MMB Chapter 625 625: Power of the Angel
Chapter 625 625: Power of the Angel
Although Wanda desperately wanted to immediately apprehend the blonde youth, she ultimately couldn't sit by and watch the disastrous consequences of the skyscraper's collapse.
Seeing Wanda—an Avenger whose combat power fluctuated wildly—actually manage to stabilize the collapsing skyscraper with her current power was quite a sight.
This didn't align with the level she had displayed previously. Of course, she hadn't reached the point where she could almost single-handedly tear apart a gem-less Thanos, and she was far inferior to her Scarlet Witch state.
The Tree Herder, crawling out from the underground, watched Artoria soar into the sky to pursue [Jin]. He stopped, and countless vines began to grow from the ground. In the blink of an eye, the collapsing skyscraper was covered by tree roots and vines.
Seeing these people begin to quell the disaster, Kaito Shirogane also set down the young Parker.
"Parker!"
The exclamation was laden with lingering fear, but quickly shifted into anger.
A woman wearing a burgundy blazer rushed out of the crowd. She first shot a somewhat fearful glance at Kaito Shirogane, then grabbed her son.
Before any words of concern could leave her mouth, she began to scold him furiously.
"Parker, how many times have I told you? You must stay close to your brother! It's dangerous for you to wander off alone!"
But the anger quickly dissipated, leaving only endless fear and trepidation. Today, it wasn't just this troublesome younger son; she looked back at her panicked older son in the crowd—she, too, had almost died.
Parker struggled in his mother's embrace, never letting go of the Hulk action figure in his hand. He was still smiling, waving the toy vigorously at Kaito Shirogane.
"Mom, Mom, we don't have to be afraid!"
"Didn't you tell us? The heroes will protect us!"
"Mom, this new superhero is so amazing! With a bang, he sent those huge billboards flying, and with a whoosh, he threw those people out of the way..."
Parker wanted to make his mother understand how incredible this superhero was, but the woman only felt that when the man had held her son by the scruff of his neck moments ago, he hadn't looked like a hero at all.
Furthermore, she had never seen this Asian hero on the news.
The woman's distrust didn't require mind-reading to perceive. Kaito Shirogane continued to smile; he found this title of [Wicked Savior] rather peculiar. It granted baseline reputation bonuses with both the Good and Evil factions, yet these civilians seemed entirely unaffected by it.
Moreover, given his notably high Charisma, even without activating active abilities like the [Heart of Slaanesh], he should theoretically have a significant passive effect on ordinary women.
For her to be so guarded against him... was it because of the look in his eyes when he was observing the boy just now?
Kaito Shirogane had indeed been observing the young Parker as if he were a highly fascinating biological specimen.
In Kaito's eyes, the young Parker was far more interesting than any other human here.
He watched [Jin] utilize his flight advantage to gradually shake off Artoria's pursuit in the air. Meanwhile, behind him, the heavily injured and unconscious blue-haired woman, and Yun Wujiu—who had completely frozen himself into an immobile crystal—were dug out of the subterranean ruins and transported away by War Machine.
Neither of them was dead, but they had been critically wounded by Artoria's slashes.
The black Saber fighting at full capacity possessed destructive power capable of leveling a city. Furthermore, she boasted an incredibly high resistance to various magical abilities. This made Saber highly effective against certain members of the Far East Magic Association who excelled in ranged magic but lacked close-combat proficiency.
This was also why Kaito Shirogane believed that in the confined underground space, Artoria, working with the Avengers, could easily defeat those three.
He had merely let Jin go on purpose. In reality, despite his compromised physical condition, utilizing the sensory range of his Mantra network to ambush Jin along his escape route would not have been difficult.
Hovering high in the sky, Jin bore numerous wounds. The sun had yet to reach its zenith, but his [Magic: Sun] was continuously gathering strength.
Jin raised one hand high. A scorching fireball spun rapidly, expanding to hundreds of meters in diameter in the blink of an eye. In Jin's eyes, the crowd on the ground was as insignificant as ants.
