"I said I can do it, so I can do it."
The Sentinels' advantage was not in flight. As long as Fenris accelerated even slightly, he could easily leave them far behind.
He deliberately maintained a distance that was neither too close nor too far. Once he saw that the group behind him had grown large enough, the two pairs of light wings on his back beat once, and his entire body instantly became an afterimage flying toward the outside of the island.
"Fenris is flying toward us."
As the island's second-largest defensive line, Mystique's side had gathered a large number of X-Men and the Brotherhood's main members.
Because of that, after Fenris had single-handedly taken on the pressure from the entire aerial battlefield and nearly seventy percent of the ground battlefield, this side was also the first to stabilize.
Within the crowd, Mystique noticed Fenris's movement almost immediately.
"Fenris, come on..."
Watching Fenris dart and weave through the air alone, restraining countless Sentinels by himself, even Azazel could not help breaking into a cold sweat for him.
"Is Fenris reaching his limit?"
However, when they noticed that Fenris's speed was slowing bit by bit, Mystique and Emma Frost both frowned in worry.
The two exchanged a glance and saw the same anxiety in each other's eyes.
"Fenris, if you can't hold on, run! Don't worry about us!"
"Come back and avenge us later!"
"Go!"
As one of the strongest mutant combatants alive, as long as Fenris lived, there would always be a trace of hope.
If Fenris fell here trying to save people like them, who had no power to resist the Sentinels, Mystique simply did not dare imagine what kind of desperate future mutants would face after losing such a powerful figure.
"Fenris can't die. Mutants need him..."
As the leader of the X-Men, the instant Scott realized Fenris might be running out of strength, he made a decision without hesitation while struggling to lead everyone in maintaining the defensive line.
"All X-Men, abandon the line. Save Fenris with everything you have."
"Prepare... to sacrifice yourselves."
"Prepare to sacrifice ourselves?"
Although Cyclops hesitated slightly, his calm tone made it sound as if he were discussing what they should eat that afternoon.
"You all..."
Mystique looked at those young faces with a complicated expression. For some reason, her eyes suddenly stung.
"Yes."
Without any hesitation, every X-Man, including Beast, Storm, Colossus, and the others, responded almost in unison.
Watching the streak of rainbow light Fenris had become draw closer and closer, everyone's face was filled with calm.
"Professor Ororo, send me up."
Colossus was the first to step forward, his eyes fixed firmly on the dense mass of Sentinels in the air.
His defensive ability was the strongest among them all. But even now, wearing a vibranium battle suit and with his whole body transformed into steel, once he was thrown into that swarm of Sentinels like locusts, he still could not escape the inevitable end of being torn apart.
"There's nothing to hesitate about. Come on."
Colossus smiled, his eyes full of reluctance as they swept over everyone's faces. "I'm glad I got to fight beside all of you."
There was unwillingness in his tone, but not the slightest fear.
"Ororo, take me too."
Logan pulled a cigar from somewhere, clenched it between his teeth, and lit it amid the flames of war. "That kid Fenris has been annoyed with me for so long. After this, I bet he'll remember me for the rest of his life."
"Hiss, hahaha."
"Damn, that's good!"
For the last cigar of his life, Logan took a deep pull and drew the smoke straight into his lungs.
After a light cough, he suddenly shuddered and even rolled his eyes involuntarily.
"Come on!"
Seeing Fenris draw closer and closer, Logan casually tossed away the cigar, and his gaze instinctively drifted into the distance.
There lay a powerful body that had already been trampled flat.
Sabretooth.
During the chaos of the battle, when Logan passed by that spot, that brief glimpse had pieced together fragments of memories in his mind, memories of the time he had spent with that older brother.
From the Civil War, to World War I, to World War II...
They were not clear, but they were enough to leave a deep impression.
"Even you didn't make it. Wonder how I'll do."
"Brother..."
Kayla. Victor.
Countless broken fragments of memory surged into his mind.
At this moment, Logan finally laughed easily. There was no fear in his eyes, only release.
"I'm coming."
"Ready!"
Ororo's eyes soon turned white, and a fierce wind gradually rose beneath everyone's feet.
At the same time, in the air.
"They're telling me to leave?"
Fenris clearly noticed the countless worried gazes turned toward him from the crowd below.
Urgent cries rang in his ears. In the next moment, Fenris saw Wolverine and Colossus slowly rising into the air under Ororo's support.
Their flying speed grew faster and faster, and then they lunged without hesitation toward the swarm of Sentinels behind him.
"Professor Fenris, run!"
"Kid, live and avenge us!"
Fenris was extremely fast. He soon swept past the defensive line below and headed toward the outer edge of the island.
At the same time, Logan and Colossus shot past beneath him at high speed, then firmly blocked the space behind Fenris.
Logan's deliberately carefree voice entered his ears. This scene had come so suddenly that the expression on Fenris's face instantly froze.
"Fenris, live well."
A thick optic blast shot up from below with powerful force. In the next moment, Fenris saw Scott gathering the last of his strength and rushing swiftly in the exact opposite direction from him.
Fenris saw a brilliant smile suddenly appear on the man's face.
"Take care of Jean."
In the final moment, his lips moved, and he murmured those words.
As soon as he finished speaking, Scott turned and ran without hesitation.
Very soon, a portion of the Sentinels really was drawn away from the main force by him.
"Have you all lost your minds?!"
Fenris realized almost instantly what the people below were trying to do.
With the little strength they had left, even if every last one of them threw their lives away, what use would it be?
"Do I, someone who treasures his life this much, need you to save me with yours? What are you showing off for?"
"Could you at least discuss it with me before you go off to die?!"
Fenris had originally planned to lure these Sentinels outside the island. He had never expected such a change to happen.
"Kid, don't get lost the next time you drive."
Watching Logan roll his eyes in disdain while blocking the space behind him, and recalling the worried and complicated gazes the others had turned toward him, Fenris could not help sighing. His entire body immediately broke out of high-speed flight.
From absolute motion to absolute stillness, it took only an instant.
"You want to be heroes? Try again in your next life!"
"All of you, get back here!"
Fenris quickly turned around and reached out without hesitation toward Logan and Colossus, who were about to fly into the army of Sentinels.
But the Sentinel robots did not care who came first or second. As long as they were mutants, they were prey.
Those towering killing machines swarmed forward like locusts. In an instant, they spread their long claws and swallowed all three of them beneath a sky-covering tide.
"No!"
Watching Fenris abandon the chance they had bought for him with their lives, Storm's eyes below instantly turned bloodshot.
"Azazel, go save him!"
Mystique suddenly turned her gaze toward Azazel. She clutched the edge of his clothes tightly and roared, "Fenris can't die! If Fenris dies, everything is over!"
"Bam!"
Azazel did not hesitate at all. After flinging off Raven's hand, his entire body immediately turned into a cloud of red mist and vanished from where he stood.
However, in the next instant, he appeared again in a sorry state, as if he had been struck hard.
"There's a very powerful magnetic field around Fenris, and it's still expanding. I..."
Azazel closed his eyes in near despair. "I can't get close to him at all!"
"No..."
Despair spread through the crowd in an instant.
Time itself seemed to freeze at that moment. Everyone instinctively closed their eyes, unable to keep watching the scene that seemed destined to stain the sky with blood.
(End of Chapter)
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