Having lost their Master, the Ten Rings immediately became masterless.
In Ryan's hand, the four rings' original golden light quickly transformed into the prismatic glow of the Cosmic Energy within Ryan's body.
Then, because Shang-Chi and Katy had turned to ash, the other six rings on the ground flew toward Ryan as if sensing a new Master.
Finally, the six incoming rings, plus the four already in his hand, all hovered around him, their bodies shimmering with a dazzling prismatic light!
Feeling the mysterious mental connection between himself and the Ten Rings around him, Ryan had a thought, and the Ten Rings immediately flew out, striking the distant sand in a series of bombardments!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM——————X10
If Shang-Chi used the Ten Rings, the power of a single ring would at most equal a small missile.
But when Ryan used the Ten Rings, the power of each one was equivalent to a small nuclear bomb without nuclear radiation!
Each one blasted a sand-version mushroom cloud in the desert!
And this was just the power Ryan unleashed casually, not his strongest state; plus, the Ten Rings could be used not just individually but also in combination, which would multiply the power!
It seemed the power of the Ten Rings was not fixed, but changed according to the difference in power between users.
As high as your limit was, its limit was just as high!
Ryan was naturally very satisfied with this.
Looked like the Ten Rings could not only serve as a tool for him to house the Infinity Stones later, but they were also a very useful combat tool themselves!
Conveniently, besides the battle axe he got from Ares, God of War last time, he hadn't really had a weapon in the true sense.
And the battle axe became awkward to use later, so he rarely used it, usually relying on the various weapon forms the Symbiote transformed into.
But whether it was Ares's battle axe or the Symbiote's various weapons, they were actually falling a bit behind his power's growth rate now.
Using them compared to using his own fists didn't make much difference; in fact, they were even less powerful than his fists.
So, the Ten Rings, a weapon that could scale its power according to his own, was very important to him!
Just for these Ten Rings, Ryan felt his trip to the Zombie Universe was worth it!
Ryan smiled with satisfaction and reached out toward the place where the ten sand mushroom clouds had risen.
Whoosh————Cling Cling Cling Cling Cling...
The next second, with a series of crisp sounds, the prismatic Ten Rings quickly flew back, all sliding onto Ryan's empty right hand.
If it were someone with short arms, their forearm probably wouldn't even have enough room for the Ten Rings.
No wonder the father and son, Xu Wenwu and Shang-Chi, wore five rings on each arm.
As for why Ryan wore them all on one hand, it wasn't just because his arm was long enough, but because he really couldn't fit them anywhere else...
He was now wearing the Ten Rings on his right hand, and on his left, he still had Spider-Man 2099's dimension-crossing bracelet and the bangle he got from Kamala!
He was just one big gold chain around his neck away from cosplaying as a nouveau riche.
"You killed them all, but they weren't all bad people..."
Just as Ryan was marveling at his many accessories, the silent Moon Knight suddenly spoke.
Ryan glanced at him and said indifferently, "True, they might not have all been bad people, but unfortunately, they met a bad person—me."
Moon Knight: ...
Ryan didn't pay attention to the contemplative Moon Knight but spoke again:
"But they didn't die without value. Not only did they contribute an important tool for me to change this World, but I also read from their memories the locations of parasite strongholds I once swore to clear out in every Universe..."
"So, I'm going to do my initial urban pest control work now. Do you choose to come with me, or wait for me at the Sea Base?"
Hearing this, Moon Knight shook his head and looked deeply at Ryan:
"I don't think I can help you with anything, and you don't need me anymore, so I think I'll just wait for you at the Sea Base Checkpoint..."
Clearly, Moon Knight had also realized that Ryan had brought him along not because he had any special use, but purely for amusement.
And now that Ryan had obtained his 'new toy, the Ten Rings,' he was clearly no longer bored.
Ryan nodded, said nothing more, and turned into a prismatic stream of light, soaring into the sky!
