Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

"It's Magneto again, these damn mutants!"

At the rear of the battlefield, the wide Nile River has been completely occupied by a large number of steel ships. If you want to transport the army to Cairo as quickly as possible, water transportation is undoubtedly the fastest way.

It was precisely thanks to the Nile River, which is the largest in the world, that mankind was able to assemble a team to launch a general attack in less than half a day. However, although the war started, the development of the battlefield situation was somewhat unsatisfactory. People want it.

Apocalypse, who was the main target, did not even step out of the temple. Only the mutants under his command took action and suppressed the main force of their army.

On the deck of the battleship, the white general, who was the commander-in-chief of this battle, looked at the chaotic and stalemate battle ahead. His face gradually became gloomy. Due to the premature destruction of nuclear weapons and strategic satellites, coupled with Magneto's absolute control of all metal products, Restraint makes the power it can use quite limited.

But even so, the battle situation should not be so corrupt. After all, there are only five people on the opposite side, while the human side has tens of thousands.

"General, there is something wrong with the strength of this group of mutants, especially Magneto. His strength should not be at this level."

Glancing at the anxious adjutant next to him, the white general's expression remained unchanged, but his gaze as he raised his eyes to the sky became increasingly gloomy.

The current ground battlefield with the Sentinels as the vanguard is fine, but the array of fighter planes in the air can only be described as horrific.

From the beginning of the war to the present, in less than ten minutes, the number of fighter planes has dropped by more than 80%, and the damage they ultimately caused was negligible.

All the air-to-ground missiles dropped were completely blocked by the huge metal canopy that slowly unfolded in mid-air. Looking at it, apart from some sound and light effects, they failed to cause any damage to the temple below.

And when the worries were perfectly solved by the sky, the fate of the armed fighters in the sky could be imagined.

With his hands free, Magneto faced the armed fighters flying around, and his killing efficiency was devastating. He even only needed to move his fingers, and dozens or hundreds of fighter planes either desperately stayed away or charged fearlessly, all roaring. The center straight turned into balls of flames that bloomed all over the sky.

After all, missiles can be made entirely of non-metallic materials, but it is impossible for an armed fighter with a sophisticated structure to completely eliminate metal components. As long as there is even a small metal part inside, it cannot escape being easily destroyed by Magneto. A miserable fate.

As a result, the sound of explosions and roars above the battlefield was always continuous, and even through the thick metal canopy, one could vaguely see the blazing sun shining in the sky in turn.

The bright flames spilled through the gaps in the sky. It was still dark, but the entire battlefield was illuminated brightly.

"After all, if you become a knight of God, you will naturally receive the Lord's gift..."

"Humph, God?! He's just an old mutant abandoned by the times!"

At the front of the cold deck, the white general's eyes passed over the chaotic frenzy of sentries directly in front, the spreading crimson mist, the criss-crossing sword light, and the raging giants, and finally landed on the magnificent and solemn temple in the distance.

Although the tone in his mouth was sarcastic, the coldness in his eyes became even colder.

"Times have changed. Even if he is really a god, a god will bow before human cannonballs!!"

"The whole army is preparing to launch a general attack. All the naval guns are calibrated to turn the pyramid into a true mausoleum. Kill the God, today, kill!"

The hoarse roar quickly spread throughout the entire army, and in the next moment, amidst the overwhelming roar of explosions, the entire Cairo battlefield almost turned into a sea of ​​boiling fire.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

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The fierce melee outside continues, but the pyramid temple at the center of the vortex shows a strange and calm situation.

Inside the temple, five majestic statues over a hundred meters high stand on the edge of the wide hall. They are Apocalypse on the throne at the top of the main throne, and four knights lined up on the left and right sides.

Under the joint attention of the five statues of gods, two rectangular stone platforms engraved with countless mysterious inscriptions are placed in the center of the hall. Apart from this, the entire temple has no other decorations. Although it looks a bit monotonous, it is simple and solemn. The feeling is particularly intense.

The statues in the hall are symbols of status and belief, and the stone platform is a key prop for the seizing ceremony. After a long period of baptism, material glitz and enjoyment are no longer enough to make Tianqi happy. What he has always been pursuing, apart from eternal power, is the power above all living things and the ultimate desire to control everything.

