Marvel: Awakening the Universe.

Chapter 344 The Reasons for Delayed Retirement (First Update!)

Inside St. Mark's Basilica.

The priest in the church accepted the check from Hawke with a compassionate expression on his face.

"May the Lord bless you, Mr. Hawk Phoenix."

"Thank God!"

Hawke, with a solemn expression, said, "The attacks of heretics can never destroy our faith in the Lord."

The priest's expression was somber as he thought of the holy site that had been mysteriously removed from the earth yesterday.

"Amen."

"Amen."

Hawke followed closely behind, joining the priest in a moment of silence for the nation within a nation that had been wiped off the face of the earth yesterday by some unknown entity.

not far away.

Sharon, who was standing side by side with Gwen in the cemetery, looked at Hawke, who was bowing his head in silent mourning with the priest, and her lips twitched.

Looking at Hawke's expression of mourning and remembrance for the vanished Vatican, Sharon was momentarily dazed, subconsciously feeling that Hawke, with such profound faith, was definitely not the peerless demon king who went against the tide to invade Heaven yesterday and wiped out the Vatican on his way back to Earth.

She was unaware of the victory in Heaven.

But the Vatican...

Thinking of the Vatican, which had been wiped clean in an instant yesterday, Sharon lowered her voice and asked Gwen, who was standing next to her.

"Wen, have you asked what the Vatican did to offend him?"

"asked."

Upon hearing this, Gwen replied in a low voice, "Mr. Chloe has been imprisoned in the Vatican for many years since he was taken away."

Sharon and Gwen glanced at each other, then nodded and breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good."

Will there be any trouble?

"No."

Sharon shook her head: "The three members of the Security Council are a little worried, but since Hawke has a legitimate reason to act, then there is no problem."

Well known.

Hawk is powerful, but since his debut, apart from the one at Quantico military base, he has always actively chosen to stay away from cities and crowds as much as possible in every battle.

This is also one of the reasons why the Security Council chose to prioritize peace.

But yesterday.

Hawke broke through the atmosphere and, with a single strike, completely razed the Vatican to the ground in a mere 0.001 seconds.

wrong.

To be precise, a ten-meter-deep crater appeared in the area of ​​the enclave within Italy.

The news spread throughout the world in less than an hour after it happened.

Fox News: "Divine Wrath or Attack? A Country Within a Country Vanishes in an Instant!"

CNN reports: "Vatican City destroyed, Pope missing!"

Reuters: "Vatican City in Italy suffers unexplained attack, leaving a 10-meter-deep crater!"

The world was in an uproar.

The World Security Council immediately convened an emergency meeting to discuss the nature of the attack.

But the five overlords who knew the truth immediately contacted S.H.I.E.L.D., Maria Hill contacted Sharon, and Sharon contacted Gwen...

The five overlords were very worried about this attack, as it was Hawke's first real display of power after a period of concealing his strength.

but……

The state within a state committed evil first, and Hawke was merely retaliating.

This is enough.

"Oh right, Heaven..."

"Mephisto has taken over Heaven."

Gwen spoke in a low voice.

She already knew the whole story of Hawke's fight last night, the whole story told to her by Hawke himself afterward.

Tens of millions of beings in heaven.

Countless...

No more.

Heaven is completely gone.

But in a split second, Gwen chose to answer Sharon by saying that Mephisto had taken over Heaven.

Gwen felt that revealing that Hawk had completely destroyed Heaven would be too much of a threat, and it would be better to bring Mephisto to her attention.

Anyway, that's the truth.

soon.

As the two women spoke in hushed tones, Hawke, who had donated $10,000 to the deceased Vatican, bid farewell to the priest and entered the cemetery.

Hawke looked toward the resting place of his sister Anya.

Sharon's SHIELD agents have already dug up Anya's resting place, and are just waiting for Hawke's approval to retrieve the coffin buried inside.

Hawke said, "Let's do it."

The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents quickly got to work and soon used the tools they had brought to lift up the coffin, which had been replaced once after the relocation and looked more luxurious and comfortable, from the Resting Place.

The coffin was pure white with gold trim and patterns, and it cost Hawke five thousand dollars.

Small money.

He achieved financial freedom after receiving war reparations from the Quantico base.

Even more so now.

Anyway, I don't know when it started, but the amount in his Stark bank account has never been less than ten million US dollars.

Simply put, no matter how Hawke spends, if he spends all ten million on the first day, his bank account balance will be automatically replenished to ten million on the second day.

Who did it.

unimportant.

Just like Hawke's tacit approval of Westview, a town on the outskirts of Jersey City, some things are best left unsaid and don't need to be questioned.

The reason why he had so much money in his account but only donated $10,000 is quite simple.

The other party was only worth ten thousand US dollars. But that didn't matter; right now, Hawke's most important task was the resurrection of his sister Anya.

After the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents placed the coffin down, Hawke walked to it. Instead of opening it to look at his sister inside, he patted the coffin, took a deep breath, and said, "I'm taking you home, sister."

