They were seeking revenge against Morlun's soul!
"Consider this my payment for avenging you..."
Ryan whispered to the souls of the Spider-Men who were tearing at Morlun's soul within the orb. With a flick of his finger, he tossed the golden orb into his mouth like a jellybean.
Gulp—
A golden pill swallowed into the belly, my fate is mine to command, not the gods'!
As the golden orb containing Morlun and the souls of numerous Spider-Men went down, a surge of power more violent than any previous upgrade erupted from Ryan's body!
And this wasn't the indirect strengthening that came from Symbiote consumption; Ryan himself was becoming stronger!
It was the same sensation of growth he felt when he defeated other Spider-Men and gained their power!
Only this time, it was more than ever before, and far stronger!
Unlike Morlun, who only gained physical power boosts after devouring those Spider-Men, when Ryan acquired the abilities of other Spider-Men, he gained their entire repertoire!
Physical fitness was just the foundation; Spider-Sense, Silk abilities, and other special powers were the main highlights!
Since Morlun woke up, he had devoured the souls of at least dozens of different Spider-Men, and now all those devoured Spider-Men had become a dowry for Ryan!
Once the surge of power settled down, Ryan clenched his fist to test it, finding that his various attributes had increased by at least double.
And that was double on top of the power Ryan already had after the Symbiote devoured those powerful lifeforms and granted him numerous abilities!
This single consumption was already comparable to the efforts Ryan had put in over the past two years!
As expected, taking it one step at a time was too slow; directly devouring Inheritor Family was the best path to increasing his strength!
After annihilating Morlun in both the physical and soulful sense, Ryan retracted the Tesseract into his body. The golden light in his eyes dimmed, and he dissipated the green time energy that was freezing the entire tram.
This allowed the frozen tram to return to its high-speed crisis state...
There was no other way; if he hadn't frozen time for the entire tram just now, it would have likely derailed by this point...
As for why he didn't use the Time Stone to directly return the tram to its state before it was damaged?
Naturally, it was because Ryan didn't want to be toyed with by time...
Pausing time in a localized area was fine, but if you reversed time, god knows what kind of severe chain reactions it might cause...
For instance, if he really reverted the tram to its pre-damaged state, was it possible that the Morlun he had already dealt with would reappear?
Or even worse, would a more powerful version of Morlun from another Multiverse appear on this timeline in this Multiverse due to temporal entanglement?
Though it was just a hypothesis, it certainly wasn't a zero-probability event...
Besides... a mere tram was no trouble at all for Ryan himself; it was just a small nuisance he could handle easily!
As the tram's time freeze lifted, the conductor shouted anxiously at Ryan again, "Spider-Man, the subway tram is going to fly out of the tunnel in ten seconds! There's a sharp curve right outside the tunnel, we're out of time!"
Hearing this, Ryan slowly brushed Morlun's ashes off his palms and said calmly to the conductor, "Ten seconds? With that much time, what exactly are you worried about?"
The conductor's mouth twitched. "Spider-Man, in the time it took you to say that, there are only five seconds left..."
"That's enough," Ryan dropped the line indifferently, then looked toward the front of the car as purple lightning began to dance across his body.
Time seemed to slow down infinitely at this moment, coming nearly to a standstill!
Even Ryan looked with some surprise at the scene being extremely slowed down around him, because when he used the Lightning Symbiote ability before, it had never reached such an exaggerated level!
It seemed that among the Spider-Men Morlun had devoured, there happened to be one related to lightning speed, which indirectly enhanced the lightning abilities he already possessed!
Zzt—
With the sound of a current, Ryan turned into a bolt of purple lightning. In less than a blink of an eye, he traversed the entire tram and appeared outside the tunnel, directly in front of the oncoming tram!
Watching the tram racing toward him at maximum speed as it exited the tunnel, Ryan didn't choose to use Silk to pull the whole train like the Original Spider-Man did at the front. Instead, he simply stepped to the side and reached out an open-palmed hand toward the charging tram!
He intended to stop this runaway tram with his bare hands!
Ryan's bold move instantly stunned the passengers who were sticking their heads out of the aisle and looking at Ryan through the gap in the front of the car!
Crazy, he's crazy! This Spider-Man actually plans to stop the entire tram with one hand!
How could a human possibly do that!
He's Spider-Man, not Superman!
God, we're dead for sure this time...
This was the first thought that popped into everyone's mind when they saw Ryan's daring action!
But they couldn't change Ryan's mind, because in the next second, the tram exiting the tunnel had already slammed into Ryan at the tunnel exit!
Thump—!!!
Creeeeaaak—
After a heavy impact, something no passenger expected happened!
The tram slammed into Ryan, but instead of crushing his flesh-and-blood body into a meat patty, the front of the tram hit Ryan's hand and was compressed into a flat iron disk amidst a tooth-aching sound of grinding metal!
Luckily, the conductor at the front had just run to the back car to ask Ryan for help; otherwise, he would have been the'strawberry jam' filling in that iron disk by now...
The tram was stopped, but...
Although Ryan possessed powerful strength comparable to Superman, he didn't have Superman's unreasonable Bio-electric Field. So, after Ryan cosplayed as a utility pole to forcibly halt the tram, the string of cars behind it began to fly into the air one by one due to the reaction force!
It was like a giant metal snake soaring into the air!
Ryan didn't panic at all, nor did he even intend to catch the many airborne cars. He just stood quietly in place, watching the terrified passengers in the cars above.
The reason he was so calm and unmoved was naturally not because he decided to stop halfway through the rescue, but because his 'family' had arrived!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—
Amidst the sounds of breaking air, countless strands of Silk suddenly shot from all directions, wrapping around the airborne tram cars!
At some point, the surrounding rooftops had become crowded with all sorts of Spider-Men. Together, they fired their silk to catch the tram suspended in mid-air, creating an epic and spectacular scene of a web stopping a train!
Ryan gave a light leap and landed alone on the tram, which was fixed in mid-air by the web of countless silks, surveying all the Spider-Men to his left and right.
To his left were the members of the Spider Family from his own Universe.
To his right were the members of the Spider-Alliance from the Multiverse.
And Ryan, situated in the center of the two factions, was the common leader of both!
This was the Great Spider Era that belonged solely to Ryan Parker!