That night, the sky was dark and overcast, buried beneath heavy clouds.
The city was eerily quiet. So quiet that the only sound was the wind whistling through the streets. Everything seemed calm.
Until—
Boom—!
A deafening roar split the heavens apart. Lightning tore across the night sky, illuminating the rolling clouds.
And in that sudden flash, a golden figure appeared in the silent city.
No… not one figure.
Two.
"Ugh… W-Where am I? I was just… wait, don't tell me I got transmigrated?"
Roland Reynolds clutched his head, his thoughts in turmoil.
The unfamiliar surroundings immediately told him what kind of situation he was in, but that realization did nothing to improve his mood.
He still had not figured out what had happened when a voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
Then a translucent panel appeared in front of his eyes, filled with text he could understand.
[This Week's Overpowered Hero Ability Has Been Refreshed — Sentry (Fusion Form) from Marvel]
[Next Ability Refresh: 167:59:59]
Sentry…?
Did that mean he had obtained Sentry's power?
Roland was dumbfounded. Everything had happened too suddenly, and his mind had yet to catch up.
But right after that, a roar echoed from not far away.
"Hungry! I'm so hungry!! This isn't enough to eat!"
"I'm going to devour everyone in this world!!"
He turned to look.
What he saw was a gaunt-faced golden figure, like a walking corpse, yet built with a massive, muscular frame. It was roaring at the sky over and over, while beneath its feet lay several sprawled superheroes, most of them missing arms or legs.
That tattered golden uniform.
That unmistakable appearance…
Wasn't that the Marvel Universe's Superman knockoff, the Golden Sentry, the man with the power of a million suns?
No—wait, this wasn't even the normal version of Sentry.
This was Zombie Sentry.
"You've got to be kidding me. Zombie Sentry? This is the Zombie Universe?!"
Roland recognized the golden figure instantly. His heart lurched, and he cursed out loud.
But then he remembered the voice he had just heard, and the despair that had welled up inside him vanished on the spot.
As a comic-book fan, Roland knew exactly who that golden figure was.
But he had just received the power of the genuine Sentry—more than that, a Sentry fused with the Void.
A zombie-version Sentry?
Wouldn't that be easy to handle?
Except before Roland could properly confirm his own strength, he noticed that the fallen heroes were already starting to stir. Judging from their decaying faces and their rabid, man-eating howls…
That settled it.
Roland became even more certain of just how awful this world was.
If he had not started with a god-tier cheat, he would have called this the absolute worst transmigration opening imaginable.
Facing Sentry at the start was already bad enough.
Facing Zombie Sentry?
Without a cheat, he might as well have waited to be eaten.
"Since I've got Sentry's power—and not just Sentry, but a Sentry fused with the Void—then does that mean I…"
Roland raised a hand and clenched it into a fist, then looked down at himself.
Good lord.
The black-and-red Sentry suit looked far more modern in texture and design. His body had become tall and powerfully built. And inside him surged a boundless, invincible force.
Most of all, there was that energy he instinctively identified as the power of a million suns. He could feel it with absolute clarity.
All the signs pointed to one conclusion.
"This feeling… this is Sentry's power!"
Roland carefully sensed the power flowing through his body, then reached up and touched the long hair by his ear.
Black hair.
That confirmed it.
This was Sentry.
The power of Sentry had changed and remade Roland's body. He was no longer the thin, frail person he had been before transmigrating.
That was definitely a good thing.
Once he confirmed the enormous power surging within him, Roland immediately realized one thing—
He had to wipe out all these zombie heroes before they could devour more people or infect more heroes.
But first…
"I need to kill that bastard first."
Roland raised his eyes toward Zombie Sentry ahead of him, his gaze blazing.
Sure, the other side was also Sentry.
But it was a weakened version.
All the heroes in the zombie universe were far inferior to their true counterparts—so much weaker that the gap was like the distance between Earth and the Sun.
This was Roland's first real fight, but there was no time to hesitate. With Zombie Sentry's speed, if no one stopped him, every tragedy that followed would happen in the blink of an eye.
