[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-marvel-awakening-the-cosmo-at-the-start":3,"chapter-marvel-awakening-the-cosmo-at-the-start-marvel-awakening-the-cosmo-at-the-start-chapter-2":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Marvel: Awakening the Cosmo at the Start",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2231983,4216,"Chapter 2: Flash Thompson and Nerd Parker (Signed the contract, please add to your library!)","marvel-awakening-the-cosmo-at-the-start-chapter-2",2,"\u003Cp>One thousand days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two years, nine months, and five days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having finished today's training, Hawk, who was showering in the gym's locker room, once again summoned the cheat interface visible only to him; looking at the progress bar for \"Cosmo Cultivation,\" which was just one day away from completion, he still felt as if he were dreaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Punching ten thousand times a day for one thousand consecutive days—it sounds easy, but it is very difficult to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sometimes, Hawk didn't even know how he had managed to persist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps it was because he had an unyielding personality by nature?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or perhaps, it had something to do with this being the Marvel Universe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hawk did not know.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One thing was certain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just one more day.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once today passed, he could activate his cheat tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cosmo Cultivation...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I wonder if it's the one I'm thinking of.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hawk thought to himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his memory, there was only one thing that could be linked to \"Cosmo Cultivation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it really was what he thought it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The future was promising!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, all things are composed of atoms, and a miniature universe exists within the human body as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, the Cosmo!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And cultivating the Cosmo means constantly stimulating one's own source of life energy to successfully activate the Cosmo hidden within, continuously improving one's Cosmo through cultivation, and then burning that Cosmo to gain combat power that transcends the laws of physics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hawk remembered that in his past life, there was an anime series that depicted the Cosmo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The name of that anime was—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saint Seiya!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bronze Saints who control the first five senses and touch the sixth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silver Saints who comprehend the sixth sense and touch the seventh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Gold Saints who comprehend and fully master the seventh sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But above the seventh sense, there is the eighth, and even the ninth...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fragments of memories from his past life regarding that Saint Seiya series flashed through Hawk's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hawk snapped back to reality; having thought of something, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn't even sure if the Cosmo from his cheat was the same one from his memories, so why think so much about it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no intention of punching Odin or kicking Zeus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The most important point was this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been transmigrated into this world for seventeen years, and even before he turned fifteen, before his cheat came online, he had already prepared himself mentally to face this bloody world without any cheats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mindset is important.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The higher the expectations now, the greater the disappointment if it turns out not to be the case.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Hawk brushed the distracting thoughts from his mind, wrung out his washed T-shirt, placed it in a plastic bag alongside his freshly washed pants, and then, while wrapping a bath towel around himself and drying his hair with a towel, he pushed open the stall door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The locker room door was pushed open, and immediately after, a somewhat thin figure seemed to have been shoved in from the outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thin figure stumbled a few steps, then landed on his backside, falling onto the tiled floor of the locker room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Peter?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hawk raised an eyebrow as he looked at the original Spider-Man, who had been shoved in from outside and was now sitting on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Peter also saw Hawk walking out of the shower area at that moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His expression was somewhat awkward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to greet Hawk—who was in the same grade but with whom he had never really interacted—laughter came from outside the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following that, Flash Thompson, known by the nickname \"Flash\" and also dubbed the \"Midtown Bully,\" a tall and sturdy guy who was the captain of the school football team, walked in from outside, holding a football and accompanied by his three lackeys, all of them laughing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The laughter stopped abruptly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hawk, who had just come out of the stall, drying his wet hair with one hand and holding the plastic bag of clean clothes in the other, with a bath towel wrapped around his lower body, also fixed his gaze on Flash Thompson after he entered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flash Thompson was tall and sturdy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hawk was no less so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having persisted for nine hundred and ninety-nine consecutive days, maintaining a daily workout of ten thousand punches, Hawk also possessed a body of lean, tough muscle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this was different from the muscles in the gyms outside that were built with technology and harsh words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lines of his arms were full of power, not overly exaggerated, but refined and containing explosive force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bath towel was tied at his waist, creating a shallow indentation above his hip bones, which made his waist and abdomen look even tighter. The contours of his abdominal muscles were clearly visible, eight of them arranged neatly like meticulously carved armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their eyes met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air seemed to freeze at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As everyone knows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In American schools, there exists a very clear chain of contempt, or bullying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Logically speaking, Hawk, who started as an orphan with no father or mother, should have been in the camp of those being bullied based on his family background alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, that was not the case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not because he had dealt with the school bullies before, so they knew he wasn't someone to be trifled with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason the school bullies didn't come to provoke him was very simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was his appearance or his physique, he, Hawk, in no way fit the description of \"easy to bully.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the past three years, the school bullies hadn't come to provoke him, and naturally, he had no intention of standing up for others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one is anyone's savior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time was no different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hawk withdrew his gaze, took a clean T-shirt and pants from the backpack on the lounge chair to put them on, placed the plastic bag into the backpack, slung it over one shoulder, and walked toward Flash Thompson, who was standing at the entrance of the locker room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flash Thompson frowned as he watched Hawk walk up to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew Hawk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it would be hard not to know someone who had been punching ten thousand times a day in the corner of the gym for over two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to say they were familiar? Not at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Hawk never participated in any gatherings or parties; although he could be seen at school every day, Hawk seemed to live in a parallel world of his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flash Thompson watched Hawk, who had stopped in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ho...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Excuse me, move aside.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flash Thompson subconsciously moved to the side; the three lackeys behind him had originally wanted to say something, but the moment they made contact with Hawk's blue eyes, which seemed indifferent to everything, they also followed the call of their hearts and moved to the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hawk looked at Flash Thompson, who had cleared the path, said thanks in a calm tone, and then walked out of the locker room on his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flash Thompson watched Hawk's disappearing back, frowning, wondering what he was thinking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three lackeys let out an exclamation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Holy shit.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss, Peter ran away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flash Thompson snapped back to reality, looked at Peter Parker, who had followed behind Hawk and run out while he wasn't paying attention, and immediately reacted with a roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chase him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Nerd Parker, stop right there!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1278,"2026-06-18T05:22:53.059Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","b42bd461637ec40c727392ac16a78f62506227312b14a3534d1dfd3d0e89ed14","marvel-awakening-the-cosmo-at-the-start-chapter-3","marvel-awakening-the-cosmo-at-the-start-chapter-1",999,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarvel-awakening-the-cosmo-at-the-start-cover.jpeg"]