The Mutant God in American Comics.

Chapter 95: Criticism (4K large chapter)

After seeing the hellfire coming out of the wreckage of Ghost Rider condense into a huge fireball with a diameter of more than five meters, not only Richard guessed the purpose of the Spirit of Vengeance, but the Invisible Woman and the Human Torch also guessed it.

The onlookers who had been reluctant to evacuate and insisted on staying at the scene to watch the excitement were stunned for a second or two when they saw this scene.

Then, he ran madly as if he was fleeing.

Although they don't know what Ghost Rider and the Spirit of Vengeance are, they are not stupid.

After seeing the stone man burned into "charcoal" by the hellfire, they knew that the hellfire on Ghost Rider was not an ordinary flame.

As for the huge fireball that appeared now, it goes without saying that this is definitely a large-scale attack move.

It wasn't just the onlookers who were running wildly. After seeing this, the surrounding New York police also began to flee.

With just a few thousand dollars a month salary, what's the point of risking your life?
As the onlookers and New York police quickly evacuated, the Invisible Woman and her two companions also tried hard to evacuate with the Stone Man.

However, compared with the frantically running onlookers and New York police, their speed was much slower.

Although the Invisible Woman and the other two have superpowers, it is not an easy task for them to evacuate quickly with the Stone Man who is as heavy as a stone.

None of them have super powers, and the super powers they have are not suitable for evacuating the stone man quickly.

After seeing the huge fireball condensed by the Spirit of Vengeance becoming more and more dazzling, the Invisible Woman immediately used her superpowers to create a defensive force field, covering herself, Mr. Fantastic and the other two.

boom!
Within a few seconds, the huge fireball condensed by the spirit of vengeance exploded like a small nuclear bomb. The huge explosion not only spread throughout the entire Brooklyn area, but also clearly reached the ears of residents in several other districts of New York.

The shock wave generated by the explosion swept in all directions with astonishing power, spreading out one or two kilometers in the blink of an eye.

A golden mushroom cloud rose into the sky, and the flames of the explosion made New York, which was originally at night, as bright as day, and the earth shook violently as if there was an earthquake.

As the person closest to the center of the explosion, Richard did not evacuate.

Although the "self-destruct" attack created by the power of revenge was indeed very powerful, it still did not pose a threat to him.

Before the huge fireball exploded, he used all his strength to absorb energy and protected himself in 360 degrees.

He had not tested the limits of energy absorption before.

However, he was not worried about getting injured.

Not to mention that energy absorption is an enhanced Alpha-level superpower.

Even if the power of the Spirit of Vengeance's "self-destruction" exceeds the limit of energy absorption, it will not threaten him with his Alpha-level super physique and super self-healing.

The terrifying shock wave and blinding light produced by the explosion did not last long, only lasting for a few seconds before disappearing.

Although the shock wave and the strong light disappeared, the flying dust raised by the explosion and the golden mushroom cloud rising into the sky did not disappear with them.

Richard ignored all this and used telepathy to lock onto the recovering Ghost Rider.

The remains of Ghost Rider were blown away by the shock wave of the explosion early in the morning.

Not to mention his wreckage, even the surrounding reinforced concrete buildings were destroyed by the shock wave of the explosion.

Although no one knew where the wreckage had been blown away to, it did not affect Ghost Rider's recovery at all.

In the center of the golden mushroom cloud, the hellfire quickly condensed into a human shape.

Then, Ghost Rider's skeletons appeared one by one in the hellfire.

Compared to the beginning, Ghost Rider's recovery speed is now extremely slow.

It took nearly ten seconds for Ghost Rider to return to his full skeletal form.

As for the leather jacket and jeans he was originally wearing, they are now gone.

The Spirit of Vengeance, having consumed a large amount of energy, was no longer in the mood to care whether the host was naked or not.

In other words, no one would care even if you streaked.

They are all bones, it doesn't matter whether they wear clothes or not.

After using the little remaining energy to restore the host, the Spirit of Vengeance directly took over the body of Ghost Rider, preparing to leave as quickly as possible and temporarily give up judging Richard.

However, as soon as the Spirit of Vengeance that took over Ghost Rider's body came out of the golden mushroom cloud, it saw Richard holding two samurai swords, one long and one short, looking at it with satisfaction.

The moment he saw Richard, the Spirit of Vengeance immediately felt a strong intuition of death that he had only felt six thousand years ago.