He thoroughly enjoyed this thrilling sensation of wanton slaughter.
The immense power granted by his swelling magical energy, combined with the escalating arrogance born from being looked up to by the weak—the two intertwined, triggering a chain reaction within Jin's body.
His physique began to undergo abnormal growth, and his blonde hair flared wildly.
An increasingly intense presence began to manifest clearly from the sky.
Because the Tree Herder was now stabilizing the skyscraper, Wanda finally freed up her hands. She moved her arms gracefully, her gaze intensely serious, as crimson Chaos Magic surged directly toward the sky.
Unlike all the other members of the Far East Magic Association who were wary of Wanda, Jin had originally advocated killing Wanda first before forcefully assassinating Vision to seize the Mind Stone.
However, that proposal had been vetoed by Solomon and the others.
Although Jin didn't know why Mercenary Tao hadn't intervened, without him, what did he have to fear from just this current roster of Avengers?!
The miniature sun-like fireball spun continuously, its temperature rising exponentially. The crowd below had already begun to rout.
As Jin thrust his hand forward, the fireball rapidly spiraled downward. Iron Man's AI butler, F.R.I.D.A.Y., calculated that if it hit the ground, it would cause catastrophic devastation over a radius of hundreds of meters.
Simply put, a single hit from this fireball would eradicate a small city block.
"Hey, guys, we can't let that thing fall~"
Wanda naturally heard this as well. She immediately lowered her stance, as if bearing a terrifying weight. Chaos Magic instantly wrapped around the fireball; she intended to rely solely on her own power to push this spell back into the sky.
Iron Man immediately launched into the air, firing dozens of micro-tracking missiles along different trajectories toward Jin.
Jin merely raised his other hand. Countless sparks scattered outward, beginning to cover the entire sky.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The missiles detonated one by one, yet Jin remained completely unscathed.
Hum!
The clear chime of a sword rang out. A crimson blade of light swept across the sky. Artoria sprinted rapidly up the side of a building, leaping high into the air to deliver a slash.
The fireball detonated mid-air, and Jin took the opportunity to fly even higher into the sky.
He wore a smile on his face. Just as he had thought—Vision wasn't dead yet, and without sufficient psychological trauma, Wanda simply couldn't unleash the true power of her Chaos Magic. At this moment, she wasn't that powerful at all!
If Solomon had listened to him back then, perhaps he might have had the chance to gamble for Wanda's drops!
Amidst these thoughts, Jin felt the temperature behind him growing higher and higher, as if he were approaching the sun itself.
A white feather drifted down. He sensed something, and in the next moment, he turned his head. Higher up in the sky, the silver-haired Solomon descended slowly.
White feathers continued to fall. Jin quickly felt his magical energy receding—this was a special domain.
A unique reality belonging solely to Solomon. The so-called path combining a Level 5 Esper with a Magician—The King's Reality.
"Observing yourself as the omniscient King Solomon, and then negating the possibility of anyone else casting magic..."
"How truly despicable, Solomon..."
Jin began to plummet from the sky; even his flight magic was failing him. Yet, Jin refused to give up his resistance.
He began to continuously chant an incantation, and intense magical energy began to reverberate through the space. Below, Wanda suddenly sensed a familiar yet foreign power emerging.
[Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows, buried in the stream of time... In Thy great name, I pledge myself to darkness! Let all the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess!]
Solomon's brow twitched slightly. For a spell to be cast within the [King's Reality], even a Reincarnator like [Jin], whose Spellcasting Specialization had reached Level 9, still had to recite a lengthy incantation.
Was this Lina Inverse's world-destroying magic, the [Giga Slave]?!
Solomon hesitated no longer. He raised a hand, and in the next moment, the entirety of New York was illuminated by a resplendent white light, as if a massive sanctuary had descended directly upon the city.
Jin felt his connection to the sun severed in an instant. Panic began to well up in his heart, but he continued to comfort himself.
It's fine. The ability of the Giga Slave is to summon the consciousness of the Lord of Nightmares to descend. Even if I don't have the characteristics of the half-baked [Magic: Sun], it doesn't matter, I only need to...
