I Am a Heroic Spirit

By the time Apocalypse expelled the lightning transformed from the power of judgment from his body, the Giant God Soldier had already chased him with steps that made the ground tremble. The Sky Dragon had also appeared above his head, and the second thunder cannon had been spit out from the Sky Dragon's mouth.

Apocalypse hurriedly assimilated his body with the earth, disappeared from the ground, and walked away underground.

The thunder cannon blasted the ground open, but failed to hit Apocalypse. The shaking earth only caused Apocalypse to suffer some impact.

Enduring the shock and numbness, Apocalypse sensed the situation on the ground while swimming behind the Sky Dragon and the Giant God Soldier.

Just when Apocalypse was about to go around under the Giant God Soldier, suddenly there was a powerful repulsive force coming towards Apocalypse from all directions. Apocalypse tried his best but was unable to suppress the repulsion of the earth and was bounced out from the ground.

Apocalypse had just been ejected from the ground, and before his feet even touched the ground, a heavy pressure fell on his head, and his body was covered by a black shadow. Apocalypse knew what was happening, but he had no way to avoid it, and could only withstand the crushing fist of the Giant God Soldier that was smashing down on his head.

"Oh!"

Just two seconds after leaving the underground, Apocalypse returned to the underground again. The earth-shaking giant fist smashed Apocalypse into a piece of thin paper. He was tightly stuck to the bottom of the sunken pit. The bones in his body were completely shattered, and his internal organs turned into a pool of flesh and blood that overflowed from his body.

The Sky Dragon flapped its wings and flew from a short distance to the upper side of the pit. After circling a few times, it fired a thunder cannon at Apocalypse.

Magneto and others in the distance heard the noise here and couldn't help but look sideways. They saw Apocalypse being smashed into a pulp. They were stunned and stopped moving involuntarily.

Storm, who had just created the solar storm, was also distracted by Apocalypse's death. She made a mistake in her hands, causing the solar storm to lose its stability. Before the Thunder Cannon exploded, the solar storm on her side exploded.

"Hey, be careful, this is not a balloon."

Storm only felt a flash before her eyes, and she appeared hundreds of meters away. The person hugging her was Quicksilver, and standing not far away were Professor X, Hellboy and Magneto.

The solar storm in the distance had already exploded, and ruins caused by the solar storm were everywhere. Although the five holy dragons were not as fast as Quicksilver, this was not the temple, so they naturally would not be incinerated as easily as the half-dragon Nut.

Although I suffered a minor injury, the impact was not serious.

"Fath...Magneto, that guy was crushed to death?" Quicksilver was attracted by the miserable state of Apocalypse and almost blurted out.

"It seems... yes." Even though his attention was not focused, Magneto keenly noticed the first word Quicksilver said. He narrowed his eyes and looked at Quicksilver, but found that Quicksilver had turned away, so he didn't say much, but just remembered this in his mind.

Turning his head, Magneto stared at the fleshy pulp that was Apocalypse, stunned. Aren't you a god? Aren't you here to redeem me? Aren't you here to change the world? Why did you die so soon?

Magneto's heart was filled with inexplicable emotions, but looking at Professor X, he felt that it didn't seem to matter. Looking at Storm, who was a little dazed and had no other reaction, Magneto's mood slowly calmed down, feeling that it was nothing special.

The thunder cannon fell, and the ground shook again. The broken rubble and splashing lightning spread outward. Magneto took the initiative to support the electromagnetic force field to bounce away the rubble and lightning.

"If Apocalypse dies, then we will be five against seven. Should we surrender to the Pharaoh?" Magneto regained his calm state of mind when he was working at the construction site and asked Professor X indifferently.

Professor X also noticed the changes in Magneto. He felt a little happy and a little melancholy. However, just when he was about to agree to Magneto's proposal, the voice of Apocalypse came into his brain.

"I'm fine, just be careful."

Professor X's face froze, and the expressions of Magneto, Quicksilver and others also changed. They must have received Apocalypse's message.

At this moment, the ground covered by lightning suddenly cracked, and from the cracks, countless vines as thick as 0.6 rose up and wrapped around the Sky Dragon and the Giant God Soldier. The ground also became extremely wet, no different from a swamp. The Giant God Soldier, with a very high body mass, had sunk into the swamp and was tied up by thousands of vines.

The Sky Dragon was not as bulky as the Giant God Soldier. It nimbly avoided the entanglement of the vines, and its wings fanned out sharp airflows to cut off the endless vines.

