Chapter 652

"After all, I've been in seclusion for so many days, there should be some results, otherwise, wouldn't it have been a wasted seclusion?"

"... Also true."

Upon hearing this, Gwen thought for a moment, nodded, and then pressed her hands on Hawk, starting to circle around Hawk to examine him.

Hawk was amused.

"What are you doing?"

"Seeing what's different about you."

Gwen stopped circling and looked up at Hawk, who was standing in front of her: "It doesn't seem like there's any change."

Hawk curled his lips: "The small universe has become stronger."

He had nothing to hide from Gwen.

As he spoke, he pulled Gwen and walked toward the living room.

He now felt that with a single thought, he could thoroughly and infinitely burn his small universe.

Unlike before, when his small universe burned, the power was incremental.

Simply put.

Previously, Hawk needed about three seconds of acceleration to go from zero to one hundred.

But Hawk now could achieve instant braking from zero to one hundred.

This is the fundamental difference between comprehending the Seventh Sense Gold Small Universe and the Bai Yin Small Universe.

If, in front of a Gold Saint, one hundred Bronze Saints are not enough to fight, then, in front of a Gold Saint, one thousand Bai Yin Saints are also not enough to fight.

Behind the bar in the living room.

Gwen rested her chin on her hand, listening to Hawk's story, blinked her eyes, and made a summary.

"So, you've become stronger again?"

"This isn't about becoming stronger or not..."

Hawk met Gwen's emerald eyes that could speak, subconsciously corrected her, and then laughed and shook his head: "Alright, I've just become stronger."

Gwen's smile was brilliant, and then she stood on tiptoe, reached over the bar, and kissed Hawk on the forehead: "I'll check the fridge, and then we'll go to the mall to shop."

Hawk said 'mm', watching Gwen walk toward the kitchen.

His mind sank into the small universe.

At this moment, the small universe was emitting a golden charm everywhere the eye could see.

The fire phoenix covering the entire universe looked even more as if it had thoroughly come alive.

The phoenix eyes, dotted with the Mind Stone emitting dim yellow light, and the phoenix eyes, dotted with the Reality Stone emitting blood-red light, illuminated the entire universe.

And above the Underworld Pure Land, what was seen was the blood-red sky illuminated by the Reality Stone.

At this very moment.

At the entrance of 'A Flower Shop' by the Styx, Anna, who was wearing a female blood elf costume, was curiously looking at the corner of the phoenix reflected in the blood-red sky above her head.

Hawk appeared silently and glanced in the direction Anna was looking up.

"Want to go outside the Underworld and take a look?"

"..."

Anna subconsciously tensed her body, but quickly relaxed, turned around to look at Hawk who had appeared, and greeted him.

"Hawk."

"Want to go take a look?"

Hawk smiled.

Anna didn't act coy either.

"Can I?"

"Of course."

Hawk said as such, his heart stirred, and he took Anna, who was beside him, away from the Underworld and appeared above the Underworld.

Boundless universe.

Golden charm.

A fire phoenix whose figure covered the sky and the sun.

Left eye: dim yellow.

Right eye: blood red.

And—

The Underworld below, which seemed to be spread out in the universe like a parallel continent.

Anna looked at the Underworld under her feet.

"I thought the Underworld was also spherical."

"It will be in the future."

Hawk smiled slightly.

The Underworld was something he had catalyzed using fragments of Chthon's life-and-death law plus the Reality Stone.

He hadn't mastered the complete law of life and death.

Because if he had mastered the law of life and death, he would have long since started casting the souls currently existing in the Underworld onto various planets in his universe.

The more living beings in his universe, the lighter the instinctive rejection from the Marvel universe would be when the universe was manifested.

After all...

One is a free ride.

One is a capital investment.

Even the Marvel universe itself knows how to choose.

After a while.

After Anna said it was okay, Hawk returned to the Underworld Pure Land once again.

After Anna stepped on the land of the Pure Land again, she said to Hawk.

"Thank you."

"We are friends, this relationship won't change."

Hawk said as such, then changed the subject: "How is it, these days in the Underworld."

