[Congratulations to the host for signing an A+ Rank employee: Charles Xavier!]
[Congratulations to the host for signing an A+ Rank employee: Erik Lehnsherr!]
[Congratulations to the host for signing an S-Rank employee: Jean Grey!]
[Congratulations to the host for signing an A- Rank employee: Scott Summers!]
[Congratulations to the host for signing an A-Rank employee: Ororo Munroe!]
[Congratulations to the host for signing an A- Rank employee: Logan Howlett!]
...Fang Yuan signed a string of nine people in a row. Besides those mentioned above, there were also the A- Rank Sunspot, the B+ Rank Bishop, and the B- Rank Blink.
Another bumper harvest!
Fang Yuan loved the X-Men World more and more; no matter which version it was, it could bring him massive gains.
Especially the X-Men from the 2000s era, which actually yielded an S-Rank employee for him!
Almost everyone knows that Jean Grey possesses the Phoenix Force and is an omega Mutant, but many people actually have a misconception: that Jean'S-Rank is only so high because of the Phoenix Force.
In reality, even without the Phoenix Force, Jean is an omega Mutant. She also possesses Telepathy, and it is even more powerful than Professor X's.
She possesses extraordinary mental power, even capable of forming telekinesis to affect the physical World, something even Professor X cannot do.
Even the reason Jean became the host of the Phoenix Force was because of her staggering mental strength.
Of course, what Fang Yuan focused on most was Jean's Phoenix Force.
This is an ancient and powerful force in the Marvel Universe, the embodiment of life and emotion for the entire Multiverse, which is why it often selects those with powerful mental abilities as hosts.
Although the Phoenix Force represents life and emotion, at this level, what it can achieve is essentially no different from omnipotence.
To use treasures as a rough analogy, only the Infinity Stones, which can wipe out the five great gods of Marvel with a single snap, can compare to it.
And this is just a fragment of the Phoenix Force; the true Phoenix Force has never even appeared in the comics.
So, Fang Yuan's primary targets for promotion this time were decided—Jean Grey and Rogue!
It was just that Jean already had Cyclops as a boyfriend, and Logan was still waiting in line; otherwise, Fang Yuan would have definitely tried to step in.
However, he wasn't in a hurry. The Phoenix of the X-Men Old Timeline was already taken, but the Jean in the X-Men World wasn't yet... ahem.
Though Jean was only three years old, which was a bit illegal.
Besides Jean, Wolverine also gave Fang Yuan a surprise, because this Old Timeline Wolverine's Character Template was actually A- Rank, higher than the one Fang Yuan had signed before.
Sure enough, this was the being who could withstand the Phoenix Force to kill Dark Phoenix.
Of course, that time Jean had held back immensely.
If Jean wanted to, she could disintegrate even Adamantium in the Blink of an eye.
Fang Yuan organized his findings. Among those signed this time, only Old Charles and Old Magneto had reputations exceeding 100, at 101 and 107 respectively.
Clearly, if Fang Yuan hadn't engineered this Sentinel crisis, the reputations of the elderly Professor X and Magneto wouldn't have even broken 100... In the X-Men Old Timeline, the X-Men didn't become well-known to the public until after the twenty-first century, so this situation was normal.
It was very likely that Old Charles's previous reputation wasn't even as high as Beast's, who worked in the government.
Both of them contributed their Character Templates to Fang Yuan.
[Homologous Character Templates detected, automatically merging!]
A prompt soon appeared on the panel. Since Fang Yuan had already unlocked the youthful versions of their Character Templates, the elderly and young versions merged directly into one.
The brand-new Character Templates were now—
[Character Template: Charles Xavier (A+ Rank, 37% Development)]
[Character Template: Erik Lehnsherr (A+ Rank, 35% Development)]
Although the two of them had entered their old age, their development of their abilities still wasn't that high. Of course, this was partly due to the nerfing in the movie versions, but for Fang Yuan, it was already a massive enhancement.
For example, now, with the aid of Cerebro, he could cause everyone in the World to be brain-dead.
This could already be considered god-like.
Magneto wasn't bad either; Fang Yuan could now control even larger quantities of... metal.
He still couldn't escape the title of Wan Tie King.
Because the original Character Templates had improved, Fang Yuan's fused templates upgraded simultaneously.
[Professor X Template (A+ Rank), 31% Development]
Aside from these two, the reputations of the other X-Men were generally lower, though Jean Grey's was slightly higher at 93 because she had once spoken on behalf of Mutants at a hearing.
This made Fang Yuan's heart itch with anticipation; he was only 7 points away from having Jean Grey's Character Template!
Though he had a hunch that the development of Jean's template would definitely be extremely low, since the Phoenix Force had always been in a suppressed state.
Fang Yuan was even a bit worried. The Phoenix Force was too powerful and wasn't actually Jean's own power; what if the Character Template didn't include the Phoenix Force?
But Fang Yuan soon shook off this feeling of gain and loss.
He wasn't one to worry unnecessarily. Even if it truly didn't include it, with his status as the boss of the All Heavens Vought Company, he didn't believe he wouldn't find a way in the future.
