Chapter 139 Wanda and her siblings
Lucas, however, remained unhurried, floating directly to Superman’s side.
"I know, you heroes have incredibly high moral standards! You’re practically saints!"
"But as far as I know, the last man who upheld a ’no-kill’ justice met a very tragic end!" Lucas said.
"If one day, your family had their heads cut off by a criminal you personally spared, and placed in a box for you to admire, would you still be able to stand on your high horse like this?"
"Do you have a girlfriend, Clark?"
Lucas pressed down on Superman’s shoulder and whispered in his ear, "If Lois were pregnant with your child but died at the hands of a criminal you personally spared, tell me, who killed her?"
"Clark, don’t listen to his twisted logic!"
Batman said suddenly.
Lucas’s eyes glowed red, directly burning the communication device.
Batman had countermeasures for everyone, including Superman, but most of the time he upheld the no-kill principle, not wanting to gradually blur the line of a vigilante through slaughter.
But there is always a universe where Superman gets involved, loses his family, and thus turns to actively changing the world.
"Clark, my words seem to have touched your soul. To tell you the truth, the multiverse theory is real. I am not from the past, nor am I from the future..."
"I am just a wanderer drifting through parallel universes!"
"The Great Crusade is about to begin. If you want to protect your family, you must be clear about what you are doing. In any universe, Earth is undoubtedly the core!"
"Darkseid, the Anti-Life Equation... they are all in this place!"
"Don’t wait until your loved one is killed to regret it!"
Superman was stunned.
"It’s a pity I don’t have mind-mirror abilities; you haven’t seen the darkness I’ve witnessed!"
Lucas described the events of his world to Superman, the Little St. James Island incident, which was an explosive event in any universe.
Superman’s mind had not yet been devastated.
Superman listened in shock.
He was a man who believed in the inherent goodness of humanity, but upon arriving on Earth, he was dominated by rogue narratives, and at this moment, his justice wavered slightly.
To be precise, it was Batman’s justice.
It was a pity the other party wasn’t a Red Son, otherwise they could have had a real chat.
"In my world, these people are backed by American politicians. They control half the country, and their people are everywhere from top to bottom. You tell me, will such people eventually be sentenced to death?"
"No, they won’t even step foot in a prison!"
"How can such people be changed? By forgiving them like God? No, what you should do is send them to meet God!"
Half of Lucas’s face was in the damp shadows of Gotham; he was closer to Gotham’s dark style than anyone else.
In the eyes of orthodox superheroes, he didn’t really count as one; he could only be called the chaotic alignment.
"Is this true?" Superman looked suspicious.
"So many people are born into this world every day, but some are born as animals. Preaching morality to animals is the greatest cruelty to the victims."
Lucas wanted to say more.
But at this moment, the system issued a shrill alarm.
[Warning! Host’s behavior has seriously interfered with the world’s trajectory.]
[Detected by the world’s ascending will.]
[Executing emergency teleportation!]
It was the first time Lucas heard an exceptionally anxious feeling in the system’s prompt.
Then, he was forcibly invaded by a great will.
Lucas’s shield wall, which was immune to all mental control, completely resisted this mental invasion.
Damn it!
Who noticed him?
God?
Lucas could feel his mental defenses shaking violently, and he himself was like a lone boat in a storm, ready to be extinguished at any moment.
However, the system automatically isolated the invading will.
Since the system dared to throw him in, it could bring him out.
"See you next time, brother!"
Lucas shook his head dashingly at the stunned Superman.
I’m leaving!
Don’t miss me!
I am just a legend!
As his words fell, his figure disappeared without a trace.
Amidst the spinning world, Lucas saw nothing but void before his eyes.
He did not immediately return to The Boys World, as if he were being carried by the system, gradually getting lost in the turbulence of time and space.
...
This was a ruin razed to the ground by war.
Two shivering children huddled tightly together, hiding under a precarious concrete slab.
Maybe it was today.
Or maybe it was tomorrow.
If they were lucky, maybe they wouldn’t be blown to death.
A shell marked with Stark Industries was stuck in the wreckage, ready to explode at any moment.
They stared fixedly at the shell, praying frantically in their hearts.
"Oh ho!"
"Even a mental will that the system couldn’t handle, could it really be God?"