Next, it was time for Ryan to test the power of the Ten Rings and clear out the Skrull remnants who were robbing humans all over the World in this apocalypse.
What Ryan didn't expect was that, perhaps because the Skrulls' average physical constitution was a step above humans and they could shapeshift into any race at the genetic level...
The million or so Skrulls on this Earth actually hadn't lost many numbers in this apocalypse!
Their genetic shapeshifting ability allowed them to ignore the zombies and run wild in the cities and wilderness; any humans they encountered were subjected to the Three Alls principle!
That is: burn all, loot all, kill all!
They not only stole the supplies the survivors had worked hard to collect but also burned down the survivors' shelters and killed all the human survivors!
And not all survivor teams were like Shang-Chi's team, protected by the magical Ten Rings.
So, human survivor teams were often more desperate when facing Skrull raiding parties than when facing ordinary zombie hordes!
The Skrulls were practically driving humans to their deaths in the apocalypse!
They say the apocalypse reveals the human heart, but alien races in the apocalypse are even more terrifying than the human heart!
At least no matter how cruel a person is, it's impossible for them to truly want to exterminate all of humanity.
But the Skrulls truly wanted to take advantage of this zombie apocalypse to exterminate all of humanity and turn Earth into their Planet!
Seeing these scenes, Ryan was predictably enraged.
And when the Spider Monarch is very angry, the consequences are very serious!
He didn't just throw some dirt in their eyes like he did with people; he turned all the Skrulls in the World into ash!
Thus, survivors all over the World saw a prismatic stream of light today, like a meteor streaking across the sky, raining down rings carrying divine prismatic runes onto one Skrull stronghold after another.
Then the rings hit the ground, triggering massive explosions with power comparable to nuclear bombs but without any radiation!
In a single day, from Skrull strongholds of tens of thousands to small raiding parties of only a dozen, all suffered Ryan's wrath!
In just one day, the Skrulls, who had mostly survived the zombie apocalypse and still numbered in the hundreds of thousands, all perished under Ryan's Ten Rings!
And because of this, Ryan indirectly saved countless human survivors who had been targeted or were being raided by the Skrulls in this apocalypse.
The saved survivors all over the World didn't even know who the man coming and going so quickly was, but they tacitly gave him a common title, and that was... the Savior!
One day later.
After wiping out the last Skrull stronghold and confirming that no more Skrull strongholds could be found in their memories.
Ryan clenched his left hand, and with a flash of blue light, opened a spatial wormhole in front of him.
And the other end of the spatial wormhole was naturally the Sea Base Checkpoint created by Baron Zemo.
After all, Moon Knight was still there; he had to pick up his good homie first.
When Moon Knight said he was useless to him before, it wasn't actually true.
On the contrary, Moon Knight was the spokesperson he had selected for this apocalyptic World before Zombie Wanda appeared.
And even now that he had a better choice for a spokesperson like Wanda, Ryan didn't plan to give up on Moon Knight.
After all, who said there could only be one spokesperson?
With Zombie Wanda as his spokesperson for the dark side of this World, he naturally also needed someone to be his spokesperson for the light side of this World.
However, when Ryan stepped through the portal, the scene before him was a bit different from what he had imagined.
The Sea Base Checkpoint, which was originally full of survivors and peaceful, was now filled with smoke and fire, and dried blood was everywhere.
Besides that, not a single living person could be seen in the Base; it was densely packed with red-eyed zombies!
Clearly, this place had been overrun by the zombie army!
Even the Underwater Fortress that was originally hidden beneath the sea had been 'thrown' onto the shore by someone.
And standing atop the Underwater Fortress were the culprits who caused this place to fall!
It was the Zombie Queen, Wanda Maximoff, flanked by Zombie Namor and Zombie Thor!
And most amazingly, the current Wanda didn't look like a zombie at all, but had the beautiful appearance of a normal human!
She looked down at the appearing Ryan like a queen, her red lips curling into an enticing arc: "I'm not late, but you are late, my 'Savior'~"
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