Chapter 343: S: Glorious Event (23) _2

Just as Shiller had said, the Planet Warships didn't immediately use all of their remaining energy to forcefully start the engines for jumping. Instead, they slowly drifted backward in the cosmos, seemingly wanting to observe from a distance, what exactly was happening to the star.

It wasn't their fault for letting their guard down, because before they started extracting energy, they had thoroughly investigated this star. Although it wasn't at its peak, it was stable; no changes could be expected for at least several hundreds of thousands of years.

The more advanced the civilization, the more they trusted the data they had investigated. So, the first response from the Kree was not that the sun was going to explode, but that there was something wrong with their method of energy extraction, which had caused the sun to change. Therefore, their first reaction was not to flee, but to step back and see what was really going on.

Like when a person hears a sudden crack from a microwave oven while using it. The first response would be, "Did I heat the food in the wrong way and cause the microwave to go awry?"

They definitely won't run away immediately but will step back to observe -- they might even go tap the microwave.

But just as the Planet Warships observed for a while without making any conclusions, and planned to go tap the star to see what went wrong, the star suddenly exerted a huge gravitational pull within an unimaginably short period of time and attracted everything around it.

In a split second, this terrifying gravity broke through the Planet Warships' anti-gravity device's upper limit and caused the Planet Warship, which was minuscule compared to the star, to fall into the sun at a horrifying speed.

Suddenly, this gripping gravitational pull disappeared --

The star exploded.

On the large screen, the round fireball churned up waves of orange-red, then white began to cover the entire celestial body from a single point. Following that, several dazzling rings spread out from the star, covering an elliptical region around it.

These rings started vibrating constantly then, at some moment, burst into a brilliant display of fireworks.

What humans can perceive with their naked eyes is very limited; the process of various particles interacting with one another cannot be seen by carbon-based life forms.

But what they could see was the grand firework spanning across the entire galaxy, bursting from this huge star, an endless brilliance illuminating the dark cosmos.

No one was concerned about the tiny Planet Warship and at which wave of energy it was destroyed in. The dazzling lights left everyone dizzy. It was a brilliance that no artistic work could replicate. The known colors of the world were insufficient to express the splendor of this moment.

It was then that people noticed on the screen, a small black dot that stood still through all the changes, unmoving since the sun started to transform.

The black dot stood still like a speck of dust on the screen, looking even more out of place amidst the dazzling lights. Some audience members even wanted to brush the dot off the screen. But soon, they realized that it wasn't dust; it was a person.

A person they were reluctant and afraid to think about.

Magneto just stood there amidst the afterglow of the sun's explosion, as wave after wave of powerful energy passed by him. Not a thread of energy touched his garment. An invisible boundary constantly surrounded him while he stood in the most radiant Energy Core, closer than anyone else, watching the brilliant spectacle. Yet, he remained silent.

Polaris was also standing in the S.H.I.E.L.D office, staring at the screen. Her face illuminated in the fiery glow. While everyone was frozen, fixated on the screen, she lowered her head slightly to look at her own hands, seeming to be contemplating something.

Then, as if sensing something, she glanced at Charles, who was also looking back at her and nodded slowly.

Polaris redirected her gaze back to the screen. The brilliance from the explosion did not wane, but instead kept getting stronger. The illumination from the Supernova will grow increasingly brighter over the next several days.

Undoubtedly, this was a Supernova explosion observable by the human race, because the brightness it burst out with was so intense that it would traverse billions of light-years in the following days.

In the two meeting rooms, everyone who watched this scene was silent, seemingly still immersed in the shock they couldn't pull themselves out of.

But the small black dot didn't seem to have the mood to look at the landscape. He disappeared in an instant when no one was paying attention, just like the countless times he vanished from the center of the battlefield.

"I think, now, those people on the other side should be filled with questions and horror," Nick slowly said looking at the screen.

"I bet they desperately want to ask a question. But it's a foolish one. 'Why wouldn't Magneto destroy Earth?'" Shiller continued, "A better question would be, why would he want to destroy Earth?"

"Maybe, when the Mutants are on the verge of extinction, then he might..."

"No, he won't." Charles interrupted Nick's speculation. He shook his head and said, "He won't destroy the Earth. If the mutants were facing extinction, he would turn everyone into mutants."

"You might think he's a madman, but he truly loves this planet more than any of you," Charles sighed. His tone began to lower, as if he were reading a storybook.

The cold lights in the office dimmed; only the low voice echoed.

"Many years ago when I first met him, I thought he was an extremely lonely person. He rarely interacted with others and avoided getting involved in any lively situations."

"At that time, I felt it was my duty as his friend to pull him out of that loneliness. But later, I found out that he was not lonely at all."

"Because he was born able to sense magnetic fields, the earth beneath his feet became his best friend."

"Erik was like a resident in the Earth's veins, able to listen to the whispers of the planet through his special magnetic gifts."

"Their magnetic fields merged into one. This planet was his parents, friends, and lover, with him in every heartbeat and pulse."

"As his power grew stronger, he gained more friends."

"Planets, stars, black holes... everything in the cosmos had its unique magnetic field. That was their language, and Erik, he was the listener of all the voices in the universe -- only he could hear these celestial bodies sing."

Finally, Charles' voice faded out as the screen turned off, filled with emotion.

"That is Magneto, a not-so-lonely, Son of the Universe."