Shadow of the Beautiful World

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The door of the deepest cell in the isolated island base was twisted open, and Merlin helped the weak Magneto into the opened door. Magneto seemed a little suspicious, he hesitated, and Merlin who supported him whispered:

Don't worry, this place is thousands of kilometers away from North America, and that person is still in Utopia City in the center of the Pacific Ocean. He can't see here unless we are unlucky. He happens to be sitting on that computer every minute and every second. The wave booster just happened to be eavesdropping on our conversation.

Having said that, Merlin also turned his head to look at the empty cell around him. He asked softly as if saying hello:

Right? Professor, you're not listening.

Merlin and Magneto waited in place for several seconds, but there was no reply. He shrugged to Magneto beside him, and said:

It looks like he's really not there.

Magneto glared at Merlin, and the old man said dissatisfiedly:

Are you playing with your life, or are you playing with our lives?

Let's go, let's go to another place where he will never overhear.

Merlin half-pulled and half-pushed Magneto into the open door in front of him. The next moment, they appeared in front of the castle on the edge of hell.

cough cough

Under the pale, pale light that seemed to be full of despair, Magneto lost his strength and turned into an ordinary old man. When he took the first breath of hell, he choked his tears, and his whole body trembled. He hunched up in pain, coughing heart-piercingly.

Merlin immediately put his breathing mask on Magneto's face, and as the purified oxygen refilled his mouth and nose, the painful old man slowly recovered.

He raised his head, pressed his chest, and said to Merlin:

What the hell is this place?

Here, it's hell.

Merlin whispered maliciously:

If there are no accidents, you may settle in this place in another ten or twenty years. It's good to get used to it in advance.

He'll find out.

Magneto ignored Merlin's malicious ridicule and said with a serious expression:

He has absorbed the abilities of too many mutants, maybe the second we left, he had already appeared in that cell

No, he won't, trust me.

Merlin also seriously said to the weak Magneto:

You don't understand that time here in hell is static compared to the real world. If you stay here for a day, you can only sleep for ten minutes there. The lord here is my friend, I can ask her Adjust the flow of time to a suitable speed, so that after our conversation is over, in the real world, only 1 second has passed”

Sounds amazing.

Magneto looked around the surrounding environment, he said to Merlin:

But it doesn't look very peaceful here.

Um?

When Merlin heard this, he looked back and saw that in front of Liana's castle, there was a pile of demon corpses piled up there like a hill. Look, right where Merlin and Magneto stood, a fierce battle had just occurred.

whoosh

Liana also sensed Merlin's appearance on her territory, and the border queen appeared beside Merlin in the shining red light. She warmly and generously stretched out her hands to embrace Merlin, and then kissed Merlin's neck lightly. He didn't care about the strange gaze of the old man wearing a breathing mask beside him.

Why are you here?

Liana held Merlin's arm, and she asked:

Is there something wrong?

Um.

Merlin broke away from Liana's embrace a little uncomfortable, and he said to the border queen in her pajamas:

I need to borrow your castle, and you can help me adjust the flow of time. I need to talk to Mr. Magnit about something.

Magnett? Magneto?

Liana is also a mutant, although compared with ordinary mutants, her life path is a little bit crooked, but during this period of getting along with her brother, she also heard some stories about mutants. related stories.

In all these stories, Magneto played the role of the villain almost without exception.

The Queen of the Frontier crossed her hips, fiddled with her hair, and looked back at the gray-haired old man wearing a respirator. She carefully looked at Magneto's face and body. After a while, she shook her head and said to Merlin :

Merlin, although I am not familiar with the human world, I also know that Magneto is a powerful Omega-level mutant. Even if I am in the border of hell, it is not easy to defeat him. Now tell me , the old man you brought who can be blown down by a gust of wind is Magneto?

Liana's small face was full of stubborn complaints:

You must be kidding me. No I don't believe it!

up to you.

Merlin lacks respect for the queen of the frontier, but to be honest, with Liana's carefree, occasionally impulsive and reckless character, coupled with Liana's real age, it is really difficult for Merlin to respect her peers like that respect her as well.

In Merlin's eyes, Liana is a junior, so he will feel very uncomfortable with Liana's slightly intimate behavior, but this does not mean that he hates Liana, in fact, he admires this girl Personality, being able to maintain such a personality under the nurture of demons is really a very rare thing.

I have some questions for him.

Merlin said to Liana:

You can listen in, or you can go back to rest, as long as you don't disturb us. Also, what happened to those bones? Who did your demon just fight with?

Did you forget the robot you sent?

Liana crossed her hips and said with joy:

I like this gift, I'm worried that I don't have a strong thug under my command who can subdue those arrogant bastard demons, so you sent me an 'Elegy', well, that robot has a bad temper, a bit bullying , and some posturing, but that's not a problem!

The Border Queen moved her fingers, and said to Merlin excitedly:

I have summoned a team of Ganerg demon artisans who are good at making machinery, and disassembled it in the laboratory left by Bellacos. I will make some magical changes to it, and then appoint it to be the border of hell. The vanguard general, I have already named it, and it is called 'Hades'.

Hades?

Merlin said suspiciously:

You also read Greek mythology?

It's not Hades, it's Hades!

Liana corrected Merlin's pronunciation and said:

But you're right. I did get the inspiration from the myth. I won't disturb your chat with this old man. I'm going to the War Workshop to take a look. Oh, yes, Merlin, I'm going to recast a suit of armor for Hades, do you think it's better to shape his head into an abstract lion, or is it better to make it look like a ghost?

Make it into a lion, and put it in the armored mask of a demon.

Merlin casually replied:

Isn't that the best of both worlds?

Yes! Good idea!

