"What does that mean!" Eric suddenly felt like he had fallen into an ice cave, trying to recall every detail of his Super Soldier Serum injection without feeling the slightest hint of a problem.
"Don't you think you've shifted your personality too much?" Michelangelo asked.
"Isn't that normal? Magneto's character leans towards the evil side, but I'm ..."
"A what? A crossover?" Michelangelo smiled mysteriously, "Are you really?"
"What?!" Eric was dumbfounded and felt a chill pour down his head and goose bumps rise all over his body.
Michelangelo was about to say something when he suddenly flinched and then suddenly fell to the ground, struck by lightning, the golden light on his body so dim that it was almost invisible.
"What happened to you?" Eric rushed forward to help him.
Michelangelo waved his hand and stood up himself, taking several deep breaths, the golden light returning to his body once again, he looked at Eric and shook his head, "Unfortunately, someone did not want me to tell the truth and in a flash erased me who therefore knew the truth."
"What?" Eric looked at Michelangelo in shock, what was going on here? What was the truth? What kind of person was able to instantly erase all Michelangelo who knew the truth?
"I can't help you in this matter, brother, now I don't know the truth either." Michelangelo patted Eric's shoulder with a regretful expression, "Everything can only be done by you."
"Master, how many of you have been obliterated?"
"10,086."
Eric: "..."
"Does that have an effect on you?"
Michelangelo shook his head, "It will only take a little more time to connect to those timelines, just a loss of energy and knowledge."
Eric nodded, no longer dwelling on this kind of thing, it was clear that someone big had done it, the worst that could do this would have to be at the multiversal level, there was no point in him just knowing about it.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little gloomy, "Master, is my transformation really because of the Super Soldier Serum?"
"The side effects of the Super Soldier Serum laced with the Infinity Formula, instead of weakening, are even stronger, and its effect on the mind is far stronger than the original version of the serum." Michelangelo stretched out his finger and clicked on Eric's eyebrow, a whole bunch of complicated formulas and recipes appeared in his mind.
But Eric couldn't be bothered with that right now, he looked intently at Michelangelo and waited for him to say more.
"The new version of the serum will strengthen the obsession in the mind of the injector, it will strengthen whatever you are most obsessed with at the time of the injection, your EMP method is good, but not complete enough."
"That's not right, I wasn't thinking about anything nonsensical at the time." Erik hastily recalled the scene.
Michelangelo, however, gave a sudden smile and shook his head, "Your mage friend did you a favour."
Ancient One! Eric understood instantly what she had done to his soul for the sake of the world after all.
"What did she do?" Eric felt his throat go a little dry.
"Nothing, she just amplified some of the traits within your soul while others were sealed briefly, and when the serum was injected, her seal naturally disappeared."
"How could she do that!" Eric smiled bitterly at his words, you people who play with time and souls, can't afford to mess with that!
"Is that a bad idea?" Michelangelo asked rhetorically, staring him in the eye, "Whether you are good or evil, you are, after all, still you."
Eric looked down in thought for a moment, his brow gradually unfolding, "The Master is right, I am, after all, still me."
Michelangelo smiled and nodded, "What has just been passed to you is the recipe for the serum and the infinity formula, if you have time, go and improve them, it would be good indeed if the side effects were eliminated."
Eric nodded his head in agreement and asked about Howard again.
"Howard? He's in a bad way," Michelangelo shook his head with some regret, "You should know about that battle in the future where the Avengers failed to fight the Mad Titan, traveled through the timeline to collect the Infinity Stones and sent them back after they defeated him."
Eric nodded, it was something both those who wrote the books and those who read them knew ....
"But there was a small mistake in the middle of this, Captain America, Steve Rogers didn't return to the timeline he was in, but stayed in the past."
Eric nodded again.
"At that point in time in the past, not many people knew about it, Carter, Howard, and a few members of the Brotherhood."
"From Captain America, Howard knew what was going to happen and was convinced of it. He had lived through the Brotherhood's civil war and knew deep down how fragile the timeline was, and he was afraid that making changes would bring down the entire timeline, so he took Maria down that path even though he knew he was going to die."
Michelangelo sighed, "That was his obsession that surrounded him even to his death, his desire to get things back on track, to make time form a closed loop according to the original script."
"And then, I came out to make things happen." Eric smiled helplessly.
Michelangelo didn't need to say the rest anymore.
He had injected Howard with the Super Soldier Serum, which had amplified the obsession in his mind, and even after more than nine years of slumber, it was still hard to erase, and now he had just woken up and was busy, looking like he was ready to do something to get time back on track, as he thought.
As for Maria, it's even simpler. As a traditional American woman, Maria is a good and devout Christian who, at the end of her life, repented for herself, for the people and things she had hurt, for the animals and plants she had eaten, as a way of asking God for forgiveness and inner peace.
Then, injected with the Super Soldier Serum, she evolved into something worse than that....
"What a thing to call that!" Eric shook his head with a bitter smile, he felt like he had been abandoned by Lady Luck? Why was it that every single thing he did involved a million messy things?
Injecting super soldier serum was like this, UV shields were like this, finding gravitonium was still like this ...
"But thankfully, we finally know what's causing it, so that makes things a lot easier!"
Even if the EMP couldn't cure it, he still had old man Charles!
"Thank you, Master, I'll go back and take care of Howard's business." Eric said goodbye to Michelangelo and prepared to leave.
"You're making it too easy!" Michelangelo shook his head and sighed, "Go to the moon and see what's going on, this time, it's a bit big!"
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