In any case, after this incident, he would have the answer.
Early the next morning, the X-Men were already prepared, waiting by the X-Jet for departure.
"The appointment is for 9:30. How early did you all get here?"
Fang Yuan saw Rogue actually yawning, and other young X-Men like Pyro, Iceman, and Shadowcat were also in low spirits, so he asked curiously.
"7:30."
Rogue replied, forcing herself to stay alert.
"I couldn't sleep at all!"
They had all been students before, and now their first mission was actually to deal with a demon king who wanted to destroy the World; naturally, their hearts were filled with excitement and trepidation.
Fang Yuan shook his head: "Let's see what you do if you have no energy when the battle starts."
Rogue immediately pointed her hand toward Old Magneto: "It's okay, the Dean will protect me!"
After coming into contact with the Mutant World, Rogue finally learned that Old Magneto was actually a big shot, but she was still used to calling him 'Dean'.
Old Eric looked over and actually replied, "Okay!"
This directly caused the cigar Logan had just put in his mouth to fall out in shock.
He scrambled to catch it, and the cigar burned his palm quite badly when it landed.
"Hiss..." Logan cried out in pain, but his tone was filled more with surprise.
Was Magneto actually doting on Rogue like a granddaughter?
Fang Yuan was equally surprised; this was truly a strange twist of fate.
Meanwhile, the elderly Professor X watched Old Magneto with a smile, presumably happy that his old friend had found a new friend.
Finally, Fang Yuan gave Rogue one last instruction: "Remember what I said. If you find an opportunity in battle, grab the Sentinel with your hands; your ability will take effect!"
Rogue nodded uncontrollably with a smile, her eyes constantly fixed on Fang Yuan.
Especially when she saw Fang Yuan go to talk to Blink, a bit more envy appeared in Rogue's eyes.
But Fang Yuan didn't dare provoke her yet; after all, Rogue really could drain him dry.
"Time's up!" Good Big Brother Shaw reminded him.
He was also wearing the same style of X-Men uniform, which made him quite emotional: "I didn't expect that one day I would wear this too."
Shaw would also join the battle, but his task was to protect the young Mutants. Although this was all directed and acted by Fang Yuan, accidents could easily happen on the battlefield, and Shaw was perfect to serve as a bodyguard for the students.
In any case, transferring Worlds wouldn't reset reputation, and Good Big Brother's reputation had already exceeded 150, so there was no need to compete with the youngsters for more.
Thus, everyone boarded the X-Jet. Fang Yuan opened a portal, and the X-Jet flew straight in after a vertical takeoff.
The other side of the portal was Trask Industries headquarters. Fang Yuan didn't stop, opening another hundred-meter-tall portal on the battlefield. The army that had long been prepared on the other side came charging through with war cries.
Seeing that the 'atmosphere crew' was in place, Fang Yuan also sent instructions to the most crucial team.
"Start the live broadcast!"
In the next second, almost all television and radio stations began broadcasting this great battle.
This time, Fang Yuan didn't use the power of money, but instead borrowed Professor X's Cerebro to mentally control the relevant heads of major media outlets.
After the Telepathy upgrade, things were just this convenient.
Although people influenced by Telepathy couldn't provide him with reputation, they could help him influence others, which made Fang Yuan much more effective in propaganda.
This was the correct way to use Telepathy. What Charles Xavier? His version of Professor X wasn't authentic.
After the army appeared, they immediately unleashed a barrage of fire upon Trask Industries. Although this was New York, it was the Sentinel stronghold and people had long since fled, so there was no need to worry about collateral damage.
However, before any of the shells could reach their target, they were all detonated mid-air.
Then, the sky suddenly became covered in dark clouds, and half of New York dimmed as many bolts of lightning rolled within the clouds.
Everyone looked at Ororo, and Storm quickly clarified: "It's not me!"
The hearts of the X-Men members tightened. If it wasn't Storm, and the Sentinels didn't have this ability, then there was only one possibility—
Fox!
Sure enough, a figure suddenly appeared above Trask headquarters. The masked Fox held lightning in both hands, shouting to everyone: "You want to resist? Unfortunately, you are powerless!"
He pushed his palms forward, and the lightning immediately surged toward the ground troops. Seeing this, Ororo quickly began to roll her eyes.
Er, this was the manifestation of Storm activating her power.
"Boom boom boom!"
A series of lightning bolts erupted, intercepting Fox's lightning and saving the army on the ground.
The soldiers and the citizens watching through the media all breathed a sigh of relief, though they also felt a surge of gratitude toward the Mutants.
"Fortunately, the Mutants are here!"
But soon everyone became solemn, because many sentinel robots flew out from Trask headquarters—there were at least three or four hundred of them!
Many people were on the verge of despair. There were more sentinel robots here than at the Washington battlefield. An army of over a hundred thousand had been crushed then, and now the number of troops was even smaller; how could they deal with this?
So at this time, it was up to the heroic and great X-Men to step up.
The camera began to focus on the X-Men.
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