Chapter 4682: X-Royalty: Annihilation (Part 8)

"MAGNETO!!!!!"

At the center of the psychic storm, even with a helmet that could isolate telepathic abilities, Magneto could still hear the White Queen's angry roar. He sighed, knowing that what was meant to come would come, but he could only face all this alone. Professor X was not suitable to show himself at this time; Emma would want to kill him.

The shining figure broke through the window and stopped in front of Magneto. All the crystal glass fragments flew up and shot toward Magneto. Magneto waved his hand and said somewhat helplessly: "Stop playing these little tricks, Emma."

"Little tricks?! If you hadn't truly bled for the mutants, Erik, I would have used my crystal fragments to slice your head off!!!"

The White Queen was a blonde woman with great presence. She was tall, robust, and her features were very typical of the Germanic race, with lines as hard as a man's, and her every move was full of the aura of someone in power. When she was in a towering rage, she looked like an exploding star, so bright that people couldn't open their eyes.

"What did you and Charles promise me back then?! You said you would build a new utopia for mutants, and what did I say at the time? I said you were daydreaming; haven't we failed enough?! Aren't the lessons of Genosha and the Mutant Federation enough?!"

"It was your flowery language; it was you who said this time was different, that we would definitely win; it was you who said I only needed to handle diplomacy and trade, and you would handle everything else. How could I have believed your lies?!!!"

"The assault team was wiped out, right?! Because of your damn, stupid-to-the-point-of-outrageous multiverse plan! We lost eight more of our kin, Erik, look me in the eyes, do you have no guilt for them at all?!!!"

The White Queen waved her hands forcefully. "Heaven knows, I have already persuaded the ambassadors of six countries to make state visits to Krakoa; as long as they come, our status will be more legitimate, and you actually dared to bring that damn Sebastian back at this time!! You are humiliating me!!!"

Her roar made the entire crystal dome tremble, and even the mutants on the whole island were shivering in their rooms, not daring to face the White Queen's fury directly.

The Magneto of this universe had a relatively good temper; he sighed softly and then said: "The multiverse plan was indeed our fault, and Charles has already paid the price for it. Emma, we didn't call the Black King back to go against you."

"Then what on earth are you doing?!" The White Queen was clearly somewhat broken down; she said, "Tomorrow is the UN General Assembly! The assault failed, and they will definitely criticize us; only I can solve this diplomatic disaster for you, and yet at this time, you betrayed me..."

"We didn't, Emma, please believe that we aren't using the Black King to deal with you." Magneto walked up to her and looked into her eyes, saying, "What you cannot deny is that Sebastian is also a mutant; if we want to build a nation that accepts all mutants, we cannot exclude him. I thought that when you agreed to us, you had already considered this point. At that time, I even sighed with Charles that you were such a broad-minded and respectable lady."

"Don't you dare try to solve this problem by flattering me!" The White Queen didn't fall for his trick at all. "Tell me what you are doing finding Sebastian!"

Magneto was speechless. He didn't even know how he had agreed to Shiler's crazy plan. Provoking the White Queen was like splitting the mutants; if he couldn't give her an explanation, things would likely slide toward a worse direction.

But just at this moment, a knock on the door sounded like celestial music. For some reason, Magneto had an inexplicable confidence in Shiler, perhaps because he projected his trust in Professor X onto him.

"Come in," Magneto said. He wrapped his cloak tighter and turned around, which meant he wanted to exit the stage and leave the next act to Shiler. But he didn't expect that the first to enter wasn't Shiler, but Professor X in a wheelchair.

At this moment, Magneto was scared out of his wits. The White Queen already had many opinions about the multiverse plan and blamed Professor X for the annihilation of the assault team. Magneto had let Professor X hide in the gravity laboratory precisely to prevent the White Queen from impulsively attacking the Professor, which was not impossible.

But what did he see now? Professor X had actually come out himself and even came before the even angrier White Queen?!

Magneto's hand gripping his cloak tightened instantly; he almost lost control. But the White Queen exclaimed: "Charles, how did you..."

Magneto then reacted: wait a minute, why was Professor X in a wheelchair again?

In fact, in most mutant comics, Professor X's legs were actually healed long ago. After all, these mutants could travel through time and had powerful medical technology; even cancer could be cured, so this paralysis wasn't a big deal. Or rather, the deeply ingrained image of paralysis was actually a stereotype brought by the movies. In many comics, Professor X wasn't paralyzed, or was only paralyzed for a short time and recovered soon after.

