American comics: Starting with gaining Spider-Man's abilities

Chapter 46 Weaving a Giant Net

Seeing the students running away, Sabretooth wanted to chase after them, but Magneto stopped him, looking at Lorna Dane among the five with a knowing look in his eyes.

"The X-Men are probably still on their way. Let's figure out how to move the mutant device first."

Their hiding place has been discovered, and it might not just be the X-Men who are next...

No, if Xavier wanted to protect mutants from persecution, he wouldn't have told superheroes unrelated to mutants about it; only the X-Men would have come.

Thinking of this, Magneto felt much relieved. He turned around and told Red Devil to go back to headquarters and ask Rogue where she was. He narrowed his eyes when he learned that she was moving toward Xavier's School of Thought.

After a moment's hesitation, he said to the Red Devil, "Move me over there, and you guard this place."

Magneto is going to hunt down Li Buying and Rogue alone. He knows that the Xavier's School can breach his temporary base, and now it's a gamble on time.

The gamble is whether he will bring Rogue back first, or whether the X-Men will breach his temporary base and destroy the device completely.

Red Devil and Magneto vanished without a trace. Professor X, who was far away at Xavier's School of Thought, noticed that Red Devil's mental fluctuations had disappeared and then appeared around Rogue.

Having been an old friend of Magneto, he naturally understood that Magneto was going to have a race against time with him.

Professor X immediately sought Li Buying's opinion from Rogue, asking if he needed support. After receiving a negative answer, he immediately notified the five reserve children and the X-Men who were on their way.

"Everyone, destroy that thing as soon as possible."

……

Carefully navigating the forest, Li Buying constantly looked around, afraid that something might suddenly appear beside her.

However, his fears came true. His spider-sense kicked in again, and he looked back sharply. Only a hundred meters away, Red Devil and Magneto appeared and looked around.

Little Rascal also saw the two of them. She quickly covered her mouth, her eyes changing slightly before she whispered, "The professor asked me to ask if you need any support."

"Tell him to dismantle the mechanical device with all his might."

Should we help him?

It's not that Li Buying underestimates the X-Men; aside from a berserk Jean Grey, probably no mutant at this stage can cause significant damage to Magneto in his normal state.

Instead of wasting their energy, it would be better to let them focus their attack on the mutant device. Li Buying is quite good at escaping.

Moreover, this is an area with tall trees, so he can move around freely. There's also less metal, so he should be able to stall for a long time.

With a flash, Li Buying hid behind a pine tree and used silk threads to completely wrap Xiao Taoqi and herself. Then, her disguise became similar to the surrounding environment, appearing to have virtually no flaws.

Red Devil left again, and returned somewhat out of breath to inform Magneto that they hadn't moved and were still in the area, apparently hiding.

After numerous long-distance moves and nearly a hundred short-distance moves, the Red Devils were nearly exhausted.

"It's still here... Azazel, bow your head."

Magneto scanned his surroundings, raised his finger, and the iron objects abandoned in the forest immediately converged towards him, piling up and deforming.

Magneto controlled a slender "sword" over a hundred meters long to be held horizontally. He narrowed his eyes slightly and swung the sword across the room!

The metal sword flashed, reflecting the sunlight, and all the trees fell.

Magneto's sharp eyes swept around, and out of the corner of his eye he saw Li Buying, who had jumped up to dodge the rapier and landed without time to mimic, as well as the silk cocoon on his back!

I am!

Spider-Senses activated instantly. Li Buying stepped onto a piece of wood and leaped into the distance. Magneto said something to Red Devil and immediately gave chase.

"We'll go over every 20 minutes. If we catch someone, I'll give the signal... If they destroy the device first, we'll retreat."

"Damn it, you're treating me like an ox!"

Red Devil rubbed his head and complained under his breath. He then decided to rest where he was, check on the situation in 30 minutes, and then come back to wait.

……

Li Buying, whose spider senses were buzzing wildly and who was leaping between tall trees by flicking out spider silk, felt the pressure emanating from "Death" behind him. He decisively dodged the flying iron ball to the side.

Fortunately, Magneto's abilities aren't as invincible as they are in the comics; Li Buying's spider-sense can still detect his movements.

"Kid, you're a mutant too, aren't you? Why don't you choose our side?"

Who are you calling a mutant?!

Li Buying initially wanted to provoke Magneto, but then thought of her sister and decided against it, saying without turning her head:

"Because your mutant device cannot turn people into mutants, but will destroy people's genes. If you want to do that, I suggest you improve it."

"But how did you know that?"

Magneto questioned, his actions showing no mercy, as countless steel rods shot out at near-bullet speeds.

But in his eyes, the weaver seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, able to dodge his attacks in advance.

"Of course, Professor X contacted me and told me."

Li Buying lowered her voice to speak to him, and a thread shot towards the middle of another tree. She forcefully swung herself away from her original trajectory, thereby dodging countless metal beads.

Since defeating the assassin Shrike and the Silver Warrior and gaining stronger control over the spider silk, Li Buying has become increasingly adept at it.

For example, right now!

Turning around in mid-air, he immediately aimed his hands at Magneto in the distance, and shot steel needle-like spider silk toward him standing on the iron disc.

Faced with this counterattack, Magneto remained nonchalant on the surface. The metal ball that had been flying into the distance instantly flew back and transformed into multiple layers of shields in front of him.

Magneto was deep in thought as he watched the spider silk pierce through the three layers of metal shields.

Li Buying displayed multiple abilities: exceptional physical fitness, web-shooting, sensory abilities, reaction speed, mimicry... Aside from seemingly lacking stamina, he was practically omnipotent.

Of course, that kind of "lack of stamina" actually means that you can deplete your energy more quickly, but you can also recover quickly.

In game terms, it's like having a very short stamina bar, but it recovers very quickly after being used up.

Everything seemed to be the result of enhanced abilities from multiple types of spiders, much like that Spider-Man, but with some additional features, such as mimicry and the teleportation ability that Red Devil mentioned.

With a flick of his finger, the shield in front of him transformed into steel balls and flew towards Li Buying. He threw the spider silk cocoon into the air and dodged the attack with his own flexibility in an extremely contorted posture.

At most, I only suffered some superficial injuries.

Ten minutes had passed, and Magneto frowned. The X-Men were probably already attacking his temporary base, so he had to hurry.

Magneto looked at Li Buying, who was constantly dodging, and his killing intent grew stronger. However, what he didn't know was that Li Buying was also trying to fight back.

Countless threads were left in the forest, and for a time there was no sign of them dissolving.

spider--

They are quietly weaving a net to hunt large creatures.

(End of this chapter)