Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 183 The Eternal Race, the Mutant Race, and Adamantium (Fourth Update!)
"Mutant? What's that?"

"According to the high priest, it was a kind of fearful creature called Despair. Its whole body was covered with a rough, black keratinous shell, full of cracks and grooves, from which a dark golden light shone, as if magma was flowing inside its body. It had an asymmetrical number of limbs, some with multiple arms and others with multiple tentacles."

"But that's not the scariest thing."

"The high priest said that this terrifying mutant species possesses a powerful ability to evolve."

Philia, recalling how the Ivi High Priest had described the terrifying creature to her in the Ivi Temple with such vivid detail, felt as if he were actually there, and when she relayed the description again, she couldn't help but shudder.

Hawke's eyes flickered.

"evolution?"

"Yes."

"The High Priest said that the Ivi tribe was not so weak at the beginning. They are the descendants of the gods and are born with incomparably powerful strength. However, those mutated species can acquire the abilities of their tribesmen after killing them."

"After the mutant devoured a fire-breathing Ivi, the mutant evolved and also learned to breathe fire."

"It was under these circumstances that the Ivi people suffered repeated defeats and eventually had to flee from their ancestral lands."

"hiss!"

Hawke lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Peter, who was sitting beside Felicia listening to her story, gasped: "Devourer evolution? Does such a terrifying creature really exist? If that terrifying creature devoured Hawk, then..."

Hawke snapped out of his daze, raised an eyebrow, and looked at Peter with a hint of speechlessness.

"Hey, can you wish me something good?"

"Feel sorry!"

Peter realized he had said the wrong thing and quickly apologized.

But the image of the mutant that Felicia had mentioned, what it would be like if it obtained Hawk's abilities, still involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

Good guy.

That would be the end of the world.

Peter couldn't help but think about it.

Hawke ignored Peter and looked at Felicia instead: "Do you know what this creature looks like?"

Felicia nodded.

“There are murals of that terrifying creature on the walls of the Ivi tribe’s temple.”

"Go and see."

"it is good."

Felicia saw Hawke get up and also stood up from her chair.

Seeing this, Peter shook his head, clearing his mind of the images, and stood up as well.

Night fell.

In the villages of the Yi people, the people gather around a campfire, chanting songs that are unknown but sound mysterious and beautiful.

Inside the temple, the walls were brightly lit by bonfires.

According to the Iwe people, if the bonfire in the temple does not go out, the souls of the Iwe people can find their way home by following the fire.

Hawke stood in the temple, looking up at the colorful murals that appeared lifelike under the light of the campfire.

A terrifying creature, just as Philia had described, bared its teeth, as if about to leap out of the mural on the wall.

Peter, standing to the side, looked around at the other murals: "I'm still a little curious about how these murals have maintained their colors for so many years without fading at all."

Philia said, "The high priest said that these murals were painted by the first people of our tribe who escaped. In his words, they were descendants of the gods."

Peter shrugged.

"I have reservations about this view."

"They might not actually be lying."

Hawke, after listening to Peter's words behind him, turned to Peter and said, "They are definitely not descendants of the gods, but they are most likely descendants of the Eternals."

Looking at the so-called mutant in the mural in front of him, he realized that this thing was probably something else entirely.

They're not mutants. Their official name in the comics is Abnormal Race, and in the movies it's Mutant Race.

The origins of comics will not be discussed for now.

The mutant race in the movie are strange, near-immortal life forms created by the Celestials through genetic modification.

The Celestials initially intended to use the mutant race as apex predators to eliminate life on inhabited planets, thereby ensuring the continuation of life.

But even the Celestials probably didn't expect that the mutant race would evolve through predation, changing from only capturing top predators to hunting and eliminating all life forms.

This put the Celestials in a bit of a bind.

They used the mutant race in the hope that life could continue, thereby accomplishing what they called "divine intervention".

But if the mutant race has consumed all the life on the life-bearing planet, how can they give birth to new members?

and so……

The Celestials created the Eternals once again, a life form specifically designed to hunt down mutants. Whenever they complete a mission, which is called a divine manifestation, these members of the Eternals are brainwashed and then sent to the next inhabited planet to continue hunting down mutants, ensuring that life can reproduce until the divine manifestation is successful.

Repeatedly.

Until these members of the Eternals, due to excessive brainwashing and saturation with information, became a kind of dementia.

They would be ruthlessly abandoned by the Celestials, who would then create the next batch of Eternals to complete their mission.

