62: Chapter 62 Extreme Speed? You're Still in My Eyes

Eastern Europe, Sokovia.

Days of war had turned this once peaceful city into scorched earth. The last few secret fortresses of HYDRA, hidden within the mountains, had been completely razed to the ground by the plasma naval guns of the Crimson Guard.

The massive black hull of the Crimson Guard Mothership No. 1 hung low over the ruins, like a persistent dark cloud.

"Bang!"

Lynn didn't take the elevator. He jumped straight down from the mothership's deck, hundreds of meters high, his feet slamming heavily into the center of the gravel-filled square, creating a crater three meters in diameter.

Dust billowed.

The Punisher Frank and over a hundred fully armed Crimson Guard followed closely, descending via tractor beams. Mad Dog and the four-meter-tall ultimate monster "Godslayer" let out low roars, ready to carpet-sweep the ruins.

"Have them stand by."

Lynn raised his hand, stopping his subordinates' actions.

He stood alone in the center of the vast ruins. His black trench coat rustled in the cold wind. His right hand casually tossed the Tesseract, which emitted a ghostly blue light.

"Since they are rats, once they smell the bait, they will always run out on their own."

Deep in the ruins.

A pair of eyes, filled with hatred and unruliness, stared fixedly at Lynn in the center of the square.

Pietro Maximoff, codenamed "Quicksilver."

He and his sister Wanda had just escaped from the HYDRA laboratory and hadn't even had time to breathe the air of freedom before they were met by this even more terrifying black army.

"Wanda, stay here and don't move."

Pietro looked at the blue cube in Lynn's hand, which radiated astonishing energy, and whispered to his sister behind him, "That guy in the black coat must be their leader. As long as I grab the glowing Tesseract from his hand, this army will fall into chaos."

"Pietro, don't go! He has a very scary feeling about him..." Wanda's eyes were slightly red, trying to hold her brother back.

"Don't worry, in front of my speed, they won't even have a chance to react."

Pietro smiled confidently.

Ever since he was catalyzed and mutated by the energy of the Mind Stone, the World in his eyes had changed. He could see the trajectory of things faster than light and reach any place faster than sound.

In the World of martial arts, speed is the only way to be invincible. This was the capital Pietro was proud of.

"Whoosh!"

Pietro's legs exerted force suddenly.

A silver-blue afterimage instantly tore through the air in the ruins.

Just at the moment Pietro started moving, the World in his eyes entered absolute "bullet time."

Everything became extremely slow.

The dust falling in the sky hung in mid-air. The sparks from the muzzles of the Crimson Guard soldiers in the distance were like static red lotus flowers. Even the four-meter-tall monster "Godslayer" seemed to have turned into a clumsy statue.

Pietro sprinted in the stationary World.

He passed through collapsed walls, bypassed stagnant rubble, and rushed straight toward Lynn in the center of the square as if taking a leisurely stroll.

"Not much to it, after all."

Pietro looked at Lynn, who was close at hand, a disdainful smile on his lips.

Pietro reached out, grabbing for the Tesseract suspended in mid-air.

However.

Just at the moment when Pietro's fingers were less than two centimeters away from the Tesseract!

Lynn's deep black pupils, which should have been "stationary," turned without warning.

The black pupils locked precisely onto the eyes of Pietro, who was in a supersonic state!

"What?!"

The smile on Pietro's face froze instantly, and an extremely strong sense of horror rushed to the top of his head.

He can see me?!

How is this possible! In my bullet time, how could his neural reaction speed keep up with my movements?!

Before Pietro's brain could process this extremely absurd reality.

Lynn moved.

He didn't press the Bloodtrix, nor did he trigger the [XLR8] form.

Under the enhancement of the 35% progress of the Bloodtrix, Lynn's normal physical [Absolute Precision and Dynamic Vision], combined with the foundation of the space laws he had just absorbed, brought his reaction speed to an unfathomable level.

"Swish!"

Lynn's free left hand turned into a black lightning bolt, reaching out with terrifying speed that struck first despite starting later!

In the desperate gaze of Pietro, who was extremely horrified and couldn't even retract his arm in time.

Lynn's left hand, like an iron pincer, tightly and precisely clamped onto Pietro's neck!

"Bang!"

A harsh sonic boom cloud exploded instantly in the air!

Bullet time was forcibly shattered by extremely brutal physical force! The surrounding dust and rubble, which were originally stationary, were shattered by the collision of the two terrifying forces.

"Ugh—!"

Pietro let out an extremely painful muffled grunt, his feet left the ground instantly, and his whole body was lifted into mid-air by Lynn with one hand. His supersonic kinetic energy, which he was proud of, was like crashing into an unshakable sacred mountain in Lynn's palm, forced to a stop!

Lynn maintained his human state, not even changing his breathing frequency. He held Quicksilver by the neck with one hand, his deep black pupils filled with extreme mockery.

"In front of me, you are as slow as a crawling snail."

Pietro grabbed Lynn's arm with both hands, struggling desperately, his face turning blue and purple from suffocation. He wanted to activate his ability to escape, but the terrifying brute force coming from Lynn's palm locked his cervical spine and central nervous system directly, making him unable to exert any force.

"Since you like running so much."

A violent, cold sneer curled on the corner of Lynn's mouth.

"Then just lie on the ground forever."

The moment the words fell.

Lynn's arm exerted force downwards suddenly, swinging Pietro's body like a heavy hammer, smashing his remaining massive kinetic energy in the supersonic state, along with Lynn's own brute force, fiercely onto the granite ground beneath his feet!

"Boom—!!!"

A deafening roar exploded in the center of the ruins!

The hard rock ground rolled and cracked violently like the surface of water, forming a deep pit over ten meters in diameter.

"Crack, crack, crack—"

The scalp-numbing sound of bones breaking rang out densely.

Pietro's bones throughout his body were almost broken inch by inch under this devastating and terrifying impact. If it weren't for his mutated physique being stronger than ordinary people, this blow would have been enough to smash him into a puddle of meat.

"Ahhhhh—!!!"

An extremely miserable scream came from the bottom of the pit, resounding throughout the ruins of Sokovia.

Pietro lay paralyzed at the bottom of the pit like a puddle of mud, vomiting blood, his eyes filled with extreme fear of the man in black in front of him.

Lynn let go, looking down at Quicksilver at the bottom of the pit, his eyes as cold as if he were looking at a crushed insect.

Just as Lynn was about to raise his left wrist to drain Quicksilver's mutant genes with the Bloodtrix.

"Pietro!!!"

An extremely miserable female voice, full of despair and rage, suddenly erupted from the depths of the ruins.

Immediately after.

The temperature of the surrounding air plummeted.

An extremely strange, irritable, and completely defying the laws of physics, massive energy fluctuation swept through the entire square without warning.

The rubble on the ground, broken steel bars, and even the wrecks of several armored vehicles weighing dozens of tons were freed from gravity, slowly floating into mid-air.

In the center of this floating ruin.

A dark red mist, so thick it seemed to drip blood, shot up into the sky like a violent tornado.

Inside the mist.

A young woman wearing red and black leather clothes slowly rose into the air.

Wanda. Scarlet Witch.

She looked at her brother, who was alive or dead at the bottom of the pit, her ten fingers twisting like convulsions, and in her palms, dark red chaos magic was jumping wildly at an extremely terrifying frequency.

Her originally clear eyes were now completely swallowed by the scarlet chaos magic.

"I want you... to die!"