What's wrong with Superman's son wanting to be Superman?

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He knew that when his strength was exhausted, when the last vein went out, that "external thing" would no longer need to be squeezed—it would fill everything naturally, like breathing.

The universe may restart a thousand or ten thousand times.

But as long as this "external force" continues to quietly erode the story, the real crisis will never be over.

It was just... delayed.

But procrastination will eventually come to an end.

.........

Meanwhile, at the end of time, in a landfill.

"Pfft!"

Loki the Woman, also known as Sylvie, the goddess of mischief, roughly dragged Ian through a rusty manhole cover, and the two of them fell into a sewer that smelled of rotten rust and unknown chemicals—or rather, a sewer-like pipe system inside this huge junkyard.

The relatively enclosed space temporarily isolated Arios from his chilling roar and crushing commotion outside.

"His!"

As soon as she regained her footing, Sylvie whirled around and ripped off the tape she had hastily stuck to Ian's mouth, the movement so rough that it almost tore off her own delicate skin.

“I know you, female Loki, the only Loki with menopause.” Ian’s comment was still brief, but infuriating; he had completely figured out the other party’s identity.

In countless parallel universes, Sylvie Laufedottir is a variant of Loki from a parallel universe. She is the daughter of Laufey, the Frost Giant King, and the "adopted daughter" of the Asgardian royal family.

Unlike Loki in the main universe, her existence was rejected by the "Sacred Timeline" from the very beginning—due to an event she inadvertently caused in her childhood, she was deemed a "threat" by the Time Mutation Administration (TVA), kidnapped and brainwashed from a young age, and lost all memories of her original family.

To survive, she changed her name to "Sylvie" and began a centuries-long life on the run, growing from a hunted "Variant" into a "Chaos Messenger" determined to destroy TVA. Later, she encountered the equally narcissistic Loki, and their love-hate relationship culminated in her achieving the "Predestination" level achievement of falling in love with herself.

Although the multiverse has not yet been rebuilt, Ian is not surprised that this female Loki was released, after all, she is the woman who had an affair with Loki, the god of stories.

Let alone America, even in the Marvel Universe, there are interpersonal relationships and kinship ties. Loki Sylvie might be in the same situation as Morgan Stark.

They all have connections in higher positions; they got in through back channels when they were "reborn."

"If you can't speak properly, then shut your mouth! I'm warning you!" Sylvie gritted her teeth, her green eyes burning with rage, almost spitting fire into Ian's face. "I've been friendly enough just now! You'd better shut up and cooperate right now, or you definitely don't want to know how many pieces I'm cutting you into in my head right now!"

She is indeed, like every Loki, not a patient person.

"Huh? Friendly?" Ian rubbed his legs, which had been dragged for more than two miles, and the artifact he was holding in his four arms swayed slightly. The cold air emanating from the Ice Treasure Box caused a layer of frost to form on the pipe walls. "You call this the attitude of begging someone, dragging me into the sewer like a sack of potatoes?"

"While I don't know what tricks you Lokis are up to this time, or what you're trying to get out of me, that doesn't mean you can infringe on my personal rights!"

"I'm still a child! My legs are so tender!" Although Ian still had some unanswered questions, that didn't stop him from showing his ugly face.

If the evil god didn't have an ugly face, how could he be evil?

"Ask someone for help? A child?"

Sylvie raised her voice as if she had heard the biggest joke in the world.

“I’m not begging you, you self-righteous little bastard! I’m doing this at the request of… a great being, to make you hand over what you’ve hidden!”

Her eyes were fixed on Ian with a scrutinizing gaze.

"Something that's been hidden?"

Ian was taken aback, and instinctively gripped the weapons in all four hands tighter. "What am I hiding? Do I look like someone who would take something and then need to hide it?"

"I'm here, and everything is legally free." Although Ian doesn't have the mission that comes with his dark skin, he does have the privileges that the Marvel Universe has given him.

"Stop playing dumb!" Sylvie interrupted him impatiently. "Hand it over. It should be some kind of starter? Or a key? Or maybe some kind of safety device?"

"In short, it's the key to saving everything!" She wasn't entirely sure herself, a hint of frustration flashing across her face, after all, she hadn't had much interaction with the real story god.

The opponent is too weak.

It's difficult for me to speak.

And he also picked up the habit of being a riddle teller.

"He pulled me back from the crack in time and only told me that I needed to find the key to restarting the multiverse from you! He didn't say anything else!"

Sylvie revealed a few details while observing Ian's changing expression.

“You don’t even know what you’re looking for… How can I show you my collection? They’re all treasures; they could save everything if they were in my hands.”

Ian was also somewhat helpless.

Although he could guess who had sent Sylvie to find him, he hadn't yet reached the level of omniscience, and his super brain alone couldn't make any sense of it.

“It seems you know who he is.” Sylvie’s eyes flickered, but she didn’t answer the question about “him,” only becoming more certain that the item was on Ian.

"Stop talking nonsense! Hand it over!" With that, she actually reached out and, ignoring Ian's protests and the obstruction of his four arms, began to grope him haphazardly.

The woman's hand brushed across the cold, mimicry armor, trying to find some hidden pocket or mechanism.

"Hey! Hey! Stop it! Didn't you hear me? I'm still a child! Are you a pervert?!" Ian felt uncomfortable being touched by the female Loki Sylvie.

The thought that this was also Loki gave him goosebumps. In the chaos, Ian finally caught Sylvie's groping hand that was trying to probe into one of his secret places.

