After getting off the plane, Fang Yuan quickly divided the X-Men into two teams.
"Magneto, Shaw, you lead the students to guard the portal. You must not let the Sentinels destroy it!"
"Scott, Jean, Ororo, Logan, we're going to attack the Sentinel headquarters!"
Naturally, they couldn't all rush in at once; otherwise, the audience wouldn't know where to focus.
As the helm of Vought Corporation, Fang Yuan always remembered to put the audience's feelings first.
The portal area was the "Noob Village," mainly intended to give the younger members exposure.
Fang Yuan's side was the elite battlefield, the center stage of this battle.
Cyclops, Phoenix, Storm, and Wolverine all had great abilities, so priority was given to farming reputation for them.
For instance, Ororo's earlier act of saving the army immediately increased her reputation by 5 points.
Professor X didn't join the battle; even though Old Charles no longer feared using his superpowers, Telepathy was completely useless against Sentinels, so he had to remain as their mascot.
Anyway, it had been like this for decades.
Fox's performance was astonishing; he summoned thunder from the sky to strike the battlefield continuously, giving everyone the impression that he lived up to the name of Sorcerer Supreme.
But in reality, Fang Yuan's persona was like a background boss in a game dungeon, serving only as scenery without stealing the limelight.
The limelight was left to the X-Men.
Fang Yuan and his group advanced the fastest, so the first wave of Sentinels they faced was extremely fierce, with nearly 200 Sentinels attacking them.
"Even though I'm used to it, I still want to ask..." Logan looked around at his teammates and complained helplessly, "Just the five of us?"
"Don't worry, five against two hundred—the advantage is ours!" Fang Yuan winked at him, and then everyone heard a series of booms as the sentinel robots at the front were knocked down one after another.
The Military had taken action.
Although the Hype Squad couldn't deal much damage to the Sentinels, they could still manage to slow down the Sentinels' movements.
The Sentinels tried to use electromagnetic pulses again, but Storm promptly interrupted them with lightning, making the Military generals look on with great envy.
"Ororo Munroe, the deputy Captain of the X-Men!"
The hosts of various media outlets quickly introduced her.
The audience in front of their TVs watched with tears in their eyes; the Military had finally stood up.
"If we had teamed up with the Mutants sooner, we wouldn't have lost the Battle of Washington!" the radio hosts said one after another, and their narrative-spinning immediately gained widespread approval from the public.
It looked like a showdown between Earth and the Sentinels, but in reality, it was a battle between Fang Yuan and reputation, and the advantage was truly with him.
With the deputy Captain stealing the show, Cyclops, the Captain, naturally wouldn't lag behind; he increased the power of his visor, and two thick energy beams immediately shot down a Sentinel.
Although the Sentinel quickly stood back up, the visual impact was very strong.
Cyclops had specifically practiced his aim; with every blink of his eyes, a red laser would knock a Sentinel out of the sky, which was a sight to behold.
"That's Cyclops, Scott Summers, the Captain of the X-Men!" the hosts quickly introduced.
The TV live hosts were fine, as they only needed to tell the audience who was who, but the radio hosts had to vividly describe exactly what these Mutants were doing, presenting all their highlight moments to the listeners.
Fortunately, Fang Yuan had hired professionals who did a great job, causing the employee reputation on Fang Yuan's panel to soar.
Next, Jean stepped up; even without activating the Phoenix Force, she could use Telepathy, but where she surpassed Professor X was her ability to use Psychokinesis, also known as Telekinesis.
She used her Telekinesis to directly control the surrounding Sentinels, influencing their movements and even throwing those closer into Cyclops's line of sight for target practice.
This was how she usually trained with Cyclops, so the two of them coordinated very smoothly.
However, logically, Sentinels weighing dozens or hundreds of tons shouldn't be tossed around like toys by Jean.
To this, Fang Yuan smiled slightly; don't sweat the details.
"This is Jean Grey, as everyone should remember, the former Mutant spokesperson and one of the first people to warn us about the danger of the Sentinels."
As a center stage figure, the hosts certainly focused their praise on her.
"If we had listened to Jean's voice earlier, the World wouldn't have ended up like this!"
The hosts' deliberate narrative-spinning immediately made the public's perception of Jean become special.
When the possibility of avoiding this catastrophic crisis was linked to Jean, the discussion about her intensified.
"It's precisely because Jean Grey's warnings were ignored that this Sentinel crisis happened!"
This argument immediately appeared among the masses and was widely accepted and spread.
But most people didn't know exactly how or when Jean had warned them.
Because in reality, the one who had called out the Sentinel threat the most was Good Big Brother Sebastian Shaw, as he was the Mutant spokesperson later on.
But no one cared.
The people, currently suffering under the Sentinels, just needed an emotional outlet; as for the truth?
It wasn't important.
The media under Fang Yuan's control deliberately spun the narrative, using slogans that were easy to spread, which rapidly increased Jean's popularity.
