Chapter 4691: X-Royalty: Fierce Battle (Part 1)

Magneto's look at Shiler was a bit complicated. Shiler's plan achieved almost all their goals, but it was completely not through the kind of bright and upright way they wanted; on the contrary, half absurd, half evil, but it did succeed.

Many years ago, Magneto also walked on a path of unscrupulous means, because he had seen too many dangers in the world and knew that good people didn't get good rewards. If no one walked out of procedural justice, mutants would never get the justice they wanted.

But many years later, Magneto realized one thing, that is, being a good person is much simpler than being a bad person. Those things that he thought he could get by abandoning morality were actually still very far away from him. Facts proved that achieving goals in an evil way often required more brilliant means.

Because, if you choose to be a good person, no matter what, universal moral values will also stand on your side. And if you want to risk the world's condemnation, then you'd better have the courage and ability to defeat the world alone, and the most critical thing is the latter.

In Magneto's view, Shiler's operation perfectly demonstrated what is called "politics is the art of compromise." First, use the captured drones of the Stark Group to exert pressure on other forces on Earth and split them, exchanging for their compromise on the issue of mutant statehood. Immediately after, self-compromise, giving up statehood, and turning to establish a nature reserve and a foundation, playing an environmental protection card. Finally, use the unique nature of Krakoa to promise benefits to other forces among the mutants, let them compromise one step, dissolve internal pressure, and finally complete internal and external unity. The operation was silky and coherent, and the means could not be said to be not brilliant.

"Now I know why the mutants in your universe developed so well," Magneto looked at Shiler and said somewhat emotionally, "on this road of politics, there is still a lot for us to learn."

"Don't worry, there are plenty who aren't as good as you," Shiler said, "three, two, one..."

"MAGNETO!!!" A roar came from outside the door, followed by an iron can flying in. After landing in the room, it shouted loudly, "What's going on? Why does the news report that you have given up statehood?!"

Magneto felt a bit of a headache; now he understood the helpless expression Shiler occasionally revealed, because explaining the principle of this matter from beginning to end to him was truly very difficult. More importantly, the other party might not necessarily understand it.

"Yes, we gave up," Magneto simply told him the result directly, "now the timing is not mature, we decided to take a step back first and accumulate strength."

"But what about the Orchis factory?!" The Iron Man of the main universe clearly only cared about this, "The super-killer targeting mutants, hanging over your heads like this, you just don't care about it anymore?!"

"The assault team has been wiped out," Magneto said, "this proves that mutants really have no way to deal with that thing. This is precisely why we asked for reinforcements; if you have a way, then take action."

The Iron Man of the main universe looked at him blankly, and after a while, spread his hands and said: "You just gave up like this? You are just counting on us?"

Magneto nodded and said: "Yes, I can hand over the command to you. However, don't hold too much hope; the mutants' living strength is not much left, and they are still being strictly restrained by the Sentinels."

"Then what about Professor X? Isn't he still..."

"He was injured," Magneto explained with the previous rhetoric, and then said, "the White Queen can't get away now; she has to help Charles heal."

"Damn it," the Iron Man of the main universe said, "you guys were really too reckless before; how could Professor X take action at that time?"

Then he landed on the ground, put one hand on his hip, shook his head, sighed, and said: "The situation is very bad. The outer defense of that thing is very difficult to break; I am trying to break through the technical difficulties, but this requires a certain amount of time. I'm afraid the Mother Mold will wake up at this time."

Magneto knew in his heart that this should be unlikely. Because after the mutants withdrew from the fight, it was completely a struggle between human forces for Orchis. In this situation, they absolutely couldn't let the Mother Mold wake up. Because before the ownership was decided, the awakened Mother Mold could hit anyone, and they wouldn't be willing to put themselves in such great danger, so the time for the Mother Mold to wake up would instead be pushed back.

However, he glanced at Shiler, Shiler nodded at him, so Magneto said: "This is indeed very dangerous; do you have any way?"

"To delay the awakening of the Mother Mold, we must find the laboratory that can control the Mother Mold," the Iron Man of the main universe said, "the R&D team should have the control device to wake up the Mother Mold. The Avengers want to organize an assault, but this might need the help of mutants. You need to find the laboratory first."

Magneto sneered in his heart. The hardest part of this plan was finding the laboratory, but if they could find it, would they still need to go to Orchis to die?

He just wanted to open his mouth to refuse, but Shiler nodded at him again. Magneto restrained his gaze, pretended to decline a few words, and then said: "The Professor's state is not good, it's very difficult to launch a large-scale search. We have some suspected targets, and can only investigate them one by one. I can only hope that our manpower is still enough."

The Iron Man of the main universe got a satisfactory answer and left. Magneto looked at Shiler and then asked: "What is his idea?"

