It felt nice to see living humans in this universe, though I could feel their presence through my mana even without ever having met them. Because of the sheer amount of corrupted death mana and the weakness with which the heart of this world was beating, it was almost impossible to even sense the presence of life in this world; fortunately, thanks to a clever use of the nature that had overrun the world, I was able to talk to it and ask where it's presence hand't spread as much, and lo and behold, New York once again, why does everything happen always there?
But let me get to reality, thinking 18 times faster than normal can make the silence made by others to create suspense quite boring.
" You don't exist." A male voice, belonging to, if not my only, my favourite leader of a group of spies, Nick Fury.
" If I didn't exist, he would still look like he would die any moment," I said while pointing at Magneto, who looked calmer than the others present in the room.
Looking at them, I can quite easily see why they all survived. Nick is Nick, Natasha is like a mini-version of Nick, but hot, and also physically stronger. Stephen doesn't need any explanation. Black Panther, also known as T'Challa, was someone I wasn't expecting, though when our eyes met, I could see a similarity in us, the only difference being the purity of the signal we gave. Considering his name and one of my familars I made the quick connection.
As if calling to me, I felt Pasht sending me a signal that she wished to evoke, so I did just that, and now on my side appeared a black panther.
Nick didn't even say anything as he and Natasha extracted a gun and shot at me. Strange remained calm, most likely his magic danger sense not tinging. T'Challa was shocked instead.
The bullet, of course, stopped mid-air as I ignored the two and looked at the interaction between Pasht and him, and seeing someone kneel in front of a panther felt funnier than I had imagined.
" My goddes, how, I thought, I saw, you stopped answering my calls."
" She is not your goddess, not from this universe, and even then, she is just a shard of true divinity."
Pasht then walked towards me and pushed her head under my hand, demanding scratches; she had discovered a fondness for them.
" Another universe?" Strange was the one who asked this time.
" Yes, I can travel between universes, and when I arrived here, I felt the corruption that had spread. I am an emissary of life, a druid and a healer, seeing so much death made me almost puke."
" I have never seen a druid like you."
" Apparently, you have never seen someone like me," I said while looking at Nick, who had just pushed his gun down, and murmured about how unfair having superpowers was.
" You don't exist, you were never born, you have never died, there is no piece of information about your existence."
" Different universe, different people."
" The multiverse doesn't work like that. There have to be some similarities at least. If someone existed in a universe, then with almost absolute certainty, he also exists somewhere else. Even if dead, he must have existed."
" But I don't." That made me think, are my powers doing something? Is my existence breaking reality in some way? Whenever I think I scratched the surface of my powers, here they come with something even crazier.
" Well, this is not the moment for theory lessons; we have an infection to stop."
" We can't, we have used any type of scientific or magical way to find a cure with no result."
" But you didn't have Santa's elves on your side."
" What?"
" You will see, for now, how about I do something for this slowly dying city?"
" Like what?" This came from Natasha, who spoke for the first time; the whole apocalypse must have made her lose her charm.
" Like this."
Everyone in the room felt it, their muscles strengthened, their bones hardened, their skin was tougher, the blood moved faster, the heart beat more, their brain were clearer, and they had regained the sharpness they had lost after years of constant battles against zombies.
I also summoned Ivy in her phyton form and saw her proceed to make all the trees taller, the nature around the wall for a sort of natural barrier, and the crops they were growing were ripe and ready to be collected.
Ivy made sure to collect her prize by moving around my neck and resting there, after turning to her smaller size, of course.
Pasht pushed a palm to T'Challa, and I felt his powers strengthening as a connection he had lost now invigorated back to normal, now that he had his goddess once again.
" What I did it you all, I can do for a city. I can make every single living being in this city reach peak condition in seconds, I can make organs and limbs regrow quite easily, and turn a weak human into someone able to fight."
Nick didn't talk and instead continued receiving messages that told about what I had done to the outside of the city onto their crops. T'Challa had a smile on his face, and Strange remained calm. Magneto was already aware of my powers, and so wasn't surprised.
" What do you want in exchange?" Those were the first words that came out of Nick after I had given him back his life force; his voice didn't sound as weak as before.
" That this universe continues living."
" No one wants anything."
" It might be nothing to you, but it's a lot to me. My powers let me feel every death, every heart that stops, all of the emotions that someone feels before being eaten alive. In my universe, life is abundant, but here, the corruption is suffocating. I have the powers and emotions to help, so I must do so."
Silence fell once again; the sounds present were the Pasht scratches and the movement of Ivy around my neck.
" What do we call you?"
" Adrian, Mutant Gamer is also ok."
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