The Giant God Soldier was not willing to be outdone. As the incarnation of the power of the earth, the Giant God Soldier naturally possessed the power to control the earth. Just like it had expelled Apocalypse from the underground before, now that it was trapped in the swamp, it could also solidify the swamp under its feet. Once it had a place to leverage, the vines' restraints would naturally not be a problem, and it was torn off its body by the Giant God Soldier in a few seconds.

Without the restraint of vines, the first thing the Giant God Soldier did was to expel Apocalypse from the ground. At the same time, he swung a crushing fist and smashed it down at the place where Apocalypse was about to appear. At the same time, the Sky Dragon also spit out a thunder cannon. With these two methods, Apocalypse had no chance of escape.

"Come and help me!"

Apocalypse's shrill screams entered the brains of Magneto and others, making them feel as if their heads were being pricked by needles. Even their bodies were controlled, and they involuntarily rushed towards where Apocalypse was.

However, Magneto and Professor X both had means to counteract the mind control. Although they failed to break Apocalypse's control, they did interfere strongly, slowing them down. The surrounding Saint Grave Dragons also helped them in some ways, preventing them from being killed by the Crushing Fist and Thunder Cannon.

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Apocalypse had been in disguise for so long, and finally tore off the disguise when facing death, and tried his best to control Magneto, Storm and others.

However, due to the interference of the five holy dragons, as well as Professor X and Magneto's attainments and assistance in mental defense, the five of them were able to control their bodies.

The same goes for Storm. As one of the Knights of Apocalypse, after regaining control of her body, Storm stopped very decisively and had no intention of going to rescue.

Not to mention Magneto. Although he is a knight of Apocalypse, Magneto is not a person who is willing to be inferior to others. Previously, it was only because of the death of his wife and daughter that there was a flaw in his spirit, and Apocalypse was indescribably powerful, but Apocalypse was defeated miserably and intended to control him to be a scapegoat. How could he ignore his own comfort and go to help Apocalypse?

Quicksilver and Professor X are not Apocalypse's subordinates, and they are not familiar with Apocalypse. Moreover, they have just been tricked by Apocalypse. Naturally, they would not risk their lives to save Apocalypse.

None of the mutants took action, but that doesn't mean Apocalypse has no scapegoat.

A red light flashed past Storm at an extremely fast speed, attracting everyone's attention. When they looked closely, they found that it was Hellboy.

At this moment, Hellboy was like a madman, squeezing his physical strength and bursting out at a speed faster than light in an instant. Even the five holy dragons surrounding him did not have time to react, allowing Hellboy to break through the encirclement.

Professor X exclaimed in astonishment: "That is..."

"Apocalypse is not a good person, and Queen Maeve is not someone to be trifled with." Magneto walked to Professor X's side, stopped Professor X from trying to stop Hellboy, and said coldly, "When you return, remember to carefully examine Maura's brain."

"Eric, what do you mean?" Professor X heard Magneto's subtext, his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly asked Magneto.

"When Apocalypse first approached me, he claimed to be the mutant god and wanted to cleanse the world." Magneto looked up at the sky and recounted the inside story of his efforts to regain democracy and freedom for the Egyptian people. His tone was calm and composed. "However, before cleansing the world, he needs to perform a ritual within the Egyptian pyramids to obtain a powerful body. You are his target, and Ramses II is his greatest obstacle."

"Are the things Mora found at the ruins of the Great Pyramid of Khufu fake?" Professor X continued to ask with a grim face.

"It's true, but Mora's memory is false. The information Mora originally discovered was that the oldest mutant, Apocalypse, would be resurrected, and that Apocalypse needed a fresh body to gain power." Magneto said calmly.

He was just throwing in the towel. Apocalypse had no chance of survival, Archangel and Psylocke were dead, Storm was obviously planning to betray him, Quicksilver, who was suspected to be his son, was following his old friend, and they hadn't even seen Osmanthus's face yet, so there was no need to hide the matter.

"Okay, I think I understand."

Professor X pressed his forehead hard, bent over, and held the temple wall with one hand. He took a few deep breaths before looking into Magneto's eyes and asking, "Your original plan was to follow Apocalypse and cleanse the world of humanity, right? In order to deal with Ramses II, Apocalypse came to the school specifically, hoping to use us to make both our forces and Ramses II suffer losses so that he could take advantage."

