Chapter 337 New Future (1/2)
"General, you lose, Eric."
In the public park around Westchester Castle, he picked up the white war chess piece on the chessboard and pushed down the black king in front of him. The old man said with a smile to the opponent in front of him.
"You always beat me, Charles."
Shaking his head and looking at the king he had killed, Eric sighed helplessly.
"It's just a victory or defeat, don't worry too much."
Hearing his old friend's sigh, Charles responded with the same smile and asked tentatively: "One more game?"
"Come again!"
Hearing this, Eric suppressed his helplessness, raised the fallen king on the chessboard again, and explained his answer with actions.
"Professor X? Magneto?"
On the side, listening to the conversation, Colin looked at the two people fighting on the chessboard in the park, with a look of surprise in his eyes.
The appearance of the two of them is exactly the same as that of Professor
At the same time, Colin did not see any signs of useability in them.
It seems that the two of them are just two ordinary old people who can be seen everywhere, playing chess and passing the time in their leisure daily life.
"Bobby, hurry up, you missed the time..."
"Wait a minute, I'll come."
"Qin, guess what I just saw?"
"Scott, you know I hate showing off."
"Wade, I'm a little tired..."
"Then let's go back. Anyway, we've finished watching everything we should see."
With the effect of [Super Hearing], Colin discovered that not only Professor When visiting the castle, it looks no different from the tourists around it.
"Do you know about mutants, Peter?"
Seeing everything in front of him, Colin's eyes flashed with a thoughtful look, and then he asked Peter beside him.
"Mutant, what is that?"
Facing Colin's inquiry, Peter scratched his head in confusion, as if he had no impression of it at all.
It seems that with the death of Apocalypse, the entire timeline of the mutant world seems to have undergone earth-shaking changes. Not only has Xavier's Academy for Gifted Youngsters become a tourist attraction, but even the memories of Peter and others have also changed, and even Forgot that mutants existed.
I wonder if such a future is what Professor x expects?
"nothing."
Shaking his head, Colin looked at Professor
In a world without mutants, there would naturally be no so-called hatred and war.
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"Listen to me, everyone will be happy..."
Asgard (Fairy Palace), inside the ruined Gladsheim (Odin's Golden Palace).
War and fire engulfed Asgard, and a large number of corpses filled the entire land.
"Your supreme glory is to be redeemed by the great Titan. You may feel that you are in pain, but this is just a false feeling. In fact, you should feel redemption. The scale of the universe is balanced because of your sacrifice. …”
Stepping among the corpses of Asgardian warriors, Ebony Maw used cold language to explain Thanos's philosophy.
"Smile, even if you die, you are still Thanos's subjects."
Waving his fingers, he broke the neck of a resisting Asgardian warrior in front of him. As one of the five Obsidian generals, Ebony Maw not only has powerful language control capabilities, but also has powerful mind control capabilities. Even Asgardian Even the warrior's strong body cannot resist the attack of this ability.
"You don't seem too sad?"
Holding the Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos looked at Loki on the throne of the Golden Palace and said slowly.
"It is their destiny to fight for the king."
Holding a scepter and wearing a golden horned helmet, Loki looked down at Thanos in front of him, with no trace of fear on his face hidden by the helmet.
"Your only wrong choice is to regard me as your opponent. I, the new king of Asgard, will make you live in pain forever."
Peng!
He raised the scepter in his hand and smashed it down high in front of the throne. With the surge of green light at the top, the power of the time stone fragments was activated.
Everything around him came to a standstill.
Whether it was the Asgardian warriors who rose up to resist or Thanos as the attacker, they all solidified at this moment.
Pausing time is the ability of the fragment of time stone in Loki's hand.
Compared to Red Skull's erasure time or Apocalypse's infection timeline, this ability is ordinary, but extremely powerful.
No matter how terrifying the opponent is, they cannot fight Loki in a world where time is suspended.
It was precisely with this simple and terrifying ability that Loki killed his brother and father, usurped the throne and became the new king of Asgard.
During the pause, Loki stood up from the throne, walked through the high corridor in front of him, and stopped in front of Thanos.
"As the great new king of Asgard, I will give you endless pain and death as your punishment for offending the king..."
Raising the scepter in his hand and pointing the sharp tip at Thanos' neck, Loki issued his judgment on Thanos with a cold expression in the stagnant world.
He clenched the scepter and stabbed Thanos' neck fiercely, just like he had treated his brother Thor.
Suddenly, in the stopped world, Thanos' arm wearing the Infinity Gauntlet suddenly stretched out and grasped the scepter firmly in his hand.
"No, impossible!"
Looking at Thanos who suddenly moved in front of him, Loki's expression became extremely stunned and shocked.
"Why can you move? I have obviously paused time!"
The power given by the fragments of the Time Gem is extremely powerful. Even Odin cannot react in the paused time. This is why Loki remains confident in the destruction of Thanos.
However, everything that happened in front of him completely collapsed Loki's confidence built up by the fragments of the Time Gem.
"The power of the Time Stone is not only yours."
Faced with Loki's shock, Thanos's expression under the helmet did not change at all. He clenched his fist on the Infinity Gauntlet, and the hole for the Time Stone embedded on it emitted a green light. Under the power of the gem, the scepter in Thanos's hand dissipated in the air as if it had been baptized by countless times. Even Loki, who touched the scepter, became extremely old under the golden horn helmet.
