Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible.

Chapter 415 General Notice
"Energy? Time?"

Outside the laboratory, Xu Yue repeated the conditions proposed by Hank. The top of the pyramid still located underground in Cairo quietly emerged in his mind. His eyes flashed, and he continued meaningfully:

"Don't worry, you will have everything soon..."

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Night, third floor of the castle.

The cool moonlight seeped into the room through the clear glass windows, but in a flash it was completely swallowed up by the enchanting purple flames. In the center of the room, there was a blazing purple flame, but strangely, no heat could be felt at all. Only the large amount of metal ingots that were rapidly melting inside the flames showed that these flames were not illusions.

The boiling flames lasted for more than ten minutes, and then, accompanied by several cold paradise prompt sounds, the flames gradually dissipated.

[Hunter Strength +2, Stamina +1]

[Hunter's health limit +46, body toughness +4]

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Call ~
"Three attribute values..."

The remaining fire lingering on the surface of his body automatically returned to his body. After taking a long breath, Xu Yue, who had his eyes slightly closed, slowly opened his eyes.

After the attribute was raised to 50 points or more, his body's demand for the quality of Feast Fire has become increasingly stringent. From the time he entered the world until now, he has killed at least dozens of plot characters and contractors, and the stock of Feast Fire he has ignited is enormous, but there are only a few that can enhance his physical attributes.

Upon closer count, perhaps only the high-quality feast fires ignited by a few people such as the 'Hulk' and 'Black Dragon' in the Egyptian battlefield, the 'Red Tank' and the 'Night Walker' in the Devil's Island battlefield can effectively enhance the attributes. As for the remaining low-quality feast fires, they are more suitable for forging equipment in the Paradise City.

After strengthening to this point, even the purple-quality metal materials have begun to show signs of obvious weakness in improving his body strength. Now, he can only feel the familiar feeling of rapid increase in body strength by devouring the dark purple metal that has been smelted by the Feasting Fire.

This means that the resources required to improve his attributes will become more and more exaggerated in the future, but at the same time, it also means that his current metal body can ignore most purple weapons.

In other words, even though Xu Yue has only just entered the second level, his body defense level has already been exaggerated to the point where it can surpass 90% of the main tanks of the same level.

Of course, this strength did not come out of thin air, but was created by the massive resources he consumed along the way and the countless corpses of powerful men who fell under his feet.

After moving his hands and feet briefly in the room and feeling that he had adapted to the increased strength in his body, Xu Yue stopped and looked sideways at the remaining alloy ingots still piled up in the corner of the room.
These alloys were not the ones he purchased from Paradise, but came from the friendly sponsorship of Magneto. They were all dark purple in quality. Although they did not contain any additional attributes, their toughness was extremely exaggerated. The body toughness +4 he obtained after swallowing them was the best representation of their quality.

When it comes to metal manipulation, Magneto is the best in the world. He can build a huge metal island on the ocean that can carry tens of thousands of objects. Refining high-strength alloys is naturally not a difficult task for him.

Judging from the value alone, this batch of dark purple alloy can be easily sold for a high price of at least six figures in Mechanical Street, but for Magneto, it is just a cooperative resource that he can give away at will.

It has to be said that compared to the wealthy fraternity, X Academy is indeed somewhat shabby in some aspects. However, after the two sides reached a deep cooperation, both the fraternity and X Academy can now be regarded as Xu Yue's resource library. As long as the conditions are right, the professor and Magneto can fully accept all his reasonable demands.

Of course, if he wants to maintain this unreserved trust, the first prerequisite is that he can really lead the mutants towards racial independence.

There was a flash of depth in his eyes, and Xu Yue waved his hand to collect all the alloy ingots in the corner into the space. At the same time, a small mirror automatically rose in his hand and expanded rapidly in the air.

Soon, a full-length mirror slowly unfolded in front of him. As the mirror surface changed, Ah Fu's image gradually appeared in the magic mirror.

"master!"

Looking at Ah Fu who was bowing slightly in the mirror, Xu Yue said coldly:
"Well, we can start now. It's been quiet for so long, it's time to make this world lively again."

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The next day, Cairo.

It was noon and the sun was shining brightly. In this civilized ancient city where high-rise buildings and low slums coexist, and people in suits and half-dressed clothes are intertwined, perhaps only the dazzling sunlight can equally shine on every inch of this city.

In addition, even the air in Cairo is divided into different levels due to regional differences.

Inside a low courtyard wall belonging to a slum area, golden sunlight pierced through the gray air and poured down. As a thick blackout curtain was slowly pulled open, the light penetrated a large pit in the courtyard. In an instant, it was like countless golden swords slashing down, quickly dispelling all the darkness inside.

