Looking at Magneto's retreating figure, Wanda closed her eyes in sorrow.
For her, it was the shattering of an innocent dream. The role of a father she had once yearned for was completely destroyed the moment Magneto turned away.
She chose not to cry, because it wasn't worth it to her. She merely used her abilities silently, desperately trying to sustain the life of her only remaining relative.
But this meager healing method wouldn't last long; when her power was exhausted, it would be Quicksilver's Death.
Wanda understood this well, so she straightforwardly pleaded with Zhou Yi for help.
"Help me, Dawn Knight. Save my brother!"
"How can I help?" Zhou Yi used his divine authority, and the power of Sun's Grace spread over Logan and Mystique, but its effect was the same as on Quicksilver.
Although it temporarily restored them to a normal state, the next moment they inevitably worsened.
This almost unsolvable problem left him helpless; facing Wanda's plea, he could only sigh in resignation.
But Wanda didn't think that way; in her eyes, Zhou Yi was the only one capable of solving this problem.
She waved her hands, making her Chaos mist envelop all three of their bodies simultaneously.
The mist repaired their bodies and sustained their lives.
Although it was only temporary, it freed up Zhou Yi's hands.
"I can feel it, Dawn Knight." The Scarlet Witch stared intently into the depths of the Base.
"Their Souls are not in this place; something has used a strange power to take their Souls to another World.
Their Souls are constantly being harmed, and this harm, when reflected in reality, causes everything we see.
To save them, we must rescue their Souls."
"Soul?" Zhou Yi savored the word, something that could only be understood through mysticism.
Although he had once ventured alone into the Domain of the dead, he remained ignorant about Souls.
As the highest-ranking deity on the mystical side, he was still as blank as a piece of White paper.
Human experience could not fill this void; lacking the knowledge of a deity was his greatest weakness.
"What should I do?" In this situation, he could only turn to Wanda.
He guessed that since Wanda was asking for his help, she naturally knew how he could assist her.
"Go down this way; I can feel the source of the power there.
You must defeat him; we don't have much time left."
Following Wanda's guidance, Zhou Yi began to run.
The surge of Qi sent many Soldiers, who stood frozen in place, flying, but no one made even the slightest sound.
Just as Wanda had said, their Souls had fallen into another World.
So what remained here were merely walking corpses.
Or perhaps, these were already dead people.
Not everyone was lucky enough to have someone like Zhou Yi or the Scarlet Witch go to such lengths to heal them.
Everything their Souls endured was already enough to kill them on a physiological level.
Fortunately, these were all people who deserved to die.
The evil deeds they committed were enough to ensure they received plenty of special services in Hell.
Therefore, Zhou Yi naturally held no sympathy or other emotions for these people.
He merely rushed through the crowd, guided by an indescribable intuition, passing through one corridor after another, turning one corner after another.
He finally stopped before a sealed door.
In front of the steel-welded door stood several Soldiers with cutting tools, but they no longer had the chance to open it.
Because they had become withered mummies, as if scorched by intense Fire, their entire bodies charred into an unrecognizable mass.
However, the tools in their hands and the clothes on their bodies were perfectly intact.
A reality that normal human minds could not comprehend—this was the unknowable power of the mystical side.
He took a document from the hand of a corpse wearing a White lab coat among the Soldiers and quickly flipped through it.
He found it was a Mutant's record file, and after reading this file, Zhou Yi finally understood what was happening here.
Airesha Otis, a Mutant girl whose ability was not powerful but very strange.
Although her ability Rank was only three, its effect was immeasurable.
Her ability was called Soul Descent, capable of summoning departed spirits or other entities onto herself, uncontrollably and irreversibly.
Initially, her ability only attracted some ordinary departed spirits.
These departed spirits, apart from a slight supernatural presence, did not possess much power.
So the supernatural phenomena on her merely made her parents feel strange, and after finding a few somewhat genuine exorcists to dispel the Souls that had descended upon her, the matter was dropped.
Until a terrifying Soul descended upon her.
This terrifying Soul possessed unimaginably dreadful power; in just one night, she plunged all living things in a small town into eternal Deathly silence.
Government personnel discovered this town, which had become a dead Domain, and also found the only surviving Little Girl.
But they had no recourse; all life that entered this town quickly died, and their Deaths were inexplicable, leaving all those in the know baffled.
It wasn't until Stryker's department took over that, after sacrificing many of his subordinates' lives, he finally understood the general situation and specifically used hypnotic gas spread throughout the town to capture Airesha, who had fallen into slumber.
Stryker regarded Airesha as excellent experimental Materials and brought this possessed girl back to the Base.
But he didn't expect that because of this, he almost destroyed his life's work.
Almost all the Soldiers and most of the Mutants fell into this Deathly silent state, and the entire Base almost became paralyzed.