Time acceleration, this is the ability of the Time Stone fragment in Thanos's hand.
As the scepter weathered, the Time Stone fragment originally embedded on the top by Loki was also exposed.
"Gem, that's mine..."
Looking at the exposed Time Stone fragment, Loki stretched out his skinny fingers to grab it.
However, Thanos' palm wrapped in the Infinity Gauntlet grabbed the fragment in his hand first.
"Now, tell me, are you afraid?"
Grabbing the fragment of the Time Stone in one hand, Thanos looked down at the old Loki in front of him and asked.
"My gem, that is my power..."
Faced with Thanos' questioning, Loki just kept repeating these words.
"You are not a qualified king, but a thief with the title of king."
Seeing Loki's appearance, Thanos' eyes flashed with disappointment. He held the fragment of the Time Gem and aimed it at the position where the Time Gem was embedded on the Infinity Gauntlet.
Under the traction of the power of the gem, this fragment of the Time Gem was integrated into it without any hindrance.
"There are seven pieces left."
Looking at the nearly completed gem on the gauntlet, Thanos' cold face showed a faint smile, and then he frowned as if he noticed something unusual.
"Wait a minute, seven pieces, why do I feel that I need to collect seven more Time Gem fragments to be considered finished?"
Frowning, looking at the two Time Gem fragments collected on the Infinity Gauntlet.
"Ebony Maw, how many Time Gem fragments have we collected in total?"
Thanos asked Ebony Maw beside him.
"Including this one, there are two in total, Thanos."
Nodding gently, Ebony Maw answered slowly in a leisurely tone.
"No, not two."
Ebony Maw's answer not only did not prove Thanos's doubts, but made his memory, which had changed due to the change of time, clearer.
From the Infinity Gauntlet, the power representing the fragment of the Time Stone flashed a green light, and the altered memory in Thanos' mind was restored again. It was the memory of his battle with Apocalypse in the mutant world.
"It seems that someone has stolen this fragment of the Time Stone again."
Recalling the lost memory, the look in Thanos' eyes flashed slightly.
"Do you need me to get the lost fragment of the Time Stone back, Thanos?"
Although there was no memory of the other fragment of the Time Stone, Ebony Maw still believed in what Thanos said.
"No, no matter who steals the Time Stone fragment from me, they will not be able to escape in the end."
Thanos said confidently, clenching his arm wearing the Infinity Gauntlet and feeling the powerful power given by the Infinity Stone.
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"What's the situation?"
"Strange has found a new channel and is doing the final debugging..."
Because of the change in the timeline, the belt that was originally the key has also lost its trace, and in the memory of the Avengers, they came to an extremely ordinary world through the dimensional channel of the anti-world.
In order to find a way to go back, Tony and others tried their best, and finally it was Dark Doctor Strange who came up with a solution.
This is a normal memory for the Avengers, but it seems particularly strange to Colin.
Especially the method of Dark Doctor Strange, which they said, obviously did not exist in the previous mutant world.
Otherwise, Tony and others would not need to study the broken belt.
"Can it really succeed?"
In doubt, Colin asked this question to Captain America.
"It should be fine."
Having experienced the anti-world, Captain America himself did not dare to guarantee it. He looked at the dark Doctor Strange who was muttering in front of the magic circle, took a deep breath, and could only try to convince himself to believe it.
"Anyway, how bad can it be?"
Turning his head, Colin was even more confused when he saw the purple magic coming out of the Dark Doctor Strange.
"I remember that the color of the magic wasn't like this before?"
When the Dark Doctor Strange first appeared, the magic he used was obviously Dormammu's special black magic because he was connected to the dark dimension. Later, because of betrayal, he turned the magic into Vishanti magic, and of course, some magic from the crimson dimension was mixed in.
But no matter which one it was, it never appeared purple.
According to the Dark Doctor Strange, the magic of each dimension has different powers, and the color is the most conspicuous mark of the demons of these dimensions.
So, which dimension of demon is the power used by the Dark Doctor Strange now?
"I once asked Mr. Strange, and he said that this magic came from the mysterious knowledge he came into contact with."
Facing Colin's inquiry, Vision on the side gave the answer.
"Including the magic that connects the dimensional channel, it is also obtained from those mysterious knowledge."
"I doubt whether there is any danger in it, but Mr. Strange has made a determination as a magician that although these mysterious knowledge are dangerous, they can take us away from this world."
Obviously, it is not just Colin, most of the Avengers are actually vigilant.
But, as Captain America said, this is the only way they can think of at present.
No matter how bad it is, there is nothing worse than being trapped in this world forever.
"Done..."
Just as Colin was talking to the Avengers, the Dark Doctor Strange, who had been adjusting in front of the magic circle, stopped his movements. He breathed a sigh of relief, and his whole appearance seemed to be a little older than before.
"Get ready, Steve."
Take a deep breath and force yourself to calm down.
Dark Doctor Strange began to call silently in his heart according to the content of the mysterious knowledge in his mind.
With the prayer of Dark Doctor Strange, the magical power with purple strange light instantly enveloped him, which was a more powerful power than Dormammu and Vishanti.
It is precisely with the support of these magical powers that Dark Doctor Strange can open the channel connecting the dimensions by himself.
A purple dimensional channel emerged from the magic circle.
"Now!"
Dark Doctor Strange maintained the existence of this dimensional channel with a completely different color from the previous one, while reminding the Avengers around him.