The darkness retreated as quickly as the tide, and a huge underground space inside the pit came into view. The most eye-catching thing was a giant pyramid standing in the center of the space.

Through the bright sunlight, it can be clearly seen that the only parts of the pyramid exposed outside the soil are the top and part of it, while the rest of the larger part is still buried deep under the soil.

Unlike the stone tower body at the bottom, the spire at the top is made entirely of a special metal similar to gold. Under the shining golden sunlight, the two complement each other, making the entire spire appear radiant and colorful, and its countless mysterious patterns on the surface light up one after another.

The originally invisible sunlight seemed to have transformed into a dazzling golden liquid at this moment, and began to flow down along the grooves on the surface of the pyramid.

Nearly a hundred meters deep underground, golden liquid spread along the lines all the way here. The soft light slowly dispelled the deep and thick darkness underground, thus restoring the space inside the mysterious tower that had been sealed for thousands of years to its former brightness.

Looking around, the entire space was littered with a large amount of messy rubble, among which scattered white human bones could be seen. The only thing that remained intact was a blue figure lying flat on its back.

The figure had a strange appearance, his eyes were closed, and the ancient armor on his body was pressed down by several huge fallen rocks. It was none other than the Apocalypse who had been sleeping deep underground for thousands of years - En * Shaba * Nur.

Apocalypse was born in the First Dynasty of Egypt in 3000 BC. Through a special ability similar to soul transfer, he replaced countless bodies over a long period of time, and at the same time devoured all the abilities possessed by these bodies, including naturally various mutant talents.

So with this continuous accumulation, he gradually evolved into a nearly omnipotent mutant god and ruled the entire Egyptian dynasty at that time. Regardless of whether they were humans or mutants, under Apocalypse's rule, they all became tiny lambs under the command of God.

But unfortunately, Apocalypse can control the lives of the 'Lambs', but can never dominate their hearts. Rebellion is almost an eternal trait rooted deep in human genes.

They can tolerate the stone statues in the church that look down on the world, and they can also believe in the omnipotent Father God in the Bible, but they will never accept a real god standing high above everyone's heads. It seems that there is nothing worth their admiration except the indifferent and ruthless sky.

So not surprisingly, when Apocalypse, whose body was once again on the verge of death, was about to transfer his soul to another young body with self-healing abilities, betrayal came quietly.

Except for the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse who were loyal to him, almost all of his subjects participated in this long-planned rebellion to kill the gods. While the soul transfer ceremony of Apocalypse was in the middle of progress, the guarding army directly destroyed the giant pyramid that hosted the transfer ceremony, burying it and all the beings inside it hundreds of meters deep in the dark underground.

Although at the critical moment, Apocalypse's loyal knight managed to shelter his body that had just completed the transfer under the falling rocks, the sudden interruption of the ceremony inevitably caused Apocalypse to fall into an embarrassing situation of stagnation of will, which lasted for thousands of years.

And today, when the thick soil layer above was re-pierced by Afu, the dazzling sunlight once again shone on the top of the giant pyramid. After thousands of years, the soul transfer ceremony that had been stalled halfway finally resumed.

As the golden lines flowing downstream around him lit up one by one, the surface of the stone platform supporting Apocalypse's body also slowly began to glow with golden light. The converted solar energy was continuously pouring into Apocalypse's body, causing his soul and body to begin to complete the final and complete fusion.

After a long time, a pair of bloodshot pupils suddenly opened in the darkness.

There was a look of confusion in his eyes at first, as if he had just woken up from a dream. After he saw the dim scene of countless fallen rocks piled up around him, the confusion was quickly replaced by gloomy and extreme anger.

A hint of cold white appeared in the black and white pupils. Apocalypse on the stone platform opened his arms slightly, and then a majestic purple force field burst outward with him as the center.

Outside the force field, all the fallen rocks were supported by this seemingly invisible energy field, creating a wide space with a diameter of about several hundred meters around the stone platform.

Countless exaggerated weights were forcibly stretched by the force field, but there was still no sign of effort in Apocalypse's pure white pupils, only endless chill was rolling and brewing.

The next second, the blue figure on the stone platform disappeared instantly, and the collapsed force field caused countless rocks outside to fall from the air simultaneously, immediately causing endless vibrations and roars deep underground.

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In the outside world, when Apocalypse, who was deep underground, finally opened his eyes, the top of the pyramid that was shining with bright light also returned to silence at the same time. Instead, what became abnormal was the ground beneath his feet that began to shake continuously.

