Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible.

Chapter 420 Announcement
The next day, X College.

While the professor was teaching, a purple portal that had appeared on Kiyu Island slowly opened at the back of the classroom in the same manner.

Then, Apocalypse was still the first to step out of the portal, followed by Magneto, Alfred and four other Doomsday Knights who had just been promoted.

As several people walked in one after another, a powerful aura that was invisible to the naked eye instantly filled the entire venue, causing the originally relaxed and harmonious teaching atmosphere to stagnate.

The lecture was interrupted. After a while, several students with relatively strong personalities in the classroom finally reacted. They stood up and shouted at the uninvited guests behind them:
"Who are you?!"

The students' low shouts continued to echo in the room, but before Tianqi and others, who were being questioned, could reply, an invisible mental wave had already spread out slowly throughout the room with the professor as the center, and soon the emotions of all the students in the room changed rapidly from panic and anger to peace and stability.

"It's okay. Today's class ends here. You can all go out first. These guests are here to see me."

"professor?"

Faced with the puzzled looks from many students, the professor did not explain too much, but just pursed his lips and repeated what he had just said.

"Everyone, leave first."

After he finished speaking, the room was quiet for a moment, and then the students began to stand up one by one, and walked quickly towards the door of the room at the same time.

Although the identities of these uninvited guests have not yet been determined, they must obey as long as the professor speaks.

On the other side, glancing at the crowd that automatically separated on the left and right sides, Apocalypse had no intention of stopping them from leaving. Compared to humans who were as weak as ants, these mutant teenagers with various special talents could barely be considered his fellow human beings.

Although the opponent's power was also small in the eyes of Apocalypse, it at least had the possibility of being extraordinary.

Moreover, even if he rebuilds a new world later, he will need a large number of subjects as the basis for his rule. Therefore, although these mutant teenagers are not worth winning over for Apocalypse, there is no need to deliberately destroy them either.

Soon, all the students in the room left one after another, leaving only the professor and Apocalypse and others who were confronting him.

"It's amazing, this power..."

A faint murmur sounded in the room. Looking at the kind old man in front of him with an old face but extremely pure and bright eyes, Tianqi's gaze gradually changed from indifference to fanaticism.

Although he had learned some information about Professor X before setting out, after seeing it with his own eyes, the surprise brought to him by his talent was still far beyond his expectations.

In thousands of reincarnations, the dynasties and civilizations ruled by Apocalypse were far more than just Egypt.

In fact, whether it is the Nile River, the Indus River Basin, Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean Greek Peninsula... In short, wherever there is a prosperous civilization on this planet, he has left many footprints and legends, some light and some heavy.

But without exception, once his rule lasts too long, he will inevitably face a crazy counterattack and betrayal from his people. This is also the main reason why the four knights are always following Apocalypse.

His last rebellion even forced him to sleep in darkness for thousands of years, and he almost suffered a miserable end of eternal sleep.

Just like the original sin of mankind described in the Bible, human wisdom and rebellious consciousness are almost two sides of the same coin.

As long as its wisdom is not extinguished, rebellion is only a matter of time. From the day it was born, thought seems to be born with a certain rebellious gene that looks down on everything.

Looking back on past experiences, Apocalypse had founded a religion that ruled everything and had also built a dynasty with strict class structures, but no matter whether it was the gods looking down on all living beings or the kings high above, they could never win their eternal loyalty.

As time goes by, the lambs will always use various methods to resist his rule.

Neither the law nor faith seems to be able to restrain the rebellious spirit of human beings who are unwilling to be inferior and trapped here.

Of course, in the eyes of anthropologists of later generations, this is mankind’s eternal pursuit of freedom and the inevitable evolution of social development, but for Apocalypse, this is the most despicable original sin in the human soul - arrogance!
Even though their power is as small as that of an ant, their thoughts are always unrestrained and their ambitions are always high.

Strength can only restrain the body, and fear can only work for a short time. Dynasties will be overthrown, and faith will wither. Over the long thousands of years, Apocalypse has tried countless means of ruling, but basically all ended in failure.

And now, in the old man in front of him, he finally saw the answer he had been looking for for a long time, that is the great power that is enough to completely control the mind and further weave thoughts.

"Your talent for seeing through thoughts and manipulating minds is extraordinary, kid."

"At the same time, you will also become the last piece of my puzzle, helping me to become the true supreme 'God'..."

In the room, Apocalypse and Professor X looked at each other. One of their eyes was pale and chaotic, while the other gradually turned black.

From the moment Apocalypse showed obvious emotional fluctuations, the professor decisively launched a mind invasion along the cracks in his mind. Unfortunately, facing this old antique that had survived for thousands of years, his own mental strength was obviously much weaker. This was the power accumulated over a long period of time.

Therefore, not only did the professor fail to complete the mind control in the end, but the other party also took advantage of it to achieve a reverse invasion on the mental level.

Tianqi lowered his eyes and looked at the professor's enchanting eyes which had turned completely black, speaking in a low voice.

"Tell me, what do you see in my mind?"

"………destroy……"

"No!"

Shaking his head to interrupt the professor's muttering, Apocalypse's tone gradually began to become more high-pitched.

"This is the future! Your talent will give this world a brand new, beautiful future that can truly achieve eternal stability..."

"Oh!"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a sudden muffled explosion.

Behind the crowd, they saw the tightly closed door being pushed open by Storm who had hurried over, and the air flow swept in with a sharp muffled sound.

At the door, Storm saw the professor surrounded by Apocalypse and others. Her face changed, but before she could step inside, a red sticky breath came towards her.

Caught off guard, Storm, who had just stepped into the room, was knocked straight out the door.

