Chapter 345: S: The Radiant Event (20)

"If you ask me, why bother having us come? You could just go to middle school and find two teachers, oh no, you have to go to elementary school to find teachers, after all, some of them can't even calculate a system of linear equations..."

"This is a waste of my life, a waste of my brain. Humanity is at a moment of high-speed development. Wouldn't it be better if I used this time to contribute to humanity's march into the universe? Why waste it here teaching a bunch of idiots?"

Stark said this very loudly, but most of the students knew they were in the wrong and couldn't refute it, because back at the dream school, their grades were truly terrible. "Average fetal education" was no joke.

"Don't be like that, Tony. They still have a lot of potential. After all, they have power that ordinary people don't, and they learn things quite fast. Didn't they learn a lot in just a few days at the dream school?"

"That was all common knowledge! My god! We actually have to start teaching them from the eight planets!" Stark rolled his eyes and made a speechless gesture with his hand.

"If you ask me, mutants are beyond saving. They should just use their innate abilities to find a way to make a living on Earth. Don't think about entering the universe; who knows, they might run into a black hole one day and not even know how to dodge..."

Just as Stark was speaking, he felt a cool breeze flash in front of his forehead. He shifted his eyes back and saw a ballpoint pen pressed against the center of his forehead.

Iceman hurriedly looked at Polaris, lowered his voice, and said to her, "Don't do this. We can't use our powers casually in school, let alone threaten a teacher!"

Polaris also turned her head and said, "It wasn't me!"

Just then, a slight landing sound appeared at the classroom door. Several people looked over, and a figure wearing black battle armor with a cape fluttering behind appeared at the door. His deep, aged voice echoed in the classroom:

"Shut your mouth."

Instantly, the ballpoint pen in front of Stark decomposed at a speed invisible to the naked eye, leaving nothing behind.

Stark turned to look at Magneto. He didn't call for his armor because he knew that using armor in front of Magneto was equivalent to handing a knife to an enemy.

Banner, however, said somewhat unhappily, "How can you threaten us? Even if Stark's tone was a bit heavy, what he said is a fact. The educational foundation of mutants is too poor, and we are also very troubled."

"Alright, Banner, this matter is Erik's fault, don't mind it." Charles pushed his wheelchair in and said to Banner and Stark, "It's like this, I heard you were going to teach the basics of cosmology in this class, so I brought Erik here. He can help you demonstrate the state of the universe more intuitively."

Stark let out a snort through his nose and said, "Don't tell me we have to teach you two as well..."

Just as he was speaking, he saw Magneto slowly raise a hand. A spherical ripple appeared on his hand, about the size of a fish tank; that was magnetic force generating fluctuations.

"What do you want to do? Continue to make some small steel props to threaten me? That's all you're capable of..."

Polaris slammed the table, ready to explode immediately, but Iceman and Havok scrambled to hold her down.

Just then, a very bright point suddenly erupted in the center of the circular magnetic field in Magneto's hand, followed by a small cluster of flames igniting from the center.

Stark's expression suddenly changed. He widened his eyes and looked at that cluster of flames. In just a few seconds, the ball of fire burned larger and larger, then turned into a sphere the size of a palm.

Although the volume was very small, it was too bright to look at directly. The flames grew more vigorous, and some particles gathered around the sphere, becoming more and more numerous. Stark whispered, "Fusion fire..."

The sphere began to compress continuously, gradually becoming half its original volume, but even brighter.

Everyone stopped in their tracks, looking at the ball of light in Magneto's hand. Iceman, who had observed it at close range on Mercury, was the first to speak: "... Is this the sun???"

No one answered him, but immediately after, some small particles began to rotate around this ball of light, more and more, spinning faster and faster, constantly intersecting, merging, and colliding.

It was as if billions of years of time had blinked by in a single instant. When the speed slowed down, only nine small spheres remained.

Then, the changes began rapidly again. Everyone stared intently at that circular magnetic field. Havok leaned his upper body out and said, "What is that?"

"It's Saturn! Look! There are even Saturn's rings!"

"That big one should be Mercury. Didn't we talk about it last time? Is Mercury also a giant planet?"

"That should be Earth, right? The one close to Earth should be Mars?... My god, is this the solar system?!"

Finally, Magneto slowly spread his hands. Following his movements, the magnetic field flew into mid-air and then arrived at the very center of the classroom ceiling, beginning to grow larger and larger. The entire solar system appeared above the students' heads.

Everyone was dazzled and mesmerized by this. They stared blankly upward, watching countless celestial bodies rotating above them. When the radiance shone down, their eyes became exceptionally bright.

