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Chapter 170: Desolation

For Yao, having her repeat and mention things over and over again is enough to show her sincerity and satisfaction.

With the Ancient One's character, she would definitely not give up until she achieved her goal.

The thought of being targeted by rogue mages in the future gave Peter a headache.

"Supreme Mage?" he murmured to himself.

The Ancient One's eyes moved slightly, and she smiled, "It seems that you already have an idea about this."

Peter curled his lips, "Isn't Tony Stark just obsessed with magic recently? I think he is a good candidate."

In a certain comic in a parallel universe, Tony also became the Supreme Mage.

But the Ancient One just smiled awkwardly and said, "I don't like him."

Peter silently mourned for Tony in his heart for a few seconds.

Just as the Ancient One wanted to continue talking, her expression suddenly changed.

She said with some regret, "It seems that our conversation can only end here today."

"What's wrong?"

"There seems to be something wrong with your little girlfriend."

Time went back to just now, at Gwen's house.

Facing George's somewhat bitter question, Gwen was silent for a moment, then looked sideways out the window and said, "Dad, do you know why I chose to become Spider-Woman in the first place?"

This seemed to be something that her daughter had not truly reconciled with. George showed a bit of curiosity, "Why?"

"It's because of Peter." Gwen's eyes showed a bit of reminiscence, thinking of the time when Peter revealed himself as a Spider-Woman fan in front of her.

Peter was so cute back then.

Well, although it was later discovered that this guy had figured out her identity early and had been role-playing with her, the cuteness turned into annoyance in an instant.

The corners of Gwen's mouth subconsciously raised slightly, but then she was covered by a long sigh, "It is Peter who has always inspired me. His kindness and persistence have always been the reason why I became Spider-Woman. It is also because of him, many times when I faced difficulties and wanted to give up, I had the strength to tell myself to persevere."

"I have the power that he never had, so naturally, I should do more and use this power to help more people."

"But now I know that this is wrong," Gwen said in a daze, "I suddenly can't find the motivation to persist. Even if I become stronger, I still can't protect the people I like."

George wanted to comfort Gwen but didn't know what to say.

Finally, he knew who had influenced his daughter to become a street hero. It turned out the culprit was Peter. However, it seemed that knowing the culprit now was of no use.

If possible, George would rather Peter come back to Gwen, back to them. He promised that he would never interfere with Peter and Gwen's affairs in the future. Go ahead and do whatever you have to do. But it's all a bit late.

"It's okay to rest for a while. If you really don't want to do it anymore, that's no problem! There have been other superheroes here in the past six months, and the security in New York is still good."

George could only console her like this.

Gwen's problem was not external. Even though she excelled in both morals and academics, no matter how prosperous the building looked or how beautiful the branches and leaves bloomed, they couldn't fill the desolation in her heart.

Long before that, her heart had been filled by another person.

George had work to do. After the conversation, he left quickly.

Gwen didn't have any classes today, so she had already planned to go to the Justice League building to continue tinkering with the time shuttle.

To this day, she still couldn't find the reason why the device failed to start, but all she could do was continue to test and research, hoping to solve the problem one day. Otherwise, Peter would never be found.

However, sometimes fate comes so unexpectedly.

When she arrived at the laboratory, Gwen was just doing routine debugging and trying to start the device as usual.

But what was different this time was the device's enthusiastic response.

Before, no matter what, she would get stuck at the last step of opening the channel, and in the end, she had no choice but to cancel before the machine overloaded. But today, somehow, the entire startup process became extremely smooth.

It was so smooth that before Gwen even reacted, energy was emitted from the device, opening a door in the air.

If I had to explain it, it was like the Iceberg Goddess who used to ignore her and didn't respond no matter how much she teased her, but today suddenly became soft, sticky, and responsive.

Of course, there was a reason for this.

All because of Peter's return this morning.

It turns out that there is a thick barrier outside the universe. It is this barrier that restricts the expansion of redundant timelines and ensures the stability of the entire universe, unaffected by the multiverse.

But when Peter returned this morning, he forcibly broke through this barrier. Forget it if they were just ordinary people, they are very cute even if they are small, and they will not have any impact on the barrier at all. But with Peter's current size, when he enters and exits like this, he basically forces the barrier open, which is the type that will squeeze out the juice as soon as he puts it in.

The barrier could not be repaired in such a short period, which means that communication in the parallel universe was unobstructed. In an instant, the channel was opened.

Therefore, if you sometimes find that a goddess is suddenly very easy to use, don't be too happy. Maybe she was poked first last night.

Returning to the topic, Gwen looked at the portal. After a short period of daze, she was pleasantly surprised. Although she didn't know why, the device finally started successfully, which meant that the first step to find Peter had been taken.

Of course, she had no intention of impulsively touching the other side of the passage. Putting aside the fact that she didn't know what was on the other side, just in terms of her current state... she wasn't ready.

But it's not like there's nothing to do.

Gwen immediately planned to tell Tony and others the news and ask everyone to come and take a look.

However, before she had time to do so, a blood-red claw crawled out of the passage in the next second.

The long-lost spider sense also screamed in Gwen's mind.

"Oops."

Gwen realized something was wrong and quickly closed the passage.

But it was too late.

The bloody arms in the passage seemed to realize that time was running out, and forced their bodies to squeeze out of the passage.

Soon, Gwen saw a lump of red flesh that looked like rotting fungus, emerging from the passage just a second before it finally closed, occupying the entire passage entrance.

Then, the flesh began to squirm, gather, and gradually began to take on a human form, finally turning into a huge monster with the same size as the Hulk.

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