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Chapter 90: Turn of events

Alice tried to rise, but Martin flicked his wrist. A shard of wood shot into her throat. Blood gushed as she gasped, choking, clawing at the wound.

"Alice!" Quentin screamed, rushing toward her, but she collapsed in seconds, lifeless in a pool of crimson.

Margo's eyes filled with tears and rage. "You fucking monster!" She hurled curse after curse at him, words ...

Chapter 122: The bug

One Week Later – New York City, Night

Spider-Man swung across rooftops, the crisp air rushing past him due to the speed he was moving. His in built comm buzzed softly with background NYPD chatter, but his night had been quiet so far. 'Too quiet infact.'

And of course he just had to tempt fate as the next thing he heard was a blood curling scream. Peter halted...

Chapter 89: Trickery

Back at the cabin, Penny was waiting with the others. "So, how'd it go?" Kai asked.

Penny said, "We got her out. She's pretty banged up, but stable. But uh—we found someone else too."

Kai's expression hardened after that. "Oh? Where is he?"

Alice frowned. "Wait, how did you know the person was a he?" Kai ignored her, walking toward the figure asleep in...

Chapter 25: Training

The abandoned forge was quiet except for the sound of knuckles brushing the dusty floor. Riven balanced on one arm, body taut like a bowstring as he pressed himself upward and downward. Sweat barely clung to him, despite the effort it took to pull off the exercise. His lips moved in steady rhythm.

"...nine hundred seventy-eight... nine hundred seventy-nine..."

...

Chapter 121: Hubris II

Back in the Lab

Tony circled the massive machine dominating the chamber to him it looked more like a gleaming gate of steel and quantum coils, humming faintly. His visor scanned across it.

"This thing's no science fair project," Tony muttered. "What the hell are you building here, Stretch?" Reed stiffened. "It's a bridge. A conduit to another dimension, an emp...

Chapter 88: Ember

Kai moved back a little as he crossed his arms, eyes flickering to the blood on Eliot's palm before he cleaned it with a handkerchief. The blade had drawn him clean, a mark of worthiness.

"Ok, now I'm offended," Kai muttered under his breath. "Didn't expect to be chosen or anything, but still ouch."

Eliot, wiping his hand, smirked. "Oh, don't pout. Consider it ...

Chapter 87: High king

Kai told the others plainly that he'd have to stay with the knife-maker for now. The forging process needed oversight, and he could speed things along by helping with the growth of the moonstones. "You all go," he said, his tone final. "I'll get busy here."

As the group turned to leave, Quentin glanced at Julia. "Hey, Jules. There's something I want to check out. Want to come w...

Chapter 24: Escalation

Thump…

…silence.

Thump… thump…

The rhythm was faint, distant at first like hearing someone else's pulse underwater.

Yet with each beat, it drew closer, louder, until it was no longer simply sound but a pressure reverberating in his chest.

Thump-thump. Thump-thump.

The tempo quickened just as his ...

Chapter 120: Hubris I

"Today is not my day, is it?" Johnny muttered, his body streaking fire through the gray sky as he twisted around another pressurized jet of water. "How in the hell did it transition from me getting a hot chick's phone number to… this?!"

The blast passed so close it singed his ear, and Johnny grimaced. Below him, the street was chaos as there were dozens of writhing, grotesque...

Chapter 23: End of second trial

One moment he wasn't there, the next he stood before them, blocking their path.

Gasps erupted across the courtyard.

"What the hell, how did he…?!"

"I didn't even see him move!"

"Impossible, he was all the way back there—"

Riven froze, his eyes widening at the sudden presence. 'Fast. Too fast. Not even my eyes tracked it.'

Chapter 86: The knife maker

Fillory

What started as a massive blob of pure magic floating in the void and because cosmic accidents apparently have hobbies decided one bored Tuesday to go boom. From that delightful conflagration sprouted Fillory: a magical Disney land for people who hate theme-park liability waivers and like their fairy tales with a side of existential dread.

If Disn...

Chapter 22: The second trial IV

An hour later.

The courtyard was quieter, though there was tension in the air. Only nine students remained standing in the center of the yard.

The other thirty-one students, those who had failed, gathered at the sides watching the second part of the second trial about to begin Some whispered and pointed in surprise.

"How the hell is he still here?"

Chapter 85: Into Fillory

Josh’s so-called lair was little more than a hollowed-out corner of the Neitherlands, shelves patched together from warped wood and junk scavenged from who-knew-where. Kai stepped inside, gave the place a slow once-over, and frowned.

“Well… this looks dull,” he muttered, unimpressed.

Josh, already slouching against a makeshift table, raised a finger. �...

Chapter 21: The second trial IIl

The students were split into two groups.

Seventeen stood beneath Borah's shadow, forming a tense line across the starting mark under his glare. The other seventeen assembled across from Corrin, with Leyra poised at his side, her sharp gaze sweeping the young faces like a hawk measuring prey.

At the far end, Arven lingered in silence, watching the scene with arm...

Chapter 119: Underway

It had been two weeks since Juggernaut’s rampage tore through New York. The city was left bruised and broken after the behemoth’s rampage in the streets, but now the city was beginning to stitch itself back together. Some neighborhoods stood proud again after the reconstruction, their streets freshly paved and some of the buildings looked fully restored. Others were still half-gutted, skele...

