Puchi!
Karn clearly agreed with Peter's assessment.
As such, he didn't waste another single word on this brother of his.
Instead, he straightforwardly thrust the energy harpoon in his hand into Jennix's mouth, which was still opening and closing incessantly.
As Jennix let out a muffled cry of pain and Karn expressionlessly twisted the harpoon, that head—seemingly glamorous but actually sickeningly hideous—completely exploded.
Red and white matter splattered all over Karn, but he didn't seem to notice.
He simply slowly withdrew the energy harpoon, letting the headless corpse collapse to the ground.
After completing all this, Karn slumped to the ground himself.
Then, he suddenly thought of something.
He roughly reached out to tear at the locked buckles on the back of his mask.
These simple buckles could no longer withstand his terrifying strength.
But for the past several hundred years, he had never even thought of tearing it off.
It was only because he still held a sliver of hope in his heart.
He had expected that one day his father would summon him back, tell him his sins were redeemed, and then personally open this mask that symbolized his shame.
But now... he finally knew the whole truth.
His father never intended to call him back to the family or help him open this damned mask.
That guy had never even considered him his child!
Once he realized this, this mask of shame naturally lost its reason for existing.
Karn tried to tear the damned mask off as if he had gone mad.
Sila~!
Accompanied by a bone-chilling sound of tearing, the mask was tossed into the air.
A large spray of blood erupted in the air, and a whole layer of flesh was visibly attached to the inside of the mask.
Having worn this mask for hundreds of years, Karn's facial skin had long since grown completely into the mask.
Therefore, in order to tear off the mask, he had simply ripped off his own face!
A bloody, eyeless, terrifying face with a faintly visible white skull was exposed to the air.
The intense pain caused his muscles to twitch involuntarily.
But Karn didn't let out even a single scream.
On the contrary, he laughed, laughing with absolute liberation.
At this moment, even though the two sides were essentially irreconcilable enemies, Otto Parker and the others couldn't help but feel a sliver of sympathy for the poor soul before them.
Just then, Peter slowly stepped forward and crouched down in front of Karn.
Peter looked at Karn's hollow eye sockets and, after a moment, reached out his hand:
"I am deeply sorry for everything you've gone through."
As he spoke, a holy white light appeared on Peter's hand,
"But regret doesn't solve any problems."
As he spoke, an excessively pale but fairly handsome face appeared before everyone, and Karn also unexpectedly regained his sight.
He looked at Peter, at this man who had reached out a hand to him and was showing a kind smile:
"So, I suggest you join us."
"Sever your past with your own hands, and make a clean break with those so-called 'brothers and sisters' of yours."
The scene was quiet for a long time.
After a long while, Karn slowly raised that blood-stained hand and let Peter pull him up from the ground.
...
About three minutes later, Peter and the others appeared outside the factory.
Peter casually tossed a remote control to Karn.
Karn didn't hesitate at all and decisively pressed the button.
Boom!!!
The terrifying explosion caused the entire castle to tremble violently.
Amidst the flames, the entire Clone Factory was completely destroyed; aside from Peter's Horse Talisman ability, there was no longer any possibility of repair!
Looking at the blazing Clone Factory before him, Miguel O'Hara couldn't help but swallow hard:
"We... did we really do it?"
Otto Parker calmly replied, "No, this is just the beginning."
Saying this, Otto Parker subconsciously looked at Peter beside him.
Peter didn't say anything, just pressed the watch on his wrist.
The next second, a spatial portal opened in front of everyone.
The moment the portal opened, white light once again surfaced on Peter's body.
Since the crisis on this side was resolved, there was naturally no need for him to continue splitting himself.
Amidst the white light, Peter led Karn into the portal. Before leaving, he spoke to Otto Parker and the others:
"I'll leave this side to you. Remember to find that Master Weaver or whatever."
After saying this, Peter and Karn's figures completely disappeared into the portal.
...
On the other side, New York, Hell's Kitchen.
The battle had already been raging for over half an hour.
In this process, because Peter's telekinetic shield could be infinitely replenished with the support of the Horse Talisman, Inheritors were blocked by the shield and unable to absorb the power of the spider totem from the Spider-Men to replenish themselves.
With one side weakening and the other maintaining strength, the scales of battle finally began to tip toward the side of the superheroes.
Swoosh~
Boom!
Accompanied by the sound of breaking air, the eldest daughter of the Inheritor Family, Verna, was struck in the back by Hawkeye's stray arrow due to a momentary lapse in attention.
The arrowhead hadn't pierced very deep into her body, and it didn't even affect Verna's movements.
But the next second, that arrowhead instantly exploded.
The terrifying impact finally affected Verna, causing her movement toward a Spider-Man to be hindered, and her figure stumbled uncontrollably.
"Aha~"
Gwen's eyes lit up, and she immediately seized the opportunity, firing a web grenade to send Verna flying.
"Alexei Charge!"
Rhino, that iron-headed simpleton, actually had a rare moment of brilliance.
Although he possessed immense strength before, he had been unable to land a single hit on these agile Inheritors because he was too clumsy, and he had been holding in his frustration for a long time.
Now, seeing Verna unable to move, he decisively seized the opportunity and slammed into her like The Thing using his ultimate move.
While superheroes might have some scruples about killing, this iron-headed simpleton didn't care about any of that!
Under the enhancement of Radiation, his strength was even superior to that of an Inheritor.
What was even more fatal... as mentioned before, the weakness of Inheritors was nuclear Radiation!
The predecessor of Otto Parker, the Peter Parker of that Universe, had once used the power of Radiation at a nuclear power plant to defeat Morlun.
And the Radiation on Alexei's body was precisely a mutated Symbiote born from absorbing the Radiation energy within Alexei's body.
Unlike his other brothers and sisters, 'Radiation' itself could absorb Radiation energy and naturally carried Radiation energy when attacking.
This inadvertently made him an 'Anti-Inheritor Noble Phantasm'!
His accidental 'Alexei Charge' made Verna feel a burning pain the moment it made contact with her body.
The thick skin that other superheroes found extremely difficult to breach was easily penetrated by Alexei.
The power she had barely managed to mobilize within her body was also lost due to the interference of the Radiation.
Alexei carried Verna's defenseless body and slammed her hard against the solid ice wall condensed by Natasha.
Boom!
This strike caused even the ice wall to be hit with a web-like crack.
Half of Alexei's body was embedded in it, and he struggled for a long time before finally prying himself out of the hard ice.
If it was like this for him, the attacker,
the result for Verna, the recipient, was naturally predictable.
Verna's originally graceful figure was completely crushed into a 2D paper cutout; the bones and internal organs in her body were all crushed, and even half of her head was smashed.
"I... will... come..."
She struggled to utter one last threat, but before she could finish, she completely lost consciousness.
Inheritors have suffered their first casualty!