The mystery and beauty of the universe were highlighted at this moment. The starry sky was humanity's eternal, beautiful fantasy, and when all the evolution was condensed into a change in a single instant, the charm that erupted from it made everyone immerse themselves in it.

Stark was the first to withdraw his gaze because he discovered that another, smaller magnetic field had appeared in Magneto's hand.

It was the same fusion fire forming a star, only this time, no planets appeared around the star, but it grew larger and larger. This time, Banner seized the opportunity and explained, "Pay attention, this is the aging process of a star. After a star goes through its youth, it will gradually turn into a red giant..."

"Who can guess how many times larger a red giant is than an ordinary star?"

"Ten times?... No, I guess it could be a hundred times!"

"No, far more than that. A red giant will be ten billion times larger than an ordinary star."

The students below let out a gasp, discussing the unimaginably huge number of ten billion.

Accompanied by Banner's explanation, the red giant in Magneto's hand continued to change, followed by a white dwarf and a neutron star.

Then, the evolution regressed. At a certain point in time, everything collapsed inward, and after a bright explosion of light, the entire magnetic field became pitch black.

The students were all stunned. Polaris narrowed her eyes and said, "The light is gone?"

"Of course, we all saw it, it turned black..."

"I mean, something absorbed the light."

"That's right." Banner pointed at Polaris and said, "That is a black hole. A black hole will absorb all light, so you can't see anything..."

Stark also stared at the magnetic field in Magneto's hand. Magneto remained silent, saying nothing, but everything he had done made Stark and Banner, these two scientists, deeply realize just how powerful mutants could be.

In the past, people always said mutant abilities were very strong, but to scientists like Stark and Banner, technology might surpass them once it reached a certain level. But now, Magneto was telling them that it was just the stage of Earth that limited his performance. It wasn't that mutants needed the universe, but that the universe needed mutants.

In a single thought, galaxies evolve, all things in the universe, all in my hands.

The power of this ability had already exceeded anyone's imagination. It looked too shocking. Even this group of students, who were also mutants, could only stare blankly at the universe above their heads.

This class ended quickly. After all the teachers walked out of the classroom, the classroom was silent for a second, and then it instantly boiled over.

Regardless of the students' stances, experiences, or knowledge levels, they were all pointing at the galaxy above their heads, discussing it in a cacophony of voices.

Magneto disappeared as soon as he walked out of the classroom. Stark looked back, but Charles seemed accustomed to it. Charles sighed and said, "Let's go, let's go back and find the director of this play."

Soon, they appeared in the Arkham Asylum. Schiller was lowering his head to write medical records. Seeing them come over, he looked up and asked, "How is it? Did it go smoothly? Are those students full of fighting spirit, gearing up to throw themselves into the ocean of knowledge?"

Stark shook his head and said, "Why did I have to play the bad guy? I feel like they all hate me to death. If that little girl named Polaris is as strong as her father, maybe one day a black hole will appear in my bedroom..."

"Rest assured, I will keep an eye on them. And Polaris still has a long way to go before reaching her father's level." Charles shook his head and said.

"Seriously..." Stark crossed his arms, turned to look at Charles with a frown, and said, "Is that guy named Magneto a bit too strong? He can hand-craft nuclear fusion and create a solar system, why is he still staying on Earth?"

"He has probably reached the level of being able to directly control subatomic particles." Banner speculated, "He can even create a sun without needing a molecular cloud, and ignite nuclear fusion out of thin air. This is really... beyond imagination."

"Erik is indeed very strong. He once told me that before he dies, he could even create an entire, complete universe."

When Charles said this, he looked at Schiller and said, "But as I said before, we don't just represent ourselves now, but also the group of people standing on the same side as us."

At this moment, Stark realized something. He looked at Charles and said, "You and Magneto are both known as the two great leaders of mutants. Does that mean you are as strong as him?"

Charles was just about to be humble, but Schiller concluded, "If Professor Charles is willing, he can modify the thoughts of all humans in an instant. Oh no, not just humans, perhaps including all intelligent life. As long as they can think, they cannot resist Professor Charles's psychic ability."

"Then why did we go through so much trouble to..."

Schiller shook his head and said, "Still the same saying, you cannot pin the hope of an entire civilization on one or two individuals who are overly powerful due to mutation. There is no way out that way."

Stark relaxed his shoulders and sighed. He said, "I have to admit, mutants do have unique advantages. It would be even better if you weren't illiterate."

"I am even more troubled than you, which is why I am willing to lead mutants to help you as much as possible at this node. I just hope that knowledge can allow mutants to catch up with the next era as soon as possible, after all..."

Charles looked up at the sky, as if passing through layers of walls and the atmosphere, directly seeing the universe.

"The spaceship is already here, can the interstellar era be far behind?" ===== CHAPTER 346 =====