"Smack"

The door to the deepest cell of the island base was twisted open, and Merlin helped the weak Magneto into the open door, Magneto looked a little suspicious, he hesitated, and Merlin, who was holding him, whispered:

"Don't worry, it's thousands of kilometers from North America, and that person is still in Utopia City in the heart of the Pacific. He can't see here... Unless we're unlucky, he's sitting on that brainwave booster machine and eavesdropping on our conversation. ”

Speaking of this, Merlin also turned his head to look at the empty cells around him, and he asked softly as if he had said hello:

"Right? Professor... You're not listening. ”

Merlin and Magneto waited in place for several seconds, but there was no response, and he shrugged his shoulders at Magneto, who was beside him, and said:

"Looks like he's really not there."

Magneto glared at Merlin, and the old man said dissatisfiedly:

"Are you playing with your life, or are you playing with the lives of the two of us..."

"Let's go, let's go to another place where he'll never overhear."

Merlin half-pulled and half-dragged Magneto into any door that opened in front of him, and the next moment, they appeared in front of the castle on the border of hell.

"Ahem"

Under the light of the pale, desperate-looking pale light, Magneto, who had lost his strength and turned into an ordinary old man, took his first breath of hellish air, choking him with tears, and his whole body was stiffened in pain, and he coughed heartbreakingly.

Merlin immediately put his breathing mask on Magneto's face, and the painful old man slowly eased up as the purified oxygen refilled his mouth and nose.

He looked up, pressed his chest, and said to Merlin:

"What the hell is this place?"

"Here's hell."

Merlin whispered maliciously:

"If nothing else, you may settle in this place in another decade or two, and it's good to get used to it in advance."

"He'll find out."

Magneto ignored Merlin's malicious taunt and said with a serious expression:

"He's absorbed too many mutant abilities, maybe the next second we left, he'll be in that cell..."

"No, he won't, trust me."

Merlin also said seriously to the weakened Magneto:

"You don't know hell at all... Time stands still in relation to the real world, and you can only sleep for a dozen minutes if you stay here for a day. The lord here is my friend, and I can ask her to adjust the speed of time to the right speed, so that after we finish talking, only 1 second will pass in the real world..."

"Sounds amazing."

Magneto looked his surroundings left and right, and he said to Merlin:

"But it doesn't seem very peaceful here."

"Huh?"

Merlin heard this, and glanced back behind him, in front of Liana's castle, where the corpses of demons were piled up like a hill, and judging by the broken corpses and the strange pungent smell they emitted, there had just been a fierce battle where Merlin and Magneto were standing.

"Whoosh"

Liana also sensed Merlin's appearance in her territory, and the Border Queen appeared beside Merlin in a red glow, she reached out her hands to hug Merlin very enthusiastically and generously, and then kissed Merlin lightly on the neck, not caring at all about the strange gaze of the old man with a breathing mask next to her.

"How did you end up here?"

Liana took Merlin's arm around and asked:

"Is there something going on?"

"Hmm."

Merlin broke free of Liana's embrace, and said to the Border Queen, who was only in her pajamas:

"I need to borrow your castle, and you can help me adjust the flow of time, and I need to talk to Mr. Magnit about something."

"Magnit? Magneto? ”

Liana is also a mutant, although her life path is somewhat crooked compared to ordinary mutants, but during this period of time with her brother, she has also heard some stories related to mutants.

And in all these stories, Magneto plays the role of the villain almost without exception.

The Frontier Queen crossed her waist and ruffled her hair, and looked back at the gray-haired old man with a respirator, who was drooping from the old man, and she carefully examined Magneto's face and body, and after a moment, she shook her head and said to Merlin:

"Merlin, although I am not familiar with the human world, I also know that Magneto is a powerful omega-level mutant, even if I am on the border of hell to defeat him, it is not easy to defeat him, and now you tell me that this old man you brought with you who can be blown down by a gust of wind is Magneto?"

Liana's little face was full of stubborn complaints:

"You must be kidding me. No... I don't believe it! ”

"Whatever you want."

