Apocalypse generally doesn't kill Mutants because he needs them as his gene pool and subjects to rule over.
But Fox was clearly not among them. After all, Fox came from another World and shared his goals, making him an enemy.
"Damn it, you World-destroying bald head, why do you have to be so logical?" Fang Yuan cursed inwardly.
Seeing that he couldn't fleece Apocalypse anymore, Fang Yuan could only resort to Plan B.
"Apocalypse, let me show you a big treasure!" Fox shouted.
A small black dot suddenly appeared in the sky, descending straight toward their location.
The Hiroshima-style 'Acquaintance Maker'—the Yield-Increased-Plus-Plus version!
Apocalypse looked up. Taking advantage of his distracted attention, Fang Yuan immediately detonated the four nuclear bombs he had planted around the pyramid!
His alias was Fox; as an old Fox himself, how could he play his cards openly with Apocalypse?
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Apocalypse had used half of Cairo to build his pyramid; now, Fang Yuan planted four 'mushrooms' and directly destroyed the remaining half of Cairo.
Even Apocalypse's pyramid was blown into a wasteland along with it.
Before the nuclear explosion, Fang Yuan had hidden in the Mirror Dimension, carefully observing Apocalypse's condition.
Apocalypse was indeed caught off guard at first, and the aftershocks of the explosion instantly destroyed nearly half of his body.
However, Apocalypse's self-healing speed was also incredibly fast. He possessed over two hundred superpowers, preventing him from dying to a sneak attack. Once he reacted, he immediately activated a force field shield, blocking all subsequent impacts of the nuclear blast.
Fang Yuan frowned deeply. Apocalypse's shield was too powerful; in the movie, it could even withstand the combined attacks of Cyclops, Magneto, and Jean, who had just begun releasing the Phoenix Force.
If Storm hadn't defected at the last moment and interrupted Apocalypse's teleportation casting animation, Jean's Phoenix Force might not have even had time to finish him off.
Fang Yuan immediately thought of a countermeasure. After thinking it over, he suddenly realized that the best solution right now was actually his good brother Homelander's line—
"How about we just run?"
It wasn't that he was a coward. He could fight, but it wasn't necessary.
Apocalypse's strength was quite high, and he had no obvious weaknesses. Under the current circumstances, there was no way to take him down other than a head-on confrontation.
The time travel method didn't work.
When Apocalypse appeared, Fang Yuan had tried using the Avengers 4 Team's technology to travel back to before his appearance, but he could only reach parallel Worlds from before the year 2000.
Because the characteristic of this Avengers 4 technology is that changing the past doesn't affect the present; it can only ever go to parallel Worlds.
Furthermore, Fang Yuan couldn't return to a point in time after his arrival, because the timeline he was currently in could not be influenced.
The [Beyond-er (S-Rank)] title that Ancient One helped him forge even defended against himself.
At the very least, the Avengers 4 Team's technology could not break through the restrictions of [Beyond-er (S-Rank)].
Since clever tricks were unusable, he could only face it head-on.
But Fang Yuan didn't really want to fight Apocalypse. He wasn't bellicose, and besides, it wasn't as if he had no way out. He could temporarily leave this World and fight his way back after finding a solution.
So, Homelander's value was still rising.
But just as Fang Yuan was considering this, Apocalypse was the first to notice him.
"So you're here!"
Apocalypse suddenly spoke to the empty space in front of him, then directly released a powerful burst of energy toward Fang Yuan's Mirror Dimension.
Fang Yuan snapped back to his senses only to see purple cracks appearing in the Mirror Dimension—that was the color of Apocalypse's energy.
He only then realized that Apocalypse's mental power was even higher than he had imagined, capable of detecting him even across space.
Moreover, Apocalypse also had spatial abilities, allowing him to directly attack the Mirror Dimension instead of passing right through it like the nuclear bombs had done earlier.
A surge of anger suddenly rose in Fang Yuan's heart.