Upon learning that this mutant species might be a mutant race, and that the Ivi people here might be descendants of the Eternals, Hawkton felt as if the clouds had parted and the sun had finally risen.

If that's the case, then the metal that looked like Adamantium was probably genuine Adamantium.

Without him.

Thiam, a member of the new Celestials being conceived inside the Earth, possesses a vast amount of Adamantium.

Or--

Thiam itself is an adamantium alloy.

This was mentioned in Captain America 4.

This also explains why he felt a sense of pressure from a superior when he first arrived on Skull Island.

If there are no surprises, this divine pressure is likely the pressure from Thiam, a member of the yet-to-be-born new Celestials.

and……

Thiam hasn't reached the point of awakening yet, but the pressure he exudes even in his unconscious state is already this terrifying. What about the Celestials who have awakened?

No!

He needed to retrieve the Mind Stone as soon as he got back. For some reason, his sixth sense warned him of a potential crisis whenever he thought of the Celestials.

Although this sense of crisis is very mild.

but!
His intuition told him that once he encountered the Celestials, they were probably enemies, not friends.

Hawke remained silent.

Peter and Felicia, who were standing nearby, exchanged a glance when Hawke mentioned the "Eternals," both seeing confusion in each other's eyes.

Felicia spoke up.

“Hawk, this Eternal is…”

"A pitiful race that was used as a tool by the gods."

Hawke snapped out of his reverie and succinctly described the Eternals' role.

This is the case.

He was not exaggerating.

Upon hearing this, Peter looked at the terrifying creature in the mural.

"Then this mutant?"

"Mutant race".

Hawke turned his gaze away from the mural: "They were also created by the gods to be tools, but they were unwilling to be used as tools and eventually rose up in rebellion, which led the gods to create the Eternals to hunt them."

Peter blinked.

"Is there something wrong with this god? He created two races to fight each other, fine, let him have his fun, but why did he have to dump this thing on our Earth?"

"Not just Earth."

"what?"

"These two races can be found on every planet in the universe that has life."

"..."

Peter opened his mouth, and finally came to a conclusion.

“This god must be sick, seriously sick.”

"Haha."

Hawke laughed and looked at the ignorant and fearless Peter, saying, "When he comes to Earth in the future, I'll support you in cursing him like that."

Peter was slightly startled.

"He'll come to Earth?"

"of course."

Hawke shrugged. "But that's several years from now."

bad news.

He was certain that his meeting with the Celestials was not a friendly one.

good news.

It's still some years before the Celestials appeared, and Thanos hasn't snapped his fingers yet, so Aristam, a member of the Celestials, hasn't set his sights on Earth. He still has several years to develop.

Celestial Group.

Legend has it that they are a race created by the creator god Eternity to maintain the main multiverse.

The gods created by the creator god.

This is a god that even those who have awakened their Seventh Sense and Golden Cosmo cannot defeat.

And it's also possible to actually become a god.

fortunately……

There's still time!

Hawke's mind raced, then he took a deep breath and smiled at Peter and Felicia, "Alright, you two go back to sleep first. We'll go home when you're awake."

Peter and Felicia's faces lit up with joy.

next second.

Felicia realized what was happening and looked at Hawke: "So, tonight..."

Hawke smiled slightly: "I'll go take a look at the underground passage."

Now that it has been confirmed that Adamantium does exist.

So what to do next?
Of course, we should dig!

go to bed?

Once I've kicked OAA and punched the five creator gods, I'll have plenty of time to sleep.

now--

This is the age to strive and work hard!

If you don't strive when you should, when the time comes for the gods Aristem to come and take you away, you won't even have time to cry anymore.

First, gather the Adamantium, then the Urukin, and finally, once you find the materials compatible with Gamanion, you can forge the true Gold Phoenix Cloth, which possesses the power of the sun and the phoenix.

Hawke thought to himself, then told Peter and Felicia not to worry, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared from their sight.

Peter and Felicia blinked as Hawke abruptly disappeared before their eyes.

Peter, already used to this, said to Felicia, "Let's go back."

Felicia realized what was happening, nodded, and walked with Peter towards the outside of the Ivi temple. Seemingly remembering something, she asked in a low voice, "Is Hawke a god?"

Peter shook his head.

"He said no?"

"He said?"

"Well, last time in London, there was this ugly guy who was trying to destroy things and asked Hawke if he was a god. Hawke said he wasn't a god yet."

"return……"

"Yes, that's what he said."

"..."

(End of this chapter)