Anna's expression was relaxed, her tone sincere.

"I'm very comfortable; this carefree life is something I never dared to imagine before."

"As long as you're happy."

Hawk smiled: "If you want to exempt Alexander Pierce, I have no opinion, Anna."

He had thought Anna would give Alexander Pierce a flower from the Underworld.

As it turned out...

Anna didn't pardon Alexander Pierce.

Hawk didn't believe Anna was so smart that she wouldn't understand the subtext of his words when he gave her the flower shop at the time.

His anger toward Alexander Pierce had long since disappeared with Anna's arrival.

Don't look at the monk's face, look at the Buddha's face.

Because Anna was his friend, he gave the right of exemption to Anna.

Anna shook her head upon hearing Hawk's words.

"I want to wait a bit longer."

"Fine."

Upon hearing this, Hawk smiled and responded: "The flower of the Underworld is in your hands, you make the decision. I'll go to the Underworld Prison first; Strucker has been here for so long, and I haven't treated him well yet."

Anna was slightly stunned and looked at Hawk.

Hawk understood the meaning in Anna's eyes.

"Want to go see together?"

"Thank you."

Anna nodded, without hesitation.

The Third Prison of the Underworld.

Stone Mill Underworld Prison.

Above the endless wilderness where three huge stone pillars that could crush everything were rolling forever.

Strucker, as well as Namor and the remnants of Wakanda and the people of Talokan, were all serving their sentences in this prison.

As of the time Hawk arrived here, these people had been crushed to death by the stone pillars more than 100,000 times.

But they were still running hard on the endless wilderness, not only because of the piercing pain of being crushed to death by the stone pillars, but also because they held a glimmer of hope, hoping that as long as they ran far enough, they might be able to escape the crushing of the stone pillars.

But...

This was impossible.

They would never reach the end, because in their perception, they seemed to have been trying hard to run forward.

But in the eyes of Hawk and Anna to the side, they were running in a circle on this endless wilderness.

Stone pillars rolling.

Strucker felt the rumbling rolling sound behind him, turned his head to look, and looked at the stone pillars that seemed to be attacking and covering the sky and the sun.

The next moment.

He was crushed to death by the stone pillars, and immediately after, accompanied by piercing screams, Strucker and the others, who had been resurrected again, embarked on the road of running again.

Hawk stood above the Third Prison, quietly watching Strucker and the others dying over and over again under the stone pillars.

Anna, standing to the side, watched for a long time, and seeing Hawk seemingly motionless, she was a bit curious.

"Aren't you going to talk to Strucker?"

"Forget it."

Hawk withdrew his gaze and laughed: "Meeting him is giving him hope, but I don't want to give him hope anymore. Let him suffer here forever. By the way, you can't give him your flower; he belongs to the kind that cannot be pardoned."

Anna laughed: "I won't blame him either. If it weren't for him, maybe you could have discovered the bad things he did sooner."

Hearing Anna say this, Hawk remembered Anna, whom he had seen in the past when he was shrinking the timeline, thought for a moment, and looked at Anna: "Actually, this is my reason."

Anna was slightly stunned.

Hawk laughed: "Aren't you curious why Hydra, who didn't face Jean's Phoenix fire head-on, all turned to ash, but you, who were holding her, only fell into a dying state?"

Anna blinked.

Hawk didn't speak in riddles either, simply describing how he had crossed the timeline some time ago and subconsciously blocked a part of the Phoenix fire for her.

He had acted subconsciously at the time.

So...

It's no wonder Anna was in a coma for two years; it was indeed his responsibility.

After Hawk finished describing it simply, he changed the subject: "Hey, I saw the look on your face when you were holding Jean. Do you like children?"

Upon hearing this, Anna was stunned for a moment, didn't choose to ask more about the previous question, and nodded: "I have thought about having my own children."

Being a mother is something every woman yearns for.

Except for childless cat women.

Hawk looked at Anna's expression and laughed: "Maybe there will be a chance in the future. My universe will only get better and better. Maybe in the near future, you will meet your right gentleman."