Marvel: Sign-In System – Starting with the Glint-Glint Fruit

"As expected, they're still quite a bit lacking."

In the real world, Matthew, who had already reached a preliminary agreement with Professor X, had now noticed the situation inside the Mirror Dimension.

Matthew was not surprised that the battle had developed this way.

He knew very well that it would be difficult for twenty or so super soldiers to defeat Magneto.

It was not because Reacher and the others were weak.

On the contrary, with physiques in the seventy-to-eighty-ton range, the Six Powers, and a full set of magical equipment, any one of them, in terms of individual combat ability, ranked among the few truly powerful beings on Earth at present. If any one of them went out and committed crimes, they would be an extremely dangerous existence for any country. Overthrowing a nation would not be out of the question.

They had not wasted the effort Matthew had poured into creating them.

But unfortunately, the person they happened to encounter was Magneto, who was currently a T1-level existence.

Magneto's ability to manipulate magnetic fields was simply too abnormal.

The elderly Magneto was not like his younger self, who only knew how to control metal.

The old man knew how to learn as well.

He kept up with the times and continued to progress. After Matthew received the news, opened a portal, and saw Magneto, his Observation Haki sensed a life aura far beyond that of an ordinary person from him. At that moment, Matthew confirmed that the old man was absurdly strong.

The outcome of Reacher and the twenty or so super soldiers surrounding and attacking him was basically already decided.

Even so, Matthew had still chosen to open the Mirror Dimension at the first opportunity and lock them all inside.

It was still the same idea: true experts had to be tempered through countless battles.

They had to experience battle after battle, desperate situation after desperate situation, constantly breaking through and digging out their own potential.

Matthew did this himself.

So Reacher and the others had to do the same.

Matthew did not want the soldiers of the two warbands he had created to only be capable of bullying the weak, unable to handle a high-end match.

Fortunately, Reacher and the others did not disappoint him. Once the battle began, their combat quality was basically pushed to the limit. Their tacit understanding, coordination, instant tactical judgment, and decisiveness were all excellent.

Unfortunately, Old Magneto, who had gone berserk without holding anything back, was far too strong.

Reacher and the others were not protagonists. They could not roar like hot-blooded manga heroes, suddenly explode with power, pull themselves back up again and again, and somehow erase the gap between them.

The main issue was still foundation.

If they wanted to explode with power, they needed the conditions to do so. Compared with Matthew's own foundation, Reacher and the others were still quite far behind.

Even so, Matthew was still very satisfied with the results of this exam.

On top of that, it had unexpectedly drawn out the X-Men.

The transaction with Professor X went smoothly.

Talking to a smart person was comfortable. Professor X, that old fox, knew what to give up and what to keep.

If before, he had truly been forced to make a deal with Matthew because he was worried about Magneto, then during the conversation with Matthew, the series of bargaining chips Matthew threw out had genuinely moved Professor X.

The content was not especially complicated.

Beast Hank would temporarily join Matthew's Technology Department and carry forward the spirit of voluntary contribution by handing over to Matthew the mature technologies he had developed across various fields.

At the same time, Matthew needed Wolverine Logan's blood.

Cyclops Scott might need to cooperate with Matthew as well, allowing him to study the energy-filled dimension connected behind Cyclops's eyes.

Matthew's Technology Department had been growing steadily, and it was now filled with talent.

However, talent was something that, in the Marvel Universe, was just as idealistic as magic.

He was certain that even with the serum, even if the scientists in the Technology Department were strengthened and became geniuses in one leap, they still could not compare to people like Beast Hank, Tony Stark, and Bruce Banner.

There was no other reason. The talent of people like them simply did not make sense.

To borrow the words of a certain purple-skinned director of family planning, they were cursed with knowledge.

They were destined to shine in certain fields of scientific research.

At some unknown point in time, without any warning, they might suddenly have a strange flash of inspiration and develop technology far beyond the era.

Beast Hank was exactly that kind of person.

Perhaps among the X-Men, his combat positioning was not especially strong. He was merely a body-training type, and even that was only average.

But where he truly shone was his brain and his ability to build things with his own hands.

Just how ridiculous was this blue-furred man? He had six doctoral degrees, covering multiple fields such as genetics, evolutionary biology, biochemistry, theoretical physics, and more.

He had personally handcrafted all of the X-Men's equipment, including their combat suits.

For example, there was Professor X's Cerebro, the Blackbird fighter jet that combined all kinds of advanced technologies such as invisibility, supersonic speed, and space flight.

There was also the mutant detector, capable of locating newly awakened mutants across the world with extremely high technical precision.

Using his mastery of time technology, he had created equipment that could remain stable outside the flow of time and achieve cross-time-and-space teleportation.

He had also developed devices capable of granting users cosmic-level power, dimensional gateway technology, suppression drugs, gene-regulation technology, and many other technologies.

He was one of the eight smartest people in the entire Marvel world.

In terms of intelligence, he might even be above Tony Stark, second only to Mr. Fantastic.

As long as a proposed technical theory was feasible, no matter how outrageous it sounded, he might very well be able to create it. That was how unreasonable a top-tier genius was.

That was why Matthew had always believed that scientists in this universe were also bugs.

And why he had been developing that side with great effort.

Now that he had this opportunity, he had to bring Beast Hank under his command as quickly as possible. There was absolutely no way he could let him go.

There was no need to say much about Logan's blood. This wolf stood at the very ceiling of healing ability in the entire universe. There was nothing else to it. Just research it.

The unknown, energy-filled dimension connected to Scott Summers (Cyclops)'s eyes was equally important.

Matthew intended to use Scott's eyes as a reference point to locate that dimension, then establish an anchor within it.

That anchor would lay the foundation for the future Magic Warband's study of magic.

In essence, it was nothing more than creating a channel that could be opened at any time. When the need for magic arose, they could simply draw power from that dimension.

After all, it was ownerless—borrowing from it came at no cost.

Free power like that was almost too convenient. Unlike the sorcerers of Kamar-Taj, who still had to pay a kind of "protection fee" to the Vishanti.

Professor X (Charles Xavier) agreed to these conditions mainly because the bargaining chips Matthew offered were too tempting to refuse.

Matthew had promised to contribute to the protection of mutants.

At the appropriate time, he would also provide certain conveniences for mutantkind, along with intelligence that could help rescue mutants who had been taken captive.

Clearly, these were terms Professor X could not easily reject.

At the same time, he had no idea just how vast Matthew's assets, resources, and influence had already become.

It was enough for him to know that Matthew himself was powerful—and that he commanded at least fifty loyal super-soldiers.

For Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr), the situation was simpler.

As long as he didn't die, that was sufficient.

Professor X smiled warmly, clearly satisfied with how things had turned out.

In his view, this was a genuine win-win arrangement.