Chapter 994: Wanda

Amidst the shattering metal fragments and the pervasive dust.

After Wanda, wearing a long, tight-fitting dark red battle suit woven entirely from the purest chaos magic energy, emerged from the dust, the first thing she saw was the young Professor X sitting slumped on the altar floor, and Hawk lying on the floor.

And—

Death, who was crouching beside Hawk.

Accompanied by the ripples of chaos energy spreading in the surroundings, Wanda instantly appeared on the altar, her eyes, completely dyed in scarlet, falling upon Death, who was dressed entirely in black, the opposite of herself.

The next second.

"It's you."

Wanda recognized this Death, who had appeared in the 616 universe and shouldn't have been an enemy, and then her gaze fell upon Hawk lying on the ground beside her. She also crouched down, subconsciously wanting to hold Hawk.

"Hawk..."

"If you don't want him to die, don't touch him."

Death did not stop Wanda's action, but at the moment Wanda's fingers were about to touch Hawk, she spoke softly.

Wanda instantly stopped her movement and looked at Death again: "What's wrong with Hawk?"

Death did not speak, but looked up at the Time Galaxy belonging to Hawk manifesting in mid-air.

Wanda followed Death's gaze and then also landed on Hawk's Time Galaxy.

Coming into view.

The Time Galaxy, which had appeared extremely brilliant and bright just a moment ago, now seemed much dimmer.

After all, at the very moment Wanda's gaze fell upon it, its brightness was dimming at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This is..."

"His timeline."

Death provided a simple explanation for the late-arriving Wanda: "Right now, he is being disintegrated on every timeline. Once he is completely gone on every timeline, he will die. If you touch him, you will only accelerate the disintegration of his time."

Wanda's eyes couldn't help but contract as she listened to Death's explanation.

Just then.

Rumbling.

A corner of the pyramid began to disintegrate accompanied by a huge roar.

Magneto, wearing a red helmet and dark armor, channeled his mutant ability and personally pried open a corner of the pyramid he had built with his own hands.

Once again, he made the unexpected, yet reasonable, choice to stand in the camp of the X-Men.

But this time, unlike in the past when he was fooled and only chose to defect at the last moment.

This time, as soon as the X-Men and others landed, one action and one sentence from Mystique Raven directly made Magneto stand in their camp again.

Mystique didn't actually do much.

She just pushed Quicksilver Pietro, who had followed, out and said to Magneto Erik: "Erik, he is your son."

Magneto, who was controlling the reversal of the Earth's magnetic field in the air, instantly had his gaze fall on Quicksilver Pietro.

Quicksilver Pietro, pushed out by Mystique without any psychological preparation, met Magneto's scrutinizing gaze from the sky. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Wanda flying straight toward the pyramid, and his brain twitched.

"Yes, I am your son. In a sense, that man captured into the pyramid by Apocalypse is your son-in-law."

"..."

Magneto was stunned at first, but after Quicksilver Pietro reported their mother's name, he quickly had an image in his mind. Then, seeing Wanda using scarlet chaos magic to blast open the pyramid and rush in, he immediately chose to defect, turning around and controlling the scattered metal in the surroundings, instantly pinning Storm, Psylocke, and Angel in place.

Finally, leaving Beast and Cyclops outside to watch, Magneto and Mystique, along with Nightcrawler and Jean, also quickly arrived inside the pyramid.

"Daddy!"

After entering the pyramid, Jean saw Hawk lying on the altar at first glance, shouted, and quickly ran to Hawk's front, only to be blocked by Wanda.

"Xavier!"

"Professor!"

Mystique Raven and Nightcrawler also ran to the side of Professor X, who was sitting slumped on the metal floor.

But...

Professor X's gaze fell on his good friend Magneto.

"Erik."

"Charles."

Magneto and Professor X locked eyes, and then their gaze fell on Wanda, who was beside Hawk.

"Oh, I didn't make it clear earlier."

Quicksilver Pietro appeared beside Magneto at this time and whispered: "Strictly speaking, this is Wanda, but she is not my sister, nor is she your daughter."

Hearing this, Magneto looked sharply at Quicksilver Pietro again.

Pietro explained the multiverse and the various settings of the multiverse in a fast tone.

Magneto frowned as he listened.

Once again.

No matter how hip-hop Quicksilver Pietro was, he had at least been to school, while Magneto, let's put it this way, had been in a concentration camp since he was a child.

So...

The setting of the multiverse was a bit beyond Magneto's grasp.

But Magneto still extracted the key points.

"So, this Wanda is Wanda, but not my daughter Wanda?"

"Yes."

"But I do have a daughter named Wanda, and she is your sister?"

"Right."

"Where is she?"

"At home in New York, helping Mom watch our little sister."

"I have two daughters?"

"No, Mina is our little sister, but not your daughter."

"..."

Quicksilver Pietro looked at Magneto and shrugged: "You disappeared before Mom was pregnant, and Mom found us a new dad."

Magneto looked at Quicksilver Pietro, whose face was full of sincerity and whose eyes revealed an incomparably clear feeling, and fell into silence again.

And Mystique, on the side, followed Professor X's gaze and also landed on Hawk lying on the ground not far away, and Wanda, who seemed to be having a conversation in the void.

"Xavier, this is..."

"I don't know."

Professor X, who had never left his gaze from Death's location since Death appeared until now, except for just now when he greeted Magneto, said in a deep voice: "Intuition tells me that there is some kind of existence there, but no matter how I perceive it, I cannot discover it."

Mystique was slightly stunned upon hearing this.

Wanda, hearing Professor X's words, also reacted. She turned her head to look, and seeing everyone looking this way but not landing their gaze on Death, she frowned and looked at Death: "They, can't see you?"

Just then.

Jean, on the side, also frowned, looking at the direction Wanda was speaking: "Mom, who is there?"

In Jean's perception, she could only find that the location where Death was was a bit strange, as if someone was there, but she couldn't perceive the truth.

Death smiled slightly: "I exist beside every soul, and I can also appear beside every soul on the verge of death."

Seeing her is not a good thing.

After all—

She is Death, after all.

Just then, the Time Galaxy belonging to Hawk, suspended in the sky, suddenly began to tremble rapidly.

And with the trembling of the Time Galaxy, Hawk, who was lying on the ground with his eyes tightly shut, suddenly began to tremble all over.

Jean's gaze fell upon him.

"Dad!"

"Hawk..."

Wanda also came back to her senses, grabbed her daughter who was trying to touch Hawk, and looked at Death with a hurried tone.

"What's wrong with Hawk?"

"Apocalypse is attacking Hawk's timeline." ===== CHAPTER 996 =====