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"Phew..."
Returning to Marvel, Su Ming dumped a heap of silk-wrapped bundles from the Ferren Spatial Bag and lay on a beach chair, letting out a sigh.
The plan went smoothly, Sargeras had considerable strength, but he was merely residing in a human mage's body. Faced with Su Ming's magic immunity, plus Medivh's own soul stirring trouble in the void, it wasn't even a challenge in the end.
The Dark Gate opened too, and faced with hundreds of thousands of beastmen, Su Ming called the retreat. Lothar naturally had no objections, just considering himself late, unable to stop the spell in time.
But Medivh was killed, and that satisfied him; as for Garona, with these hundreds of thousands of green beastmen, it's certainly hard to find a target.
Kadaga was somewhat disappointed, but seeing it was beastmen and not demons, he could reluctantly accept this outcome.
Although it was bad, it wasn't the worst, retreat first and plan thoroughly later.
Su Ming lingered in Azeroth for another two months, the Queen passed away due to excessive grief, so he took the opportunity to instill some thoughts of hatred towards beastmen in Valian, and taught Kadaga to exercise regularly, making frequent visits to the Cave of Time, keeping himself quite busy.
The timeline did undergo some changes, in the battle with Medivh, Lothar wasn't heavily injured, Kadaga didn't fall to curses, because Sargeras residing in Medivh was always dealt with by Deathstroke alone.
As for whether this change was good or bad, letting Azeroth's time flow for a while would reveal that.
Seeing Kadaga and Valian both master the Tornado Slash, Su Ming then made an excuse to chase down the Burning Legion's whereabouts in the Twisted Void, taking the chance to slip away.
And by then, the beastmen had already occupied Twilight Forest, chopping down trees in the Dark Swamp to create siege machinery, preparing to attack Stormwind City.
The war was brutal, from Sad Swamp to Red Ridge Mountain had fallen, Stormwind City's fall was just a matter of time.
After observing the Horde Chieftains in reality, Su Ming quietly returned to Marvel, arriving back at his Hawaii beach without alarming anyone.
Gin wasn't around, who knows what he's up to, Su Ming turned on the radio for a listen. Not much time had passed, it happened to be Christmas Eve of 1955.
He was planning to experiment with the Time Gem, to see if the new knowledge from the Bronze Dragon was universally applicable, when suddenly, the distant beach exploded open, and a figure jumped out from it.
The figure turned mid-air 360 degrees, then landed on knees, dragging out long tracks in a sliding tackle posture all the way to Su Ming's feet.
"Pop!" Wade hugged his cousin's thigh tightly, lifted the mask to wet a finger in his mouth, pulled down his mask and drew two moist streaks under his eyes, then raised his head to wail, "Slade, you absolutely have to help me this time, my lifelong happiness depends on you."
"Faker!" Su Ming kicked his leg with force, but Wade stuck like gum: "How long have you been lurking under the sand?"
"Ten days. I've been waiting under the beach for your return, you can't imagine how painful it was during high tide, almost got a hermit crab crawling into my backside." Deadpool immediately started his sob story.
Su Ming rubbed his face, he had just returned, hadn't even had a meal yet, seeing this stinky cousin made him lose appetite.
"Alright, okay, I'll help you. Let go of me now, but first, don't ask me to kill you again, your undying nature wouldn't even let you die if thrown into the sun." Su Ming said as he turned Godslayer into a hammer and swung at Deadpool's head.
Bones and brain splattered, Deadpool let go.
"I thought of a good idea that should get me killed," Deadpool said as he touched his mangled brain, "I went back to my era once, guess what? Some kids pooled fifty thousand US Dollars to hire me to kill Santa Claus, just because they weren't good kids and never got presents, they're mentally unbalanced and became as dark as you."
"Hmm, and then? That's your business, killing Santa Claus is of no interest to me." Su Ming sat back in the chair, seizing the moment to drink something.
"Hear me out, their order gave me a great idea, wish to Santa to die permanently, that should be effective, right? Chika is a goddess, and so is Santa. We just need to find him, and using helping him counter those naughty kids as a trade for a Christmas wish, I'll definitely die then?"
Deadpool let out a chuckling laugh.
"Um…I can't say if Santa or Death is of a higher rank, but why don't you try it yourself? Why involve me?" Su Ming was never worried about Wade's wild ideas, insane people's minds work broadly.
Wade shook his hips like a dog, flattering, "It's just that I can't find him, so I'm asking my all-capable cousin."
Su Ming pulled out a roasted quail from the bag, tearing it with his hand to eat, "Have you seen anyone who wished for Santa to kill them? Let the old man hold you on his lap, then strangle you with his white beard?"
"If those who wished for a suicidal Christmas wish all died, naturally there's no one to prove Santa doesn't kill," Wade's brain lacking a piece seemed to have clear thoughts now, truly 'opened up.'
Su Ming sighed, "Alright, I'll go with you to your era to check it out, as for a way to find Santa, we'll use the fishing tactic."
"Fishing tactic?" Wade activated his space-time belt while Su Ming simultaneously used X Metal to drive the Time Gem.
There's no special feeling, time flows like warm water, brushing past, nothing changed.
The two were still standing on the Hawaii beach, while the cabin behind them hadn't changed much, just the paint color was switched.
"Do you know any good kids?" Su Ming pulled Wade from over the ocean flying towards the United States mainland, shouting.
"Negative Sound Wave Teenage Bullet, although she has tattoos, smokes leaves, spits anywhere, greets passersby with the middle finger, has self-gender identification issues, is a lesbian, says I smell like dog poop, but she's a good girl."
Deadpool answered without hesitation, and even used both index and middle fingers to rub in a crisscross, mimicking lesbian tofu rubbing gestures.
Su Ming kicked him, "Do you know her real name?"
"Uh... Do I need to?" Deadpool's white eye pupils on the mask widened, "Usually I like to replace the word 'Teenage' in her codename with something else, like Negative Sound Wave 'Bubble Gum Chewer' Bullet, or call her Negative Sound Wave 'No Bras, Just Wearing Leather Jacket' Bullet, the name is adaptable."
Su Ming sighed, Wade was becoming abnormal again as his brain self-healed, "Pick another, she's not good enough."
"You're stumping me now, let me think..." Wade closed his eyes, mimicked Ikkyu, and began pondering cross-legged in the air.