Looking at the information on the coffee table, Eric looked odd, reaching out two fingers to twist the cover and glance at it before snorting, shaking his head and taking a sip of his coke.
Howard had walked away, very dominantly intimidating him for a while, leaving this information strutting away ...
"Oh, come on, another crazy one!"
This isn't a pitch! This is forcing him to die!
This information, he only had to take a glance at it to know what task Howard had given him.
The Star Child!
In 114 A.D., a female celestial descended on the capital Luoyang, seeking to find an astral body to use as a cradle for her offspring, and her chosen target was none other than Earth.
At that time, one of the member of the Brotherhood of the Shield was Zhang Heng, the one who invented the seismoscope.
Using his clever speech, Zhang Heng very convinced her not to choose the Earth or the Moon, but to choose the Sun. The female celestial agreed to his request and eventually gave birth in the sun to the hatchling celestial, the "The Star Child".
Zhang Heng kept this event under wraps and recorded it only in the secret archives of the Brotherhood of the Shield.
Unlike ordinary life forms, the group of Celestial are said to have been created by Eternity, and are generally two thousand feet tall, each with their own unique and incredible powers.
The female celestial gave birth to the Star Child in the sun, and he was constantly absorbing the sun's energy, drawing on it to strengthen himself, and if left unchecked, the sun's energy would one day be drained, but there was nothing anyone could do about it.
It was not until more than a thousand years later that another genius leader of the Brotherhood of the Shield stepped forward, Leonardo da Vinci.
Da Vinci, with his own tech equipment, went to the sun and was supposed to kill the Star Child, but for some reason he changed his mind and instead of killing him, he brought him back to Earth and kept him there until now.
The Star Child, an infant of a Celestial, is probably not yet weaned in human years, but he is still a Celestial!
He's still a Celestial!!
"Let's put aside the matter of the Star Child, what's wrong with Howard? Is he out of his mind?"
Yes, Howard's behaviour was out of character!
Not only did he not say a word of thanks to his saviour, but he also threatened him in an overbearing manner and left him with an extremely dumb mission to die, and most of all, Eric couldn't stand the words, "Accept him into the Brotherhood!
What do I care? Did I say I wanted to join? You're trying to get him to give you a nod, and you want him to do it first?
Howard's not out of his mind, he's brain-dead!
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With a slight movement of his fingers, the information was instantly reduced to pieces, and with another wave of his hand, it disappeared without a trace.
Whoever wants to go on this unethical mission will go! As for Howard's threat, huh, he, Magneto, would be afraid of him?
"I shouldn't have saved him in the first place! Look at this, saving him has caused problems!" Eric shook his head and drank the last bit of water, ready to go and start his daily conversation task with his daughter for the day.
But just as he took a step out of the living room, Future informed him of a phone call and Eric looked and behold, Tony Stark!
But then Skye had already picked up the phone before he did, and before Skye could say anything, Tony Stark's urgent growl was already on the other end of the line, "Erik, damn it, what the hell is wrong with my mother? What have you done to her?"
"What's going on?" Eric waved away a curious looking Skye and closed the door to his room to take the call.
"Eric, my mother hasn't eaten a bite of anything but soda since she woke up, what the hell have you done to her?" Tony's voice was very urgent, and there seemed to be a hint of a woman's cry in the background.
"Not eat anything? Why?" Eric felt baffled, what was all this mess? Why was it all rushing together?
"Oh God, she says she can't bear to eat! Animal or plant, they're all alive and she can't bring herself to eat their corpses! Hell, she accidentally stepped on an ant this morning and has been crying for an hour!"
Poof! Eric almost spat out the water he had just consumed!
What the hell is going on? Eric realised the seriousness of the situation, Howard had turned paranoid and Maria had transformed into a thing worse than a vegetarian... one person's change could be considered an accident, but two together was strange!
"Could it be because of that?" Eric had a flash of light, his face was oddly puzzled for a moment, and suddenly opened a portal in front of him, "I'd better find someone who understands and ask!"
...
Rome, an ancient and majestic city, has now become a world famous tourist destination, but few people know that deep underground in Rome, there exists an even more majestic city, the Immortal City!
Immortal City, the former headquarters of the Brotherhood of the Shield, designed and built by Leonardo da Vinci, is hidden deep beneath Rome, covering an area about the size of a quarter of Rome and containing countless amount of advanced technology.
Of course, that was all in the past, and now the majestic underground city is in ruins.
As Erik sank down here, seeing the ruined walls, a touch of sadness rose up in his heart and he sighed softly.
"What are you lamenting about?" A figure with a golden glow suddenly stepped out of thin air.
Eric stared at him in awe for a moment before bowing slightly, "Greetings, revered Michelangelo, great Forever One, we meet again!"
Yes, this man who exuded biger all over his body was none other than the famous Michelangelo of history, the famous Renaissance artist, painter, sculptor and Forever Man of the Brotherhood of the Shield.
He came to understand the mysteries of parallel universes and non-linear time in his adult life, dispersing himself into every timeline so that he no longer exists as a linear being.
Time folds around him as he witnesses the birth of mankind, the first use of tools by man, the first crossing of the ocean by man, the landing of man on the moon and the exploration of the universe ...
and the end of the world.
In a sense, he was exercising multiverse-level powers in a mortal body.
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