You came to say goodbye to me, didn't you, Mr. Merlin."

"Everything should be over, whether it's pain or despair, it should be over, right?"

Merlin didn't answer, but the silence was everything.

The Phoenix Force is out of control, and a personality full of malice towards the world is forming. Qin's effort to fuse with the Phoenix Force has completely failed.

Both she and Merlin knew that she couldn't live anymore.

she may...

I don't want to live in such pain anymore.

For a broken soul, death may be the real relief.

Qin is right.

Merlin came to say goodbye to her.

Never meet again...

Only when Qin dies completely, the personality of the black phoenix will be erased, and the power of the phoenix that lost its host will return to the place where it was born.

A catastrophe will be averted.

But at the expense of an innocent person.

"Don't look like that, Mr. Merlin."

At this moment of farewell, Qin seemed to have been prepared, but she became more relaxed.

She stretched out her finger, like a little girl, resting on Merlin's cheek, trying to outline a smile for Merlin.

Smile like crying.

Full of bitterness.

"It's a good thing for me and for the world."

In the gloomy darkness, Jean said to Merlin:

"You should bid farewell to me with a smile, alas... I finally failed Cilia and Elsa's expectations, remember to say sorry to them for me."

"And Liana, I destroyed her beautiful castle..."

"And Xuanlan, I want to thank her for taking care of her during that time..."

"And Clark and Thor, they saved me, but I didn't say thank you to them personally, it's too rude."

"And you in the end, Mr. Merlin."

Qin stood up with difficulty, and she looked out of the room.

In the sky of the collapsing world, the phoenix mixed with flames and shadows is neighing, it has a premonition of a strong threat, and it is flying towards this side.

But Qin has no fear on her face...

She had already lost everything she cherished, and she no longer cared how terrifying the shadow that was born in her body was.

She has chosen to face death head on, and all threats and intimidations are useless.

"You could have given up on me."

Qin said to Merlin who stood up beside him:

"Your responsibilities, your mission, and your job do not allow you to allow a factor that threatens the world to continue to exist. You have enough reasons to abandon me."

"But you didn't...you had hope for me, you helped me find hope."

"You are trying to help me, I can feel that kind of warm kindness, so warm that it doesn't seem like a decision that a cold agent leader should make..."

There was a strange smile on Qin's face, she gently grabbed Merlin's hand, and she said:

"I finally know why Elsa loves you so much."

"You are a gentle person who is full of love for the world. Whenever we stand by your side, we will feel extremely at ease..."

"You are like a lighthouse standing in the dark, telling us that there is not only darkness in this world."

Amidst the silent collapse of the hiding place, Jean whispered:

"If I hadn't met Summers, I might have fallen in love with you, Mr. Merlin."

"It's a good thing..."

Merlin replied softly:

"Believe me, this is a good thing, falling in love with me means trouble... I have the ability to make everyone I care about suffer bad luck."

"The harder I try to protect them, the more they get hurt."

"Aww"

The dark phoenix screamed and rushed towards Merlin and Qin who were exposed in the ruined world. Behind the scorching dark sun-like spiritual body, everything was dying and annihilated.

The spiritual world full of ruins is collapsing.

Qin is trying her best to gather the spiritual power that she can still control.

The girl was ready to say goodbye to the world, but she knew she had one last task to do.

Hot power exploded from Qin's body, just like a real phoenix revived.

She once established a connection with the Phoenix Force, even now that it has collapsed, she can still snatch some power from the Black Phoenix.

The power was burning Merlin's hand, but he didn't let go of Qin's fingers, but clenched it tighter.

There was nothing he could do to save the poor man.

At least he can accompany her to the end of life.

It's a funeral...

There must be a sender.

"I used to think that I got rid of the bad luck that haunted me. I used to think that I could return to a normal life."

Merlin looked at the dark phoenix jumping down from the sky, he said softly:

"but no."

"That kind of bad luck is just a different way, just like other pasts, it is so deeply hidden in my body, it makes everything distorted, it makes everything rough, it makes this world full of malice. "

"Those disasters happened for various reasons, but I know that there is only one reason for them, and that is me..."

"So you've had a hard time too."

Qin beside him quietly listened to Merlin's words, she said:

"Are you also yearning for relief, Merlin."

"It's a curse... Jean."

Merlin passed on the power of his soul to Qin, who was shining more and more beside him. In this world shrouded in haze, Qin seems to have become the last shining light.

"Yes."

Merlin became weak, and he said softly:

"I'm also longing for relief."

"You deserve a better future..."

Qin, who was surrounded by light, stood on her tiptoes and kissed Merlin's cheek lightly. She said:

"Thank you for everything you have done for me, thank you for accompanying me to this day, and thank you for coming to say goodbye to me."

"But now, you should go..."

"goodbye."

"Merlin Riley..."

"wow"

Merlin's soul was sent out of Qin's spiritual world like broken glass.

At that moment when the world closed, Merlin saw...

Light.

Dancing light.

Rising from the ruined land.

Like the dawn of the end.

That light shines on everything, bravely colliding with the Dark Phoenix.

Merlin heard Qin's angry cry, he heard the painful neighing of Dark Phoenix, and he heard the overwhelmed groans of the spiritual world.

He is like being burnt by fire.

In the scattered light, his soul seemed to be placed in the melting pot of all things at this moment.

In the pain of burning everything, Merlin looked at the world filled with light for the last time.

