Chapter 996: Existing in every corner of Hawk's timeline (First update!)

Time, shattered!

Just at the moment Wanda's fingers touched the Time Galaxy belonging exclusively to Hawk.

But...

More accurately, in Wanda's perception, it was Hawk's Time Galaxy that shattered, but in reality, it was Hawk's Time Galaxy that swallowed Wanda the moment she touched it.

And the moment Wanda was swallowed by the Time Galaxy, she was forcibly torn, dragged, and divided by an unimaginable, irresistible torrent.

Wanda felt that she was being infinitely replicated at this moment, and then thrown in completely different directions under the torrent of Hawk's Time Galaxy.

She saw—

In the night with heavy snow, at the entrance of St. Paul's Church in Queens, Hawk, still an infant, was crying hard in his swaddling clothes.

In Times Square, filled with the atmosphere of September, Hawk, dressed in cheap clothes and still a teenager, was kneeling beside the ruins, sadly and desperately holding Anya, who had already lost her life in his arms.

In the deepest part of Cunningham Falls State Park near Thurmont, Maryland, Hawk, with a cold expression, stood under the waterfall, attacking the waterfall with punch after punch.

And...

In an instant, a million moments of Hawk, a million possibilities existing on the loopholes of Hawk's timeline, almost simultaneously surged toward Wanda.

She saw Hawk's past, and she saw Hawk's future, and at the same time, she saw a different Hawk, as well as the mutant Apocalypse, who was attacking Hawk simultaneously on all of Hawk's timelines.

The next second!

Swish, swish, swish—!!

Wanda's figure disappeared at the very moment Hawk's Time Galaxy was at its most brilliant, and immediately after, a million completely different Wandas also appeared at the same time at every location on the timeline where Hawk's life and soul were located.

At the entrance of St. Paul's Church in Queens.

Two swaddled infants were put down by Amy, who had a haggard face. Immediately after, holding back the tears in her eyes, she turned around and walked away quickly, finally standing behind a small alley, watching the tightly closed St. Paul's Church with an indescribable look.

Just then.

An infant in swaddling clothes let out a cry.

"Wah, wah, wah (Damn, where did this bring me?)"

Hawk, who had awakened his past-life memories at the critical moment of life and death in the swaddling clothes, woke up. Feeling his current state and the state of the outside world, he quickly realized what kind of situation he was in. After realizing it, he immediately started to save himself at the top of his lungs.

Soon, footsteps came from inside the church.

But just then, Apocalypse, who looked tall and burly, with dark patterns on his face and head and wrinkles on his chin, also appeared at the end of the street where the church was located, and then swept toward the church with lightning speed.

But just then, a deep red light swept toward Apocalypse with even greater speed.

Apocalypse was shocked!

Wanda, with a cold expression, opened her right hand, and the scarlet magic sphere condensed entirely by chaos magic was stuffed directly into Apocalypse's mouth under his shocked gaze.

Apocalypse's dark blue skin, which had a metallic luster, instantly turned bright red. Accompanied by a crisp cracking sound, a crack appeared abruptly on his body.

Immediately after—

There was no other sound. Almost at the moment Wanda stabilized her figure in the air by controlling the chaos magic, Apocalypse behind her had his expression frozen in astonishment and unwillingness, turning into white powder, and fell onto the earth along with the heavy snow falling all over the sky.

Wanda turned her head to look.

Coming into view.

The door of St. Paul's Cathedral had been opened. The loving priest looked at a sleeping female infant in swaddling clothes at the door, and a male infant crying at the top of his lungs, and was also stunned for a moment, then quickly bent down and took the two infants into his arms.

Wanda, standing in mid-air and using chaos magic to modify reality to hide her figure, watched this scene quietly, then her gaze fell on Hawk, who was standing quietly under a street lamp at the entrance of the church.

Yes.

Hawk.

This was Hawk, who was contracting his own timeline and had traveled back to this moment.

