American comics: From Hogwarts to God on Earth

Chapter 283 The Deteriorating Situation

Initially, the Nova Corps consisted of Xandar's space militia and exploration agencies, later expanding into an interplanetary law enforcement and peacekeeping organization. Its members draw energy from a super-biological computer, granting the Nova Corps superhuman strength.

Super speed and other abilities are granted; the higher the rank of a member, the greater their power. Their role is similar to Green Lantern in the Marvel Universe.

But this organization is no longer able to stop the war across the entire universe.

According to information provided by Odin, the Kree Empire, the Shia Empire, and the Skrull Empire are now fighting tooth and nail to seize enough resources from other countries in order to send out more seeds of civilization. As for the small countries that have been destroyed in this war, they are countless.

Rune merely listened to Odin's感慨 (gǎnkǎi, deep feelings) that he hadn't seen such a turbulent universe in many years. However, since he hadn't witnessed the war in the universe firsthand, he didn't have much of a sense of reality.

"By the way, if Igor also wants a ticket to escape the apocalypse, it can be free, but only if he can support a portion of the creatures."

This is the alternative solution Rune found. Although Ego is Star-Lord's father in the movie, the two are actually unrelated in the comics.

While Ego was also a potential alternative for Rune, this option also had its problems. Since this behemoth fed on planets, Rune wasn't sure if it could survive a year or two without food. Did he really need to periodically search for planets Ego could eat?

Odin, of course, could guess Rune's predicament. He waved his hand, indicating that Asgard could take in some of the heroes. Rune nodded, "We'll see."

Subsequently, the Marvel Cinematic Universe entered an exceptionally tense period. Mephisto began distributing video recordings of Rune and the other heroes, and just as Wolverine had predicted, the incident had become too big for S.H.I.E.L.D. to handle—or rather, they couldn't suppress it—because the government's top brass also wanted to survive.

Instead of regulating the speech of ordinary people, they secretly fueled the flames. As a result, the whole world was filled with the atmosphere of "heroes deserve to die" in a short period of time. Even when heroes did their good deeds, they would be cursed as murderers by passersby. Some people even tried to shoot and kill these heroes. Caught between villains and ordinary people, these heroes soon suffered casualties.

Meanwhile, some people tried to identify these heroes. They started to speculate, replaying every frame to try to find evidence to prove who these heroes were. Some even started to delineate the heroes' activity radius and successfully found the residences of several heroes.

Just a few days ago, three heroes were even dragged out and brutally beaten in the street. Two of them, being tough and resilient, managed to escape quickly.

However, while a hero was beaten to death in the street, hundreds of ordinary people were also implicated, but this incident did not prompt any reflection among the ordinary people.

Instead, they attributed the casualties of ordinary people to the heroes.

Calls for heroes to register with their real names are growing louder.

The heroes who know Rune, especially Steve and Stark, are getting annoyed to no end. Not only are politicians from various countries vying to send money and resources, but even some heroes are trying to ask these two for help, hoping to bring their families along.

"I'll ask around for you," Stark said helplessly, scratching his head as he looked at the tearful man before him. Yes, he was a confident, even arrogant, guy, but Tony couldn't bear to refuse these respectable people. He didn't mention that Rune had only made exceptions a few times, like with Spider-Man, and even said that these were a few movie tickets he owed.

When did Peter invite Rune to the movies?

If Stark, who was traveling the world, was already like this, Steve, who was staying in Avengers Tower, was even more disturbed, to the point that he stayed indoors. Moreover, the area outside Avengers Tower was already crowded with demonstrators, but he dared not let Clark or Rune see it.

Steve was afraid to let Clark see those ordinary people because he feared he would lose his desire to help others, but what about Rune?

Steve was afraid that Rune would kill all the people.

Steve and Tony had an amazing level of understanding in this matter.

"Alright, let's take a break." Steve stopped Clark's training. Clark's growth rate was astonishing. If Steve hadn't watched Clark grow, he would have thought that the other party was injecting him with a super soldier serum every day. This is not an exaggeration.

Clark let out a long breath, and a hurricane instantly filled the room.

"I wish you were here when we fought Thanos," Steve couldn't help but say, seeing Clark's exaggerated strength.

He then looked at Rune, whose growth in power was even more unfathomable. Steve wasn't a mage and didn't know his magical abilities, but he could still sense that Rune's presence was constantly increasing.

If Rune suddenly appears behind Steve, Steve will instinctively turn his head. What he doesn't know is that this isn't a good sign; it means Rune's magic is somewhat out of his control. Rune is also helpless about this. With his current magic reserves, his magic outburst at eighteen would definitely be a world-class disaster; in a comic book, it might even cause a major incident.

Incidentally, during his magical exchange with Doctor Strange, Rune also unexpectedly learned why the young wizards at Hogwarts only experience magical riots around their birthdays—because the long-standing birthday parties have been transformed into a special magical ritual.

"Is there still no movement from Mephisto?" Rune asked as usual, fiddling with the cosmic energy crystal in his hand.

"Not yet." Steve paused in handing Clark water, then replied casually, "Perhaps Strange spoke with him."

"Strange can't control that cunning demon." Rune shook his head. Even his master, the Ancient One, couldn't control him, or rather, not only the Ancient One, but all the Sorcerers Supreme had failed to completely restrain him.

Odin once formed a prehistoric Avengers alliance with Agamotto and others, and defeated a Celestial infected by a virus. Among the members of this prehistoric Avengers alliance was a prehistoric Ghost Rider riding a mammoth. At that time, Mephisto had already begun to invade Earth.

"By the way, when can we go out on patrol again?" Clark asked. He still wanted to fight crime with that guy dressed as Spider-Man, and if he could, he would also like to ask why Spider-Man doesn't shoot webs from his butt.