Chapter 84: Josh

Penny sat slumped in the corner of the library, books scattered around him like a storm had passed through. His brow furrowed with his eyes darting over lines of script that refused to either make sense or were just not what he was looking for. He dragged his hand down his face, frustration pouring out of him.

Out of nowhere, Zelda’s calm voice drifted in, carrying that usual...

Chapter 20: The second trial II

The instant the bands were activated, a low hum filled the courtyard and then came the crushing weight.

Thud. Thud.

Several students grunted at once as their bodies dipped under the doubled gravity. A few staggered sideways, arms flailing to keep balance. Some nearly buckled outright, their knees trembling as though the ground itself sought to drag them beneath...

Chapter 118: Situations

S.H.I.E.L.D. – Observation Room, Classified Facility

“There is something seriously wrong with that boy,” Nick Fury muttered, leaning back in his chair with his eyes glued to the screen. The flickering footage of Gojo in action against Juggernaut and then the brotherhood made him tighten his jaw.

“Normally, most mutants have one… maybe even two mutatio...

Chapter 19: The second trial

The massive courtyard was filled with restless chatter as the forty students stood orderly in rows and columns, awaiting the next trial. Today marked the second stage of the examinations, and tension laced the air like a storm about to break.

Clusters of voices rose along with arguments on what the second trial will be about.

"It's going to be a straight-up phy...

Chapter 83: The Neitherlands.

The Neitherlands.

Commonly known as the crossroads between worlds, dimensions, and universes. A place of endless fountains, each a gateway, each a trap, each a confusing, magical riddle in stone and water.

For first-timers, it could be overwhelming. But for Quentin… it was just weird.

“Why the fuck,” Quentin blurted, pointing at a fountai...

Chapter 18: Control II

For hours, he remained unmoving, letting his senses guide him. First came the sense of touch. He could feel the faint graze of the night air brushing across his bare skin, the gritty tickle of dust landing and scattering over his shoulders, the rough texture of earth beneath his form. Then came the sound, the hollow whistle of wind through broken beams, the far-off creak of old metal shifting, ...

Chapter 17: Control

Kevan and Lynn slipped into the room. After Kevan spoke up, the silence hung for a few beats before Lynn's eyes found him.

Riven stood there, half-dressed, the soft light tracing the cut of his chest and the defined lines of his abdomen. Her gaze lingered longer than she intended, rising slowly until it met his face. His expression was unreadable, detached in a way that only ma...

Chapter 82: What the fuck did I just get myself into?

Kai had barely left Kady’s place when he stopped mid-step on the empty street on his way back to brakebills. His hand slipped into his pocket and pulled out a white card. He stared at it in silence, thumb brushing its edges before sighing.

“Ah, what the hell,” he muttered, slipping it back into his pocket. In the next second he blurred forward, vanishing from sight.

Chapter 16: Awakening

Light.

The first thing Riven felt when his eyes opened was how bright the room was. His vision blurred at the edges, his pupils tightening just as a thought flashing unbidden through his head:

'What… where hell am I?'

Voices drifted across the air around him. The voices were steady and conversational but distant from him by a few feet of he w...

Chapter 15: Found

The eastern mines had been sealed off with heavy barricades of steel braces and metallic fences hammered into place to keep the curious out. Inside the mine, the whole sections of the tunnels had collapsed: one fracture inward, swallowing stone and timber. This was caused due to the initial collapse; another fracture outward, where rock had vomited itself into the open clearing.

Chapter 14: Now… awaken

The void was absolute.

There was no light, no horizon, no sky above or ground below. There was only a vast black fog stretching farther than Riven's eyes could wander. And yet, somehow, he could see.

That wasn't the most shocking part.

He remembered the Aberrant tearing his leg clean off.The pain, the blood and the scream that ripped out of hi...

Chapter 81: Taken

"You both okay?" Kai's voice softened as he addressed them both carefully, his eyes flicked between Kady and Anya.

Kady was still trembling, shock seeping out of her bones, but she managed a nod. Anya nodded too, only for the dam inside her to finally break. The reality hit her like a tidal wave: everyone else was dead, butchered before her eyes. And worse she had almost been r...

Chapter 117: A beast

Someone screamed.

"Oh my God!" Kitty's voice cracked with horror as she stared at what Gojo had just done to Wanda. The brutality of it left her frozen with her hands trembling.

Mystique roared, surging forward in a blur until she was by Wanda's side. She crouched low, her body shielding the girl as she snapped her glare at Gojo.

"What the hell...

Chapter 13: Erased

Riven saw the deviant's muscles twitch, cords of flesh rolling under its mottled hide. His eyes tracked the subtle movements a heartbeat before the beast threw its head back and unleashed a roar. The sound was so violent, so sharp, that his ears split open in rivulets of blood. He almost fell from his position as his vision blurred, he fought the urge to clamp his hands over his head as the wor...

Chapter 80: The trickster god

Where had it all gone wrong?

How did it get this bad so fast?

Oh, right. They had summoned a god.

Fuck.

Thirty minutes earlier, none of them could have imagined the carnage that was about to unfold. They stood in a perfect circle, hands joined, hearts pounding with the anticipation of a miracle. Each of them wore white robes as the invoca...