There was no way around it; that's just how things were in this World—might makes right!
Fortunately, Ryan, acting as the 'Friendly Neighborhood' Spider-Man, was also quite reasonable; he only asked the Illuminati to compensate him 'a little hundred million' for lost wages, and for the parents who reported him to the Illuminati to apologize to him, and that would be it.
Admittedly, this was rather difficult to handle.
Even so, Susan still reported Ryan's demands to the true core leaders of the Illuminati: Iron Man, the financial leader, and Professor X, the psychic leader.
In the end, both of them agreed to Ryan's demands.
Iron Man wired Ryan 'a little hundred million' in compensation.
As for Professor X, he 'convinced people with virtue' by having those parents bring their children to apologize to Professor Ryan, a man of noble character and high prestige.
In the end, the Illuminati publicly announced that both parties had reconciled...
In reality, both the parents and the Illuminati had been beaten into submission by Ryan...
Thump, thump, thump——
A knock sounded on the principal's office door.
"Please come in."
Two figures pushed open the door and entered.
They were none other than Ryan and Susan.
Seated inside the principal's office was none other than Mr. Fantastic himself, Reed Richards.
That's right, Mr. Fantastic was the principal of Empire State University.
But he had not been from the start; rather, it was only after the day Ryan caused a ruckus that Mr. Fantastic was parachuted in as the principal of Empire State University through the operation of Iron Man's 'money superpower'.
As for the reason?
Naturally, it was to keep an eye on Ryan, that 'unstable' factor...
"Ryan, you're here, have a seat..." Seeing Ryan walk in, Reed couldn't help massaging his glabella with a headache.
Even he, reputed to be the smartest person in the World, still hadn't been able to find any contingency plan targeting Ryan.
Because the contingency plan against Ryan that you racked your brains to create today might very well find Ryan's strength in another dimension entirely by tomorrow!
Your original plan would become completely useless against Ryan by the second day!
This was completely unplayable!
"Dezi, what do you want with me? Want to play jump rope with me again?" Ryan sat in the chair opposite Reed, crossing his arms and speaking leisurely.
Hearing this, Reed shuddered violently, recalling some unpleasant memories.
"Ryan, stop teasing Reed!"
Susan stood behind Ryan and gave his shoulder a light punch.
"Ah, right there, it's still a bit sore after getting whipped by that big octopus earlier, help me massage it~"
Hearing this, although Susan was speechless, she didn't refuse and gently massaged Ryan's shoulders.
This made Mr. Fantastic a bit jealous; he had never enjoyed such treatment himself!
But business came first, and Reed turned serious: "Ryan, your action against that dark creature today was truly inconsiderate..."
"Tch, I did the job you guys were supposed to do, wiping out an interdimensional creature invading Earth, and instead of thanking me, you say I was inconsiderate?" Ryan expressed some dissatisfaction.
Reed said helplessly: "That's the problem. Interdimensional creatures, especially dark creatures, should be the responsibility of the Kamar-Taj sorcerers and fall under Mordo's jurisdiction. It's one thing that you took action without authorization..."
"The most important thing is that you actually distributed the meat of this dark creature to ordinary people. Do you know they might mutate into dark creatures after eating it?"
Hearing this, Ryan was taken aback, looking somewhat awkward.
He had been too focused on giving out benefits to his old friends and completely forgot to care about whether they would live or die.
Seeing Ryan's somewhat awkward expression, Reed instead relaxed.
At the very least, this proved that Ryan didn't do it on purpose.
Reed smiled slightly: "Let's drop this matter. The Illuminati has already sent Ultron robots to retrieve the dark creature's corpse and the flesh you distributed."
"But as for the girl you took away, I'm afraid you'll have to hand her over first. Because Mordo used magic to detect the aura of another Doctor Strange at the scene where she appeared, and he requested that she be detained first."
"After all, as you know, before you appeared, because of Thanos's crisis, our Universe's Doctor Strange privately used the darkhold to deal with Thanos, bringing such a huge disaster to this World!"
Ryan frowned and retorted: "I asked that girl; she has indeed contacted another Universe's Doctor Strange, but that Doctor Strange is already dead now, and she has nothing to do with Doctor Strange anymore."
Hearing this, Reed shook his head: "No, the focus this time isn't just on the Doctor Strange aura on the girl; most importantly, it's on the dark creature hunting her!"
"What do you mean?" Ryan's brows furrowed even deeper.
Reed said with exceptional solemnity: "Mordo said that on the dark creature you killed, he discovered the aura of the darkhold, meaning its controller behind the scenes possesses the darkhold just like Strange of our Universe once did!"
"You must know that if our Universe's Doctor Strange hadn't sought death on his own back then, he would have been an even greater disaster than Thanos, and even if all of us teamed up, we might not have been able to handle him!"
"And this time, the owner of the darkhold definitely won't surrender obediently like our Universe's Doctor Strange did; at least for now, the other party is clearly full of malice!"
"Therefore, we need to first control and protect the girl being hunted by the darkhold owner, letting her stay temporarily in the safest place in the World—the Illuminati Base!"
"Tch!" Finishing listening, Ryan looked at Reed mockingly, "I quite agree with the first half of what you said; an unknown entity possessing the darkhold is indeed very likely a disaster even more terrifying than the once-blackened Doctor Strange."
"But... as for your claim that the Illuminati Base is the safest place in the World, I completely disagree!"
"Tell me, if I wanted to massacre my way through the entire Illuminati and bring America out from the Illuminati, how long do you think it would take me?"
Hearing this, Reed fell silent.
Because his clever brain immediately popped up with a number.
For Ryan to massacre his way through the Illuminati, it was definitely a 3-7 split.
Ryan takes 3 minutes, and their Illuminati dies 7 times!
Ryan stood up from the chair and sneered at Reed:
"So understand this: no matter what secret is on America, she is only safest and most secure by my side!"
"Also, that dead idiot Mordo, next time he has anything to say, let him come find me in person. Stop letting you, this dumbass, act as his messenger. Don't think I won't slap you just because I'm on good terms with your wife and daughter!"
"The smartest person in the World, being used as a gun by a idiot—are you fucking out of your mind?"
"Go back and notify the Illuminati that this girl is mine, and tell them to get lost!"
After leaving behind this arrogant notice, Ryan stormed right out through the door.
He literally stormed out through the door—Ryan directly ripped the principal's office door off its hinges and took the whole thing away...
"Also, I don't like knocking!"
Reed and Susan: ...
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