As for the fear of facing zombies head-on…
What a joke.
Roland possessed the power of Sentry.
He refused to betray that power.
With Sentry's high-speed thought processes, Roland finished considering everything in a split second and made his decision. His will hardened completely.
"Hah… calm down. Time to move."
Roland took a deep breath, then exploded into motion.
His figure vanished from where he stood, leaving only the thunderous crack of a sonic boom behind.
Boom—!
The shockwave from his burst of speed overturned the nearby cars. The black-and-red blur slammed heavily into Zombie Sentry, the force so immense that it visibly warped his body before launching him straight into the sky.
Roland was so fast that the heroes who had turned into zombies had not even realized what had happened before the one who should have become their leader was carried away in an instant.
"Captain Marvel, do you know where that golden guy went?"
Zombie Captain America scratched his head in confusion and looked at the flying female zombie beside him.
"I think I saw a black-and-red shadow shoot into the sky, but then it disappeared in an instant."
"Hm… I'm not sure either. Something faster than I could react just took him away. It really was fast… but none of that matters."
Zombie Captain Marvel stroked her rotting chin, only to cast the matter aside the next moment. Instead, she stared hungrily at the bewildered civilians nearby, her lips twisting into a savage grin.
"Captain… don't you feel hungry?"
"Hungry? Now that you mention it… yeah, I really do. Suddenly, I want to… eat something."
Zombie Captain America rubbed his stomach and turned his gaze toward the people around them as well.
But the righteousness once in his eyes was gone.
In its place was only a craving for flesh.
After just a few short exchanges, the minds of the former heroes were left with only one thought:
Eat people.
And then eat more people.
"Avengers, assemble! Dinner… is served!"
…
[Qualified compatible user detected.]
[Welcome, Multiversal Variant, to the Chat Group.]
[Loves Taking Pictures]: Wow! Welcome, newcomer! By the way, "multiversal variant"? What does that mean? Does it mean you have a lot of different faces?
[Hero Time!]: Welcome, welcome! New guy, come say hi. Everyone here is a good person.
[Princess of the Moon]: Ara A newcomer has joined us. Welcome
[Invincible]: That uniform… are you some kind of superhero like me?
There were others in the group too, though several had yet to speak.
Roland, naturally, was one of them.
At the moment, he was busy dealing with Zombie Sentry, who could very well trigger a multiverse-level doomsday scenario. How could he possibly have the spare attention to care about some chat group?
On top of that, this was his first battle ever. The fact that he could stay calm at all already said a great deal about his mental fortitude.
"What is this…?"
Holding Zombie Sentry by the head and driving him forward through space at nearly the speed of light, Roland vaguely felt as though he had heard something.
But he had no time to think about it.
"A chat group? Forget it. I'll deal with it later!"
After that brief moment of confusion, Roland refocused on the Zombie Sentry in front of him.
The enemy was even weaker than he had expected. Against Roland's strength, Zombie Sentry could struggle with all his might and still fail to break free.
'Grrgh! Damn it! Who are you?!'
Zombie Sentry tried to twist around and tear into Roland behind him with his teeth, but Roland gave him no chance at all. He kept one hand locked on the zombie's head, forcing him onward as they hurtled toward the sun.
'…Die!'
Seeing the blazing sun close at hand, Roland gritted his teeth. Every muscle in his body erupted with power, and his speed surged once more.
Very soon, he reached the sun's surface.
A Zombie Sentry with the power of a million suns?
That was nothing but a counterfeit imitation.
Let him be buried in the sun.
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Ben Tennyson Wants to Join the Justice League (Chapter 100)
TYPE-MOON: Redemption Beginning with the Holy Grail War (Chapter89)
Yu-Gi-Oh! — Transmigrated into the White Dragon Girl (Chapter86)
"Is this chat group even serious?" (Chapter63)
I, Lord Ravager, Utterly Loyal! (Chapter75)
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Crossover Anime Multiverse: The Demon Hunter of an Unnatural World 57
From Junkman to Wasteland 35
Weekly Refresh of Overpowered 26
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