“Heh, heh, heh…”
The Lizard, Kang, looked at the huge hole, his eyes dimming.
“This… how is this possible.”
He stumbled back several steps and fell heavily to the ground.
The green blood flowed and seeped along the cracked ground.
“You… you actually know this move?”
Wanda looked at Hode in disbelief.
This shrouded Hode’s already mysterious self in a thick fog.
At the same time, it revealed an indescribable charm.
She had thought Hode was only powerful in strength and magic, but she discovered this was just one facet of this man.
She didn’t understand Hode at all; he was much more mysterious than she imagined.
A mountain climber, an entrepreneur, knows Tony Stark, a self-made man.
Understands magic, knows about Chaos Magic, and also possesses ancient energy within his body.
She thought this was the limit, but that laser beam just now refreshed her perception.
Moreover, she could keenly sense the power contained within that beam.
“Are you really not a superhero?!”
Gwen was shocked; she looked at the indifferent Hode in front of her with full admiration: “That move you just did was so cool, how did you do that ray!”
As she spoke, she gestured excitedly; the scene just now had shocked her beyond measure.
“Talent.”
Hode pulled his hand out of his pocket and rubbed Gwen’s excited little head: “Want to learn? I can teach you!”
“Ahem, Hode, this place can be left for others to handle.”
Just then.
Wanda, on the side, interrupted their conversation on impulse.
She didn’t know why, but seeing the intimate actions between the two, she felt uncomfortable all over.
Especially that familiar head-rubbing; she had already felt it was her exclusive right.
But now that Hode was doing it to someone else, she felt a mix of emotions inside.
However, she also knew that the two hadn’t done anything too inappropriate.
Boom!!!
Suddenly, a deafening explosion came from a nearby building.
This huge explosion even made the ground tremble slightly.
“Oh no!”
Gwen heard the noise, her face instantly turning pale: “I forgot the important thing!”
“What’s going on?”
Wanda looked at the situation in the distance and asked, frowning.
“The Lizard intends to spread gas canisters containing mutant ingredients throughout New York, making everyone mutate!”
After saying this, Gwen took a running jump and swung quickly toward the scene of the incident.
This was also The Lizard, Kang’s, goal: to turn everyone into reptiles!
“Let’s go! We’re going too!”
Hode thought for a moment and flew quickly toward there with Wanda.
The first floor of the towering skyscraper was engulfed in flames, with explosions heard from time to time.
Monstrous flames rolled and spread in all directions, thick smoke rose from inside, and the terrifying heat waves distorted the air.
Pitch-black smoke billowed out from the breach, staining the surrounding walls black.
At this moment, the deep blue sky was shrouded in thick smoke, and as the raging fire spread with the heat waves, it was mixed with strands of eerie green smoke.
“Come and save people! Hurry and call the fire department!”
“Who can save my children? They are still inside!”
“Don’t hold me back, I’m going in to save my wife!”
“Where are the fire hydrants? Someone come and help!”
“…”
Outside the building, the crowd ran and screamed; many of them had hidden inside because of the riot caused by The Lizard.
But they never expected an explosion would occur; because of the surging crowd, many people were left inside the building.
There was wailing outside the building; some people rushed into the building, only to be driven back by the scorching flames and suffocating black smoke.
“We must put out the fire immediately! Otherwise, these flames will sweep across the whole of New York, carrying the green mist!”
Gwen stood on the building, looking around nervously, trying to see where there were water tanks nearby.
If she wasn’t fast enough, even if the people inside the building survived by luck, they would turn into reptile monsters due to the green mist infection!
“Wanda?”
Hode noticed that Wanda beside him was in a trance, her face mixed with fear and hesitation.
“Hode, the fire is too big, I can’t do it!”
Wanda’s voice trembled; everything in front of her began to overlap with the memories in her mind.
She wasn’t sure if she could really do it; if she couldn’t…
During that mission in Germany, her mistake caused the building to explode.
The explosion at that time also caused a fire, but she didn’t put it out.
“You can do it.”
Hode gripped her shoulder and said with an encouraging look, “Chaos Magic can destroy all things, but it can also create all things.”
“Yes! I can definitely do it!”
Feeling the warmth and trust, the confidence that had been missing from Wanda’s heart returned.
She took a deep breath and slowly walked toward the Fire.
Her determined figure stood in stark contrast to the crowd frantically fleeing around her.
“What is she doing?”
Gwen wondered in confusion.
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“Extinguishing the Fire!”
Hode hoped that through this incident, Wanda would be able to break through her inner demons.
If one does not face fear head-on, one will forever be enveloped by it.
And this was the best opportunity!
“Who is that person! Why is she walking toward the Fire!”
“I remember now, this woman looks like the Scarlet Witch!”
“Why is she here?! Could she be trying to get the people inside killed?!”
“God, a superhero has finally arrived, please save my child!”
“But what’s the use of her coming here? This person who only knows how to slaughter the innocent!”
“Shut up, everyone makes mistakes, right now we have no choice but to place our hope in her!”
“That’s right, after all, the Scarlet Witch once saved New York!”
“…”
The whispers from all around caused Wanda’s determined steps to falter slightly.
What if I mess up again?
“Don’t be afraid, are there any celebrities in the World who don’t have haters?”
“Look at Tony Stark; he suffers through so much gossip and slander, yet he’s still living just fine, isn’t he?”
Hode stood to the side and made an ill-timed joke.
He understood Wanda’s fragile heart very well.
She was, by nature, a sensitive and insecure, pitiful person.
Having lost her parents at a young age, she relied on her brother for survival, barely clinging to life amidst the gunfire.
After finally escaping to the United States and ending her years-long path of revenge, her brother ended up sacrificing himself.
This was something no one would be able to accept.
And it was precisely for this reason that Chaos Magic would infinitely amplify the fragile aspects of her heart.
“Hode, you’re right.”
Wanda’s gaze became even more determined.
She looked deeply at Hode and murmured in a voice only she could hear, “I still have you.”
Boom!
The fire, which was continuously raging, caused another explosion.
The people trapped inside the building let out desperate screams.
With a determined expression, Wanda took off her hood and casually threw her baseball cap onto the ground.
At this very moment, she mustered the courage to reveal her true face.
Everyone’s gaze around her was fixed on the Scarlet Witch.
Whoosh!
She spread her arms, and her clothes fluttered with the airflow.
Crimson light swirled around her like flowing radiance.
Wanda levitated, surrounded by the crimson light.