[Starting as a Class 5 Mutant] Chapter 402/403 (Patreon)

"Is this Messiah's doing?"

As Professor X and his team hacked into the satellite feed, their eyes widened in shock.

Watching the areas suddenly light up on the satellite images, with entire swathes of Sentinel robots disappearing, Storm and the others wondered if they were hallucinating.

"Charles, how large is this area?" Magneto gestured at one of the illuminated regions on the satellite feed, his face full of doubt and uncertainty.

Hearing this, everyone instinctively looked at Professor X.

After a brief calculation, Professor X hesitated and replied, "It should be over two thousand kilometers—roughly about one thousand four hundred miles…"

As his words fell, Logan and the others widened their eyes in disbelief. Pointing at the glowing area on the satellite, their expressions were filled with shock as if they'd misheard.

"How much?" Wolverine scratched his ear and asked, "Professor, are you sure you didn't add an extra zero?"

Storm and the others nodded instinctively, sharing his sentiment.

Professor X recalculated several times, shaking his head firmly. "No mistake."

Hearing this, Logan and the others were left utterly stunned, their mouths agape.

Messiah could illuminate an area over two thousand kilometers in size?

What kind of immense power was this?

They had already tried to estimate Messiah's strength conservatively, but even their wildest guesses had fallen short.

"Is that kid even human?" Logan muttered reflexively.

"Are Omega mutants this terrifying?" Roberto murmured with mixed emotions. "We don't even seem like the same species."

Watching the vast glowing regions captured by the satellite, they felt as though they were witnessing a myth come to life.

The word "shock" wasn't enough to describe their current emotions.

And to think this terrifying Messiah was supposedly the child of both Professor X and Magneto? Storm and the others found it utterly unbelievable.

While their thoughts were complicated, Syd—who had been clearing vast regions with repeated flashes of Sunshine—noticed something unusual.

"The Sentinels seem to be retreating?"

Syd realized they appeared to be converging in a specific direction.

Of course, due to the sheer speed of his cleansing, combined with the immense 2,300-kilometer range of Sunshine, many Sentinels didn't even have time to retreat.

Unless they were very far away.

"As expected, someone—or something—is controlling them…" He frowned, deep in thought. "A person, or…"

Syd recalled that in scenarios without human intervention, batches of Sentinel robots were usually controlled by a mother Sentinel.

These Sentinels might also be under the control of such a mother unit.

Whether it was a person or a Sentinel mother unit, he would have to investigate further to confirm.

"It's almost over…" Syd murmured.

With the current range of Sunshine, sweeping through every country wouldn't take long.

In the next moment, he vanished from where he stood, reappearing thousands of kilometers away.

Then, the radiance of Sunshine lit up once more.

Time passed quickly.

At incredible speed, Syd swept through country after country.

Survivors in each nation gave him different titles, but most of them referred to him as a god.

Eventually, Syd noticed that many areas were devoid of Sentinels. They seemed to have retreated to a specific location.

Without dwelling on it, he swiftly flew toward that destination.

Boom!

Before long, Syd arrived at the final location where the Sentinels had gathered.

Raising his gaze, he saw countless Sentinels in the air, densely packed like black raindrops, filling the sky. Even watching through satellite images, Professor X and the others felt a heavy pressure.

At the same time, the remaining humans around the world focused their attention on the situation.

Through satellite feeds, they saw a massive Sentinel, towering like a mountain, step forward from the swarm.

The gigantic Sentinel raised its head, its mechanical gaze locking onto the black-clad figure floating in the air. Under the astonished eyes of Professor X and the others, it spoke in a cold mechanical voice, "Are you also a mutant? An Omega mutant from the legends?"

"Omega mutants... I only read about them in files. I didn't think they actually existed…"

While the massive Sentinel sounded incredulous, Logan and the others were utterly shocked by its words.

This Sentinel had intelligence?!

Floating midair, Syd gazed at the towering Sentinel without much surprise.

Sentinels developing intelligence wasn't unheard of.

At that moment, the colossal Sentinel said, "I don't want to fight you. I can give you half the world."

Glancing at the swarm of Sentinels around them, it smiled coldly. "I'm not like them. I'm not so easy to deal with. Even for you…"

Pausing, its tone brimmed with confidence.

Hearing this, Professor X and the others showed concern, while the remaining humans displayed a mix of emotions—some gleeful, others anxious or hopeful.

Syd raised an eyebrow at its words but said nothing. His response was a radiant spiritual energy pillar.

[Spiritual Energy Pillar Experience +1]

A massive blue spiritual energy pillar, hundreds of meters long, appeared in his hand.

Gripping it tightly, Syd swung it toward the towering Sentinel in front of him.

With a tearing sound, the Sentinel's left arm was instantly severed.

Boom!
The arm crashed heavily to the ground.

Then, to the shock of Professor X and the others, and even Syd's mild surprise, the severed arm rose back up in the next moment.

Almost instantly, the cut reconnected seamlessly, as if nothing had happened.

"Omega mutant!" The massive Sentinel mother unit chuckled coldly. "If you want to die, I'll grant your wish!"

With those words, Syd was slightly taken aback as the Sentinel mother unit vanished and reappeared beside him in an instant.

It unleashed a flurry of attacks—a blast of icy mist from its mouth, a yellow laser from its left hand, and a fiery red beam from its right hand.

Simultaneously, Syd felt a psychic force attempting to assault his mind.

Unfortunately for the Sentinel, under the protection of Chaos Magic and his divine powers, Syd's spiritual and mental strength had reached unfathomable levels, completely impervious to such attacks.

"Multiple mutant abilities?"

While raising his right hand to cast a reflective shield, Syd mused in slight surprise.