Say it.

He turned to look at Sharon and nodded.

Sharon understood and nodded to the SHIELD agents who had brought her to be in charge of the excavation and to take Anya's coffin to the Tahiti cloning base.

Several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents remained silent, transformed into pallbearers, lifted Anya's coffin, and walked out of the cemetery.

There was already a black van waiting over there.

Once the black van was loaded with the coffin, they immediately set off for the nearest private plane at top speed.

There, the SHIELD special plane was already ready, just waiting for the coffin to be transferred to the cabin before taking off and flying quickly to the Tahitian cloning base, which was also ready, waiting for the coffin to arrive so that the DNA could be extracted and put into the cloning process.

In fact, Hawk could have simply taken the coffin and teleported to the cloning base in Tahiti in a second.

Hawke wanted to do that too.

But he had something more important to do.

such as--

His sister has missed Christmas for many years, and this year he wants her to be with him.

Christmas is less than a month away, and given the cloning base's progress, even accelerating the process wouldn't be enough to catch up.

After all, cloning takes time.

and so……

Hawke plans to speed things up.

Therefore, after Sharon accompanied Anya to ensure that her coffin arrived at the cloning base intact, Hawk brought Gwen to Kamar-Taj in the snowy mountains once again to borrow the Eye of Agamotto for the third time from the Ancient One, who had postponed her retirement.

Just like when Hawke borrowed the Time Stone the first and second time, this time the Ancient One still acted as if she already knew Hawke's intentions.

While having the librarian Wong fetch the Eye of Agamotto, Gu Yi poured tea for Hawk and Gwen, then looked at Hawk.

"I should retire after this year."

"..."

Hawke, who was holding a teacup, paused upon hearing this, then looked at the smiling Ancient One opposite him: "Won't you postpone your retirement any longer?"

Gwen silently sipped her tea, but her ears were perked up as she listened to the conversation between her fiancé and the Sorcerer Supreme.

The smile on Gu Yi's face remained unchanged.

"sure."

"..."

Hawke looked at the Ancient One speechlessly upon hearing this.

The Ancient One's expression remained unchanged: "The past cannot be changed, but what is destined to happen in the past is not said to be unpredictable. After all, things are unpredictable. Mephisto is squatting outside Earth, devouring the Heaven Dimension. Even if someone summons Dormammu, Dormammu wouldn't dare to come over."

Dormammu is the ruler of the Dark Dimension.

Mephisto is the ruler of the Hell dimension, and importantly, he is devouring the Heaven dimension right outside Earth.

Although Dormammu and Mephisto are not enemies, what if Dormammu comes to Earth and Mephisto mistakenly thinks he's there to seize the Heaven Dimension, and then immediately attacks him?

After all, Mephisto had fully unleashed his Hell dimension at this point.

It's blatantly clear to all dimensions.

If you've got the guts, come and take it. Whoever dares to come, I'll beat them up.

and so……

Dormammu wouldn't dare come over until Mephisto had completely devoured the Heavenly Dimension, and the inevitable demise of the Ancient One could only be postponed.

After all, the script was written as Dormammu's arrival and the Sorcerer Supreme's retirement.

We can't just not act at all.

Hawke looked at the Ancient One upon hearing this: "I can make Mephisto devour me more slowly."

With the Ancient One present, it would be easier for him to borrow the Time Stone.

After all, compared to Doctor Strange, who claimed to be a doctor, he preferred the Sorcerer Supreme, with whom he had a pleasant working relationship from the very beginning.

The most important thing.

He didn't really like Doctor Strange. He didn't hate him, but his dislike was enough to make him choose not to associate with Doctor Strange.

Therefore, he would be very happy if the Ancient One could postpone her retirement.

As for the nonsense that this would disrupt the timeline.

Ah.

He's already ruined Avengers: Age of Ultron, why would he care about anything else?

Again.

Since his debut, he has hardly been involved in any of the Marvel hero storylines, and has even had very few interactions with the superheroes.

At most, when the Avengers returned home to rest after fighting Hydra, he would take Gwen to Stark Tower for a party and some juice.

Yes.

juice.

After all, he'll only turn twenty-one this year, so if he goes to a party, why would he drink alcohol instead of juice?

In a word.

Marvel's plot is none of his business.

but!
After Hawke said that, Gu Yi smiled slightly and then shook her head.

"It's okay once, it's okay twice, but it's not okay three times."

"The first delay was because of the battle between Jehovah and Mephisto, which made Dormammu afraid to come to Earth. In case Heaven and Hell fought each other and ended up destroying the Dark Dimension."

"Therefore, my retirement was postponed."

"The second time is when Mephisto is devouring the Heaven Dimension. In this situation, whoever comes will be regarded as an enemy by Mephisto."

"But Mephisto's devouring is not endless."

"so--"

"When Mephisto has devoured Heaven, it will be the end of my time in this universe."

"..."

(End of this chapter)