Chapter 46 - Chapter 45: Wanda's Small POV

(After this chapter, I will not cook science for quite some time as Earthling readers can't eat it yet😅)

After doing some light research on Kami's Lookout—because, you know, god-tier architecture needs some blueprinting—I began gathering the essentials for my grand experiment.

First on the list? Vibranium from Wakanda. It mysteriously vanished, along with a certain Ulysses Klaue, who unfortunately was playing hide and seek with Wakanda.

Next up, Adamantium. Thanks to the many memories of scientists working for the government—I've got the process down. If Wolverine ever finds out, he might sue me for copyright infringement.

Of course, I didn't stop there. I also 'borrowed' SHIELD's supercomputer (it screamed in binary), a truckload of classified materials, and pretty much vacuumed their entire Vault like I was playing a Marvel edition of 'Loot Simulator.'

Terrigen Crystals? Check. Forbidden weapons? Check. Artifacts no one really understands? Why not. I didn't even care if it was useful—I just had a moral obligation to rob SHIELD blind. Consider it a villainous spring cleaning.

Also, before anyone asks—I haven't returned Jean's body yet. It's incredibly pratique for interdimensional travel. Think of her as my Uber with psychic aftershocks. I'll toss her a cosmic cookie later. Probably gluten-free. I'm not heartless.

Now, it was time to put my theory of an artificial sun into motion. Honestly, it's a pity I didn't become a scientist back in my original life—Earth just wasn't ready for my genius.

Physics said nno,' but I said 'hold my wine glass, I'm doing this anyway.'

Here in the Marvel universe, where people create pocket universes for breakfast and punch reality in the face, building an artificial sun is basically a Monday chore.

Extracting energy from the Space Stone? Easy. Stabilizing it so it didn't cause a quantum meltdown? Child's play. Channeling it into the desired effect? Okay, that part made the Hyperbolic Time Chamber sweat a little.

It took three days in there—and I didn't even get a system reward. Turns out only external time counts. Thanks, system. Real supportive.

Once I started producing electricity because even goddesses of death need lighting.

Installing the grid across my realm felt oddly satisfying—like SimCity, but with death lasers. Internet? That's a project for later. First things first: I need memes to flow like mana.

Now I get why people like Tony Stark go full mad scientist. The process is the real drug. It's not about the results—it's the pure, unfiltered joy of creating. Like the One Piece... It doesn't exist in fact, the real treasure is the adventure and friendship made along the way.

I switched gears constantly—one moment I was building energy reactors, the next I was crafting constructs that would make Reed Richards weep.

I was in the zone.

Pure, manic creative chaos. Any time I ran low on materials, I'd just pop over to Earth and borrow a few things from SHIELD or the military. I'm pretty sure by now they think there's a ghost haunting their storage rooms. A very ambitious, very kleptomaniac ghost.

Four days passed—which equals four years in the Time Chamber—and no, I didn't get lost. That's what the Space Stone is for. Instant exit. Boom.

While Earth was busy spiraling into chaos (as usual), I was fully embraced as the Scientist Goddess of Death. Honestly? Odin better start checking his LinkedIn endorsements because I'm coming for his 'All-Father of Everything' title.

The artificial sun was a resounding success. I even went the extra mile and teleported the entire living island of Krakoa—yes, that Krakoa—even though it has ties with the Celestials. Did I care? Not even slightly.

Since Krakoa feeds on mutant energy, I gave it something even better: pure Ethernano and Space Stone energy. It slurped it up like a mutant smoothie and looked ready to purr. Who needs Omega-level mutants when you've got cosmic slushies?

Honestly, the Marvel Universe is so fundamentally broken that if you try to make sense of it, your brain will fold in on itself. Plot twists stack on plot twists like a Jenga tower built by Loki, and nobody asks why time-traveling clones of dead characters are wielding hammers made of stardust anymore.

Anyway, only such a chaotic world is worthy of my scientist version. Basically, after creating many inventions in the span of four years and adding some rewards I got from the system before, I did make Hel kind of livable for humans.

As four days have passed in reality while I was in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, I naturally received the system rewards.

[Day Three Hundred Ninety-Two: Reward – Observation Haki]

[Day Three Hundred Ninety-Three: Reward – The Witch-King's Crown]

[Day Three Hundred Ninety-Four: Reward – Sarutobi Hiruzen's Memory]

[Day Three Hundred Ninety-Five: Reward – Hanging Gardens of Babylon]

Yup, the rewards I'm receiving are serious on another level now, but it's as expected. After all, the list of current threats is kinda long.

[The host has survived 395 days in the Marvel Universe. Current threat: Odin, Mephisto, Chthon, Dracula, Thanos, Dormammu...]

