Uehara Naraku looked at the yellow stone, slowly extended his fingers, pinched the stone, and calmly continued: "Its value is as a container, to conceal the existence of this stone, the Mind Gem."
There are only six Infinity Stones in the entire universe.
Since the end of the battle in New York, Thor took the Tesseract, containing the Space Stone, back to Asgard to rebuild the Rainbow Bridge; the Time Gem was taken to the future and then brought back to this era, falling into Uehara Naraku's hands.
The Mind Gem.
It should be the second stone that fell into Uehara Naraku's hands.
Or rather, this stone has never left Uehara Naraku's control. From the moment it appeared on Earth in the form of the Mind Staff, this stone became Uehara Naraku's possession.
"The Mind Gem..."
Wanda looked up blankly at the stone in Uehara Naraku's hand, looking at that yellow light as if she could see the power of the universe through the stone.
Her powers and this stone's power share the same origin.
The power contained in this stone made her unable to help but feel a bit amazed!
Ever since Wanda gained extraordinary powers, she never felt anything could surpass the power within her...
"It's beautiful..."
Wanda's eyes revealed a touch of fascination.
In her eyes, this yellow Mind Gem was very beautiful, more beautiful than any diamonds or jewels she had seen!
This stone...
Seemingly allows people to see the universe through it!
At this moment, a black hole appeared in Uehara Naraku's palm, instantly absorbing the power of the stone into the black hole!
Wanda, who was previously fascinated, felt a pang of horror the moment she saw the black hole. In her psychic awareness, that black hole possessed the power to devour everything!
"Boring power..."
Uehara Naraku's face looked a bit displeased.
After just using the black hole to devour the power of the Mind Gem, Uehara gained the ability and usage method of the Mind Gem, but the power of the Mind Gem made him feel somewhat dull.
As the name implies.
The Mind Gem can enhance a person's spiritual power, allowing them to do many things ordinary humans cannot with its amplified spiritual power.
Through the Mind Gem, Uehara Naraku could easily read others' thoughts and minds, even use the power of the Mind Gem to control or change people's thoughts.
It's just...
This power is a bit trivial.
Unless absolutely necessary, Uehara Naraku actually doesn't like changing other people's thoughts and personalities; he prefers letting things follow their natural course.
For example...
Those collections actually disdain Uehara Naraku, and many of them probably dream of killing him, but they still have to obey him.
For example...
Those who clearly know everything yet cannot escape the fate he arranged.
A true mastermind behind the scenes should avoid such crude control methods and choose to manipulate a more grandeur destiny.
This is what a mastermind should do.
Perhaps the most important ability for Uehara Naraku is to enable him to listen to the thoughts of beings in the Black Hole Universe like a deity.
The existence of the Mind Gem...
Makes Uehara Naraku's control even stronger.
Hmm...
Uchiha Sasuke is cursing him in his mind.
Why is Sasuke always cursing him? In any world, he curses him? This account should be noted first, and settle slowly later.
Of course.
Besides these.
Uehara Naraku also gained other subsidiary abilities.
The presence of the Mind Gem in his Black Hole Universe allowed his brain to evolve further and freely develop his body's powers.
Among them, there are abilities similar to Vision's ability to change body density, Hollowfication, or directly using Energy Gathering Beams, as well as Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch's abilities.
"Forget it, better than nothing..."
A red glow appeared at Uehara Naraku's fingertips, like a wisp of smoke, directly enshrouding Scarlet Witch Wanda's body!
"This ability..."
Wanda looked at this red energy coiling around her body with a glimpse of shock in her eyes. This power... isn't it her superpower?
How can Uehara Naraku use it?
And even when he uses this power, Uehara Naraku seems more adept than she is, with a higher intensity of spiritual power!
Another red energy emanated from Wanda's body!
No matter how Wanda resisted, she could not escape Uehara Naraku's control. This was a suppression from a stronger power!
Even in her prideful spiritual power...
Wanda had to admit she was still no match for Uehara Naraku...
No wonder this man could command Hydra; purely in terms of strength, perhaps there's no one on Earth who's his opponent anymore?
Uehara Naraku manipulated Wanda's body to slowly fly to him, controlling Wanda to slowly land on the ground before waving away that red energy.
As he spoke, Uehara Naraku slowly extended his hand, helping the stiff Wanda straighten her trench coat, revealing a warm smile: "Did I scare you? Don't worry, it's just a trivial power."
"...No, not at all."
Wanda shook her head cautiously.
"That's good."
Uehara Naraku satisfactorily nodded, smiling as he continued: "Probably tomorrow or the day after, we'll take action. Have they trained you?"
"Following your will, my lord."
Wanda no longer looked directly at Uehara Naraku, lowering her head again.
Uehara Naraku frowned, raising an eyebrow, and asked: "Did they do something they shouldn't have, am I scary?"
"No... you are formidable."
Wanda shook her head slowly but firmly.
This woman's eyes became increasingly complex, finally showing some reverence for the unknown and the strong.
If earlier, this Scarlet Witch and her brother were reckless after acquiring superpowers and a position in Hydra's upper echelon... now, after feeling Uehara Naraku's power, she retracted those thoughts.
This top leader of Hydra is not so simple!
At least Wanda knows that she and her brother Pietro are no match.
Time passes quickly.
Or rather, there are so many things that make time seem to pass quickly.
Especially for Nick Fury, who took the risk to contact Natasha and Clint to get more help.
From these two old subordinates' mouths, Nick Fury learned more about Uehara Naraku and how Uehara had been protecting them, these old friends.
Besides Natasha and Clint, Nick Fury also met Captain America, Steve Rogers. This king of agents finally decided to have a candid talk with Steve Rogers.
Naturally...
They uncovered some secrets.
Both Nick Fury, Natasha, and Clint determined that the German letter was a Hydra plot to frame Steve Rogers...
They also reached some consensus.
For instance, they all believe they need more information from Uehara Naraku, and this time they should go to Africa, hoping to have a face-to-face conversation with Uehara Naraku.
Of course...
They also identified the real culprit.
Without a doubt, Coulson was locked as a prime suspect Hydra spy, especially after encountering Bucky Barnes, this suspicion became confirmed.
Bucky Barnes attempted to assassinate Steve Rogers again.
But this time Bucky faced an ambush by super agents Natasha, Clint, and Nick Fury, making it easy to assist Steve Rogers in capturing him.
Nick Fury is well aware of these brainwashing methods and helped erase Hydra's brainwashing information from Bucky's mind, restoring his sanity, adding a strong ally to their side...
At the same time...
They discovered another piece of information.
A guy named Phil Coulson ordered Bucky Barnes to assassinate Steve Rogers, and ever since Pierce left, it seemed his mind had been following orders from this Coulson...
"There's another piece of information..."
Bucky Barnes sat on a chair, desperately rubbing his head: "They're trying to use someone... to start a war... to seize some kind of country's gold... no, platinum... whatever, it must be something very valuable..."
"Vibranium."
Nick Fury's voice became unusually heavy, his single eye a bit lost: "Hydra... wants to use Uehara and Tony to win a war against Wakanda for Vibranium..."