Lord of Cinder in American Comics

With Frank by his side, Ash arrived at the place where Maria had been kept. Looking at Maria's sarcophagus, Frank stood at a distance, unwilling to approach.

"Come and help me, but you need to get your wife out of here!"

Standing in front of the sarcophagus, Ash urged Frank on, since her husband was present and she couldn't easily touch it.

Urged on by Ash, Frank seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and strode over with a death-defying air.

“Ash, I want to bury her in New Jersey, the place where I first met her, so that maybe the children can go there and talk to her in the future…”

Frank's tone made Ash's eyes widen. "You just buried your wife like that? Your wife's soul is still in my hands. She'll beat you up when she wakes up!"

Together, the two lifted the stone coffin lid, revealing Maria's body, which looked exactly as if she had just died, without any change whatsoever.

Thanks to the time seal on Midil's eggshell, Maria's body was temporarily preserved, but the seal would be broken if it was touched again.

If Maria's soul is not returned to its original place beforehand, the body will decay instantly.

"Wait, Frank, this is what I called you here for, here you go..."

Ash gave the Soul Orb to Frank, asking him to resurrect his wife.

"This is Maria's soul. You can put her back now. Remember, you must let the soul touch the body first. Do not touch it yourself first..."

Holding the glowing white spirit in his hand, Frank finally understood why they had come to see him.

In Frank's mind, Ash instantly became someone who, as a priest, would defy the laws of nature and resurrect a dead person for the sake of his brother.

Frank also imagined the reason why the Fire Keeper was not there: Ash must have sent the Fire Keeper and the Saint away to avoid being discovered.

Feeling the fluctuations of the soul in his hand, Frank was incredibly grateful to Ash, looking at her with the most sincere eyes.

Feeling uncomfortable under Frank's gaze, she wondered if Frank, who hadn't had a wife to take care of him for so long, might be having some bad tendencies.

To stop this from happening, Ash urged, "What are you looking at me for? Do it! Don't you want a wife anymore?"

Frank carefully touched Maria's body with his soul, anxiously awaiting his wife's resurrection.

The moment Maria's body merged with her soul, the seal of time was broken, and her body naturally returned to the moment of death. Her previously dried blood turned bright red again.

Ash quickly raised the Holy Bell and shook it at Maria, unleashing miracles of restoring her health and status one after another on her.

A body without a soul will become a zombie in this world, and in some cases, even a ghoul. To avoid this, Ash can only keep replenishing Maria's body's deficiencies.

In Frank's eyes, Ash kept casting spell after spell, and Maria's complexion became rosy and radiant.

Her wounds began to heal, and the dirt and dust on her body were removed, and Maria looked as if she were asleep.

Frank held his sleeping beauty in his arms, calling his wife's name affectionately and tenderly.

'Snapped! '

Suddenly, a slap landed directly on Frank's face, leaving the tough guy completely astonished.

One slap wasn't enough, so another came flying. Frank quickly grabbed Maria's hand that was about to slap him, calling out in surprise, "Maria, it's me! Frank!"

"Otherwise what? Who else should I hit? Have you even looked after the kids these past few months? You just dump them somewhere else and you're never home. Have you been keeping a mistress on the side?!"

Faced with Maria's accusations, Frank was speechless. After all, to avoid falling into that immense sorrow, he had indeed entrusted the child to Ash, who in turn entrusted the child to Snow's care.

But how did Maria find out? Could it be that my soul really follows me? Thinking of this, Frank felt a chill run down his spine, as if everyone who had died at his hands was watching him.

'Snapped! '

Maria freed her other hand and slapped Frank again, saying, "If your friend hadn't preserved my soul and had Lisa wear it, I really wouldn't have been able to see that you were this kind of person!"

With that, Maria climbed out of the coffin, dusted off non-existent dust, and headed toward Snow's house to pick up her child.

Just then, a faint clicking sound reached Ash and Frank's ears. Both were seasoned veterans and were wary of this unusual ambient sound.

Looking in the direction of the sound, I saw a person taking pictures with a camera.

Upon seeing Ash and Frank looking at him, he panicked, put away his camera, and turned to jump off the cliff.

Upon seeing that someone had photographed him, and wondering if they had recorded his wife's resurrection, Frank was instantly overcome with the urge to kill to cover it up.

However, Ash stopped Frank, saying, "Go stop Maria first. She shouldn't be in the public eye. Hide her identity. I'll go catch that guy..."

Frank turned to look at his wife, who was storming off, completely unaware that her resurrection might have been filmed, while the paparazzi were disappearing on the other side.

Frank struggled slightly before chasing after his wife. After all, comforting his wife was more important; he'd let Ash catch the one who was secretly filming.

As mentioned before, the sacrificial site was located on the edge of a cliff. After the renovation, thorns were planted on the edge of the cliff to deter thrill-seekers.

Normally, no one would bother running to the edge of the cliff, making it a weak point in patrols. Furthermore, the surrounding security is handled by the community's assassins and the retired Hatch, and normally no one can get past their defenses.

But who would have thought that someone could actually climb up this cliff and successfully film the sacrificial site?

Sensing the rapidly departing soul, this guy seemed to be sprinting down a cliff, displaying a speed that ordinary people could not match, leaping continuously on the reefs, and leaving without his feet touching the ground.

Ash walked to the spot where the paparazzi had left, looked around, and found no climbing equipment, not even a single climbing piton on the cliff.

"Ash, did you catch him?"

Frank finally managed to persuade Maria, and pulled her to the edge of the cliff, where they stood next to Ash.

Ash shook his head and pointed to the surrounding environment; Frank also noticed the unusual situation.