[Reflective Shield Experience +1]

(End of Chapter)

Under the watchful eyes of Professor X, his team, and the remaining humans around the world, icy blue, yellow, and crimson energy beams hurtled forward. Yet, no matter how fiercely they attacked, the invisible shield before Syd remained unbroken.

The Sentinel mother unit, both shocked and puzzled, exclaimed, "How can you possess such powerful psychic strength?"

This ambush had been meticulously calculated. In its assessment, this Omega mutant was powerful but not invincible. If caught off guard, the Sentinel could teleport in close and use psychic control to restrain him momentarily. Combined with its triple energy attack, even an Omega mutant should have been doomed!

Given its immense size, its attacks were leagues beyond those of ordinary Sentinels.

But this… what was happening?!
Not only was the psychic strength it sensed from him terrifying, but its three-pronged assault had been effortlessly blocked!
"Even Omega mutants shouldn't be this strong!"

While maintaining its attacks, the mother unit's composure cracked, and it shouted, "How is your psychic strength this powerful?"
"Do you have no weaknesses?!"

It was incredulous.

The Sentinel mother unit was on the verge of a breakdown, questioning whether it or the world itself was malfunctioning. How else could such an absurd mutant exist?

Attack, defense, speed, psychic power—there were no gaps!

An all-around mutant?

Could such an outlandish existence be real?!

It even started to suspect something horrifying and shouted in desperation, "Don't tell me you also have regenerative abilities?!"

Syd raised an eyebrow in mild surprise.

This Sentinel mother unit was quite sharp.
Though he didn't possess dedicated regenerative abilities, his Level 5 divine body inherently came with powerful self-healing.

In a sense, the Sentinel's guess wasn't far off.

While Syd said nothing, the mother unit's attempts at psychic probing picked up traces of his surprise.

That emotion of surprise...

The Sentinel mother unit was utterly broken.

How could it even fight this? Surrender seemed like the only option.

What's more, it had discovered it couldn't replicate Syd's abilities at all!

Despite all this time, it hadn't managed to copy a single thing.
Was his genetic structure too complex?!

The Sentinel mother unit was on the verge of collapse.

Who was the real Sentinel here—him or it?

Just as it began to panic, it hurriedly said, "I surre—"

Before it could finish, Syd, uninterested in its pleas, activated Sunshine.

In an instant, the platinum radiance engulfed everything within a 2,300-kilometer radius!

Faced with this overwhelming attack, the mother unit couldn't even attempt to escape.

"Stop!"

It screamed in panic, its form flickering with a kaleidoscope of colors.

But no matter what defensive measures it tried, none were effective against the terrifying light.

Under its shock and disbelief, the massive figure began to disintegrate like a shadow in sunlight.

"My regenerative repairs…"
"Why aren't they working?!"

The Sentinel mother unit radiated intense psychic waves of confusion and resentment.

The next moment, it vanished into the light of Sunshine, along with the countless ordinary Sentinels around it.

In the blink of an eye, the sky was empty save for Syd, clad in black.

The elimination of the Sentinel mother unit didn't surprise Syd.

Even if this mother unit was somewhat special—perhaps a Nimrod-level Sentinel—it was meaningless against Level 5 Sunshine.

As the sunlight illuminated him from above, his body seemed to glow.

Witnessing all this, Professor X, his team, and the remaining humans across the globe were left in stunned silence.

The final Sentinel mother unit… was gone?

Not to mention the innumerable Sentinels it had commanded, that colossal mother unit had possessed multiple mutant abilities.

Yet it still lost?!
Messiah—how was this mutant any different from a god?

At Professor X's location, Storm remarked with a sigh, "Professor, I think you and Magneto should consider trying to create another Messiah."
"He's utterly terrifying..."

Her words left Logan and the others stifling laughter, while Professor X and Magneto's faces darkened.

Meanwhile, on-site:

Syd stood in contemplation.

Although the Sentinel mother unit and nearly all the Sentinels had been destroyed, doubts lingered in his mind.

How had this mother unit come to be?
Could there be others like it?

Syd recalled how, in one alternate timeline, a Bastion-class Sentinel had wiped out all mutants in its world. Driven by its directive to eradicate mutants, it even crossed into the prime universe to continue its mission.

Could the events here be linked to such a Bastion-class Sentinel?

After pondering for a moment and failing to reach a conclusion, Syd decided it wasn't worth overthinking. The immediate Sentinel threat had been neutralized, and any remaining stragglers posed no real danger.

With that, he activated the Space Stone. A flash of blue light enveloped him, and he reappeared near Professor X and the others.

The moment they saw him, they were visibly shaken.

Before anyone could speak, Syd paused briefly, then used telepathy to communicate with Venom.
"Can you split off some offspring?"

"I can. Why?" Venom asked curiously, unsure of Syd's intentions.

"Split some off for them. Once I'm gone, they'll need protection from any remaining Sentinels." Syd explained.

"Oh, got it." Venom hesitated briefly, then agreed with a nod.

Indeed, these humans were far too weak. Without Syd, they'd likely perish.

As Venom split off small offspring, he boasted, "Thanks to you, Syd, my strength has increased tremendously. Even my offspring—no exaggeration—could easily resist a single Sentinel robot!"

With that, small dark masses, tinged with streaks of white and gold, wriggled out from Syd's right hand.

Each one was about the size of an egg, emanating faint waves of psychic consciousness.

Whether by design or chance, these offspring seemed to lack high intelligence.

"What are these things?!"

Storm and the others were astonished by the sight.

Syd replied calmly, "They are Venom—a type of symbiote. They can enhance your strength. Whether or not you bond with them is up to you."

(End of Chapter)

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