The mutation lasted only a few seconds before it came to an abrupt end, but it still inevitably attracted Apocalypse's attention. The paleness in his eyes slowly faded away. He first turned around and glanced coldly at the wide-open door behind him, and at the Scarlet Witch who was near the door and had not yet put down her raised arm. Then he summoned the purple portal for transfer again.

"Let's go, there's no need to get entangled with them."

…………Unless necessary, Apocalypse still retains a rare kindness towards these mutants with special talents. Even though all the people in the academy can be easily killed by him with a wave of his hand, between massacre and retreat, he still prefers the latter.

So when Storm, who was blown away, rushed back into the room with a strong wind, all she saw was an empty and messy classroom.

"professor?!"

…………

Above X Academy, a golden battleship loomed in the clouds.

When commotion broke out in the fortress on the surface, the warship decks in the sky quickly noticed the abnormality below.

"Xinhuo, are you sure Charles' life is not in danger?"

"Don't worry, except for Apocalypse, the four knights under his command are all ours, so there won't be any trouble."

At the front of the deck, Xu Yue was playing with the small magic mirror in his hand while casually soothing Hank's hidden worries behind him.

"You should know the professor's abilities better than I do. Even if he is not a match for Apocalypse, he is far from being fragile enough to collapse at any moment."

"Rather than worrying about him, our mission is equally important, Hank, are you sure the modified Blackbird fighter can support space travel?"

Hearing this, Hank on the side withdrew his gaze from looking down and said:

"As long as your plan goes well, there will be no problems with my fighter planes."

"That's good!"

Glancing sideways at the direction of Cairo in the distance, Xu Yue was not worried about the professor being abducted by Tianqi. Instead, there was always a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

"If you want to make Tianqi play the best role, the professor is the best bait to stimulate him."

"Let's make chaos. In the apocalypse, only chaos can give birth to a new vitality..."

...............

Ten minutes after the professor was forcibly abducted, a vast mental wave suddenly spread out with Cairo as its center, and quickly swept across the world in a very short time.

Cairo, Egypt.

On the banks of the Nile.

On the rough and towering rocks by the river, Apocalypse with white eyes was suspended in the air, below him was the Professor with dark eyes, and further out, there were four knights including Magneto on each side.

As for his other subordinates, such as Alfred's puppet army, Magneto's Brotherhood, etc., these weak cannon fodders are meaningless to Apocalypse.

With the help of the professor's humanoid 'mind expander', he is now like a supreme god who can truly see through everything.

Even without the help of the brain wave amplifier, his will is like a giant net that encompasses the entire blue planet with a surface area of ​​5.1 million square kilometers. It is no exaggeration to say that he is now almost omnipresent.

Except for a few special areas that could completely isolate spiritual power, the minds of nearly 65 billion intelligent beings on the entire planet were completely open to him at this moment, allowing him to have whatever he wanted.

At the same time, no matter whether they are humans or mutants, as long as they are connected by the web of mind, the deep and solemn voice of Apocalypse will sound in their minds at the same time.

"Listen, everyone in this world, this will be the clarion call before the new century begins!"

"I declare to each of you, humans and mutants, that your era has lost the right direction, but now I have returned, and soon, the final judgment will come..."

"I will lead you back to the right path of glory. Stay tuned, a new era is about to begin!"

The voices that echoed in their ears gradually became louder, and as time went on, the same scenes began to emerge in everyone's mind at the same time.

They were human beings whose pupils were gradually filled with black. Judging from their clothes, there were soldiers and politicians with various identities. But what they all had in common was that they all pressed the launch button at hand in different ways at the same time.

So, the next second, the perspective changes.

Under the gaze of nearly 65 billion pairs of horrified eyes around the world, densely packed missiles of various colors simultaneously soared into the sky from launch silos in every corner of the earth's surface.

As early as 1986, the total number of nuclear weapons in the world reached an astonishing 7. Although since the end of the Cold War, all nuclear-weapon states have begun to reduce the number of these deadly weapons that could cause long-term harm, as of today in 2006, the number of nuclear warheads left in the world is still huge, measured in tens of thousands.

The Federation alone has a stockpile of nearly 10,000 nuclear weapons, and more than half of them are always activated and in combat mode. If we add to that a series of weapons of mass destruction that are no less powerful than nuclear warheads, such as three-phase bombs, hydrogen bombs, and thermobaric weapons, the number of missiles released simultaneously by Apocalypse at this moment would be as high as tens of thousands.

Looking down from a high altitude, one could see countless dense black spots breaking through the air from beneath the surface and rushing straight into the sky at an extremely fast speed, leaving behind white gas columns in the air that looked like dense forests.

If such an exaggerated number of nuclear weapons were all detonated on the planet, the horrific power of the explosion would be enough to easily destroy the entire ecosystem of the earth. The radioactive dust and high-energy radiation released would also directly tear apart the ozone layer and sever the food chain...

Of course, a disaster of this magnitude will not lead to the complete destruction of the earth, but human civilization will inevitably enter its true doomsday.

It has to be said that compared to creation, human beings are far ahead in the field of destruction.

"Nuclear war breaks out! Humanity is finished..."

Seeing this, an idea appeared in everyone's mind almost at the same time. Now it has only been 15 years since the end of the Cold War, and the theory of nuclear deterrence is still deeply rooted in people's minds. Except for ignorant children, no one knows what terrible consequences will occur once all the nuclear bombs in the world are detonated.

Look, in fact, it is not difficult to destroy human beings. They have long made weapons for execution by shooting. Apocalypse only needs to pull the trigger lightly to easily achieve the ultimate goal of destroying civilization.

…………

"Damn it, where are these nuclear warheads being launched? Find out now!"

"Also, what is Professor X doing, is he trying to destroy the world?!"

(End of this chapter)