For Shuri now, she couldn't change the deaths of her father and brother, nor could she fight against Luca, the foreign enemy.
But powerlessness didn't mean she couldn't harbor hatred.
She hated the American rebels who killed her father and brother. She hated Luca, who attacked Wakanda and killed her cousin Erik.
She even hated the Panther God for not appearing sooner to save her family and Wakanda.
And... she hated herself for being powerless against all of this!
So when Shuri, carrying such intense hatred, consumed the Heart-Shaped Herb, she didn't enter the Ancestral Plane to speak with all her ancestors like previous Black Panthers.
Nor did she see the Panther God directly through the herb.
Instead, she only saw Erik Killmonger, who had just died recently, in the Ancestral Plane!
Because of this, Shuri missed the last chance to learn the true cause of her father and brother's deaths. Instead, she once again absorbed a large amount of Erik's ideology.
Domination, revenge, war, overthrowing the old order... and liberating the black population.
Yes, although Erik chose to plot against Wakanda largely out of revenge for his father and his own desire for power...
Deep down, he also hoped to overthrow Wakanda's old regime, arm himself with Wakanda's resources and technology, and ultimately lead the liberation of black people worldwide.
And now, Shuri, whose mind was not yet mature, under the influence of a series of complex emotions such as hatred, gratitude, admiration, and despair...
Resolutely chose to walk the same path as Erik Killmonger.
At this moment, standing in a pool of blood, Shuri's eyes seemed to flicker with dancing flames.
"Mother, relying solely on Wakanda's population and influence now, we cannot continue to live in peace and stability!"
"I plan to send a group of warriors to the United States later to contact Cousin Erik's former comrades."
"While establishing a foothold in the United States, we will recruit some of the black elites there to join Wakanda!"
Well... In Shuri's mind, as fellow black people, these black tribes around Wakanda who hadn't even received basic education...
Were obviously incomparable to those black people in the United States.
After all, as an elite international student and a princess of a country, she really hadn't had much contact with the black underclass in the United States.
Since she wanted to 'save' people, naturally, she had to save those 'more useful talents' first.
Of course, no matter what path Wakanda would take in the future, it had little to do with Luca right now.
Having returned to Sokovia, he was still happily developing and advancing at his own pace.
For example...
...
"I wave~ I wave~ I wave again!"
"Holy crap!"
"Slow down! Slow down! No attacking from behind!!"
Inside the Sokovia training and testing ground, Luca was holding a red cape, waving it around like an unskilled novice matador.
However, this 'matador' wasn't facing ordinary bulls, but lasers, shells, and even 'Haro-brand trucks' rushing out of thin air from all directions under Haro's control.
Hit by two lasers in the back again, although these were training lasers with reduced power, the pain and burning sensation were not much weaker than real laser beams.
Luca, whose movements were gradually becoming distorted, saw that the frequency of surrounding attacks seemed to be increasing, and immediately begged for mercy.
However, Haro, who controlled these attacks, seemed not to hear it, and instead increased the attack frequency again.
"Roar~"
Unable to bear it any longer, Luca threw away the [Evasion Mantle] in his hand, transformed directly into a pink dragon more than ten meters long, and coiled up on the spot, tanking the rain-like attacks.
"Hmph hmph~ Doesn't hurt!"
Coiled into a 'poop' shape, Luca quietly poked his dragon head out and looked triumphantly at Haro in the control room in the distance.
However, before he could mock this disobedient little thing a few more times.
The [Evasion Mantle] he just threw out happened to drift down slowly from the air and landed coincidentally on his dragon claw.
The next moment, the instant the [Evasion Mantle] 'dancing' with the wind touched Luca's body, a strange deflecting force instantly spread throughout his body.
Luca didn't even have time to shout "No" before his entire dragon body was thrown away by this strange force.
The huge dragon body twisted chaotically in mid-air until it almost tied itself into a dead knot before falling back to the ground.
By this time, the continuous attacks from all directions had already stopped.
Luca, having transformed back into human form, walked forward carefully and picked up his precious cape again.
"Sure enough, this thing is more suitable for dealing with single, high-power attacks."
"It would be great if I could test it with a meteorite impact or a Death Star beam sometime~"
Luca, who hadn't had enough fun, was still talking nonsense. But if he really had to face an attack of that scale, he would probably hate his jinxed mouth again.
Looking at the Aurantius Haro bouncing over, Luca rolled his eyes at it grumpily, then folded the cape in his hand.
In fact, this venue was originally used for superpowered individuals like Wanda and Pietro to train and test their abilities.
Although Luca said he came here today to test his abilities, it was actually more simply because he got the new item [Evasion Mantle] and wanted to find a place to have a good 'play.'
And before coming here, the high-power attack test in the outdoor field had already ended.
Even facing a super-strong attack like the 'Quincy Dragon Arrow' that shattered Wakanda in one hit, this small red cape could easily deflect it.
Of course, Luca's control over 'Hextech Particles' was far from reaching the level where he could bend the arrow shot out back to attack himself.
The so-called test was naturally him piloting the Boxer Gundam to shoot arrows, while the invincible little Aurantius Haro was responsible for waving the cape in the distance.
Probably that was why the little thing was full of anger just now and kept increasing the attack frequency in Luca's test.
But actually, it wasn't just the [Evasion Mantle] that had been synthesized.
Although the synthesis materials for this god-tier item were very simple, the materials required for the other two items harvested this time didn't cost Luca much effort either.
Even because of the testing ground and protection preparations, the [Orb of Harmony/Discord] completed the basic test even earlier.
It was just that the 'compatibility' issue of that item made even Luca feel a bit helpless.