Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

The next day, X Academy.

When the professor was teaching, a purple portal that had appeared on the island of Kiyo slowly opened at the back of the classroom in the same manner.

Then, Apocalypse was still the first to step out of the portal, followed by Magneto, Alfu and four other Doomsday Knights who had just completed their promotions.

As several people entered one after another, a powerful aura that was invisible to the naked eye instantly filled the whole place, causing the originally relaxed and harmonious teaching atmosphere to stagnate.

The lecture was interrupted, and after a while, several students with relatively strong temperaments in the classroom finally reacted, and then stood up suddenly, shouting at the uninvited guests behind them:

"Who are you?!"

The students' low shouts echoed in the room, but before Apocalypse and others, who were the targets of the shouting, could reply, an invisible mental wave had already spread out slowly from the professor to the entire room, and soon the emotions of all the students in the field changed from panic and anger to peace and stability.

"It's okay. Today's class ends here. You all go out first. These guests are here to see me."

"Professor?"

Faced with the puzzled looks from many students, the professor did not explain too much, but just pursed his lips and repeated what he had just said.

"Everyone leave first."

After the words fell, the room was quiet for a moment, and then one by one, the students stood up one by one, and then walked quickly towards the door of the room without any prior agreement.

Although they had not yet figured out the identities of these uninvited guests, as long as the professor spoke, they had to obey.

On the other side, after glancing at the crowd that automatically split on the left and right sides, Apocalypse had no intention of stopping them from leaving. Compared with the weak humans like ants, these mutant teenagers with various special talents could barely be regarded as his kind.

Although the opponent's power was also small in Apocalypse's eyes, at least it had the possibility of transcending the mundane world.

Moreover, even if he rebuilds a new world later, he still needs a large number of people as the foundation of his rule. Therefore, although these mutant teenagers are not worth winning over for Apocalypse, there is no need to deliberately destroy them.

Soon, all the students in the room left one after another, leaving only the professor and Apocalypse who were confronting him.

"It's amazing, this kind of power..."

A faint murmur sounded in the room. Looking at the kind old man in front of him with an old face but extremely pure and bright eyes, Apocalypse's eyes gradually changed from indifference to fanaticism.

Although he had learned about Professor X's relevant information in advance before setting off, the surprise brought to him by the other party's talent was far beyond his expectations after seeing it with his own eyes.

In thousands of reincarnations, the dynasties and civilizations ruled by Apocalypse were far more than just Egypt.

In fact, whether it was the Nile River, the Indus River Basin, Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean Greek Peninsula... In short, wherever civilization flourished on this planet, he had left many footprints and legends that were either light or heavy.

But without exception, once the time limit of his rule is too long, he will inevitably face a crazy counterattack and betrayal from his people. This is also the main reason why the four knights always follow Apocalypse.

The last rebellion even forced him to sleep in the darkness for thousands of years, and he almost fell into a miserable end of eternal sleep.

Just like the original sin of mankind described in the Bible, human wisdom and rebellious consciousness are almost two sides of the same coin.

As long as his wisdom is not extinguished, rebellion is only a matter of time. From the day of birth, this thing of thought seems to be born with a kind of rebellious gene that looks down on everything.

Counting the past experiences, Apocalypse has founded a religion that governs everything, and has also built a dynasty with strict class, but whether it is the gods who look down on all living beings, or the kings who are high above, they can never win their eternal loyalty.

As time goes by, those lambs will always use various methods to resist his rule.

Neither the law nor the faith seems to be able to restrain the rebellious heart of human beings who are unwilling to be inferior and trapped here.

Of course, in the eyes of later anthropologists, this is the eternal pursuit of freedom by human beings and the inevitable evolution of social development, but for Apocalypse, this is the most despicable original sin in the human soul - arrogance!

Even if their power is as small as that of an ant, their thoughts are always unconstrained and their hearts are always higher than the sky.

Strength can only restrain the body, and fear can only work for a while. The dynasty will be overthrown and the faith will also decline. In the long time of thousands of years, Apocalypse has tried countless means of ruling, but basically all ended in failure.

And now, in the old man in front of him, he finally saw the answer he had been looking for, which is the great power that is enough to completely control the mind and further weave thoughts.

"You are gifted in understanding thoughts and manipulating minds, kid. "

"At the same time, you will become the last piece of my puzzle, helping me become the true supreme 'God'..."

In the room, Apocalypse and Professor X looked at each other, one pair of eyes was pale and chaotic, while the other pair was gradually occupied by black.

From the moment Apocalypse showed obvious emotional fluctuations, the professor decisively followed the cracks in his mind to launch a thought invasion. Unfortunately, facing this old antique that had survived for thousands of years, his own spiritual power was significantly weaker. This is a strength built up over a long period of time.

Therefore, in the end, the professor failed to complete mind control, but the other party used it to achieve reverse invasion of the mind.

Looking down at the professor's coquettish eyes that had completely turned black, Tianqi spoke in a low voice.

"Tell me, what do you see in my mind?"

"………destroy……"

"No!"

Shaking his head to interrupt the professor's murmur, Apocalypse's tone gradually began to change to a higher tone.

"This is the future! Your talent will give this world a brand new future that can truly achieve eternal stability..."

"Bang!"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a sudden muffled sound.

Behind the crowd, the closed door was pushed open by Storm, who rushed over in a hurry, and the air flow swept in with a harsh muffled sound.

At the door, Storm's expression changed when she saw the professor's figure surrounded by Apocalypse and others, but before she could even step inside, a thick red aura rushed towards her.

Caught off guard, Storm, who had just stepped into the room, was knocked straight out of the door.

