Chapter 128: Magneto’s Daughter, the Ascension Ritual

"Plans have changed. Someone from another world is looking for me. We’ll go there first."

Orion Cross’s expression changed, and he spoke to Diana seriously.

"Are there enemies? I’m ready!"

Diana raised her shield and nodded earnestly.

Her sword had already been broken by Ares, so now she only had the Lasso of Truth and her shield.

The lasso was special equipment and could not be used as a main weapon, so Diana had now become a shield-bearing guardian like Captain America.

"Maybe not. No need to be so tense."

Orion Cross smiled faintly and snapped his fingers.

Snap!

The surrounding environment changed, and Orion Cross and Diana instantly appeared in a dim forest.

Not far away, several guards holding bows and firearms saw the two of them appear and immediately raised their weapons.

"No! Why?! Don’t do this! Don’t do this to my child..."

"Is this my fate?!"

On the other side, Magneto, Erik Lehnsherr, who was holding the bodies of his wife and daughter, roared toward the sky in agony.

At the same time, the necklace he had taken from his daughter left his palm and instantly harvested the lives of all the guards before returning to his hand stained with blood.

"He is in great pain."

Diana, who had been preparing to defend against the enemies, watched the guards fall one after another in an instant. Then she turned her head and looked at Magneto, who was kneeling on the ground on the other side.

"I didn’t expect Charles to choose to give the scale to you."

Orion Cross walked over, looked at the piece of Galakrond’s scale on the ground, and spoke.

"I chose his way, and this is the result."

Magneto stared blankly ahead and murmured in a low voice.

Ever since the events of reversing the future, he had chosen to hide his name and live as an ordinary worker.

Yesterday at the factory, however, when a worker made an operational mistake and was about to lose his life, Magneto instinctively used his ability to save that worker.

In the end, the reward he received was that those workers reported him, attracting these guards.

The guards knew he was Magneto from that great battle years ago and captured his daughter.

Magneto did not want to resist. He was prepared to exchange his own freedom for his daughter’s safety.

But he had never expected that his daughter had also awakened the X-gene and controlled all the birds in the forest to attack the guards.

With one arrow, the guard killed both his daughter and his wife.

Only in despair did Magneto think of Orion Cross’s scale.

But it was nothing more than a cry born from desperation. In his understanding, Orion Cross’s ability was only to control quicksand. It could not bring the dead back to life.

"Your wife is already dead."

Diana walked forward and said to Magneto.

"Yes. I don’t need you to repeat that."

Magneto’s hands trembled slightly as he held his wife and daughter. Right now, he was furious and hopeless, wanting to destroy everything.

"What I mean is, your daughter still has a faint heartbeat. Perhaps you should choose to save her."

Diana frowned and spoke.

"...What?! What did you say?"

Magneto’s expression froze, and his trembling hand moved beneath his daughter’s nose. Sure enough, there was still a faint breath.

"What do I do? What should I do? Where is there a doctor? A hospital..."

Magneto anxiously looked around, desperately searching his memories for the nearest hospital.

But in order to live in seclusion, he had chosen a very remote place. Even his home was deep in the forest.

"I can help you. I learned some emergency treatment methods in my tribe."

Diana was just about to step forward and help, but Orion Cross stopped her. "His daughter is a mutant, not an Atlantean, and not an Amazon. With this kind of injury, ordinary treatment won’t be able to steal her back from death."

"You mean you have another way?"

Magneto turned his head shakily and looked at Orion Cross with a pleading gaze, terrified that Orion Cross would say the word "no."

"Do you still remember Raven? Back then, I remade her completely and freed her from that blue skin."

Orion Cross stepped forward and patted Magneto on the shoulder, signaling him to let go of his daughter, Nina.

"You mean you’re going to use that giant golden disc... Do you need my help? Tell me what to do!"

Magneto suddenly remembered Orion Cross’s Solar Disc from back then, and it was as if he saw hope. He spoke urgently.

He did not know the true function of the Solar Disc, but right now, he could only place all his hope on this unknown possibility.

"In the past, maybe I would have asked you to find some yellow sand for me, but there’s no need now. You and Diana just need to step back a little."

Orion Cross smiled faintly and said.

At this moment, his hyperdimensional magic system had been constantly absorbing Aurelion Sol’s magic power, and with the divine power of the gods inside Ares, Zeus’s divine power, and his own advancement to the seventh tier...

The seventh tier was a complete watershed. It was not only a division within Marvel’s power levels, but also represented the point at which Orion Cross could finally use Galakrond’s avatar.

So now, the cost of forging the Solar Disc was not that high for Orion Cross.

Especially since this was a forest. There was not too much metal here, only soil, stone, and rotten branches suitable for turning into sand.

"Rise!"

Orion Cross slowly raised his right hand. A Solar Disc slightly smaller than the one from before rose from beneath the ground, while the dying Nina lay at the center of the disc.

"I’m going to perform an Ascension Ritual for her. However, because she is on the verge of death and her physical quality isn’t sufficient, something unknown may happen. You need to be prepared."

Orion Cross glanced at Magneto and gave him a reminder.

In the records of Runeterra, there had once been an Ascended named Nasus. When he was gravely ill and close to death, his younger brother Renekton had carried him onto the Solar Disc and completed the Ascension Ritual.

If nothing unexpected happened, there should not be too big of a problem.

The only thing to consider was whether her appearance might change.

"I’ve already prepared myself for everything! Please! Save her!"

Magneto gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and begged loudly.

"Then I’ll begin."

Orion Cross lowered his raised hand, and the energy on the Solar Disc instantly surged out from within, pouring into the dying little girl, Nina.

The arrow piercing her chest was instantly annihilated, and the energy of the Ascended continuously repaired her body.

Soon, it reached the stage of ascension.

A strong light enveloped Nina. What happened inside was unknown to everyone.

After the energy baptism continued for a minute, the Solar Disc slowly collapsed.

A little girl stood there blankly.

"Nina! My child!"

Looking at his living daughter standing there, Magneto immediately burst into tears and rushed over.

"Looks like there weren’t any major changes."

Magneto was too emotional to notice the changes in his daughter, but Orion Cross identified them immediately.

Three feathers had appeared on the little girl’s head. The feather in the middle looked very similar to a peacock feather, while the two on the left and right were gold and red.

Logically speaking, after the Ascension Ritual, one’s abilities would be strengthened. However, even Raven’s enhanced ability had yet to be revealed to Orion Cross, let alone this little girl’s.

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