At that time, it had just descended from heaven to the earth in the form of rain of fire, and had not yet begun to devour its own kind to perfect itself, so it was far from being as powerful as it is now.

During battles with other of its kind, it also had several death instincts.

But the intuition of death that I had at that time was not as strong as it is now.

Although it didn't know why it felt such a strong sense of death in Richard, it chose to trust its instincts and immediately mobilized its remaining little energy.

As the Spirit of Vengeance began to use its remaining energy, the hellfire covering Ghost Rider burned even more fiercely.

And at this moment, under the gaze of the spirit of vengeance, Richard raised the Yama Blade in his hand.

Richard didn't waste any more time. He flashed in front of the Ghost Rider and swung the Yama Blade in his right hand like lightning.

Separation!

The Yama Blade encountered no obstruction and slashed through the Ghost Rider's body as if it was slicing through the air.

On the surface, his attack did not cause any harm to Ghost Rider.

But the spirit of vengeance possessing Ghost Rider has a completely different take.

The Spirit of Vengeance, which had already merged with the host's soul, felt a powerful separation ability that it had never felt before.

This strange and powerful separation ability forcibly broke the fusion between it and the host.

At the same time, it was pulled out of the host's body.

For ordinary people, it is very difficult to separate the spirit of vengeance that has merged with the host soul.

But for Richard, this is not a difficult task.

In fact, the method of separating the Spirit of Vengeance from its host is not uncommon in the Marvel Universe.

There are several types just appearing in comics.

Such as the sacred weapons made from the paving bricks of heaven, the dark magic of the Hand, the spells of Mephisto, and so on.

It is not difficult to separate the Spirit of Vengeance from its host as long as the right method is used.

Under Richard's gaze, a fist-sized ball of golden light flew out of the Ghost Rider's body.

As the golden ball of light left the body, the hellfire on the Ghost Rider's body disappeared without a trace in an instant, and his body changed from its original skeletal form back to normal flesh and blood.

Who is this guy?
After seeing the Ghost Rider regain his human form, Richard frowned slightly.

He thought that the Ghost Rider that appeared tonight would be one of the first, second, or third generations.

However, it turned out that he guessed wrong.

The Ghost Rider who regained his human form was a black man in his thirties or forties.

Although there has been a black Ghost Rider in the comics.

For example, Caleb, the Ghost Rider during the American Civil War, was a black man.

But it was obvious that the middle-aged black man in front of him was not Caleb.

Although he didn't know who this middle-aged black man was, Richard didn't hesitate at all and swung the authentic knife in his left hand like lightning.

No matter who the Ghost Rider in this world is, he has no intention of sparing his life.

The fight has come to this point, and it would be too unreasonable to let the other party go.

The Spirit of Vengeance must be killed, and the host must also be killed!

laugh!
As the authentic knife slashed across, the middle-aged black man's head flew high like a basketball.

After hacking to death the middle-aged black man who had no impression of him at all, Richard's gaze fell on the golden ball of light, or to be more precise, on the spirit of vengeance.

After separating from its host, the Spirit of Vengeance tries to leave as quickly as possible.

But soon, it realized that it was overthinking.

Magnetic field binding!

The moment the Spirit of Vengeance was separated, Richard used his superpower of magnetic field control to create an ultra-high intensity magnetic field that was imperceptible to the naked eye, binding the Spirit of Vengeance.

After fusing the Yama Blade back into the authentic blade, Richard stretched out his right hand and directly grabbed the Spirit of Vengeance's body. Energy absorption!

The moment he touched the body of the Spirit of Vengeance, the already limited energy in the Spirit of Vengeance was madly absorbed by him.

After just two or three seconds, the spirit of vengeance completely dimmed, and its size shrank from its original fist size to the size of an egg.

Although there was not much energy left in the Spirit of Vengeance, Richard still did not stop absorbing it.

After another five or six seconds, the egg-sized spirit of vengeance became the size of a grain of sand.

Finally, it disappeared completely.

plunder!

After using energy absorption to drain the Spirit of Vengeance dry, Richard immediately unleashed Omega-level plunder.

[Gain new ability: Hellfire! ]

[Hellfire: A supernatural flame originating from the depths of hell, not restricted by natural laws, with the ability to demonize, materialize, restore, burn souls, and transform into evil spirits.]

……

After reading the introduction of the system, Richard smiled with satisfaction.