He said softly:

"goodbye."

"Daughter of the Phoenix, Jean Gray..."

"wow"

The weak soul returned to the body at this moment, and Merlin, who was protected by Sharon, 76 and Death, opened his eyes.

He opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of extremely hot blood.

The soul was reflected on the body by the burn of the phoenix fire, causing the magic power in Merlin's body to become strongly disordered at this moment... How long has it been since he suffered such a serious injury?

Even when facing a berserk attack, he had never been so embarrassed.

But compared to the loss in the soul, the physical pain is not worth mentioning.

With the support of Sharon, Merlin stood up, and he called the blood jade cane to support his body. While straightening out the magic power in his body, he looked up at the end of the sea in the distance.

There, thunder and scorching flames met in the sky, like angry gods fighting.

"Iron Man just rushed over."

Sharon was also looking at the battlefield that she couldn't intervene, she said to Merlin:

"He brought a special set of armor, which is said to be specially made for restraining energy attacks."

"Yeah?"

Merlin reached out and wiped the blood stains from the corner of his mouth. He sensed the extremely unstable space power on the sea surface.

On the coastline on the other side, the energy barrier arranged by the wizards near New York has been activated.

From a distance, it looks like a large luminous hood is covering the edge of the city, and there are still dancing energy sparks dancing.

"It's time to end, all of this."

Merlin turned his head and said to the three witcher agents behind him:

"You guys go to Coulson...call back all s.d.o.l.d. demon hunting agents and suspend all work in hand!"

"From now on, you only have one mission..."

"Find the clown!"

"kill him!"

"swish"

Merlin's figure disappeared on the beach of the scorching crater, and he appeared on the battlefield in the depths of the sea amidst the shining of the transfer spell.

The moment Merlin appeared, he raised his head subconsciously.

He saw the bald Superman wrapped in scorching energy tearing through the clouds and falling from the sky.

Clark completed the strengthening of the sun, and the energy from the pure sun filled every cell in his body, howling to make the bald-headed Superman burst out with terrifying power that he had never shown before.

Just like a golden meteor streaking across the sky, the terrifying speed and power made the black phoenix who was fighting with Thor feel threatened.

She has been weakened too much.

In the spiritual world, Qin sacrificed herself to purify the phoenix polluted by negative forces, which greatly reduced the power that the black phoenix could absorb from the power of the phoenix.

She is no longer as unreasonably strong as before.

But the annihilation power controlled by her is still dangerous, and it is still frantically devouring the foundation of the real world, so as to transform it into power that can be squandered by the black phoenix.

She's re-attempting to taint the Phoenix Force.

"hum"

The pale-faced Merlin waved his wrist, and shadow-like illusions emerged layer upon layer in the air.

Between the light and shadow of the shape of Aiken, 10 Merlins appeared in the sky around the black phoenix.

They raised their hands in unison, and the huge sea-like magic power gushed out, turning into dark red magic chains, restraining the black phoenix who was trying to tear up the space to avoid Superman's heavy punch from all directions.

"Eat me with a punch!"

In the golden light flowing like the sun, Clark's fist condensed all his will and all his strength.

This most terrifying punch since the birth of Superman tore through the shackles of energy, the storm of annihilation, and the flames of the bursting phoenix. With a thunderous roar, it hit the black phoenix's abdomen.

"boom"

The terrifying aftermath of energy, like a golden halo, spread out in all directions with the black phoenix as the center.

Merlin vaguely heard an inaudible breaking sound...

He looked at Black Phoenix in disbelief.

In the spirit vision, he could see that the power of the phoenix entrenched in the black phoenix's body, under the bombardment of Clark's fatal punch, there were spots like cracks.

"Thunder!"

Seeing that Black Phoenix suffered heavy injuries, Thor, who was covered with scars, did not waste this opportunity.

He raised Thor's Hammer in the air, calling out dazzling lightning, and the rays of light jumping like spider webs blessed Thor's body, causing elongated arcs to shine in his eyes.

He held the hammer in both hands, and while roaring like thunder, he hit the black phoenix's body with one hammer.

"click"

Between thousands of thunders, the rift in the power of the phoenix widened again.

"click, click"

The sound of machinery emerged under the surface of the sea. With the help of the captain, Tony, who was wearing a set of strange-looking golden armor, had a little difficulty forming his arms into a thicker destruction cannon.

This set of armor was designed for high-energy combat.

Eliminate all unnecessary functions, strengthen energy absorption and defense to the strongest.

"I don't usually hit women..."

Playboy Tony, with the help of the captain, aimed at the black phoenix wrapped in lightning in the sky, and he said softly:

"But this time is an exception!"

"boom"

The last ray of light shot straight from the sea into the sky.

After exhausting all the energy of the Ark's reactor at one time and bursting out the energy absorbed in the battle just now, this terrifying beam of light is not inferior to Thor's Thunder Strike in terms of energy level.

"boom"

The terrifying beam of light bombarded the body of the black phoenix in endless pain.

Under Merlin's gaze, the swaying phoenix force was completely shattered.

Hissing like a phoenix chirping rang in the ears of everyone present, and the terrifying flames also erupted at this moment, involving everyone in it.

But it comes and goes as fast as it goes.

While the dancing flames dissipated, the crimson power quickly rushed into the sky and disappeared among the stars.

it's gone.

The second time, I left the earth with failure.

Will it come back?

no one knows...

goodbye...

Jean Gray.