Of course, since ancient times, people's hearts have been fickle and power has risen and fallen, and it cannot last forever. But now, he finally found a throne that can stay high in the clouds forever.

Beside the statue, Tianqi lowered his eyes and stared at the bald old man sleeping peacefully on the stone platform. There was a burning heat in his eyes. Even though the roar from the outside world was still reaching his ears and getting closer, there was still a look on his face. Calm and waveless.

Apocalypse actually doesn't care about human resistance. No matter what era he is in, he is an unrivaled god when he is awake. Even if it is human nuclear weapons, what he hates is only its terrible pollution power, not fear. The opponent's explosive power.

From the beginning to the end, his only weakness was the seizure ritual. During the ritual, he would lose all resistance, including consciousness.

Thousands of years ago, he was buried underground for this reason, and thousands of years later, he would never make such a mistake again.

So in order to ensure that everything is foolproof, this time he will destroy all the forces on this planet that intend to resist in advance, and finally start the seizure ritual calmly.

"It's almost there, it's almost there..."

"Soon even the soul will need to worship me!"

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The fighting in Cairo lasted from late at night until dawn. Although the individual strength of the human side was relatively weak, it could not withstand its huge number.

The massive number of sentinels coupled with the almost endless crowds of people, even those as powerful as Magneto, Scarlet Witch and others, inevitably weakened in the continuous fighting.

When the red sun rose in the sky and the glow fell, the original ruins of Cairo had become a miserable scene of thousands of miles of red land. From a distance, the billowing black smoke penetrated the sky and the earth, and countless corpses piled up like mountains below. Humans, sentinels, and even fighter planes in the air and warships on the river were all transformed into part of these endless corpses.

And among these large numbers of corpses, the fight between the Four Horsemen and the human coalition continued, but unlike the previous stalemate, the Four Horsemen were once suppressed to a precarious point, and even the battle line was constantly advancing towards the direction of the pyramid temple.

Seeing that the opponent's state was getting weaker and weaker, at the critical moment, the contractors hidden in the human army decisively attacked.

So in a flash, Psylocke and Scarlet Witch were seriously injured, Alfred's arm was broken, and Magneto, who attracted at least 70% of the attack damage, also had blood at the corner of his mouth due to excessive consumption.

The next moment, when the four knights were about to suffer casualties, the tightly closed door of the temple suddenly opened, and Apocalypse, the root of the war, finally showed up. When he raised his hand, yellow sand swept all over the sky, and the fierce wind howled and screamed.

Three minutes later, there was a dead silence between heaven and earth, and the battlefield turned into a sea of ​​sand. Looking around, the bloody battlefield not long ago had long disappeared. All that could be seen was a vast desert and more than a dozen towering sand dunes.

As for the attacking human troops, perhaps a few remaining limbs and flesh could be vaguely seen at the bottom of the slightly bloody gravel.

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On the other side of the Nile River, several black shadows fled frantically in the desert that had not yet been affected by the yellow sand, and they did not even dare to look back to see if the raging sandstorm behind them had subsided.

"Damn, can this kind of monster really be dealt with by the second level? Paradise wants us to die!"

"All troops will be wiped out in three minutes. This is just a fight. Boss, let's give up this mission. It's not even on the same level."

"Give up? That's easy to say. Who can bear the failure penalty of -5 in the luck attribute? It's nothing more than dying later."

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The sound of hurried footsteps mixed with a few sporadic shouts came from behind. Chi Suo, who was at the front of the team, did not stop, but his face became more gloomy.

Giving up the mission is absolutely impossible. In this cruel reincarnation paradise, there is no mercy at all. There is only the cold reality of death if you don't advance. They can't afford the cost of failure.

But continuing to fight hard is also not advisable. If it weren't for the wild elephant's ability to burrow underground, which allowed them to avoid the invasion of the sandstorm at the critical moment, otherwise, let alone escape, they would probably have a hard time leaving a complete corpse.

During the three-minute sandstorm, they witnessed too many contractors being washed away by countless yellow sands in despair. Even high-quality protective gear and armor equipment could not block the yellow sands, and were even destroyed by them.

Faced with such super-standard power, even if it happened again, they could only flee in panic. Therefore, if they wanted to deal with Apocalypse, it would definitely not be done by human power alone. They had to seek external assistance.

"Boss, do you still remember the contractor we met in Cairo before?"