The Professor X of this universe was the same. When he decided to build Krakoa into a new utopia, he had already cured his paralysis and stood up again. But now he was actually in a wheelchair again, and was being pushed in by Shiler.

It was just that Magneto still didn't understand why the White Queen had this attitude. Shouldn't she be very angry?

Suddenly, another round of angry psychic storm occurred, but this time it was different from the last; Magneto felt he was being targeted. He felt his helmet was like a small boat swaying in a storm.

"MAGNETO!!!" The White Queen roared again, "How dare you!!! How dare you let Professor X be hurt like this?!! What have you done???!!"

Magneto was stunned. He subconsciously looked up, only to find Shiler winking at him. And at this moment, a psychic fluctuation like a spring breeze smoothed out the intense psychic storm.

Magneto was naturally no stranger to Charles's brainwaves, but was this a bit too weak?

Professor X almost never used brutal means to interfere with their minds, but even if it was just to help them calm down, everyone could feel the overwhelming power in his brainwaves, like being brushed by the edge of a typhoon, and even Magneto, who was wearing a helmet, was no exception.

But this time, the psychic fluctuation seemed to have exhausted all its strength to barely soothe the White Queen's anger, appearing extremely weak; compared to the original Professor X's brainwaves, it was simply a world of difference.

"My God," the White Queen said, "what on earth happened to you, Professor Xavier? You look like you're about to die! I can almost no longer feel the existence of your brainwaves!"

The White Queen, who had been furious, was clearly a bit panicked. Her tone trembled, "Who did this to you? Is... is it the Sentinels??"

"It's the Mother Mold," Professor X said with helplessness in his tone. "At the last moment of the assault team's lives, I tried to use my brainwaves to forcibly interfere with the Mother Mold, to make it deal with the Sentinel robots, but I failed and was instead injured by it..."

"The Mother Mold is that strong??!!" The White Queen was incredulous. "It almost killed you with just that one hit?!"

Professor X nodded helplessly, sighed softly, and said: "I can almost no longer use my abilities now, otherwise I would have stopped you the moment you stepped onto the island."

The White Queen seemed to have just remembered, saying: "I must have been out of my mind, not to have noticed that I could barely read your brainwaves... Is this condition of yours permanent?"

"I don't know, Emma," Professor X called her name and said, "No one knows, even Beast and Moira cannot give an answer. But when I started to execute this plan, there was no situation that was unacceptable. Our companions have left us, I may also leave you, and you may also leave everyone; these are all prices we must pay."

The White Queen's figure swayed, and she couldn't help but hold onto the table beside her. This mutant queen, who was used to being strong, rarely showed such a fragile moment, which showed that she was truly about to be crushed by fear.

Magneto couldn't really understand why she had such a reaction, but Shiler knew very well. Only telepaths could truly understand how strong Professor X was; whether they were opponents or teammates, only those who looked directly at the true Charles Xavier through a psychic link understood what a god of the mind was.

Although the White Queen had the reputation of being a telepath on par with Professor X, this reputation was actually spread when Professor X often mentioned in his modesty that "there are also many powerful telepaths who are on par with me." And what the White Queen could be on par with Professor X in was actually psychic defense, but this defense was completed with the help of her other mutant ability—diamond form—not that she could really compete with Professor X with psychic ability alone.

If Professor X was injured like this by the Mother Mold in one hit, then her proud psychic defense ability might also be vulnerable. And this was the Mother Mold that hadn't been completed and launched yet, just emergency-awakened to deal with the assault team, and it had caused such terrifying damage; then when this thing was completely finished, wouldn't they all be dead?

It wasn't that the White Queen had no readiness to sacrifice; she dared to accompany these two madmen to rebuild a utopia, so she had already anticipated the worst ending. After all, they had even experienced "no more mutants," so what was there to fear?

But now, the White Queen knew what she feared. How on earth did humans build that thing? They were clearly so weak, with no power to truss a chicken; she only needed one look, and countless ordinary people would fall under her mind control. How could such a weak race build such a powerful weapon?!

The White Queen was unwilling to admit that the fear about to crush her came from the fact that when mutants were strong, she regarded ordinary people on Earth as ants; even if they all went extinct, she wouldn't care. But now that the positions of the two were swapped, humans could easily exterminate mutants, so humans wouldn't show them mercy; how far were mutants from total extinction?

She could sacrifice, but she couldn't accept the extinction of mutants; they had truly tried hard enough, why was there still no way out?!

Magneto watched this play, not knowing what Shiler and Professor X were trying to do. Although this made the White Queen calm down, wouldn't such a blow make her decide to give up resistance out of total despair? ===== CHAPTER 4683 =====