Violent rumbling sounds like muffled thunder were spreading from the ground, and the "crackling" sound of the soil cracking was echoing continuously in the courtyard directly above. The thick surface of the ground seemed to have turned into a thin and crispy biscuit, and dense and deep cracks were spreading rapidly with the pit that was dug not long ago as the center. In between, a faint purple enchanting light could be seen scattering outward.

Finally, accompanied by a deafening roar, the entire dilapidated temple above the pyramid collapsed along with the surrounding ground for dozens of meters. In an instant, a huge mushroom cloud of smoke and dust rose into the sky, and outside, the wailing and screams of the affected people rose one after another, which looked particularly desolate.

The violent tremor started from here and spread outward crazily, reaching the entire ancient city of Cairo in an instant like a wave, and even continued to spread to the whole of Egypt, as if announcing to the world:

The mutant god, who has been sleeping for thousands of years, has returned to the world again in the depths of history.

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In Cairo, the mushroom cloud of smoke and dust has not yet dissipated, but on the top of a tall building a hundred meters away from the smoke and dust, several figures are standing on the edge of the roof, quietly overlooking the mess in the distance caused by the sudden collapse of the ground.

The raging wind tore the corners of the black tuxedo, making a rustling sound, and sent faint wailing sounds into the ears, but no matter howling the wind or howling the wailing, Ah Fu's lake blue pupils remained calm.

His sight swept calmly over the figures that rolled and crawled out from the edge of the smoke, Ah Fu lowered his eyelids slightly and said indifferently:

"Watch every inch of Cairo. Go ahead. Don't let our 'god' who came out from the depths of history wait too long."

"Yes, Master!"

A uniform response came from behind, and then a series of black shadows jumped down from the roof of a building dozens of meters high, and rushed towards all directions of the entire ancient city of Cairo.

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At the same time, as the ancient city of Cairo, which had been under martial law for a long time, began to gradually come alive, undercurrents began to surge in the Federation thousands of miles away.

The source of this turmoil came from a paradise reminder sound that rang simultaneously in the ears of all the contractors.

[Announcement to all: The hidden character Apocalypse has awakened in the current world. Because Apocalypse's strength seriously exceeds the balance of the camp, the main tasks of all contractors have been changed accordingly. The intensity of the confrontation between the camps has intensified. A new mutant party, Apocalypse camp, has been added...]

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X Academy, underground training room.

The roar of gun explosions came one after another. In the chaotic battlefield filled with wreckage, several giant sentinels as tall as metal hills were wandering around. Without much movement, their wide metal feet could leave dense cracks and grooves on the ground with just a heavy step. The wind and waves they created made the entire battlefield seem full of dangers.

In the corner of the battlefield far away from the sentinels, figures were constantly moving between the bunkers. Occasionally, several figures would cooperate with each other to launch an attack on a sentinel that was wreaking havoc on the battlefield. Unfortunately, facing the solid armor and huge size, these attacks often had little effect.

Above the battlefield, a pair of golden-red flaming wings flapped slightly, and in the center of the flaming wings was Xu Yue, who was floating high in the sky overlooking the entire battlefield.

His eyes fell on the park notification that suddenly popped up in front of him. After seeing all the contents in the notification clearly, he immediately clicked on his main task named "Independence". After finding that there was no change, the corner of his mouth raised a smile.

"Heh, it seems that the changes that will be triggered by the awakening of Apocalypse may be more exciting than I imagined..."

He glanced sideways in the direction of Cairo, and after thinking for a moment, he raised his hand to close the virtual barrier in front of him, then lowered his eyes again to look at the simulated battlefield of the X-Men Reserve and the Giant Sentinel below.

"Kill all the sentinel robots within ten minutes, otherwise this training mission will be declared a failure and everyone will have to practice for an extra three hours."

The cold declaration spread from the sky to every corner of the battlefield, immediately causing wails of grief behind each bunker.

Behind a broken low wall somewhere, Iceman Bobby also groaned unconsciously in his throat, carefully poked his head out from the edge of the wall, and glanced at the giant sentinel not far away that was releasing more than a dozen grenades, setting off a sea of ​​fire on the battlefield. He gritted his teeth, and then suddenly jumped out from behind the bunker with a cold white mist, and at the same time a loud shout exploded on the battlefield.

"The long-range sentry at three o'clock, Colossus and I will be responsible for attracting fire, and the rest of you are ready to concentrate fire!!"

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The entire paradise was announcing something, and except for Xu Yue from X Academy, the contractors from other forces in the Federation also changed at the same time. Their eyes, either happy or angry, all looked towards the ancient city of Cairo thousands of miles away.

(End of this chapter)