Utilizing the massive, completely laid-out barrier, Solomon fully deployed the [St. George's Sanctuary] above New York. At this moment, he had become the true ruler dominating this space.
He simply snapped his fingers.
Jin's position was immediately pierced through by a golden lance of light.
Pfft!
The defensive magic on Jin's body shattered in an instant.
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
Golden lances of light appeared continuously. With St. George's Sanctuary fully deployed, the spell formula for the [Dragon-Slaying Spear] had transformed into instantaneous attacks that could erupt anywhere, anytime.
This wasn't the end. Solomon cast a glance toward Stark Tower, which was on the verge of experiencing an explosion. The four members of the Black Order would appear there, attempting to kill Vision and seize the Mind Stone.
An illusory stairway appeared behind him. Jin, repeatedly pierced by the lances of light, was rapidly absorbed toward it. Soon, Solomon let out a sigh.
He looked up at the sun overhead, his figure swelling, his magical energy beginning to expand.
Having obtained the final puzzle piece he required, Solomon pointed one hand at the sun, while his other hand grasped a white feather.
[Do you wish to use the Item: Angel's Feather to activate the Spell Formula: Power of the Angel (Gabriel)?]
[Warning: The Angel's Feather (World's Rare Treasure) will be consumed upon use. This operation is irreversible.]
"Yes."
Silver-white lines of light began to manifest in the daylight sky above New York, and ancient, profoundly mysterious magic circles began to form.
Accompanying this was an overwhelming, heaven-shaking divine power born from within.
Solomon's silver-white long hair whipped wildly in the wind, and for the first time, intense emotion began to surge within his heterochromatic eyes.
This was the power of an angel. This was... the power to dominate this world!
Below, Kaito Shirogane looked at the spell formula covering the entire sky. He finally understood why Solomon, fully aware that Kaito had entered this world with them, had the confidence to set the team to a completely unprotected mode.
"Tsk, a large-scale spell formula from the Index world, and even the power of an angel..."
"Solomon, you bastard. Even with a trump card like this, you still don't dare to fight me in a fair, head-on clash, and have to use a contract to deceive me? Ha~ How truly... spineless."
Even though his mind-reading was blocked, there were some people whose thoughts he could guess with just a single glance.
It was just that, coincidentally, what Solomon wanted to do was exactly what he wanted to do as well.
Kaito Shirogane cast a glance at Wanda, who was still on guard and attempting to protect the others, and turned to walk toward Stark Tower. His pace seemed leisurely but was incredibly swift, quickly vanishing into the crowd.
Only the Tree Herder, who knew part of the plan in advance, gave him a quiet, unreadable look before continuing to play his role as a hero, using his roots to shield the Avengers and civilians as much as possible.
In the sky, Solomon's deployment of the Angel's Power proceeded incredibly smoothly. By now, massive energy constructs resembling wings had begun to materialize behind his back.
The resplendent magical energy began to overwhelmingly sweep across the entirety of New York.
Under these circumstances, Ebony Maw, leading Corvus Glaive and the others, arrived silently in a spacecraft in the airspace not far from Stark Tower.
This powerful spellcaster merely frowned at the phenomenon in the sky, then waved his hand. The group was instantly enveloped by an invisible force, shattering the glass curtain wall on the exterior of Stark Tower, and laying eyes upon Vision, who had the Mind Stone embedded in his forehead.
"Kill him."
Ebony Maw ordered simply, and the group attacked in an instant.
However, several suits of armor shattered the glass from the opposite side, flying over abruptly with full firepower, unleashing a barrage of munitions directly at the group.
Iron Man had likely prepared defenses well in advance. Of course, the target of his precautions wasn't the Black Order, whom he knew nothing about, but Kaito Shirogane's group.
Unexpectedly, this blind stroke of luck ended up blocking the initial wave of attacks for Vision.
Kaito Shirogane leaned near the entrance of the tower below, watching the battle with a smile.
(End of Chapter)
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