"Tsk tsk! System, why didn’t you dare to fight God?"
Lucas stoked the flames.
But the system remained silent as usual.
Lucas wiped the sweat from his brow again.
Phew, almost pissed myself!
He looked around to see where he had been dumped.
As a result, he saw the two children under the concrete slab at a glance.
Oh, damn!
Seeing the scenery around him, Lucas instinctively thought it was the work of the terrorists; this was reputation!
"Stark Industries! Oh, it’s Marvel!"
Lucas picked up the shell on the ground and squeezed it casually.
"Boom!"
The shell, capable of razing dozens of meters to the ground, was easily squeezed and exploded by his two fingers. The aftermath of the explosion was wrapped by his Bio-field and did not leak out in the slightest.
He easily lifted the precarious concrete slab, along with the tons of ruins on top of it, pulled it up, and placed it steadily to the side.
"Come out, kids, don’t play hide-and-seek with your Uncle Lucus!"
Lucas clapped the dust off his hands.
The two children were saved.
"Introduce yourselves, kids." Lucas put his hands on his hips.
"My name is Pietro. Thank you for saving us!" The brother protected his sister but still gratefully reported his name.
"Wanda." The sister followed timidly.
Stark Industries shell, Pietro, Wanda—so it was this pair of siblings!
Where is Magneto!
Come out and adopt them, aren’t these your children?
These two siblings were none other than the future Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, who died due to lack of budget.
"Are you... a superhero?"
Wanda raised her head and asked cautiously.
Lucas thought seriously and replied, "Not necessarily. According to the settings of some worlds, I shouldn’t count as the justice camp, but I’m not a bad guy either. I might be chaotic alignment!"
"Of course, even so, to some worlds, I am still a saint-level existence!"
Lucas shamelessly complimented himself.
"But you saved us!"
Wanda said seriously, "Someone who saves us can’t be a bad person!"
Look at that!
This is the flower of the future!
"It’s such a simple truth, but unfortunately, there are many people in this world who can’t understand it in their whole lives!" Lucas said softly.
He squatted down, suddenly having a crooked idea.
"I can’t stay in this world for too long. With your little heads, you can’t understand my existence yet, but you will slowly understand in the future..."
"Perhaps, we will meet again!"
"I will launch an activity called the Great Crusade. I need to recruit warriors from different worlds to spread my will, but don’t worry, I just want to make this world a better place!"
"If the world gets better, then your parents and family won’t be slaughtered by war, right?"
The siblings looked at each other and nodded, half-understanding.
Lucas was satisfied.
Since that’s the case, let’s make a small, insignificant investment.
He handed over two permanent Compound V.
The Maximoff siblings were descendants of mutants; their genes were not yet awakened, but sooner or later they would follow the path of fate.
Wanda would be favored by the Chaos Force in the future, with unlimited potential, so he definitely had to leave a good impression in advance.
"For ordinary people, this thing might turn them into a Supe, but for you, it might trigger the mutant genes in your body in advance, or it might strengthen your abilities, but no one can say for sure..."
"But at least one thing is certain: you won’t feel powerless about things like today anymore, and you can even help others!"
"Are you willing to try?"
Wanda didn’t even think about it and reached out to take the Compound V.
The sister looked timid but had more initiative than her brother.
Seeing this, Pietro also took a step forward.
Two doses were injected.
Both began to change.
"Before helping others, protect yourself first. The world is cruel, kids! Don’t get caught and used as test subjects. Sometimes power is not omnipotent!" Lucas warned again.
These two siblings weren’t exactly good people before the Sokovia incident.
Give them a warning in advance, maybe it can change their growth trajectory.
As Lucas spoke, he suddenly looked up at the void. It was a bald head, seemingly casting a puzzled gaze at him.
"Who are you?"
A voice came from the void.
"Just passing through your humble abode, I will leave soon!"
Lucas’s figure began to become illusory.
"Do... do you have a name?" Wanda asked hurriedly.
Lucas smiled, "My name is Lucas. You can call me Guardian, or Regent, or Homelander wouldn’t be bad either!"
"See you next time!"
As his words fell.
A door opened in the void.
The bald mage Ancient One walked out, but Lucas had already disappeared without a trace.
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