Welp, the list of people I have offended is indeed long enough to compete for my villains of the month, but seeing the rewards, it's almost worth it.

Since I can receive the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, it means it could have been Excalibur, Rhongomyniad, or EA if I'd been a little more lucky, even for me, they are worthy rewards.

I don't know how far my Observation Haki will be able to expand, since without it, I can still see everything happening on Hel. I hope it's long enough to cover Earth.

As for the Witch Crown, this can serve as a replacement. I'm planning to create my own crown, made of Uru, Vibranium, and Adamantium at the same time, enhanced with Runes, full of Helforce, Ethernano, and Space Stone energy. I deserve such a majestic crown, right?

Then came Sarutobi Hiruzen's memory. It's not completely useless—I guess I can learn the art of politics from him, although my policies and his are simply opposite.

The best thing from this is all the ninjutsu from his memories that I learned. His title as Master of Ninjutsu isn't a joke because he knew almost all the ninjutsu in Konoha, even if he couldn't use them.

Unfortunately, I don't have chakra and all the prerequisites to use ninjutsu, but as long as I obtain it, I will be able to use another versatile energy from outside the Marvel World that would make me more formidable.

At the same time, I'm wondering—if I used the Reaper Death Seal Jutsu in this universe, wouldn't the reaper be Death itself?

I can't help but imagine myself fighting Odin when suddenly, I summon 'mother' and complain about how he 'bullied' me and locked me up for more than 2,500 years. He would definitely be subject to domestic violence, right?

Among the four rewards, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon should be the highest level, but it's kind of useless to me. Still, I guess I'm destined to create a floating kingdom. I already have a floating temple and a floating fortress now.

After finishing reviewing everything, I think it's time to return to Earth after four days. I can't wait to see Jean's face. Hope she isn't too angry with all the bullcrap and being bodiless for four days.

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Wanda's POV

It has been three and a half days since we have been free from our prison. I never expected that during the time we were imprisoned, the world would have changed so much.

Pietro and I are what people call mutants, and apparently, the most hated race in the world nowadays. It also turns out that there exist many people like us.

And not only that—the gods are real. They have always existed. The woman who saved us was called Hela, the goddess of death.

I don't know how many gods I have prayed to and how many times I did, but I'm sure I have never prayed to a death goddess—and ironically, it's her who saved me.

In the past few days, Pietro and I have read all the news we missed to catch up with the world. I didn't even have time to try so many things I dreamed of once I was free.

I even watched the fight that happened at Cape Citadel, where gods made their appearance in front of humanity for the first time in modern days.

It turns out that we aren't the only ones who have been captured and experimented on—it's something that most mutants have been subjected to.

Then the strangest thing that happened to me in this place is that I met a red-haired ghost woman. I know who she is because I watched the clip and all the footage that surfaced four days ago.

After Hela left us with the bald man, the X-Men came later. They were depressed—anyone with enough empathy could feel it. It turns out they thought Jean was dead after Hela took her body.

Fortunately, the bald professor was able to sense Jean as soon as she was there and comforted them. But unlike him, I can literally see her—like a ghost, floating.

Then, during the past few days, she would always wake me up at six o'clock in the morning as if she was enjoying it. Not that I mind, though—we had a worse schedule when we were captured before.

She then started teaching me things I didn't know—so much that I look like a psychopath talking to myself every day. She told me that was exactly her situation with Hela.

I do remember that in the footage during the fight, there was a time when Jean appeared to be talking to herself. It turns out that it's called Astral Projection.

Anyway, Jean is a really cool big sister despite talking too much, which is different from how Bobby described her. Maybe she feels too lonely?

"Wanda, what are you spacing out again for? Don't you want to learn Astral Projection?" Oh right, Jean was teaching me how to do Astral Projection. I'm really curious about the feeling—being able to fly, to become invisible, and to see New York.

I opened my eyes. "Sorry, as soon as I close my eyes and start 'meditating,' all kinds of strange thoughts start entering my mind."

Jean, floating, smiled and shook her head melancholically, as if recalling something. "Don't worry, it's normal at the beginning. It also took me a few tries, but now, I can do it as long as I want."

"Since you are able to see someone in Astral Form, I think your talent is similar to mine. You just need to give it more tries."

I don't know if she was just trying to comfort me. If that was the case, she indeed succeeded, because—I don't know why—I feel like I have some kind of strange connection with her.

I don't have a word to describe the feeling, like we are very similar, that we are compatible, and that she is someone who may play an important role in my life.

I closed my eyes with determination to succeed—at least, that was until a voice I didn't expect broke my concentration.

"Oh Jean, it seems that you are having some fun with my future general."

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