"Yes." Magneto turned his head away and did not tell any lies, even though Professor X had already said it.

"So, just for this scam, a scam against Ramses II, no, it should be said that it was a scam against my body. Haha, it's really an honor. Our ancestors carried out a scam specifically for me. Just for this scam, Jean died, Hank died, and Scott died too." Professor X began to breathe heavily, his brows furrowed, his eyes wide open, and he seemed extremely excited, even his words were a little incoherent.

Quicksilver and Storm felt something was wrong, so they retreated to the corner calmly, pretending they saw and heard nothing.

"Yes."

Magneto stood beside Professor X without moving, and even his expression did not change. He even responded, and it seemed that he had already made up his mind.

"asshole!"

Professor X straightened up suddenly and punched Magneto.

"Bang!" With a heavy blow, Magneto did not dodge and was hit in the face by a punch. His head tilted back and his legs took a step back.

Professor X was relentless and threw three random punches at Magneto. Magneto, relying on his extraordinary physique, wanted to let Professor X hit him a few times to vent his anger, so he didn't resist and just stood there and let Professor X hit him.

Who would have thought that Professor X was really angry at this time. He couldn't stop once he started. He punched Magneto more than ten times, turning his face blue, and he had no intention of stopping.

After being hit by so many punches, Magneto also got angry and punched Professor X several times. Professor X became even angrier when he saw that Magneto dared to resist, and he used all his strength to fight with Magneto.

On the other side, in just a moment, Hellboy appeared right in front of the Giant God, swung out his right fist, and confronted the Giant God's fist head-on.

"boom!"

Another meteorite crater appeared on the battlefield, and the aftermath knocked Professor X and Magneto out and fell heavily to the ground, but the two still did not separate.

And Hellboy was no longer visible, only a thick red arm sunk into the rock-pressed ground.

Although Hellboy's Right Hand of Destruction is indestructible, Hellboy's body is not indestructible. Facing the Colossus's Crushing Fist, Hellboy's Right Hand of Destruction can be preserved without any damage, but there is no possibility that Hellboy's body will be intact.

Apocalypse even lost his ability to move, because Osmandis promptly mobilized the curses of the major temples and blocked the space of the Grand Composite Temple of Glory. Apocalypse could not recover from his injuries for a while, nor could he escape through the portal.

Immediately afterwards, the thunder cannon spit out by the sky dragon also fell down, and the thunder and fire of judgment hit Apocalypse's body, burning Apocalypse until not even a cell was left.

The aftermath made Professor X and Magneto's bodies numb, and they were unable to move for a while. They could only stare at each other fiercely.

"What a boring farce. What do you think of Yu's Grand Temple?"

Osmandis, who was observing the battle scene through the big screen, noticed that Apocalypse and Hellboy disappeared from the Thunder Cannon and the Crushing Fist. Although outsiders could not see it, he did relax a little and even had the leisure to make harmless comments on the fight between Professor X and Magneto.

"Well, you can't really say that. Because of his friends' indifference, or even their complicity, his own children died one after another, and yet that scholarly hero didn't think of killing his friends, but instead vented his anger with his fists and feet. He was quite self-controlled." Iskandar tilted his head, unconsciously shaking the spoon handle between two fingers, and said with pity. "Having said that, it's a truly tragic ending. Because of a conspiracy, people who should have lived a peaceful life ended up like this."

"No." Osmandis looked at Iskandar and shook his head seriously.

"Oh?" Iskandar looked back at Osmandis and raised his eyebrows.

"Do you think that if it weren't for that lunatic who calls himself Apocalypse, they wouldn't have come to challenge me? That they wouldn't have ended up like this? How naive! Challenging the almighty dictator is the destiny of the brave. As long as I'm here, they'll definitely come. The only difference is whether that lunatic who calls himself Apocalypse joins the ranks of the challengers."

Osmandis said solemnly, "This is their inevitable choice, and they have also realized the consequences. Therefore, there is no need to feel pity for them."

"...Yes, the hero was already aware of this when he made his choice. Now there are just some extra episodes that will not affect the outcome." Iskandar was silent for a few seconds, nodded heavily, and said in approval.

Nitocris did not express any opinion, but just listened quietly to the words of the two kings.

“…It’s time to end this game.”

Osmandis casually threw the spoon aside, adjusted his posture on the throne, and sat upright.

The large screen in front was brought closer, just like the game interface of Warcraft.