The mutation lasted only a few seconds and then came to an abrupt end, but it still inevitably attracted Tianqi's attention. The paleness in his eyes slowly faded. He first turned around and glanced coldly at the wide-open door behind him. And near the door, the Scarlet Witch raised her arms before she could put them down, and then summoned the purple portal for transfer again.

"Let's go, there's no need to fight with them."

…………

If not necessary, Apocalypse still retains a rare kindness towards these mutants with various special talents. Even if everyone in the entire academy can be easily destroyed with a wave of his hand, after massacre and retreat, However, he still prefers the latter.

So when Storm, who was knocked away from the distance, rushed into the door again with the strong wind, all she saw was an empty and messy classroom.

"professor?!"

…………

Over X Academy, a golden battleship loomed in the clouds.

When there was a commotion in the fortress on the surface, the deck of the battleship in the sky quickly noticed the abnormality below.

"Xinhuo, are you sure Charles' life is not in danger?"

"Don't worry, except for Tianqi, the four knights under his command are all our people, and they can't cause trouble."

At the front of the deck, Xu Yue was playing with the small magic mirror in his hand while casually comforting Hank's faint worries behind him.

"You should know the professor's abilities better than I do. Even if he is not Apocalypse's opponent, he is far from fragile to the point of collapse."

"Rather than worrying about him, our mission is equally important. Hank, are you sure that the modified Blackbird fighter can support space navigation?"

Hearing this, Hank on the side withdrew his gaze downwards and said:

"As long as there are no mistakes in your plan, there will never be any problems with my fighter plane."

"That's good!"

Looking sideways at the location of Cairo in the distance, Xu Yue did not feel worried because the professor was abducted by Tianqi. Instead, there was always a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

"If you want Apocalypse to play its best role, the professor is the best bait to stimulate him."

"Let there be chaos. In the apocalypse, only chaos can give birth to new life..."

……………

Ten minutes after the professor was forcibly abducted, a vast spiritual wave suddenly spread out with Cairo as the center, and quickly swept across the world in a very short period of time.

Cairo, Egypt.

On the banks of the Nile.

On the rough and towering boulders by the river, Apocalypse with white eyes floated out of thin air. Below him was the professor with dark eyes. And further out, there were four knights including Magneto arranged in various directions.

As for other subordinates, such as Alfred's puppet army, Magneto's Brotherhood, etc., these low-strength cannon fodder are meaningless to Apocalypse.

With the blessing of the Professor's human-shaped 'mind expander', he is now comparable to a supreme god who can truly see through everything.

Even without the help of a brainwave amplifier, his will is like a giant net that covers the entire blue planet under his feet with a surface area of ​​510 million square kilometers. It is no exaggeration to say that now He is almost everywhere.

Except for a few special areas that can completely isolate the power of the soul, the minds of the nearly 6.5 billion intelligent life forms on the entire planet have completely opened their hearts to him at this moment, allowing them to take whatever they want.

At the same time, whether they are humans or mutants, as long as they are connected by the network of souls, Apocalypse's deep and solemn voice will sound in their minds at the same time.

"Listen, everyone in this world, this will be the clarion call before the new century begins!"

"Declaring to each of you, humans, and mutants, your era has lost the right direction, but now I have returned, and soon, the final judgment will come..."

"I will lead you back to the right path of glory. Look forward to it, a new era is about to begin!"

The voices that resounded in the ears gradually became louder, and as time went by, the same scenes began to emerge in everyone's mind at the same time.

Those were people whose pupils were gradually occupied by black. Judging from the clothes on their bodies, there were soldiers and politicians with various identities, but what was the same was that they all turned on the launch button at hand in different ways at the same time.

So, the next second, the perspective changed.

Under the gaze of nearly 6.5 billion pairs of horrified eyes around the world, densely packed missiles of various colors rose into the sky from the launch silos in every corner of the surface at the same time.

As early as 1986, the total amount of nuclear weapons in the world reached an astonishing 70,000. Although since the end of the Cold War, all nuclear-weapon countries have begun to continuously reduce this deadly weapon that is enough to cause disasters for thousands of years, until today in 2006, the number of nuclear warheads left in the world is still a huge number measured in tens of thousands.

Among them, the Federation alone has nearly 10,000 nuclear weapons, and more than half of them are always in an activated and combat state. If other weapons of mass destruction such as three-phase bombs, hydrogen bombs, and thermobaric weapons are added, which are no less powerful than nuclear warheads, the number of missiles released by Apocalypse at the same time is as high as tens of thousands.

Looking down from the sky, countless dense black spots are seen breaking through the air from under the surface and rushing straight into the sky at a very fast speed, leaving only white gas columns in the air like dense forests.

Such an exaggerated number of nuclear weapons, once all of them are detonated within the scope of the planet, the horrific power of the explosion is enough to easily destroy the entire ecosystem of the earth. The radioactive dust and high-energy radiation released by it will also directly tear the ozone layer and cut off the food chain...

Of course, this level of disaster will not completely destroy the earth, but human civilization will definitely enter the real doomsday.

It must be said that compared with creation, human progress in the field of destruction is far ahead.

‘Nuclear war breaks out! Humanity is finished...'

Seeing this, a thought almost appeared in everyone's mind at the same time. Now it has only been 15 years since the end of the Cold War, and the theory of nuclear deterrence is still deeply rooted in people's minds. Except for ignorant children, no one knows what terrible consequences will be caused once all nuclear bombs in the world are detonated.

Look, it is not difficult to destroy mankind. They have already made weapons for execution. Apocalypse can easily achieve the ultimate goal of destroying civilization with just a light pull of the trigger.

…………

"Damn, where are these nuclear warheads being launched? Check it out quickly!"

"Also, what is Professor X doing? Does he want to destroy the world?!"