191 Chapter 191

A newcomer glanced deeply at him and said, "I am both the Weaver and Karn, past, present, and future merged into one, and that is who I am now."

Mark raised an eyebrow. "Interesting. Convergence of timelines? I'd have thought you were some Beyonder or something... "

"Beyonder?" The newcomer looked puzzled. "What is that?"

Mark shook his head slightly, chuckled, and said, "Alright then, I'll call you Karn. So, Karn, are you here to stop me from killing your father?"

Karn wasn't bothered by the address. He looked into Mark's eyes and nodded. "All the other members of the inheritor family have been killed by you. The mistakes of the past have vanished. The energy within Solus has been nearly destroyed by solar radiation. Presently, he's no different from an ordinary old man. Why rush to exterminate them?"

"Hmph." Mark sneered. "Just because they've lost their power, should I spare them? How naive! Did those people killed in the past by them die in vain? If they chose to kill, they should be prepared to be killed! That's fate! The fate they've chosen! And you call yourself the guardian of the Web of Fate! Ridiculous!"

Karn fell into silence again.

"Karn, although you claim to 'like to guard and create', 'detest destruction and killing', and boast of being different from Daemos and them, in my eyes, you're no different from them!"

Karn looked at Mark, his masked eyes revealing a hint of anger and confusion.

Mark continued, "You consider yourself a superior god, the guardian of Spider Totems! So, recklessly creating Spider-Men across multiple parallel universes, guiding the inheritors to kill them, you've brewed tragedy after tragedy in many universes!"

"You manipulate the fate of Spider-Men, forcing them to 'recognize their responsibilities' by sacrificing their loved ones. In reality, it's because you're a bastard who recognized his so-called responsibility by killing his own mother!"

"Your act of transferring your pain onto others is unworthy of your title as the protector of the Web of Fate!"

Karn was momentarily stunned.

Yes!

Why did the appearance of each Spider Totem always come with the sacrifice of someone close to them? It was because he, himself, understood his true responsibility and mission when his mother died!

Therefore, subconsciously, he added similar destinies to every Spider Totem!

In reality, there's no conflict between becoming a superhero and one's loved ones!

Tony Stark became Iron Man, who did he lose?

Steve Rogers became Captain America, who did he lose?

How to use one's abilities is a personal choice. There's no need to understand this truth by sacrificing someone!

Except for Spider-Man!

And the instigator of all this was none other than the Weaver-Karn, who proclaimed himself as the guardian of Spider Totems!

Mark felt fortunate for leaving his own world early, especially since his world was unique and less influenced by the Weaver. Otherwise, he might have ended up in a dramatic conflict with his close friend or even his teacher someday!

Karn found himself in immense shock and self-doubt, yet Mark wasn't about to let him off the hook.

He continued his accusation, "The reason you act this way, completely disregarding their feelings, is that in your lofty eyes, they are merely tools crafted by you to achieve your goals!"

"Have you honestly ever treated them as your descendants or children? Respected Weaver, I ask you this."

Karn was speechless.

Every word spoken by Mark was piercing and irrefutable, leaving Karn unable to argue because, indeed, he hadn't considered all of this!

Creating Spider Totems was simply fulfilling the duty of a guardian for him, with the hope that someday they would help him fulfill his wish—to reform his siblings.

So, he didn't care about how many Spider Totems died during this period, or how many friends and innocent people were killed by the inheritors around the Spider Totems.

Every time he scripted the destinies of the Spider Totems, he 'sacrificed' at least one friend, mirroring the understanding he gained from his mother's death, subconsciously embedding this rule in their destinies.

How many Spider-Men suffered because of this?

At that moment, Solus let out one final scream, burning to ashes under the solar radiation.

This scream woke Karn from his reverie. He looked at where Solus disappeared, stayed silent for a while, then extended his hand to Mark

Mark cautiously watched him.

Karn chuckled self-mockingly, tossing a ball of light into the void toward Mark. "I'm sorry, I never realized that my existence caused them so much harm. You were right; fate should only be guarded, not exploited. The Web of Life and Destiny is now yours."

Saying this, he didn't care whether Mark had heard clearly, turned, and rushed towards the nearby sun.

Boom!

When Karn withdrew the fate power from his body, solar radiation instantly surged into him, igniting his being.

Without any resistance, in the span of a breath, he was incinerated into a state of nothingness, completely vanishing in the universe.

Mark stood dumbfounded.

He had prepared himself for a grand battle with the Weaver, which was why he preemptively turned so many Spider-Men against him, guarding against the Weaver summoning other Spider-Men for help.

But he never anticipated that Karn would suicide?

As he gazed at the hovering ball of light before him, it seemed to contain a miniature web within.

But Mark knew it wasn't a spider's web; it was the Web of Life and Destiny, one of the fundamental structures that shaped the entire Marvel Multiverse!

After a moment's hesitation, Mark reached out and grasped it.

Suddenly, the Web of Destiny in his mind began to expand outward, extending, revealing numerous faces on its surface.

It was only now that Mark truly understood the genuine significance of this Web of Destiny and the Spider-Men.

The Web of Destiny constituted a fundamental structure for all parallel worlds in the multiverse, guiding each parallel universe along its unique logical path.

The Spider-Men were like nodes on this Web of Destiny.

They resembled spiders on a web, diligently maintaining the safety of the web and the stability of the entire multiverse.

Looking at each Spider-Man in the nodes of the web, Mark smiled, "Why sacrifice so much for such laborious work?"

Saying this, he set the Web of Destiny to a trustee mode.

The future, destiny, should lie in the hands of each individual!

Be it a God or a mortal, everything done today would in some way be repaid in the future!

The end of the story.

Yes, seriously.. it's done.