Chapter 130: Mystique’s Ability Advances

"Why does the first one look more and more like the Egypt DIO-beating squad?"

Orion Cross looked over the newly triggered mission and felt it was somewhat familiar.

Occupying someone else’s body.

Defeated by people in the past, now awakened once again.

Full of villainous charisma, capable of attracting many followers.

In Cairo, Egypt.

Killed by one of the main team members after they cheated.

"What DIO-beating squad?"

Magneto heard Orion Cross muttering to himself and asked in confusion.

"Nothing. I was just thinking about what our team combination should be called later."

With a wave of Orion Cross’s hands, the gate of Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters appeared in front of everyone.

During the event of reversing the future, Orion Cross had been there before. Although the school had been empty at the time, he already had the coordinates, so he could naturally open a portal there directly.

"I don’t think that name works. If it were me, I’d call it the Brotherhood."

Magneto picked up his daughter, laughed, and walked into the portal.

"The Brotherhood? Do we look like assassins? Are you planning to become Ezio or VanCleef?"

Orion Cross and Diana followed behind him and also passed through the portal.

"No. We are warriors."

Magneto answered seriously, then turned his head in confusion. "Who are Ezio and VanCleef?"

"Two famous assassins. They were both leaders of a Brotherhood."

Orion Cross looked at the academy before him, which was completely different from the last time he had come, and felt somewhat emotional. "If nothing else happens, this place is indeed a good place."

"Ordinary people are the accident."

Magneto swept his gaze across the students in the academy and said calmly.

"You guys go find Charles first, or walk around the academy. I’m going to bring someone over."

After saying this to them, Orion Cross’s figure instantly vanished.

Returning to the main world, Orion Cross picked up the phone by his bed, opened the call log, found a number, and dialed it.

"Raven, do you have anything going on over there? I’m planning to take you home for a trip."

As soon as Orion Cross heard the call connect, he immediately spoke.

"Home? That place isn’t my home. I only lived there for a while."

Raven’s voice came from the other end of the phone.

Right now, she felt more of a sense of belonging here than in that world that hated her.

"Going back to take a look is just on the way. The key point is that someone over there is causing trouble again. Charles and Erik should both be his targets."

Orion Cross smiled faintly at the phone and said.

"They were my friends once, after all... I’ll come back right away."

After Raven stayed silent for a while, she spoke.

"Do you want me to come pick you up..."

Orion Cross was about to open a portal for Mystique, but before he could finish, Raven suddenly appeared in the room.

"Hah... huff... I... I never want to use that ability again..."

Raven looked as if her soul had nearly left her body. She turned over, collapsed onto Orion Cross’s bed, and kept taking deep breaths.

"What ability? You learned teleportation?"

Orion Cross sat down by the bed and was immediately hugged around the arm by the still-shaken Raven.

"No. Transformation."

Raven’s sweat-dampened blond hair hung over Orion Cross’s arm as she panted and spoke.

"Transformation? So now you’re like the Sentinels? Whoever you turn into, you can obtain their ability?"

Orion Cross pulled a few tissues from the bedside and wiped the sweat from Raven’s face as he asked.

The reason he guessed this was because the original source of the Sentinels, or rather, one of their most crucial components, was Mystique Raven’s genes.

Of course, if Mystique had not been infused with Ascended power by Orion Cross, no matter how she developed her ability, she would not be able to become like a Sentinel.

Because the Sentinels were machines. Mystique’s genes were only one part of them.

A machine could easily be upgraded and evolved by adding other elements, but humans could not.

Suppose Mystique’s transformation made every cell in her body become exactly the same as another person’s. In that case, she would definitely obtain the abilities attached to that person’s body.

But the problem was that Mystique’s power of transformation was the mutant ability of her own body. If she truly became completely identical, then she would no longer be able to change back.

And if she really became completely identical, then Mystique would not even retain the memory that she was Mystique. It would be equivalent to turning herself into a clone.

Perhaps precisely to prevent that situation from happening, her ability must have a protective lock that could never be opened.

However, under the Ascension Ritual, mortals could inevitably break through their own limits and greatly strengthen the aspects they were best at.

Just like Nasus, who had originally been a wise strategist, became a jackal symbolizing wisdom after his ascension, while Renekton, a brave general, became a ferocious crocodile.

So the enhancement of Raven’s ability was one hundred percent an enhancement of her mutant power.

"I’m not sure, but it shouldn’t be what you said..."

Raven’s emotions gradually stabilized, and she supported herself with Orion Cross’s hand as she sat up. "I never discovered any changes in my ability before, until one time, I transformed into that agent."

"Agent? Which agent? Coulson? Hill? Nick Fury?"

Orion Cross asked one by one, wondering which person had triggered Raven’s special ability.

"None of them. It was the Black Widow living next door now, Natasha Romanoff."

Raven glanced at the wall on the right, took a deep breath, and said.

"Natasha? Why did you turn into her for no reason? And I remember you transformed into her before, didn’t you?"

Orion Cross asked in confusion.

He clearly remembered that not long after bringing Raven to this world, he had asked her to turn into Natasha in front of Nick Fury, giving that motherfucker a huge scare.

Could it be that she had not fully awakened at that time?

"Yesterday, Susan and I were discussing whose figure was better, hers or mine... That’s not the point!"

Raven subconsciously answered Orion Cross’s question, only realizing something was wrong halfway through. "You’re right. I had turned into her before, and since nothing like this had ever happened in the past, I wasn’t on guard..."

As she recalled what happened yesterday, fear appeared on Raven’s face again.

"What happened after you turned into her yesterday?" Orion Cross asked.

Raven pursed her lips and said, "I felt like I had gained Charles’s ability. I could use telepathy. I could control others. I could even move through space and time... but!"

At the end, Raven trembled all over and hugged Orion Cross. "But! I felt as if every cell in my body had gained its own consciousness. All of them wanted to break away from my body. I immediately canceled the transformation, and only then did I return to normal..."

"This ability... sounds a little familiar."

Orion Cross patted Raven’s back and searched through the memories in his mind.

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