Avada Kedavra!
A dark green light illuminated the entire forest with an ominous glow. A massive brown bear, its mouth smeared with fresh blood from recent kills, collapsed heavily to the ground. Under Sebastian's clone's unwavering gaze, it quickly transformed from animal form into a burly man with numerous tribal markings covering his body. The man exuded a wild and primal aura even in death.
With a gentle tap of his wand, a wisp of emerald green thread emerged from the burly man's corpse. It floated upward and disappeared into Sebastian's palm where it was absorbed.
Sebastian nodded in satisfaction. He was quite pleased with his gains from this encounter.
"As expected of the legendary Druid God," Sebastian mused aloud. "It truly gave birth to a wisp of Druid magical authority."
For five years, Sebastian had never given up on becoming stronger and more powerful.
For a magical authority to grow stronger, it needed to be supplemented by various types of magical authority from different traditions. Over five years, Sebastian had traveled throughout Earth, searching for magical authority of various types and origins. These included voodoo magic, druidic magic, Norse magic, Sumerian magic, and Celtic magic. He actually found quite a few sources, greatly supplementing his own magical authority and making its power increasingly smooth and unimpeded in its flow.
Similarly, the three major magic schools, as well as some smaller magic schools throughout the world, which all belonged to the same magical dimension, gradually developed corresponding magic systems. Hogwarts in particular, besides the three main systems of white magic, black magic, and new magic, also gradually saw a large number of smaller schools of magic appear in places like the library. This made it increasingly resemble a true comprehensive magic school with diverse knowledge.
With another wave of his wand, Sebastian caused the druidic dark god's corpse to sink into the ground. He let it rot away together with the humans and creatures he had harmed, completely returning to nature. Sebastian turned and vanished in a wisp of black smoke. His next stop was to investigate a lich who was quite famous in the magical world. Sebastian thought he might be able to obtain a wisp of necromancy authority from that undead sorcerer.
Just as Sebastian was about to investigate the lich's location, a silver light suddenly shot out from space. It went completely unnoticed by extraterrestrial defense satellites or the Illuminati's monitoring systems. After traversing the vast emptiness of space, it immediately broke through Earth's atmosphere and flew towards the ground at incredible speed.
Wherever the silver light passed, seas froze solid, deserts experienced snowfall, cities suffered massive power outages, and all the natural laws were disrupted. This caused abnormal changes throughout the environment.
Sensing the anomaly immediately, Sebastian flashed into the air. He watched the silver light flying at an astonishing speed that defied normal physics. He vaguely grasped something about its nature and, without any hesitation, transformed into a wisp of black smoke and chased after it with determination.
Even as a clone, Sebastian, now able to draw power directly from his main body in the Magic Dimension, was not much slower than the silver light. In the blink of an eye, he had flown out of Europe and was heading rapidly towards Africa.
Not long after the chase began, the black smoke caught up with the silver light. Sebastian saw the being within it, just as he had expected from his cosmic knowledge.
A person entirely silver in color, riding something that looked exactly like a silver surfboard!
The Silver Surfer!
The Silver Surfer... Galactus... This is troublesome indeed, Sebastian thought grimly.
Of course, Sebastian's trouble only concerned Galactus himself. As for the Silver Surfer, perhaps before becoming a Dimensional Lord and a Demon God, the Surfer might have been a considerable obstacle to overcome. But now, for Sebastian, he was not so difficult to deal with anymore. Even if the clone lacked the full power of the original body, the opponent was not Galactus himself. This made the Surfer a formidable but manageable opponent.
Boom!
The black smoke suddenly exploded outward, transforming into streaks of pitch-black energy. They swept towards the Silver Surfer like a tidal wave, possessing an overwhelming, all-encompassing power that sought to trap him.
But just as the black streaks of smoke were about to engulf the Silver Surfer completely, he suddenly accelerated again dramatically. A power Sebastian had never seen before surged around the Surfer's silver body. In the blink of an eye, he vanished before Sebastian's eyes, leaving Sebastian completely unaware of exactly how he had escaped so quickly.
What kind of power is this? Sebastian wondered with fascination. It is different from authority, even possessing a power subtly superior to authority itself.
Sensing this unprecedented power, Sebastian's face immediately lit up with curiosity and excitement. The black smoke quickly transformed into a vortex, tracing the faint trail left by the Silver Surfer through space.
Meanwhile
At an amusement park in the suburbs of New York, Priya, wearing a hooded sweatshirt to blend in, arrived at the riverside inside the amusement park. She was eating ice cream while waiting for someone to arrive.
Today was the first official meeting of the Young Avengers. As young people, they were indeed somewhat different from the older generation of Avengers. At least the place they chose to meet was completely different and more casual.
After eating most of her ice cream, a black-haired girl with a backpack approached Priya hesitantly. She asked, "Hello, are you... Priya?"
Looking up at her, Priya immediately recognized her from the files she had read. Extending her hand, Priya shook hands with her, smiling warmly, "Hello, I am Priya. You must be Kate, right?"
Nodding, the girl smiled and said, "Yes, I am Kate. Kate Bishop."
Kate Bishop, the protégé of Hawkeye Clint Barton who had taken up the mantle of the second Hawkeye, was seventeen years old, the same age as Priya.
"Kate, do you know where everyone else is?" Priya asked. "They should not be late for our first meeting, right?"
"Uh, I do not know, but I think they..." Kate began.
"Sorry, sorry, no one else is late. I am the one who is late," a familiar voice interrupted.
With an apologetic tone, Peter led the others to where Priya and Kate stood.
Priya immediately recognized them upon seeing the group approaching:
Spider-Man Peter Parker, Ant-Girl Cassie Lang, the mutant Iceman Bobby Drake from a parallel universe, and Iron Lad Harley Keener, who had been absent for some time and had only recently joined the group.
Harley Keener had provided significant assistance to Tony Stark during a crisis years ago when Tony's mansion was destroyed. At that time, Sebastian was entering the X-Men world for the first time, so he did not have much contact with this successor to Tony. However, the fact that Tony chose Harley Keener as one of his successors suggested that his role and abilities were far more than just helping Tony during that one crisis.
In fact, whether in terms of scientific skills or other aspects, Harley Keener was among the best of his peers throughout the world. Otherwise, he would not have been chosen as Tony's successor and protégé. Tony had even left him advanced equipment and stayed in touch with him over the years, becoming a father figure to Harley.
The group consisted of six people total—three men and three women. The oldest was Peter Parker, who was already attending college, while the youngest was Bobby Drake the Iceman, only sixteen years old.
Peter Parker was perfectly capable of being a member of the main Avengers team. He had both the experience and the ability required. However, precisely because of this, he was assigned as the leader of the Young Avengers, guiding these young people and helping them develop their skills.
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