"An ability user? Could it be that Maria's resurrection brought this about..."

Frank didn't finish his sentence. After all, in all myths, resurrected people always bring all sorts of misfortunes, and perhaps this was just the first step...

However, Ash seemed to have discovered something and jumped straight off the cliff.

Not long after, Ash climbed up from the same spot on the cliff, holding a clump of white, fluffy substance in her hand. She said to Frank, "Frank, gather the men, let's go find this mischievous fellow..."

Chapter 196: Peter Parker

Frank was truly intent on killing him to silence him this time.

At Frank's command, a special forces team quickly came to a stop outside; everyone inside was from the Marine Corps that Frank had led.

Furthermore, everyone wore black hoods, the kind worn only in clandestine operations. This meant that once the war began, no one would know their identities.

For his wife's safety, Frank even brought along an RPG-29 rocket launcher, an upgraded version of the RPG-7 with a caliber of 105mm, powerful enough to penetrate 900mm of homogeneous armor.

Furthermore, the vehicle is equipped with a GAU-19 heavy machine gun, which uses the same design as the Vulcan cannon, except that the barrel has been changed to three barrels. It uses NATO standard 12.7x99mm ammunition, standard belt feeding, and the rate of fire can be adjusted from 1000 to 2000 rounds per minute. Although the rate of fire is lower than that of the M134, its power is much stronger.

Frank defined the operation as a black operation, noting that no one in the vehicles carried identification and that everyone carried different weapons in case it was discovered later.

Inside the vehicle, Ash pointed in the direction and finally stopped near Forest Hill in Queens, New York.

Everyone silently put on black hoods and, under Frank's direction, surrounded a house.

Inside the house, in a room on the top floor, Peter Parker had just calmed his excited heart. He looked at the photos he had just taken, wondering whether he should hand them over to the newspaper.

Having just secretly run all the way back to Queens from the island, Peter hadn't even had a chance to rest when suddenly, Peter Parker's hair stood on end; his spider-sense told him that danger was imminent.

This precognitive ability, triggered by a tingling sensation in the back of the head and increased adrenaline, alerts Parker to danger. It allows him to analyze threats based on Peter Parker's judgment.

"Oh no! Ben and Mei are in danger!"

Peter dropped his camera and suddenly remembered his uncle and aunt downstairs.

Peter Parker leaped off the building and shouted to the two people busy preparing lunch in the kitchen, "Ben! May! Get out of here! It's dangerous!"

Mei shook her hands in the pool, dried them on her apron, and said, "Silly child, what are you talking about?"

"Danger..."

Before he could finish speaking, the front door of the house was smashed open. A large, dark shield was pushed in from outside, and several gun barrels of varying lengths protruded from behind the shield, pointed at everyone inside.

Faced with this situation, Ben and May dared not move at all, raising their hands to indicate that they posed no threat. Peter Parker hesitated for a moment, then was kicked by Ben and had no choice but to raise his hands as well.

After the large shield was brought in and brought under control, another small team came in from the rear. They ignored what was happening in front and began cleaning each room one by one.

"Safety!"

"Safety!"

The cleaning team quickly identified the first floor and then went up to the second floor.

At this tense moment, Ben was still trying to figure out the reason and was preparing to ask the person in front of him something.

"Ahem~ I think..."

Before Ben could finish speaking, a bullet was fired as a warning towards his side. Already extremely tense, Peter Parker swiftly pushed Ben aside.

Then, Peter shot out a web that stuck to the dining table, and pulled it forcefully, blocking the way between the dining room and the kitchen.

"Peter, what are you doing! How do you have such strength?"

Ben, who had been pushed aside, slowly realized that his nephew was completely different from before.

The squad outside did not fire rashly; instead, they guarded the entrance and called for backup from the vehicles outside.

"One enemy superhuman has been identified. The status of the other two is unknown. Requesting the use of GAU-19 warning shots."

This didn't bother to hide it from the three people in the kitchen. She was still reprimanding her nephew for his recklessness when she heard the noise outside, which made her even angrier.

“Peter Parker, you’d better explain what you were doing just now. You came running back breathless, and now this is happening again. They’re about to shoot us!”

Peter Parker possessed innate intelligence and, had he completed his education, would have been an excellent biochemist and engineer. He naturally understood what GAU-19 was.

Peter Parker, who usually worked alongside his uncle Ben to repair the house, knew that the exterior walls couldn't withstand 12.7mm bullets. And he couldn't abandon Ben and May to escape alone.

"Wait, we surrender, we surrender!"

Peter peeked out from behind the kitchen wall, shouted to the people outside, and raised his hands to indicate that he posed no threat.

But the squad didn't think so. Instead, they turned on the laser designators on their guns to indicate the location of the heavy machine guns outside.

Only after confirming that the laser was shining on Peter did the squad commander signal for communication.

"Stretch out your hands and lie down on the ground!"

As the laser pointer moved, the Parker family lay down on the floor at the junction of the kitchen and dining room, stretching out their arms in anticipation.

"Number Three, prepare to use the restraint device."

Following the order, Number Three slowly handed his weapon to the person next to him and picked up the restraint device from his backpack.

Despite being called a restraint device, it is actually just two huge alloy pieces fastened together, with a semi-circular groove cut out on one side of the alloy and padlock holes at both ends.

First came the threat of Peter Parker, who, after his hands were bound, tried his best to break free.

Ash walked in from the doorway and said to Peter Parker, who was secretly trying to break free, "Don't be silly, this is a 30mm thick boron steel lock hook with an alloy locking mechanism. How much force would it take to break it?"