The voice in his ear interrupted Chisuo's meditation, and his rushing footsteps suddenly stopped. The image of a tall giant in scarlet armor slowly emerged from the depths of his memory.

"You mean... Xinhuo?"

"Yes, if I remember correctly, he is the only contractor of the X-Men police. It is impossible to get rid of Apocalypse by relying on the human camp alone, so we must rely on the power of mutants."

"On the other hand, based on the bloody massacre launched by the other party in Cairo before, Apocalypse is likely to be awakened by Xinhuo, and his purpose is definitely not simple..."

Unconsciously, everyone who was running in the desert slowly stopped and looked at Yun Li who was talking beside him. After he finished speaking, Chi Suo said with some worry:

"Yun Li, how sure are you that the other party is not in the same camp as Apocalypse."

After hearing this, Yun Li's eyebrows were slightly curved. In terms of frontal combat ability, she was not even in the top five in the entire adventure group, but in terms of planning and analysis, she was the absolute first.

"Eighty percent, the conflict between Apocalypse and Professor X is doomed to be irreconcilable, and the fact that neither Jean nor the Firebrand are among the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse is enough to explain the problem. Since the other party chose to keep Jean a secret, the meaning behind it is self-evident."

"Compared to helping Apocalypse clean up the world, he is obviously more interested in the treasure chest that will explode after killing Apocalypse."

"And even if the other party is really in the same camp as Apocalypse, so what? If paying some price can help us switch to Apocalypse's camp, it can also perfectly solve our current dilemma, right?"

After the words fell, the hesitation in Chisuo's eyes disappeared immediately. To be honest, they don't have much room for choice in their current situation. Even if there is only a glimmer of hope, they must hold on to it.

"Retreat, rush back to the Federation immediately!"

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Federation, White House underground base.

When Chisuo and his party were rushing back to the Federation, the news of the defeat of the human coalition had already been reported back.

At this time, the atmosphere in the underground base was extremely stagnant. In addition to the gloomy face of the Federation President on the main seat, there was also a lingering panic between his eyebrows.

The voice below reporting the losses of this battle continued, but the next moment it was interrupted by the low shout of the Federation President.

"Hundreds of thousands of fully armed troops, almost all fighter planes and tens of thousands of sentinel robots, only lasted three minutes in front of that 'God'!"

"Three minutes! You should all understand what this means!"

"Bang!"

The president of the federation stood up suddenly from his chair with his palms slamming down on the wooden table. His slightly sinister eyes slowly swept over the people in the field, and his old face was filled with a touch of hysterical madness.

"There are less than ten hours left. Human civilization must not end in our hands. So, organize the second and third human coalitions at all costs. We have no choice!"

"A small number of the first batch of nuclear warheads have been transported back to the surface. We will use them directly in the next battle, even if the price is to lose Cairo forever, or even parts of Africa!"

"Also, Dr. Richard, the resources invested by the Federation in Trask Industries are countless. I hope that your so-called simulated sentinels can really play their due role, at least worthy of the resources we have paid, understand?"

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Soon, shortly after the meeting ended, the reorganized second wave of human coalitions once again marched towards Cairo. In addition to being larger in size, this time the team also had several special sentinels with large-yield nuclear bombs wrapped in their bodies.

The special structure of the Sentinels can effectively avoid Magneto's keen perception of metal. As long as the conditions are right, they will not hesitate to detonate directly, even if the cost is to destroy all human coalition forces in an instant.

In fact, if the nuclear bombs urgently transported from space were not so scarce, those human high-level officials would even want to use a large number of nuclear bombs to directly wash the ground.

As for the irreversible harm that may be caused by doing so, at this point, they no longer care about the losses.

A few hours later, Cairo, which had just calmed down, set off a fierce war again, and the third wave of human coalition forces began to prepare again.

On the other hand, when almost everyone's attention was focused on the ongoing Second Cairo Campaign, Trask Industries' extremely secretive Sentinel Base headquarters quietly welcomed an uninvited guest who should not have appeared at this time.

Taking advantage of the gap when a large number of the latest models of Sentinels were dispatched away, Chi Suo, who had reached a secret cooperation with someone, quietly mixed into the base headquarters with the Barbarian Elephant.

When no one noticed anything unusual, he hid a small round mirror in an empty room somewhere in the headquarters, and then hurried away.