Liana laughed and patted Merlin's shoulder, tiptoed again, kissed Merlin's cheek, and disappeared in front of the castle amidst the beating red light.

I've heard that Agent Merlin's female popularity is good.

Magneto, who watched everything by the side, whispered:

Now it seems that it is so

Okay, Sir Eric.

Merlin said to Magneto with a blank face:

Before your fragile body is completely corroded by the wind of hell, let's hurry up and talk about the mad attack. I believe that you don't want to see your good friend embark on a road of no return, right?

Hearing what Merlin said, a complex light flashed across Magneto's old face, and he said to Merlin:

No, sorry, Merlin, Charles is already on that road.

Merlin led Magneto into the castle, and they sat down in a living room. Magneto tasted the weird drink in hell, and he said to Merlin:

When he came to see me, I saw a dark Charles, can you understand? A twister who is completely different from Charles, but shares the same soul and the same body

When he took away my power, I talked to him. He stubbornly believed that his mission was to protect the mutant society towards an orderly future. This should be the most instinctive obsession inherited from Charles.

Magneto Magneto said with a sigh:

But Charles' consciousness is disappearing, or in other words, he is losing in the soul tug-of-war bit by bit, and his personality is forced to sleep. Although he may still control part of his thinking, that dark personality is eroding him. doubt.

What I'm more worried about now is that Professor Charles is out of control.

Merlin said with a serious expression:

That mad attack is not a good thing. You have to understand, Magnit. The reason why it still has a bottom line is because Professor Charles has not given up. But according to what you said and the information I collected, Once Professor Charles's spiritual struggle stops, then as the mad attack begins to control the situation, the way it still maintains the bottom line of action will definitely be broken.

I have a friend who said that violence is an irresistible temptation, especially when you have power. Few people can resist the temptation to use violence to solve all problems once and for all.

Merlin took a deep breath, he stood up a little irritably, walked up and down on the ground in front of Magnitt, and said:

I would like to trust the professor, but in this kind of matter, I can't bet everything on the professor's persistence.

But with all due respect, there's nothing you can do about him, Agent Merlin.

Magneto let out a long sigh, and he said to Merlin:

The mad attack has all the abilities of Charles, and it also has a strong sense of self-defense and counterattack. Most importantly, its armor is made of special metal materials that I have seen before. It used to be an evil against mutants. The product of the plan, I thought I'd destroyed them all, but it turns out, I didn't.

That set of armor gives Kuang Gong the ability to absorb and store the power of other mutants. Do you know how many abilities Kuang Gong has now?

Magnit stretched out his hand, shaking it in front of Merlin's eyes:

From what I've seen there's telekinesis, power projection, teleportation, sensing mutants, psychic induction, hallucinations, and the magnetic field it took from me controls it and can even rewrite reality on a small scale.

Magneto said to Merlin with a heavy tone:

You missed the best time to restrain him. He has grown up. What I want to ask you is, how many mutants has he attacked now?

249, including you, are all radicals, or neutral mutants who tend to be radical.

Merlin says:

That's the number of mutants we've found to have been affected by the onslaught's activities, and I'm guessing there may be victims we haven't yet identified.

So, what you have to face is a super mutant who has at least 249 kinds of abilities and can continue to grow.

Magneto gritted his teeth and said:

I don't know what you think. Anyway, when I think of such an opponent facing me, although I am not afraid, fear will still grow in my heart. Do you understand? Mr. Merlin, you can't do anything against him! You should be thankful that, at least at this stage, it's not showing signs of getting out of hand.

He said to Merlin:

Once the mad attack gets out of control, it will be a terrible disaster, a disaster that cannot be stopped at all.

Merlin didn't answer, his face sank into thinking, after a while, he looked at Magneto, he said:

You just said that the way Berserk absorbs other people's abilities is achieved through the armor on his body, right? He doesn't have the ability to absorb abilities himself?

No, I'm sure of that.

Magneto rubbed his forehead, he said with a painful face:

He is an evil spirit born from the soul of Charles. All his abilities come from Charles himself, and it was my fault that he was born. That day, we were fighting in the canyon. In order to stop me, Charles forcibly entered my room. In my psyche, coincided with that strange explosion, the energies that entangled his will with mine.

Magnit said regretfully:

Charles' will was infected by my thinking. My radical and crazy ideas completely changed him. The fusion of our two wills finally created the monster that was mad. It was I who killed him. Charles is dragged into this dead end from which there is no turning back.

It's useless to regret now!

Merlin says:

But if his power is based on a suit of armor, then maybe we're not out of luck.

hehe

Hearing Merlin's words, Magneto sneered suddenly, and he said to Merlin:

It's not that I underestimate you, Agent Merlin. I recognize your strength, but you obviously underestimate Charles. You don't even know what a terrible enemy a Charles who has lost his bottom line will be.

Even if he doesn't have that set of armor, even if he doesn't have those fancy powers, relying on Charles' own spiritual power is enough to make him the most terrifying dictator and destroyer of this century. I have never been afraid of anyone's challenge in my life. Except Charles.

Magneto muttered to himself:

You would never expect to see a Charles in the dark on the battlefield, that would be everyone's nightmare, that would be the nightmare of the world.

Well, I admit that there is some truth in what you said.

Merlin also rubbed his forehead with quite a headache, he said:

Then put aside the threat of mad attack and let's talk about the metal life that invaded the world. Although you have no ability, your understanding of metal and magnetic fields may be able to help us.

Bang, bang

A sudden knock on the door interrupted Merlin's words. The next moment, Liana poked her head out from the opened door. She winked at Merlin and said:

Your housekeeper asked me to inform you, Merlin.

Your sister was assassinated by Cybertronian robots just now, but those robots seem to have offended two people they can't afford. Uh, for the specific situation, you'd better go to the mystery room to see for yourself.