Chapter 452: The War Begins: Hell's Kitchen vs. the Reincarnators
Because of Ethan and his powerful Hell's Kitchen team, Captain Universe Spider-Man felt an ease he'd never felt before as he faced this new batch of Reincarnators.
This mission was nothing like his past experience. Before, he had always fought alone, or alongside a handful of allies, crossing between universes of the multiverse and sparing no effort to save ordinary people from fire and flood.
But right now, Hell's Kitchen's mutants, fighters with superhuman powers, were more than enough to handle the Reincarnators. For the moment, he was free of the crushing burden of rescue work.
Captain Universe Spider-Man stood to one side, his gaze cold and deep. He didn't join the fight directly. Instead he surveyed the battle like an observer.
Watching Hell's Kitchen's mutants use their unique abilities to bring the Reincarnators down one by one, he felt a complicated stir of emotion.
He thought back to past brutal battles, to comrades who had died because they weren't strong enough, and sighed inwardly. If they'd had power like this back then, maybe they wouldn't have had to pay such a heavy price.
But those thoughts didn't hold him for long. Captain Universe Spider-Man knew he had something more important to do right now: revenge.
On his travels, he had run into the Reincarnators' interference countless times. In some universes, he had watched countless innocent lives snuffed out before his eyes. Those were wounds on his heart that would never heal. Now, facing these Reincarnators once more, the rage inside him caught fire completely.
Ethan was holding back against these weaker Reincarnators, but Captain Universe Spider-Man had no such restraint. He charged onto the battlefield without hesitation and poured every ounce of anger and frustration he'd built up in other universes onto the Reincarnators.
His movements were swift and precise. Every strike seemed to carry the power of the cosmos, and the Reincarnators had no way to block them.
Under his onslaught, the Reincarnators fell like autumn leaves before the wind, and the battlefield filled with despair and fear.
In mere moments, a dozen or more Reincarnators had fallen at his hands, their bodies broken apart by Captain Universe Spider-Man's power, never to rise again.
But it didn't last long.
Suddenly, something unprecedented shattered the oppressive calm. Every corner of the dimensional space, from the distant stars to the nearest specks of dust, rang with a huge, piercing sound.
It was like an enormous pane of glass in the endless cosmos being smashed all at once. It was deafening, and it stabbed straight into the heart.
The sound didn't just shake every inch of space. It jolted everyone's nerves, and naturally caught Captain Universe Spider-Man's full attention.
Then, up in the sky, it was as if an invisible scroll had been torn apart roughly. Space itself seemed unable to withstand the force of some impact. It began to twist and shatter.
With that earth-shaking crack, a group of figures abruptly appeared in the sky.
They seemed to have crossed over from another world, carrying an air that didn't belong to this dimension. They hung silently in midair, turning the whole sky mysterious and fraught with danger.
They weren't one group. They were sharply divided into two sides facing off in the sky. One side was large, a good few dozen strong, in every kind of outfit. Some wore battle armor, some wore cloaks, some bared powerful physiques.
Their eyes were full of fury and resentment. They were the high-ranked Reincarnators who had been trapped in illusions for so long.
After tens of minutes of hard struggle, they had finally broken out of the suffocating Mirror Dimension and the tangled web of illusions, and were free.
The other side was the sorcerers of ancient, mysterious Kamar-Taj. They wore long robes embroidered with intricate runes and held staffs topped with brilliant gems.
Their eyes shone with wisdom and resolve, as if they could see into all things. At their head stood Strange, the current leader of Kamar-Taj, and Kang, master of the art of Kyōka Suigetsu.
But apart from Strange, the other Kamar-Taj sorcerers didn't look good. Their faces were pale and their expressions exhausted. Holding the Mirror Dimension had clearly drained a great deal of their magic and energy.
In the tense standoff, Captain Universe Spider-Man felt the tension thick in the air. He knew it was his turn.
So he flashed into motion, becoming a brilliant streak of red light that shot up into the sky like a meteor and arrived in an instant at the center of the standoff.
The high-ranked Reincarnators who had just escaped the illusion were obviously furious. Their eyes were full of anger and hatred for the Kamar-Taj sorcerers.
Bardock, who wasn't the brightest, couldn't hold back his rage. With a roar, he charged like a runaway horse at Strange, the man he saw as the "culprit."
"You trickster with your sideshow magic, fight me!" Bardock swung a huge fist, wind howling around it, and lunged at Strange.
But just as Bardock was about to reach Strange, a red figure suddenly flashed between them.
It was Captain Universe Spider-Man. He quickly put out both hands and firmly stopped Bardock's mighty blow.
"I'm your opponent. We never settled things last time. This time, I'm getting my revenge," Captain Universe Spider-Man said coldly. His eyes were full of resolve and confidence, as if he were fully ready to settle it once and for all with Bardock.
The two men's fists collided, and the impact created enormous air pressure. The air around them seemed sucked out in an instant, leaving a vacuum.
Everyone nearby took a few steps back without thinking to avoid the powerful shockwave.
In the chaos, the other Reincarnators flashed away like arrows loosed from a bow, shooting off in every direction, ready to carry out their plan to massacre Hell's Kitchen.
Their figures traced graceful arcs through the air, so fast it dazzled the eye.
At the same time, Hell's Kitchen reacted quickly too. Dozens of figures rose into the air from every direction, each seeking out their own opponent, ready for a battle of life and death.
Every face was full of resolve and defiance. The air was thick with fighting spirit.
Up in the sky, Ethan, who had been quietly watching it all, smiled an amused smile and murmured, "I've arranged an opponent for each of you, specially... This feast is going to be spectacular. I can hardly wait."
His eyes glinted with a deep light, as if he could already see the thrilling battles about to play out.
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