"No, big sister, although I am indeed very powerful, I am not powerful enough to hide anything inside my Guan Yu!"

Ian suddenly became "small" angry.

"I think you're just pretending to be confused!" Sylvie was completely enraged. She swiftly drew a sharp dagger with her other hand and held it directly to Ian's neck, threatening viciously, "Don't move! If you move again, I'll bleed you! Let's see if your blood is as repulsive as you are!"

That's just Sylvie's spoiled princess attitude.

She had initially thought Ian was a child who valued his life.

however.

The next second, something happened that left her speechless.

"Ok?"

Ian simply tilted his head to look at the gleaming dagger at his neck, then... opened his mouth, leaned in, and with a "snap" sound like he was eating a cookie.

[Entropy Annihilation Lord Experience Points +78]

Sylvie's Uru dagger turned into a crunchy shark, which Ian swallowed whole without even chewing, turning into valuable life experience.

"The taste is so-so, and the energy content is too low."

He also took on the role of a food critic and offered sharp commentary.

"?????"

Sylvie, holding the dagger hilt that was now only half intact, was completely dumbfounded. Her brain couldn't process the information that "someone ate my dagger alive." Just as she was momentarily stunned by the bizarre scene, about to erupt into an even more intense rage after the initial shock, she...

boom! ! !

A loud bang suddenly came from above them!

The entire sewer system shook violently, sending rusty metal fragments and dust raining down. Then came Elios's greedy and furious roar, a roar that seemed to tear the soul apart.

Close at hand!

It found them!

Sylvie, who had just been fierce and ready to fight to the death, turned deathly pale upon hearing that voice. She was as frightened as a startled quail, all her anger and violence vanished, leaving only primal fear. Almost instinctively, she grabbed Ian's arm, her voice trembling uncontrollably.

"Run! Run! It's coming!!"

The earth trembled, shook, and shuddered.

Above the underground passage, in the sky, stood Elios, the civil servant of the end of time, whose enormous body, made of abandoned spacetime energy, almost completely obscured the eerie sky.

It doesn't have a fixed mouth, but at this moment, on the part of it facing the ground, a huge, twisted vortex is forming, emanating an irresistible and terrifying suction force!

A true maw of the abyss!

This is not a physical attraction, but a more fundamental, devouring force targeting time, space, and existence itself! The earth is wailing, with countless mountains of garbage and debris—broken spaceships, the wreckage of the Titanic, ancient stone pillars, abandoned cars… and even the very things that make up this land.

They were all as if seized by an invisible giant hand, lifted off the ground, and brutally pulled towards that vortex of destruction!

"Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar! Roar!" Wherever Elios passed, everything was reduced to the most primal energy and nothingness, not even light could escape.

Even hiding in the underground pipes, Ian and Sylvie felt the deadly pulling force! The pipes twisted violently, emitting a metallic groan of unbearable strain, and the rivets securing the structure flew off one by one!

Even more terrifying, the "ground" beneath their feet began to become unstable, with tiny fragments and dust flowing upwards and being drawn towards the monster above the ground at the molecular level!

“This suction...this vibration…” Ian was being dragged by Sylvie through the violently vibrating pipe that seemed on the verge of collapse. Instead, he looked up at the substance being continuously drawn away from him, his expression one of utter astonishment. “If only I could catch it and take it back to my hometown and give it to my best brother’s mother.”

"My best friend's mom will definitely love it so much that she won't care about my little Guan Yu anymore!" Ian was really tempted and wanted to capture this Marvel version of Rayquaza.

"I see! You're mentally ill!"

Sylvie, who was running ahead, stumbled and almost fell. She turned around and glared at Ian with the look of utter disbelief, thinking that this guy was absolutely insane and had no idea what kind of ultimate terror and danger Elios represented! It was a monster that could even devour the timelines of the multiverse!

Of course, she couldn't care less about complaining about Ian right now. It seemed that Elios could accurately sense her and Ian's location even through the thick layers of earth!

No matter how they navigated the intricate network of pipes, the terrifying suction and destructive vibrations were always there, getting ever closer! It was as if the monster wasn't blindly devouring its prey, but rather toying with and forcing it, reveling in their desperate escape!

"Damn it!"

Sylvie's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and her breathing became rapid.

She could feel the walls of the pipes around her thinning and twisting at a visible speed, and the roars and devouring sounds of Elios outside were becoming clearer and clearer.

“We can’t escape like this!” Sylvie’s voice trembled with despair as she looked sharply at Ian beside her, who was still making comments and seemed unaware of the meaning of fear.

"You little madman!! Loki values ​​you so much, you must be more than just a madman! Do you have any other ideas?!" Sylvie felt that behind Ian's madman persona, there must be something extraordinary about him.

“Of course there is a way. The most valuable asset that Master Ian possesses is his super brain.” Upon hearing this, Ian weighed the weapons on his four arms.

His golden, mimicry compound eyes flashed.

"We can..."

Ian was just about to show off his 360,000 strategy.

However, just as he was about to launch into a long speech...

boom! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

A terrifying, indescribable crashing sound came from directly above!

Elios seemed to have lost patience and slammed its ethereal yet incredibly heavy body into the earth!

Crashed!

The entire underground pipe system where Ian and Sylvie were located was completely overturned like a toy at that moment! Countless metal fragments, concrete blocks, and all kinds of debris were flying everywhere!

"Damn it! No sportsmanship!" Ian and Loki Sylvie were thrown into the sky like shrapnel from an explosion by the unimaginable force of the impact!