This Apocalypse was hunting him down—did he really think he was a lamb for the slaughter?
"In that case, let's have a go first!" Fang Yuan also had a temper. He had even beaten Darkseid; why would he fear this Apocalypse?
He didn't want to fight before because it wasn't necessary, but now that his temper was up, it wasn't out of the question to have a bout with Apocalypse.
If he couldn't win, he'd worry about that later.
He quickly equipped the [Black King Template], [Ancient One Template], and [Thor Template], while leaving the [Wolverine Template] on as a passive. Nowadays, he could forcibly use up to three and a half Character Templates simultaneously; the [Wolverine Template] counted as that half, usable for survival but not for active use in this situation.
A cold sneer appeared at the corner of Apocalypse's mouth because the Mirror Dimension was already crumbling under his energy impact. After he exerted a sudden burst of power, the entire Mirror Dimension shattered with a bang.
However, the shattered spatial fragments didn't disappear; instead, they stabbed directly toward Apocalypse's face. If Apocalypse hadn't reacted quickly and activated his shield in time, those two strikes could have gouged out his eyes.
The smile on Apocalypse's face froze as he suddenly realized the person opposite him might not be so easy to deal with.
After the fragments hit Apocalypse's face, Fang Yuan once again released a violent torrent of lightning. His [Thor Template] was a fused template; it wasn't just Thor Odinson, it also included Storm's abilities, making it even more powerful when combined.
However, these attacks still failed to have an effect on Apocalypse, who had become alert and quickly increased the power of his force field shield.
If energy isn't enough, use magic to supplement it.
Fang Yuan was undiscouraged and quickly cast a spell. The lightning turned crimson, and striking Apocalypse's shield indeed proved more effective, forcing him back several steps.
Failed to penetrate enemy armor.
There was an effect, but not much.
But even this surprised Apocalypse; he knew the power of his own force field shield.
Fang Yuan's expression darkened, and he immediately activated his various auras.
The first one he thought of was the Good Sister-in-Law aura.
[Error Halo (B-Rank): When the outside World's impression of the host deviates from reality, obtain an attribute boost. Current attribute boost: 5%/25%.]
"What the hell? Only 5%?"
Even in the middle of a battle, Fang Yuan couldn't help but be stunned. He had transformed into a great villain to help the World solve a massive crisis—how much humiliation had he endured? And the error was only 5%?
This error was judged based on Fang Yuan's current identity. He was now Fox, and the error bonus was so low—so in the system panel's judgment, was he actually not a 'good person'?
"Truly a stupid panel," Fang Yuan complained in his heart.
He hurried to activate other auras, but Apocalypse, now realizing Fang Yuan's threat, didn't dare to be negligent.
He reached out his hand toward Fang Yuan and directly activated his Molecular Restructuring ability.
Fang Yuan instantly felt a tearing sensation in his body. He quickly used Thor's divine power to resist, but he was unable to withstand it.
He was greatly alarmed. Thor's constitution was already strong enough—though this was early-stage Thor and not as powerful as the later version, it was still a divine body, yet it couldn't withstand Apocalypse's ability.
Well, even Loki could stab through him; one could only say that the divine power of Avengers 1 Thor was indeed not quite up to par.
But this Molecular Restructuring—even the [Black King Template] couldn't bypass it!
You clearly didn't do this to the X-Men!
Fine, fine, fine—show mercy to the X-Men but use your full strength on me, is that it?
Fang Yuan was about to fully activate the self-healing ability of the [Wolverine Template] to endure it, otherwise, he would be decomposed to death by Apocalypse.
However, what he didn't expect was that his body automatically expanded and grew larger, his skin turning green as he proactively transformed into the Hulk form.
In terms of constitution, the Hulk from the Avengers 1 era was indeed stronger than the God of Thunder.
But what surprised Fang Yuan the most was the change behind this.
[Darwin Template development increased to 30%!]
He could now use four Character Templates simultaneously!
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