The damaged areas were repaired and restored, the five sacred dragons, the giant soldier and the sky dragon were moved to where they should be, and Magneto, Professor X and others, as well as the corpses and living people left in various temples, were forcibly teleported.

Then, the big screen completed its mission, gradually became blurred, and finally turned into air.

Noticing Osmandis's actions, Nitocris quickly straightened up, sitting as straight as possible. Iskandar remained slouched, drinking his red wine with abandon.

A faint light flashed under the stairs of the throne, and the light quickly dissipated. After the light of the teleportation array disappeared, ten figures appeared in the hall.

The six bodies of Psylocke, Archangel, Cyclops, Beast, Sabretooth, Colossus and Phoenix were lying on the ground in a mess. Magneto, Professor X, Quicksilver and Storm stood there with confused expressions.

The next moment, the four of them noticed the three conspicuous pharaohs on the platform. Suddenly, their bodies tensed up and their expressions became solemn.

Osmandis looked down at the crowd below and said majestically, "This farce is over. Thank you for your mercy. Even though you have been defeated, you are still able to see the king."

Everyone was speechless. Faced with the king's majesty, even Quicksilver behaved well and didn't do anything. Storm, who had always lived at the bottom of society, didn't even know where to put her hands and feet.

"What? Are you speechless because you were shocked by my majesty?" Osmandis's eyes swept over Magneto and others one by one, with a sarcastic look on his face.

Professor X moved, brushed off the dust on his body, straightened his crooked clothes, then took a step forward and bowed to Osmandis.

"I'm sorry, Emperor Ramses, I just don't know what to say. After all, the ending is clear, we have failed." Professor X's hoarse and low voice sounded.

"Well, what's important is never the result, but the process." Iskandar put down the spoon, turned sideways and interrupted.

"Who are you?" Professor X raised his head and looked at Iskandar, asking in confusion.

"I am King Iskandar, the Conqueror, also the Pharaoh of Egypt." Iskandar gave his name readily.

"Alexander the Great!" Professor X was shocked. King Iskandar, the Conqueror, was Alexander the Great. However, Alexander the Great was also the Pharaoh of Egypt, which was a relatively unpopular knowledge. Professor X had to recall it briefly before he figured out the life story of Alexander the Great.

Magneto, Quicksilver and Storm were also very surprised. They didn't expect Alexander the Great to appear in Egypt.

However, the three did not feel that it was wrong that Alexander the Great and Ramses the Great were on equal footing. After all, throughout Europe, Alexander the Great was more famous than Ramses the Great.

Professor X's shock subsided quickly, because at this moment, Professor X was already in a depressed mood, and no matter how amazing the things were, they could not affect his mood.

Professor X said: "For me, the ending is what matters. No, the ending doesn't matter now."

Iskandar was a little confused, because he arrived late and didn't know what Professor X meant.

"Is it because of the transition from hope to despair? Then, do you know that hope has been a lie from the very beginning?" Osmandis knew what Professor X was talking about and said mockingly.

Professor X looked up suddenly and looked at Osmandis.

Osmandis said, "I am the king of the gods. The power of the gods is under my control, including death and the soul. Why do you think that a mere priest can summon souls from my control?"

"Now that you know this, do you feel better?"

So, it's been a lie all along?

Professor X's body swayed, his mind awash with thoughts. After learning the truth that his initial hope was false, even Professor X himself didn't understand whether his mood had improved or worsened.

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Suddenly, a light appeared. It was not the light of the sun, but it appeared in the temple of the sun god.

Osmandis frowned, leaned forward, and looked at the light spreading from outside the temple, his expression changed.

That light was not sunlight, nor fire, but dark light.

Although it is dark, it is not black, but rather like the dim light at dusk.

Dusk will eventually be covered by darkness and will also be dispelled by sunlight. This is the law of the world.

However, the dim light that permeated from the entrance of the temple dispelled the temple's radiance, making the entire temple seem like a dark room.

Even the Pharaoh's sun began to dim.

Osmandis glared and clenched his teeth. A dazzling golden light emanated from his body, illuminating the dim temple into a golden expanse.

"What... is going on?" Magneto covered his heart with his hands. Even though the dim light had faded from the temple, he could still feel something strange.

I felt depressed and had no energy at all. I was in an extremely dejected state, as if I was facing the despair of the world approaching its end at dusk.

Iskandar's expression was more solemn than ever before. He patted his chest as if trying to wipe away the despair in his heart.