Because it is not an X-gene superpower, Hellfire is not integrated with other superpowers of the same type, nor is it divided into specific levels.

However, this is not a very important matter.

After closing the information panel, Richard turned around and glanced at the Invisible Woman and the other three.

The self-destruct attack that the Spirit of Vengeance had just unleashed was indeed very powerful, but the Invisible Woman's defensive force field was not weak either.

Although the defensive force field she created showed signs of collapse, none of the four of them were injured in the Spirit of Vengeance's self-destruction attack.

As for the onlookers and New York police, they were not as lucky as them.

Just by using telepathy to sense casually, Richard could confirm that two to three hundred people died in the self-destruction attack of the Spirit of Vengeance.

Under the watchful eyes of the Invisible Woman and the other three, he did nothing but used teleportation to leave and returned to the hotel entrance.

"Where do you live?"

After returning to the car, Richard said to Fina who was sitting in the passenger seat.

what?
Fina had already prepared herself mentally to go home alone tonight.

After hearing Richard's words, she looked at Richard with surprise.

Although she stayed in the car, she also watched the live broadcast of Richard and Ghost Rider's battle on the Internet.

Not only that, when the live broadcast was suddenly interrupted, she was a little worried whether Richard would be injured.

In her opinion, Richard, who had just finished a battle, should not be in the mood to play poker with his two sisters.

After all, they had fought once before.

Unexpectedly, when Richard got back in the car, the first thing he asked was where she lived.

Although a little surprised, Fina immediately told Richard the address of the apartment.

Then he took out his cell phone and sent a text message to his sister in the apartment, asking her to get ready.

……

Noon the next day.

Fina's apartment.

Richard removed the arms and thighs of the two Fina sisters from his body, got up, found his own clothes from the scattered clothes on the floor, and put them on.

"Are you going back?"

Fina looked at Richard with sleepy eyes and asked reluctantly.

"Ah."

Richard nodded.

After hearing his words, Fina first showed a disappointed expression.

Then she quickly stood up and walked in front of him, serving him like a maid.

Soon, Richard was dressed.

Under Fina's gaze, he performed teleportation, disappeared in an instant, and came to the underground garage.

Then, he drove the Aston Martin vintage car towards the manor.

Although he did not return to the manor last night, he sent a text message to the White Queen before playing poker with the Fina sisters, so that the White Queen would not think that he was killed by the Ghost Rider last night.

At this time, he did not know that he had aroused public anger in New York and became a murderer who was condemned by everyone.

Early last morning, the heads of major television stations and newspapers in New York all received official calls.

In addition, they also received accurate information on casualties from last night.

The death toll was 276 and the number of injured was 851.

Although the collateral economic losses have not yet been calculated, this is not the point.

At least for the official, this is not the point.

At official request, major television stations and newspapers in New York reported the battle between Richard and Ghost Rider very "fairly".

Then, he became a murderer who was condemned by everyone.

……

SHIELD.

Triskelion Headquarters.

Director's Office.

"What are those people in the White House thinking? Are they all out of their minds, or are they so arrogant that they think they can manipulate Richard at will?"

"Let the media deliberately mislead the public and throw dirty water on him. Aren't they afraid that Richard will come to visit them in person?"

Natasha, wearing a tight black uniform that perfectly showed off her sexy curves, sat in front of Nick Fury and said with a frown.

"They are not stupid, nor are they arrogant."

"As for whether Richard will come to visit them, it depends on whether he is determined to make the whole world his enemy."

Nick Fury said slowly.

Natasha looked at Nick Fury in confusion.

Although Nick Fury's words were very cryptic, a guess immediately flashed through her mind.

"I don't know what you have prepared, but my intuition tells me that Richard is not as easy to deal with as you think."

"Besides, whatever your plans are, Banner and I will not be involved."

After saying that, Natasha stood up and turned away without waiting for Nick Fury to answer.

Nick Fury didn't take Natasha's attitude to heart.

In other words, when he recruited Natasha into S.H.I.E.L.D., he knew that Natasha was not the kind of subordinate who would obey orders obediently.

When Natasha left the office, Nick Fury took out his cell phone and dialed the number of the head of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s New York branch.

Soon, the call was connected.

"From now on, give me an update every hour."

"I want to know everything Richard Wesley does next."

"I want to know everything he did, who he met, and what he ate."

Nick Fury said seriously.

……

(End of this chapter)