Chapter 97

Wanda Maximoff concentrated her energy, held her breath and concentrated her attention, her jewel-like bright eyes turned and observed without blinking, trying to find even the slightest flaw in the opponent in front of her.

The crimson magic power transformed into two short sticks in her plain white hands, exuding a magical aura like smoke.She held her breath, and stood firmly with her feet in strict accordance with the orientation taught by her "mentor", with the two sticks in a textbook-style starting posture.

Michael stood a few steps away in front of her, standing casually, with his arms hanging naturally by his side.At first glance, it seems that there are flaws everywhere in his body, but when Wanda thinks about it carefully, he feels that everything looks like a hidden backhand.

do not care.

Wanda stepped forward with a right step, and swept Michael's right cheek with a stick.Michael gave way slightly, and then the second stick swung his waist and eyes again.Michael lowered his body and tucked in his abdomen, and then swung the stick rippling with crimson magic power into the air.

Wanda's double sticks were staggered, and the series of attacks came one after another.Michael only evaded with the smallest part of his body, and only occasionally patted her arm and used her wrist to block and dismantle her.The two fought in the middle of the empty white training room, and in the blink of an eye, they went through more than 30 rounds.

Wanda slid forward with a left step, his wrist trembled, and he swung his stick to stab him in the face.Michael's eyebrows moved slightly.He raised his palm and brushed it lightly across Wanda Haojie's wrist, and exerted a little force in the direction of her force.

Wanda's force was a bit too much, but his footsteps became unsteady when he was gently swayed, and she staggered and lost her balance, almost falling over.

If Michael hadn't stretched out his arm in time to lift her collar precisely.

Wanda breathed a sigh of relief.Her magic power was released, and the two short sticks transformed by chaos magic dissipated immediately.

"You've made rapid progress." Michael commented earnestly, "I said before that your backhand is not stable, but this time it's much better. Your main problem now is that you are too rigid in your moves, and your moves are connected. Some are rigid, as if they are always pursuing the perfection of every move. But the real match is ever-changing, adaptability and flexibility of moves are as important as skillful practice.”

Wanda curled her lips: "Say I have to practice this? Shouldn't I be more focused on... For example, spells and other skills that are more inclined to long-range attacks?"

"Your enemies don't always take care of your convenience, stay at a distance and consume you." Michael said, "The really powerful guys can always find a way to get close, and after being stuck to the door, you will have to Faced with hand-to-hand combat. At that time, the impact of pure magic power is often not better than hand-to-hand combat.

In hand-to-hand combat, we actually have an advantage.Later, I will teach you to inject magic power into your body to temporarily strengthen your physical strength, and then cooperate with powerful weapons forged with magic power, so you don't have to be afraid of any opponent even if you are close to your body. "

He paused, then added, "Of course, if you practice well enough."

Then he announced the intermission first.Wanda wiped her sweat with a towel, then went to get a glass of water to drink, and brought a glass for her teacher very thoughtfully.Michael took advantage of this moment to take out an ultra-thin handheld computer, which is made of fiber optics, light and thin, and looks like a square piece of plastic.

He used this small handheld computer to project a virtual screen, and browsed through the things that had accumulated in the past two days that needed to be personally asked by Commander Tianjian.Tianjian's power spread all over the world now, involving all aspects of the earth's operation. Although the overall proportion of matters requiring the commander's personal intervention is negligible, it is not completely absent after all.

Wanda handed him the water glass, then looked behind him curiously.

"Pullock's presidential campaign?" She was a little surprised when she saw that Michael clicked on the details of one of the messages, "Are we still concerned about the situation in the Middle East?"

She had unconsciously used "we" when mentioning the Heavenly Sword, and seemed to be well integrated into this new affiliation.

"Skyblade cares about everything," Michael replied. "Last week Plock's president, Luca Cromwell, died. Soon they will need a new facade."

"Well, what does this have to do with us?"

"Currently, the most promising candidate for Plock to win is ours." Michael's tone was calm.

"Wait, you mean the people from Tianjian?" Wanda raised her eyebrows in disbelief, "There will be a president among us soon?"

Michael gave her a "what's so weird" look.

"Wait," Wanda realized something, "you don't want to say, this isn't the only one, do you?"

"Heavenly Sword now has leaders from seven countries, and this is about to be the eighth. In addition, most of the high-level figures in countries that have an important impact on the situation in various regions also have our people more or less As Michael said, he paused, "In addition, these are all information within your authority, maybe you can usually pay more attention to them."

"Uh, never. Never thought about it."

"Last year, Tianjian resolved more than a dozen wars of various scales that might have erupted under unknown circumstances, and mediated countless international disputes." Michael said lightly, "There are also two countries in the Middle East that have been at war for more than a hundred years. The country signed a truce."

"Ah, I saw that on TV, it was last year's international hot news." Wanda remembered, and was even more surprised immediately, "We did that too?"

"Otherwise, do you think they have fought for more than 100 years, why would they suddenly choose to shake hands and make peace?"

Wanda thought for a while, and seemed to find it incredible: "So how did we do it? Let them stop the war?"

Michael glanced at her.

"I really want to know. You can go back and use your authority to check the records. If I remember correctly, the Mediterranean Tianjian Branch is responsible for that matter." Michael said dryly, "But I suggest you better not Know the detailed process."

So Wanda stopped asking.

She grew up in a war-torn area and had seen blood and corpses in war with her own eyes.She clearly knows that international disputes like this cannot be resolved through diplomatic methods such as lip service, and some shady means must be indispensable in the process.

But all she needs to know is that a war that has lasted for a century has been stopped, and millions or even tens of millions of lives have been saved, and that is enough.

This made her think of another thing, which seems to be quite similar to this in principle.

"Um... I talked to Gwen a while ago," she said.

"That's good." Michael's attention was still on his virtual screen, "You guys get along pretty well?"

"She mentioned when she confronted her creator. She said that the person called himself 'Dr. Octopus' and said he was a very, very bad guy." Wanda said, "And then she also told me that Spider-Man was Tried to kill him, but you stopped and you finished him with your own hands."

Michael didn't look back.

"I've said it before, I'm not a good person, let alone a hero." His tone was calm and indifferent, "It doesn't matter if you think it's wrong, anyway, that's what I did."

"I didn't say that." Wanda said, hesitated for a moment, and said again, "Although you always emphasize that you are not a good person, what I see is different."

Although Spider-Man was extremely angry at that time, he really wanted to kill Otto at that moment, but in fact he was not really prepared to take anyone's life.

After all, Peter was just a child, a simple and kind child.If he really killed Otto at that time, maybe he would regret this decision for the rest of his life.It is very likely that from then on he will never be able to face his uniform and what it symbolizes, and Spider-Man will cease to exist.

So what if Otto doesn't die?
As he himself said, the CIA will cover everything up for him.He may change his face, change to a different place and another identity to continue the cloning experiment, and find the next opportunity to launch an even worse revenge on his mortal enemy Spider-Man.

So Otto needs to be killed, but not worth the soul of a kind kid.

That's why there needs to be such a person to stand up.If he does all the dirty work that needs to be done, then good people can continue to be good without having to make hard choices.

"Actually," Wanda whispered, "...you are an unexpectedly gentle person."

Michael suddenly stopped what he was doing, and turned his head with a frown.

"What did you say?"

"Nothing." Wanda said hurriedly, "I didn't say anything."

(End of this chapter)

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