Merlin lacks respect for the Frontier Queen, but to be honest, with Liana's big-hearted, occasionally impulsive and reckless personality, coupled with the fact that Liana is indeed only just an adult, it is indeed difficult for Merlin to respect her as much as his peers.

In Merlin's eyes, Liana is a junior, so he will feel very uncomfortable with Liana's slightly intimate actions, but this does not mean that he hates Liana, in fact, he admires this girl's character, and it is really a rare thing to be able to maintain such a character under the cultivation of demons.

"I have some questions for him."

Merlin said to Liana:

"You can sit in and go back and rest, as long as you don't disturb us. Also, what's going on with those bones? Who did your demons just fight with? ”

"Did you forget that robot you sent?"

Liana crossed her waist and said with a happy face:

"I love this gift, I was worried that I didn't have a strong thug under my command who could subdue those proud bastard demons, and you sent me an 'elegy', well, that robot has a bad temper, a little bullying and a little pretentious, but that's not a problem!"

The Frontier Queen waved her fingers, and she said excitedly to Merlin:

"I've summoned a team of Gungar Demon Craftsmen who are good at making machines, and I've taken it apart in the laboratory left behind by Belakos, and I'm going to make it some magical modifications, and then I'll make it the vanguard of the Hell's Frontier, and I'll name it 'Hades'."

"Hades?"

Merlin said suspiciously:

"You also read Greek mythology?"

"It's not Hades, it's Hades!"

Liana corrected Merlin's pronunciation and said:

"But you're right, I did get inspiration from mythology... Okay, I won't bother you with this old man's chat, I'm going to go to the War Workshop to have a look. Oh, by the way, Merlin, I'm going to recast a suit of armor for Hades, do you think it's better to have his head like an abstract lion, or to look like a ghost? ”

"Make it a lion, and have it wear a demon's armored mask."

Merlin replied casually:

"Wouldn't that be the best of both worlds?"

"That's right! Good idea! ”

Liana laughed and patted Merlin on the shoulder, stood on tiptoe again, kissed Merlin on the cheek, and disappeared in front of the castle in the red light.

"I've heard before that Agent Merlin has a good relationship with women."

Magneto Magnit, who was watching everything from the sidelines, whispered:

"Now it seems, as it is..."

"Alright, Lord Eric."

Merlin said to Magneto with a blank face:

"Before your fragile body is completely corrupted by the winds of hell, let's hurry up and talk about the onslaught... I'm sure you don't want to see your good friend go back on the road of no return, right? ”

Hearing Merlin's words, a complicated glint flashed across Magneto's old face, and he said to Merlin:

"No, it's a pity, Merlin, Charles is already on that road."

Merlin led Magneto into the castle, and they sat down in a living room, where Magneto tasted the strange tasting drink of Hell, and said to Merlin:

"When he came to see me, I saw a dark Charles, can you understand? A twister who is very different from Charles, but shares the same soul and the same body..."

"I talked to him when he took my power, and he stubbornly believed that his mission was to protect mutant society towards an orderly future, which should have been inherited from Charles's most instinctive obsession."

Magneto Magnit said with a sigh on his face:

"But Charles's consciousness is disappearing, or rather, losing little by little in a tug-of-war between the souls, and his personality is forced to sleep, and although it may still control a part of his mind, that dark personality is eroding him, there is no doubt about it."

"I'm more worried now that Professor Charles is out of control."

Merlin said with a serious expression:

"That onslaught isn't a good thing, you have to understand, Magnit, it's still on the bottom line because Professor Charles hasn't given up yet. But if according to what you said, and the information I have gathered, once Professor Charles's spiritual struggle stops, then as the onslaught begins to control the situation, the way of action that still retains the bottom line will definitely be broken. ”

"I have a friend who said that violence is a temptation that is hard to resist, especially when you have the power, and few people can resist the temptation to use violence and solve all problems once and for all."

Merlin took a deep breath, he got up with some irritation, and walked up and down the ground in front of Magnit's eyes, and said:

"I'd like to trust the professor, but in this kind of thing, I can't bet everything on the professor's persistence."