"He still wants the technology of Orchis," Shiler said, "and also wants you to consume the power of Earth's forces. After all, launching an assault and defense war against the laboratory, both of your sides will definitely have losses, and it's even possible to cause damage to the Avengers of this universe."

"This is probably inevitable," Magneto said, "if I want to launch a search and assault, I will definitely take action. I dare not say I can definitely beat the Avengers, but hurting a few of them is no problem. However, I also have the possibility of being injured myself, and the final result might be a lose-lose situation."

"This is what he wants," Shiler said, "both of you lose, he gets the technology, upgrades the armor, and finally descends as a savior, launching mediation while you are weak."

Magneto frowned, and Shiler continued to explain: "Standing from the perspective of the Avengers of the main universe, this is not incomprehensible, and it can even be considered a not-bad plan. Because, if you are all very strong, and significantly stronger than them, you cannot accept mediation. Only when both sides are weakened, and they possess power that overrides all of you, can you obediently stop."

"You don't have to feel disappointed; they weren't here to help mutants from the beginning. What they wanted from beginning to end was 'mediation,' as long as they showed the multiverse that they had the ability to mediate wars at the universe level. Who suffers in the process, they don't care; even if both sides suffer, and all have to rely on him, that's the best. So they won't stop instigating you two to consume each other's power."

"What about you guys?" Magneto couldn't help but ask, "What is your purpose?"

"You might not believe it, but we are just here to stop the main universe," Shiler shook his head and said, "if we don't let them suffer a big loss, things like today will happen frequently. It seems that the war is suppressed, but in fact, if the fundamental problem is not solved, it will still catch fire everywhere, and sooner or later it will burn to us. To avoid this kind of thing from happening, it's better to stop it in advance."

Magneto nodded and said: "If I were the main universe, perhaps I would also do this. But unfortunately, I can't let them do whatever they want on our territory."

"If you have to say what other deep purposes we have..." Shiler pushed his glasses and then said, "the foundation of establishing a multiverse human alliance is to let every multiverse understand that everyone acting within the rules is the most beneficial. People who believe in unscrupulous power will only suffer big losses."

"I think you can do it," Magneto said.

He paused and then asked: "You let me agree to Iron Man's plan, but we really don't know where the laboratory is. Even if we knew, I'm afraid we wouldn't have the strength to assault it."

Shiler shook his head and said: "You don't need to investigate; naturally, there will be clues sent to your door. Don't forget, who is the one who least wants the Mother Mold to wake up now."

As soon as the words fell, Professor X's voice appeared in Shiler's mind: "Doctor, a seriously injured mutant just teleported to the island using a Krakoa flower; please go to the central teleportation array to do some emergency treatment."

"Coming right away." Shiler told Magneto these words exactly, and Magneto was a bit shocked. The two hurried to the central teleportation array, which was the unified landing point for all mutants teleporting to the island through Krakoa flowers.

The teleportation array was located on a mountain, separated from the landing point of Shiler and the others by a river. It was much more magnificent and imposing here, a towering polygonal hall with a dome made entirely of colored glass, which made the whole teleportation array hall bright and gorgeous under the sunlight.

Just as they arrived, they found that several mutants were already waiting on the side somewhat at a loss. A thick smell of blood permeated the hall; Magneto waved his hand, and the other mutants hurried to disperse. Shiler rushed over and saw a blonde female mutant lying on the ground. Her skin was dark purple, and she probably had been shot more than a dozen times.

Fortunately, her mutant ability carried some self-healing ability, and there was no heavy bleeding in the places where she was shot, but the trouble was that the bullets were also stuck. At this time, she was wailing in pain, and Shiler performed some emergency treatment on her, but the effect was not great, so he could only say: "Quick, quick, send to the hospital, find someone to take out the bullets!"

Of course, there was a hospital on Krakoa Island, but the problem was that they lacked professional doctors. There were four or five mutants who were doctors in ordinary human society, but they were all internists. There were also two nurses, who couldn't do this even more.

Shiler gave her a simple examination, and everything else was fine, but there was a bullet stuck in a very fatal part of the heart. And this mutant was still constantly self-healing; how to take out the bullet was a difficulty level that required expert consultation, which was not something Shiler and these few internists could handle.

Shiler sighed long, left the hospital alone, came to the place where the Avengers were resting, and after knocking on the door, everyone was there and was very surprised at Shiler's arrival.

"A mutant was attacked on Earth, and it seems she caught a glimpse of the location of the Orchis factory's Earth laboratory and was silenced by someone. Now she is in critical condition and needs someone to perform surgery. Doctor Strange, come with me quickly."

"Wait, what?" Doctor Strange, who was meditating on the sofa, was stunned and then said, "I'm not a doctor anymore."

"No matter whether you are or not, you have to be now," Shiler looked into his eyes and said, "Krakoa Island is too far from the land; even if you let mutants go to kidnap a doctor, it's too late; now only you can perform this surgery." ===== CHAPTER 4692 =====