Hawk looked at the church with a calm gaze.

Wanda looked at Hawk with a calm gaze.

Just then.

Hawk, standing under the street lamp, looked at the church door that had closed again, his gaze swept over Amy standing in the small alley, and then he turned his head to look into the air.

But...

Wanda, who had been capturing the mid-air position with Hawk's gaze, had already disappeared at this moment.

September 10, 2009!

Times Square.

The green humanoid Hulk and the dark red, not-so-humanoid Abomination were currently staging an earth-shattering battle.

The crowd screamed, wanting to escape from this sudden battlefield.

Hawk, who had just enrolled in Midtown High School and couldn't resist his sister Anya's request for a celebration, had brought his sister Anya to Times Square, thinking of having a good meal to improve their diet, and was currently pulling his sister to escape toward the outside quickly.

But just then, the crowded crowd directly separated him and Anya. Just as the two were shouting loudly, looking for each other, accompanied by a heaven-shaking loud noise, the outer wall of the building beside them collapsed, and the thick outer wall pressed toward the heads of the refugees below like Mount Tai.

Hawk was also among them.

Bang!

The outer wall, which had originally fallen as one piece, seemed to have encountered some huge force, and abruptly shattered into two halves from the middle. With a boom, Hawk subconsciously closed his eyes.

But after a while, Hawk opened his eyes, subconsciously touched his limbs and body, and immediately reacted, looking for his sister's figure in the smoke and dust.

Then...

He saw the familiar figure lying in a ruin not far away.

"Anya—!!"

Hawk's eyes were about to split.

High above, Wanda was still watching this scene quietly.

This was Hawk's contracted timeline. Simply put, the timeline that Hawk's true body had walked through was Hawk's sacred timeline.

On this timeline, established things must happen, things that did not happen cannot happen. Any error in any link would lead to the collapse of Hawk's time.

So—

Wanda had no way and could not turn Anya's established death on this timeline into a death that had never appeared.

After eliminating Apocalypse on this timeline who had tried to kill Hawk by collapsing the outer wall, Wanda then closed her eyes, and the flame ignited by the impossible life emerged on her body. Accompanied by the burning of the flame, the scarlet light began to emerge on this timeline at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

The next second.

The loopholes that appeared on this timeline because of using the 'Time Stone' to contract time were burned under this impossible flame, and then completely melted and fused with Hawk's timeline, and no more divergence could be seen.

At the same time.

The brilliant fire released by the burning of the impossible flame spread to every corner of Hawk's Time Galaxy.

With the burning of the flame, those forks that were spat out in his Time Galaxy were burned out in the flame, and Wanda, who was high above, also disappeared along with this impossible flame.

Wrong.

To be precise, it was perfectly fused with Hawk's Time Galaxy.

Not only on the sacred timeline where Hawk's true body was located, but also in other time universes.

For example, the 616 universe.

Although in that universe, the death of Hawk, who had a part of his soul, was an inevitability.

But if he died before the inevitability, then it was not an inevitability, but an accident, an accident that could cause time to collapse.

So—

Wanda also appeared in the 616 universe, which was also the reason why Wanda was there in the 616 universe.

Apocalypse was killing Hawk simultaneously on Hawk's timeline.

Wanda was killing Apocalypse simultaneously on Hawk's timeline.

A million Apocalypses.

A million Wandas.

They ran through Hawk's timeline, but compared to Apocalypse, who was just a mutant, Wanda, who essentially belonged to the flame ignited by the impossible life, was even better.

At this moment, with the burning of the impossible life flame, Hawk's Time Galaxy was like an iron ingot dropped into a furnace, being burned and reshaped.

The almost endless loopholes that could be used by time on the timeline that Hawk had contracted by taking a shortcut using the 'Time Stone' were also replaced by Wanda, who had run through his timeline.

Apocalypse also fell on all of Hawk's timelines. ===== CHAPTER 998 =====