Chapter 221 Apocalypse-Assisted Harp

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A few days later, at the site of the Washington industrial exhibition.

The football stadium, which should have been more modern, was now filled with blowing yellow sand.

Apocalypse brought the Four Horsemen and the enhanced Mystique, descending directly onto the venue.

With just a press of his palm, the first-generation Sentinel units, built by the Military at a huge cost, were crushed into a lump of scrap metal on the spot.

"Foolish mortals... Today, I shall let you know who the true god is!" Apocalypse’s grand voice echoed in everyone’s mind.

Just as the mortals were still panicking, the void suddenly shattered, and a crimson pillar of magic directly smashed toward Apocalypse.

Apocalypse reacted extremely quickly. The moment the pillar of light arrived, he opened a defensive barrier. Even so, that crimson stream of light still pierced through the shield, attacked Apocalypse, and tore through his shoulder and arm.

Apocalypse’s eyes narrowed.

The newcomer had easily broken his defensive barrier—something that had only happened a few times in his long ruling career.

Wanda walked out of the portal with red light cupped in her palms.

Jean followed behind her.

The X-Men were also fully mobilized, and even the disabled Charles bravely joined the battle, which was truly tear-jerking.

However, the current Charles had lost his head of fine hair and become completely bald.

"Oh ho! A decisive battle! Looks like I’m not late!"

A blue stream of light flashed past, instantly bouncing Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen away.

Then that stream of light flashed behind Wanda, revealing its true form.

It was precisely Pietro.

"You could have taken all four of them down!" Wanda frowned slightly.

She knew Pietro’s ability. His near-light-speed running speed, when fully unleashed, could tear Earth in half, instantly kill Apocalypse’s Four Horsemen, and even Apocalypse might not be able to react in time.

But after Pietro became tainted with the Speed Force, he became a bit indecisive.

"There’s no need to deal a fatal blow, sister, we are all compatriots!" Pietro said.

Wanda said coldly, "There are no compatriots of ours here, only enemies!"

Afterwards, the great battle was on the verge of breaking out.

But the battle did not last long.

Both sides chose their opponents, and their superpowers intertwined with each other, blowing shocking deep craters into the football stadium. Although Apocalypse bore the title of the world’s first ancient Mutant, times had changed!

Wanda alone was able to beat Apocalypse into a continuous retreat.

With Jean assisting on the side, Apocalypse couldn’t gain any advantage at all.

As a Speedster, Quicksilver transformed into blue lightning. The battle on the scene seemed to be stagnant to him. Within a microsecond, Pietro injured Psylocke’s wrist, rendering her unable to use her blade.

His palms vibrated into blades, instantly cutting off Angel’s steel-reinforced wings.

Storm had aerial suspension capabilities, so she could continuously blast out lightning to bomb Pietro. However, Wanda subsequently unleashed a stream of Chaos Magic, trapping Storm inside a barrier.

Making it impossible for her to break free.

Mystique was reformed by Charles, while Eric saw that Apocalypse didn’t care about his subordinates at all and merely treated them as tools, so he switched sides.

The Four Horsemen were captured in batches, and in the blink of an eye, only Apocalypse was left alone.

His armor was cracked all over from the beating, and he was retreating step by step. Just as he was wretchedly resisting Jean’s psychic energy, he suddenly discovered something: deep within this girl’s mind, there was faintly an ancient, destructive power.

"I see... You hide a supreme power within your body that even gods would tremble at, yet you are afraid of it? What a terrible waste!"

Apocalypse roared furiously, hard-carrying a heavy Chaos blow from Wanda.

Then, gathering all the remaining power in his body at his fingertips, he turned it into a psychic spike that pierced through Jean’s psychological defense line, fiercely stabbing into the center of her forehead!

Boom!

The barrier deep within Jean’s mind shattered directly under Apocalypse’s desperate final struggle.

"Ahhhhhh!"

The piercing screech cut through the sky!

The long-sealed fragments of the Phoenix Force finally broke free from the chains, scouring Jean’s mind in a dam-bursting posture!

Jean’s long-suppressed tyrannical personality instantly and forcibly fused with her normal personality. All-over-the-sky black-and-red Phoenix true fire roared out from within her body, forming a hundred-foot-tall phantom of a phoenix!

This was the true Phoenix Force.

Jean also completely lost her sanity, her eyes glowing crimson like blood, and she began indiscriminately beating all living things around her!

"This... What kind of power is this?!"

Apocalypse, bearing the brunt, couldn’t even let out a wail before his body was blasted away by the Phoenix true fire, and then forcibly pulled back by a burst of telekinesis.

The violent Phoenix laws tore at him incessantly. Apocalypse’s flesh, which had been replaced God knows how many times, was annihilated bit by bit from his toes to his hair into the most primitive dust, turning to ashes on the spot!

After killing Apocalypse in a single move.

Jean’s crimson eyes suddenly turned, locking tightly onto Wanda and the X-Men.

"Jean! Wake up! It’s me!" Wanda turned pale with fright, attempting to communicate mentally.

However, what came head-on was a destructive wave of telekinesis.

Rumble!

Wanda reacted extremely quickly, brilliant red light bursting from her fingertips, instantly condensing a thick, heavy shield!

Amidst the loud explosion, the air wave plowed open the ground several meters deep. Wanda was shaken back dozens of steps, yet she gritted her teeth and extended her hands, deploying a semi-circular barrier to protect the terrified X-Men behind her.

Lightning flashed under Pietro’s feet, and he was about to rely on his speed to rush up and subdue Jean, but he was sternly stopped by a shout from Wanda.

"Pietro! Step back! Don’t even think about attacking her!"

"Sister! She doesn’t recognize any family right now; she’ll kill even her own mother!" Pietro shouted anxiously.

"I’ll try to communicate with her primary consciousness!"

Wanda gritted her teeth, continuously channeling magic into the barrier.

But Jean, after going berserk, wouldn’t give her any chance at all.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The violent telekinetic energy slammed onto the barrier like meteorites. The Phoenix Force would exert varying degrees of power according to emotional changes—for instance, when Jean’s state was unstable, the surrounding environment would be affected.

For instance, the buildings, gravel, and even cars in the football stadium, and even dogs were turning into flowing dust and sand at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The entire battlefield was like a nightmare.

To some extent, it was normal for Mutants to face discrimination; most individuals in this group had mental issues and would stir up huge commotions at the drop of a hat. Who wouldn’t be afraid upon seeing that as an ordinary person?

"No... If this goes on, everyone will die!"

Cold sweat oozed from Wanda’s temples as she turned and spoke urgently to Pietro, "Pietro! Quick! Take Professor Charles and everyone away from here immediately!"

"No! Wanda! Let me try!" Professor Charles pushed the crowd aside from his wheelchair and shouted anxiously, "Jean grew up under my watch! I can use my psychic ability to access her mind and wake up her primary consciousness!"

"Professor Charles, absolutely not!"

Wanda flatly refused, her voice grave, "Jean’s currently rampaging psychic power has far surpassed everyone present! Even I can only barely protect myself from being corroded, and I simply cannot spare the energy to take care of you!"

"Once you forcibly intervene, her mental fire will instantly burn you into an idiot! Hurry up and leave! I’ll hold her off!"

Having said that, Pietro no longer hesitated. Transforming into a blue afterimage, he whisked Charles and everyone else out of the battlefield in one go, sending them to a safe zone hundreds of kilometers away.