Chapter 25

"The Goku template's time is up; after this transformation, my battle power won't be as strong."

Hawkins felt his body rapidly shrinking, and as his sanity returned, he immediately sensed trouble.

Though he possessed Saiyan blood and could transform into a Great Ape without the Goku template, his innate battle power, even multiplied by ten, wasn't very impressive.

Moreover, there was the potential aftereffect of template exhaustion, which might cause him to faint before he could transform again.

The inevitable result, he feared, would be all X-Men being detained by S.H.I.E.L.D., and the future looked grim under such circumstances.

He realized that relying on hero templates, though powerful, was ultimately an external aid. Once this external aid was gone, he reverted to being ineffective. External aids could be utilized, but personal strength was crucial.

This way, even if one day his ability to load hero templates disappeared, he would still remain powerful.

After this episode, his focus would need to be on training his own body. Only when his own strength reached the level of Goku at thirteen would he possess some ability to defend himself. Then, loading the Goku template would merely add the Power Pole, and its disappearance after the template ended wouldn't significantly impact his power.

"Fortunately, my justice points from defeating the Master of Illusions, preventing Professor X from annihilating mutants, are sufficient to activate the next template!"

Although the Goku template was unavailable, he could draw a new one, though what he would get depended on luck. If he drew Ultraman, the crisis would be instantly resolved.

With great willpower resisting the dizziness from the template's end, he quickly opened his panel to check.

"Justice Points bar is full. Perform a hero template draw?"

"Draw!"

Without hesitation, he chose to draw.

No matter who the next hero template was, as long as he activated it immediately, there was a chance to bug out the aftershock of the previous template's loading, preventing him from falling unconscious.

"Drawing complete. You have drawn the hero template of fourteen-year-old Harry Potter from the 'Harry Potter' world. Load?"

Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter—this was from his fourth year, during 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.'

"Load!"

He was admittedly disappointed. The Harry Potter template wasn't bad—its array of magical spells, though not strong in attack, could greatly assist his later life.

Spells like the unlocking charm, which could unlock any lock, the transfiguration spells that temporarily altered the properties of objects, and the repairing charm were all useful.

But these spells were auxiliary and inadequate against Captain Marvel.

As the Harry Potter hero template loaded successfully, Hawkins underwent another transformation.

His uniform shifted from the X-Men's combat suit to a black wizard's robe, his hair became untamed, glasses appeared on his face, and a lightning bolt scar marked his forehead. In his left hand, he held the Firebolt broomstick and an invisibility cloak; in his right, a wand made of holly wood.

"The Firebolt and the invisibility cloak too?"

While he expected the wand, similar to how the Goku template came with the Power Pole, the inclusion of the broomstick and cloak was a surprise.

Yet, considering the Firebolt's top speed of about 240 km/h, even if he tried to escape on it now, he couldn't outfly Captain Marvel, who could traverse the cosmos. However, the invisibility cloak might give him a chance to escape if used unexpectedly.

In the world of Harry Potter, the cloak was one of the three Deathly Hallows, capable of permanent invisibility, legendary for being undetectable even by Death itself.

Hopefully, it wouldn't be easily penetrated by high technology.

But escaping would leave Professor X and the others vulnerable. Without Professor X, the mutant school would cease to exist, complicating things for him, Wanda, Pietro, Ororo, and Alina.

"Let's transform first; maybe it will bluff them."

Shaking off his distractions, Hawkins looked up at the full moon.

"Thump, thump. Thump, thump thump thump."

The familiar rapid heartbeat returned.

"As expected, this bloodline isn't overridden but adds on."

He had speculated that loading a hero template didn't merely transform him into that hero but augmented his existing base. Initially, being just a regular human, loading the Goku template showed no visible change.

Now, being a Saiyan, loading Harry Potter's bloodline turned him into a Harry Potter with Saiyan physical traits.

Of course, his current personal strength was only slightly better than a normal human, so the combination might not show much change, just making him a bit tougher than a typical young wizard.

But looking forward, if his strength reached the level of the Goku template and then he loaded the Harry Potter template, he would become a magical Saiyan.

And if he added the Goku template again, his strength would double, reaching a power level of 280.

This wasn't the limit; as more hero templates unlocked, the more bloodlines and abilities he could combine, eventually becoming incredibly versatile and nearly invincible.

"Roar!"

A roar tore through the air as his wizard's robe burst, and Hawkins once again transformed into a fourteen to fifteen-meter tall terrifying Great Ape.

However, this time he distinctly noticed a difference.

It wasn't that his battle power had decreased a lot—though that was certain. The Great Ape he became now looked similar to before, but the battle power was drastically different.

Previously, it was the 140 battle power Goku who transformed into the Great Ape, reaching 1400 in battle power. Now, it was his own 10 battle power transforming into a Great Ape, barely reaching 100—less than Goku's battle power before transformation.

But the intimidation factor was still sufficient. As long as he didn't act, others would definitely assume his power was as terrifying as before.

What truly surprised him was that this time, in his Great Ape form, he could suppress the rage and desire to destroy.

He was now able to control the Great Ape form very rationally, like Vegeta, a higher-class Saiyan warrior.

Moreover, he faintly felt that he could completely suppress the rage and desire to destroy if he wished, allowing him to revert from the Great Ape form to normal at will.

He could now freely control his transformations, even during the full moon.

The combination of Harry Potter's wizard bloodline with his Saiyan bloodline perfectly resolved the low-class Saiyan warrior's lack of rationality in Great Ape form and the uncontrollability during the full moon.

(End of Chapter)