"But with all due respect, you can't do anything about him, Agent Merlin."

Magneto let out a long sigh, and he said to Merlin:

"Berserk has all of Charles's abilities, it has a strong sense of self-defense and counterattack, and most importantly, its armor... I've seen that particular metal material, the product of an evil plan against mutants, and I thought I had destroyed them all, but it turns out I didn't. ”

"That armor gives Berserk the ability to absorb and store the power of other mutants, do you know how many abilities Onslaught has right now?"

Magnit stretched out her hand and shook it in front of Merlin's eyes:

"As far as I can see, there is psychic touch, power projection, teleportation, perceiving mutants, psychic induction, hallucination, and the magnetic field control it takes from me... It can even rewrite reality on a small scale. ”

Magneto said to Merlin in a heavy tone:

"You've missed the best time to stifle him, he's grown up... What I want to ask you is, how many mutants has he done to him now? ”

"249, counting you, are all radicals, or neutral mutants who lean towards radicalism."

Merlin Says:

"This is the number of mutants we've found right now who have been affected by the onslaught, and I suspect that there may be some victims that we haven't found yet."

"So, you're going to be dealing with a super mutant with at least 249 abilities and still growing."

Magneto gritted his teeth and said:

"I don't know what you think, anyway, when I think of such an opponent opposite me, although I am not afraid, fear still breeds in my heart, do you understand? Mr. Merlin, you can't do anything about him! You should be thankful that, at least at this stage, it shows no signs of getting out of hand. ”

He said to Merlin:

"Once the onslaught gets out of control, it's a terrible disaster, a catastrophe that can't be stopped."

Merlin didn't answer, he thought with a deep face, and after a moment he looked at Magneto, and said:

"You just said that the way to absorb the abilities of other people is through the armor on his body, right? He doesn't have the ability to absorb abilities himself? ”

"No, I'm sure of that."

Magneto rubbed his forehead, and he said with a pained expression:

"He is an evil spirit born from Charles's soul, and all his abilities come from Charles himself, and the reason why he was born is my fault... That day, we fought in the canyon, and Charles, in order to stop me, forced his way into my psyche, coinciding with that strange explosion, and those energies entangled him with my will. ”

Magnit said with a look of remorse:

"Charles's will was infected by my mind, and my radical, crazy thoughts completely changed him, and the wills of the two of us fused together, and finally made the monster that attacked him, and it was I who killed him, and it was I who dragged Charles into this desperate road from which there is no turning back."

"It's useless to regret it now!"

Merlin Says:

"But if his strength is built on a suit of armor, then maybe we don't have a chance of winning."

"Huh"

Hearing Merlin's words, Magneto suddenly let out a sneer, and he said to Merlin:

"It's not that I underestimate you, Agent Merlin, I recognize your strength, but you obviously underestimate Charles, you have no idea what a terrible enemy a Charles who has lost his bottom line can be."

"Even if he doesn't have that armor, even if he doesn't have the power of all the bells and whistles, relying on Charles's own psychic power is enough to make him the most terrifying dictator and destroyer of this century... I've never been afraid of anyone's challenge in my life, except Charles. ”

Magneto muttered to himself:

"You'll never expect to see a Charles falling into darkness on the battlefield, and that would be a nightmare for all, and that would be a nightmare for this world."

"Well, I'll admit that you have some truth in what you say."

Merlin also rubbed his forehead with a headache, and he said:

"Then put aside the threat of onslaught... Let's talk about the metal life that invaded the world, although you no longer have the ability, but your understanding of metal and magnetic fields may be able to help us..."

"Bang, bang"

Merlin's words were interrupted by a sudden knock on the door, and the next moment Liana's head poked out from the door that had been pushed open, and she winked at Merlin, and said:

"Your housekeeper asked me to inform you, Merlin."

"Your sister was just assassinated by a Cybertron robot... But, but those robots, it seems to mess with two people they can't mess with, uh, the specifics, you'd better go to the mystery house and see for yourself. ”