It was another charming moment for journalism.
Fang Yuan had learned many similar tricks in his past life.
If anyone asked, it was just "advanced."
Of course, there was another Superhero rushing forward with Fang Yuan.
"Ah!"
"Aow!"
"Ugh, ah!"
Under the Sentinels' onslaught, Logan was impaled, disemboweled, burned, and frozen—it was like an exhibition of human torture.
Even the audience couldn't stop gasping as they watched.
"Is this self-harm?"
"Is this X-Man a bit slow? Does he not know how to dodge?"
But alongside the surprise, Logan's formidable self-healing ability truly shocked everyone.
Logan recovered almost the second after he was injured; like a bloodthirsty Beast, he charged at the Sentinels tirelessly.
"This is Wolverine, Logan!"
The host's introduction was late but arrived.
"Don't let his appearance fool you; Wolverine is actually over a hundred years old and has served in the Civil War, both World Wars, and the Vietnam War, contributing greatly to this country!"
Sure enough, once Logan's resume was revealed, everyone immediately looked at him in a new light.
The host continued: "Don't think Wolverine can only take a beating; if you underestimate his strength because of that, you're dead wrong!"
In the live broadcast, Logan finally rushed in front of a sentinel robot, and three Adamantium Claws emerged from the knuckles of both his hands as he clenched his fists.
"Slash, slash, slash!"
Logan swung his claws repeatedly at the Sentinel; the Sentinel's body was quite hard, but it still couldn't compare to Adamantium, and he actually tore two Sentinels to shreds right in front of the camera!
The audience was stunned; they hadn't expected that Wolverine, who looked the most simple-minded, would be the first to achieve results.
Previously, whether it was Stormfront, Cyclops, or Jean Grey, they had only managed to restrict the Sentinels' movements, but only Wolverine, relying on a pair of Talons, was the first to complete a kill!
Most importantly, after taking down the Sentinels, Wolverine actually took out a cigar and lit it!
The audience was instantly awestruck, but Logan himself knew it was all Fang Yuan's plan, so he wasn't flustered at all.
But in the eyes of the outside World, Logan's image immediately became prominent.
Fang Yuan nodded in satisfaction; this was how Vought worked—spreading the fame around.
Like the Vought Corporation in "The Boys," piling all the fame onto Homelander was a blatant waste.
While Fang Yuan was satisfied, the authorities felt something was off.
How were these TV stations better informed than they were?
It was one thing to know the X-Men members, but they even knew their life stories perfectly?
But since humans and Mutants were currently fighting together, even if the authorities noticed something was wrong, they wouldn't investigate.
It was nothing more than the Mutants wanting some fame; considering the great effort the Mutants were putting in, if they wanted it, the authorities would just let them have it.
Could Mutants rule the World just with a bit of fame?
Of course, they didn't know that while Mutants couldn't rule the World with fame, Fang Yuan could.
After farming reputation for the main characters around him, Fang Yuan prepared to farm some for himself.
Although he hadn't activated the Superstar Halo effect in this World, one of the effects of Fang Yuan's S-Rank World Controller Halo was that if his reputation reached 100, he could freely decide when to enter or exit time nodes.
Being able to enter and exit Worlds freely was very important to Fang Yuan, so he certainly wouldn't forget to score points for himself.
"Fox, I won't let your conspiracy succeed in this World!"
Fang Yuan flew into the air and shouted at Fox.
All the cameras focused here, and suddenly the attention of the entire audience was drawn.
"Fang Yuan?" Fox's deep voice rang out, and he sneered, "It's you again, ruining my plans several times, even though I already let your World go!"
Under the lens, Fang Yuan was righteous and awe-inspiring: "How can only my World being safe be enough? Since I have the ability, I must defend the peace of the Multiverse!"
Fang Yuan's words were quite well-spoken, immediately causing many viewers to feel a great deal of goodwill toward him.
Only Old Professor X, Old Magneto, Wolverine, and Shaw, who knew the truth, frowned simultaneously, all cursing in their hearts: "How shameless!"
But despite their complaints, they were also somewhat impressed, especially Shaw.
No wonder Fang Yuan could thrive in so many worlds; objectively speaking, they still had a lot to learn when it came to his ability to lie through his teeth.
Fang Yuan's attack was also full of special effects; he manipulated the flames on the battlefield to form a giant Fire Dragon that charged toward Fox.
Fox calmly made a hand seal, and suddenly intense black energy spread from everywhere, forming a Black Tornado that neutralized the Fire Dragon.
The army below was still marveling at such a grand scene, but when the spreading black energy fell upon the army, the soldiers immediately felt dizzy; some fell while running, others vomited uncontrollably, and even planes in the sky were falling—fortunately, Magneto gave them a lift from below so they didn't crash on the spot.
Fang Yuan said in "shock," "Dark Magic?"
Fox chuckled sinisterly, "Jie jie jie, how could a Sorcerer Supreme not know Dark Magic? Hahaha!"
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