Marvel: Saint Seiya Starting with the Reality Stone.

"What are you laughing at?"

"nothing."

"Don't try to hide it from me, Mike, that smile of yours just screams..."

Wanda spoke unconsciously, but then suddenly realized that her words seemed a bit too intimate with Mike.

In a word.

Although her conscious world operates within Mike's subconscious, her personal involvement means that everything she experiences in her conscious world also affects her subconscious.

Realizing this, Wanda's expression turned strange as she looked at Mike.

She looked at Mike in front of her. Even though this was their first meeting, memories of their lifelong companionship in the illusion kept surfacing in her mind.

next second.

Wanda's light green eyes met Mike's deep, golden-red eyes once again.

Eyes facing each other.

The atmosphere was a little awkward.

Just then.

"Cough cough!"

Pietro, who had been helped to sit up by Wanda, suddenly opened his eyes, coughed violently, and then stopped abruptly when he saw Mike in front of him and Wanda beside him.

next second.

"Fake."

"Hurry, Wanda!"

"Skin……"

Pietro suddenly swore, and then, right before Mike's eyes, he grabbed Wanda, who was about to speak, and disappeared from Mike's sight in the blink of an eye.

……

93. The Powerful Yet Equally Terrifying Mind Gem (Second Update, Please Subscribe!!)

From the moment Quicksilver Pietro awoke, to the moment he grabbed Wanda and quickly left the basement of Hydra's fortress.

The entire process lasted less than a second.

Even faster.

In the blink of an eye, even Mike only felt a blur before his eyes, and then the spot where Quicksilver Pietro and Scarlet Witch Wanda had been was already empty.

Mike didn't chase after her. He just watched Wanda's afterimage gradually disappear under the pale blue arc of electricity, thought of the strange expression on Wanda's face at the end, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile. Then he stopped thinking about it.

Right now, the most important thing is the spiritual gem.

With that thought in mind, Mike turned and walked toward the laboratory where no one would stop him from retrieving the Mind Stone.

After all, the Mind Stone was his real purpose for coming here.

As for the others?

We'll talk about the future later.

The thought suddenly popped into Mike's mind, and then he placed his right hand on the handle of the laboratory in front of him, and energy from his inner universe gathered in his palm.

next second.

"boom!"

"boom!"

The laboratory door burst open with a burst of energy from a microcosm, its golden-red hue tinged with an invisible crimson. Like a cannonball, it hurtled inward and embedded itself in the laboratory wall like a sharp blade.

Mike emerged from the smoke and dust, turning his gaze to the middle-aged man standing in the laboratory. Although his body was visibly trembling, he was still managing to stand and looking at Mike across the lab table.

The middle-aged man was pale, with short, gray hair that was meticulously styled. He was dressed in a suit with a white lab coat over it, and his eyes held an unconcealable fear as he looked at Mike.

Mike glanced at the middle-aged man.

next second.

The name of the middle-aged man flashed through his mind.

"Dr. Lister?"

"……Yes."

Lister, Baron Strucker's second-in-command, and also the leader of the Mind Scepter experiment project.

When Mike saw that the middle-aged man had acknowledged his identity, he nodded and did nothing. Instead, he walked toward Lister, whose eyes fell on the scepter of the mind placed on the experimental table in front of Lister.

The staff has a long, matte silver metal body, with a diamond-shaped transparent container embedded at the top. Inside the container floats a gem that continuously emits a soft blue light.

This gem is nothing other than this.

It was the Mind Stone from the Infinity Stones series that Michael had been longing for, the one that could help him fully ignite the fire of his cosmos and help him successfully awaken his sixth sense.

Mike raised an eyebrow and reached out towards the Mind Scepter.

Just then.

Lister suddenly called for a halt.

"Wait a moment."

"..."

Mike stopped and looked at Lister, who had spoken up to stop him.

Seeing the look Mike was giving him, Lister quickly explained, "Don't misunderstand, sir. The Mind Scepter isn't something anyone can lift. If you don't meet its requirements, it will drive you insane."

This is the truth.

Because they had already conducted numerous experiments after obtaining the Mind Scepter from S.H.I.E.L.D.

Initially, they planned to replicate the process of Loki grabbing the Mind Scepter, tapping Hawkeye's chest, and then turning Hawkeye into his puppet.

But it turns out they were completely overthinking it.

Because no matter which Hydra agent it is, once they grab the Mind Scepter, the longest they can hold on is no more than thirty seconds. Before they can even turn another person into a puppet, they suddenly go insane, laughing loudly, and become a complete, utterly insane person.

Therefore, they had to settle for second best and stop pursuing the physical uses of the Mind Scepter, turning instead to studying the energy application of the peculiar gem at the top of the Mind Scepter.

Mike raised an eyebrow at Lister's reminder.

Are you reminding me?

"Yes."

Give me a reason.

"I don't want to die."

"Oh."

Mike listened to Lister's explanation and gave a noncommittal chuckle.

"If you need me, I can continue to serve you, as long as you allow me to continue my research on the Mind Scepter."

Dr. Lister looked at Mike with a hint of fanaticism in his eyes and said, "To be honest, sir, no one knows the Mind Scepter better than me. If you want it, keep me and let me study it for you. It will save you a lot of unnecessary trouble."

He doesn't want to die.

At the very least, I don't want to die now.

His research on the Mind Scepter has reached a crucial point. Given a little more time, he will be able to figure out the energy circulation structure inside this peculiar gem.

So he doesn't want to die yet.

Mike did not interrupt Lister, but waited until Lister finished speaking before looking at Dr. Lister with a calm expression.

next second.

He chuckled and then casually threw a punch.

boom!

Just as Lister was about to speak, before he could even open his mouth, he was instantly lifted into the air, just like the blast door that had just flown in, and slammed into the wall.

Unfortunately, he wasn't as sturdy as the blast door, so the moment his body hit the wall, he coughed up a mouthful of blood, and by the time he fell off the wall, he was already dead.

Do not look down.

Mike withdrew his right hand, looked at Lister's corpse, and said without changing his expression, "Thank you, but I don't need it."

That's all.

He turned his gaze back to the experimental platform of the Mind Scepter, now undisturbed.

Mike was not surprised by Lister's warning.

After all, every Infinity Stone, while possessing unparalleled power, also has incredible side effects.

Just like a real gem.

Users who possess the Reality Stone are constantly having their energy drained by it. If a user runs out of mana, the Reality Stone will drain their life force. If the user also dies, then the Reality Stone will leave that user.

The same applies to the side effects of the Mind Stone.

While it can grant users unparalleled mental abilities, it also erodes the user's mental world at an incredible speed.

And there is no way to stop this corrosion.

As the user holds the Mind Gem for longer, their ambition, obsession, and destructive desires will all increase exponentially.

Even this kind of terror doesn't necessarily require contact with the Mind Stone.

For example, Ultron.

Ultron was created by Iron Man and others through their research into the Mind Stone, which contained a natural and extremely complex neural network-like intelligent system.

Iron Man's original intention was to create Ultron to better protect the world.