Finally, Stryker, who was immune to any mental attacks, had to use a sedative to put her into a long period of hibernation, which allowed the Base to return to normal.
Stryker, unwilling to have such valuable Materials destroyed, ultimately decided to completely seal her away.
He intended to use this Material when the time was right, or after the descending Soul had left on its own.
This idea was held for a long time, but the patience of the descending Soul exceeded his expectations.
Every year he would cautiously test it, but each time, besides wasting a few lives, it had no other effect.
Until now, at the most crucial moment of Stryker's life, he decided to release this terrifying Destroyer.
After reading the order signed by Stryker in his hand, Zhou Yi shifted his gaze to the door in front of him.
Stryker's Base used an unknown Material, which rendered Zhou Yi's super vision useless, making it impossible to see what was behind the door.
But his divine intuition told him that there was a terrifying entity behind the door.
This entity was similar to a deity.
The welded steel door could not stop his steps; with a gentle push, the heavy steel twisted and deformed like an adobe wall made of soft mud.
He stepped over the broken door and entered this cage that imprisoned the demon.
The steel-cast walls were chilling, making one shiver; the empty cell still held a cold, icy mist.
Darkness pervaded everywhere, and the person he sought was curled up in the darkest corner, trembling, looking pitiful and harmless.
It was a girl who appeared to be only in her teens, thin and dirty, looking even worse than a street beggar.
But she was enough to make anyone who understood her feel fear, not fear of her, but fear of the entity within her body.
The one who created Death and Fear.
Walking straight forward, Zhou Yi's footsteps startled the cowering girl.
She raised her head, and through her tangled, dirty, greasy hair, he saw yellowish, snake-like vertical pupils.
"king of light, you dare to appear before me.
Who sent you to gaze into the most terrifying abyss?"
Like eerie whispers constantly echoing in a dark lair, they reverberated in Zhou Yi's ears.
They were the most malicious words and sounds, capable of driving anyone who heard them mad and dark.
Just hearing the voice, Zhou Yi instinctively felt uncomfortable, a feeling akin to seeing a natural predator.
"Who are you?" Zhou Yi stared intently at the girl before him, as if facing a formidable enemy.
Golden flames had already risen from his body; this Sun Fire should have been the hottest, brightest flame.
But it could not dispel the cold here, nor illuminate the darkness.
Darkness and Light stood in such stark opposition, like myths and legends sung of old.
"Who am I?" Layers of voices intertwined, emerging from her throat.
Her frail body leaned against the corner, slowly standing up.
Although she appeared delicate, the Shadow behind her continuously climbed and grew, forming a ferocious and terrifying Shadow.
"I am the Dominator of the Abyss, the harvester of Souls, the bestower of all darkness and suffering.
I am the Shadow of Death, the Incarnation of emptiness.
I am—Erebus, the King of Fear!"
As she spoke her name, Zhou Yi's divine power erupted, golden flames shot into the sky, almost burning through everything that obstructed them.
And in the illumination of these flames, the densest darkness began to gather on Airesha's body.
A blurry Shadow gradually revealed its true form.
It was the image of the most real and most powerful demon, imagined in everyone's hearts.
Ferocious horns intertwined in layers on his head, sharp points gleamed with a grayish-green light, as if laced with terrifying venom.
Three pairs of narrow eyes were scattered across his scaly face, and the yellowish vertical pupils revealed not only malice but also crimson flames.
A forked tongue, like a venomous snake, constantly flickered from his mouth filled with sharp teeth, and thick green saliva slowly dripped from the corners of his wide mouth.
A pungent, fishy odor faintly lingered.
His massive, giant-like body was covered in dark red scales, and black, messy hair grew in the crevices of the scales, making him look grotesque and terrifying.
Six colossal arms extended from his dreadful body; these arms were covered in barbs, and his sharp claws looked sharper than any dagger.
And behind him, a pair of enormous bat wings were folded, and on each joint of those bat wings grew bone spurs like sharp swords.
As the bat wings trembled, these bone spurs made sparse sounds, like bones colliding and shattering.
His lower body was not human feet, but a venomous snake's tail.
Giant, fish-like dorsal fins grew on both sides of his thick tail, and at the tip of his tail was an eyeless, Dragon-like head.
This blind Dragon constantly looked left and right, and thick green venomous Fire splattered little by little from its mouth.
With the appearance of this image, countless wails and screams suddenly erupted in Zhou Yi's ears.
He saw countless pale specters prostrate at his feet, extending their arms to pull at his body, but they were always reduced to ashes by the venomous Fire splattered by the eyeless Dragon at his tail.
At this moment, he believed his identity: a demon from the Abyss, the King of Fear, Erebus.